Reminds me, At the Whitehouse Photolab (the taxpayer one) they purchased very nice super high res monitors (Dell IIRC) on the tax dime, but then lowered the resolution to 1040*760
Teachers have traded their earning potential, for a kind of job security which goes beyond communist Russia (I should say pay security, as in Russia, the job is far more secure than the pay).
If they vote every year for the communism imposed by their trade unions, they they get exactly the low pay they deserve, and our kids suffer in the bargain.
I would be in favor of coming down hard on this activity as a violation of the hell of their personal choosing; instead of sneaking coal out of the coalmine in order to sell for food, we should encourage them to "tear down this wall" and end the era of communism for public school teachers.
Right, This is a gray area. Even if a part of the IP is developed in the shower - the process of perfecting this IP (ie trying it on children, and testing the results empirically) is a tax-funded activity.
What if we apply this rule - to, hell I don't know - all Software developers - then cisco employees might be paying for their next yacht by auctioning off router plans online.
The irony is that of course a functioning market for teaching plans is in everyone's interest - notwithstanding how poorly this would work as a precedent for all knowledge workers..
I think it works because teaching is currently a communistic affair which refuses to compensate better teachers accordingly; this is in essence, an opportunity for better teachers to profit from their experience and expertise. I suspect there is a great deal of pent-up demand for extra-curricular profit opportunities in any communistic business sector.
Right, The only rational explanation of this patent, is that they are patenting the sociopathic behavior of the class which brought you singles adds on every telephone pole.
- which of course suggests a disturbing idea that individuals could invent crimes, by patenting the activity.
The notion of capturing energy from objects already in orbit is intriguing - but I doubt that "tacking" is sufficient to explain how this works. Tacking occurs when two fluids are connected by airfoils; moreover, the essence of tacking requires the deflection, or bouncing, of the fluids - not the collection of same.
So, in what way could you approach an object and steal its energy. But before that question, what does it mean to steal energy from these captured items? If the trash ends up a part of the garbage scow's orbital dynamics, then "stealing" energy is moot - unless the trash is ejected into a less energetic orbit, the scow cannot end up with a more energetic orbit - which of course defined the solution. The desired "net" may be an electromagnet on a long wire. The intercept is made with a near miss, such that trash and the scow end up like a double-star, tumbling around a common axis - then the electromagnet is released in a moment when the trash is tumbling counter-orbital, leaving the trash in an inferior (and hopefully terminal) orbit - and the scow in a new trajectory of choice - based largely on the intercept angle (to establish the tumble plane) and the release timing to select the angular acceleration.
The most Annoying flaw in my cellphone GPS, (with which I've driven across the country) Is when I'm late to an appointment, I need to phone ahead, but can't because I'd lose navigation.
That said, real time traffic, and weather related road outages, along with reactive routing are necessary features for a congested metropolis.
The Lawyer says he's not a nerd. And in related news, George W. Bush claims that those who think he's a nerd are just plain wrong.
Perhaps Score 5 Curious is more appropriate?
- look, I know lawyers have to pass tough tests, and know some things, but most of lawyering is snowing a jury with your smooth delivery. The nerds Hodgeman is talking about are the people who contribute new and useful ideas to society.
Oh I think they asked for the Slashdotting. I'm pretty sure they feel every byte is worth it. Their paying customers (me) will come back when the coast is clear - meanwhile they're emailing their congress person's spam filter.
Sparky is the moniker for electricians on any jobsite. If you have a wire hanging out of the ceiling and you want to know if it safe to continue, you can just ask sparky to check it. She knows who she is...
You can see an Airplane pilot, adjusting his glasses to better see the control panel, which presumably means the pilot can't see inside and outside the plane at the same time.
Exactly, If Universities exploit the, er exploitable, by advertising the guarantee of employment on completion, they should be held accountable for offering a ridiculous promise. So, by the way should religions be responsible who promise "streets of gold, and fine mansions" to the exploitable classes.
