The idea behind Cap n' Trade is not to break the coal-gen industry's knee-caps. Rather, it is to make the price of energy (generated from sources & processes that pollute more) reflect the cost to the environment and the commons. How can we measure this price? We don't know, but we can let the market decide the net price for the costs vs the convenience/availability/advantages of whichever generation method.
The assumption here is that the market is capable of doing this, that is, the instruments being traded are liquid, there is demand & supply, it can be monitored for fraud, etc.
This may have made it cheaper with this innovation, but what if no one wants it because power from coal is cheaper, more reliable, plentiful, and so on? Cap 'n Trade would change the market (not technology) to make this new technology (and others) more competitive in the marketplace. That's the idea anyway.
... or will soon be, since the judge ruled against it. And when Usenet.com is hut down, there will no longer be a Usenet to worry about, and the RIAA types can go way happy. So everybody calm down.
Ask Slashdot, I suppose, but what is the state of free music (that the artistes release on to the internet)? I know there are streaming radio stations, and there are videos on YouTube, etc. But is there a cultural matrix in which these are embedded? In other words, can one get, say, a smartphone, and listen to internet radio all day long (or all commute long), get the music, and news, traffic, and weather, and all the time consume only unencubmered content?
I suppose, with a smartphone, traffic and weather is a few click away, but at least music? Is there a directory of these things, or does one accidentally stumble into isolated sub-cultures?
Not even 1% of priests have admitted to misconduct. Not only that, they are certain in their laws. These laws don't even need proving or experimentationalistic thingies where numbers can be fudged. It is exactly 6000 years!
On the video card, yes, the poster missed it. No LGA1366 board has onboard video.
On the sound however, the onboard audio is great if all you're going to do with it is SPDIF out it to a receiver. And the $300 board have optical and/or coax out.
A key piece of information left out in the article is the hardening time. If it hardened enough in a matter of minutes, so that is could be stitched over, if could be used instead of bone grafts in tooth extractions. Bone grafts used now are powdered bone tissue from cadavers, and as the extraction site heals, bits of it keep peeling off - somewhat icky and counterproductive.
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We're well past the point of fooling around with these schemes. If we believe water and sewage should be public infrastructure (and cheap and universally available), then that belief should extend to internet access too. This can be bought about through political action. Certainly, the telcos are very active politically.
I think one big factor in all this is the increased use of privatized "security" services. At the micro-level, these guards don't have the security of a good job, police training, police force and cultural backing, and good educational background. I'm not saying all cops are great (consider the Dem convention in Chicago), but for a given person, their mental state is better suited to making judgements, and better informed. At the macro-level, this is getting a little into conspiracy status, but it is in the interests of the security companies to foster an environment of unquestioning acceptance of authority, even if the reason to be asked to do something is not apparent. In the case of the police, they are ultimately accountable (to whatever extent the people choose to call them on it); but these companies have to rely on an atmosphere of acceptance.
Algae biodiesel is far more advanced as vaporware than agricultural waste biodiesel. It claims 10,000 gallons per acre; whereas this agri-waste one claims 6 gallons per bushel. I heard that agri-animal-waste biodiesel claims 1000 gallons per cow. We need more consistency in our inflated vaporware numbers!
You mean "petroleum", I assume. 'Cause I doubt they make commercial petrol vehicles (guessing, I didn't search their entire line up exhaustively). For the commercial diesel lineup, bio-diesel is more economically viable than bio-petrol/gasoline/ethanol; so they're in good shape. They you have LPG and other alternative power-plants which are more viable for commercial vehicles than passenger cars; given their already massive weight.
Contrary to the commonly espoused reasons, nuclear is not "the best" option. Not because of environmental concerns, although they are important. Not fuel disposal, although they present a sticky NIMBY-driven and real problem. Not because anyone is afraid of nuclear power. Or because anyone is short-sighted.
The plain truth is that in this country, private industry builds nuclear power plants, and nuclear power plants cost far more to construct per kW than yet vastly unexploited sources such as wind power. Regardless of what kind, breeder reactor or not, before one kilowatt comes out a nuke plant, it is already far behind in cost effectiveness. See http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/02/nuclear_power_price/.
The patent appears be specific (as it should be) and the same idea implemented with a different configuration (place palm in a different location) might be construed not to infringe. Perhaps then they filed it for defensive purposes; they're famous for that.
While true, consider also the case where I'm using the browsing the web... a lot of small files keep getting written to the disk, as soon as I finish reading one web page and go to the next. So the HDD keeps spinning up. So I increase the idle timeout. Now the disk just keeps spinning, and the palm-rest above the disk gets hot, decreasing the disk's lifetime. For some reason, even putting Firefox's cache into/dev/shm doesn't seem to help, disk spins up frequently. Things like ndiswrapper like to write to disk. This is why I'm considering an SSD. I don't think I'm going to take much of a performance hit compared to a 4200 rpm HDD.
