To heat domestic water, space heating and even to power adsorption chillers which can reduce AC requirements. Even coal power stations can hit 88% efficient.
I don't think counting documents on the web is particularly a useful way to try to measure the dominance of office suites or their associated file formats. It's measuring the usage of a particular standard. It's pretty clear that nobody uses OOXML, anyone using MS Office simply continues to use DOC.
Which leads me to wonder, where that "you" is stored and if that storage is "permanent" or easily disrupted. "You" are the interactions between tens of billions of neurons. You are stored in the inter neuronal connections. There's evidence that personality changes with disruption.
The point was that to evolve beyond that stage and develop HIGHER intellect, altruism isn't the best trait to have. It pays to be altruistic towards family in particular. It helps ensure your genes and those who share them are more likely to survive than those who are purely selfish. Co-operation is also an evolved phenomenon.
The idea is that you will only evolve higher intellect if there are external pressures (like a big frickin' tiger that wants to eat you). Evolution favours those who can breed, not those who can escape tigers. Access to females for instance may require co-operation from other males to defeat an incumbent male.
Admin: "There's a bug in the operating system, it's corrupting data under these circumstances" Sun: "Naw, not at all. The problem is in the IBM firmware. The operating system is doing the right thing". IBM: "WTF? no it ain't, the problem is in the operating system."
Queue many hours of haranguing both companies.
As opposed to:
Admin: "There's a bug in the OS, it's corrupting data under these circumstances"
Sun (Or IBM): "Actually the dump you sent us indicate the problem is with downrev firmware in your XXX adapter. Here's a patch which fixes it."
See the difference?
There are very good reasons for buying your systems from a single vendor, the big one is that they know how it works all the way down to the metal and they can get someone on site in 4 hours who can fix it, all the way down to the metal.
Even asking a child what they want to be is stupid. Hell, most of the adults I know are only just deciding what they really would like to do for the rest of their lives.
Really people generally decide what they don't want to do and that takes time, experience and trial and error... So young people should be encouraged to move between jobs and educational opportunities.
Of course, if you're talking about the future, and want to be super optimistic about it, then let's think about reusable launch vehicles. Basically the entire cost of the vehicle can be ignored, as it will be amortized over its use. Right. Just like the shuttle. The cheapest form of space travel around. Just the cost of the fuel.
Yes, debt is a commodity of sorts, I suppose. But debt, like Linden dollars, is still virtual, right? If not, post a link to a picture of debt. Point is, there's no physical commodity backing dollars at all. It used to be back by gold, but it's not anymore. Unfortunately true. It should in theory be backed by real physical assets at some point, but the truth is there is unimaginably large amounts of unsecured debt out there and therefore large amounts of unbacked cash.
There are other undesirable aspects to using debt as the commodity backing currency, in particular the fact that it increases exponentially and it has to be paid off. It's a non linear system, it introduces instability and non linearities to the markets.
One of the reasons houses are torn down is they are inflexible, and the bits left are usually of little use. With some sort of lego concrete block they can simply be reformed so no constant rebuilding and using new resources. If it's no longer needed, the blocks can be re-used to build something else. The concrete itself should pretty much last for ever, there are 2000 year old concrete buildings in Italy.
Huge thermal mass so AC requirements are much lower or non existent and insulation can be applied internally so heating requirements are also largely removed.
Build time, extremely short, you just hoist the blocks into position.
Or you could consider that the US company could easily double their salary, reduce work week to, say, 60 hours and fix the most grievous safety hazards And they'd be unemployed in less than a year.
The gold standard is ridiculous and archaic It ended in 1971 after a thousand years of use. Neither ridiculous nor particularly archaic.
There's nothing wrong with fiat currency. It decreases in value every year destroying the value of savings.
It allows the government the ability to pay for anything it likes which leads to the inevitable increases in power of the political elite, the banks and the largest multinational corporations which service government interests.
It requires an exponentially increasing economy and debt burden just to maintain the status quo and make interest payments. This has a devastating effect on the environment and human being's work/life balance.
Those are just off the top of my head. There are more disadvantages.
My snot has limited supply too, but it's not worth anything. Your snot is just one among billions. There's a plentiful supply. Dollars have a value because the supply is limited, if there was an infinite supply, nobody including the government would accept them as a form of payment for anything, including taxes. Try printing them off yourself and see what happens.
