I'll be ready to discuss copyright reform after we've pirated all of the *IAA members out of business. I don't see that happening anytime soon either, so in the mean time I'll just continue to not buy their products and instead pay my ISP, Seagate and whoever makes good DVD-Rs.
There are a lot of windmills where I live too and without government support most wouldn't be operational. This is because the cost of the energy the generate they is still too high. I have seen high altitude projects where the energy cost is under market prices.
Most coal gasification projects significantly reduce the amount of radioactive coal waste output. I don't think it makes sense to accept radio active waste in the atmosphere from any source. Nor do I think it makes sense to operate a nuclear reactor which does not reprocess the fissile material to the greatest extent possible. All the production nuclear plants that I'm aware of are old designs which a: are inherently unsafe and rely on external controls to mediate the reactions and b: only cycle the fissile material through the reaction once (with the notable exception being France). I really think you are marginalizing the dangers of nuclear waste and nuclear accidents too much, but I'll agree that ultimately both are manageable.
Energy transport is a very important point, I'm glad you brought it up. I read somewhere that the in the US over 1/3 of all energy generated is consumed by transport of energy and presumably it's more less the same all over the developed world. Additionally industry holds on to infrastructure (both energy generating and energy consuming) too long so that the benefits of increased efficiency come too slowly to the market. So given these two factors the majority of the energy generated in the world is never even consumed by the end users, you could make a pretty accurate comparison with this and the municipal water system of Mexico city.
As far as the "Whiny American" comment... I stand by it, I'm sick of these sentiments held by Americans. It's almost as if they believe that if I don't my utmost to consume & destroy that I am (or want them to be) an indigent farmer working in a collective in North Korea. It's perfectly possible to live a fulfilling life consuming a tiny fraction of the energy and producing a tiny fraction of the waste of what the average American does.
By the way I lived in the US for 10 years, and still hold a US passport, so it's not I've never seen how Americans really live and I'm just griping about things I've seen on TV.
You know, if you had a point you lost it with things like "Joe Fatass Public" and "Environmentalist Commies".
You sound like a typical American who is too busy whining and consuming to educate yourself and do something productive or beneficial.
So let me make a few corrections to your uneducated diatribe:
Wind farms don't really generate enough power to make the disruption to the local environs worth it, although there is work being done on high altitude wind generation strategies that are promising.
Nuke: Most people are so much Anti-Nuke as they are Anti-Huge Catastrophe or Anti-Waste that's dangerous for zillions of years. Maybe if someone actually ran a successful nuclear power generation site that both made money and did not generate waste capable of killing large numbers of people, attitudes would change. But the Americans, French and Japanese are still running ancient nukes at a loss, and the Germans gave up on the newest 7th generation because they couldn't make is safe enough (the Chinese are still trying though).
Oil: Man, where did you get the forest thing? There are so many things wrong with oil I don't know where to start, 1: to buy oil you must deal with Bad People (tm), 2: Oil will not last forever and when it does run out society is screwed. 3: Burning Oil causes air pollution 4: Burning Oil contributes to global climate change.
Coal: Burning coal is worse than oil in all cases, still there is work being done on coal gasification which is promising.
Most hydrogen does not come from electrolysis of water, it comes from cracking natural gas. Still that's just as useless as electrolysis, though lots of clever folks are working on other methods. The one I find most interesting is using microbes & biomass.
So your summary becomes "So there is no one answer, that meets the world's energy needs, that is known today. However there are many, many possibilities. However, none of those possibilities yield so much energy as to allow for the rampant consumerism and gluttony that we see today. So something must change; either the reduction of consumption, the invention of a new energy source (like cold fusion) or both"
Because there are more inputs than CO2 and more outputs than global temp.
Global climate is not some over simplified example in a high school text book like you propose here. Rather global climates are a result of a staggeringly complex balance of interconnected factors and Educated environmentalists see that the activities of man are beginning to influence some of these factors. Change some inputs then some of the outputs change.
