Fine, if the greedy One Percent wants to react once again by threatening to cut the jobs of their dependent serfs, then perhaps this time the serfs will convincingly threaten to revolt unless they get a universal wage in return for not being wage slaves and being only and merely consumers of the mass production lines' output.
This, BTW, is the same dynamic that happens during every so-called recession: the 99 Percent somehow gains a transactional upper hand over the One Percent and reduces their profit margins, to which the One Percent promptly retaliates by cutting jobs and other tactics to preserve their profits and make those who would dare challenge them suffer. The recession begins with a minor victory by the 99 percent, and ends with the One Percent's return to complete dominance. A recession is a failed revolt. It's real life imitating the art of Bilbo Baggins trying to plunder a single trinket from Smaug's mountainous horde and Smaug reacting by burning the whole village.
Why has this gone unnoticed or at least unchallenged by all but a single anonymous coward? There is no "Caltech University", although there is a suspiciously similar California Institute of Technology, which every so often is referenced by the abbreviation CalTech....
I haven't tried it but once, and that was early on when it was buggy, then Nexus Mod Manager got a controversial upgrade and it destroyed my game completely. I haven't had a chance to test it since. Now that I have the new graphics card I'm planning on starting over. The Tamriel Online co-op mod will demand revisiting because I'm married now and my wife also plays (she got me into it).
The era of Bethesda updates to the game are probably over, don't you think?:-) The game code is static and Skyrim modding is as hot as ever right now; check out the activity at NexusMods. There's even a mod to add client-server co-op play to the game... imagine playing the game in the same worldspace as your girlfriend! I just bought a new 4GB graphics card to allow a new level of texture-happy modded gameplay, and I have about 1000 mods to consider and whittle down to the allowed 255....
Completely off-topic... recall how you told me 3 years ago that you were beginning to mod Skyrim? Last year I finally got the game. Where do I find your efforts?
i find it frustrating that the only cost effective way to backup a current hard disk is via another hard disk.
That at least hints at the problem. RATE MATTERS. If one has a 20TB media server at home, how long does it take to simply make a non-incremental disk-to-disk backup? Don't count on solid state storage to be the messiah, either: we now have a 15TB capacity SSD that again provides a disproportionately smaller increment in rate. Rate will never catch up to capacity. That is the problem. If the chasm gets much larger, backups will play a much smaller role.
Then put in safeguards against careless foolhardy use. What part of the chasm between capacity and rate didn't you grasp? Don't count on solid state storage to be the messiah, either: we now have a 15TB capacity SSD that again provides a disproportionately smaller increment in rate. Rate will never catch up to capacity.
Since data capacity has outpaced data rate by many orders of magnitude, anyone trying to maintain terabytes of data can find himself in an awkward situation where the time to create a backup exceeds a desired backup interval. Real-time mirroring or other fault tolerance scheme might become the only reasonable solution to data assurance. If very large numbers of files are involved and an ongoing change log isn't maintained by the file system, then even incremental or differential backups become a time-consuming headache as the backup app needlessly looks at every single file to assess changes.
Unless this new standard has a provision to require manufacturers to recall and replace all the hundreds of millions of wart guzzlers already in the field, this won't be very newsworthy for at least a decade. Are citizens expected to run out and spend more money to replace the inefficient ones originally sold to them by manufacturers for decades? Why not make the manufacturers culpable for the consequences of their greed? They already knew how to make them more efficient, but didn't bother to do so to boost profits.
A better way to accomplish the same goal more effectively would be to eliminate the need for wall warts in the first place. We know how to do that, too: replace the increasingly obsolete AC distribution grid with a DC one. It's not as if that hasn't already been proposed.
The events in the diary took place decades before I was born, yet I will likely die before I have a chance to read it unencumbered in the public domain? Yeah, that makes sense, especially when the motivation of the diary had nothing at all to do with profit in the first place.
Don't interpret "entire desert" so literally. The adverse effects of wind farms might not be global, but they certainly exist locally or regionally. The same might be true of vast solar farms, thus my question. Localized species extinction from alteration of habitat or other effects seem plausible, so why the continual painting of everything-is-roses pictures? It reminds me of the ebullient city-of-the-future predictions from generations past that have utterly failed to materialize.
Let's see... if the entire desert were covered with solar panels and those panels absorb all the radiation that otherwise would have reached the desert itself, what environmental or climatic consequences might there be? We found out the hard way that wind turbines have unexpected consequences; have we still learned nothing about taking off the selfish blinders and seeing the whole picture?
... and I don't even live in New York. With the partnership of a U.K. company/agency, SamKnows, the FCC has been doing this for years nationwide, and more reliably.
There are people who have already "reverse engineered" the appearances and behavioral mannerisms of others, and made long successful careers from it: people like Al Hirschfeld and Rich Little. Why not just ask them how they do it?
Those wouldn't work for us, where the noise is external and structural and VERY low frequency. Following your lead I poked around a bit and found these, which seem like they might serve the purpose much better. Might....
How does one manage to pay 1.2 million dollars for a condo in Minnesota? Are real estate prices really that insane there? It ain't San Francisco.
And what happened to John Steele, who practically started this whole damned business model and now seems to have escaped under the radar? I've seen no reporting on his fate since Prenda Law fell apart.
I don't think I can do it now, since I gave up keeping the monitor itself. It would be pretty difficult to make a case without the body. Habeas corpus, they'd cry.
