Not quite true, yes YOUR AC may work a bit longer if it is not allowed to run at once, but... the idea is that if for some reason a big proportion of all the AC's turn at ONCE then there can be major problems. The up to 20' delays can make the AC's start be staggered and reduce peak demand. Note that although the total energy consumed may be the same, "peak energy" is MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE to the utilities (because it is bought on an "on-demand" basis vs. long-term contracts). Here they say that the added costs are quite significant, that the peak electric rates the utility pays can be 10x bigger than the normal rates, hence the idea of the delays.
The fridge? Not if you dont want you food to spoil.
The fridge consumes a lot of power in a home, but in a rather "distributed" way, does not really peak too much. Moreover, it would be possible to have the fridge relax a bit the thermostat requirement for a couple of hours if peak conditions are detected. It will not spoil your food to have it frozen at -17C vs. -18C for a few hours!
Stove/Oven. Not if you want to have dinner.
100% in agreement, that cannot be delayed!
Heating/Cooling. Not if you want to be in your house while you are awake.
Again, it could be set that a \pm 1 C extra is allowed during peak demand. In my community they give you 5% discount on electricity if you agree to have your AC controlled by the city (they may delay your ac 20' at peak times). I did not agree to that for such meager savings, I must say...
Dishwasher. Yes. That one.
Can wait. No problem there.
Dryer. Maybe, if you are okay with wet clothes sitting around (mold).
MOLD? For waiting a couple of hours? You've read too many crazy articles out there "MOLD IS COMING TO KILL US ALL!".:-)
Lighting Not if you want to be in your house while you are awake.
Not that much consumption if using CFL's. No need to regulate.
Entertainment system. Not if you want to actually use it.
What is your entertainment system, you know they do not consume THAT much...
Yes, you are pulling these numbers out of your arse. They have no support whatsoever. The cost to launch a payload is proportional to its weight (and to a lesser degree to the volume). To assemble things in orbit requires personnel (= food, air, etc). It will be much cheaper and easier to launch several pieces and have them couple together in orbit, without "assembly" per se. I do not see how you could have been modded up so high, to be honest...
...space port? Imagine it, we build a space port in geosynchronous orbit. It would decrease the necessity to have massive quantities of fuel expended for vehicles to reach orbital velocity since you'd already be at speed at launch time. They could plan for modularized spacecraft, and then simply deliver them to the port for construction and deployment. If a space elevator were ever to be built, it could serve as the end linkage. There are a ton of possibilities, and I think its ultimately where we're headed. So why not swing for the stars (no pun intended)?
Right, because it will not cost anything to bring things to gs orbit... You still need to get the astronauts, fuel, food, water, gear, etc to there before you assemble and launch. I do not see the savings.
It translates into an acre of cheap mirrors instead of an acre of expensive solar panels.
Not quite the same: concentrating mirrors suck in anything but a perfectly clear day (i.e. no clouds), but a simple non-concentrated PV panel still works quite well with some (not much) cloud coverage. In other words: unless you live in AZ or some other desert, stick with non-concentrated PV panels.
Their surface areas per unit mass (smaller than 1,000 m^2/g) are not too impressive (since storage is done by physisorption on the surface). This will not produce sufficient adsorption. Activated carbon from corn-cobs appear to offer more promise (migger than 3,000 m^2/g) and are also quite cheap. See, for example from my home state: http://www.physorg.com/news162195986.html
No, I'm suggesting he spend sufficient money to get a machine he needs rather than one that is designed for an "average" home user. And last I checked, $1200 hardly counts as "multiple kilobucks".
Why? Why should I spend $1,200 in a machine that can be bought for less than half? Why is that I can buy an EEE that offers all I need when I want to travel light for under $300, weights ~1 kg, is very portable, and comes with 1M pixel camera, speakers, microphone, usb, wi-fi, ethernet, and SD slot, and yet there is no comparable beast from apple?
Simple answer: Steve. He knows. He knows best. He wants you to do things HIS way. Control freak...
