I think most economists would say a gas tax (or more generally, a carbon tax) is the most efficient way to spur adoption of renewable energy sources.
Really? I would think that the most efficient way to spur adoption of renewable energy sources would be to let the oil wells run out. Necessity, not government fiat, is the mother of invention.
Just for giggles and grins, go to AutoByTel and lookup, say, the top three most requested SUVs, and then the top three mini-vans. You might be suprised to find out that for city driving, the "gas-guzzling" SUVs get better millage.
The SUV is just today's station wagon and family vehicle
Well, then, why don't we compare the fuel economy of SUVs to that of station wagons? Which gets better mileage, an "minivan-replacement" SUV or a TDI Jetta wagon?
The key word here is "sustainable". If you take out trees from a forest in a way that you could keep on doing forever, then you're right. If you burn flat a 100 square miles to make room for cows, then you're not.
Um, we were talking about making fires in people's homes, weren't we? What's that got to do with slashing and burning rainforests? Do you think the wood that goes into people's fireplaces comes all the way from the Amazon?
Yes, but burning a tree is obviously environmentally unfriendly. We like trees, we grew up learning about how wonderful trees are and how they clean the air of all that nasty CO2 in grade school and high school natural science classes. So, setting fire to them makes us feel guilty. Thus, it is better if we use electricity, produced by the consumption of polluting and non-renewable sources of energy FAR FAR removed from our living rooms and so FAR FAR out of sight and mind, to create hydrogen gas which we can then promptly burn for asthetic purposes. This way we can feel better about our wasteful use of limited resources, and really, isn't that what environmentalism is all about?
You really think that's what people think? Am I the only one whose dad installed a wood-burning stove in his house during the Carter years? Aren't most/.ers of an age when they can remember those days?
Cairo was the codename for what NT4 was supposed to be, rather than what it ended up being. Cairo was supposed to be a completely OO OS - every file, every application, every OS-level facility, etc. was to be implemented as an object with properties and methods, etc. Sorta like IBM's Workplace Shell on steroids. Never happened, of course...
Okay, so rather than burning a renewable source of energy like wood in my fireplace, I'm going pay $50K to obtain the ability to burn hydrogen. Hydrogne is good and pure and not oil so that's good right? Oh yeah except for the fact that in order to make my fireplace work I need 220 current which is coming FROM DEAD DINOSAURS.
Yeah, what they should do is run a copper coil through the fire, and heat up some water, and use it to drive a steam turbine to make the electricity to run the system! That would be just awesome!
Isn't that like saying only one company is allowed to make pencils, and another to make pens, and those two companies will compete? They fight with the marker company and the crayon company too?
Bad analogy. Pens and pencils and markers and crayons do similar things but not the same thing. Meanwhile, DSL and cable, from the (non-geek) customer's perspective, do the same thing. Therefore, from a market standpoint, they are direct competitors - they are both simply broadband services.
Would it be nice to have competing cable providers or DSL providers? Sure, if we take that notion out of context. But those cable/DSL lines are private property, paid for and owned by private companies. Am I willing to destroy the concept of property rights just so there can be "competing" cable companies? No way.
[I don't see what's wrong] with allowing a company to profit from the infrastructure they have built without being forced to allow other companies to profit from it!
This poor beleagured company you're talking about used to be part of AT&T, which enjoyed a government-granted and -enforced monopoly over telecommunications in the US for over a hundred years. This is the same AT&T that forced you to lease your telephone equipment from them (remember those days?). While I agree that two wrongs don't make a right, I don't feel the least bit sorry for the RBOCs.
Dia's not terrible, especially for free software. However, its UML support isn't great, there is no support for DFDs, and the printing/exporting capabilities are lacking.
Touché. But you don't see me putting up a website touting how cool I am for having posted on Slashdot. (And then having that website Slashdotted by a bunch of people arguing about whether putting up a website about posting on Slashdot is a worthwhile activity...)
But you've already indicated how such a system would work on Windows. The installer should rename the old binary and have it marked to delete on reboot and install the new binary. If an app gets restarted, it'll pick up the new lib.