A large ladder provides support for Hands as well as feet. I suspect firemen are standing on the top step of a 4 foot ladder, then twisting their neck upward towards a smoke detector - such requires a balance skill which is unrelated to fire fighting. Firemen do not so often go inside burning buildings, as they perform rudimentary and boring jobs like chasing spiders out of smoke detectors. Their daily risks are a separate issue from the Pulitzer award photo ops, that come along twice a decade.
First the image in the article is misleading, since it represents a wafer-based solar panel.
Second, This price doesn't include the price of "Panelling", nor the price of installation and all the equipment to go with it.
At 0 dollars a watt, this is still an expensive product to mount, install, connect and maintain. See Vinod Koshla on this one. Efficiency is the answer not cheap.
Certainly mini USB for power - indeed I believe My phone has that.
For headphones/microphone, a phono plug of some dimension is already standard.
Fair to note that Apple exposes every trace of its circuit board out the bottom - which while being overkill, has also made it trivial to build feature-enhancing cradles with dumb signals like audio and power, while also providing for smart features like in-dash display, and steering wheel buttons.
One could reasonably propose the apple standard as the long form, and USB as the short from. The EU commissioner would probably tolerate two form factors, particularly if one was required (ie mini USB). A nice plug feature would be expandability on a simple standard - ie a miniUSB, but with extra pins somewhere that allowed for dumb signals.
The problem with equalizing subsidies is that its impossible to do. Nuclear energy might get x subsidy per watthour today - but the accumulated subsidy over time which has lowered costs and proven risks is enormous. Aggregate subsidies are a better measure of government market manipulation than present rates of support.
Subsidies for PV are universally higher than for wind. There is a national database of subsidies for renewable energy - you can check any state. DESIRE is the name I believe.
The business of religions is to identify saints, and once identified - to hold their views as aove question.
For Science to engage in what appears to some to be a comparable formula of hero-worship undermines one of the implicit obligations of the enlightenment - to free people-kind from the shackles of ignorance.
I had exactly this conversation with a 21yr Colledge graduate/First grade teacher who firmly believes in a young-earth Creationism - while specifically comparing it to a one-man "ism" of belief. The article makes a strong point, as long as the south is permitted to vote, "Darwinism" is daily held as a competative and heretical faith.
Science is the opposite of belief. I don't believe and respect Darwins theory - rather I spit on it, ridicule it, and in every way find fault with it - and finally accept those parts of it which stand up to tireless abuse. That is hardly an ism.
Roofing which is warrantied for 20 years is merely pro-rated if it needs to be replaced sooner. It is in no way promised that it will live out the Warranty period.
Who is going to go out on their roof every week and clean the panels? Who is going to pay for the grid if everyone is net-free-ride-metering?
PV subsidies are stratospheric - much higher than Wind for example. It's economically unsustainable.
I would hope we could curtail subsidies for foreign and dirty energy.
Ethanol. I think your EROEI is optimistic - but we agree, it blows.
PV. Again, you failed to include the energy to drive to someones house, sell them the system, fed ex the paperwork, power the sales office and the installation truck etc... roofs are warrantied for about 15 years so that system has to go up and down several times. Happy talk about EROEI doesn't pay the bank. No one will invest in PV without government subsidies which are much larger than Wind subsidies - for economic reasons.
Wind. Sure. what is the cost of wind + transportation when you figure transmission losses. betchadinet know that more energy is wasted in this country than is used. Betchadinet know more electricity is lost in transmission than is delivered. Betcha those who think Wind is cheap are ignoring the losses of transmission.
My bets are on CSP and Wave energy - but first plug the leaks, and end the subsidies for oil - nothing like price to fix an addiction.
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unobtainium may be more costly than you thing ;)
This is of course the right answer.
So mod up people.
Reminds me,
At the Whitehouse Photolab (the taxpayer one) they purchased very nice super high res monitors (Dell IIRC) on the tax dime, but then lowered the resolution to 1040*760
Typical, i guess. They looked like crap.
You are only half-right.
