You're failing to mention that the workers have a fundamental responsibility in all of this.
If a worker is going to be replaced with a machine, freeing him up to embark on more valuable productive pursuits, he has to make himself CAPABLE of such pursuits. That is HIS responsibility - it is not the responsibility of the wealthy to simply GIVE him additional wealth when he has made himself obsolete by failing to learn new skills or trades.
Otherwise, your post is spot-on. We should ALL be using automation to free ourselves up from low-value tasks in order to pursue higher value productivity. Instead, workers choose to organize these huge bitching and moaning organizations to complain about being replaced, rather than actually pursuing those more valuable endeavors. That failing is theirs, and they own it. If the result is that they become poor and dependent upon government, that is their own problem.
So there are a lot of factors that influence the production cost of a power supply. Some of the newer quasi-resonant and PFC-Forward designs are very good at eliminating switching losses, and are relatively cheap until you get to the switch and transformer, which are the critical loss pieces in a given switching supply design. It is justified that a 90% efficient supply costs more than an 80% efficient supply, because the component and design costs both go up.
But, whether or not you choose one can be influenced by many factors that don't necessarily have anything to do with efficiency.
First, a high-efficiency supply is going to throw off less waste heat. Lower temperatures mean components, especially liquid electrolyte capacitors, last longer.
Second, reliability. The #1 cause of power supply failure is the fan. A high-E supply can get away without a fan up to maybe 500W in a standard ATX form factor. So, your lower-power HTPC or workstation can benefit from being less noisy, and never having to worry about a fan failing and causing catastrophic failure.
Third, finally, overall power draw. If you're running a server 24/7 the power savings add up over time. If power is expensive, and your machine with its cheap-ass 60% efficient supply is drawing 500W from the wall, increasing your P/S efficiency to 90% will reduce your power consumption to 333W, saving 120kWh/month, which for me is about $15/month. That pays for the higher efficiency inside of a year.
I think will make sense to buy the 80-Plus Gold supply for $150 if you have a high-draw machine with a cheap-ass 60% efficient gray-box supply - every time.
Because if the people believe they can stop an insurgency themselves, they would realize they didn't need a big nanny government to take care of them from cradle to grave, and the government would lose power.
The government can't lose power, so they criminalize self-directed law enforcement and taking it upon one's self to defend their own nation from insurgency.
>> So a new agency will have a single centralized database with details of all US citizens...
Yeah, kinda like the Social Security Administration, Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, and all of the other agencies that have your personal information as a matter of course.
You seem to forget that this whole "freedom" thing also includes forbidding the government controlling what you eat, where you sleep, what you do for a living, and where you take a shit, even if it means giving you enough rope to hang yourself with.
I like Delorme's atlases for paper road maps. They also have topo info on them, but the USGS topo maps are a MUST since they are better at plotting sources of water (road maps may not show as many).
I have a subscription to aviation sectionals for my area, but you can order them online from a multitude of pilot supply shops. The aviation sectionals are handy because they show the location of radio towers, which are lit at night, and can be used for orienteering. They also show magnetic variation and the location of other large (and man-made) landmarks that could be visible from the ground as well as the sky. Topos do not show man-made landmarks.
The end goal is the same. They've just finally figured out what the socialists and Marxists have known for a century - that incrementalism is far more effective than "shock and awe" at achieving the end goal, even though it takes a lot longer.
The climate is going to change with or without our help. In the end, it doesn't matter if AGW is real. The climate is going to change, and we had better expend our energies adapting rather than resisting, since, you know, resistance is futile.
I can't fucking believe it. Do you mean to tell me that if you have a receiver tuned to a certain frequency, and you have a transmitter on that same frequency, then you can transmit information from the transmitter to the receiver?
Top it off though! If you have not one but two - TWO transmitters, and one is vastly more powerful than the other, then you can get the receiver to receive the stronger one over the weaker one?