The reason a lot of economists like currency based this way is that you don't have to hold productive commodites (like gold, which can be used for hi-tech equipment) out of production, just so it can be used as money. It doesn't have to be debt though. Look I agree debts can be useful, but there's no particular reason that money has to be based on it, or even on gold. Money is a valuable commodity of it's own, really that's how people think of it anyway. The only problem with unbacked currency is the government's propensity to roll the presses 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 52 weeks of the year.
e.g. http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1595
but you're exaggerating its impact The fractional reserve system multiplies the impact, and... Really, take a look at the effect of exponentially increasing debt on the economy, society, on the environment. Look at who gets the cash and who gets the poverty.
As long as people know the approximate range by which it will expand the money supply, they will demand an interest rate on their lending that eliminates this effect. Fine if you're in a position to buy government bonds. For the rest of humanity though? The waitress waiting tables for minimum wage.
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The "waste" heat can power adsorption chillers in hot climates.
Especially considering the coming energy crunch.
To heat domestic water, space heating and even to power adsorption chillers which can reduce AC requirements. Even coal power stations can hit 88% efficient.
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... Well you decide for yourself.
http://www.helsinginenergia.fi/en/tuotanto/benefi
US power stations are still only 40% efficient because
Money isn't the only way to contribute...
Some aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
How can we contribute?
Said website's descent back into obscurity.
Shouldn't this be a technical paper in an electrical engineering journal?
Enterprise customers want a single vendor.
Why?
Admin: "There's a bug in the operating system, it's corrupting data under these circumstances"
Sun: "Naw, not at all. The problem is in the IBM firmware. The operating system is doing the right thing".
IBM: "WTF? no it ain't, the problem is in the operating system."
Queue many hours of haranguing both companies.
As opposed to:
Admin: "There's a bug in the OS, it's corrupting data under these circumstances"
Sun (Or IBM): "Actually the dump you sent us indicate the problem is with downrev firmware in your XXX adapter. Here's a patch which fixes it."
See the difference?
There are very good reasons for buying your systems from a single vendor, the big one is that they know how it works all the way down to the metal and they can get someone on site in 4 hours who can fix it, all the way down to the metal.
Lots of them out there... We could be the strange and unusual forms of life in the universe...
It outsources risk, not responsibility.
Is it's purpose to train kids to pass exams or is it's purpose to inform them about the world?
If exams are the purpose, you get this kind of crap where kids are taught to pass a test and nothing else.
Even asking a child what they want to be is stupid. Hell, most of the adults I know are only just deciding what they really would like to do for the rest of their lives.
Really people generally decide what they don't want to do and that takes time, experience and trial and error... So young people should be encouraged to move between jobs and educational opportunities.
In reality this is a cost cutting measure.
You can make everyone go in the wrong direction all at once. For decades.
http://www.texol.co.uk/texol_mosquito.htm
There are other undesirable aspects to using debt as the commodity backing currency, in particular the fact that it increases exponentially and it has to be paid off. It's a non linear system, it introduces instability and non linearities to the markets.
Something like:
http://www.redi-rock.co.uk/index2.html
http://www.redi-rock.co.uk/v3products.html
One of the reasons houses are torn down is they are inflexible, and the bits left are usually of little use. With some sort of lego concrete block they can simply be reformed so no constant rebuilding and using new resources. If it's no longer needed, the blocks can be re-used to build something else. The concrete itself should pretty much last for ever, there are 2000 year old concrete buildings in Italy.
Huge thermal mass so AC requirements are much lower or non existent and insulation can be applied internally so heating requirements are also largely removed.
Build time, extremely short, you just hoist the blocks into position.
It allows the government the ability to pay for anything it likes which leads to the inevitable increases in power of the political elite, the banks and the largest multinational corporations which service government interests.
It requires an exponentially increasing economy and debt burden just to maintain the status quo and make interest payments. This has a devastating effect on the environment and human being's work/life balance.
Those are just off the top of my head. There are more disadvantages.
The currency shapes our society.
e.g. http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1595 but you're exaggerating its impact The fractional reserve system multiplies the impact, and... Really, take a look at the effect of exponentially increasing debt on the economy, society, on the environment. Look at who gets the cash and who gets the poverty. As long as people know the approximate range by which it will expand the money supply, they will demand an interest rate on their lending that eliminates this effect. Fine if you're in a position to buy government bonds. For the rest of humanity though? The waitress waiting tables for minimum wage.
Course it is. Financial institutions sell it to each other (and you) in unimaginably large quantities.