Teachers have traded their earning potential, for a kind of job security which goes beyond communist Russia (I should say pay security, as in Russia, the job is far more secure than the pay).
If they vote every year for the communism imposed by their trade unions, they they get exactly the low pay they deserve, and our kids suffer in the bargain.
I would be in favor of coming down hard on this activity as a violation of the hell of their personal choosing; instead of sneaking coal out of the coalmine in order to sell for food, we should encourage them to "tear down this wall" and end the era of communism for public school teachers.
Right,
This is a gray area.
Even if a part of the IP is developed in the shower - the process of perfecting this IP (ie trying it on children, and testing the results empirically) is a tax-funded activity.
What if we apply this rule - to, hell I don't know - all Software developers - then cisco employees might be paying for their next yacht by auctioning off router plans online.
The irony is that of course a functioning market for teaching plans is in everyone's interest - notwithstanding how poorly this would work as a precedent for all knowledge workers..
I think it works because teaching is currently a communistic affair which refuses to compensate better teachers accordingly; this is in essence, an opportunity for better teachers to profit from their experience and expertise. I suspect there is a great deal of pent-up demand for extra-curricular profit opportunities in any communistic business sector.
Right,
The only rational explanation of this patent, is that they are patenting the sociopathic behavior of the class which brought you singles adds on every telephone pole.
- which of course suggests a disturbing idea that individuals could invent crimes, by patenting the activity.
weird, if laudable in this case.
The notion of capturing energy from objects already in orbit is intriguing - but I doubt that "tacking" is sufficient to explain how this works. Tacking occurs when two fluids are connected by airfoils; moreover, the essence of tacking requires the deflection, or bouncing, of the fluids - not the collection of same.
So, in what way could you approach an object and steal its energy. But before that question, what does it mean to steal energy from these captured items? If the trash ends up a part of the garbage scow's orbital dynamics, then "stealing" energy is moot - unless the trash is ejected into a less energetic orbit, the scow cannot end up with a more energetic orbit - which of course defined the solution. The desired "net" may be an electromagnet on a long wire. The intercept is made with a near miss, such that trash and the scow end up like a double-star, tumbling around a common axis - then the electromagnet is released in a moment when the trash is tumbling counter-orbital, leaving the trash in an inferior (and hopefully terminal) orbit - and the scow in a new trajectory of choice - based largely on the intercept angle (to establish the tumble plane) and the release timing to select the angular acceleration.
The most Annoying flaw in my cellphone GPS, (with which I've driven across the country) Is when I'm late to an appointment, I need to phone ahead, but can't because I'd lose navigation.
That said, real time traffic, and weather related road outages, along with reactive routing are necessary features for a congested metropolis.
The unconnected GPS is dead.
The Lawyer says he's not a nerd. And in related news, George W. Bush claims that those who think he's a nerd are just plain wrong.
Perhaps Score 5 Curious is more appropriate?
- look, I know lawyers have to pass tough tests, and know some things, but most of lawyering is snowing a jury with your smooth delivery. The nerds Hodgeman is talking about are the people who contribute new and useful ideas to society.
Oh I think they asked for the Slashdotting.
I'm pretty sure they feel every byte is worth it. Their paying customers (me) will come back when the coast is clear - meanwhile they're emailing their congress person's spam filter.
Sparky is the moniker for electricians on any jobsite. If you have a wire hanging out of the ceiling and you want to know if it safe to continue, you can just ask sparky to check it. She knows who she is...
You can see an Airplane pilot, adjusting his glasses to better see the control panel, which presumably means the pilot can't see inside and outside the plane at the same time.
Get me a ticket on that Airline!
Exactly,
If Universities exploit the, er exploitable, by advertising the guarantee of employment on completion, they should be held accountable for offering a ridiculous promise.
So, by the way should religions be responsible who promise "streets of gold, and fine mansions" to the exploitable classes.
She's qualified to manage a team of software programmers - provided she is willing to er. relocate...
