You are much too optimistic. The amount of solar power hitting the ground does not come anywhere near to 1361 W/m^2 average, 24x7. That figure actually represents the amount of solar power occluded by one m^2 of the earth's cross section in outer space. Considerably less than that reaches the ground, even ideally. And it is zero at night. It is much reduced when you average the daytime period even in good weather. It is further reduced by bad weather. It is still further reduced as you get further from the equator. The true average figure os solar energy reaching the ground is closer to 164 W/m^2.
With a typical conversion efficiency of 15%, that makes 25 W/m^2 of averaged electricity production.
even top-end panels last about 25 years max before peak output drops below 80% of rated Wp
Not true. Standard guarantee is that panels will be at the 80% mark or higher at 25 years.
Oh come now. You repeated essentially exactly the same statement as GP and then claimed GP was wrong?!?! And it's not a "guarantee". Nobody guarantees anything for 25 years. The manufacturer is highly unlikely to even be in existence in 25 years, and if he screws up he would instantly go bankrupt at the end of 25 years trying to make good on the first few percent of warranty replacements. The 25 years is a statement of expected life, hopefully backed up by some kind of realistic accelerated testing. Solar panels are warrantied for maybe 1-3 years against manufacturing defects if you're lucky, and that's about it.
And I'm sorry, but I'm not going to blindly accept what the European Photovoltaic industry shill group claims for payback. The claim is absurd. At present, true payback on photovoltaics (not considering subsidies, which are just a distortion of conditions) is INFINITE. That's right, energy from photovoltaic is more expensive than from traditional power plants. See here - not an industry shill.
TOTAL system levelized cost - photovoltaic 156.9, advanced nuclear 112.7, conventional coal 99.6, conventional combined cycle gas fired 68.6.
About the only source more outrageously expensive than photovoltaic are solar thermal - 251.0 - and the boondoggle of offshore wind - 330.6.
They'll probably have to if Nokia dumps Qt into the trashcan like they're posturing to do.
What the heck are we talking about? Qt has been GPL since 2000. Who the heck cares what Nokia does or does not do with it? It's free to maintain and develop.
Good God, man, the summary specifically says threats of violence are NOT enough to arrest. Could it be any plainer that it says the OPPOSITE of what you claim? (Whether the summary is accurate is an entirely separate question)
To the hypothetical atheist: make up your damn mind. If you are a true atheist, that would be tantamount to saying the tooth fairy is going to slit your throat. How can you be either offended or alarmed by someone relating a fairy tale? If he said you were stupid because you didn't believe in God, that would be offensive and spiteful speech. Whether worthy of censure or punishment, is another matter for consideration. If he said you should be tortured and killed because you didn't believe in God, that would definitely be over the line.
It works both ways.
Perspective. It's a necessary part of living in society.
Microsoft Research and Windows Server 2008 are two of the relatively worthwhile and competent things to come out of Microsoft. So he knows what he's doing.
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Snopes has gradually but comprehensively turned into a horse's ass. They will deny ANY story you give them. In the stupid article you link to, they as much as say, yes, the story is essentially true, we can't verify every excruciating detail 100% so we're going to say something with is essentially an excellent exposition is "FALSE", just because we make it our business to claim EVERYTHING is false.
They got what they deserved from that asinine move.
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What in that reply goes the SLIGHTEST WAY toward disproving or effectively countering ANY of the article's points? Mindless denial is of course to be expected inside the floundering giant.
During the period that Microsoft's market cap got lopped in half, Apple's multiplied by over ONE HUNDRED TIMES. So yes, I'd say that qualifies for a lost decade. Market cap is the world's picture of how much you are worth as a company.
I'll buy that familiarity with the technology is a factor, but it's also about the thrill of technology as a motivator. Business types don't have it. Everybody knows what their SOLE motivation in life is, only it's self defeating in this particular sector.
I have a picture of the MBA at bed time. After the obligatory five minutes, he and his wife are lighting up smokes. She is stroking his shoulder, murmuring sweetly. "It's all right, sweetie. You're just wound up." His brow is furrowed in thought and he is thinking silently "How can we leverage sex in the business? How can we rake in the bucks and rip off the people?"
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
1) Unit sales are not the significant measure. Plainly, if unit sales are 1:10, gross receipts are a much a much higher ratio than 1:10, and the ratio of profit attributable to Macs, to profit attributable to iPhones and iPads, is probably even greater than that.
2) You don't throw away 1/10 of your business just because you have the other 9/10. That would be stupid.
3) If Apple were just a PC company, then they would be the same company they were for about their first two decades - FAR from dead or obscure. Porsche is not dead or obscure just because VW sells far more units.
HDCP has nothing whatsoever to do with HDMI. I have DVI monitors that implement HDCP. I had one from before HDMI was invented, and othes since. I'd bet your recent DVI monitors support HDMI.
