It's technically true, as MS has never offered a desktop. On the flipside, I was at MS in 1998, and we bought a $50k server for our workgroup to to continuous builds, so 25k isn't that huge.
after all if a company is going to smelt aluminum they don't go around building an atomic power plant to run their smelters, they find a cheap source of electricity preferably reachable by major shipping lanes, and let the utility company worry about where the power comes from.
Actually, they usually build the smelter near an existing plant, or where one can be built. Aluminium is refined electricity, basically.
Why not use it while we wait for people to find better ways to create it (through algae, hemp, or rapeseed)
No reason not to, but why do you care if it ends up in your car? You carped about distro channels as if it wasn't the same as diesel. As for waiting, it won't happen until you knock down the corn subsidy. doesn't matter how efficient it is if farmers get more cash for growing corn.
Also, you can't forget to recognize that the MPG figures stated are probably Miles Per imperial Gallon rather than Miles per US Gallon... a significant difference (about 18% reduction in output for US gallons) so US MPG might only be ~53MPG.
No, they're converted from the common EU metric of l/100km. Google says that's about 3.61l/100km, so it's pretty easy to confirm.
As I said before; testing someone's patience level is often a key decision factor in the hiring. I've known companies who deliberately make candidates wait before speaking to them. It's generally considered prudent to have the interviewer paged after a reasonable period of time, say 15-20 minutes.
Those companies must think that the interview is one sided - if I showed up on time and the place I interview waits 15 minutes to actually acknowledge me (without a good excuse, at least), that's a serious black mark. If the interviewer starts talking to someone else during the interview for any real length of time, I can just leave.
If you were interviewing people for a position, would you schedule the appointment shortly before a deadline with people in the critical path? That shows a lack of planning from the company's side.
Africa isn't cold enough to require technology for comfortable life (provided nobody's shooting at you). It has gems and oil, but not much iron, or else it wasn't developed. Europe had a colder climate and cities, which create all sorts of nasty diseases that Africans had no immunity to, so early colonists set them up for a fall. Never mind that they had guns, which are really handy for imposing your will.
I know about the history of africa; I'm just outlining the present day situation in a slashdot summary. Your witty riposte leaves out the guys in Nigeria who should be rich as hell, but aren't, mostly due to the leadership looting everything, the various genocides in progress at any moment (which is, yes, inspired by tribal divisions) because there are a lot of people who'd rather kill the other tribe than do something useful, and idiots like mugabe who refer to economics as a white conspiracy and currently presides over a complete clusterfuck of a nation.
the utility thing was done the way it was because the goverment can't really run a separate water disto channel; I'd say the gub here should wire its own streets, then lease space on it to all comers.
You get the tax dollars to subsidize the cost of supporting those outliers; the monopoly is natural and is frequently accompanied by regulated profits.
this is a town trying to build out infrastructure to support its residents; it's certainly something within their purview. Personally, I think this is a better setup than letting the telco own the lines, since there's no incentive to gouge, and this sort of thing can work out just fine.
Yeah, well I am mostly concerned with my own corner of the world. More specifically, I just want to short the stupid need/want argument, since it's been redundant longer than I've been alive. Really, read Maslow's hierarchy and tell me if there's anything to add to it. Also note that the people in Africa are so very poor largely because the people in power are crooks and thugs who derive advantage from their misery. Nothing I can really do, and totally irrelevant to the argument.
Also worth considering is that your goals and ambitions will almost certainly be VERY different when you're 40 years old, with a family of 4, than when you're 22 and fresh out of college.
Which is why you shouldn't be holding youthful indiscretions against someone 20 years down the road. Part of the problem in this country is that we do that far more than we should.
sure, you can do that, but I like booze, so I'll drink. If you don't, that's fine, but if you never go have fun, I'll look at you like you're some sort of freak.
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For whatever reason, apparently "economist" is a field that attracts liberals.
Maybe that's why republicans think you can cut taxes and increase spending and everything will work out okay.
It's technically true, as MS has never offered a desktop. On the flipside, I was at MS in 1998, and we bought a $50k server for our workgroup to to continuous builds, so 25k isn't that huge.
after all if a company is going to smelt aluminum they don't go around building an atomic power plant to run their smelters, they find a cheap source of electricity preferably reachable by major shipping lanes, and let the utility company worry about where the power comes from.
Actually, they usually build the smelter near an existing plant, or where one can be built. Aluminium is refined electricity, basically.
