aparantly not. Like most other things in this country, "public property" and "public ownership" is an empty phrase when it comes down to election time, and its fairly meaningless anytime else.
There are two sets of "facts" we live by. "Actual facts", and "political facts". I.E. The way they say the US runs when we decide to bomb some 3rd world country, and the way the US runs when we actually deal with the system on a day to day basis, or have some idea/complaint/gripe about the system.
Its kinda why my response to the wholy Bundy fiasco was "zero fucks given".
Its painfully obvious that its not "public" land, but private government land. Its kind of obvious that zero fucks are generally given by the US government about government land.
So then some government PR person had the nerve to show up on a "left leaning" subforums I also partake in, and *demand*, I repeat *demand* that we take action/outrage/etc... against bundy for acting against the government, soley on the merit he's a right winger.
Now don't get me wrong. I couldn't say I care much for the man, listing a whole laundry list of personal flaws. But I had, have, no incentive to help the government on this issue.
which can be offset by arrays of batteries that solar can charge at night. A combination of solar, wind, geo-thermal, and of course batteries for night is the way forward.
Of course you can throw in bio-combustables for those middle-of-nowhere places where the above are not feasible.(making enough bio-diesel suddenly becomes feasible when 90% of all our other power comes from other energy)
but obvious it won't happen, because they will keep prices down to stay competative, right? I mean obviously the invisible forces of the market will prevent the large corporations from exploiting us? I mean, they are savy businessmen who are attuned to providing the customers with exactly what they want, otherwise they'd simply go out of business.
Or is just the concept of "de-regulating utilities" gone a little too far.
Chips are designed for the max freq of the specification. If they fail that spec, they are retested at a lower spec, and if they pass that spec, they are sold at that frequency. Why else do you find many diffrent chips in the same family run at diffrent speeds?
Many times the chip is %100 capable of running at faster speeds, but they had too much of the higher bin, and not enough of the lower bin.
But yes, taking a chip that didn't pass a higher speed, flashing it to the firmware of its faster/more capable cousin, and then selling it as such is ripping people off.
A weapon is not a good self defense weapon if the person eventually bleeds out and dies, but can still be a threat in the interim.
If you hit someone with a.45 and they live, but the bullet knocks them square on their ass, and they don't get up until the paramedics come, its done its job even if the person doesn't die.
>Currently the best achieved sunlight conversion rate (solar module efficiency) is around 21.5% in new commercial products
%7-15 is so 10 years ago. In the lab they have new technologies that does as good as third to half sun.
Also the article says kW, not kWH, which is far more reasonable, because its computerworld, and its really not unreasonable.
>80% collection efficiency might be great on a space station or satellite that needs to get lifted off this planet with expensive rocket fuel, but it does not make sense down here if it costs $10,000 for a few square meters, the price needs to drop to like $10-$40 per square meter, and these guys, like Mc Hammer says, just can't touch that
80% effeciency is exciting, because there is no collection/price trade off. Previously 80% effeciency is unheard of. Its expensive because its new. Its good because it uses only a small amount of physical space, and its extremely powerful, making it suited for rooftops in urban areas, where buildings are tall, real estate is expensive, and population density is extreme.
Also, when the technology matures it will come down in price.
>,,,and here I thought it would be struck down because someone would point out that it was somehow funded by an oil company to justify profits.../me ducks and runs like hell
except its not actually funded by an oil company to justify profits.
>Science fiction is the domain of predicting future technology
the purpose of Science Fiction is not to "predict" future technology, but to tell a story about today either using
1. ficitonal end result of today's technology, mixed with politics, mixed with society, as a socio-political statement about the same.
2. A story about today, with fictional races, nations, people, aliens, and laser beams to abstract way too hot to handle concepts and political ideas. Laser beam weapons are great, because there is rarely too much blood and the bad guys just fall down.
3. A story about history, that like #2, is still too hot to handle, or presents a viewpoint that people would reject on concept without really thinking about it.
Go re-watch the Original Star Trek, but in your mind pretend what all the abstractions, are what they are supposed to represent. It gets dark, and heavy really fucking quickly.
the definition of "broadband" is due to subsidies the federal government pays for companies to deliver broadband. The FCC simply wants the bare minimum transfer rate to be 10 MB/s to qualify for federal subsidies.
I am sure if AT&T wants to continue giving out 4/1 service, and not get federal money its OK. No one is forcing them to take the subsidy.
at least for being an 80 year old man still capable of knocking out fucking retard still in what should have been his prime if his brain wasn't rotten.
And he did an AMA on reddit, and has otherwise adapted to net culture quite well.
There was a nice pic of him with his stingray 'vette right before he shot up in space.
You might be cool, but you'll never be Buzz Aldrin cool.
>There are many other flaws that are obvious to the skeptical observer, too numerous to list here.
you mean paranoid, and seeing what they want to see. Most moon hoax'ers have a very obvious political agenda, to the point they've sold themselves on the concept of a moon landing hoax, then looked for proof, which at best is circumstanial evidence, but generally, misintepreting data.