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Fine, if the greedy One Percent wants to react once again by threatening to cut the jobs of their dependent serfs, then perhaps this time the serfs will convincingly threaten to revolt unless they get a universal wage in return for not being wage slaves and being only and merely consumers of the mass production lines' output.
This, BTW, is the same dynamic that happens during every so-called recession: the 99 Percent somehow gains a transactional upper hand over the One Percent and reduces their profit margins, to which the One Percent promptly retaliates by cutting jobs and other tactics to preserve their profits and make those who would dare challenge them suffer. The recession begins with a minor victory by the 99 percent, and ends with the One Percent's return to complete dominance. A recession is a failed revolt. It's real life imitating the art of Bilbo Baggins trying to plunder a single trinket from Smaug's mountainous horde and Smaug reacting by burning the whole village.
Why has this gone unnoticed or at least unchallenged by all but a single anonymous coward? There is no "Caltech University", although there is a suspiciously similar California Institute of Technology, which every so often is referenced by the abbreviation CalTech....
I haven't tried it but once, and that was early on when it was buggy, then Nexus Mod Manager got a controversial upgrade and it destroyed my game completely. I haven't had a chance to test it since. Now that I have the new graphics card I'm planning on starting over. The Tamriel Online co-op mod will demand revisiting because I'm married now and my wife also plays (she got me into it).
The era of Bethesda updates to the game are probably over, don't you think? :-) The game code is static and Skyrim modding is as hot as ever right now; check out the activity at NexusMods. There's even a mod to add client-server co-op play to the game... imagine playing the game in the same worldspace as your girlfriend! I just bought a new 4GB graphics card to allow a new level of texture-happy modded gameplay, and I have about 1000 mods to consider and whittle down to the allowed 255....
Completely off-topic... recall how you told me 3 years ago that you were beginning to mod Skyrim? Last year I finally got the game. Where do I find your efforts?
Then put in safeguards against careless foolhardy use. What part of the chasm between capacity and rate didn't you grasp? Don't count on solid state storage to be the messiah, either: we now have a 15TB capacity SSD that again provides a disproportionately smaller increment in rate. Rate will never catch up to capacity.
Since data capacity has outpaced data rate by many orders of magnitude, anyone trying to maintain terabytes of data can find himself in an awkward situation where the time to create a backup exceeds a desired backup interval. Real-time mirroring or other fault tolerance scheme might become the only reasonable solution to data assurance. If very large numbers of files are involved and an ongoing change log isn't maintained by the file system, then even incremental or differential backups become a time-consuming headache as the backup app needlessly looks at every single file to assess changes.
Unless this new standard has a provision to require manufacturers to recall and replace all the hundreds of millions of wart guzzlers already in the field, this won't be very newsworthy for at least a decade. Are citizens expected to run out and spend more money to replace the inefficient ones originally sold to them by manufacturers for decades? Why not make the manufacturers culpable for the consequences of their greed? They already knew how to make them more efficient, but didn't bother to do so to boost profits.
A better way to accomplish the same goal more effectively would be to eliminate the need for wall warts in the first place. We know how to do that, too: replace the increasingly obsolete AC distribution grid with a DC one. It's not as if that hasn't already been proposed.
The events in the diary took place decades before I was born, yet I will likely die before I have a chance to read it unencumbered in the public domain? Yeah, that makes sense, especially when the motivation of the diary had nothing at all to do with profit in the first place.
Good grief, there truly is no one employed for editorial services at Slashdot any more.
Don't interpret "entire desert" so literally. The adverse effects of wind farms might not be global, but they certainly exist locally or regionally. The same might be true of vast solar farms, thus my question. Localized species extinction from alteration of habitat or other effects seem plausible, so why the continual painting of everything-is-roses pictures? It reminds me of the ebullient city-of-the-future predictions from generations past that have utterly failed to materialize.
Let's see... if the entire desert were covered with solar panels and those panels absorb all the radiation that otherwise would have reached the desert itself, what environmental or climatic consequences might there be? We found out the hard way that wind turbines have unexpected consequences; have we still learned nothing about taking off the selfish blinders and seeing the whole picture?
I saw whut you did there, you liberal trickster you. It's not funny.
You're probably right about the motivation.
... and I don't even live in New York. With the partnership of a U.K. company/agency, SamKnows, the FCC has been doing this for years nationwide, and more reliably.
There are people who have already "reverse engineered" the appearances and behavioral mannerisms of others, and made long successful careers from it: people like Al Hirschfeld and Rich Little. Why not just ask them how they do it?
Those wouldn't work for us, where the noise is external and structural and VERY low frequency. Following your lead I poked around a bit and found these, which seem like they might serve the purpose much better. Might....
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... correlation is not causation!
How does one manage to pay 1.2 million dollars for a condo in Minnesota? Are real estate prices really that insane there? It ain't San Francisco.
And what happened to John Steele, who practically started this whole damned business model and now seems to have escaped under the radar? I've seen no reporting on his fate since Prenda Law fell apart.
We all live in a lone star state, even those of us who don't live in Texas.
You found a cure for sinus congestion!
It's called a pine box.
I don't think I can do it now, since I gave up keeping the monitor itself. It would be pretty difficult to make a case without the body. Habeas corpus, they'd cry.
Amen, brothers!