The Egyptians found a way to preserve their message over thousands of years, surely we can come up with something.:)
And they would have saved future generations from vast amounts of confusion and effort, if they'd only been a little more diligent backing up their pyramid construction HOWTO files.
I'd just call them both a few more times to see if there's anywhere to get, it's very clear laws have been broken.
When calling them, make sure to tell them you're running for vice president. That way, the FBI will have the perps in custody and placed under felony indictments within a week.
On top of that, kernel space isn't generally swapped out, but user space can be. Obviously it should never happen, but wouldn't it suck if your disk driver was swapped out?
It's silly to worry about hypothetical problems like that. They're just not an issue in the real world.
In fact, I configured my system to use a swap file stored in a FUSE filesystem, and I've been running lots of apps just fine with no probl
They aren't transparently substituted, unless you don't consider the cost.
As a consumer, I don't consider the producers' costs, only the fixed price per kWh that I pay. Where the electricity gets imported from is irrelevant to me.
The same goes for the differing costs of pumping oil in various distinct locations that ends up in a fungible gallon of gas that I buy.
At any rate, I tire of this petty semantic quibbling. So long.
It's two sides of the same coin. If electricity weren't fungible, then other sources of power generation couldn't be transparently substituted for the fixed amount of hydro output.
Hydro power is usually base load, so they don't adjust them due to short term demand. They'll more likely crank up the juice on a gas-fired peaking plant instead.
Over the longer term, the limiting factor on hydro power is the amount of water available. They are *already* using as much water as they possibly can because the generation cost is so cheap. So really, any increase in electrical demand will not be provided by more hydro power. (And building new dams is not on the table.)
Changes in demand in one spot can have an effect "three states over". If I scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean in Florida, the global sea level changes by an infinitesimal amount, including near Hawaii. That doesn't mean that any water had to be shipped all the way from Hawaii to Florida. The national electric grid has a similar load spreading property.
But at the time, he did violate the "laws" of physics. By "laws", I mean the laws we humans coined up, not the actual laws.
Not really. Maxwell's equations describing electromagnetic phenomena had been known by humans since the 1860s. Tesla's early work was compatible with these principles, his later work was not. The equations didn't change in the interim.
Not true. Since electricity is a fungible commodity, it essentially runs off the national average mix of power plant energy sources, regardless of where it is located.
But Diebold "stealing elections" isn't a little too convenient to be the perfect thing gift wrapped by and for Howard Dean?
The difference is that Acorn has to think of unique NFL player name for each individual vote it fakes. And it has to do this countless thousands of times, leaving a paper trail each time, just to even have the possibility of influencing the outcome. Diebold, OTOH, could potentially throw entire states just by altering a couple lines of code.
He doesn't support Nuclear fuel recycling which the UK, France, and Japan have done for years.
Check out the Scientific American article from a couple of months ago. Those countries are planning to stop recycling nuclear fuel because it currently makes no economic sense. It is far cheaper to dispose of the spent fuel after one pass and mine fresh fuel.
It won't make economic sense unless fast breeder reactors become mainstream. However, that technology is no more developed or proven than many non-nuclear alternative energy technologies.
If everyone trades music, video, and software without paying for them, we will have heavily reduced funding for the creation of music and video, since the only potential income will be concerts/screenings/merchandising
That won't actually happen as they should be bought up very soon. The only question is by who? Oracle, HP, IBM or one of the hardware giants they rebrand and resell?
The way things have been going the last few weeks, my bet is on the United States Treasury Department.
Instead, when you saw that you might be confronted with information that doesn't neatly fit with your preconceptions, you stick your fingers in your ears and yell "Nyah, nyah, I can't hear you!"
Resistive heating is 100% efficient: it converts every bit of electricity going in to heat.
However, typically no more than 40% of the fuel energy used in electrical power generation ends up making it to your home. Resistive heating is hugely wasteful, the waste just happens where you don't see it.