Educated environmentalists care because the impact of any measurable change to global climate most likely will cause significant changes in the global social and political state.
For example a slight global warming has a number of interesting potential effects like moving America's "Bread Basket" northwards towards Candida and dramatically increasing the area covered by 'tropical' disease vectors like Malaria, Yellow fever, and the African sleeping sickness. Typically the results of upheavals of this sort of magnitude are wars.
Of course there are knee jerk reactionaries on both sides of the issue who have there opinion and never will let anyone change it. And of course this whole thing has been grossly oversimplified so that it can be spoon fed to people of the evening news, sad really.
Still if you are really interested in the topic loose the media supplied moniker "Global Warming" and google about for "Climate Change" it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to find some studies that back your existing opinion up and a couple of evenings to learn about what's being measured, how they apparently interact, and the consequences of the results. Then you can make an informed decision about it.
1.80 Austrialian dollars? What is that 15 US dollars and about 1.5 Euros? Why is the price so high and I wonder if they'll get into trouble for over charging people like they did in the UK...
I develop embedded systems and not only do we have this feature, we also have the ability for the user to export the entire memory and send it to me. Then I can exactly replecate their situation. So yes, embedded systems do need this sort of thing and do include this sort of thing.
Every thing you list is a problem with the society you live in and is not a problem with mass transit or busses in general.
I live in a slightly larger town and these are my experiences: Bus drivers don't really interact with passengers so who cares about their personality; The Buses are kept clean, maintained, and run on schedule (by a mater of local ordinance) and because people from all walks of life use them the only vaguely unpleasant rider-ship are the masses of high school kids in the mornings (if I'm running really late).
It sounds to me like you have the typical American situation mostly the poor use the mass transit so no one cares and there's no investment in it. Perhaps that will change when the cost of a gallon of gas reflects its true value.
I should also add that I bike to work on days where the weather is acceptably nice and this has done me no end of good.
Usually when people update their windows servers it's because some virus or worm is rampaging about the net making everyone's life miserable. Whereas when I update my Linux server, it's because a couple propeller heads in a lab somewhere figured out some obscure weakness and the fix.
Actually, I think the truth has a lot more to do with control, rather than making money via RAW file conversion. Nikon wants to control RAW file conversion, a function previously they ignored because in most cases it was done inside the camera (via jpeg conversion) and only some people used a photoshop plug-in or a standalone program. Now more more people are recognizing the benefits in shooting only in RAW and Nikon is loosing the control they had.
The 100 dollar charge is simply due to the number of people and resources a large company requires to make complicated decisions like... whether or not to wipe their own ass.
Honestly, I'm torn by this. I like to see companies like Adobe & Nikon suffer on the sharp end of the DCMA. I only shoot in RAW format. I don't like Adobe, despite being a registered Photoshop user. Honestly I guess I'm not too bothered because I'm in the market for a Canon 1DS Mark II, a decision which included the availability of a SDK for the remote API.
I don't know where I read it, but in response to some foolishness reported on Groklaw I read her Bio. I hardily recommend everyone to go find it and read it, it's good for a laugh.
Signal processing code represents small part of the code that I write and I find it the most manageable. It's not easy to code nor is more quickly finished. But I find it more predictable and testable. It's the business logic and UI that becomes this impossible morass of vague requirements and compromises.
One of the things I've been coveting since the MiniMac came out is a OS X Lite sort of thing. I thought Win98Lite was probably the most interesting windows thing going when it was current. I really do think a MiniMac could be a great, really cheap reference platform.
Having said all of that I'm looking forward to PART II!
Actually I think it's just how you, personally, interact with people. I find Flickr to be really interesting, while I find IRC, AIM and speed dating to be unfathomably horrible.
I have to admit, I'm more surprised by the moderation than you. But just because I point out that the US is not the place he left, does not mean I have a "complete hatred of America" in fact I lived there for almost 18 years. There are some really nice places in the US to visit, and some really great restaurants. I also rather enjoy American literature. However the fact remains the US is NOT the best place in the world to live and it's going downhill.