Just yesterday, it was in the news that Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the first such program, Eliza, had died. Eliza's interaction with real people troubled many.
The article doesn't address the real question, which is, was there at some point, say in 1995, a shortage. If so, did the increase in overseas quotas, or other measures, alleviate this shortage? If so, that would show that it is difficult to predict when there might be a shortage; and that certain solutions address this shortage.
Of course, the questions above have to be addressed with rigor. What are the conditions for tech booms? Can we attribute the relieving of a shortage reliably to immigration, or other factors, such as increased interest in tech during a boom?
The article has no rigor. It poses the wrong questions in order to make a dramatic statement.
Exxon is presently trying to get the SCOTUS to overturn $2.5B punitive damages awarded to fishermen and other interests affected adversely by the Valdez spill (interesting story... drunk driver, I mean captain). Anyhow, it is related because punitive damages are weird.. they got $2.5B earlier, the court may reduce it, to what $1.25B? And Exxon wants to pay $0. How much is appropriate?
At least in the oil spill, one defendant is involved, Exxon. In global warming, who is culpable, and to what extent? Who suffered, and what dollar amounts? And what is an appropriate punitive damages number? Adn think of the endless appeals.
Around the beginning of February, ATI/AMD did not have a functioning driver for their Radeon HD2600 AGP cards. With certain mobo chipsets (including mine, strangely enough), these cars would not even start X, instead freezing the OS solid. Needless to say, there are no problems in Windows. These cards are also their most powerful cards for AGP (the HD3xxx series is PCIe only, as far as I've seen). Ya gotta admit, that is a throwback to the wild west days of the 90s when you actually had to look up HCLs before buying any hardware for Linux.
And then their quad-core. I waited, I waited, and waited. But business can't wait forever; so I got a dual quad-core Xeon. Now you'd think there should be some leeway to the challenger, but that doesn't mean forever. Especially when their CEO got a fat bonus.
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The idea behind Cap n' Trade is not to break the coal-gen industry's knee-caps. Rather, it is to make the price of energy (generated from sources & processes that pollute more) reflect the cost to the environment and the commons. How can we measure this price? We don't know, but we can let the market decide the net price for the costs vs the convenience/availability/advantages of whichever generation method.
The assumption here is that the market is capable of doing this, that is, the instruments being traded are liquid, there is demand & supply, it can be monitored for fraud, etc.
This may have made it cheaper with this innovation, but what if no one wants it because power from coal is cheaper, more reliable, plentiful, and so on? Cap 'n Trade would change the market (not technology) to make this new technology (and others) more competitive in the marketplace. That's the idea anyway.
... or will soon be, since the judge ruled against it. And when Usenet.com is hut down, there will no longer be a Usenet to worry about, and the RIAA types can go way happy. So everybody calm down.
Ask Slashdot, I suppose, but what is the state of free music (that the artistes release on to the internet)? I know there are streaming radio stations, and there are videos on YouTube, etc. But is there a cultural matrix in which these are embedded? In other words, can one get, say, a smartphone, and listen to internet radio all day long (or all commute long), get the music, and news, traffic, and weather, and all the time consume only unencubmered content?
I suppose, with a smartphone, traffic and weather is a few click away, but at least music? Is there a directory of these things, or does one accidentally stumble into isolated sub-cultures?
Not even 1% of priests have admitted to misconduct. Not only that, they are certain in their laws. These laws don't even need proving or experimentationalistic thingies where numbers can be fudged. It is exactly 6000 years!
And of course, a special police force and judicial system to watch over this special police force and judicial system.
> However what is expensive is the political will to prevent smoking in childen.
A ban on public smoking is in effect in India.
> I'm hoping Obama will be better on pretty much every front than Bush
Now there's a high bar.
On the video card, yes, the poster missed it. No LGA1366 board has onboard video.
On the sound however, the onboard audio is great if all you're going to do with it is SPDIF out it to a receiver. And the $300 board have optical and/or coax out.
A key piece of information left out in the article is the hardening time. If it hardened enough in a matter of minutes, so that is could be stitched over, if could be used instead of bone grafts in tooth extractions. Bone grafts used now are powdered bone tissue from cadavers, and as the extraction site heals, bits of it keep peeling off - somewhat icky and counterproductive.
We're well past the point of fooling around with these schemes. If we believe water and sewage should be public infrastructure (and cheap and universally available), then that belief should extend to internet access too. This can be bought about through political action. Certainly, the telcos are very active politically.
Another review that pretends that latency is irrelevant.
And, to address the OP's concern, we'll have lots and lots of doctors. Or, more accurately, "doctors".
> Hell, we can't even bury our dead underground down here...hehehehe.
