Actually they are great, they eat all the wasted food thrown into the trash. Natural habit is garbage dumps. One of the great adaptations of the world after man arrived. Probably last longer than us (with the cockroaches).
Take a note from ST and call them "Communicators" though that still is not accurate for most. PDA is the closest but that fell out of favor in the 90s.
The Brits probably do it best, "Mobile" is as amorphous as you can get.
"where the continuance of the system was more important than its efficiency."
Yes and much like in evolution, once continuation was achieved the serfs were more or less expendable. Lose a worker, well there's another to take its place in a few years time.
The bigger problem is life expectancy. If serfs are healthy for too long they'll grow old and become a burden. Low infant mortality would create a population problem. Too many mouths to feed.
If you maintain the hierarchy, add in good health care, adequate food production and scale up you end up with socialism ruled by a monarchy. Sound familiar?
I much prefer Patronage. The currently wealthy spend their capital magnificently on cultural status symbols, public works named after themselves and on industry and trade. It's like modern capitalism (it is capitalism) but with an emphasis on spending capital rather than hoarding it. Very trickle down but in a way that benefits everyone. As long as there is no class system preventing people from becoming a Patron through hard work or creativity it is an ideal system.
The problem is people. They get greedy or corrupt and either hoard capital, create class barriers (status hoarding) or decide to fight with other Patrons over resources, enlisting their patronage into wars of one kind or another. Usually this is done to protect their family's position at the top (especially when their children are undeserving of the position).
In an ideal system a Patron would spend all of their capital by the time they die, leaving no inheritance. If they spend it on educating their children and spreading good will for their family then their children will have every opportunity to prove themselves and become Patrons as well. All of the distributed capital will enrich society and keep the economy liquid. It will also provide opportunities for others to acquire status and wealth.
Email is a burden for >45 non-technical people. They would rather call or meet. So email being the defacto business communication tool is a barrier to them.
Except that we're not just talking about revenue from a foreign market. We're talking about the attribution of revenue generated in one market to another. Aka funneling offshore.
Company A in the US has Subsidiary B in Ireland. Company A has B do all the selling in the US and thus receives all the revenue (or better yet its IP licensing revenue). A then can break even or lose money - paying little or no taxed in the US while B sits on the profits or invests in US securities and pays Irish tax rates.
There was plenty if food, like apples from apple trees which are all cloned from one source per variety. Corn which is a highly controlled variety of maize having gone through generations of selective breeding and incredibly genetically poor in diversity. Tomatoes, again the result of decades of selective breeding.
Rather than list them out let's just assume that all commercially grown plants have been genetically altered from the 1700s to the present day.
Lets not forget that genes are often transferred from species to species by viruses and even bacteria. By 'often' I refer to the frequency over ecological time rather than daily or monthly.
GMO is just a more finely controlled version of this same process. It has no specific impact on anything.
We should of course be concerned about toxicity in any plant or food and certainly any biochemical effects such as hormone interference, carcinogenic qualities and nutritional value. These are concerns about any food regardless of its provenance.
You're assuming that technology can not replace fossil fuels with a cheaper alternative. It's also entirely possible that those countries might want to use those resources for things like plastics and fertilizer instead of burning it.
Except for those times when the person holding isn't in control. You know the five year old who thinks its like a toy and shoots his friend in the face or the drunk teens messing around in the back yard. You know those people - the "accidental" deaths. I'd say those deaths were caused by guns, not people.
Guns are lethal. Much like toxic chemicals, poisons, many drugs, biological substances like virii and bacteria cultures and all the other things out there that can kill others through basic negligence and irresponsibility. There is a whole list of stuff we don't let average people own - because they can't be responsible enough to own them. They don't have the environment, equipment or training to use them safely. Guns should be on that list too.
Would you want your neighbor to have Anthrax in a fridge in the garage? He has a piece of paper saying he's allowed to. He just wants it in case he needs to use it to protect his family against bio-oppression from the government. In the meanwhile he enjoys growing new strains and trying to create treatments for them, competitively of course (it's a sport really). The fridge is on a GFCI plug so it's safe and he's got a padlock on the door.
Yeah that sounds a little insane right? Well that's what private gun ownership sounds like to me. You want sport, rent one at a club or range. You want self protection, get a taser or a dog (plenty of non-lethal options). You feel like you need a gun to protect freedom, join the military (unless you're afraid you'll be brainwashed and used to oppress your own neighbors of course).
Private citizens with guns make the world more dangerous by adding more chances for accidents and mistakes to happen. Private citizens can't be responsible. They just don't have the time or resources to properly own and maintain guns. They have messy lives filled with emotion and as their livelihood does not depend on treating guns with the respect they deserve, things happen. Things happen and people die.
