If we use solar, wind and tidal energy to charge the hydrogen batteries, what difference does energy efficiency make, so long as current and future energy needs can be met? Well, you take your energy as hydrogen, I'll take it as electricity at 1/4 of the price...
And it gets worse. Assume we're not going to use 100% *cough* renewable electricity. Assume your energy comes from a local coal power station. They're about 35% efficient, so your 25% efficient battery actually gives you an overall efficiency of 8.8%. You're taking your scarce energy resource, burning it and making use of less than 10% of the energy in that resource. Exactly how clean do you think that strategy is?
Until we are using 100% renewable or the magical *cough* fusion you're throwing around 90% of your energy away. Afterwards you're throwing 75% away. Either scenario is just fucking dumb.
The existing energy strategies of many countries fit into the dumb category, particularly knowing the resources are generally going to increase in value in the future.
If we use solar, wind and tidal energy to charge the hydrogen batteries, what difference does energy efficiency make, so long as current and future energy needs can be met? Well, you take your energy as hydrogen, I'll take it as electricity at 1/4 of the price...
And it gets worse. Assume we're not going to use 100% *cough* renewable electricity. Assume your energy comes from a local coal power station. They're about 35% efficient, so your 25% efficient battery actually gives you an overall efficiency of 8.8%. You're taking your scarce energy resource, burning it and making use of less than 10% of the energy in that resource.
Until we are using 100% renewable or magical *cough* fusion you're throwing around 90% of your energy away. Afterwards you're throwing 75% away. Either scenario is just fucking dumb. Our existing energy strategies fit into the du
The hydrogen economy was an idea dreamed up by those with a vested interest to divert attention and money away from more promising and immediate technologies which compete with their own investments. Still, the government got to spend lots of money.
I think it's down to the fact that Open Office is not natively a Gnome app. Firefox and Thunderbird are similarly memory hungry and similarly cross platform.
In KDE the word processor apps and web browser are around 1/3 of the memory allocated and I reckon it's largely down to much tighter integration with native libraries.
These are arguments against Firefox, Thunderbird, open Office and for native equivalents like Abiword, Evolution, Koffice, Konqueror etc. Konqueror is particularly impressive.
general efficiency of public transit This would be the definition of efficiency whick leads a public transit journey to take 2 hours, 15 miles, a change of route and a 30 minute wait in the rain compared to a 20 minute, 5 mile warm, dry journey in relative comfort.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, broadband is pretty much "as ubiquitous and as reliable as electricity." It's also cheaper than electricity. I'd say you're about 10 years behind the times, and I'm betting my business on it.
Make no mistake: it's not about "saving the earth", it's about saving the human race, or at least civilization as we know it. We've gone from a 5C raise in average temperature and say 20' raise in sea levels to the end of civilisation, the extinction of the human race, 99% of the life on the planet and the end of the plant itself.
It's ALL bullshit. Hyperbolic hysteria and it harms the case of the environmentalists.
Civilisation will not end. The human race will certainly not become extinct. 99% of the existing species will also not be made extinct. The planet will not end.
Yawn? Don't plug into the net? What arrogant uncaring tripe. What kind of jackass gives that sort of a response? Oh, right, an OS snob Actually it's the sort of response that you get from someone who's constantly asked to fix computers that are repeatedly infested with viruses, spyware and other malware.
Maybe you're 12 and your time's worthless. Mine isn't and I now charge $$$ to fix computers. You don't want to pay? YeeHaw! Go away, fix it yourself then, or find some rather dim student who has nothing better to do.
People have the right to privacy and surf the net unmolested, no matter the OS they use. Awww, how sweet. Welcome to the real world, not the idealised socialist one you have in your head.
I'm sorry but monocultures and all that. I've given up warning people. It's their own responsibility to look after their computers? What they can't? Dearie me, that'll be hmmm, $$$ then.
Only the silver backed Pound has enough value to pay for huge projects like this. The GB Pound isn't silver backed. It's just as much a fiat currency as the dollar. The difference is that the UK government isn't printing them as quickly as the US government, it is still doing so though.
