"and the visual impact/area required for large scale farms"
Odd. In most of the world outside the US, wind farms are considered visually attractive. The ones in southern Alberta, Canada are an advertised tourist attraction. I've got plenty of pictures of the ones Spain built near some of it's nicest beaches.
As for land, wind turbines can be built at sea and on existing farm land. They effectively don't take up any space at all.
Yes. Iceland is a country without water heaters. I was there in August... it's pretty cool. Every tiny village also has a really nice swimming pool because the things are dirt cheap when you get hot water for free.
Silicon is the most common element in the crust of the Earth. There's a LOT of it. That's like saying solar power is non-renewable because the sun will eventually burn out.
Not even close. Not for rehydration. And distilled water, with no minerals, is quite sufficient for maintenance of hydration when you're getting your electrolytes from food. The minerals in "mineral water" are basically pointless.
Meh, it's more than made up for by the recent story that the US congress declared pizza a vegetable in a bill designed to make school kids' lunches healthier.
Sorry, dehydration, as applies to your body, requires that water go to the right places and stay there. JUST drinking water will not necessarily do that. You need other electrolytes, primarily salt, as well.
The EU was right. Keep medical claims off products that are not specifically intended for treatment.
I tried installing SAS a few times. The licensed version from the university wouldn't install - the double click installer crashed every time, at the END of the long install. The non licensed version from tpb installed, but then I was left with SAS and it's hard to interface with self (SAS server never did work). R installs no problem, every time, and just works.
SPSS and SAS aren't exactly point and click either. If you want to do serious stats, you're going to have to type. R actually has a fairly straightforward syntax, and is designed to be used interactively. Thre are also lots of good beginner tutorials.
If the poster needs some data management help as well, there's rpy, which lets you use R from Python - all the power of a real programming language, including database access, linked to R.
Massive potential for anything not Windows. Windows had 90% marketshare in the past, and it's still going down. Ditto browsers. I don't know how the Xbox is doing, but doesn't it still lose money anyway? MS is even slipping in Office marketshare, but again, it's not as if they have anywhere to go but down.
Unfortunately they've shown that they're completely unable to open new markets, and they're slipping in their old ones.
A company with no growth paying 3% dividends and consistently losing pieces of their core markets year after year? This is a good place to sink cash for the long run?
Google and Apple don't pay dividends because they use the cash for supporting new products - R&D, buying up production, acquisitions, etc. That drives the growth. If they stop growing they'll start issuing dividends (otherwise the shareholders will make them).
That's what we call a log scale, and it's the appropriate way to represent things like this. To an investor, the stock going from $5 to $10 is the same as it going from $100 to $200. A log scale shows that as the same increment. A linear scale doesn't.
Sure, give Ballmer some kudos for keeping the stock price from dropping TOO much after 2000 (it did drop). Are you using the bubble popping excuse for the whole ten years since then?
True, but Microsoft doesn't look good from the growth, dividends OR future potential side. It's had no growth, is paying around 3% dividends which is something like zero adjusted for inflation, and is losing marketshare in pretty much everything the company does.
They might. The shareholders who attend shareholder meetings in person usually hold a LOT of stock. Unhappiness is the step before selling. If they sell, MS finds itself in serious doo doo. You tend not to make big decisions like that without expressing your displeasure and giving the company a chance to convince you not to sell.
Netbooks are small, like sub-notebooks, and cheap, unlike sub-notebooks. That also means they're usually underpowered. Small and cheap are the defining characteristics. They are very distinct from notebooks.
You are obviously not the average user. Go out in the world and look at how people interact with computers sometime. The average web page works just fine with a touch interface (what is "designed for a touch interface" anyway? How do you design text and links for touch?). There's not a lot of typing. For things like Facebook, the little amount of typing that gets done is quite adequately served by a virtual keyboard. On a smartphone even. All my Facebook-using relatives (mostly the younger cousins) use it almost exclusively from their smart phones.
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It's all recyclable. And rare earth elements aren't particularly rare anyway.
"and the visual impact/area required for large scale farms"
Odd. In most of the world outside the US, wind farms are considered visually attractive. The ones in southern Alberta, Canada are an advertised tourist attraction. I've got plenty of pictures of the ones Spain built near some of it's nicest beaches.
