hydroponic farming also uses much less water than traditional farming, because the water is recycled through the system until it is actually used by the plants as opposed to irrigating a field and having most of the water evaporate before it is used.
Talk of higher yields and using less water is relative.
It doesn't tell me how much water you need. The weight of the water. The weight of pipes and pumps and filters and reservoirs.
It doesn't want tell me why I want to do this in New York City and not on existing farmland upstate - where all my costs are dramatically lower.
--- and it implies that I would be trucking this produce out of your building a pallet at a time - in competition with importers and wholesalers working a vastly larger scale.
there is no need to spray herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizer
Tell that to anyone who has tried to raise a houseplant.
There will be entry points for insects and diseases - and you will have to spray.
I can understand why copyright holders might like to demonise copyright violation by comparing it to violent theft, but why does the FSF have to fall for and even perpetuate this junk?
The use of the word "piracy" to describe copyright infringement is as old as the 1709 Statute of Anne
--- when the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
And what's the judge going to do if the bulk of the operation is outside his jurisdiction?
Introduce you to the elemental pleasures of a 6x8 cell and a bunk mate named Lenny.
one of the guys running the site said they had made arrangements such that the actual hardware is no longer under their direct control, so even if they are all found guilty, it would be outside their ability to shut it down, even if ordered to do so by a court.
There are few better ways to piss off a judge than to go into court with an argument like this. You Are Not A Lawyer
The "three app limit" applies only to the Starter Edition - a Windows OS and a small suite of programs localized for beginners in third world countries.
The Sugar GUI originally designed for OLPC allows only one task to run.
It makes no sense to allow inexperienced users to randomly launch multiple apps on systems that will very quickly run out of the resources needed to run them.
Even MS advertising completely gloss over the need for users to agree to a set of extensive contracts to use the system, something that a small child certainly isn't able to do.
It isn't something the child has to do.
It is something the owner of her system, the head of her household, the principal of her school needs to do.
Which applies to GPL'd software as well.
Unless the FOSS developer is prepared to allow a minor - of any age - to drive a train through the licenses that protect his own work.
A technique that defence lawyers use is to attack the legitimacy of the gathering of the evidence. Succeed there, and it all becomes inadmissible, and the prosecution fails.
But that plays out before the judge - and almost all of it before the trial.
Excluding relevant evidence is not something a judge wants to do - your argument has to be very compelling.
Since Bush came into office, everybody who views child porn is a molester and gets 20 years in prison for possession since we're still on our power high..
The reality is that the prosecution will introduce the thousands or tens of thousands of images and videos they found on your hard drive.
It will be very dark and disturbing stuff.
Nothing remotely as innocent and fanciful as the geek pretends.
The molestation of infants, perhaps.
The crime against the child committed for your sexual entertainment and that of others.
The reality is that you will have had significant contact with minors, quite probably in a position of authority.
The reality is that your behavior was increasingly reckless and self-destructive.
You were a tenured teacher in the elementary grades.
You were married. You had kids. You routed porn through the district's own networks and systems - and that is how you were caught.
If the EU can decide what apps can be installed by default with Windows, why can't the EU decide which apps can be included in a Microsoft repository or downloaded from third-party resources like CNET?
Think of how inconvenient and embarrassing it would be for the politician if users overwhelmingly chose an integrated Windows solution based on Microsoft apps.
Is this really the precedent the geek wants to set?
It seems to me rather naive to assume that regulation of Microsoft has everything to do with economics and nothing to do with domestic politics - or that the political winds will always blow in the geek's favor.
Yeah, how stupid of them to sell a version of windows that's legal at only $5 or so more than it would cost them to buy a pirated version
The level of FUD here is ridiculous.
"The cheap-ass Linux netbook comes with e-mail, a browser, a media player, IM and a word processor.
That's all these lusers really need."
It comes with a 7 inch screen, a VIA CPU, 256 MB of RAM - and running multiple apps the size of Firefox and OpenOffice,org is fantasyland and the geek knows it.
It's almost like they are trying to hand the market to Google and the webapp gang.
The Starter Edition is just that.
Localization for third world markets.
Native language tutorials and tons of other help for absolute beginners.
