He doesnt hate corporations (atleast thats my opinion of what he believes in). He hates corporate money in politics. There is a difference between the two.
Huh? How can you be a libertarian and be against corporate money in politics? I mean the Citizens United decision is almost exactly a page out of libertarian philosophy, a corporation is a collection of people who have the right to assemble their money and use it to buy advertising (aka speech) in the free market. Anything blocking corporate donations would require the force of law aka government interference which is surely something libertarians are against.
So how do tv stations work in your utopian libertarian pipe dream? Does the person with the most money just buy the most powerful transmitter to drown out everyone elses signal?
Windows 8 doesn't require SecureBoot, otherwise their enterprise adoption would be 0% instead of the likely 1-5%. Windows 8/Server 2012 works under ESXi 5.0 with patches and is supported under 5.1.
The vibration API could be useful for making web apps with notifications, I have no idea why a website or web app would need access to battery information. Since we already have location API's camera, video, and microphone API's, and WebGL (although most mobile browsers don't yet support it) webapps will soon be first class citizens thus breaking the walled garden (at least for online content, offline use is still a bit rough).
It wasn't an engine explosion, the protective fairing around the engine shattered when the engine cutoff caused a major change in pressure. SpaceX said that they continued to receive telemetry data from the engine which means it did not explode, and in fact was physically intact though not functioning correctly.
Why would we want more un/under educated programmers? Programming is applied Math and very few high school students are going to be equipped to do it well.
I guess I'm biased because I live downwind from the power plants that are spewing out NOx and SO to power much of the US east coast. I have to have annual smog inspection on my vehicle even though the EPA admits that even if every vehicle in the region was taken off the road our smog problem would still exist due to the upwind power plants. If people on the east coast were to start buying plugin electrics en-mass the air quality is say Boston might improve but my semi-rural suburb with no smog problems might suddenly have them. That's why you have to look at the effects of the system holistically, not just at what comes out of a tailpipe in front of you.
It may alleviate smog Only locally (which might be an advantage for LA, Phoenix, Mexico City, etc), since 1970 NOx emissions on cars have been reduced by 99+% but only 60% on power plants which means overall smog production may actually increase for electric vehicles which are powered by fossil fuels.
Probably spectrum for LTE, plus prepaid is a growing market so not having a prepaid arm is probably a long-term losing proposition even if it reduces ARPU.
Now you need to add in the environmental cost of producing that big battery pack into the lifetime cost, that's why a midsized vehicle with 120% of the Prius's fuel consumption can still end up having a lower lifecycle CO2 cost than the Prius.
Great, when that's true for where I live I might consider an electric vehicle, today it makes no sense on economic or environmental grounds. I did work on the grass roots movement to require 15% of our electric power generation to be from renewable sources but while it passed it hasn't become physical reality yet and even at 15% the mix will still make it a toss up as to which is better. Perhaps my first new car will be an electric or plugin hybrid, today I'll buy a used vehicle and drive it into the ground while keeping it well maintained so as to avoid extra pollution.
Who cares which powerplant is more efficient, you have to look at the total CO2 production over the useful life of the vehicle. Several recent academic evaluations have shown that a fairly efficient (40+MPG) midsized car produces roughly the same amount of CO2 over its useful life as does a plugin Prius. When you add in things like the energy to mine the material for the battery and build it, the energy to mine and transport the coal, etc the lifetime CO2 production of the Prius is no better (ie with coal as the power source the Prius produces roughly 250g CO2/km as compared to 270g/km for a conventional vehicle). Now you could argue that we should have more carbon neutral or low carbon electric energy sources, and I'm all for it, but the reality is that right now if you buy a plugin hybrid for the practical life of that vehicle it will be using power from coal because 90+% of additional power capacity added to the grid is in the form of coal production (though natural gas is quickly becoming a significant contributor due to the recent shale gas production boom).
Considering emissions on automobiles have been reduced by 99+% (CO, NOx, HC) since the 1970's but SO2 and NOx from power plants have only been reduced by 70% and 60% over the same time period it's actually proven to be easier to do it for cars in the real world =)
Hybrids have been out for quite some time, emergency response crews have adapted their processes to assume there is a battery pack and high voltage source in a vehicle.