> I'm guessing there are a governmental 'suggestion' to nVidia that influenced the way this analysis went.
guessing. No you just pulled it out of your ass, because it didn't agree with the conclusion you wanted to see.
Of course its your right, and I never suggested otherwise. I never made an argument to the contrary.
However, If I handed said pamplets to school kids promoting rape, murder, and heroin use, regardless of legal, or other *rights*, I'd still be doing a morally reprehensible thing, and people would still form bad opinions of me, and the community might consider action, albeit non-forceful to get me to reconsider.
That is the point I am making here. Not that anyone should censor you.
I don't think there will *never* be the "Year of The Linux Desktop", but it won't be in the next 5 years.
GNU/Linux on the desktop is a novelty for nerds, tinkerers, and techies.
GNU/Linux on the server is the bread and butter of the internet itself. Most people who actually use and rely on linux for work, and their life do so without actually knowing it, or dirrectly interacting with the operating system.(ever use google search, you've used gnu/linux).
people who do, in fact install and maintain linux on computers, tend to be running servers, and need a stable platform, more than anything else.
All the people with loads of cash, and manhours of talented developer time, to spend on GNU/Linux and dirrectly related projects are spending their resources on making GNU/Linux servers(and even embedded), better, and more reliable.
a GNU/Linux desktop will happen when a company like Red Hat, google, intel, nVidia, or one of the other many other large corporations gets their dick stepped on for the last time, by microsoft, and they decide to hit them where it hurts, the desktop.
And its going to be a slow, painful, uphill battle full of headaches and tears. No, it *will* happen eventually, but its not on anyone's timeline.
Oh, and I'm sick of bellyaching about systemd. Its a great system, it runs well, reliable as fuck, and most of the compaints are fear mongering. People hate it because its new(GNU even, dum dum tiss), and doesn't conform to the mantra of an OS written over 40 years ago for a system with 64KB of memory.
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aparantly not. Like most other things in this country, "public property" and "public ownership" is an empty phrase when it comes down to election time, and its fairly meaningless anytime else.
There are two sets of "facts" we live by. "Actual facts", and "political facts". I.E. The way they say the US runs when we decide to bomb some 3rd world country, and the way the US runs when we actually deal with the system on a day to day basis, or have some idea/complaint/gripe about the system.
Its kinda why my response to the wholy Bundy fiasco was "zero fucks given".
Its painfully obvious that its not "public" land, but private government land. Its kind of obvious that zero fucks are generally given by the US government about government land.
So then some government PR person had the nerve to show up on a "left leaning" subforums I also partake in, and *demand*, I repeat *demand* that we take action/outrage/etc... against bundy for acting against the government, soley on the merit he's a right winger.
Now don't get me wrong. I couldn't say I care much for the man, listing a whole laundry list of personal flaws. But I had, have, no incentive to help the government on this issue.
which can be offset by arrays of batteries that solar can charge at night. A combination of solar, wind, geo-thermal, and of course batteries for night is the way forward.
Of course you can throw in bio-combustables for those middle-of-nowhere places where the above are not feasible.(making enough bio-diesel suddenly becomes feasible when 90% of all our other power comes from other energy)
but obvious it won't happen, because they will keep prices down to stay competative, right? I mean obviously the invisible forces of the market will prevent the large corporations from exploiting us? I mean, they are savy businessmen who are attuned to providing the customers with exactly what they want, otherwise they'd simply go out of business.
Or is just the concept of "de-regulating utilities" gone a little too far.
oh you, and your moderation fallicy.
>Now conservatives have beliefs too, but our beliefs are not based on what we wish to be true but what the evidence shows us to be true.
my sides, my sides.
all of them, this is how binning works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
Chips are designed for the max freq of the specification. If they fail that spec, they are retested at a lower spec, and if they pass that spec, they are sold at that frequency. Why else do you find many diffrent chips in the same family run at diffrent speeds?
Many times the chip is %100 capable of running at faster speeds, but they had too much of the higher bin, and not enough of the lower bin.
But yes, taking a chip that didn't pass a higher speed, flashing it to the firmware of its faster/more capable cousin, and then selling it as such is ripping people off.
lethality != stopping power, I get your point.
.45 and they live, but the bullet knocks them square on their ass, and they don't get up until the paramedics come, its done its job even if the person doesn't die.
A weapon is not a good self defense weapon if the person eventually bleeds out and dies, but can still be a threat in the interim.
If you hit someone with a
should have specified .22LR, which is what most people mean when they say a .22
.223 is a whole diffrent beast
the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel#Efficiencies
>Currently the best achieved sunlight conversion rate (solar module efficiency) is around 21.5% in new commercial products
%7-15 is so 10 years ago. In the lab they have new technologies that does as good as third to half sun.
Also the article says kW, not kWH, which is far more reasonable, because its computerworld, and its really not unreasonable.