That 30% loss you refer could rather be viewed as a 70% gain. We're talking about storing energy that would otherwise be lost completely (thrown away due to lack of storage).
The numbers presented can be taken as incremental energy newly available. Net gain.
Hmmm 800M euro and a working system in 2 years with no failure mode vs some 10's of Billions and a 5+ year wait with a disaster level failure mode. Both will last at least 25 years. One has very low maintenance costs while the other has extremely regulated, hence expensive maintenance costs.
Let me tally up a few figures on a napkin back here... Okay, you're right Nuclear, wait miscarried the 1. Nope, gravity wins!!!! Yes gravity is the more efficient force to harness in this scenario.
Fossil fuel infrastructure costs just as much to build as does nuclear. This will just take longer to return the investment in terms of power that is paid for. Without value applied to pollution, cost of waste products, etc we can't measure the savings from using a non-polluting system (exclusive of the pollution costs to build it). If we did the return on investment could be seen as much higher than investment in other energy generation systems.
So a consumer priced, multi-touch tabletop PC is not new enough? Maybe you're just spoiled with information now and all the niche info you can get that wouldn't even make it into trade mags 20 years ago.
Evolution looks more like revolution if you stop watching it happen. By that I mean there will never be something that just appears out of nowhere (barring Alien visitation) without a trail of preceding research, prototypes, failed early efforts and successful but niche applications. Stop reading and following electronics (like most consumers) and the new gadgets will seem amazing. Just be prepared for geek comments about how your new shiny is sooo last year when you do buy one.
So write your own software. If the market is big enough you'll be successful. If its not big enough and you still want it, go open source and start a foundation to get donations to support it.
BTW there's still LaTex, VIM, Emacs, Perl, Python and other CLI tools for all kinds of advanced text wrangling. Need formatting beyond that? OpenOffice can be scripted.
Revenue is just as much part of a budget. You shouldn't spend more than you've brought in. Current Republican plans include increasing the tax base without increasing taxes. They don't include cutting spending. They say the Democrats should do that part.
That's like a man in a single income family saying the wife needs to stop spending so much (while he can still go out to bars, buy gadgets, and play golf on the weekends).
In this analogy family it's the kids who suffer the most with poor nutrition, a dirty home and threadbare clothes.
The solution is that both sides need to offer up sacrifices. We need to cut defense spending and stop sending aid to foreign countries. We need to cut out tax subsidies for the wealthy and cut out subsidies for the environment.
What we don't need is a bunch of illiterate, sick, homeless people wandering the streets and clogging up the gears of industry.
We also don't need to force businesses to pick up the bill for all the above subsidies.
There are reasonable compromises available if our representatives will stop being so damn selfish and do their damn job.
Any TV programming that requires $30 / month for access to maybe 2 titles per month.
No, they are not available on streaming services ala carte.
I've tried Netflix. I get maybe 2 titles I care about and the rest is crap or available on cable to DVR.
Time shifting when a DVR only has a few receivers.
Watching shows you missed but have paid for access. Prior seasons of something if only you had happened upon it the year before (reruns can be hit or miss)
Just a few uses for torrenting or as I call it Tor Renting.
I buy lots of movies on iTunes btw. AppleTV is great when it has the movie.
Or it could be that people who get flu shots are still carriers and are spreading it even more and with now stronger strains (having battled with a strengthened immune system recently).
If the appstores have taught us anything it's that you can make a lot of money off impulse buy pricing. If they dropped the fee to $14 / credit (so $56 for the course) they'd make it all back and more in 1-2 years.
I'm certain their fear is that those prices would eat into regular tuition as many would do online instead of in person. They'd have to run more numbers (maybe they have) to find the best market rate. Clearly they've priced themselves out of the market completely at their current rates though.
Who cares? You've got source control (SC) right? And you write unit tests right? If so then new code will pass the tests. If you write some benchmarks on performance then you'll know that too.
Build early, build often, build against test coverage and you've got Continuous Integration (CI). If you've got CI and SC then anyone can write new code and it will either pass the tests or it will break the build. If it breaks the build use SC to pull that crap out.
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Actually they are great, they eat all the wasted food thrown into the trash. Natural habit is garbage dumps. One of the great adaptations of the world after man arrived. Probably last longer than us (with the cockroaches).
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=reveling
Too true, too true I say.
Take a note from ST and call them "Communicators" though that still is not accurate for most. PDA is the closest but that fell out of favor in the 90s.
The Brits probably do it best, "Mobile" is as amorphous as you can get.