As for land, wind turbines can be built at sea and on existing farm land. They effectively don't take up any space at all.
Also, the hot water doesn't just heat nearby homes. It's piped around the country like we pipe oil around.
Yes. Iceland is a country without water heaters. I was there in August... it's pretty cool. Every tiny village also has a really nice swimming pool because the things are dirt cheap when you get hot water for free.
Silicon is the most common element in the crust of the Earth. There's a LOT of it. That's like saying solar power is non-renewable because the sun will eventually burn out.
Plus we can recycle it.
Not even close. Not for rehydration. And distilled water, with no minerals, is quite sufficient for maintenance of hydration when you're getting your electrolytes from food. The minerals in "mineral water" are basically pointless.
I does when the point of the bill is to make school lunches healthier.
Usually it's caused by an excess of inhaled carbon dioxide, or potentially a lack of inhaled carrier gas, generally nitrogen.
Meh, it's more than made up for by the recent story that the US congress declared pizza a vegetable in a bill designed to make school kids' lunches healthier.
Sorry, dehydration, as applies to your body, requires that water go to the right places and stay there. JUST drinking water will not necessarily do that. You need other electrolytes, primarily salt, as well.
The EU was right. Keep medical claims off products that are not specifically intended for treatment.
I tried installing SAS a few times. The licensed version from the university wouldn't install - the double click installer crashed every time, at the END of the long install. The non licensed version from tpb installed, but then I was left with SAS and it's hard to interface with self (SAS server never did work). R installs no problem, every time, and just works.
If you pay am R guru as much as you pay for matlab, you'll probably get pretty awesome support too.
SPSS and SAS aren't exactly point and click either. If you want to do serious stats, you're going to have to type. R actually has a fairly straightforward syntax, and is designed to be used interactively. Thre are also lots of good beginner tutorials.
If the poster needs some data management help as well, there's rpy, which lets you use R from Python - all the power of a real programming language, including database access, linked to R.
You're not average.
And you can tap no.
Of course. If they did that, the summary might contain information!
True, but for some reason it doesn't seem to reflect poorly on your geekhood.
Massive potential for anything not Windows. Windows had 90% marketshare in the past, and it's still going down. Ditto browsers. I don't know how the Xbox is doing, but doesn't it still lose money anyway? MS is even slipping in Office marketshare, but again, it's not as if they have anywhere to go but down.
Unfortunately they've shown that they're completely unable to open new markets, and they're slipping in their old ones.
A company with no growth paying 3% dividends and consistently losing pieces of their core markets year after year? This is a good place to sink cash for the long run?
Microsoft ten years ago, maybe. Microsoft now?
Google and Apple don't pay dividends because they use the cash for supporting new products - R&D, buying up production, acquisitions, etc. That drives the growth. If they stop growing they'll start issuing dividends (otherwise the shareholders will make them).
That's what we call a log scale, and it's the appropriate way to represent things like this. To an investor, the stock going from $5 to $10 is the same as it going from $100 to $200. A log scale shows that as the same increment. A linear scale doesn't.
Sure, give Ballmer some kudos for keeping the stock price from dropping TOO much after 2000 (it did drop). Are you using the bubble popping excuse for the whole ten years since then?
True, but Microsoft doesn't look good from the growth, dividends OR future potential side. It's had no growth, is paying around 3% dividends which is something like zero adjusted for inflation, and is losing marketshare in pretty much everything the company does.
They might. The shareholders who attend shareholder meetings in person usually hold a LOT of stock. Unhappiness is the step before selling. If they sell, MS finds itself in serious doo doo. You tend not to make big decisions like that without expressing your displeasure and giving the company a chance to convince you not to sell.
You're a sad, sad geek if you get your mom to buy and set up the WAP for you.
Netbooks are small, like sub-notebooks, and cheap, unlike sub-notebooks. That also means they're usually underpowered. Small and cheap are the defining characteristics. They are very distinct from notebooks.
You are obviously not the average user. Go out in the world and look at how people interact with computers sometime. The average web page works just fine with a touch interface (what is "designed for a touch interface" anyway? How do you design text and links for touch?). There's not a lot of typing. For things like Facebook, the little amount of typing that gets done is quite adequately served by a virtual keyboard. On a smartphone even. All my Facebook-using relatives (mostly the younger cousins) use it almost exclusively from their smart phones.