If you know what Google is - if you know what a web app is - and you have the reliable, low-latency, connection to the Internet that is needed to support it - this isn't your computer.
Sugar is the graphical user interface originally developed for the One Laptop per Child computer/education project. Unlike more traditional desktop environments, it does not use a "desktop" metaphor and only focuses on one task at a time. The OLPC XO-1 has a 1 GB NAND flash drive and 256 MB of memory. Since there is no swap space and storage space on the laptop, only a limited number of activities can run concurrently. The laptop's hardware limitations have led to much more compact program design, harking back to the early days of the computer. The project's stated goal is to "avoid bloated interfaces", and "limit the controls to those immediately relevant to the task at hand".Sugar (GUI
you DO know that many people change their user agent (such that it looks like XP or Vista to the website...
The burden is on the geek to prove that these numbers are statistically significant.
My own experience is that users are intimidated by configuration files and command-line arguments. They don't understand what they are doing and they are desperately afraid of the consequences of a single typographical error.
I am certain he is going to point to this as conditioned behavior caused by gaming, cause, you know, gamers will jump through an actual flaming door, despite the heat and all. A message for ya, Jack: Gamers may be conditioned by games, but only when actually playing games.
It may not be that simple.
The small house fire generates and contains an astonishing amounts of slate gray and very toxic smoke.
I had a sampling of that once - twice - in the real world.
You are blind.
You are disoriented.
You will probably die before you see or feel the flames.
It is an effort to think clearly - to walk or crawl or speak. You need to get low and stay low.
You are very short on time.
The reality is much closer to the maddeningly twisty, twisty, paths of the text adventure - all alike - than the CGI stage sets of Tomb Raider.
The danger isn't that the video game will tempt you into a singular act of supreme stupidity.
The danger is that the rules of the game world will more subtly shape your understanding - and mis-understanding - of the real world.
Cliffs and ponds are far more common than building fires and we don't see crumpled or floating bodies of gamers beside these natural hazards despite their low danger level in video games.
It depends on where you live.
Where I live, cliffs, lakes and ponds kill a fair number of young adults each year. They don't always give up the remains.
I kid you not, but I am responsible for three people switching to Linux this week alone
This is the lead to damn near every Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot.
The convert is usually a family member -
often elderly and unlikely to make waves. The geek doesn't post the story when he gets his butt kicked for trashing Dad's system, apps and files.
The real news is that OEM Linux has lost the support of WalMart in big box retail and that alternatives like Circuit City are disappearing fast.
In six months or a year shoppers will be able to walk into any of 14,000 WalMart stores and walk out with an HP Win 7 media desktop, Win 7 netbook, HP multifunction printer-scanner, a pocket HD camcorder, a half dozen or so PC games from the Windows bargain bin and an HDMI cable for their Vizio HDTV.
For a variety of reasons, this move is almost certainly targeted at Ubuntu Linux's desktop success. With the Mac, not Linux, apparently eating into Microsoft's Windows market share, what is it about desktop Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, that has Microsoft spooked?
Linux - all flavors - has 0.8% of the "desktop."
The Win 7 Beta has 0.1%. The iPhone 0.5%
OSX 10.5 5%. Vista 23%.
These are good numbers for mass market operating systems that demand a significant investment in hardware. Operating System Market Share [Feb 7, 09].
Net Applications collects webstats.
Its clients are interested only in a head count. Hits to their sites. Not in licenses, not in product still in shipping containers on the L.A. docks.
Vista's share is currently growing at the rate of about 1% a month. Linux is still struggling to break into the single digit.
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Talk of higher yields and using less water is relative.
It doesn't tell me how much water you need. The weight of the water. The weight of pipes and pumps and filters and reservoirs.
It doesn't want tell me why I want to do this in New York City and not on existing farmland upstate - where all my costs are dramatically lower.
--- and it implies that I would be trucking this produce out of your building a pallet at a time - in competition with importers and wholesalers working a vastly larger scale.
there is no need to spray herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizer
Tell that to anyone who has tried to raise a houseplant.
There will be entry points for insects and diseases - and you will have to spray.
