Your points against the efficiency of this approach are correct, but I think it's great DIY-ing.
This thing was cheaper than any commercial solution, and might be even more attractive for 3rd world economies. Or what if the oil crash hits and there's a huge run on turbines while the power is failing? It's nice to know it can be done, at least.
~$4000 will get you going nicely, depending on available resources. It's much easier if you still have a hookup to the grid. In many locals you can sell energy back to the grid in summer. It is limited, in that small lifestyle changes are needed to keep off the grid. No clothes dryer, for instance. A generator is useful for power tools, etc.
There might be tax breaks available, also.
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All content can be accesed by one flag in a save game file. So the modder is correct, and Rockstar is lying.
IMO, if the modder had any brains, he would have played down that fact. Did he think he was going to get sued?
Our society has become a place where truth has no value, and people think it rude to demand proof. Everywhere I hear and see belief in magic and superstition, from reflexology to homeopathy to physic hotlines. Much of it cloaked in pseudoscience and defended as science. WTF happened to rationalism?
As the above poster mentions, "observation" isn't what many take it to be.
Perhaps more importantly, the Copenhagen model (observation causes collapse of waveform) is just a model, and many believe it to be wrong. I find it clumsy and inelegant, although IANAP, but we all know elegance when we see it. The many worlds interpretation seems much neater.
Objective-C is not some crufty old piece of legacy code that the old coots can't let go of. It's a stupidly simple, elegant extension to C. And there's a lot of good things in C, even with its "shoot yourself in the foot" power. C++ is far more complicated.
If you know C, a very small language, and are comfortable with objects, then you are an afternoon away from knowing Obj-C. The runtime delivers amazing flexibility, the reason why all the apps on OS X are so feature rich. The GNUStep implementation needs more, but is very powerful as is. It's a fabulous choice for a large system, where the "system" part is very important.
Again, the C to Obj-C transition is so easy that everyone who knows C should add it to their toolbox.
As I understand it, work on GNUStep themeing is coming along. I haven't checked it out in a while. The visuals really need freshening up.
I drooled over the Indy. Now I have one, $50 Canadian with a 21 inch monitor. Great for console work. Now if only I could get the Phobos ethernet working under Linux....
I agree. My original point was that the real cost will probably be much higher than advertised, and that the economy will look much different than todays.
I'm not sure they are finding that much new oil. "Recoverable reserve" numbers increase regularly, but often the numbers are politically/financially fudged. This is especially clear with OPEC figures. And the core problem is not enough oil, but enough oil we can get out of the ground and to market.
My main concern about this issue is that the US is not honestly evaluating the situation. Trusting in market forces to smoothly replace the biggest windfall of free energy we'll ever see seems a bit risky. I believe that US moves in the middle east are driven by the need to secure access to cheap oil. Note that Saudi Arabia and Iraq have the worlds lowest production costs for oil, and very large fields. Production cost measured by energy expended vs. energy returned (ROE), a number that is getting more and more important as fields dry up.
I'm Canadian, and agree with everything the poster said. Are we not able to discuss China's foreign policy ambitions without accusations of racism? You think China has no desire to assert its power? grow up.
While I agree that Peak Oil does not have to imply the end of civilization, I think the 'market forces' answer might be wrong.
Let's say I'm making solar cells. The materials used much energy to produce, from refining to transporting workers to making factories and mining equipment. 9 out of fifteen calories on the workers plates came from oil based fertilizer. Some of this energy came from other sources, but most came from oil.
My point is, if oil is sitting at $300 a barrel, all these costs propagate down the chain, driving up the cost of energy from alternative sources. So when someone says "(fill in source here) is almost compatible with oil", it's probably not true, and we will not know the final costs till after the fact.
Your account is new so I'm going to assume you don't know that you are trolling. Saying "C has a lot of shortcomings, like being only weakly-typed, etc." without putting it in some kind of context is insulting. Some of us have experience (and reguarly use) many languages. But you'll have to pry my copy of "The C Programming Language" from my cold, dead fingers.