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I'll be ready to discuss copyright reform after we've pirated all of the *IAA members out of business. I don't see that happening anytime soon either, so in the mean time I'll just continue to not buy their products and instead pay my ISP, Seagate and whoever makes good DVD-Rs.
Large population centers in Europe experience significant drops in temperature and South America experiences consecutive droughts.
Or most of the globe warms up resulting in fairly dramatic shifts in locations of arable lands and significant increase in disease vectors.
Either scenario represents a disruptive event to today's societies.
Most coal gasification projects significantly reduce the amount of radioactive coal waste output. I don't think it makes sense to accept radio active waste in the atmosphere from any source. Nor do I think it makes sense to operate a nuclear reactor which does not reprocess the fissile material to the greatest extent possible. All the production nuclear plants that I'm aware of are old designs which a: are inherently unsafe and rely on external controls to mediate the reactions and b: only cycle the fissile material through the reaction once (with the notable exception being France). I really think you are marginalizing the dangers of nuclear waste and nuclear accidents too much, but I'll agree that ultimately both are manageable.
Energy transport is a very important point, I'm glad you brought it up. I read somewhere that the in the US over 1/3 of all energy generated is consumed by transport of energy and presumably it's more less the same all over the developed world. Additionally industry holds on to infrastructure (both energy generating and energy consuming) too long so that the benefits of increased efficiency come too slowly to the market. So given these two factors the majority of the energy generated in the world is never even consumed by the end users, you could make a pretty accurate comparison with this and the municipal water system of Mexico city.
As far as the "Whiny American" comment... I stand by it, I'm sick of these sentiments held by Americans. It's almost as if they believe that if I don't my utmost to consume & destroy that I am (or want them to be) an indigent farmer working in a collective in North Korea. It's perfectly possible to live a fulfilling life consuming a tiny fraction of the energy and producing a tiny fraction of the waste of what the average American does.
By the way I lived in the US for 10 years, and still hold a US passport, so it's not I've never seen how Americans really live and I'm just griping about things I've seen on TV.
You sound like a typical American who is too busy whining and consuming to educate yourself and do something productive or beneficial.
So let me make a few corrections to your uneducated diatribe:
Wind farms don't really generate enough power to make the disruption to the local environs worth it, although there is work being done on high altitude wind generation strategies that are promising.
Nuke: Most people are so much Anti-Nuke as they are Anti-Huge Catastrophe or Anti-Waste that's dangerous for zillions of years. Maybe if someone actually ran a successful nuclear power generation site that both made money and did not generate waste capable of killing large numbers of people, attitudes would change. But the Americans, French and Japanese are still running ancient nukes at a loss, and the Germans gave up on the newest 7th generation because they couldn't make is safe enough (the Chinese are still trying though).
Oil: Man, where did you get the forest thing? There are so many things wrong with oil I don't know where to start, 1: to buy oil you must deal with Bad People (tm), 2: Oil will not last forever and when it does run out society is screwed. 3: Burning Oil causes air pollution 4: Burning Oil contributes to global climate change.
Coal: Burning coal is worse than oil in all cases, still there is work being done on coal gasification which is promising.
Most hydrogen does not come from electrolysis of water, it comes from cracking natural gas. Still that's just as useless as electrolysis, though lots of clever folks are working on other methods. The one I find most interesting is using microbes & biomass.
So your summary becomes "So there is no one answer, that meets the world's energy needs, that is known today. However there are many, many possibilities. However, none of those possibilities yield so much energy as to allow for the rampant consumerism and gluttony that we see today. So something must change; either the reduction of consumption, the invention of a new energy source (like cold fusion) or both"
Does anyone know if this torrentflux thingy works on net BSD?
Global climate is not some over simplified example in a high school text book like you propose here. Rather global climates are a result of a staggeringly complex balance of interconnected factors and Educated environmentalists see that the activities of man are beginning to influence some of these factors. Change some inputs then some of the outputs change.