Completely fucking amazing, if you ask me. I had no idea you could do something like that. It's almost like, when I'm at a party, I can hear the people who are talking louder better than I can hear the people who are being quiet, and stand a better chance of recovering the information they are conveying.
You raise a good point that Linux developers are a finite resource, but you have to also consider that some users actually do like unity, and some users, especially the shopping type, might find Amazon ads convenient. These users certainly aren't going to fit within the set of what you might describe as a typical Linux user, but the whole point of Canonical's effort is to make Linux more acceptable on the main stream.
It is only ideologically inferior if your standard of excellence is what you consider to be "purity." I think there is room for Linux to grow more "mainstream" by incorporating "non-pure" features, because let's face it, what a LOT of people consider "pure," a more mainstream person considers "elitist" or even the much loathed image of the "45 years old, single, living in mom's basement on cheetos and red bull" computer dork.
Perhaps incorporating amazon ads was a misstep, but perhaps not. What has become clear in the last couple of generations is that privacy is only an issue to a comparatively small minority of people. Certainly today's youth, who constantly blather on about what they had for breakfast on facebook, don't give two shits if Amazon.com knows what they do on their computer.
The youth of today are the spenders of tomorrow, so if you want to know where the computer industry is going, you need look no further. Personally, I think it's fucking scary, because today's youth are a bunch of self-absorbed, entitled automatons who couldn't think their way out of a paper sack.
... includes a purpose-built GPS with built-in maps that does NOT require a data connection - but I don't like to use it.
Part of the fun of wilderness travel is navigation by maps, compass, and the stars. When I take the 4x4 into remote, unfamiliar territory, I have a few compasses, and a complete set of maps (road, topographical, and aviation sectional) on PAPER. I also bring several means of traditional wireless communications for HF, VHF, and UHF, and an ELT.
Most of these tourists that go to Australia with delusions of adventure after watching the Crocodile Dundee movies, don't have the first clue how to properly plan for one of these trips. They think they can just get in a 4x4 and drive, with no driver skill training, no survival supplies, and no communications aside from their cell phones. It's pretty scary when you think about it, but they're "invincible."
If you don't like Unity, you can turn it off trivially.
If you don't like the Amazon.com ads, you can turn them off trivially.
If you don't like something Canonical did with Ubuntu, you can either change it, or you can use another distro. It's not like there's a shortage of debian distros out there for you to use.
Or, you can do what Canonical did, and continues to pour millions into without asking a dime from you, and roll your own distribution, pour thousands of man-hours/year into it, and give it away for free.
I don't get the fire-breathing vitriol directed at Canonical for doing what they do. If you don't like it, you don't have to use their distro.
The AMT patch expired in 2011, and if the AMT is not fixed by December 31st, 28 million households will have to pay an average of $3700 in additional taxes for tax year 2012 - due in April.
And they're taking valuable time to tell the UN to fuck off... when they should be dealing with the mess they created.
I think what the submitter was getting as was that we are carrying a higher load of negative traits because natural selection is failing to eliminate them.
For example, one reason cancer is becoming more and more prevalent is because people who would normally die from it before they can reproduce, are instead being kept alive through technology to reproduce and transmit their higher susceptibility to cancer to the next generation.
(please not that I said "one reason," not "the only reason," because I know some environmental hot head is going to flame me for saying this)
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You're failing to mention that the workers have a fundamental responsibility in all of this.
If a worker is going to be replaced with a machine, freeing him up to embark on more valuable productive pursuits, he has to make himself CAPABLE of such pursuits. That is HIS responsibility - it is not the responsibility of the wealthy to simply GIVE him additional wealth when he has made himself obsolete by failing to learn new skills or trades.
Otherwise, your post is spot-on. We should ALL be using automation to free ourselves up from low-value tasks in order to pursue higher value productivity. Instead, workers choose to organize these huge bitching and moaning organizations to complain about being replaced, rather than actually pursuing those more valuable endeavors. That failing is theirs, and they own it. If the result is that they become poor and dependent upon government, that is their own problem.