Please, show me how you would appropriately assign their external costs to them.
Well, for starteers, assign most of the cost of our military to oil, since their main job is to keep volatile parts of the world stable enough to ship oil to us.
Then, assign the cost of cleaning up mercury pollution in most of the nation's lakes and treating a good percentage of repiratory illnesses to coal.
The list goes on and on, and that's not even assuming that serious climate change scenarios may transpire. If you allow for those, multiply everything above by orders of magnitude to cover the costs of either huge catastrophes or massive geoengineering fixes.
Of course all of that is hard to quantify, but it doesn't change the objective reality that large external costs exist which are not currently being accounted for.
Insurers compete using tons of statistical data and analysis.
Apparently, they did this analysis and then concluded only the government would dare underwrite the astronomical potential liability risk for a nuclear power plant. At any rate, if a few foreclosures can bankrupt the largest private insurer in the USA, then there's no way in hell that any private firm could cover the losses of a worst-case nuclear accident or sabotage scenario. There would never be any payout, which reminds me of the old Monty Python skit about the guy who was refused payment for loss of his car because he had bought the "No Claims Policy".
These babies can't compete without the government giving them an advantage.
Just like fossil fuels wouldn't be able to compete if their external costs were appropriately assigned to them, and nuclear power couldn't compete if plant operators had to buy liability insurance at actual market rates.
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The Egyptians found a way to preserve their message over thousands of years, surely we can come up with something. :)
And they would have saved future generations from vast amounts of confusion and effort, if they'd only been a little more diligent backing up their pyramid construction HOWTO files.
Real programmers type cat | cc and get it right the first time.
Some of us don't have to cling to safety blankets like that. We prefer the simplicity of cat > a.out
I'd just call them both a few more times to see if there's anywhere to get, it's very clear laws have been broken.
When calling them, make sure to tell them you're running for vice president. That way, the FBI will have the perps in custody and placed under felony indictments within a week.
On top of that, kernel space isn't generally swapped out, but user space can be. Obviously it should never happen, but wouldn't it suck if your disk driver was swapped out?
It's silly to worry about hypothetical problems like that. They're just not an issue in the real world.
In fact, I configured my system to use a swap file stored in a FUSE filesystem, and I've been running lots of apps just fine with no probl
In order to test the Global Warming theory you need 2 carbon copies of 1900 earth
That wouldn't work, as the copies would be comprised mostly of carbon powder, so the geophysics would be completely different.
They aren't transparently substituted, unless you don't consider the cost.
As a consumer, I don't consider the producers' costs, only the fixed price per kWh that I pay. Where the electricity gets imported from is irrelevant to me.
The same goes for the differing costs of pumping oil in various distinct locations that ends up in a fungible gallon of gas that I buy.
At any rate, I tire of this petty semantic quibbling. So long.
It's two sides of the same coin. If electricity weren't fungible, then other sources of power generation couldn't be transparently substituted for the fixed amount of hydro output.
Hydro power isn't magic either. Using an electric car in Seattle will not cause any additional hydro power to be generated.
See my response to the post above yours. All available hydro power is already spoken for.
Hydro power is usually base load, so they don't adjust them due to short term demand. They'll more likely crank up the juice on a gas-fired peaking plant instead.
Over the longer term, the limiting factor on hydro power is the amount of water available. They are *already* using as much water as they possibly can because the generation cost is so cheap. So really, any increase in electrical demand will not be provided by more hydro power. (And building new dams is not on the table.)
Changes in demand in one spot can have an effect "three states over". If I scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean in Florida, the global sea level changes by an infinitesimal amount, including near Hawaii. That doesn't mean that any water had to be shipped all the way from Hawaii to Florida. The national electric grid has a similar load spreading property.
But at the time, he did violate the "laws" of physics. By "laws", I mean the laws we humans coined up, not the actual laws.
