Have we reached energy parity with PV solar panels yet? ie. does the amount of useful electrical energy generated over the life of the panel exceed the amount of energy required to manufacture it? It certainly wasn't a few years ago when I last looked.
Also have they sorted out the massive pollution that arises as from the PV panel manufacturing process?
I'd like to know, as I am considering installing a few but there's no point if they still do more harm than good.
Carbon emissions per capita is an irrelevant and stupid metric.
Imagine an island nation with ten people, but they happen to be very good at farming dairy. Their per-capita carbon emissions is likely to be larger than any other country so by your logic they should be sanctioned more heavily than China, which is without any reasonable doubt a worse offender.
If anyone is interested, look at actual CO2 emissions by country and tell me I'm wrong. In particular note the shift between CO2 emissions in 2013 and cumulative from 1970-2013. Which country is at the top?
If you don't like it, feel free to update that page since it is a wiki:)
If every country except just one enacts measures to actually reduce carbon emissions then that one country will have an opportunity to over the course of a decade become the major world power.
Significantly cutting carbon emissions is very, very expensive, particularly if your economy depends on industry.
This is close to what has happened to China. People don't want to deal with pollution or effective slave labour in their own country so they outsource it (and then of course wonder why no one has a job any more).
This isn't like whaling where every country but Japan stopped doing it, to the benefit of whale populations. One country will become the world's factory and ramp up production to compensate, resulting in a zero net reduction in carbon emissions.
After so much conclusive evidence of burning mountains of discarded electronics and depleting scarce resources, and despite efforts by so many to educate the world about the folly of poisoning the planet this idiot is actually promoting excessive e-waste.
That may be true to an extent, but it's definitely not always the case. Of my two cheap no-name tablets, bought in 2012 and 2013 respectively, neither have shown any signs of wear or failure despite near daily use.
I have found the Galaxy Note range (the tablets, not phones) with the S-Pen and Wacom touchscreen brilliant for annotating documents and teaching classes. Apple and Microsoft, with their attempts at proper stylus support may catch up at some point down the line but for now there's really no comparison.
Sadly there doesn't seem to yet be a replacement for the 12.2" model so folks wanting to buy new are stuck with the 9.7" models, which are a much lower resolution.
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Have we reached energy parity with PV solar panels yet? ie. does the amount of useful electrical energy generated over the life of the panel exceed the amount of energy required to manufacture it? It certainly wasn't a few years ago when I last looked.
Also have they sorted out the massive pollution that arises as from the PV panel manufacturing process?
I'd like to know, as I am considering installing a few but there's no point if they still do more harm than good.
This is homeopathy in action, guys.
You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone.
Like hell you can't.
For those of us who don't want to submit all our life's events to Big Companies, can anyone here recommend a decent CalDav web client?
Carbon emissions per capita is an irrelevant and stupid metric.
Imagine an island nation with ten people, but they happen to be very good at farming dairy. Their per-capita carbon emissions is likely to be larger than any other country so by your logic they should be sanctioned more heavily than China, which is without any reasonable doubt a worse offender.
If anyone is interested, look at actual CO2 emissions by country and tell me I'm wrong. In particular note the shift between CO2 emissions in 2013 and cumulative from 1970-2013. Which country is at the top?
If you don't like it, feel free to update that page since it is a wiki :)
I see what you did there.
Exhibit A: Windows 10 upgrades
Yes, and it isn't a fallacy.
Think about it.
If every country except just one enacts measures to actually reduce carbon emissions then that one country will have an opportunity to over the course of a decade become the major world power.
Significantly cutting carbon emissions is very, very expensive, particularly if your economy depends on industry.
This is close to what has happened to China. People don't want to deal with pollution or effective slave labour in their own country so they outsource it (and then of course wonder why no one has a job any more).
This isn't like whaling where every country but Japan stopped doing it, to the benefit of whale populations. One country will become the world's factory and ramp up production to compensate, resulting in a zero net reduction in carbon emissions.
Link, or it didn't happen.
Perhaps similar to the reasons people still drink beer.
You're right. Computer users are no longer in that company's target demographic.
This isn't a problem. All the father has to do is pop out the SD card and put it in another... oh
Yes they won't last for millions of years. And neither will your iPads, which was the original point.
It's already done on Cisco equipment so why not servers?
After so much conclusive evidence of burning mountains of discarded electronics and depleting scarce resources, and despite efforts by so many to educate the world about the folly of poisoning the planet this idiot is actually promoting excessive e-waste.
Screw him.
Not always. They're probably not doing themselves any favours with their inconsistent naming conventions.
At least no one would have been able to read it then.
Higher end? They're still running IOS right?
Have you even used any Android tablet, let alone a Galaxy Note with an S Pen?
That may be true to an extent, but it's definitely not always the case. Of my two cheap no-name tablets, bought in 2012 and 2013 respectively, neither have shown any signs of wear or failure despite near daily use.
I have found the Galaxy Note range (the tablets, not phones) with the S-Pen and Wacom touchscreen brilliant for annotating documents and teaching classes. Apple and Microsoft, with their attempts at proper stylus support may catch up at some point down the line but for now there's really no comparison.
Sadly there doesn't seem to yet be a replacement for the 12.2" model so folks wanting to buy new are stuck with the 9.7" models, which are a much lower resolution.
Increasingly defective by design, I'm afraid.
Unmanned, you say
Depends on how many of "you" there are.
If they had the ability to do so they would have done it already.
They're just spouting rhetoric.
Flash... player?
Do people still use that for YouTube?