In order to decrease our use of energy, or atleast to have any chance of doing it at all, we need to stop making babies.
The only proven way to do this reliably is with education. To get people educated, they require an above-subsistence level of prosperity first. To get there, they must harness energy.
We have plenty of energy. From solar to wind to hydro to nuclear (plus efficiency gains), there's no reason to not increase our total energy usage. Just responsibly getting rid of our nuclear waste would provide enough energy for the entire world's population for a century.
Get every person on the planet out of poverty by expending tremendous amounts of energy, and the population will start to decrease. Look at Europe - Italy has towns paying people to move there, the whole country is reproducing below the replacement rate.
Do the right thing and the system will properly equalize. Continue to treat poor people as livestock and things will turn out badly.
Anyway, if anyone is interested in PostgreSQL, I would take a look at this.
They don't really have similar use cases, but if you need a tight in-memory ACID database Volt might be just the thing. I think if you've ever been tempted to run sqlite on a ram disk, Volt is your baby. If you need high performance ACID and can afford lots of RAM, Volt probably makes you really happy.
It's all well and fine for you to type this while sitting comfortably at your computer sipping a hot beverage
It's OK to realize you're one kind of person or another. If you're not the brave and disobedient type, you can sit behind your computer and donate to those who are doing the field work:
I can't seem to find that device on the apple store, or on the at&t website, or on walmart.com... so how exactly is your advice relevant to the average person who happens to find themselves in the middle of a police encounter?
In the traditional and fair sense, yes. I'm afraid some publishers see the missed opportunity to sell the same book to the same person several times and killing the used book market as a 'loss'.
Sourceforge offers free services for developers and works fine for me. The free support is adequate.
This hasn't been my experience. For some reason my sourceforge account wasn't working via the password my browser had saved (what I thought it ought to be) and it didn't like the e-mail address for password recovery that it was sending e-mail messages to. I tried support, asked to just initiate a password recovery to whatever address was on file (it's get routed to me eventually) but I got a whole lot of no-help-whatsoever.
If a simple password reset request can't make it through support, I'd be surprised if anything more complex would get much attention.
Rewriting parts of the story to make it 'more exciting'.
Are these the tediously-long battle sequences?
Just started Fellowship with my daughter last night, coincidentally, and the extended version has much better pacing, except for the "we have Massive, so by golly that's worth half an hour of screentime" parts.
We've made the space program extremely wasteful by bothering to send humans.
The only useful purpose of 'the space program' is to send humans into space to figure out colonization.
See, depending on perspective, this robotic exploration of the solar system is a complete waste of time and money. Who cares what Neptune is made of?
Getting humans a backup for Earth and understanding how to use space for military defense are the only plausible purposes for government-funded spaceflight. All the rest should be done by private charities as it's simply optional knowledge for the race.
What if all of that money burned exploring planets that humans can never land on was spent on figuring out earth-based long-term habitats? We'd be much closer to putting a human on Mars.
(see, the point can be argued both ways, it's all about base assumptions)
"The weight of regulation"?? The average weight in 1976 was 4000 lbs. This was before every Tom, Dick and Harry owned an SUV.
Catalytic converters, crash test standards (crumple zones, etc.), evap systems, etc. - requirements that add weight and reduce mileage. Surely this 32mpg car with a '77 Honda engine wasn't 4000lbs?
The point here is safety, of which this car is supposedly a great example.
Go ahead and look up the high-speed crash tests of the Passat. All ratings are "Good" - both driver and passenger are going to walk away.
Nobody has suggested that Minicar was told to keep any of their inventions secret. Is there some evidence to the contrary? The reasonable null hypothesis is that they either sold their ideas to car companies or the car companies weren't interested.
You're missing the point. By destroying this or not letting it be produced in the US, it allowed for innovation to be almost entirely to go to the European or Japanese manufacturers
Wait, the Passat and the Accord are results of government research projects in Japan and Germany? Or are they merely from well-run car companies, while Detroit churned out crap until they went or nearly-went bankrupt?
Which "rig from the '70s" would pass any modern emissions test?
