Another not commonly known issue is that geothermal energy should be considered *non-renewable*.
Perhaps it's not commonly known because it's not really true. The Japanese Ogachi HDR power station was optimised so ensure the temperature drawdown was lower than it's replenishment rate, for example. If a faster drawdown is needed, then multiple holes can be drilled and swapped around to allow for "resting" drawn-down wells.
If I wanted to build a Linux system that would have the same functionality as this, how much effort would go into that sort of thing?
For one computer, not as much as you'd think. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Getting it to work on the thousands of variations out there takes a little more effort.
MS's marketing will be sure to push the first option, but common sense really makes the second pretty damn attractive.
You'd think so, but over here in Australia, I can't buy a Linux smartphone. I've looked around, phoned around and done everything short of getting on my knees and begging, but no-one will sell them.
I've ended up getting a Pocket PC phone - the iMate Jam. http://www.clubimate.com/t-DETAILS_JAM.aspx It's good as a phone, and compact enough not to get in the way. I'm a long-time Palm user, so the Pocket PC interface seems cramped and oddly inconsistent, but it's usable. I bought it as a development platform, but I can cross-compile my Palm apps, so there's nothing much to learn there.
I'd like to add a Linux smartphone to my list of supported platforms, but even if I tracked down one to develop on, my customers couldn't buy them here. Has anyone in Australia actually managed to persuade a vendor to part with one?
working some shitty job, and breeding is more important than curing a disease
Given that he contracted the HIV from his "44-year-old HIV-positive partner, Juan Gomez", I'd say breeding is not that high on his list of priorities.
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The exponential distribution is "memoryless", that is, the probability that an event will occur in the first n years of a time interval is the same as the probability that, after any number of years in which an event has not occured, an event will occur in the next n years.
That's true froom a statistical sense, but doesn't explain what conditions are necessary for a virus to become a pandemic.
The 1918 flu arrived on the back of demobilisation from war. Many people were in tent camps, mass movements of soldiers ensured the spread, and a large population of war weakened individuals gave the virus a pool to spread from.
The probability that a virulent, human lethal strain will arise in the various swine and avian flu viruses remains the same as it has always been. There is no greater risk of a virus crossing from birds or pigs now than there was ten or twenty years
There have been other flu epidemics since 1918. There were the Asian/Hong Kong epidemics of the '50's and 60's, for example, and while they did cause a number of casualties, they were nowhere near as bad as the Spanish Flu.
The point is, the severity of the pandemic - any pandemic - depends a lot more on the state of humanity at the time the strain becomes active than the virulence of the virus strain itself.
All true, unless we elect the other guy next time we go to the booth. Then the next criminal offenses will be:
No, if you elect the other guy next time, the criminal offences will be:
1. Copying CDs
2. Disabling, deleting or avoiding XXAA spyware/zombification tools
3. Informing others or the press about the time you were taken to Turkey to be tortured.
4. Knowing the reason why you were taken to Turkey to be tortured.
5. Abortion
6. Masturbation
7. Using condoms or any other means of birth control
8. Teaching evolution
I'd be more than willing to bet (which, by the way, is also illegal where I live) that more people are killed each year by excessive speed than by excessive downloading.
If you're right, then that's clearly an unjust situation, and it is equally clear that it's the govenment's responsibility to ensure there is balance in the consequences of illegal actions. If society is to remain fair, we will have to have mandatory capital punishment for illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
I think Apple will put a toe in the x86 water by locking OSX to their own hardware, so they don't compete head to head with Microsoft. If it works well for them though, I suspect they'll start to sell the OS alone.
There must be something wrong with that sentence, but for the love of god I don't know what it is.
There's something wrong with the whole comment. It's not exactly a secret that the US social security system is essentially a Ponzi scheme and is in crisis.
For larger countries, say Germany and France, it's a disaster waiting to happen-- all the benefits that they dole out have to be funded from somewhere, and when your taxpaying base is shrinking, it's not a good thing.
You mean, compared to the much more sensible US social security system?
YOU CAN HOLD PEOPLE FOR A VERY LONG TIME IF YOU SIMPLY CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.
You need evidence to be able to do that. Police and politicians want to be able to hold people without evidence. In Australia, our equivalent of these laws (the anti-terrorism bill) also contains an anti-sedition clause which has a sufficiently vague wording so that any person who speaks out against the government could be held without charge. They would almost certainly not be convicted if they were charged, but to be jailed for 90 days is enough of a penalty to deter most people from wanting to criticise the government.
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That would completely defeat the entire purpose of language.
What you say?
Somebody set up us the bomb!
Not to mention, it would make self-propagation of the meme rather difficult, if no one can decode the message.
All your base are belong to us!
HA HA HA HA
Another not commonly known issue is that geothermal energy should be considered *non-renewable*.
Perhaps it's not commonly known because it's not really true. The Japanese Ogachi HDR power station was optimised so ensure the temperature drawdown was lower than it's replenishment rate, for example. If a faster drawdown is needed, then multiple holes can be drilled and swapped around to allow for "resting" drawn-down wells.
If I wanted to build a Linux system that would have the same functionality as this, how much effort would go into that sort of thing?
For one computer, not as much as you'd think. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Getting it to work on the thousands of variations out there takes a little more effort.
