Yeah , nice try fanboy loser, but I think you were looking in the mirror when you wrote that. Some of us know how to keep stuff in good condition because ultimately it saves money. Others , like you I guess and the OP , are still in mental adolescence and don't have a clue.
"My 3G is 3+ years old now, and it's showing its age (literally, it's beaten up to heck)."
How tragic. Are you not an adult capable of looking after stuff for a few years or are you some teenage boy who chucks stuff around his room every night? My (non iSheep) phone is 5 years old and apart from a few scuffs looks as good as new.
Nice try, but if ghandi and his followers had attempted a violent uprising it would have been a suicide mission that would have resulted in far greater oppression by the british in the long run so he had no choice in the matter.
... then you're not a true pacifist because thats what most people think. Very few people see war as a laugh. A true pacifist would never advocate war no matter what and would sooner see himself and his entire family tortured and killed than raise an arm in anger. Basically they're simply cowards dressing up their cowardise as a political idiology.
Sounds to me like you had a cushy job in a.com until your lack of skills got found out but you're trying to present it as some elite having it in for you. More likely you're some HTML/javascript hacker who can't cut it doing real (ie non web) programming but wants to blame everyone else for that.
They're still using it on their main site. If you have some insider information that they're going to get rid of flash fairly soon , please , fill us in!
And isn't it wonderful? It only works with certain browsers and you have to install yet another plugin for the video codec which rather defeats the point of not using flash in the first place. Thanks, but I hope they stick with flash.
Have they ditched flash for their main general website? No. The only reason they don't use it for apple devices is they had no choice. Thats entirely different to making a voluntary decision to bin it completely. I don't think its me that needs to wake up to reality.
Not everyone is mental - a lot of people are physical and the last thing they want to do is sit around all day blue skying. Whats more a substantial proportion of the population define themselves by their job - take that away and they have very little purpose in their lives or even none at all.
I suspect you must be young , no one with any life experience would have made the statement you did.
Quite right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard a damn good song reduced to crap by some muppet "DJ" who should have stuck to spinning the disks rather than trying to make them.
They have no good financial reason to support 2 seperate database systems. In those 4 years they'll simply migrate all their paying MySQL support customers to the Oracle DB and once thats done the MySQL codebase will no doubt be quietly forgotten about.
So you admit your position is an act of faith rather than fact.
"As I said before a typical turbine with a "6MW" base yield easyly can produce 5 times the power when the wind is accordingly. What is so damn hard in understanding that?"
I have no problem understanding it. It is however a complete lie. At BEST a turbine MAY go 30% over its rated value. 5 times? Bullshit.
"Which is completely idiotic as the long term yield is the "rated yield" and for wind conditions above average you MULTIPLY "
Most turbines can't cope with much above average wind conditions unless you're suggesting they're rated for 300kph winds which is what they'd need for that sort of power multiplication above their rated value!
If Windows had a decent file system defragmenters would be a thing of the past. Windows is the only (supposedly) serious server side OS that requires them. I've yet to have to defrag my 1999 vintage linux file server.
"No, it is actually roughly 8% over long distances as well as the voltage is much much higher..."
Its already high voltage. Or are you suggesting that the 400Kv already used in the USA or the 250Kv used in europe isn't high enough for your wind turbines? And it'll be a damn site more than 8% over a few thousand miles.
"Well, I spare my breath to debunk the rest of your points as you seem so many decades out of the "evolution of power generation" it is pretty pointless. Ah well, I give you one small link: http://www.agenda21-treffpunkt.de/daten/Windenergie.htm"
Give me a link in a language I can understand. English or french will do. And preferably one thats not linked to the wind power industry.
I notice you didn't answer my question about where the installed base of wind turbines or solar power for the UK will go or answer to the problem of local objections to them being installed on land. Nice dodge, but then fairly typical of people like yourself.
"Yes, I have. And I know how "small" they are, do you?"
They're currently around 6 or 7%. And thats with power stations not more than a few dozen miles from where the power is used. Have a guess what it'll be like when the power has to travel thousands of miles.
"No, it is not. Because that is exactly how the grid works today. What do you think how germany is selling 30% of its power production to other european countries?"
No it doesn't. The seperate grids are connected but thats not the same as having one massive power generating plant transmitting power over very long distance to the consumer.
"Of course it is possible, the question is if it makes economically sense. For germany it perhaps did, for UK I don't know."
Go on then - tell me where the turbines and solar panels will go. No more vague handwaving - specify exactly the best location for them.
"Last time I checked countries like Wales and particular interesting Schottland also belonged to the UK."
You might want to read up on the serious number of public objections to windfarms in mountainous areas and beauty spots. Not to mention the wildlife eco hippies whinging about how they kill birds. Oh , and good luck getting solar power to work in scotland in the winter with 6 hours of sunlight.
