Perhaps using a higher revision number before a newer time stamp would be the way to solve this stupidity.
So, Rev 51.2.3.1 of the MS Driver, dated July 20, 1969, should have a higher priority than Rev 34.5 of an nVidea driver? Really?
Revision number having priority would work if everyone who made drivers for that device used the same sequence of revision numbers. With two or more groups each using their own sequence of revision numbers, not so well.
New Orleans gets about 2650 hours of sunlight per year, so 20 years is 53K hours of sunlight. 3KW for 53K hours is about 160MW-hr over 20 years. 240MW-hr over 30 years.
So, $5K of solar will give you about 2/9 the energy that the same amount of coal will give you over 20 years, or 1/3 of the coal over 30 years.
And that's best case (right now), since the 5K cost for the solar is a minimum, not an average. And hurricanes (yes, you can ignore the hurricanes if you're somewhere inland, but then you probably won't have the 2650 hours of sunlight per year - Washington DC, for example, averages 2K hours, so they'd get ~75% of the return on the solar.)
If we focus on the customers (give them the best prices) and the employees (give them really high pay and the best working conditions), where are we going to find any money for the shareholders? You DO know that shareholder dividends are paid out of those EEEEVIL profits, right?
Well, on a historical scale, if you consider Hitler, Stalin, the Conquistadores and other genocides in Africa and America, I think it's a safe bet that white Europeans have murdered the most people across the world.
Actually, if you look at the whole world, you find the Chinese on top for mass slaughters. The Cultural Revolution may have been the largest mass death of humans since the Black Plague....
Carriers and subs are already nuclear powered but so should every "mini-carrier", those helicopter landing ships, amphibious attack ships, and other ships that carry helicopters, amphibious landing craft, and command and control ships of similar size and design.
It should be noted that the USN built a couple of nuclear powered cruisers back in the day. What we call a destroyer today is as big as a cruiser was when those nuke cruisers were afloat.
It should also be noted that the anti-nuke hysteria in the USA and much of the rest of the world has a lot to do with us not building more nuclear powered ships, static nuclear power plants, etc.
It should also be noted that I generally agree that if AGW were a serious problem, part of addressing it quickly would be to standardize a nuclear power plant design, and replace every base-load plant in North America (and, eventually, the world) with a nuke plant. Then solar/wind/tide could handle peak, and we'd be golden within 20 years....
And your point is? If I can load ten tons of cigs on a ship, land it pretty much anywhere along thousands of km of coastline, and sell the cargo for more than the ship cost, I'll make out like a, if you'll pardon the expression, bandit doing so....
Combined with that, the recent case against "Swefilmer" shows that they made euro 1 400 000 from advertisement, so they goverment feels that slapping a fine on an operation such as swefilmer is not sufficient.
Prolly not, as is. On the other hand, if the fine were Euro 2 000 000.....
What "new" gravitational strength are you talking about? If Ceres were to collide with Luna, Luna's gravity would hardly be changed. Hell, if the entire Asteroid Belt were to collide with Luna, you might see a 5% increase in Lunar gravity. Maybe....
A quick check of the concept notes that there is no legal precedent for precisely defining a "true threat" and/or separating same from hyperbole. Given that a "true threat" is so vague, perhaps the FBI decided that the relevant comments were just someone being rude as hell in public (which isn't a crime).
Apalling: I challenge anyone who thinks that can endure that sort of abuse and remain unaffected by it.
I could. The first step I'd do, which come to think of I already did, is not read it. It's amazing how easy it is to remain unaffected by even the most puerile stuff, if you don't bother to read it.
Was thinking the same thing. Only reason I even know of this is the articles on/. And if it had been aimed at me, it's likely that the first I'd have heard about it is reading about it on/.
Which would have tickled my fancy no end (that many people so excited about my thoughts that they were threatening me (from far away) would have been funny), till it got boring and it got tossed into the bit bucket along with all the other "oh no, not again" articles on/.
For example, the person who posted a death threat along with her home address has never been brought to justice.
I find myself curious. Exactly what crime was committed by the person of which you speak? Was it a Federal crime, or a State crime, and if the latter, which State?
Pretty sure that particular bit of "Christian heritage" is really "Calvinist heritage". They were the subset of Christianity that really went overboard with the "if it's fun, it must be evil" thing....
Well, you have Obama to thank for that. "I've got a pen and a phone" was how he phrased that whole "fuck Congress, I can do what I want" thing. Precedent is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Ultimately, I have no real problem with the notion of making broadband available to everyone. But this (probably) isn't the way to do it.
Note that I use the word "probably".
A counterpoint: Rural Electrification Act. FDR's version of the broadband divide. My grandparents wouldn't have had electricity without it.
