Luckily I won't have to- unless this madness spreads to Oregon, and even then the 25 watt bulbs I currently buy last for an average of 5 years per install (even the incandescents can cause migraines if they are too bright).
I'm not so sure about that- in that I've got a medical condition that CFLs cause me migraines. But if this will make (similarily efficient) LED arrays cheaper, I'm all for it.
That's where the Hacker part comes in....:-) I believe we can design a better system than Marx described (either of the systems he described- after all, the stock market still runs on Marx's description of Capitalistic Principles). It just takes actual engineering.
Second, such actions would not be necessary if people didn't make illegal, unauthorized copies of software to use, sell, trade, or give away. Perhaps if people were more honest, such things would not be necessary. Personally, I find it funny that anyone complains, as such things have been going on since the early 80s.
Perhaps we're basing our business model on a level of honesty that doesn't exist in human beings?
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Deserts exist mainly because there is no moisture in the air to be extracted, not because of a lack of extraction.
Depends on the desert. Some exist where mankind imported goats, which ate all of the vegetation down to nothing. The first usually has drought-resistant plants still around, like cactus and the like, and shouldn't be messed with. The second, like what exists in Australia, Northern Africa, and the Middle East, usually has no vegetation to speak of and high humidity. These deserts can be rehabilitated with planting and air moisture extraction (though this is the first large scale version I've seen- earlier ones I've been aware of use desalinated sea water pumped many miles to kick off the vegetation first). The second type is usually very rocky and sandy as well, the soil having been eroded away by the wind once the vegetation was gone. For this reason, many environmentalists in those areas consider goats to be weapons of mass destruction.
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1920s? Israel didn't exist from 70 AD to 1948....Do you mean the British started this in the post-Ottoman period?
Even more incidentally, one reason there were so few trees in the first place is that the Ottomans imposed a tax on having a tree on one's property at some point.
Monarchies have the silliest taxes....
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No, actually, Global PLANTING- which is why one suggestion in TFA is so incredibly interesting. Use this device to get water to the desert, where you plant trees- that suck carbon out of the atmosphere and use that carbon to build leaves, which slow more air down and cause more rain, which gives you more water for planting trees and sucks more carbon out of the atmosphere.
Neat trick if we can get on it.
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If you live on the edge of a desert (as some Australians do) you need to worry about drought. If you live near the seashore (as the rest of the Australians do) you need to worry about flooding. That's the funny thing about global warming- it affects different climate regions differently. The only constant is it will change *all* climate areas in some way.
My theory, based on the hints in the article, is that the blades themselves cool a central condensing tower, which collects the water. Power generation for pumping the water beyond that is just a bonus, it's the whirling blades themselves that cool the air (you'll see the same thing on the bottom of airplane wings).
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So, condensing water from the air to water trees, from which some of the water will transpire back to the atmosphere, might improve local rainfall? Is that like the "lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume" line?:)
No, it's more that this windmill does what trees in a rainforest are already doing. Israel noticed this some time ago, and spent most of the 1960s and 1970s on something similar, though theirs was based on water pumped out of salinated lakes and the Medditeranian, and placed in desalination tanks. The fresh water was used for tree farms, that created more rainfall by cooling the air.
Therefore, the windmill in this situation is just a placeholder for what the trees will do anyway once they're mature enough.
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If you've got any sort of inventory control in place, you KNOW the number of computers. It's not like they have legs and walk off. For any school, that will likely be *smaller* than the number of Teachers/Professors+FTE students. It seems to me that unless there's a similar reduction in price for the licenses, the Microsoft Campus Agreement is a great way for Microsoft to bilk extra money out of clueless administrators who think it's easier to count students (who do walk around and may move away in the middle of the year, or suddenly appear during the school year) than computers (that don't).
it also represents the battle between local control and global networking. Does this guy really think his brilliant law enacted in Georgia will be enforcable against, say, a social networking site in California?
Universal subscribers usually have a minimum 10 seat license for the whole set; and even then can pay for more licenses at a discount.
Back when I was using an MSDN Universal subscription, I had a help desk guy tell me that they don't care about MSDN subscribers. That may have changed though- this was pre-XP.
How hard is it to figure out how many workstations running Windows you have? The hard part comes for CALs for IIS- how many people will visit your website?
Probably quite a few- the number of DVDs you get is completely unmanageable. Dumpster diving at such places will often net you both DVDs and license keys on little slips of paper sized to fit into jewel cases....
e-voting is unsuitable for anything more serious than who people think will supplant Britney Spears as the next queen of teen pop.
Sounds like it would be a good match for the British Parliment then, which recently spent quite a bit of time debating racism on the BBC's version of Big Brother.