USB sticks are usually VERY slow writing and not even up to par for reading; at least those which could be described as anywhere near cheap. You're looking typically at single digit MBps write (often low to middling single digits)and maybe 10-20 MBps read. Something decent like a Super Talent ST4 (which is physically gigantic) costs over $100 for 25 lousy GB, and is only reasonably fast on USB3. On USB2 it won't even read more than 25-30 MBps.
If they had even half a brain they would have put one or two MicroSD slots. Negligible cost and space. You can get 32GB MicroSD for about a buck a GB which is faster than any USB stick at that price range, and like one zillionth the size.
Nonsense. Free market Capitalism doesn't exist. Everything is tightly regulated.
With all due respect, you ought to get your story straight. If it IS fundamentally broken, it's because of its own built-in failings, not because it is being distorted by government. That's pretty much by the definition of the terms of the argument. Otherwise, there is a problem with logic.
If, on the other hand, it is NOT fundamentally broken, then you have to explain why it is not practiced in pure form in a single place in the entire world. Good luck with THAT.
Claiming that the black market is a system in which everyone participating has an equal chance of cleaning up and becoming filthy rich (which incidentally means impoverishing others) is clearly mistaken. Raw, naked power and initial backing and resources rule [at LEAST] just as much in the black market as they do in the cozy corporate government corruptocracy we "enjoy" currently in the U.S., and China "enjoys" in slightly different form. At least the Chinese form is economically functional and actually seeks to better the condition of the people.
I think some of the confusion here lies in the presumed conjunction of equivalencies and oppositions. [Real] socialism is not the opposite of capitalism; rather they are both variations of the same idea: dictation. Capitalism is absolutely not the same as free market. Capitalism confers privilege on those who own capital, and sees to it that the capital and its conferred privilege stays largely in the hands of the same class over time. A true free market strongly implies equal opportunity. But neither one has anything whatever to do with reward in proportion to sweat.
Now, what the democratic socialists in Europe seek to do is leverage both socialism and capitalism, carefully moderating the excesses of both by allowing neither one free rein. I think the jury is still out on whether that approach could possibly work.
What capitalism and socialism are both in direct opposition to, is distributism. Look up the term some time. You might find something that appeals to you. I know I did.
The problem with all of these "isms" is that none of them deal with the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is that the natural devolution of all human interactions on a large scale is corruption. For that, there is no magic insightful solution.
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You are much too optimistic. The amount of solar power hitting the ground does not come anywhere near to 1361 W/m^2 average, 24x7. That figure actually represents the amount of solar power occluded by one m^2 of the earth's cross section in outer space. Considerably less than that reaches the ground, even ideally. And it is zero at night. It is much reduced when you average the daytime period even in good weather. It is further reduced by bad weather. It is still further reduced as you get further from the equator. The true average figure os solar energy reaching the ground is closer to 164 W/m^2.
With a typical conversion efficiency of 15%, that makes 25 W/m^2 of averaged electricity production.
If you believe you have a 25 year system warranty that is worth the paper it's printed on, you are smoking some good stuff.
Oh come now. You repeated essentially exactly the same statement as GP and then claimed GP was wrong?!?! And it's not a "guarantee". Nobody guarantees anything for 25 years. The manufacturer is highly unlikely to even be in existence in 25 years, and if he screws up he would instantly go bankrupt at the end of 25 years trying to make good on the first few percent of warranty replacements. The 25 years is a statement of expected life, hopefully backed up by some kind of realistic accelerated testing. Solar panels are warrantied for maybe 1-3 years against manufacturing defects if you're lucky, and that's about it.
And I'm sorry, but I'm not going to blindly accept what the European Photovoltaic industry shill group claims for payback. The claim is absurd. At present, true payback on photovoltaics (not considering subsidies, which are just a distortion of conditions) is INFINITE. That's right, energy from photovoltaic is more expensive than from traditional power plants. See here - not an industry shill.
TOTAL system levelized cost - photovoltaic 156.9, advanced nuclear 112.7, conventional coal 99.6, conventional combined cycle gas fired 68.6.
About the only source more outrageously expensive than photovoltaic are solar thermal - 251.0 - and the boondoggle of offshore wind - 330.6.
Why not; SELinux certainly has no problem blocking anything useful from working.
Why? Qt is GPL, widely ported, and the best toolkit there is.
What the heck are we talking about? Qt has been GPL since 2000. Who the heck cares what Nokia does or does not do with it? It's free to maintain and develop.
Good God, man, the summary specifically says threats of violence are NOT enough to arrest. Could it be any plainer that it says the OPPOSITE of what you claim? (Whether the summary is accurate is an entirely separate question)
To the hypothetical atheist: make up your damn mind. If you are a true atheist, that would be tantamount to saying the tooth fairy is going to slit your throat. How can you be either offended or alarmed by someone relating a fairy tale? If he said you were stupid because you didn't believe in God, that would be offensive and spiteful speech. Whether worthy of censure or punishment, is another matter for consideration. If he said you should be tortured and killed because you didn't believe in God, that would definitely be over the line.
It works both ways.
Perspective. It's a necessary part of living in society.