Thats installed capacity, not actual power being generated and it provides a miserable 7% of its power needs. Are they going to find enough space for have almost 20 times as many turbines? I don't think so.
"A turbine rated 5MW or 6MW is yielding under "normal" conditions 5MW - 6MW and not 1MW - 2MW, and on peak about 25MW to 35MW."
Bullshit. You're just making the figures up to suit your argument. There is no wind turbine in existence that can generate 25MW never mind 35.
"And finally we live in an international supergrid."
Ever heard of transmission losses? And who is going to pay to build pylons to ship power potentially thousands of miles?
"Somewhere is always enough energy produced"
What a load of hand waving crap. The details matter.
"Solar power will be mainly heat based with salt storages, so they work at night and undre clouds as well."
Really? So you think for example the UK with its notoriously cloudy weather and low sun and still air in the winter would be able to produce enough power for 60m people using wind and solar? Perhaps you think the entire english channel should be full of windmills since thats pretty much the number you'd need. You ever looked at how many wind turbines are required to substitude just for a SINGLE large 1GW nuclear plant? Let me help you out - the largest turbines are about 5MW. Realistically about 1 or 2. So you're looking at about 500 to 1000 of the things. The UK uses about 50GW of power give or take. So that would be 25 to 50,000 large wind turbines. Care to tell us where they're going to go? And where the cells for the solar backup will go when there's hardly enough land to build houses?
"You are the one that should get real and get its head out of its arese"
Sorry pal , you're just another hippie living on a cloud who doesn't want awkward real world details to get in the way of your idea of nirvana.
"Windmills are designed to operate in a certain range of wind speeds. And that they confert to nearly 100% into electric power"
100% of nothing is still fucking nothing if there's no wind blowing! And what do you supplant it with then? Solar power? What if its cloudy or at night? Get real.
"There has been two truly serious (someone gets hurt) accidents in the 60-year history of nuclear power:"
Hey, don't debate anti nuclear hippies with concrete facts, they HATE that because they have no comeback. Far better to use knee jerk emotion and unresoned argument then you're all on a level playing field.
Slashdot Mirror
.. would be Security Officer - Sony.
(For headscratchers - think TLA).
"but I don't have a phone"
Mummy and daddy not allowed you to have one yet? Understandable.
Yeah , nice try fanboy loser, but I think you were looking in the mirror when you wrote that. Some of us know how to keep stuff in good condition because ultimately it saves money. Others , like you I guess and the OP , are still in mental adolescence and don't have a clue.
"My 3G is 3+ years old now, and it's showing its age (literally, it's beaten up to heck)."
How tragic. Are you not an adult capable of looking after stuff for a few years or are you some teenage boy who chucks stuff around his room every night? My (non iSheep) phone is 5 years old and apart from a few scuffs looks as good as new.
No , Gandhi was someone who was smart enought to realise that being annihilated is not a good way to achieve your goals.
Nice try, but if ghandi and his followers had attempted a violent uprising it would have been a suicide mission that would have resulted in far greater oppression by the british in the long run so he had no choice in the matter.
I do. Cowardise isn't simply avoiding pain.
... then you're not a true pacifist because thats what most people think. Very few people see war as a laugh. A true pacifist would never advocate war no matter what and would sooner see himself and his entire family tortured and killed than raise an arm in anger. Basically they're simply cowards dressing up their cowardise as a political idiology.
... you deserve all you get.
"Life for me has been beyond unfair."
Sounds to me like you had a cushy job in a .com until your lack of skills got found out but you're trying to present it as some elite having it in for you. More likely you're some HTML/javascript hacker who can't cut it doing real (ie non web) programming but wants to blame everyone else for that.
They're still using it on their main site. If you have some insider information that they're going to get rid of flash fairly soon , please , fill us in!
And isn't it wonderful? It only works with certain browsers and you have to install yet another plugin for the video codec which rather defeats the point of not using flash in the first place. Thanks, but I hope they stick with flash.
Have they ditched flash for their main general website? No. The only reason they don't use it for apple devices is they had no choice. Thats entirely different to making a voluntary decision to bin it completely. I don't think its me that needs to wake up to reality.
Wake me up when youtube ditches Flash.
Not everyone is mental - a lot of people are physical and the last thing they want to do is sit around all day blue skying. Whats more a substantial proportion of the population define themselves by their job - take that away and they have very little purpose in their lives or even none at all.
I suspect you must be young , no one with any life experience would have made the statement you did.
No doubt you'd have been down there on the dock pointing and laughing at him,
Quite right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard a damn good song reduced to crap by some muppet "DJ" who should have stuck to spinning the disks rather than trying to make them.
They have no good financial reason to support 2 seperate database systems. In those 4 years they'll simply migrate all their paying MySQL support customers to the Oracle DB and once thats done the MySQL codebase will no doubt be quietly forgotten about.