None - modern cars need to be heavier to literally carry the weight of regulation. The point being, the mileage stated for this car isn't valid for modern comparisons without accounting for the differences required.
And the giant bumpers quip is also a red herring - there were a dozens of wide, long and difficult to park cars back in the '70s. Did none of their owners eat Chinese restaurant food?
They had a very difficult time parallel parking in dense urban centers, I'm sure. They probably didn't sell well there. My guess is giant bumpers would be something most people wouldn't go for. In isolation, "The Homer" sounds great.
Really, if you want all this stuff, you can go buy a Passat, or an Accord with a bit lower mileage. That rig from the 70's wouldn't pass emissions tests today, so it would have to get heavier and the mileage would go down. A 70's Honda engine isn't exactly what people are looking for when they need to get on an Interstate, so you couldn't sell them easily either. Giant bumpers are nice until you need to parallel park in Chinatown.
I totally want a Delorean, emotionally, but I'm not actually going to buy one for daily driving - I was in a roll-over accident once; side-opening doors are nice.
Really, though, somebody should FOIA the plans and build a factory and see what happens, any patents have expired. Prove that Reagan's goons were wrong...
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In order to decrease our use of energy, or atleast to have any chance of doing it at all, we need to stop making babies.
The only proven way to do this reliably is with education. To get people educated, they require an above-subsistence level of prosperity first. To get there, they must harness energy.
We have plenty of energy. From solar to wind to hydro to nuclear (plus efficiency gains), there's no reason to not increase our total energy usage. Just responsibly getting rid of our nuclear waste would provide enough energy for the entire world's population for a century.
Get every person on the planet out of poverty by expending tremendous amounts of energy, and the population will start to decrease. Look at Europe - Italy has towns paying people to move there, the whole country is reproducing below the replacement rate.
Do the right thing and the system will properly equalize. Continue to treat poor people as livestock and things will turn out badly.
And save the CO2 sources for the next ice age.
Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare.
There must be lots of disagreement about the latter for the former to be true, no?
Anyway, if anyone is interested in PostgreSQL, I would take a look at this.
They don't really have similar use cases, but if you need a tight in-memory ACID database Volt might be just the thing. I think if you've ever been tempted to run sqlite on a ram disk, Volt is your baby. If you need high performance ACID and can afford lots of RAM, Volt probably makes you really happy.
These things are used during communications planning for a military exercise.
Well, if that's the case, perhaps they needed to replace it with one that would be more likely reliable in the near future.
Hope not.
If not, why was it classified Top Secret?
It's part of the constant-state-of-war the US has been under since 1938.
It's all well and fine for you to type this while sitting comfortably at your computer sipping a hot beverage
It's OK to realize you're one kind of person or another. If you're not the brave and disobedient type, you can sit behind your computer and donate to those who are doing the field work:
http://cdevolution.org/
It takes both kinds.
If you're ordering gear from NewEgg, just use:
http://newegg.freetalklive.com/
to automatically donate ~1% of your purchase to the fund.
I can't seem to find that device on the apple store, or on the at&t website, or on walmart.com ... so how exactly is your advice relevant to the average person who happens to find themselves in the middle of a police encounter?
You're looking for Qik.com .
It's a shame that retarded politics was around even back then...the more things change...the well, you know the rest.
Yeah, it goes something like, "why would you grant that much power to people so stupid?"
even utility monopolies
They only exist because the government keeps out competition.
I've tried getting pole space - it's effectively impossible for a very small business (disruptive innovation comes from the low-end space).
What are the odds that this has been the plan all along but Jobs was announcing a different plan in hopes of embarrassing AT&T into honoring it?
You know that's in your account preferences, right?
Everybody wins.
In the traditional and fair sense, yes. I'm afraid some publishers see the missed opportunity to sell the same book to the same person several times and killing the used book market as a 'loss'.
Why else miss the obvious solution, right?
and there'd be a way to know who owned a used book originally.
to clarify: the holder of the seller's keys would, not the subsequent buyers.
Not necessarily a better way or a workable way, but different.
Watermark all the images in the books and kick back and have a brew.
The only downside is the server-side processing requirements are greater, and there'd be a way to know who owned a used book originally.