But as the grandparent pointed out, this will only work for NTFS, not FAT. Which would mean that installers would have to check what filesystem they're installing to, and behave differently for NTFS vs. FAT.
This was a home project - he did it because he wanted to, not because he needed to. Would you have preferred he watched survivor? Or that donald trump show? Maybe downloaded, so he could be spoonfed his entertainment.
Maybe he could have turned his talents toward something that would actually be useful and beneficial to someone? Yes, spending one's time hacking hardware is better than watching illegal downloads of crappy TV shows, but there are better things one could do with one's time.
I liked the fact that there are 13 fuel depots in Japan but 15 in California.. and so its easier to lease them oto americans.. which is fine until you relize that Japan is only 90% the size of california which makes the denisity of stations exactly the same.
Depends how you figure it - Japan may be 90% the size of California, but has four times the population.
Any social system have a form of property, if i think in socialism i also think in colective property, like GNU and GPL software.
But how is GPL software "collective property"? There's nothing "collective" about the ownership rights involved in the GPL. If I write a piece of software, and license it to Al under the GPL, I still own it; meanwhile, Al owns it *too*. We don't own it "jointly" or "collectively", we *each* own it, and we can *each* do what we want with it.
Looks like someone in India is trying to improve their "standards of living". Now either people in India/China/etc get paid more or there is just going to be more people stealing.
Or US firms start to see that the outsourcing honeymoon is coming to an end, and start pulling security-critical operations back into the States. This could possibly result in the Indian government cracking down more on white-collar crime in order to regain the trust of the US corporations.
Our 30 person company currently takes up the services of about three-quarters of a person (split over two actual people) for IT, and it's really not enough. We really need at least one full-time dedicated IT guy, but the boss won't spring for it.
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I think most economists would say a gas tax (or more generally, a carbon tax) is the most efficient way to spur adoption of renewable energy sources.
Really? I would think that the most efficient way to spur adoption of renewable energy sources would be to let the oil wells run out. Necessity, not government fiat, is the mother of invention.
Just for giggles and grins, go to AutoByTel and lookup, say, the top three most requested SUVs, and then the top three mini-vans. You might be suprised to find out that for city driving, the "gas-guzzling" SUVs get better millage.
The SUV is just today's station wagon and family vehicle
Well, then, why don't we compare the fuel economy of SUVs to that of station wagons? Which gets better mileage, an "minivan-replacement" SUV or a TDI Jetta wagon?
Did you read TFA? The point is that the fireplace doesn't need venting and no mess or smell.
Oh, well, as long as it's con-veeeen-ient, right?
The key word here is "sustainable". If you take out trees from a forest in a way that you could keep on doing forever, then you're right. If you burn flat a 100 square miles to make room for cows, then you're not.
Um, we were talking about making fires in people's homes, weren't we? What's that got to do with slashing and burning rainforests? Do you think the wood that goes into people's fireplaces comes all the way from the Amazon?
Yes, but burning a tree is obviously environmentally unfriendly. We like trees, we grew up learning about how wonderful trees are and how they clean the air of all that nasty CO2 in grade school and high school natural science classes. So, setting fire to them makes us feel guilty. Thus, it is better if we use electricity, produced by the consumption of polluting and non-renewable sources of energy FAR FAR removed from our living rooms and so FAR FAR out of sight and mind, to create hydrogen gas which we can then promptly burn for asthetic purposes. This way we can feel better about our wasteful use of limited resources, and really, isn't that what environmentalism is all about?
You really think that's what people think? Am I the only one whose dad installed a wood-burning stove in his house during the Carter years? Aren't most /.ers of an age when they can remember those days?
I thought Cairo was the codename for NT 4.0?
Cairo was the codename for what NT4 was supposed to be, rather than what it ended up being. Cairo was supposed to be a completely OO OS - every file, every application, every OS-level facility, etc. was to be implemented as an object with properties and methods, etc. Sorta like IBM's Workplace Shell on steroids. Never happened, of course...
Okay, so rather than burning a renewable source of energy like wood in my fireplace, I'm going pay $50K to obtain the ability to burn hydrogen. Hydrogne is good and pure and not oil so that's good right? Oh yeah except for the fact that in order to make my fireplace work I need 220 current which is coming FROM DEAD DINOSAURS.