Since over 50% of US electrical production is from coal it's not like an electrical vehicle produces zero CO2, in fact full lifecycle analysis shows a modern high efficiency non-hybrid may produce the same CO2 as a hybrid.
Q: Does the GCA prohibit anyone from making a handgun, shotgun or rifle? With certain exceptions a firearm may be made by a non-licensee provided it is not for sale and the maker is not prohibited from possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from assembling a non-sporting semi-automatic rifle or non-sporting shotgun from imported parts. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and approval by ATF. An application to make a machine gun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing that the firearm is being made for a Federal or State agency.
[18 U.S.C. 922(o) and (r), 26 U.S.C. 5822, 27 CFR 478.39, 479.62 and 479.105]link
After running into all sorts of bugs with Oracle VM there's no way in hell I would run any production workload on it, let alone core ones. The biggest one we ran into was if you pressed the restart host icon and then clicked cancel on the warning dialog you would put the host into a limbo state and the only solution was to reinstall the management machine from scratch!
If he really wants to enable "the cloud" he would immediately change the licensing doc so that the vCPU boundary is recognized as a hard partitioning scheme thus enabling almost every Oracle workload that is today tied to hardware to run in a VM. Oracle's stupid licensing policy wrt VM's has been the one thing keeping any significant percentage of my environment on hardware (we're ~80% virtualized today and will be 90+% by the end of the year but Oracle licensing will keep that from reaching 99% like we would like).
I'm hoping TL2 will develop a community more like Neverwinter Nights where just because you can play with a modded character doesn't mean it'll be a hackfest. With the engine being so open we should see some interesting mods come out over the next year or two. The Steam version having a mod manager will probably help some in that regard.
You can get the entire TL2 soundtrack for free here. I though that was a nice gift from the guys at Runic (makes me feel a bit better about the lifetime Hellgate subscription).
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He doesnt hate corporations (atleast thats my opinion of what he believes in). He hates corporate money in politics. There is a difference between the two.
Huh? How can you be a libertarian and be against corporate money in politics? I mean the Citizens United decision is almost exactly a page out of libertarian philosophy, a corporation is a collection of people who have the right to assemble their money and use it to buy advertising (aka speech) in the free market. Anything blocking corporate donations would require the force of law aka government interference which is surely something libertarians are against.
My guess is since it's a tv station they set the limit for a "legitimate" candidate (ie one who can afford to buy advertising time on their station).
So how do tv stations work in your utopian libertarian pipe dream? Does the person with the most money just buy the most powerful transmitter to drown out everyone elses signal?
Wasn't that exactly what the AHRA did, strangle DAT and Minidisc in the cradle.
Windows 8 doesn't require SecureBoot, otherwise their enterprise adoption would be 0% instead of the likely 1-5%. Windows 8/Server 2012 works under ESXi 5.0 with patches and is supported under 5.1.
The vibration API could be useful for making web apps with notifications, I have no idea why a website or web app would need access to battery information. Since we already have location API's camera, video, and microphone API's, and WebGL (although most mobile browsers don't yet support it) webapps will soon be first class citizens thus breaking the walled garden (at least for online content, offline use is still a bit rough).
It wasn't an engine explosion, the protective fairing around the engine shattered when the engine cutoff caused a major change in pressure. SpaceX said that they continued to receive telemetry data from the engine which means it did not explode, and in fact was physically intact though not functioning correctly.
Why would we want more un/under educated programmers? Programming is applied Math and very few high school students are going to be equipped to do it well.
I guess I'm biased because I live downwind from the power plants that are spewing out NOx and SO to power much of the US east coast. I have to have annual smog inspection on my vehicle even though the EPA admits that even if every vehicle in the region was taken off the road our smog problem would still exist due to the upwind power plants. If people on the east coast were to start buying plugin electrics en-mass the air quality is say Boston might improve but my semi-rural suburb with no smog problems might suddenly have them. That's why you have to look at the effects of the system holistically, not just at what comes out of a tailpipe in front of you.
It may alleviate smog
Only locally (which might be an advantage for LA, Phoenix, Mexico City, etc), since 1970 NOx emissions on cars have been reduced by 99+% but only 60% on power plants which means overall smog production may actually increase for electric vehicles which are powered by fossil fuels.