The use of the word "piracy" to describe copyright infringement is as old as the 1709 Statute of Anne
--- when the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
The geek is NEVER going to win this argument.
Interesting thought.
But the lesson for the game developer is that targeting the gore obsessed twelve year old limits your market.
And what's the judge going to do if the bulk of the operation is outside his jurisdiction? Introduce you to the elemental pleasures of a 6x8 cell and a bunk mate named Lenny.
How long will you be waiting - and what is the range?
MS Office dominates software sales for the PC and the Mac. It is bigger than games, bigger than anything.
In hard times, "utilitarian and mundane" translates as "marketable skills and a weekly paycheck."
There are few better ways to piss off a judge than to go into court with an argument like this. You Are Not A Lawyer
Once the public learned about the 3 app limit
The "three app limit" applies only to the Starter Edition - a Windows OS and a small suite of programs localized for beginners in third world countries.
The Sugar GUI originally designed for OLPC allows only one task to run.
It makes no sense to allow inexperienced users to randomly launch multiple apps on systems that will very quickly run out of the resources needed to run them.
It isn't something the child has to do.
It is something the owner of her system, the head of her household, the principal of her school needs to do.
Which applies to GPL'd software as well.
Unless the FOSS developer is prepared to allow a minor - of any age - to drive a train through the licenses that protect his own work.
Kids - like everyone else - were watching television. Men were reading paperback books.
Mickey Spillane. "My Gun Is Quick"
Comic book sales were in a steep downward spiral and crime and horror looked like a quick - cheap - way to recapture an older audience.
The immediate problem was that distribution was routed through the same news outlets as everything else.
In the drug store with Scrooge McDuck and the cigar store with the bondage themed True Detective magazine.
The hard core stuff sold under the table. It could be - and often was - a very sleazy business.
The larger problem was that the newspaper comic strip was still in its prime.
Caniff. Al Capp. Chester Gould. Walt Kelly. Charles Schulz ---.
Both veterans and newcomers producing really, really, good stuff in every genre
--- and when they fought their own battles against censorship, they came into the fight with much better ammunition.
But that plays out before the judge - and almost all of it before the trial.
Excluding relevant evidence is not something a judge wants to do - your argument has to be very compelling.
The odds are that what you want out will come in.
The reality is that the prosecution will introduce the thousands or tens of thousands of images and videos they found on your hard drive.
It will be very dark and disturbing stuff.
Nothing remotely as innocent and fanciful as the geek pretends.
The molestation of infants, perhaps.
The crime against the child committed for your sexual entertainment and that of others.
The reality is that you will have had significant contact with minors, quite probably in a position of authority.
The reality is that your behavior was increasingly reckless and self-destructive.
You were a tenured teacher in the elementary grades.
You were married. You had kids. You routed porn through the district's own networks and systems - and that is how you were caught.
If you think it's to hard to hide it what about hiding it at the neighbors apartment? Good luck with happening to bring that back for investigation ..
This dumb-ass solution exposes your neighbor to search and seizure and criminal prosecution - almost certainly on the federal felony charge.
He will be questioned. He will be watched. He will rat you out.
If the EU can decide what apps can be installed by default with Windows, why can't the EU decide which apps can be included in a Microsoft repository or downloaded from third-party resources like CNET?
Think of how inconvenient and embarrassing it would be for the politician if users overwhelmingly chose an integrated Windows solution based on Microsoft apps.
Is this really the precedent the geek wants to set?
It seems to me rather naive to assume that regulation of Microsoft has everything to do with economics and nothing to do with domestic politics - or that the political winds will always blow in the geek's favor.
Where?
Windows Starter Edition was always limited to three open "apps" -
though these apps can be as rich in functionality as a full version of MS Word -
and its target is the absolute beginner in third world markets.
The alternative UI like Sugar has often been single-task.
Which makes perfect sense for an inexperienced user with bare-minimum hardware support for any mass-market OS.
The level of FUD here is ridiculous.
"The cheap-ass Linux netbook comes with e-mail, a browser, a media player, IM and a word processor.
That's all these lusers really need."
It comes with a 7 inch screen, a VIA CPU, 256 MB of RAM - and running multiple apps the size of Firefox and OpenOffice,org is fantasyland and the geek knows it.