A large ladder provides support for Hands as well as feet. I suspect firemen are standing on the top step of a 4 foot ladder, then twisting their neck upward towards a smoke detector - such requires a balance skill which is unrelated to fire fighting. Firemen do not so often go inside burning buildings, as they perform rudimentary and boring jobs like chasing spiders out of smoke detectors. Their daily risks are a separate issue from the Pulitzer award photo ops, that come along twice a decade.
freescale has a reference board for a webcam, it may be usb. Reference designs are generally wide-open-source (as opposed to merely open-source).
Vinod's point is that these "cheaper" cells produce less energy.
That means you need more of them. Which /raises/ installation costs.
First the image in the article is misleading, since it represents a wafer-based solar panel.
Second, This price doesn't include the price of "Panelling", nor the price of installation and all the equipment to go with it.
At 0 dollars a watt, this is still an expensive product to mount, install, connect and maintain. See Vinod Koshla on this one. Efficiency is the answer not cheap.
Certainly mini USB for power - indeed I believe My phone has that.
For headphones/microphone, a phono plug of some dimension is already standard.
Fair to note that Apple exposes every trace of its circuit board out the bottom - which while being overkill, has also made it trivial to build feature-enhancing cradles with dumb signals like audio and power, while also providing for smart features like in-dash display, and steering wheel buttons.
One could reasonably propose the apple standard as the long form, and USB as the short from.
The EU commissioner would probably tolerate two form factors, particularly if one was required (ie mini USB).
A nice plug feature would be expandability on a simple standard - ie a miniUSB, but with extra pins somewhere that allowed for dumb signals.
So you just do California - its a trend setter, and the largest target in any case. Germany is the largest subsidizer of Solar.
The problem with subsidies is they force people to consume by punishing non-consumption.
The problem with equalizing subsidies is that its impossible to do. Nuclear energy might get x subsidy per watthour today - but the accumulated subsidy over time which has lowered costs and proven risks is enormous. Aggregate subsidies are a better measure of government market manipulation than present rates of support.
Subsidies for PV are universally higher than for wind. There is a national database of subsidies for renewable energy - you can check any state. DESIRE is the name I believe.
I could try...
The business of religions is to identify saints, and once identified - to hold their views as aove question.
For Science to engage in what appears to some to be a comparable formula of hero-worship undermines one of the implicit obligations of the enlightenment - to free people-kind from the shackles of ignorance.
I had exactly this conversation with a 21yr Colledge graduate/First grade teacher who firmly believes in a young-earth Creationism - while specifically comparing it to a one-man "ism" of belief. The article makes a strong point, as long as the south is permitted to vote, "Darwinism" is daily held as a competative and heretical faith.
Science is the opposite of belief. I don't believe and respect Darwins theory - rather I spit on it, ridicule it, and in every way find fault with it - and finally accept those parts of it which stand up to tireless abuse. That is hardly an ism.
Roofing which is warrantied for 20 years is merely pro-rated if it needs to be replaced sooner. It is in no way promised that it will live out the Warranty period.
Who is going to go out on their roof every week and clean the panels? Who is going to pay for the grid if everyone is net-free-ride-metering?
PV subsidies are stratospheric - much higher than Wind for example. It's economically unsustainable.
I would hope we could curtail subsidies for foreign and dirty energy.
Ethanol. I think your EROEI is optimistic - but we agree, it blows.
PV. Again, you failed to include the energy to drive to someones house, sell them the system, fed ex the paperwork, power the sales office and the installation truck etc... roofs are warrantied for about 15 years so that system has to go up and down several times. Happy talk about EROEI doesn't pay the bank. No one will invest in PV without government subsidies which are much larger than Wind subsidies - for economic reasons.
Wind. Sure. what is the cost of wind + transportation when you figure transmission losses. betchadinet know that more energy is wasted in this country than is used. Betchadinet know more electricity is lost in transmission than is delivered. Betcha those who think Wind is cheap are ignoring the losses of transmission.
My bets are on CSP and Wave energy - but first plug the leaks, and end the subsidies for oil - nothing like price to fix an addiction.