And actually, just to reply to myself, it's much more usable power as you know when you are going to be receiving it (all of the time). One of the problems with solar is that you aren't guaranteed it, and have to deal with aspects like trying to store it for when it's cloudy. From space it can be used as 'baseload' power as you can be sure that it will always be available.
Sorry - I didn't make myself clear. I am all for electric cars. I just never thought about what the equivalent clean energy costs were against petrol/diesel. Your figures are interesting tho. Do you have links to sources?
If the costs are equivalent, that's great. Oil is only going to get more expensive, meaning it's going to get ever cheaper to run an electric car compared to a petrol/diesel.
In the UK, petrol costs about £1 per *litre* (about USD $1.60). What would an equivalent amount of electrical energy cost to produce using only clean technology (wave/wind/solar etc)?
What is the carbon footprint of this thing? I mean, jesus, I'm going to have some explaining to do to my daughter when she gets older about my generation and what it prioritised...
I wrote that original post. Fucking BNet have basically taken all my content, hotlinked my image and are not even attributing the work with a link. Great.
How is it rationing if you are free to generate energy using cleaner sources?
The bottom line is that the level of American carbon production per capita is absolutely disgusting, and needs to be reduced. You have a better solution
Bugzilla has "good search features"? Whenever I try and search a bugzilla database I seem to either get 0 hits or about 8 billion. Really. It's like a magic trick or something...
Imagine a database whose aim is to centralize and analyze data on people aged 13 or above who are active in politics or labor unions, who play a significant institutional, economic, social or religious role, or who are 'likely to breach public order.'
I probably spend 80% of my time on my iPhone using it for things other than voice. I dont actually see voice as its primary purpose. To me, email and web/rss browsing are more important...It's not just a phone, it's just called one...
The US certainly does come under the banner of being a "flawed democracy" for two reasons:
1. The lobbying system in Washington. If you don't find this entire aspect utterly corrupt, you don't understand it. 2. The lack of a financial cap on campaign spending. It's not an election, it's a marketing battle.
And all this is to put entirely to one side the whole issue of computer-based voting. Why on earth you cant use a paper and pencil is beyond me.
This results in an utterly, utterly flawed democracy. ALL the candidates, maybe with the exception of people like Nader, promote Friedmanite economic policy, an increase in "defence" spending and will do everything they possibly can to ensure dollar-dominance in the financial systems.
Let it be said, when OPEC start pricing oil in Euros, the US is seriously, seriously fucked.
From the UK site, the higher end 15" model has an extra.2Ghz in CPU, double the Video RAM and a 40GB larger hard disk. That's hardly with 300 of the Queen's finest is it?
Dungeon Master was way, way out there. You could even carry your characters over to the sequel title!
There was so much originality in the Amiga gaming scene that is sadly, sadly lacking in modern gaming. Looking back at the Amiga it was so far ahead of its time in so many ways...food for thought...
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And actually, just to reply to myself, it's much more usable power as you know when you are going to be receiving it (all of the time). One of the problems with solar is that you aren't guaranteed it, and have to deal with aspects like trying to store it for when it's cloudy. From space it can be used as 'baseload' power as you can be sure that it will always be available.
This can't be right, surely. In space you are guaranteed 24/7/365 of sun.
Sorry - I didn't make myself clear. I am all for electric cars. I just never thought about what the equivalent clean energy costs were against petrol/diesel. Your figures are interesting tho. Do you have links to sources?
If the costs are equivalent, that's great. Oil is only going to get more expensive, meaning it's going to get ever cheaper to run an electric car compared to a petrol/diesel.
In the UK, petrol costs about £1 per *litre* (about USD $1.60). What would an equivalent amount of electrical energy cost to produce using only clean technology (wave/wind/solar etc)?
What is the carbon footprint of this thing? I mean, jesus, I'm going to have some explaining to do to my daughter when she gets older about my generation and what it prioritised...
I wrote that original post. Fucking BNet have basically taken all my content, hotlinked my image and are not even attributing the work with a link. Great.
The original article that I wrote:
http://www.solidstategroup.com/page/2804/company/tech-blog/posts/google-wave-first-impressions
How is it rationing if you are free to generate energy using cleaner sources?
The bottom line is that the level of American carbon production per capita is absolutely disgusting, and needs to be reduced. You have a better solution
We don't necessarily need to improve the efficiency of wind or solar, we can improve the cost instead...
Bugzilla has "good search features"? Whenever I try and search a bugzilla database I seem to either get 0 hits or about 8 billion. Really. It's like a magic trick or something...
JIRA is the best bug tracker out there IMHO...
How about using these amazing inventions known as *buttons* that tell machines things?
You have shown yourself unable to control your carbon emissions. Your government will consequently have to control them for you. That is all.
http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/
Great solution for off-site incremental backups...
You mean like WalMart?
It's true. My dad refers to the *entire internet* as Google. Sigh.
I probably spend 80% of my time on my iPhone using it for things other than voice. I dont actually see voice as its primary purpose. To me, email and web/rss browsing are more important...It's not just a phone, it's just called one...
http://www.khaaan.com/
Have any of the candidates suggested they will make any change to this graph:
http://www.globalissues.org/i/military/country-distribution-2006.png
Until that changes, nothing will.
They demonstrated or discussed both of these things yesterday...
The US certainly does come under the banner of being a "flawed democracy" for two reasons:
1. The lobbying system in Washington. If you don't find this entire aspect utterly corrupt, you don't understand it.
2. The lack of a financial cap on campaign spending. It's not an election, it's a marketing battle.
And all this is to put entirely to one side the whole issue of computer-based voting. Why on earth you cant use a paper and pencil is beyond me.
This results in an utterly, utterly flawed democracy. ALL the candidates, maybe with the exception of people like Nader, promote Friedmanite economic policy, an increase in "defence" spending and will do everything they possibly can to ensure dollar-dominance in the financial systems.
Let it be said, when OPEC start pricing oil in Euros, the US is seriously, seriously fucked.
400 to 600 Linux users out of 17 million? I find that hard to believe...That's less than 0.003%.
So sometime after February I'll be able to buy/download and install an ActiveSync client for the iPhone? That changes quite a lot...
From the UK site, the higher end 15" model has an extra .2Ghz in CPU, double the Video RAM and a 40GB larger hard disk. That's hardly with 300 of the Queen's finest is it?
Dungeon Master, Carrier Command, Kick Off 2, Xenon 2, F/18 Interceptor
Dungeon Master was way, way out there. You could even carry your characters over to the sequel title!
There was so much originality in the Amiga gaming scene that is sadly, sadly lacking in modern gaming. Looking back at the Amiga it was so far ahead of its time in so many ways...food for thought...
Actually, Java is extremely efficient at low level functions like those required to apply filters to images.