So there are a lot of factors that influence the production cost of a power supply. Some of the newer quasi-resonant and PFC-Forward designs are very good at eliminating switching losses, and are relatively cheap until you get to the switch and transformer, which are the critical loss pieces in a given switching supply design. It is justified that a 90% efficient supply costs more than an 80% efficient supply, because the component and design costs both go up.
But, whether or not you choose one can be influenced by many factors that don't necessarily have anything to do with efficiency.
First, a high-efficiency supply is going to throw off less waste heat. Lower temperatures mean components, especially liquid electrolyte capacitors, last longer.
Second, reliability. The #1 cause of power supply failure is the fan. A high-E supply can get away without a fan up to maybe 500W in a standard ATX form factor. So, your lower-power HTPC or workstation can benefit from being less noisy, and never having to worry about a fan failing and causing catastrophic failure.
Third, finally, overall power draw. If you're running a server 24/7 the power savings add up over time. If power is expensive, and your machine with its cheap-ass 60% efficient supply is drawing 500W from the wall, increasing your P/S efficiency to 90% will reduce your power consumption to 333W, saving 120kWh/month, which for me is about $15/month. That pays for the higher efficiency inside of a year.
I think will make sense to buy the 80-Plus Gold supply for $150 if you have a high-draw machine with a cheap-ass 60% efficient gray-box supply - every time.
Because if the people believe they can stop an insurgency themselves, they would realize they didn't need a big nanny government to take care of them from cradle to grave, and the government would lose power.
The government can't lose power, so they criminalize self-directed law enforcement and taking it upon one's self to defend their own nation from insurgency.
>> So a new agency will have a single centralized database with details of all US citizens...
Yeah, kinda like the Social Security Administration, Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, and all of the other agencies that have your personal information as a matter of course.
You seem to forget that this whole "freedom" thing also includes forbidding the government controlling what you eat, where you sleep, what you do for a living, and where you take a shit, even if it means giving you enough rope to hang yourself with.
... but what's on TV tonight, and can I still have my iToy?
It's a common misconception to think that the Right to Free Speech is equal to a Right to be Heard. But, nothing could be further from the truth.
... Humans ARE animals, you idiotic dipshits.
Every day, about 310,000,000 Americans do not get cancer of any kind.
The Sun also rises every day.
Therefore, we can conclude with 95% confidence that Sunrise prevents cancer.
I like Delorme's atlases for paper road maps. They also have topo info on them, but the USGS topo maps are a MUST since they are better at plotting sources of water (road maps may not show as many).
I have a subscription to aviation sectionals for my area, but you can order them online from a multitude of pilot supply shops. The aviation sectionals are handy because they show the location of radio towers, which are lit at night, and can be used for orienteering. They also show magnetic variation and the location of other large (and man-made) landmarks that could be visible from the ground as well as the sky. Topos do not show man-made landmarks.
The end goal is the same. They've just finally figured out what the socialists and Marxists have known for a century - that incrementalism is far more effective than "shock and awe" at achieving the end goal, even though it takes a lot longer.
The climate is going to change with or without our help. In the end, it doesn't matter if AGW is real. The climate is going to change, and we had better expend our energies adapting rather than resisting, since, you know, resistance is futile.
I can't fucking believe it. Do you mean to tell me that if you have a receiver tuned to a certain frequency, and you have a transmitter on that same frequency, then you can transmit information from the transmitter to the receiver?
Top it off though! If you have not one but two - TWO transmitters, and one is vastly more powerful than the other, then you can get the receiver to receive the stronger one over the weaker one?
Completely fucking amazing, if you ask me. I had no idea you could do something like that. It's almost like, when I'm at a party, I can hear the people who are talking louder better than I can hear the people who are being quiet, and stand a better chance of recovering the information they are conveying.