Server systems have been using high quality NICs which offload network processing for years. Decades even... I think $250 is a bit steep. But then I'm not a l33t gamer. Kudos to them if they can get people to pay $250 for a $50 server NIC. I call that good marketing.
Of course they also need to be running 15,000rpm SCSI drives on a decent SCSI HBA as well as a top of the line CPU and loads of RAM and top of the range graphics card.
The second that a civil war starts up, the arms manufacturers will have representatives in there with glossy catalogues full of RPGs, anti-tank/personell mines and generous finance terms.
You simply make an announcement. You say that whomever gets there and physically stakes a claim will be the owner of the land to do with as they wish, backed up by the strength of the US/whatever military.
The reason nobody can be bothered going to the moon is that nobody can own it at the moment. Change that and we will have huge amounts of commercial interest. Get rid of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, without ownership there is no scarcity, without scarcity there is no value. Without value it isn't worth going there.
The point of the question is: WHERE IS THE OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE?And you're missing the point of FOSS. There is no "THE" alternative. There are many alternatives. Yeah, I know you don't like that, but it's the truth. Eventually several good, competing, systems will gain popularity.
Its like Excel, in that whatever you come up with, it WONT be better, but maybe just as good?Excel is just a VisiCalc clone, there's nothing compelling about it. There are many ways to improve on Excel, Lotus Improv was a much nicer concept.
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams"
Bullshit. The history of the whole of Europe is the story of autocratic dictatorships losing their power and becoming democracies. The general trend is that liberty tends to increase.
What are some of those dangerous ideas, that sound good but actually aren't?Pretty much anything involving a politician. Har Har...
Really, politicians shouldn't be involved at all before the whole thing has been worked out by scientists, economists etc. It should then be presented to the politicians as "the solution" in a way they'll understand. Otherwise they'll fuck it up, they'll take the problem and go use it as "leverage" to gain additional funding which will then be spent in irrelevant and probably counter productive ways for example, the red herring which is the hydrogen economy and hydrogen fuel cells. The key point being the gaining of additional powers and revenue.
The EU ETS is badly implemented at the moment, but it really just needs tweaked a bit. Reduce the caps, allocate on a per capita basis rather than allow governments to decide how much to allocate.
At the moment, it's humans who are taxed, human work. Well, tax machine work instead. They do more of the work than we do and they have an unfair tax advantage over humans, never mind their ability to work so much faster.
Slashdot Mirror
e.g.
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Lithium_Su
And it gets worse. Assume we're not going to use 100% *cough* renewable electricity. Assume your energy comes from a local coal power station. They're about 35% efficient, so your 25% efficient battery actually gives you an overall efficiency of 8.8%. You're taking your scarce energy resource, burning it and making use of less than 10% of the energy in that resource. Exactly how clean do you think that strategy is?
Until we are using 100% renewable or the magical *cough* fusion you're throwing around 90% of your energy away. Afterwards you're throwing 75% away. Either scenario is just fucking dumb.
The existing energy strategies of many countries fit into the dumb category, particularly knowing the resources are generally going to increase in value in the future.
And it gets worse. Assume we're not going to use 100% *cough* renewable electricity. Assume your energy comes from a local coal power station. They're about 35% efficient, so your 25% efficient battery actually gives you an overall efficiency of 8.8%. You're taking your scarce energy resource, burning it and making use of less than 10% of the energy in that resource.
Until we are using 100% renewable or magical *cough* fusion you're throwing around 90% of your energy away. Afterwards you're throwing 75% away. Either scenario is just fucking dumb. Our existing energy strategies fit into the du
You didn't read the article. Hydrogen is just a 25% efficient battery. We already have much better batteries.
The hydrogen economy was an idea dreamed up by those with a vested interest to divert attention and money away from more promising and immediate technologies which compete with their own investments. Still, the government got to spend lots of money.
I think it's down to the fact that Open Office is not natively a Gnome app. Firefox and Thunderbird are similarly memory hungry and similarly cross platform.
In KDE the word processor apps and web browser are around 1/3 of the memory allocated and I reckon it's largely down to much tighter integration with native libraries.