>80% collection efficiency might be great on a space station or satellite that needs to get lifted off this planet with expensive rocket fuel, but it does not make sense down here if it costs $10,000 for a few square meters, the price needs to drop to like $10-$40 per square meter, and these guys, like Mc Hammer says, just can't touch that
80% effeciency is exciting, because there is no collection/price trade off. Previously 80% effeciency is unheard of. Its expensive because its new. Its good because it uses only a small amount of physical space, and its extremely powerful, making it suited for rooftops in urban areas, where buildings are tall, real estate is expensive, and population density is extreme.
Also, when the technology matures it will come down in price.
Only if you stick the gun point blank to someone's head.
.22 won't penetrate the human skull.
.22LR is meant for hunting small game like squirells, rats, and rabbits(non-jack variants)
otherwise a
the
>,,,and here I thought it would be struck down because someone would point out that it was somehow funded by an oil company to justify profits... /me ducks and runs like hell
except its not actually funded by an oil company to justify profits.
>Science fiction is the domain of predicting future technology
the purpose of Science Fiction is not to "predict" future technology, but to tell a story about today either using
1. ficitonal end result of today's technology, mixed with politics, mixed with society, as a socio-political statement about the same.
2. A story about today, with fictional races, nations, people, aliens, and laser beams to abstract way too hot to handle concepts and political ideas. Laser beam weapons are great, because there is rarely too much blood and the bad guys just fall down.
3. A story about history, that like #2, is still too hot to handle, or presents a viewpoint that people would reject on concept without really thinking about it.
Go re-watch the Original Star Trek, but in your mind pretend what all the abstractions, are what they are supposed to represent. It gets dark, and heavy really fucking quickly.
I think you mean "cable companies, that will see their cable business dry up as soon as you can watch high quality video over the internet"
bandwith doesn't tell the whole story about a connection.
Also is latency, jitter, etc...
the definition of "broadband" is due to subsidies the federal government pays for companies to deliver broadband. The FCC simply wants the bare minimum transfer rate to be 10 MB/s to qualify for federal subsidies.
I am sure if AT&T wants to continue giving out 4/1 service, and not get federal money its OK. No one is forcing them to take the subsidy.
"Do no evil, nah"
but "lesser of two evils" sure.
Buzz, hands down.
at least for being an 80 year old man still capable of knocking out fucking retard still in what should have been his prime if his brain wasn't rotten.
And he did an AMA on reddit, and has otherwise adapted to net culture quite well.
There was a nice pic of him with his stingray 'vette right before he shot up in space.
You might be cool, but you'll never be Buzz Aldrin cool.
>There are many other flaws that are obvious to the skeptical observer, too numerous to list here.
you mean paranoid, and seeing what they want to see. Most moon hoax'ers have a very obvious political agenda, to the point they've sold themselves on the concept of a moon landing hoax, then looked for proof, which at best is circumstanial evidence, but generally, misintepreting data.
> I'm guessing there are a governmental 'suggestion' to nVidia that influenced the way this analysis went.
guessing. No you just pulled it out of your ass, because it didn't agree with the conclusion you wanted to see.
whats a good way to try to make an intellectual snub at someone without adding to the conversation?
I know, check spelling and grammar.
ghost stories don't nearly have the record of death, destruction and subjegation as organized reliegon.
I was going to say "never killed anyone", but yes, people believing in ghosts have killed people.
Of course its your right, and I never suggested otherwise. I never made an argument to the contrary.
However, If I handed said pamplets to school kids promoting rape, murder, and heroin use, regardless of legal, or other *rights*, I'd still be doing a morally reprehensible thing, and people would still form bad opinions of me, and the community might consider action, albeit non-forceful to get me to reconsider.
That is the point I am making here. Not that anyone should censor you.
lets be fair. This is around the typical intellegence level of your average apple user.
I don't think there will *never* be the "Year of The Linux Desktop", but it won't be in the next 5 years.
GNU/Linux on the desktop is a novelty for nerds, tinkerers, and techies.
GNU/Linux on the server is the bread and butter of the internet itself. Most people who actually use and rely on linux for work, and their life do so without actually knowing it, or dirrectly interacting with the operating system.(ever use google search, you've used gnu/linux).
people who do, in fact install and maintain linux on computers, tend to be running servers, and need a stable platform, more than anything else.
All the people with loads of cash, and manhours of talented developer time, to spend on GNU/Linux and dirrectly related projects are spending their resources on making GNU/Linux servers(and even embedded), better, and more reliable.
a GNU/Linux desktop will happen when a company like Red Hat, google, intel, nVidia, or one of the other many other large corporations gets their dick stepped on for the last time, by microsoft, and they decide to hit them where it hurts, the desktop.
And its going to be a slow, painful, uphill battle full of headaches and tears. No, it *will* happen eventually, but its not on anyone's timeline.
Oh, and I'm sick of bellyaching about systemd. Its a great system, it runs well, reliable as fuck, and most of the compaints are fear mongering. People hate it because its new(GNU even, dum dum tiss), and doesn't conform to the mantra of an OS written over 40 years ago for a system with 64KB of memory.
Siding with the bosses isn't going to make you many friends. Don't cry oppression when you've sided with the capitalists.