Which is why the government & banks pump 10-14% more money into the economy every year, causing the stock market and property markets to rise exponentially and thereby moving value away from those who only have cash in the bank and CPI limited salary rises to those who own assets and stocks.
How can you have an article about init without even mentioning upstart? Ubuntu has been using it since 6.10. Because nobody can find any documentation on upstart?
Peak oil is an environmental problem, not an economic problem. There are lots of fuel alternatives, they are just expensive or environmentally damaging The problem all the alternatives have is that they require more input energy to acquire than oil does.
At the moment, we pretty much drill a hole in the ground and start sucking. The energy put in is tiny relative to the energy we get out. As we have to put more energy in to find our energy we have less energy to expend elsewhere. Even nuclear energy has a lower energy return than oil does. When the ratio of energy input to energy output falls to 1:1, the entire economy is employed finding and exploiting new sources of energy. So as we move from oil, the energy sector takes up larger and larger proportions of our spending and investment.
While I don't doubt that market forces will make us move to different fuels, those same market forces may also require us to abandon our cars and skyscrapers. There is nothing magical about the market, it's simply individuals making choices. The reason I asked "is there going to be enough time" is that alternative infrastructures take time, perhaps 10-20 years to build.
It's not really a question of running out. It's a case of going from spending 10% of our effort and income on energy to spending 80% of our effort and income on acquiring energy. And the effect that will have on our civilisation.
Is that you can design the voting form in such a way to fix one of the fundamental problems with democracy. You can make it confusing enough that those with insufficient I.Q. are able only to spoil their ballots, thereby improving the overall level of decision making by the then elected government.
edition final, no truly final cut? I jest, but the continual trotting out of new editions of old movies to get people to buy the same thing over and over again is a tad ridiculous. It's fucking genius! You get to sell the same thing to the same idiots again and again.
The results in terms of a car are miles/kilometres travelled. In terms of computers, MIPS or MFLOPS are however not results, they are performance measurements. Using them would be like describing car efficiency in RPM per gallon. Not the results you're after.
So the first thing to do is define what your results are. The results computers produce are the "bits of information you want".
SPEC and TPC both have benchmarks which already attempt to describe the results that customers are after.
eh, my province(Ontario) and my country (Canada) has had a first past the post electoral system. Surprisingly enough, there are four different "major" parties in parliment(Liberal/Conservative/NDP/Bloc) and numerous minor parties(Green, etc...) that get a chunk of the vote too. From Wikipedia:
"Although four parties are currently represented in Parliament, Canada has two dominant political parties, the Conservatives and Liberals, that have governed the country since its formation in 1867."
That is. The other parties might as well not exist.
Unfortunately politics seem to have been reduced to two different spins on any issue which are wholly unrelated to the facts. A feature of all first past the post electoral systems.
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Which is why the government & banks pump 10-14% more money into the economy every year, causing the stock market and property markets to rise exponentially and thereby moving value away from those who only have cash in the bank and CPI limited salary rises to those who own assets and stocks.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Yup. At the point of a gun.
We're talking about 4MW of electricity, which is pathetic for a modern power station.
To put that into perspective, that would barely power a single train.
What they don't need is more corruption.
At least for the 3rd or developing world. Look. They barely have roads and running water. LEDs, mylar are top of the pyramid technical feats.
For niche markets in the developed world though it could be interesting.
At the moment, we pretty much drill a hole in the ground and start sucking. The energy put in is tiny relative to the energy we get out. As we have to put more energy in to find our energy we have less energy to expend elsewhere. Even nuclear energy has a lower energy return than oil does. When the ratio of energy input to energy output falls to 1:1, the entire economy is employed finding and exploiting new sources of energy. So as we move from oil, the energy sector takes up larger and larger proportions of our spending and investment.
While I don't doubt that market forces will make us move to different fuels, those same market forces may also require us to abandon our cars and skyscrapers. There is nothing magical about the market, it's simply individuals making choices. The reason I asked "is there going to be enough time" is that alternative infrastructures take time, perhaps 10-20 years to build.
It's not really a question of running out. It's a case of going from spending 10% of our effort and income on energy to spending 80% of our effort and income on acquiring energy. And the effect that will have on our civilisation.
Yes. Clearly I'm new here...
That was "sarcasm". Look it up.
You might also want to look up the real meaning of "snark" while you're at it.
Problem solved.
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3060
Is that you can design the voting form in such a way to fix one of the fundamental problems with democracy. You can make it confusing enough that those with insufficient I.Q. are able only to spoil their ballots, thereby improving the overall level of decision making by the then elected government.
The results in terms of a car are miles/kilometres travelled. In terms of computers, MIPS or MFLOPS are however not results, they are performance measurements. Using them would be like describing car efficiency in RPM per gallon. Not the results you're after.
So the first thing to do is define what your results are. The results computers produce are the "bits of information you want".
SPEC and TPC both have benchmarks which already attempt to describe the results that customers are after.
http://www.spec.org/
http://www.tpc.org/
Pricing of products, plans for entering markets in the US etc? You're not concerned that information might make it into the hands of your competitors?
"Although four parties are currently represented in Parliament, Canada has two dominant political parties, the Conservatives and Liberals, that have governed the country since its formation in 1867."
That is. The other parties might as well not exist.
You were saying?
None of the things you mention are communication protocols.
Well, slashdot is one of the most influential technical sites and Microsoft has tens of billions to blow on marketing.
Well I guess you'll be happy to go do it for free then.
You know. The ritual sacrifice of chickens & goats required to keep the Windows servers operating normally.