Pity, OSX would have a brilliant future if not for the his narrow vision.
Nonsense, complete nonsense. The mac mini is a nice machine for some purposes. There is, however, no reason (other than apple's incredible greediness: charging 4x more for memory and disk upgrades than they are really worth) for the machines to have no accessible parts. I love the Mac OSX, but the hardware sucks. I much rather get a standard pc, with standard parts and a hacked version of OSX to use in it.
Funding is not unlimited... unless you are talking about funding groups of people who actually produce nothing (i.e. banks et al.). Then there is no problem coming up with hundreds of BILLIONS of $$. Of course cutting 100 MILLION makes such a huge impact... perhaps we won't be able after all to fully fund the bonus check of a fat fish at some bank. I am truly disgusted with this development and I am lamenting my vote for O who seems to favor bankers over industry.
You're wrong: storage of H2 under decent conditions (i.e. at room temperature and not a HUMUNGOUS pressure) is EXTREMELY difficult. The energy density of H2 is very small.
And in my experience as a University professor (nearly 10 years) the book changes are usually insignificant ("major change" is that they may change the order of the end-of-chapter problems...). I would recommend to anyone that has a 3+ year old book to simply use it, the only thing you need is to photocopy the end-of-chapter problems...
Exactly, whoever is the engineering "genius" who thought that 3 GB ought to be good enough deserves to rot in hell (together with whoever thought that 640 kB should be sufficient for anybody). Gosh, what did they save? $2 for a SD reader?
The ribbon is a horrible feature. Horrible. Takes an enormous amount of real estate on the screen (ok on my 24" monitor, but at home on my 20" it is annoying, and on my 13" laptop it is essentially catastrophic). 2003 was a decent version for comparison, and I still use it (it works faster, takes less screen space, and it is easier to customize).
And don't get me started on 2008, that one is really a piece of sh1t...
Considering how their silver deposits were basically stolen from under their feet by the spanish conquistadores and then the tin reserved stolen again by the multinational corporations, and yet they remain one of the poorest countries in America... I hope they keep some of the wealth to improve their conditions. Evo (and successors) seems to be a person that may really achieve that goal. Yes, some of the $$ will go into the wrong hands (do you really think that Irak's war did not produce magnificent profit$ for some groups closely linked to GWB et al.?), but as long as this is a small fraction things should be OK.
Indeed! It seems that OK goes out of its way to become more backwards, more stupid, and more poor (by "inviting" smart people out) every time you look at it. What can I tell you... they seem to deserve their condition.
Then again, some people buy operating systems when there are perfectly good operating systems available for free. So what do I know?
Not really: people buy a computer with the OS in it (bundled, you can't get the machine without the OS), very very few people buy OS upgrades these days.
I'd rather just buy the amazon.com book, and then download the pure text file off bittorent as a "backup" that I can conveniently play in my laptop or Iphone or Kindle.
And if I am going to have to go through this trouble, I will probably (certainly should be the word...) get the bittorrent and once and not bother with the Amazon purchase...
1) It is a decent phone (not super, but OK). Unlocked: so I can use with the carrier of my choice (t-mobile prepaid in US, others abroad).
2) It is a decent computer for some basic tasks
3) I use it as my calendar and as my phone book (no other cell phone is so nice for this)
4) A decent media player (watching movies in it on a plane is quite nice). I do not listen much to music, but I also have quite a few podcasts of "car talk" (you've gotta love these guys!).
5) Works as a decent USB drive with some additional software.
6) Can keep pictures and show them around in a decent screen
7) Every now and then I can take half-decent snapshots
8) There are some nice apps, most of the ones I have were free
So, what's the problem? I bought the device and use it as I want, I do not give a sh*t to what apple wants me to do with it...
Indeed. The only reason I get apple computers is that:
1) The OS is relatively solid and quite unix-like.
2) And there are some useful commercial apps for it, vs. very little for linux
3) Lately linux installs start to look more like windoze than I want (I miss slackware 3...).