Microsoft Research and Windows Server 2008 are two of the relatively worthwhile and competent things to come out of Microsoft. So he knows what he's doing.
CD set? CD?
Just because Hari Seldon has not been born yet doesn't mean he never will be. But psychohistory is not really political science.
Your English is so good that Mr Rude Coward made an assumption about you and in so doing made an ass of himself. On the other hand, I looked up some of your posts, and your self-taught English fluency is damned impressive.
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Snopes has gradually but comprehensively turned into a horse's ass. They will deny ANY story you give them. In the stupid article you link to, they as much as say, yes, the story is essentially true, we can't verify every excruciating detail 100% so we're going to say something with is essentially an excellent exposition is "FALSE", just because we make it our business to claim EVERYTHING is false.
They got what they deserved from that asinine move.
What in that reply goes the SLIGHTEST WAY toward disproving or effectively countering ANY of the article's points? Mindless denial is of course to be expected inside the floundering giant.
Overlooking Apple and a handful of other exceptions for the moment, yes, absolutely.
During the period that Microsoft's market cap got lopped in half, Apple's multiplied by over ONE HUNDRED TIMES. So yes, I'd say that qualifies for a lost decade. Market cap is the world's picture of how much you are worth as a company.
I'll buy that familiarity with the technology is a factor, but it's also about the thrill of technology as a motivator. Business types don't have it. Everybody knows what their SOLE motivation in life is, only it's self defeating in this particular sector.
I have a picture of the MBA at bed time. After the obligatory five minutes, he and his wife are lighting up smokes. She is stroking his shoulder, murmuring sweetly. "It's all right, sweetie. You're just wound up." His brow is furrowed in thought and he is thinking silently "How can we leverage sex in the business? How can we rake in the bucks and rip off the people?"
That much is true. The driver for HDCP is strictly market, not legal.
BTW, I misspoke; beg pardon. What I bet is that your Dells support HDCP (damn these acronyms are wearing me down). What is the model number?
1) Unit sales are not the significant measure. Plainly, if unit sales are 1:10, gross receipts are a much a much higher ratio than 1:10, and the ratio of profit attributable to Macs, to profit attributable to iPhones and iPads, is probably even greater than that.
2) You don't throw away 1/10 of your business just because you have the other 9/10. That would be stupid.
3) If Apple were just a PC company, then they would be the same company they were for about their first two decades - FAR from dead or obscure. Porsche is not dead or obscure just because VW sells far more units.
Do you also lose the glass windows in your room because you (gasp) have to turn your head to see them all?
HDCP has nothing whatsoever to do with HDMI. I have DVI monitors that implement HDCP. I had one from before HDMI was invented, and othes since. I'd bet your recent DVI monitors support HDMI.
What a goddam loser.
USB sticks are usually VERY slow writing and not even up to par for reading; at least those which could be described as anywhere near cheap. You're looking typically at single digit MBps write (often low to middling single digits)and maybe 10-20 MBps read. Something decent like a Super Talent ST4 (which is physically gigantic) costs over $100 for 25 lousy GB, and is only reasonably fast on USB3. On USB2 it won't even read more than 25-30 MBps.
If they had even half a brain they would have put one or two MicroSD slots. Negligible cost and space. You can get 32GB MicroSD for about a buck a GB which is faster than any USB stick at that price range, and like one zillionth the size.
With all due respect, you ought to get your story straight. If it IS fundamentally broken, it's because of its own built-in failings, not because it is being distorted by government. That's pretty much by the definition of the terms of the argument. Otherwise, there is a problem with logic.
If, on the other hand, it is NOT fundamentally broken, then you have to explain why it is not practiced in pure form in a single place in the entire world. Good luck with THAT.
Claiming that the black market is a system in which everyone participating has an equal chance of cleaning up and becoming filthy rich (which incidentally means impoverishing others) is clearly mistaken. Raw, naked power and initial backing and resources rule [at LEAST] just as much in the black market as they do in the cozy corporate government corruptocracy we "enjoy" currently in the U.S., and China "enjoys" in slightly different form. At least the Chinese form is economically functional and actually seeks to better the condition of the people.
I think some of the confusion here lies in the presumed conjunction of equivalencies and oppositions. [Real] socialism is not the opposite of capitalism; rather they are both variations of the same idea: dictation. Capitalism is absolutely not the same as free market. Capitalism confers privilege on those who own capital, and sees to it that the capital and its conferred privilege stays largely in the hands of the same class over time. A true free market strongly implies equal opportunity. But neither one has anything whatever to do with reward in proportion to sweat.
Now, what the democratic socialists in Europe seek to do is leverage both socialism and capitalism, carefully moderating the excesses of both by allowing neither one free rein. I think the jury is still out on whether that approach could possibly work.
What capitalism and socialism are both in direct opposition to, is distributism. Look up the term some time. You might find something that appeals to you. I know I did.
The problem with all of these "isms" is that none of them deal with the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is that the natural devolution of all human interactions on a large scale is corruption. For that, there is no magic insightful solution.