"Why" is the question that children repeatedly ask until adults get bored. All science can do is move one step at a time, answering one set of questions so that the next set of "why"s are visible.
Ultimately you get back to "god did it" or "everything exploded from nothing". Neither of which are enlightening.
Actually... State maintained oligopoly of the privatized monetary system is closer to the mark.
Did you know the monetary system had been privatised? Did you notice?
Credit is largely the key to the problem.
Central banks support commercial banks, prevent them from failing when they make poor decisions, which means commercial banks have little to fear over extending their ability to create credit (we're at a ratio of 50 fake euros to 1 real euro by now (the US is much the same)). The result is that companies can simply use ever growing swathes of credit to wipe out their competitors. In fact; it's a necessity of the system. You have to do it to them before they do it to you; grow or fail.
Without central banks propping up failed private banks, the ability for corporations to raise large amounts of credit to buy up their competitors would be removed.
Don't expect this process to stop though, it's been ongoing for 300 years and is in the interest of the people at the top that we end up with a world bank propping up commercial banks world wide who in turn, prop up huge multinational corporations.
Somewhere around 60% of our electricity usage is simply moving heat around. Either producing it where it's cold or removing it when it's hot. There are far more efficient and cheaper ways to do this.
Stop the heat moving; insulate everything. Internal and external walls. Roofs, floors, refrigerators/freezers. If not vacuum panels, research into the production of really cheap aerogels for building, DIY materials and domestic devices would probably do more to reduce electricity usage and bills than solar panels.
They also don't have to be big. Fresnel reflector for example. Bog standard flat mirrors, arranged such that they reflect onto a focal point. Make the mirrors out of perspex and it's cheap and light as well as easily fitting onto a roof. You get a large mirror with a low profile, and can almost put the focus where you like.
i.e. ain't going to happen. And funnily enough, assuming evolution is a universal where life is concerned (alabama excepted), any aliens we come across are almost certainly going to behave in a similar fashion.
Yeah, turns out if you chuck $5 at Slashdot you can see the stories 30 minutes before they pop. Big secret nobody knows about because nobody subscribes except those of us who appreciate Slashdot.
$1/gig is barely a mirrored pair array stuck in a PC. Probably not even 15krpm SAS.
What exactly do you need?
Lots of storage? Lots of I/O? Redundancy? Backups? Disaster Recovery? People to manage it?
It all costs money. If you don't need any of that then by all means, buy a PC, stick a couple of 1.5Tb drives in it, raid 0 them and call it the department server. Of course, other people in your organisation may have mandated all of the above.
The actions we need to take now to ensure a reasonable standard of living in 40 years are exactly the same actions we need to take in order to deal with the global warming problem.
Not exactly.
You could also make sure that other people's consumption decreased faster than the resource.
Unless you're starting from scratch. That isn't reality however. I'd need tens of square metres of panels to cover my hot water and space heating requirements in winter, and the cost of that installed is in the tens of thousands of euros. Or, I can stick with the gas boiler and put the money where it's more effective; insulation.
It'd take decades to pay for a solar (PV or thermal) installation. It just doesn't make financial sense.
And by the way, in Germany on sunny days there is more electricity produced by photovoltaics than by nuclear reactors.
And by the way, Germany imports electricity from France... Where they produce it using Nuclear. The Germans are all holier than though with their nuclear policies, the reality is they have simply offshored their nuclear industry to France.
Lets face it, the windows on a desktop with icons experience pretty much hit it's peak with Windows 3.0. Everything since then has been, well, more windows on a desktop with icons.
Performance per watt is almost always calculated running flat out at 100%.
So if it's idle. i.e. not doing anything useful, it's almost certainly still consuming a significant amount of power doing symbiotic processing; processing which is necessary to keep the system running but which doesn't contribute directly to useful computing units. Except that won't be covered in the performance/watt figures.
So, using performance per watt when purchasing is really only useful as a measure if you're able to keep your systems running at high utilisation and switch them off otherwise.
They want a cool, sharp, designed world where everything is taken care of, by the caring giant that is Steve Jobs. He cares. He makes the world a better place. You don't have to worry about it.
What's happening in fact is the proprietary mobile telcos are under pressure from all directions. Google and even more significantly, Nokia. Apple.... yeah... well...
The Internet is still there. The PC is still there. You now have all that moving mobile. It's more, not less.
For the N97. Guess you didn't install it. Ovi Maps have been pushing out new releases on around a bimonthly basis fixing bugs and adding features; Free routing, public transport.
Now days I use a Nexus One and it is literally 2-3 generations down the line from the BEST Nokia has to offer
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"Why" is the question that children repeatedly ask until adults get bored. All science can do is move one step at a time, answering one set of questions so that the next set of "why"s are visible.
Ultimately you get back to "god did it" or "everything exploded from nothing". Neither of which are enlightening.
Actually... State maintained oligopoly of the privatized monetary system is closer to the mark.
Did you know the monetary system had been privatised? Did you notice?
Credit is largely the key to the problem.
Central banks support commercial banks, prevent them from failing when they make poor decisions, which means commercial banks have little to fear over extending their ability to create credit (we're at a ratio of 50 fake euros to 1 real euro by now (the US is much the same)). The result is that companies can simply use ever growing swathes of credit to wipe out their competitors. In fact; it's a necessity of the system. You have to do it to them before they do it to you; grow or fail.