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Not quite true, yes YOUR AC may work a bit longer if it is not allowed to run at once, but... the idea is that if for some reason a big proportion of all the AC's turn at ONCE then there can be major problems. The up to 20' delays can make the AC's start be staggered and reduce peak demand. Note that although the total energy consumed may be the same, "peak energy" is MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE to the utilities (because it is bought on an "on-demand" basis vs. long-term contracts). Here they say that the added costs are quite significant, that the peak electric rates the utility pays can be 10x bigger than the normal rates, hence the idea of the delays.
The fridge? Not if you dont want you food to spoil.
The fridge consumes a lot of power in a home, but in a rather "distributed" way, does not really peak too much. Moreover, it would be possible to have the fridge relax a bit the thermostat requirement for a couple of hours if peak conditions are detected. It will not spoil your food to have it frozen at -17C vs. -18C for a few hours!
Stove/Oven. Not if you want to have dinner.
100% in agreement, that cannot be delayed!
Heating/Cooling. Not if you want to be in your house while you are awake.
Again, it could be set that a \pm 1 C extra is allowed during peak demand. In my community they give you 5% discount on electricity if you agree to have your AC controlled by the city (they may delay your ac 20' at peak times). I did not agree to that for such meager savings, I must say...
Dishwasher. Yes. That one.
Can wait. No problem there.
Dryer. Maybe, if you are okay with wet clothes sitting around (mold).
MOLD? For waiting a couple of hours? You've read too many crazy articles out there "MOLD IS COMING TO KILL US ALL!". :-)
Lighting Not if you want to be in your house while you are awake.
Not that much consumption if using CFL's. No need to regulate.
Entertainment system. Not if you want to actually use it.
What is your entertainment system, you know they do not consume THAT much...
Hair dryer? No, that's not how it works.
Who needs that? :-)
Yes, you are pulling these numbers out of your arse. They have no support whatsoever. The cost to launch a payload is proportional to its weight (and to a lesser degree to the volume). To assemble things in orbit requires personnel (= food, air, etc). It will be much cheaper and easier to launch several pieces and have them couple together in orbit, without "assembly" per se. I do not see how you could have been modded up so high, to be honest...
Right, because it will not cost anything to bring things to gs orbit... You still need to get the astronauts, fuel, food, water, gear, etc to there before you assemble and launch. I do not see the savings.
oh no! more CO2 from fat americans :-)
It translates into an acre of cheap mirrors instead of an acre of expensive solar panels.
Not quite the same: concentrating mirrors suck in anything but a perfectly clear day (i.e. no clouds), but a simple non-concentrated PV panel still works quite well with some (not much) cloud coverage. In other words: unless you live in AZ or some other desert, stick with non-concentrated PV panels.
Their surface areas per unit mass (smaller than 1,000 m^2/g) are not too impressive (since storage is done by physisorption on the surface). This will not produce sufficient adsorption. Activated carbon from corn-cobs appear to offer more promise (migger than 3,000 m^2/g) and are also quite cheap. See, for example from my home state: http://www.physorg.com/news162195986.html
Their surface areas per unit mass ( 3,000 m^2/g) and are also quite cheap. See, for example from my home state: http://www.physorg.com/news162195986.html
This is SLASHDOT... I doubt you have a wife :-)
Why? Why should I spend $1,200 in a machine that can be bought for less than half? Why is that I can buy an EEE that offers all I need when I want to travel light for under $300, weights ~1 kg, is very portable, and comes with 1M pixel camera, speakers, microphone, usb, wi-fi, ethernet, and SD slot, and yet there is no comparable beast from apple?
Simple answer: Steve. He knows. He knows best. He wants you to do things HIS way. Control freak...
Pity, OSX would have a brilliant future if not for the his narrow vision.