"sigh but I'm tired to talk to "unbelievers"."
So you admit your position is an act of faith rather than fact.
"As I said before a typical turbine with a "6MW" base yield easyly can produce 5 times the power when the wind is accordingly. What is so damn hard in understanding that?"
I have no problem understanding it. It is however a complete lie. At BEST a turbine MAY go 30% over its rated value. 5 times? Bullshit.
"Which is completely idiotic as the long term yield is the "rated yield" and for wind conditions above average you MULTIPLY "
Most turbines can't cope with much above average wind conditions unless you're suggesting they're rated for 300kph winds which is what they'd need for that sort of power multiplication above their rated value!
If Windows had a decent file system defragmenters would be a thing of the past. Windows is the only (supposedly) serious server side OS that requires them. I've yet to have to defrag my 1999 vintage linux file server.
"No, it is actually roughly 8% over long distances as well as the voltage is much much higher ..."
Its already high voltage. Or are you suggesting that the 400Kv already used in the USA or the 250Kv used in europe isn't high enough for your wind turbines? And it'll be a damn site more than 8% over a few thousand miles.
"Well, I spare my breath to debunk the rest of your points as you seem so many decades out of the "evolution of power generation" it is pretty pointless. Ah well, I give you one small link: http://www.agenda21-treffpunkt.de/daten/Windenergie.htm"
Give me a link in a language I can understand. English or french will do. And preferably one thats not linked to the wind power industry.
I notice you didn't answer my question about where the installed base of wind turbines or solar power for the UK will go or answer to the problem of local objections to them being installed on land. Nice dodge, but then fairly typical of people like yourself.
Emperors new clothes.
"Yes, I have. And I know how "small" they are, do you?"
They're currently around 6 or 7%. And thats with power stations not more than a few dozen miles from where the power is used. Have a guess what it'll be like when the power has to travel thousands of miles.
"No, it is not. Because that is exactly how the grid works today. What do you think how germany is selling 30% of its power production to other european countries?"
No it doesn't. The seperate grids are connected but thats not the same as having one massive power generating plant transmitting power over very long distance to the consumer.
"Of course it is possible, the question is if it makes economically sense. For germany it perhaps did, for UK I don't know."
Go on then - tell me where the turbines and solar panels will go. No more vague handwaving - specify exactly the best location for them.
"Last time I checked countries like Wales and particular interesting Schottland also belonged to the UK."
You might want to read up on the serious number of public objections to windfarms in mountainous areas and beauty spots. Not to mention the wildlife eco hippies whinging about how they kill birds. Oh , and good luck getting solar power to work in scotland in the winter with 6 hours of sunlight.
"Germany already produces roughly 25GW wind power."
Thats installed capacity, not actual power being generated and it provides a miserable 7% of its power needs. Are they going to find enough space for have almost 20 times as many turbines? I don't think so.
"A turbine rated 5MW or 6MW is yielding under "normal" conditions 5MW - 6MW and not 1MW - 2MW, and on peak about 25MW to 35MW."
Bullshit. You're just making the figures up to suit your argument. There is no wind turbine in existence that can generate 25MW never mind 35.
"And finally we live in an international supergrid."
Ever heard of transmission losses? And who is going to pay to build pylons to ship power potentially thousands of miles?
"Somewhere is always enough energy produced"
What a load of hand waving crap. The details matter.
"Solar power will be mainly heat based with salt storages, so they work at night and undre clouds as well."
Really? So you think for example the UK with its notoriously cloudy weather and low sun and still air in the winter would be able to produce enough power for 60m people using wind and solar? Perhaps you think the entire english channel should be full of windmills since thats pretty much the number you'd need. You ever looked at how many wind turbines are required to substitude just for a SINGLE large 1GW nuclear plant? Let me help you out - the largest turbines are about 5MW. Realistically about 1 or 2. So you're looking at about 500 to 1000 of the things. The UK uses about 50GW of power give or take. So that would be 25 to 50,000 large wind turbines. Care to tell us where they're going to go? And where the cells for the solar backup will go when there's hardly enough land to build houses?
"You are the one that should get real and get its head out of its arese"
Sorry pal , you're just another hippie living on a cloud who doesn't want awkward real world details to get in the way of your idea of nirvana.
"Windmills are designed to operate in a certain range of wind speeds. And that they confert to nearly 100% into electric power"
100% of nothing is still fucking nothing if there's no wind blowing! And what do you supplant it with then? Solar power? What if its cloudy or at night? Get real.
"There has been two truly serious (someone gets hurt) accidents in the 60-year history of nuclear power:"
Hey, don't debate anti nuclear hippies with concrete facts, they HATE that because they have no comeback. Far better to use knee jerk emotion and unresoned argument then you're all on a level playing field.