Why not use it while we wait for people to find better ways to create it (through algae, hemp, or rapeseed)
No reason not to, but why do you care if it ends up in your car? You carped about distro channels as if it wasn't the same as diesel. As for waiting, it won't happen until you knock down the corn subsidy. doesn't matter how efficient it is if farmers get more cash for growing corn.
Also, you can't forget to recognize that the MPG figures stated are probably Miles Per imperial Gallon rather than Miles per US Gallon... a significant difference (about 18% reduction in output for US gallons) so US MPG might only be ~53MPG.
No, they're converted from the common EU metric of l/100km. Google says that's about 3.61l/100km, so it's pretty easy to confirm.
I'm in seattle (yeah, I know), and all the gas stations around here have diesel pumps.
Bio-diesel is not snake oil in the sense it does nothing.
No, it's worse than that. It eats up farmland producing a product with almost no value add that's only profitable due to a huge corn subsidy.
t works, but as with anything except for gas/diesel, oil related products the manufacturing and distribution network is not there
What the hell? Bio diesel is diesel - it's the same thing. If you want to produce it, fine, just use something sensible like rapeseed.
So will Google have to have armed guards to shoot pirates? Is killing people to protect your servers considered "evil" ?
No, they're not people. They're pirates.
As I said before; testing someone's patience level is often a key decision factor in the hiring. I've known companies who deliberately make candidates wait before speaking to them. It's generally considered prudent to have the interviewer paged after a reasonable period of time, say 15-20 minutes.
Those companies must think that the interview is one sided - if I showed up on time and the place I interview waits 15 minutes to actually acknowledge me (without a good excuse, at least), that's a serious black mark. If the interviewer starts talking to someone else during the interview for any real length of time, I can just leave.
If you were interviewing people for a position, would you schedule the appointment shortly before a deadline with people in the critical path? That shows a lack of planning from the company's side.
I was expecting something about it leaving a scorch mark as its lasting legacy, but yeah, spot on.
um, they are synchronized - they're either 120 or 180 out of phase. If they weren't synchronized, the phase difference would wander up and down.
Africa isn't cold enough to require technology for comfortable life (provided nobody's shooting at you). It has gems and oil, but not much iron, or else it wasn't developed. Europe had a colder climate and cities, which create all sorts of nasty diseases that Africans had no immunity to, so early colonists set them up for a fall. Never mind that they had guns, which are really handy for imposing your will.
I know about the history of africa; I'm just outlining the present day situation in a slashdot summary. Your witty riposte leaves out the guys in Nigeria who should be rich as hell, but aren't, mostly due to the leadership looting everything, the various genocides in progress at any moment (which is, yes, inspired by tribal divisions) because there are a lot of people who'd rather kill the other tribe than do something useful, and idiots like mugabe who refer to economics as a white conspiracy and currently presides over a complete clusterfuck of a nation.
the utility thing was done the way it was because the goverment can't really run a separate water disto channel; I'd say the gub here should wire its own streets, then lease space on it to all comers.
You get the tax dollars to subsidize the cost of supporting those outliers; the monopoly is natural and is frequently accompanied by regulated profits.
how about "after we're done, we'll sell you space on the line just like anybody else. Take it or don't".
this is a town trying to build out infrastructure to support its residents; it's certainly something within their purview. Personally, I think this is a better setup than letting the telco own the lines, since there's no incentive to gouge, and this sort of thing can work out just fine.
Yeah, well I am mostly concerned with my own corner of the world. More specifically, I just want to short the stupid need/want argument, since it's been redundant longer than I've been alive. Really, read Maslow's hierarchy and tell me if there's anything to add to it. Also note that the people in Africa are so very poor largely because the people in power are crooks and thugs who derive advantage from their misery. Nothing I can really do, and totally irrelevant to the argument.
bite me. The ACLU doesn't defend the 2nd ammendment because the NRA already does it. Why should they go stepping on toes when they can just cooperate?
sure, if you're okay with living like we did 10,000 years ago.
not at all. I'm advocating how things should be, and pushing for changes that bring us closer to that goal.
he lost a bet with elron.
Also worth considering is that your goals and ambitions will almost certainly be VERY different when you're 40 years old, with a family of 4, than when you're 22 and fresh out of college.
Which is why you shouldn't be holding youthful indiscretions against someone 20 years down the road. Part of the problem in this country is that we do that far more than we should.
sure, you can do that, but I like booze, so I'll drink. If you don't, that's fine, but if you never go have fun, I'll look at you like you're some sort of freak.