I don't want over the air firmware updates for my car. Scratch that, I don't want to drive a car with OTA updates. Actually, I don't want to be ANYWHERE near any car with OTA updates.
I update complex software for a living. Trust me, you don't want your car, any car to do that.
They do the same shit for server remote admin cards. The hardware's in there, but you can't use it until you shell out the $. Premium plus deluxe HP resellers often have a tendency to forget about those, and you find out the hard way when you have to troubleshoot a server on a saturday and nobody's available with the god damn license key.
SuperMicro doesn't have platinum support contracts, but for the price difference, you can buy a lot of spares in case shit breaks down. Plus they don't charge you an arm for disk trays: if you buy a server with room for 24 host swap disks, you get 24 empty disk trays you can fill with whatever you want!
Additionally they have the cleanest remote management interface. No annoying pop ups, no artificial browser requirements, no frames, no mandatory Java applets.
Burning gas increases entropy. Burning coal decreases mass, very slightly. And it doesn't mean what you're appear to be thinking because earth is not a closed system.
Saying that mining and enriching nuclear fuel produces greenhouse gases is a really pointless thing to focus on, considering that other fossil fuels also require mining and processing. Even if a given quantity of nuclear fuel required 100x the processing of oil, you'd still be ahead by several orders of magnitude because it contains so much more usable energy.
Malware sites have a technical effect that is unrelated to speech. Blocking them is as much censorship as is banning lead-based newspaper ink -- i.e. not at all.
The great thing about nuclear's impact on the environment is that it typically mostly happens near the point of use. Fukushima is going to have terrible consequences, but mainly local ones; i.e. it's mainly those people who benefited from it that will bear the cost.
Contrast with coal burning: everybody gets hit by the carbon bill, even if you don't have electricity.
Are they? Here in Paris local taxes are the lowest in the country, in spite of the largest concentration of services, because of the economies of scale.
According to someone I know who works in windmill financing, the whimsical nature of wind subsidies in the US has been almost as bad for the industry as if there had been none. Wind projects, as well as manufacturing and deployment infrastructure (barges, trucks, cranes...) are decades long investments. Congress let subsidies expire almost every other year; that's made it nearly impossible for financiers and actuaries to project the profitability of farms.
is not to compute its result, it is to show how much we do/don't know.
We're slowly, or quickly depending on your outlook, filling in the gaps. We now have enough data on extrasolar planets to do statistical extrapolations.
In the next decade or two, we will have telescopes nearly large enough to do spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere of nearby extrasolar planets. In particular we will be able to see if they have significant dioxygen, which can only happen as a result of life as far as we know. That will remove another unknown value.
Advances in neurology and evolutionary biology will begin to highlight how likely it is for intelligence to evolve.
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Social engineering.
I'm a sysadmin with a background in security.
I don't want over the air firmware updates for my car. Scratch that, I don't want to drive a car with OTA updates. Actually, I don't want to be ANYWHERE near any car with OTA updates.
I update complex software for a living. Trust me, you don't want your car, any car to do that.
They do the same shit for server remote admin cards. The hardware's in there, but you can't use it until you shell out the $. Premium plus deluxe HP resellers often have a tendency to forget about those, and you find out the hard way when you have to troubleshoot a server on a saturday and nobody's available with the god damn license key.
SuperMicro doesn't have platinum support contracts, but for the price difference, you can buy a lot of spares in case shit breaks down. Plus they don't charge you an arm for disk trays: if you buy a server with room for 24 host swap disks, you get 24 empty disk trays you can fill with whatever you want!
Additionally they have the cleanest remote management interface. No annoying pop ups, no artificial browser requirements, no frames, no mandatory Java applets.
Release energy, lose mass.
Burning gas increases entropy. Burning coal decreases mass, very slightly. And it doesn't mean what you're appear to be thinking because earth is not a closed system.
Saying that mining and enriching nuclear fuel produces greenhouse gases is a really pointless thing to focus on, considering that other fossil fuels also require mining and processing. Even if a given quantity of nuclear fuel required 100x the processing of oil, you'd still be ahead by several orders of magnitude because it contains so much more usable energy.
that if something else had happen, people would have been saying something else?
Profound. Deep. Insightful indeed.
Now look at Guantanamo.
the first million times. Do you have anything new to contribute?
Contrary to the Murdoch toilet paper you're swallowing, the EU administration is not that bloated. Its budget is tiny considering the area it covers.
England should be thrown out of the EU. Yes I said England.
Your gun fetishism is pathetic.
Malware sites have a technical effect that is unrelated to speech. Blocking them is as much censorship as is banning lead-based newspaper ink -- i.e. not at all.
> Neither of those is censorship - they're illegal
What a stupid thing to write. By your idiotic "logic," there's no censorship in China because the law says you can't criticize the Communist Party.
They rely on the public SSL PKI. Any rogue SSL cert registrar can let someone generate a cert for any domain.
Just like with Zune, Microsoft copied what's worst about their competition. I attribute it to cargo cult marketing.
And you can stick your sanctimoniousness up your ass.
Ever. Besides I can't even watch anything with DRM, except on my iPad.
Why would I?
Just as not offend the copyright holder? I don't give a fuck about copyright holders. So why would I?
I don't know where you get the idea that it's not. It pays for itself, and it translates into the lowest CO2 output in the EU.
The main drawback and the reason why it's being reconsidered is that it's dangerous.
The great thing about nuclear's impact on the environment is that it typically mostly happens near the point of use. Fukushima is going to have terrible consequences, but mainly local ones; i.e. it's mainly those people who benefited from it that will bear the cost.
Contrast with coal burning: everybody gets hit by the carbon bill, even if you don't have electricity.
Are they? Here in Paris local taxes are the lowest in the country, in spite of the largest concentration of services, because of the economies of scale.
What makes lobbying so damaging is that there is a large multiplier effect. A $1 million lobbying effort would easily drive a $100 million profit.
According to someone I know who works in windmill financing, the whimsical nature of wind subsidies in the US has been almost as bad for the industry as if there had been none. Wind projects, as well as manufacturing and deployment infrastructure (barges, trucks, cranes ...) are decades long investments. Congress let subsidies expire almost every other year; that's made it nearly impossible for financiers and actuaries to project the profitability of farms.
is not to compute its result, it is to show how much we do/don't know.
We're slowly, or quickly depending on your outlook, filling in the gaps. We now have enough data on extrasolar planets to do statistical extrapolations.
In the next decade or two, we will have telescopes nearly large enough to do spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere of nearby extrasolar planets. In particular we will be able to see if they have significant dioxygen, which can only happen as a result of life as far as we know. That will remove another unknown value.
Advances in neurology and evolutionary biology will begin to highlight how likely it is for intelligence to evolve.