You are living in a fairy land. When you can design a truck than can carry goods cross country that can plug into the grid or a ship that can carry goods across the oceans that you can plug into the grid I might start to agree with you.
Uh, we've had the first since 1912 and the second since 1920, the problem comes in with energy storage- and we're working on that one. If you don't mind driving only an hour or two in between plugging into the grid, the first two are fine. Heck, with the new wave generation bouy, all you need is a submerged towfish and an anchor line to continually supply your ship with wave energy.
From whether USA's regime is genocidal to whether USA's regime is brutal to certain economic class.
Explain the difference. I see no difference at all, but you apparently do. Extraordinary claims (that economic class is somehow different and thus people deserve to be oppressed based on the class they are in) require extraordinary explaination.
Yeah, but actually there are four legitimate free Wi-Fi groups in Portland:
1. Portland Airport Free WiFi, ssid "flypdx" 2. Personal Telco Underground WiFi Group, ssid "www.personaltelco.com". 3. Independant coffee shops, hotels, and internet cafes, various ssids 4. Metro-Fi, the new downtown and expanding out towards all of Metro area wifi cloud, ssid "MetroFi-Free". If you see "MetroFi-TestFree" this indicates an access point that isn't connected to the Internet yet but will be coming soon.
And of course, the city is currently rolling out free wifi in the downtown core, miles from the airport; which is where I found my "Free WiFi" adhoc connection that wouldn't work on my T-Mobile MDA.
I think I saw this in Portland while looking for a MetroFi link at the Hilton during the Microsoft Vista Launch. I couldn't get it to connect to my Windows Mobile phone- and now I know why. The OLAP processor probably rejected the ActiveX.
You obviously aren't familiar with the AP tests. No PDAs allowed, only graphing calculators.
Not surprising- I haven't taken an AP test since 1988, and back then, PDAs really hadn't been invented yet beyond Casio DataWatch capabilities. Then again, neither had graphing caluclators really- the first one I saw was a HP 28S, that very year.
In college, a simple scientific calculator will suffice for lower division classes. If you go into engineering you will be doing serious math by hand and serious calculations by computer (MATLAB or FORTRAN).
These days you can get both for PDAs- heck, you could even get both for high end graphing caculators (HP 49 series) back when I was in college.
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Luckily I won't have to- unless this madness spreads to Oregon, and even then the 25 watt bulbs I currently buy last for an average of 5 years per install (even the incandescents can cause migraines if they are too bright).
I'm not so sure about that- in that I've got a medical condition that CFLs cause me migraines. But if this will make (similarily efficient) LED arrays cheaper, I'm all for it.
That's where the Hacker part comes in....:-) I believe we can design a better system than Marx described (either of the systems he described- after all, the stock market still runs on Marx's description of Capitalistic Principles). It just takes actual engineering.
Second, such actions would not be necessary if people didn't make illegal, unauthorized copies of software to use, sell, trade, or give away. Perhaps if people were more honest, such things would not be necessary. Personally, I find it funny that anyone complains, as such things have been going on since the early 80s.
Perhaps we're basing our business model on a level of honesty that doesn't exist in human beings?
Deserts exist mainly because there is no moisture in the air to be extracted, not because of a lack of extraction.
Depends on the desert. Some exist where mankind imported goats, which ate all of the vegetation down to nothing. The first usually has drought-resistant plants still around, like cactus and the like, and shouldn't be messed with. The second, like what exists in Australia, Northern Africa, and the Middle East, usually has no vegetation to speak of and high humidity. These deserts can be rehabilitated with planting and air moisture extraction (though this is the first large scale version I've seen- earlier ones I've been aware of use desalinated sea water pumped many miles to kick off the vegetation first). The second type is usually very rocky and sandy as well, the soil having been eroded away by the wind once the vegetation was gone. For this reason, many environmentalists in those areas consider goats to be weapons of mass destruction.
1920s? Israel didn't exist from 70 AD to 1948....Do you mean the British started this in the post-Ottoman period?
Even more incidentally, one reason there were so few trees in the first place is that the Ottomans imposed a tax on having a tree on one's property at some point.
Monarchies have the silliest taxes....
No, actually, Global PLANTING- which is why one suggestion in TFA is so incredibly interesting. Use this device to get water to the desert, where you plant trees- that suck carbon out of the atmosphere and use that carbon to build leaves, which slow more air down and cause more rain, which gives you more water for planting trees and sucks more carbon out of the atmosphere.
Neat trick if we can get on it.
If you live on the edge of a desert (as some Australians do) you need to worry about drought. If you live near the seashore (as the rest of the Australians do) you need to worry about flooding. That's the funny thing about global warming- it affects different climate regions differently. The only constant is it will change *all* climate areas in some way.