Wow. Whowouldathunkit?
Finally, a somewhat intelligent comment.
You raise a good point that Linux developers are a finite resource, but you have to also consider that some users actually do like unity, and some users, especially the shopping type, might find Amazon ads convenient. These users certainly aren't going to fit within the set of what you might describe as a typical Linux user, but the whole point of Canonical's effort is to make Linux more acceptable on the main stream.
It is only ideologically inferior if your standard of excellence is what you consider to be "purity." I think there is room for Linux to grow more "mainstream" by incorporating "non-pure" features, because let's face it, what a LOT of people consider "pure," a more mainstream person considers "elitist" or even the much loathed image of the "45 years old, single, living in mom's basement on cheetos and red bull" computer dork.
Perhaps incorporating amazon ads was a misstep, but perhaps not. What has become clear in the last couple of generations is that privacy is only an issue to a comparatively small minority of people. Certainly today's youth, who constantly blather on about what they had for breakfast on facebook, don't give two shits if Amazon.com knows what they do on their computer.
The youth of today are the spenders of tomorrow, so if you want to know where the computer industry is going, you need look no further. Personally, I think it's fucking scary, because today's youth are a bunch of self-absorbed, entitled automatons who couldn't think their way out of a paper sack.
Duh. Didn't I say exactly that in the very same post you quoted?
Or, were you so eager to be snarky that you didn't bother to read the rest of it before replying?
... includes a purpose-built GPS with built-in maps that does NOT require a data connection - but I don't like to use it.
Part of the fun of wilderness travel is navigation by maps, compass, and the stars. When I take the 4x4 into remote, unfamiliar territory, I have a few compasses, and a complete set of maps (road, topographical, and aviation sectional) on PAPER. I also bring several means of traditional wireless communications for HF, VHF, and UHF, and an ELT.
Most of these tourists that go to Australia with delusions of adventure after watching the Crocodile Dundee movies, don't have the first clue how to properly plan for one of these trips. They think they can just get in a 4x4 and drive, with no driver skill training, no survival supplies, and no communications aside from their cell phones. It's pretty scary when you think about it, but they're "invincible."
If you don't like Unity, you can turn it off trivially.
If you don't like the Amazon.com ads, you can turn them off trivially.
If you don't like something Canonical did with Ubuntu, you can either change it, or you can use another distro. It's not like there's a shortage of debian distros out there for you to use.
Or, you can do what Canonical did, and continues to pour millions into without asking a dime from you, and roll your own distribution, pour thousands of man-hours/year into it, and give it away for free.
I don't get the fire-breathing vitriol directed at Canonical for doing what they do. If you don't like it, you don't have to use their distro.
Can you please go after some REAL criminals for a change?
Thank you.
How about "scientists" stick to what they're supposed to do, which is hypothesize, test, analyze, and conclude?
I don't see speculation anywhere in the scientific method.
The AMT patch expired in 2011, and if the AMT is not fixed by December 31st, 28 million households will have to pay an average of $3700 in additional taxes for tax year 2012 - due in April.
And they're taking valuable time to tell the UN to fuck off... when they should be dealing with the mess they created.
... do we keep electing these IDIOTS?
Nah, I'm half Jewish.
How fucked up does someone have to be to live by an irrational insistence that everyone be EXACTLY THE SAME?
Sorry, 10 STUFF : GOTO 10 is the use of a loop.
I think what the submitter was getting as was that we are carrying a higher load of negative traits because natural selection is failing to eliminate them.
For example, one reason cancer is becoming more and more prevalent is because people who would normally die from it before they can reproduce, are instead being kept alive through technology to reproduce and transmit their higher susceptibility to cancer to the next generation.
(please not that I said "one reason," not "the only reason," because I know some environmental hot head is going to flame me for saying this)
... I'd like a rainbow colored unicorn that shits cheeseburgers.