Not really. Maxwell's equations describing electromagnetic phenomena had been known by humans since the 1860s. Tesla's early work was compatible with these principles, his later work was not. The equations didn't change in the interim.
That hadn't stopped him before...
Probably because success of his earlier work didn't actually depend on violating the laws of physics.
And, in Seattle, runs off hydro power.
Not true. Since electricity is a fungible commodity, it essentially runs off the national average mix of power plant energy sources, regardless of where it is located.
It was only later, when he was much older that people were able to fight him off from creating his inventions
It wasn't people that stopped him from realizing many of his later ideas.
It was the laws of physics.
But Diebold "stealing elections" isn't a little too convenient to be the perfect thing gift wrapped by and for Howard Dean?
The difference is that Acorn has to think of unique NFL player name for each individual vote it fakes. And it has to do this countless thousands of times, leaving a paper trail each time, just to even have the possibility of influencing the outcome. Diebold, OTOH, could potentially throw entire states just by altering a couple lines of code.
I absolutely agree with free speech, I just don't find it mandatory that I must always tell you what I'm thinking.
Ok then, please feel free to refrain from starting pointless tangential threads in the future.
He doesn't support Nuclear fuel recycling which the UK, France, and Japan have done for years.
Check out the Scientific American article from a couple of months ago. Those countries are planning to stop recycling nuclear fuel because it currently makes no economic sense. It is far cheaper to dispose of the spent fuel after one pass and mine fresh fuel.
It won't make economic sense unless fast breeder reactors become mainstream. However, that technology is no more developed or proven than many non-nuclear alternative energy technologies.
Now I'm going to have to counteract this worrying news by expediting my research on black tinfoil.
If everyone trades music, video, and software without paying for them, we will have heavily reduced funding for the creation of music and video, since the only potential income will be concerts/screenings/merchandising
You say that as if that would be a bad thing.
or even working in the factory, provided it's not a sweatshop?
Back in those days, factories generally *were* sweatshops.
That won't actually happen as they should be bought up very soon. The only question is by who? Oracle, HP, IBM or one of the hardware giants they rebrand and resell?
The way things have been going the last few weeks, my bet is on the United States Treasury Department.
I stopped reading there.
Your loss. You might have learned something.
Instead, when you saw that you might be confronted with information that doesn't neatly fit with your preconceptions, you stick your fingers in your ears and yell "Nyah, nyah, I can't hear you!"
Resistive heating is 100% efficient: it converts every bit of electricity going in to heat.
However, typically no more than 40% of the fuel energy used in electrical power generation ends up making it to your home. Resistive heating is hugely wasteful, the waste just happens where you don't see it.
Please, show me how you would appropriately assign their external costs to them.
Well, for starteers, assign most of the cost of our military to oil, since their main job is to keep volatile parts of the world stable enough to ship oil to us.
Then, assign the cost of cleaning up mercury pollution in most of the nation's lakes and treating a good percentage of repiratory illnesses to coal.
The list goes on and on, and that's not even assuming that serious climate change scenarios may transpire. If you allow for those, multiply everything above by orders of magnitude to cover the costs of either huge catastrophes or massive geoengineering fixes.
Of course all of that is hard to quantify, but it doesn't change the objective reality that large external costs exist which are not currently being accounted for.
Insurers compete using tons of statistical data and analysis.
Apparently, they did this analysis and then concluded only the government would dare underwrite the astronomical potential liability risk for a nuclear power plant. At any rate, if a few foreclosures can bankrupt the largest private insurer in the USA, then there's no way in hell that any private firm could cover the losses of a worst-case nuclear accident or sabotage scenario. There would never be any payout, which reminds me of the old Monty Python skit about the guy who was refused payment for loss of his car because he had bought the "No Claims Policy".
These babies can't compete without the government giving them an advantage.
Just like fossil fuels wouldn't be able to compete if their external costs were appropriately assigned to them, and nuclear power couldn't compete if plant operators had to buy liability insurance at actual market rates.