Yeah, what they should do is run a copper coil through the fire, and heat up some water, and use it to drive a steam turbine to make the electricity to run the system! That would be just awesome!
Isn't that like saying only one company is allowed to make pencils, and another to make pens, and those two companies will compete? They fight with the marker company and the crayon company too?
Bad analogy. Pens and pencils and markers and crayons do similar things but not the same thing. Meanwhile, DSL and cable, from the (non-geek) customer's perspective, do the same thing. Therefore, from a market standpoint, they are direct competitors - they are both simply broadband services.
Would it be nice to have competing cable providers or DSL providers? Sure, if we take that notion out of context. But those cable/DSL lines are private property, paid for and owned by private companies. Am I willing to destroy the concept of property rights just so there can be "competing" cable companies? No way.
[I don't see what's wrong] with allowing a company to profit from the infrastructure they have built without being forced to allow other companies to profit from it!
This poor beleagured company you're talking about used to be part of AT&T, which enjoyed a government-granted and -enforced monopoly over telecommunications in the US for over a hundred years. This is the same AT&T that forced you to lease your telephone equipment from them (remember those days?). While I agree that two wrongs don't make a right, I don't feel the least bit sorry for the RBOCs.
Dia's not terrible, especially for free software. However, its UML support isn't great, there is no support for DFDs, and the printing/exporting capabilities are lacking.
Like posting on slashdot?
Touché. But you don't see me putting up a website touting how cool I am for having posted on Slashdot. (And then having that website Slashdotted by a bunch of people arguing about whether putting up a website about posting on Slashdot is a worthwhile activity...)
But you've already indicated how such a system would work on Windows. The installer should rename the old binary and have it marked to delete on reboot and install the new binary. If an app gets restarted, it'll pick up the new lib.
But as the grandparent pointed out, this will only work for NTFS, not FAT. Which would mean that installers would have to check what filesystem they're installing to, and behave differently for NTFS vs. FAT.
This was a home project - he did it because he wanted to, not because he needed to. Would you have preferred he watched survivor? Or that donald trump show? Maybe downloaded, so he could be spoonfed his entertainment.
Maybe he could have turned his talents toward something that would actually be useful and beneficial to someone? Yes, spending one's time hacking hardware is better than watching illegal downloads of crappy TV shows, but there are better things one could do with one's time.
It's a Shuttle launch, so... a Rush reference is always appropriate.
Damn. Sorry.
5203 microliters of light sweet crude?
OK and how does that change the argiument? If anything it makes it stronger
And when did I ever say otherwise? Are you so combative that you have to pick fights with people who agree with you?
I liked the fact that there are 13 fuel depots in Japan but 15 in California
Depends how you figure it - Japan may be 90% the size of California, but has four times the population.
Any social system have a form of property, if i think in socialism i also think in colective property, like GNU and GPL software.
But how is GPL software "collective property"? There's nothing "collective" about the ownership rights involved in the GPL. If I write a piece of software, and license it to Al under the GPL, I still own it; meanwhile, Al owns it *too*. We don't own it "jointly" or "collectively", we *each* own it, and we can *each* do what we want with it.
Can someone put that in terms of "Volkswagens" or "Libraries of Congress" for me?
Does "units" distinguish between VWs and VWs?
You're going to replace a toslink.... fiber optic... cable, with a.. coat hanger?
It's a special coat hanger, made from hollow wire.
Maybe MS should throw in a free one-port router/NAT box with every copy of Windows... or maybe that should be the other way around?
Isn't that always Step 2? (I mean "???")
Looks like someone in India is trying to improve their "standards of living". Now either people in India/China/etc get paid more or there is just going to be more people stealing.
Or US firms start to see that the outsourcing honeymoon is coming to an end, and start pulling security-critical operations back into the States. This could possibly result in the Indian government cracking down more on white-collar crime in order to regain the trust of the US corporations.
Our 30 person company currently takes up the services of about three-quarters of a person (split over two actual people) for IT, and it's really not enough. We really need at least one full-time dedicated IT guy, but the boss won't spring for it.