In other words, this sort of thing has been something that the Feds have been doing for about 80 years now. get over it.
Doctors and insurance weren't so driven to greed you could afford to go to a doctor without insurance.
I've never actually met a doctor who was driven by greed. Though a lot of them have been driven by desire to pay off the HUGE loans they had to take to pay for medical school....
Full time work at Federal minimum wage ($9/hour) is about $1700/month.
Umm, no. Full time at $9/hr is about $1550 per month.
And Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25/hr. At that rate, full time would be about $1250 per month.
You seem to have misread (or only partially read) the first thing that appears when you google for "US federal minimum wage" which is an excerpt from an article about a state raising its minimum wage to $9/hr....
Of course, if he uses the usual government basis for such claims (people who are of working age & health), he might be right.
Mind you, I think he's full of crap. But I also know that the government's usual unemployment figures are a steaming pile. Just because you've given up on finding a job for now (for values of "you" and "now") doesn't mean you should be removed from the "unemployed" list, as is done by the US Government statistical guys....
SSBNs stay submerged for 6 months at a time. I don't think the difference between 6 and 8 is enough to matter.
Umm, no. I served on USS Kamehameha. SSBN 642. Two months and change out, switch crews, repeat forever.
Many subs have had smaller crews, and nearly all of your interactions are with a few people at your work station.
While virtually all subs had smaller crews than modern SSBN's, they seldom had crews fewer than 30 or so. Notable exceptions being an assortment of "minisubs" used at various points in WW2, all of which spent a couple days underway at a time.
And it might surprise you to know that you seldom socialize all that much with they guys at your workstation. When you're working, you're too busy for much in the way of social interactions. You interact socially with the guys on the messdeck during meals and movies (when you can stay awake to watch a movie).
Note that one of the biggest problems with a trip to Mars is likely to be boredom. Six of you in a freefall can. No course changes, no repairs, not much in the way of science to do till arrival.
Mind you, a lot of that can be fixed by sending a bigger expedition - 60 guys plus instrumentation and such for doing some decent science while underway, that sort of thing....
But there is another huge psychological consideration that makes a sub much more like a space flight: You can't quit.
Now this I can't argue with. A good point. Note that this makes the test even more (potentially) useful. If the guys in the dome can't handle it in Easy Mode, sure as shooting it won't work for a Real Mars mission....
I am also impressed at far some Americans are willing to go to do pointless redundant research instead of just looking at how sailors deal with life on a submarine.
We only spent a couple months at a time making holes in the ocean. Plus we had a lot more possible social interactions (100+ in a boat, as opposed to six in the dome).
So, worth the trouble of doing. Not like it's going to cost trillions (or even billions, or even large numbers of millions) to do....
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So, Rev 51.2.3.1 of the MS Driver, dated July 20, 1969, should have a higher priority than Rev 34.5 of an nVidea driver? Really?
Revision number having priority would work if everyone who made drivers for that device used the same sequence of revision numbers. With two or more groups each using their own sequence of revision numbers, not so well.
By and large.
Okay, let's.
A 3KW solar system will run in the $5K+ range
$5K of coal is in the timezone of 725MW-hr.
New Orleans gets about 2650 hours of sunlight per year, so 20 years is 53K hours of sunlight. 3KW for 53K hours is about 160MW-hr over 20 years. 240MW-hr over 30 years.
So, $5K of solar will give you about 2/9 the energy that the same amount of coal will give you over 20 years, or 1/3 of the coal over 30 years.
And that's best case (right now), since the 5K cost for the solar is a minimum, not an average. And hurricanes (yes, you can ignore the hurricanes if you're somewhere inland, but then you probably won't have the 2650 hours of sunlight per year - Washington DC, for example, averages 2K hours, so they'd get ~75% of the return on the solar.)
If we focus on the customers (give them the best prices) and the employees (give them really high pay and the best working conditions), where are we going to find any money for the shareholders? You DO know that shareholder dividends are paid out of those EEEEVIL profits, right?
This can be read as "businesses should focus on their employees and their customers, not their owners".
Now, explain why, exactly, someone should buy part of a business if they're not going to get some benefit from doing so....
So, are "the most studied of these substances" the ones they're finding in fast-food wrappers? Or is this just a bit of scare-mongering?
Actually, if you look at the whole world, you find the Chinese on top for mass slaughters. The Cultural Revolution may have been the largest mass death of humans since the Black Plague....
It should be noted that the USN built a couple of nuclear powered cruisers back in the day. What we call a destroyer today is as big as a cruiser was when those nuke cruisers were afloat.
It should also be noted that the anti-nuke hysteria in the USA and much of the rest of the world has a lot to do with us not building more nuclear powered ships, static nuclear power plants, etc.