The flying blue dude was clearly Armenian Water Bed salesman inspired, not Jewish.
I would also ask if the particles are "used up" in the process. The article doesn't say and I'm not familiar enough with the chemistry to know.
If they are not used up then you have a whole different equation. A one time high cost depreciated over some years of use could be a huge win.
"where the continuance of the system was more important than its efficiency."
Yes and much like in evolution, once continuation was achieved the serfs were more or less expendable. Lose a worker, well there's another to take its place in a few years time.
The bigger problem is life expectancy. If serfs are healthy for too long they'll grow old and become a burden. Low infant mortality would create a population problem. Too many mouths to feed.
If you maintain the hierarchy, add in good health care, adequate food production and scale up you end up with socialism ruled by a monarchy. Sound familiar?
I much prefer Patronage. The currently wealthy spend their capital magnificently on cultural status symbols, public works named after themselves and on industry and trade. It's like modern capitalism (it is capitalism) but with an emphasis on spending capital rather than hoarding it. Very trickle down but in a way that benefits everyone. As long as there is no class system preventing people from becoming a Patron through hard work or creativity it is an ideal system.
The problem is people. They get greedy or corrupt and either hoard capital, create class barriers (status hoarding) or decide to fight with other Patrons over resources, enlisting their patronage into wars of one kind or another. Usually this is done to protect their family's position at the top (especially when their children are undeserving of the position).
In an ideal system a Patron would spend all of their capital by the time they die, leaving no inheritance. If they spend it on educating their children and spreading good will for their family then their children will have every opportunity to prove themselves and become Patrons as well. All of the distributed capital will enrich society and keep the economy liquid. It will also provide opportunities for others to acquire status and wealth.
Email is a burden for >45 non-technical people. They would rather call or meet. So email being the defacto business communication tool is a barrier to them.
Except that we're not just talking about revenue from a foreign market. We're talking about the attribution of revenue generated in one market to another. Aka funneling offshore.
Company A in the US has Subsidiary B in Ireland. Company A has B do all the selling in the US and thus receives all the revenue (or better yet its IP licensing revenue). A then can break even or lose money - paying little or no taxed in the US while B sits on the profits or invests in US securities and pays Irish tax rates.
There was plenty if food, like apples from apple trees which are all cloned from one source per variety. Corn which is a highly controlled variety of maize having gone through generations of selective breeding and incredibly genetically poor in diversity. Tomatoes, again the result of decades of selective breeding.
Rather than list them out let's just assume that all commercially grown plants have been genetically altered from the 1700s to the present day.
Lets not forget that genes are often transferred from species to species by viruses and even bacteria. By 'often' I refer to the frequency over ecological time rather than daily or monthly.
GMO is just a more finely controlled version of this same process. It has no specific impact on anything.
We should of course be concerned about toxicity in any plant or food and certainly any biochemical effects such as hormone interference, carcinogenic qualities and nutritional value. These are concerns about any food regardless of its provenance.
Apple didn't introduce it. Their plan was web apps only. Developers begged them for a SDK to match the native apps capabilities.
Then it snowballed. For better or worse.
You're assuming that technology can not replace fossil fuels with a cheaper alternative. It's also entirely possible that those countries might want to use those resources for things like plastics and fertilizer instead of burning it.
Except for those times when the person holding isn't in control. You know the five year old who thinks its like a toy and shoots his friend in the face or the drunk teens messing around in the back yard. You know those people - the "accidental" deaths. I'd say those deaths were caused by guns, not people.
Guns are lethal. Much like toxic chemicals, poisons, many drugs, biological substances like virii and bacteria cultures and all the other things out there that can kill others through basic negligence and irresponsibility. There is a whole list of stuff we don't let average people own - because they can't be responsible enough to own them. They don't have the environment, equipment or training to use them safely. Guns should be on that list too.
Would you want your neighbor to have Anthrax in a fridge in the garage? He has a piece of paper saying he's allowed to. He just wants it in case he needs to use it to protect his family against bio-oppression from the government. In the meanwhile he enjoys growing new strains and trying to create treatments for them, competitively of course (it's a sport really). The fridge is on a GFCI plug so it's safe and he's got a padlock on the door.
Yeah that sounds a little insane right? Well that's what private gun ownership sounds like to me. You want sport, rent one at a club or range. You want self protection, get a taser or a dog (plenty of non-lethal options). You feel like you need a gun to protect freedom, join the military (unless you're afraid you'll be brainwashed and used to oppress your own neighbors of course).
Private citizens with guns make the world more dangerous by adding more chances for accidents and mistakes to happen. Private citizens can't be responsible. They just don't have the time or resources to properly own and maintain guns. They have messy lives filled with emotion and as their livelihood does not depend on treating guns with the respect they deserve, things happen. Things happen and people die.