Heh heh, you just bury 'em underwater.
I think one big factor in all this is the increased use of privatized "security" services. At the micro-level, these guards don't have the security of a good job, police training, police force and cultural backing, and good educational background. I'm not saying all cops are great (consider the Dem convention in Chicago), but for a given person, their mental state is better suited to making judgements, and better informed. At the macro-level, this is getting a little into conspiracy status, but it is in the interests of the security companies to foster an environment of unquestioning acceptance of authority, even if the reason to be asked to do something is not apparent. In the case of the police, they are ultimately accountable (to whatever extent the people choose to call them on it); but these companies have to rely on an atmosphere of acceptance.
Algae biodiesel is far more advanced as vaporware than agricultural waste biodiesel. It claims 10,000 gallons per acre; whereas this agri-waste one claims 6 gallons per bushel. I heard that agri-animal-waste biodiesel claims 1000 gallons per cow. We need more consistency in our inflated vaporware numbers!
You say:
"... Yes yes."
ITYM:
"Yes yyesss yyeeeeeeSSSSSS... don't stop... oh oh yes yesSSS YYEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!"
HTH.
You mean "petroleum", I assume. 'Cause I doubt they make commercial petrol vehicles (guessing, I didn't search their entire line up exhaustively). For the commercial diesel lineup, bio-diesel is more economically viable than bio-petrol/gasoline/ethanol; so they're in good shape. They you have LPG and other alternative power-plants which are more viable for commercial vehicles than passenger cars; given their already massive weight.
Contrary to the commonly espoused reasons, nuclear is not "the best" option. Not because of environmental concerns, although they are important. Not fuel disposal, although they present a sticky NIMBY-driven and real problem. Not because anyone is afraid of nuclear power. Or because anyone is short-sighted.
The plain truth is that in this country, private industry builds nuclear power plants, and nuclear power plants cost far more to construct per kW than yet vastly unexploited sources such as wind power. Regardless of what kind, breeder reactor or not, before one kilowatt comes out a nuke plant, it is already far behind in cost effectiveness. See http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/02/nuclear_power_price/.
The patent appears be specific (as it should be) and the same idea implemented with a different configuration (place palm in a different location) might be construed not to infringe. Perhaps then they filed it for defensive purposes; they're famous for that.
While true, consider also the case where I'm using the browsing the web... a lot of small files keep getting written to the disk, as soon as I finish reading one web page and go to the next. So the HDD keeps spinning up. So I increase the idle timeout. Now the disk just keeps spinning, and the palm-rest above the disk gets hot, decreasing the disk's lifetime. For some reason, even putting Firefox's cache into /dev/shm doesn't seem to help, disk spins up frequently. Things like ndiswrapper like to write to disk. This is why I'm considering an SSD. I don't think I'm going to take much of a performance hit compared to a 4200 rpm HDD.
Just yesterday, it was in the news that Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the first such program, Eliza, had died. Eliza's interaction with real people troubled many.
News article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23615538/
The article doesn't address the real question, which is, was there at some point, say in 1995, a shortage. If so, did the increase in overseas quotas, or other measures, alleviate this shortage? If so, that would show that it is difficult to predict when there might be a shortage; and that certain solutions address this shortage.
Of course, the questions above have to be addressed with rigor. What are the conditions for tech booms? Can we attribute the relieving of a shortage reliably to immigration, or other factors, such as increased interest in tech during a boom?
The article has no rigor. It poses the wrong questions in order to make a dramatic statement.
Exxon is presently trying to get the SCOTUS to overturn $2.5B punitive damages awarded to fishermen and other interests affected adversely by the Valdez spill (interesting story... drunk driver, I mean captain). Anyhow, it is related because punitive damages are weird.. they got $2.5B earlier, the court may reduce it, to what $1.25B? And Exxon wants to pay $0. How much is appropriate?
At least in the oil spill, one defendant is involved, Exxon. In global warming, who is culpable, and to what extent? Who suffered, and what dollar amounts? And what is an appropriate punitive damages number? Adn think of the endless appeals.
Around the beginning of February, ATI/AMD did not have a functioning driver for their Radeon HD2600 AGP cards. With certain mobo chipsets (including mine, strangely enough), these cars would not even start X, instead freezing the OS solid. Needless to say, there are no problems in Windows. These cards are also their most powerful cards for AGP (the HD3xxx series is PCIe only, as far as I've seen). Ya gotta admit, that is a throwback to the wild west days of the 90s when you actually had to look up HCLs before buying any hardware for Linux.
And then their quad-core. I waited, I waited, and waited. But business can't wait forever; so I got a dual quad-core Xeon. Now you'd think there should be some leeway to the challenger, but that doesn't mean forever. Especially when their CEO got a fat bonus.