I would have done the same had it not been for John Katz, the day they added the option to block authors for registered users was the day I signed up.
Probably spectrum for LTE, plus prepaid is a growing market so not having a prepaid arm is probably a long-term losing proposition even if it reduces ARPU.
Now you need to add in the environmental cost of producing that big battery pack into the lifetime cost, that's why a midsized vehicle with 120% of the Prius's fuel consumption can still end up having a lower lifecycle CO2 cost than the Prius.
Great, when that's true for where I live I might consider an electric vehicle, today it makes no sense on economic or environmental grounds. I did work on the grass roots movement to require 15% of our electric power generation to be from renewable sources but while it passed it hasn't become physical reality yet and even at 15% the mix will still make it a toss up as to which is better. Perhaps my first new car will be an electric or plugin hybrid, today I'll buy a used vehicle and drive it into the ground while keeping it well maintained so as to avoid extra pollution.
Ok, it's been falling for a few years as natural gas takes its place due to the shale gas boom, I stand corrected.
Who cares which powerplant is more efficient, you have to look at the total CO2 production over the useful life of the vehicle. Several recent academic evaluations have shown that a fairly efficient (40+MPG) midsized car produces roughly the same amount of CO2 over its useful life as does a plugin Prius. When you add in things like the energy to mine the material for the battery and build it, the energy to mine and transport the coal, etc the lifetime CO2 production of the Prius is no better (ie with coal as the power source the Prius produces roughly 250g CO2/km as compared to 270g/km for a conventional vehicle). Now you could argue that we should have more carbon neutral or low carbon electric energy sources, and I'm all for it, but the reality is that right now if you buy a plugin hybrid for the practical life of that vehicle it will be using power from coal because 90+% of additional power capacity added to the grid is in the form of coal production (though natural gas is quickly becoming a significant contributor due to the recent shale gas production boom).
Considering emissions on automobiles have been reduced by 99+% (CO, NOx, HC) since the 1970's but SO2 and NOx from power plants have only been reduced by 70% and 60% over the same time period it's actually proven to be easier to do it for cars in the real world =)
Hybrids have been out for quite some time, emergency response crews have adapted their processes to assume there is a battery pack and high voltage source in a vehicle.
Since over 50% of US electrical production is from coal it's not like an electrical vehicle produces zero CO2, in fact full lifecycle analysis shows a modern high efficiency non-hybrid may produce the same CO2 as a hybrid.
BS.
Q: Does the GCA prohibit anyone from making a handgun, shotgun or rifle?
With certain exceptions a firearm may be made by a non-licensee provided it is not for sale and the maker is not prohibited from possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from assembling a non-sporting semi-automatic rifle or non-sporting shotgun from imported parts. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and approval by ATF. An application to make a machine gun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing that the firearm is being made for a Federal or State agency.
[18 U.S.C. 922(o) and (r), 26 U.S.C. 5822, 27 CFR 478.39, 479.62 and 479.105] link
Since the muzzle velocity with standard issue ammo is ~950 m/s which is within spitting distance of 1,021 m/s.
After running into all sorts of bugs with Oracle VM there's no way in hell I would run any production workload on it, let alone core ones. The biggest one we ran into was if you pressed the restart host icon and then clicked cancel on the warning dialog you would put the host into a limbo state and the only solution was to reinstall the management machine from scratch!
If he really wants to enable "the cloud" he would immediately change the licensing doc so that the vCPU boundary is recognized as a hard partitioning scheme thus enabling almost every Oracle workload that is today tied to hardware to run in a VM. Oracle's stupid licensing policy wrt VM's has been the one thing keeping any significant percentage of my environment on hardware (we're ~80% virtualized today and will be 90+% by the end of the year but Oracle licensing will keep that from reaching 99% like we would like).
I'm hoping TL2 will develop a community more like Neverwinter Nights where just because you can play with a modded character doesn't mean it'll be a hackfest. With the engine being so open we should see some interesting mods come out over the next year or two. The Steam version having a mod manager will probably help some in that regard.
You can get the entire TL2 soundtrack for free here. I though that was a nice gift from the guys at Runic (makes me feel a bit better about the lifetime Hellgate subscription).