Educated environmentalists care because the impact of any measurable change to global climate most likely will cause significant changes in the global social and political state.
For example a slight global warming has a number of interesting potential effects like moving America's "Bread Basket" northwards towards Candida and dramatically increasing the area covered by 'tropical' disease vectors like Malaria, Yellow fever, and the African sleeping sickness. Typically the results of upheavals of this sort of magnitude are wars.
Of course there are knee jerk reactionaries on both sides of the issue who have there opinion and never will let anyone change it. And of course this whole thing has been grossly oversimplified so that it can be spoon fed to people of the evening news, sad really.
Still if you are really interested in the topic loose the media supplied moniker "Global Warming" and google about for "Climate Change" it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to find some studies that back your existing opinion up and a couple of evenings to learn about what's being measured, how they apparently interact, and the consequences of the results. Then you can make an informed decision about it.
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thatt's called a "Power Mac"
I was under the impression that immunities came from mother milk... could wrong though.
1.80 Austrialian dollars? What is that 15 US dollars and about 1.5 Euros? Why is the price so high and I wonder if they'll get into trouble for over charging people like they did in the UK...
I develop embedded systems and not only do we have this feature, we also have the ability for the user to export the entire memory and send it to me. Then I can exactly replecate their situation. So yes, embedded systems do need this sort of thing and do include this sort of thing.
I live in a slightly larger town and these are my experiences: Bus drivers don't really interact with passengers so who cares about their personality; The Buses are kept clean, maintained, and run on schedule (by a mater of local ordinance) and because people from all walks of life use them the only vaguely unpleasant rider-ship are the masses of high school kids in the mornings (if I'm running really late).
It sounds to me like you have the typical American situation mostly the poor use the mass transit so no one cares and there's no investment in it. Perhaps that will change when the cost of a gallon of gas reflects its true value.
I should also add that I bike to work on days where the weather is acceptably nice and this has done me no end of good.
Usually when people update their windows servers it's because some virus or worm is rampaging about the net making everyone's life miserable. Whereas when I update my Linux server, it's because a couple propeller heads in a lab somewhere figured out some obscure weakness and the fix.
The 100 dollar charge is simply due to the number of people and resources a large company requires to make complicated decisions like... whether or not to wipe their own ass.
Honestly, I'm torn by this. I like to see companies like Adobe & Nikon suffer on the sharp end of the DCMA. I only shoot in RAW format. I don't like Adobe, despite being a registered Photoshop user. Honestly I guess I'm not too bothered because I'm in the market for a Canon 1DS Mark II, a decision which included the availability of a SDK for the remote API.
I don't know where I read it, but in response to some foolishness reported on Groklaw I read her Bio. I hardily recommend everyone to go find it and read it, it's good for a laugh.
Signal processing code represents small part of the code that I write and I find it the most manageable. It's not easy to code nor is more quickly finished. But I find it more predictable and testable. It's the business logic and UI that becomes this impossible morass of vague requirements and compromises.
Having said all of that I'm looking forward to PART II!
Actually I think it's just how you, personally, interact with people. I find Flickr to be really interesting, while I find IRC, AIM and speed dating to be unfathomably horrible.
The Smart use *nix
The elite use a Mac!
So what's a small distro that I can use? I'm leaning towards Arch Linux can anyone comment on it?
Is it really that hidden?
No! No! No! In the beginning there was only the void, then there was chainmail... :)
A student at MIT did this in around 1997. While I think this is a little more advanced programaticaly, they are much larger.
Having IBM burn you the CD-ROM that makes up SCO's true Intellectual Property would help (I think).
I have to admit, I'm more surprised by the moderation than you. But just because I point out that the US is not the place he left, does not mean I have a "complete hatred of America" in fact I lived there for almost 18 years. There are some really nice places in the US to visit, and some really great restaurants. I also rather enjoy American literature. However the fact remains the US is NOT the best place in the world to live and it's going downhill.