Nonsense, complete nonsense. The mac mini is a nice machine for some purposes. There is, however, no reason (other than apple's incredible greediness: charging 4x more for memory and disk upgrades than they are really worth) for the machines to have no accessible parts. I love the Mac OSX, but the hardware sucks. I much rather get a standard pc, with standard parts and a hacked version of OSX to use in it.
2) Matlab is expen$ive. Fortran is basically free.
3) Loops allow for more complex structures, sorry I am ignorant of matlab, but how do you code the loop y(i) = sin(pi*i/10.)?
Funding is not unlimited... unless you are talking about funding groups of people who actually produce nothing (i.e. banks et al.). Then there is no problem coming up with hundreds of BILLIONS of $$. Of course cutting 100 MILLION makes such a huge impact... perhaps we won't be able after all to fully fund the bonus check of a fat fish at some bank. I am truly disgusted with this development and I am lamenting my vote for O who seems to favor bankers over industry.
You're wrong: storage of H2 under decent conditions (i.e. at room temperature and not a HUMUNGOUS pressure) is EXTREMELY difficult. The energy density of H2 is very small.
And in my experience as a University professor (nearly 10 years) the book changes are usually insignificant ("major change" is that they may change the order of the end-of-chapter problems...). I would recommend to anyone that has a 3+ year old book to simply use it, the only thing you need is to photocopy the end-of-chapter problems...
Exactly, whoever is the engineering "genius" who thought that 3 GB ought to be good enough deserves to rot in hell (together with whoever thought that 640 kB should be sufficient for anybody). Gosh, what did they save? $2 for a SD reader?
The ribbon is a horrible feature. Horrible. Takes an enormous amount of real estate on the screen (ok on my 24" monitor, but at home on my 20" it is annoying, and on my 13" laptop it is essentially catastrophic). 2003 was a decent version for comparison, and I still use it (it works faster, takes less screen space, and it is easier to customize). And don't get me started on 2008, that one is really a piece of sh1t...
Considering how their silver deposits were basically stolen from under their feet by the spanish conquistadores and then the tin reserved stolen again by the multinational corporations, and yet they remain one of the poorest countries in America... I hope they keep some of the wealth to improve their conditions. Evo (and successors) seems to be a person that may really achieve that goal. Yes, some of the $$ will go into the wrong hands (do you really think that Irak's war did not produce magnificent profit$ for some groups closely linked to GWB et al.?), but as long as this is a small fraction things should be OK.
Indeed! It seems that OK goes out of its way to become more backwards, more stupid, and more poor (by "inviting" smart people out) every time you look at it. What can I tell you... they seem to deserve their condition.
You are wrong, from the page you quote, for all models of the imac: "Support for external display in video mirroring mode"
Not really: people buy a computer with the OS in it (bundled, you can't get the machine without the OS), very very few people buy OS upgrades these days.
And if I am going to have to go through this trouble, I will probably (certainly should be the word...) get the bittorrent and once and not bother with the Amazon purchase...
Now, that's for some revenue lost...
1) It is a decent phone (not super, but OK). Unlocked: so I can use with the carrier of my choice (t-mobile prepaid in US, others abroad).
2) It is a decent computer for some basic tasks
3) I use it as my calendar and as my phone book (no other cell phone is so nice for this)
4) A decent media player (watching movies in it on a plane is quite nice). I do not listen much to music, but I also have quite a few podcasts of "car talk" (you've gotta love these guys!).
5) Works as a decent USB drive with some additional software.
6) Can keep pictures and show them around in a decent screen
7) Every now and then I can take half-decent snapshots
8) There are some nice apps, most of the ones I have were free
So, what's the problem? I bought the device and use it as I want, I do not give a sh*t to what apple wants me to do with it...
Indeed. The only reason I get apple computers is that: 1) The OS is relatively solid and quite unix-like. 2) And there are some useful commercial apps for it, vs. very little for linux 3) Lately linux installs start to look more like windoze than I want (I miss slackware 3...).
Not right either. Get their books from pirate sources and screw them as they are trying to screw you. You don't turn the other cheek...