I've spent some time browsing wikisource recently. It's a shame that it's not nearly as rich as wikipedia. Maybe they should be merged (or wikipedia should hype it) so as to encourage 'pedia editors to add sources. Too many vanity pages, as it is....
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If the cost is low enough, it could still make a great addition to solar in many areas. The wind is often blowing when it's cloudy/raining.
This thing was cheaper than any commercial solution, and might be even more attractive for 3rd world economies. Or what if the oil crash hits and there's a huge run on turbines while the power is failing? It's nice to know it can be done, at least.
There might be tax breaks available, also.
IMO, if the modder had any brains, he would have played down that fact. Did he think he was going to get sued?
Where will industrial civilization be in the face of $100 a barrel oil? I, for one, don't think it'll collapse, but the world will look different.
Any size object could be balanced there, it would just need corespondingly higher thrust to correct it's position.
Did you go to a English public school?
A 2.3 million strong army trained almost entirly towards home defense? Nukes? Cheap electronics? I dunno.
The Apple stuff is well done, and much applies to GNUStep. The Apple community is the most active, of course.
Static friction, espcially for gummy tires. But the real driver for tire size in HP tires is heat dissapation.
Our society has become a place where truth has no value, and people think it rude to demand proof. Everywhere I hear and see belief in magic and superstition, from reflexology to homeopathy to physic hotlines. Much of it cloaked in pseudoscience and defended as science. WTF happened to rationalism?
Perhaps more importantly, the Copenhagen model (observation causes collapse of waveform) is just a model, and many believe it to be wrong. I find it clumsy and inelegant, although IANAP, but we all know elegance when we see it. The many worlds interpretation seems much neater.
Your media? You're leasing that data, pal.
ORI is a pretty solid group, usually.
If you know C, a very small language, and are comfortable with objects, then you are an afternoon away from knowing Obj-C. The runtime delivers amazing flexibility, the reason why all the apps on OS X are so feature rich. The GNUStep implementation needs more, but is very powerful as is. It's a fabulous choice for a large system, where the "system" part is very important.
Again, the C to Obj-C transition is so easy that everyone who knows C should add it to their toolbox.
As I understand it, work on GNUStep themeing is coming along. I haven't checked it out in a while. The visuals really need freshening up.
I have a hard time lending hardcovers. What makes you think you can borrow my gold edition of Harry Potter?
Many of us mod "insightful" instead, to give the karma, and to make the distinction between subtle humor and "In Soviet Russia" jokes.
# update-rc.d remove [unneeded stuff] # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade
I drooled over the Indy. Now I have one, $50 Canadian with a 21 inch monitor. Great for console work. Now if only I could get the Phobos ethernet working under Linux....
I'm not sure they are finding that much new oil. "Recoverable reserve" numbers increase regularly, but often the numbers are politically/financially fudged. This is especially clear with OPEC figures. And the core problem is not enough oil, but enough oil we can get out of the ground and to market.
My main concern about this issue is that the US is not honestly evaluating the situation. Trusting in market forces to smoothly replace the biggest windfall of free energy we'll ever see seems a bit risky. I believe that US moves in the middle east are driven by the need to secure access to cheap oil. Note that Saudi Arabia and Iraq have the worlds lowest production costs for oil, and very large fields. Production cost measured by energy expended vs. energy returned (ROE), a number that is getting more and more important as fields dry up.
I'm Canadian, and agree with everything the poster said. Are we not able to discuss China's foreign policy ambitions without accusations of racism? You think China has no desire to assert its power? grow up.
Let's say I'm making solar cells. The materials used much energy to produce, from refining to transporting workers to making factories and mining equipment. 9 out of fifteen calories on the workers plates came from oil based fertilizer. Some of this energy came from other sources, but most came from oil.
My point is, if oil is sitting at $300 a barrel, all these costs propagate down the chain, driving up the cost of energy from alternative sources. So when someone says "(fill in source here) is almost compatible with oil", it's probably not true, and we will not know the final costs till after the fact.
I've spent some time browsing wikisource recently. It's a shame that it's not nearly as rich as wikipedia. Maybe they should be merged (or wikipedia should hype it) so as to encourage 'pedia editors to add sources. Too many vanity pages, as it is....