It should also be noted that I generally agree that if AGW were a serious problem, part of addressing it quickly would be to standardize a nuclear power plant design, and replace every base-load plant in North America (and, eventually, the world) with a nuke plant. Then solar/wind/tide could handle peak, and we'd be golden within 20 years....
And your point is? If I can load ten tons of cigs on a ship, land it pretty much anywhere along thousands of km of coastline, and sell the cargo for more than the ship cost, I'll make out like a, if you'll pardon the expression, bandit doing so....
Prolly not, as is. On the other hand, if the fine were Euro 2 000 000.....
What "new" gravitational strength are you talking about? If Ceres were to collide with Luna, Luna's gravity would hardly be changed. Hell, if the entire Asteroid Belt were to collide with Luna, you might see a 5% increase in Lunar gravity. Maybe....
And you know it was a "true threat" how?
A quick check of the concept notes that there is no legal precedent for precisely defining a "true threat" and/or separating same from hyperbole. Given that a "true threat" is so vague, perhaps the FBI decided that the relevant comments were just someone being rude as hell in public (which isn't a crime).
Was thinking the same thing. Only reason I even know of this is the articles on /. And if it had been aimed at me, it's likely that the first I'd have heard about it is reading about it on /.
Which would have tickled my fancy no end (that many people so excited about my thoughts that they were threatening me (from far away) would have been funny), till it got boring and it got tossed into the bit bucket along with all the other "oh no, not again" articles on /.
I find myself curious. Exactly what crime was committed by the person of which you speak? Was it a Federal crime, or a State crime, and if the latter, which State?
If you'd prefer, we can use SI, in which case the value would be (approximately) 0.000000000000000001445 per second
Pretty sure that particular bit of "Christian heritage" is really "Calvinist heritage". They were the subset of Christianity that really went overboard with the "if it's fun, it must be evil" thing....
Well, you have Obama to thank for that. "I've got a pen and a phone" was how he phrased that whole "fuck Congress, I can do what I want" thing. Precedent is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Ultimately, I have no real problem with the notion of making broadband available to everyone. But this (probably) isn't the way to do it.
Note that I use the word "probably".
A counterpoint: Rural Electrification Act. FDR's version of the broadband divide. My grandparents wouldn't have had electricity without it.
In other words, this sort of thing has been something that the Feds have been doing for about 80 years now. get over it.
"Rein in". The euphemism is about horses, not kings.
I've never actually met a doctor who was driven by greed. Though a lot of them have been driven by desire to pay off the HUGE loans they had to take to pay for medical school....
Umm, no. Full time at $9/hr is about $1550 per month.
And Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25/hr. At that rate, full time would be about $1250 per month.
You seem to have misread (or only partially read) the first thing that appears when you google for "US federal minimum wage" which is an excerpt from an article about a state raising its minimum wage to $9/hr....
Try "shrank" instead. Or "has shrunk".
Semi-literate commenters is one thing, when the editors are semi-literate, its getting out of hand.
Of course, if he uses the usual government basis for such claims (people who are of working age & health), he might be right.
Mind you, I think he's full of crap. But I also know that the government's usual unemployment figures are a steaming pile. Just because you've given up on finding a job for now (for values of "you" and "now") doesn't mean you should be removed from the "unemployed" list, as is done by the US Government statistical guys....
Pretty much.
Plus the lack of thing that had evolved to kill humans in Australia. No tse-tse flies, for instance....
Umm, no. I served on USS Kamehameha. SSBN 642. Two months and change out, switch crews, repeat forever.
While virtually all subs had smaller crews than modern SSBN's, they seldom had crews fewer than 30 or so. Notable exceptions being an assortment of "minisubs" used at various points in WW2, all of which spent a couple days underway at a time.
And it might surprise you to know that you seldom socialize all that much with they guys at your workstation. When you're working, you're too busy for much in the way of social interactions. You interact socially with the guys on the messdeck during meals and movies (when you can stay awake to watch a movie).
Note that one of the biggest problems with a trip to Mars is likely to be boredom. Six of you in a freefall can. No course changes, no repairs, not much in the way of science to do till arrival.
Mind you, a lot of that can be fixed by sending a bigger expedition - 60 guys plus instrumentation and such for doing some decent science while underway, that sort of thing....
Now this I can't argue with. A good point. Note that this makes the test even more (potentially) useful. If the guys in the dome can't handle it in Easy Mode, sure as shooting it won't work for a Real Mars mission....
We only spent a couple months at a time making holes in the ocean. Plus we had a lot more possible social interactions (100+ in a boat, as opposed to six in the dome).
So, worth the trouble of doing. Not like it's going to cost trillions (or even billions, or even large numbers of millions) to do....