These are arguments against Firefox, Thunderbird, open Office and for native equivalents like Abiword, Evolution, Koffice, Konqueror etc. Konqueror is particularly impressive.
Enlightenment is easy.
Loyalty is and always has been a fairy story told to you by people in power to get you to do things for them cheaply.
Oh yeah, that includes patriotism as well btw. Typically they want you to die for their benefit.
Greediest bastards helping the poor and the needy more effectively than Mr Geldof in his wildest dreams. Who'd have thought? Mr Smith I salute you.
Sorry, is this news? This is simply economics in action...
p.s. The US is still fubar, but that's due to Mr Bush's excessive spending.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, broadband is pretty much "as ubiquitous and as reliable as electricity." It's also cheaper than electricity. I'd say you're about 10 years behind the times, and I'm betting my business on it.
It's ALL bullshit. Hyperbolic hysteria and it harms the case of the environmentalists.
Civilisation will not end.
The human race will certainly not become extinct.
99% of the existing species will also not be made extinct.
The planet will not end.
And I was due to have some river front property.
Maybe you're 12 and your time's worthless. Mine isn't and I now charge $$$ to fix computers. You don't want to pay? YeeHaw! Go away, fix it yourself then, or find some rather dim student who has nothing better to do. People have the right to privacy and surf the net unmolested, no matter the OS they use. Awww, how sweet. Welcome to the real world, not the idealised socialist one you have in your head.
I'm sorry but monocultures and all that. I've given up warning people. It's their own responsibility to look after their computers? What they can't? Dearie me, that'll be hmmm, $$$ then.
Server systems have been using high quality NICs which offload network processing for years. Decades even... I think $250 is a bit steep. But then I'm not a l33t gamer. Kudos to them if they can get people to pay $250 for a $50 server NIC. I call that good marketing.
Of course they also need to be running 15,000rpm SCSI drives on a decent SCSI HBA as well as a top of the line CPU and loads of RAM and top of the range graphics card.
Just a thought.
The second that a civil war starts up, the arms manufacturers will have representatives in there with glossy catalogues full of RPGs, anti-tank/personell mines and generous finance terms.
You simply make an announcement. You say that whomever gets there and physically stakes a claim will be the owner of the land to do with as they wish, backed up by the strength of the US/whatever military.
The reason nobody can be bothered going to the moon is that nobody can own it at the moment. Change that and we will have huge amounts of commercial interest. Get rid of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, without ownership there is no scarcity, without scarcity there is no value. Without value it isn't worth going there.
The point of the question is: WHERE IS THE OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE?And you're missing the point of FOSS. There is no "THE" alternative. There are many alternatives. Yeah, I know you don't like that, but it's the truth. Eventually several good, competing, systems will gain popularity. Its like Excel, in that whatever you come up with, it WONT be better, but maybe just as good?Excel is just a VisiCalc clone, there's nothing compelling about it. There are many ways to improve on Excel, Lotus Improv was a much nicer concept.
I believe we are the only one over 200 and we are a republic.Well, if you believe that you must be right.
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams"
Bullshit. The history of the whole of Europe is the story of autocratic dictatorships losing their power and becoming democracies. The general trend is that liberty tends to increase.
What are some of those dangerous ideas, that sound good but actually aren't?Pretty much anything involving a politician. Har Har...
Really, politicians shouldn't be involved at all before the whole thing has been worked out by scientists, economists etc. It should then be presented to the politicians as "the solution" in a way they'll understand. Otherwise they'll fuck it up, they'll take the problem and go use it as "leverage" to gain additional funding which will then be spent in irrelevant and probably counter productive ways for example, the red herring which is the hydrogen economy and hydrogen fuel cells. The key point being the gaining of additional powers and revenue.
The EU ETS is badly implemented at the moment, but it really just needs tweaked a bit. Reduce the caps, allocate on a per capita basis rather than allow governments to decide how much to allocate.
At the moment, it's humans who are taxed, human work. Well, tax machine work instead. They do more of the work than we do and they have an unfair tax advantage over humans, never mind their ability to work so much faster.
http://www.whynot.net/ideas/2195