That 30% loss you refer could rather be viewed as a 70% gain. We're talking about storing energy that would otherwise be lost completely (thrown away due to lack of storage).
The numbers presented can be taken as incremental energy newly available. Net gain.
Run your figures again.
Hmmm 800M euro and a working system in 2 years with no failure mode vs some 10's of Billions and a 5+ year wait with a disaster level failure mode. Both will last at least 25 years. One has very low maintenance costs while the other has extremely regulated, hence expensive maintenance costs.
Let me tally up a few figures on a napkin back here... Okay, you're right Nuclear, wait miscarried the 1. Nope, gravity wins!!!! Yes gravity is the more efficient force to harness in this scenario.
Fossil fuel infrastructure costs just as much to build as does nuclear. This will just take longer to return the investment in terms of power that is paid for. Without value applied to pollution, cost of waste products, etc we can't measure the savings from using a non-polluting system (exclusive of the pollution costs to build it). If we did the return on investment could be seen as much higher than investment in other energy generation systems.
So a consumer priced, multi-touch tabletop PC is not new enough? Maybe you're just spoiled with information now and all the niche info you can get that wouldn't even make it into trade mags 20 years ago.
Evolution looks more like revolution if you stop watching it happen. By that I mean there will never be something that just appears out of nowhere (barring Alien visitation) without a trail of preceding research, prototypes, failed early efforts and successful but niche applications. Stop reading and following electronics (like most consumers) and the new gadgets will seem amazing. Just be prepared for geek comments about how your new shiny is sooo last year when you do buy one.
So write your own software. If the market is big enough you'll be successful. If its not big enough and you still want it, go open source and start a foundation to get donations to support it.
BTW there's still LaTex, VIM, Emacs, Perl, Python and other CLI tools for all kinds of advanced text wrangling. Need formatting beyond that? OpenOffice can be scripted.
All the devs I know switched from php years ago. Ruby and Node are the languages of choice to write web apps.
Revenue is just as much part of a budget. You shouldn't spend more than you've brought in. Current Republican plans include increasing the tax base without increasing taxes. They don't include cutting spending. They say the Democrats should do that part.
That's like a man in a single income family saying the wife needs to stop spending so much (while he can still go out to bars, buy gadgets, and play golf on the weekends).
In this analogy family it's the kids who suffer the most with poor nutrition, a dirty home and threadbare clothes.
The solution is that both sides need to offer up sacrifices. We need to cut defense spending and stop sending aid to foreign countries. We need to cut out tax subsidies for the wealthy and cut out subsidies for the environment.
What we don't need is a bunch of illiterate, sick, homeless people wandering the streets and clogging up the gears of industry.
We also don't need to force businesses to pick up the bill for all the above subsidies.
There are reasonable compromises available if our representatives will stop being so damn selfish and do their damn job.
Han Solo was a pirate, er... at least a smuggler. Same thing in the eyes of the copyright police.
Game of Thrones, Weeds, Dexter, etc
Any TV programming that requires $30 / month for access to maybe 2 titles per month.
No, they are not available on streaming services ala carte.
I've tried Netflix. I get maybe 2 titles I care about and the rest is crap or available on cable to DVR.
Time shifting when a DVR only has a few receivers.
Watching shows you missed but have paid for access. Prior seasons of something if only you had happened upon it the year before (reruns can be hit or miss)
Just a few uses for torrenting or as I call it Tor Renting.
I buy lots of movies on iTunes btw. AppleTV is great when it has the movie.
A VAT tax is better. FAIR tax is too easy to avoid by paying in cash. It's an accounting nightmare compared to VAT.
Or it could be that people who get flu shots are still carriers and are spreading it even more and with now stronger strains (having battled with a strengthened immune system recently).
If the appstores have taught us anything it's that you can make a lot of money off impulse buy pricing. If they dropped the fee to $14 / credit (so $56 for the course) they'd make it all back and more in 1-2 years.
I'm certain their fear is that those prices would eat into regular tuition as many would do online instead of in person. They'd have to run more numbers (maybe they have) to find the best market rate. Clearly they've priced themselves out of the market completely at their current rates though.
Who cares? You've got source control (SC) right? And you write unit tests right? If so then new code will pass the tests. If you write some benchmarks on performance then you'll know that too.
Build early, build often, build against test coverage and you've got Continuous Integration (CI). If you've got CI and SC then anyone can write new code and it will either pass the tests or it will break the build. If it breaks the build use SC to pull that crap out.
Done and done.