Without central banks propping up failed private banks, the ability for corporations to raise large amounts of credit to buy up their competitors would be removed.
Don't expect this process to stop though, it's been ongoing for 300 years and is in the interest of the people at the top that we end up with a world bank propping up commercial banks world wide who in turn, prop up huge multinational corporations.
Simple.
Ok, so Americans only make up 5% of the world population, they make up for it in consumption.
Somewhere around 60% of our electricity usage is simply moving heat around. Either producing it where it's cold or removing it when it's hot. There are far more efficient and cheaper ways to do this.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/reps/enduse/er01_us.html
Stop the heat moving; insulate everything. Internal and external walls. Roofs, floors, refrigerators/freezers. If not vacuum panels, research into the production of really cheap aerogels for building, DIY materials and domestic devices would probably do more to reduce electricity usage and bills than solar panels.
They also don't have to be big. Fresnel reflector for example. Bog standard flat mirrors, arranged such that they reflect onto a focal point. Make the mirrors out of perspex and it's cheap and light as well as easily fitting onto a roof. You get a large mirror with a low profile, and can almost put the focus where you like.
i.e. ain't going to happen. And funnily enough, assuming evolution is a universal where life is concerned (alabama excepted), any aliens we come across are almost certainly going to behave in a similar fashion.
Yeah, turns out if you chuck $5 at Slashdot you can see the stories 30 minutes before they pop. Big secret nobody knows about because nobody subscribes except those of us who appreciate Slashdot.
Whoooosshh.
$1/gig is barely a mirrored pair array stuck in a PC. Probably not even 15krpm SAS.
What exactly do you need?
Lots of storage?
Lots of I/O?
Redundancy?
Backups?
Disaster Recovery?
People to manage it?
It all costs money. If you don't need any of that then by all means, buy a PC, stick a couple of 1.5Tb drives in it, raid 0 them and call it the department server. Of course, other people in your organisation may have mandated all of the above.
The actions we need to take now to ensure a reasonable standard of living in 40 years are exactly the same actions we need to take in order to deal with the global warming problem.
Not exactly.
You could also make sure that other people's consumption decreased faster than the resource.
HTH
This is why I hate commenting on this shit.
And yet you managed to get in so early too.
You know, that stuff that has to stand up in court. Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Thank goodness people think before shouting their ignorance to the world these days.
Unless you're starting from scratch. That isn't reality however. I'd need tens of square metres of panels to cover my hot water and space heating requirements in winter, and the cost of that installed is in the tens of thousands of euros. Or, I can stick with the gas boiler and put the money where it's more effective; insulation.
It'd take decades to pay for a solar (PV or thermal) installation. It just doesn't make financial sense.
And by the way, in Germany on sunny days there is more electricity produced by photovoltaics than by nuclear reactors.
And by the way, Germany imports electricity from France... Where they produce it using Nuclear. The Germans are all holier than though with their nuclear policies, the reality is they have simply offshored their nuclear industry to France.
Lets face it, the windows on a desktop with icons experience pretty much hit it's peak with Windows 3.0. Everything since then has been, well, more windows on a desktop with icons.
Turtles all the way down.
Do Americans have bigger feet?
ok, so here's the question. Does the proportion of people who hit the accelerator instead of the brake differ by country/age/make/model?
Human nature. People are one or more of apathetic, complacent, lazy and stupid. It's great.
Idle means zero computing units and running
Performance per watt is almost always calculated running flat out at 100%.
So if it's idle. i.e. not doing anything useful, it's almost certainly still consuming a significant amount of power doing symbiotic processing; processing which is necessary to keep the system running but which doesn't contribute directly to useful computing units. Except that won't be covered in the performance/watt figures.
So, using performance per watt when purchasing is really only useful as a measure if you're able to keep your systems running at high utilisation and switch them off otherwise.
or have all the systems running at 50% capacity.
See all that money which we have? Loaned to us by banks. There's a bigger debt behind every single dollar/euro/pound.
The recording industry is just copying the masters.
They want a cool, sharp, designed world where everything is taken care of, by the caring giant that is Steve Jobs. He cares. He makes the world a better place. You don't have to worry about it.
Didn't someone write a book about that?
This means everyone's DNA should be taken.
You can have the source.
http://meego.com/downloads
What's happening in fact is the proprietary mobile telcos are under pressure from all directions. Google and even more significantly, Nokia. Apple.... yeah... well...
The Internet is still there. The PC is still there. You now have all that moving mobile. It's more, not less.
For the N97. Guess you didn't install it. Ovi Maps have been pushing out new releases on around a bimonthly basis fixing bugs and adding features; Free routing, public transport.
Now days I use a Nexus One and it is literally 2-3 generations down the line from the BEST Nokia has to offer
No, it's only just keeping up. Nokia's Linux based battery burner is the N900: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
largest collection of modern games.
Right... As I said, Apple is clearly number 1 in fart apps.
Oh wait, they have another worthy application making up the numbers... iFreshener.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/ifreshener-shake-spray-virtual/id303536257?mt=8
Or the angry cat.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/angrycat-free-the-angry-cat/id315640417?mt=8
Class.
1,000?
100?
10?
How meaningful is the number 200,000?
Grand Theft Auto? Various versions (vice city, IV) have been available on S60 phones since 2007.