I can live with that. Traditional DRM, not so much.
start acting like you deserve the moniker, Superpower...
please, no, that kind of thinking is part of the problem. "Avoid foreign entanglements".
Sourceforge offers free services for developers and works fine for me. The free support is adequate.
This hasn't been my experience. For some reason my sourceforge account wasn't working via the password my browser had saved (what I thought it ought to be) and it didn't like the e-mail address for password recovery that it was sending e-mail messages to. I tried support, asked to just initiate a password recovery to whatever address was on file (it's get routed to me eventually) but I got a whole lot of no-help-whatsoever.
If a simple password reset request can't make it through support, I'd be surprised if anything more complex would get much attention.
Pathetic. How hard is it to keep BIND running?
Maybe they were on Fedora. Multiple yum updates broke production BIND's in recent months.
Rewriting parts of the story to make it 'more exciting'.
Are these the tediously-long battle sequences?
Just started Fellowship with my daughter last night, coincidentally, and the extended version has much better pacing, except for the "we have Massive, so by golly that's worth half an hour of screentime" parts.
We've made the space program extremely wasteful by bothering to send humans.
The only useful purpose of 'the space program' is to send humans into space to figure out colonization.
See, depending on perspective, this robotic exploration of the solar system is a complete waste of time and money. Who cares what Neptune is made of?
Getting humans a backup for Earth and understanding how to use space for military defense are the only plausible purposes for government-funded spaceflight. All the rest should be done by private charities as it's simply optional knowledge for the race.
What if all of that money burned exploring planets that humans can never land on was spent on figuring out earth-based long-term habitats? We'd be much closer to putting a human on Mars.
(see, the point can be argued both ways, it's all about base assumptions)
"The weight of regulation"?? The average weight in 1976 was 4000 lbs. This was before every Tom, Dick and Harry owned an SUV.
Catalytic converters, crash test standards (crumple zones, etc.), evap systems, etc. - requirements that add weight and reduce mileage. Surely this 32mpg car with a '77 Honda engine wasn't 4000lbs?
Sure, but that's pure abuse of power, not legal/moral justification for the licensing regime.
The point here is safety, of which this car is supposedly a great example.
Go ahead and look up the high-speed crash tests of the Passat. All ratings are "Good" - both driver and passenger are going to walk away.
Nobody has suggested that Minicar was told to keep any of their inventions secret. Is there some evidence to the contrary? The reasonable null hypothesis is that they either sold their ideas to car companies or the car companies weren't interested.
fascinating exercises in overengineering. I have seen concepts up to explosive bolts to detach the doors...
Sometimes excesses are just plain cool.
You're missing the point. By destroying this or not letting it be produced in the US, it allowed for innovation to be almost entirely to go to the European or Japanese manufacturers
Wait, the Passat and the Accord are results of government research projects in Japan and Germany? Or are they merely from well-run car companies, while Detroit churned out crap until they went or nearly-went bankrupt?
Which "rig from the '70s" would pass any modern emissions test?
None - modern cars need to be heavier to literally carry the weight of regulation. The point being, the mileage stated for this car isn't valid for modern comparisons without accounting for the differences required.
And the giant bumpers quip is also a red herring - there were a dozens of wide, long and difficult to park cars back in the '70s. Did none of their owners eat Chinese restaurant food?
They had a very difficult time parallel parking in dense urban centers, I'm sure. They probably didn't sell well there. My guess is giant bumpers would be something most people wouldn't go for. In isolation, "The Homer" sounds great.
Really, if you want all this stuff, you can go buy a Passat, or an Accord with a bit lower mileage. That rig from the 70's wouldn't pass emissions tests today, so it would have to get heavier and the mileage would go down. A 70's Honda engine isn't exactly what people are looking for when they need to get on an Interstate, so you couldn't sell them easily either. Giant bumpers are nice until you need to parallel park in Chinatown.
I totally want a Delorean, emotionally, but I'm not actually going to buy one for daily driving - I was in a roll-over accident once; side-opening doors are nice.
Really, though, somebody should FOIA the plans and build a factory and see what happens, any patents have expired. Prove that Reagan's goons were wrong...