Well, that's the Starter Edition in a nutshell.
The Starter Edition is just that.
Localization for third world markets.
Native language tutorials and tons of other help for absolute beginners.
If you know what Google is -
if you know what a web app is - and you have the reliable, low-latency, connection to the Internet that is needed to support it -
this isn't your computer.
Sugar is the graphical user interface originally developed for the One Laptop per Child computer/education project. Unlike more traditional desktop environments, it does not use a "desktop" metaphor and only focuses on one task at a time. The OLPC XO-1 has a 1 GB NAND flash drive and 256 MB of memory. Since there is no swap space and storage space on the laptop, only a limited number of activities can run concurrently. The laptop's hardware limitations have led to much more compact program design, harking back to the early days of the computer. The project's stated goal is to "avoid bloated interfaces", and "limit the controls to those immediately relevant to the task at hand". Sugar (GUI
and if you don't know how Windows applications are being used in your school don't expect your experience with FOSS at home to carry any weight.
for example, the chances are very good that your school offers after-hours and on-site training in MS Office and programs like Photoshop.
the four-year school should be focused on academics.
but real-world feedback from the job market can't simply be ignored.
The burden is on the geek to prove that these numbers are statistically significant.
My own experience is that users are intimidated by configuration files and command-line arguments. They don't understand what they are doing and they are desperately afraid of the consequences of a single typographical error.
The Linux netbook - "not available in stores:"
7" screen, 512 MB RAM, gOSH or Limpid Linux, a VIA CPU, 30 GB HDD, and a 30-second warranty.
The Windows XP ATOM netbook - "in stores now"
$350
"Home delivery only 97 cents:"
9" screen, 1 GB RAM, a 120 GB HDD, Ethernet, WiFi and a working modem for dial-up.
"Buy now and get this pocket Hi-DEF camcorder or multifunction HP printer free!"
It may not be that simple.
The small house fire generates and contains an astonishing amounts of slate gray and very toxic smoke.
I had a sampling of that once - twice - in the real world.
You are blind.
You are disoriented.
You will probably die before you see or feel the flames.
It is an effort to think clearly - to walk or crawl or speak. You need to get low and stay low.
You are very short on time.
The reality is much closer to the maddeningly twisty, twisty, paths of the text adventure - all alike - than the CGI stage sets of Tomb Raider.
The danger isn't that the video game will tempt you into a singular act of supreme stupidity.
The danger is that the rules of the game world will more subtly shape your understanding - and mis-understanding - of the real world.
Cliffs and ponds are far more common than building fires and we don't see crumpled or floating bodies of gamers beside these natural hazards despite their low danger level in video games.
It depends on where you live.
Where I live, cliffs, lakes and ponds kill a fair number of young adults each year. They don't always give up the remains.
This is the lead to damn near every Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot.
The convert is usually a family member -
often elderly and unlikely to make waves. The geek doesn't post the story when he gets his butt kicked for trashing Dad's system, apps and files.
The real news is that OEM Linux has lost the support of WalMart in big box retail and that alternatives like Circuit City are disappearing fast.
In six months or a year shoppers will be able to walk into any of 14,000 WalMart stores and walk out with an HP Win 7 media desktop, Win 7 netbook, HP multifunction printer-scanner, a pocket HD camcorder, a half dozen or so PC games from the Windows bargain bin and an HDMI cable for their Vizio HDTV.
This is the path to exponential growth.
Linux - all flavors - has 0.8% of the "desktop."
The Win 7 Beta has 0.1%. The iPhone 0.5%
OSX 10.5 5%. Vista 23%.
These are good numbers for mass market operating systems that demand a significant investment in hardware. Operating System Market Share [Feb 7, 09].
Net Applications collects webstats.
Its clients are interested only in a head count. Hits to their sites. Not in licenses, not in product still in shipping containers on the L.A. docks.
Vista's share is currently growing at the rate of about 1% a month. Linux is still struggling to break into the single digit.
The man on the street interview returns the results your audience wants to hear. Faux Fox News For Nerds.
and how many of the Japanese cars the geek so admires were built in the low-wage states of the Mississippi Delta?