Anyway, the UN can have the Internet when they pry it from my cold dead fingers
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que the linux/amd fanboy bashings of WINTEL!!! ;-)
Por que no? Pasa el tiempo, si?
MS's marketing will be sure to push the first option, but common sense really makes the second pretty damn attractive.
You'd think so, but over here in Australia, I can't buy a Linux smartphone. I've looked around, phoned around and done everything short of getting on my knees and begging, but no-one will sell them.
I've ended up getting a Pocket PC phone - the iMate Jam. http://www.clubimate.com/t-DETAILS_JAM.aspx It's good as a phone, and compact enough not to get in the way. I'm a long-time Palm user, so the Pocket PC interface seems cramped and oddly inconsistent, but it's usable. I bought it as a development platform, but I can cross-compile my Palm apps, so there's nothing much to learn there.
I'd like to add a Linux smartphone to my list of supported platforms, but even if I tracked down one to develop on, my customers couldn't buy them here. Has anyone in Australia actually managed to persuade a vendor to part with one?
working some shitty job, and breeding is more important than curing a disease
Given that he contracted the HIV from his "44-year-old HIV-positive partner, Juan Gomez", I'd say breeding is not that high on his list of priorities.
The exponential distribution is "memoryless", that is, the probability that an event will occur in the first n years of a time interval is the same as the probability that, after any number of years in which an event has not occured, an event will occur in the next n years.
That's true froom a statistical sense, but doesn't explain what conditions are necessary for a virus to become a pandemic.
The 1918 flu arrived on the back of demobilisation from war. Many people were in tent camps, mass movements of soldiers ensured the spread, and a large population of war weakened individuals gave the virus a pool to spread from.
The probability that a virulent, human lethal strain will arise in the various swine and avian flu viruses remains the same as it has always been. There is no greater risk of a virus crossing from birds or pigs now than there was ten or twenty years
There have been other flu epidemics since 1918. There were the Asian/Hong Kong epidemics of the '50's and 60's, for example, and while they did cause a number of casualties, they were nowhere near as bad as the Spanish Flu.
The point is, the severity of the pandemic - any pandemic - depends a lot more on the state of humanity at the time the strain becomes active than the virulence of the virus strain itself.
No, if you elect the other guy next time, the criminal offences will be: Why would you think otherwise?
Who's read Larry Niven's book... um, I think it was "Patchwork Man" or something similar.
"The Jigsaw Man" was the first, but there were others, notably the "Flatlander" collection.
I'd be more than willing to bet (which, by the way, is also illegal where I live) that more people are killed each year by excessive speed than by excessive downloading.
If you're right, then that's clearly an unjust situation, and it is equally clear that it's the govenment's responsibility to ensure there is balance in the consequences of illegal actions. If society is to remain fair, we will have to have mandatory capital punishment for illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
alter my IT neurons to think my girl friend looks like buffy
Well, it's a better ambition than "Thing" from the Addams Family, I suppose.
Since my comment was an observation, not a criticism, methinks the whiny AC doth protest too much...
It says it's detected and being used, but for some reason won't actually output sound.
Mute the spdif output in alsamixer.
If apple had to start supporting 3rd party hardware, this level of stability would severely drop.
Why? BSD is stable on plenty of 3rd party hardware. Why wouldn't a Mac be as stable?
I think Apple will put a toe in the x86 water by locking OSX to their own hardware, so they don't compete head to head with Microsoft. If it works well for them though, I suspect they'll start to sell the OS alone.
but why does he have to be a little bitch about it?
Linus frequently expresses himself using a type of wry humour which is quite alien to US audiences. It's not bitchy, it just doesn't translate well.
There must be something wrong with that sentence, but for the love of god I don't know what it is.
There's something wrong with the whole comment. It's not exactly a secret that the US social security system is essentially a Ponzi scheme and is in crisis.
For larger countries, say Germany and France, it's a disaster waiting to happen-- all the benefits that they dole out have to be funded from somewhere, and when your taxpaying base is shrinking, it's not a good thing.
You mean, compared to the much more sensible US social security system?
YOU CAN HOLD PEOPLE FOR A VERY LONG TIME IF YOU SIMPLY CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.
You need evidence to be able to do that. Police and politicians want to be able to hold people without evidence. In Australia, our equivalent of these laws (the anti-terrorism bill) also contains an anti-sedition clause which has a sufficiently vague wording so that any person who speaks out against the government could be held without charge.
They would almost certainly not be convicted if they were charged, but to be jailed for 90 days is enough of a penalty to deter most people from wanting to criticise the government.
As opposed to what?
Customer service and satisfaction. The idea is that when a company provides that, the profits are a consequence.
I'm wearing titanium underpants. It's not so bad except for the chafing.
Titanium titanium underpants are for babies unless they're lined with rockwool.
Mine are OK, but they make my fingertips tingle.
Now I'm scared!
Why? Demonic aliens would have to be better than the scary clowns running the show now.
I've just upgraded to a lead helmet!
Lead lead helmets are for wimps. I'm wearing a uranium foil ski mask.
I don't feel so good.
I've noticed it also tends to happen on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Mondays are pretty rough too, and if anything, the weekends are worse.