My theory, based on the hints in the article, is that the blades themselves cool a central condensing tower, which collects the water. Power generation for pumping the water beyond that is just a bonus, it's the whirling blades themselves that cool the air (you'll see the same thing on the bottom of airplane wings).
So, condensing water from the air to water trees, from which some of the water will transpire back to the atmosphere, might improve local rainfall? Is that like the "lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume" line? :)
No, it's more that this windmill does what trees in a rainforest are already doing. Israel noticed this some time ago, and spent most of the 1960s and 1970s on something similar, though theirs was based on water pumped out of salinated lakes and the Medditeranian, and placed in desalination tanks. The fresh water was used for tree farms, that created more rainfall by cooling the air.
Therefore, the windmill in this situation is just a placeholder for what the trees will do anyway once they're mature enough.
Your vaporizers are no longer vaporware.
If you've got any sort of inventory control in place, you KNOW the number of computers. It's not like they have legs and walk off. For any school, that will likely be *smaller* than the number of Teachers/Professors+FTE students. It seems to me that unless there's a similar reduction in price for the licenses, the Microsoft Campus Agreement is a great way for Microsoft to bilk extra money out of clueless administrators who think it's easier to count students (who do walk around and may move away in the middle of the year, or suddenly appear during the school year) than computers (that don't).
it also represents the battle between local control and global networking. Does this guy really think his brilliant law enacted in Georgia will be enforcable against, say, a social networking site in California?
Universal subscribers usually have a minimum 10 seat license for the whole set; and even then can pay for more licenses at a discount.
Back when I was using an MSDN Universal subscription, I had a help desk guy tell me that they don't care about MSDN subscribers. That may have changed though- this was pre-XP.
If you're truly small, you'll never see this audit, because unlike what the article submitter thinks, 250 workstations is not a small company.
How hard is it to figure out how many workstations running Windows you have? The hard part comes for CALs for IIS- how many people will visit your website?
Probably quite a few- the number of DVDs you get is completely unmanageable. Dumpster diving at such places will often net you both DVDs and license keys on little slips of paper sized to fit into jewel cases....
e-voting is unsuitable for anything more serious than who people think will supplant Britney Spears as the next queen of teen pop.
Sounds like it would be a good match for the British Parliment then, which recently spent quite a bit of time debating racism on the BBC's version of Big Brother.
You are living in a fairy land. When you can design a truck than can carry goods cross country that can plug into the grid or a ship that can carry goods across the oceans that you can plug into the grid I might start to agree with you.
Uh, we've had the first since 1912 and the second since 1920, the problem comes in with energy storage- and we're working on that one. If you don't mind driving only an hour or two in between plugging into the grid, the first two are fine. Heck, with the new wave generation bouy, all you need is a submerged towfish and an anchor line to continually supply your ship with wave energy.
From whether USA's regime is genocidal to whether USA's regime is brutal to certain economic class.
Explain the difference. I see no difference at all, but you apparently do. Extraordinary claims (that economic class is somehow different and thus people deserve to be oppressed based on the class they are in) require extraordinary explaination.
Yeah, but actually there are four legitimate free Wi-Fi groups in Portland:
1. Portland Airport Free WiFi, ssid "flypdx"
2. Personal Telco Underground WiFi Group, ssid "www.personaltelco.com".
3. Independant coffee shops, hotels, and internet cafes, various ssids
4. Metro-Fi, the new downtown and expanding out towards all of Metro area wifi cloud, ssid "MetroFi-Free". If you see "MetroFi-TestFree" this indicates an access point that isn't connected to the Internet yet but will be coming soon.
And of course, the city is currently rolling out free wifi in the downtown core, miles from the airport; which is where I found my "Free WiFi" adhoc connection that wouldn't work on my T-Mobile MDA.
I think I saw this in Portland while looking for a MetroFi link at the Hilton during the Microsoft Vista Launch. I couldn't get it to connect to my Windows Mobile phone- and now I know why. The OLAP processor probably rejected the ActiveX.
You obviously aren't familiar with the AP tests. No PDAs allowed, only graphing calculators.
Not surprising- I haven't taken an AP test since 1988, and back then, PDAs really hadn't been invented yet beyond Casio DataWatch capabilities. Then again, neither had graphing caluclators really- the first one I saw was a HP 28S, that very year.
In college, a simple scientific calculator will suffice for lower division classes. If you go into engineering you will be doing serious math by hand and serious calculations by computer (MATLAB or FORTRAN).
These days you can get both for PDAs- heck, you could even get both for high end graphing caculators (HP 49 series) back when I was in college.
Creative Creek seems to have a nice set for various PDAs.