Like so many other things, people slap a magnet on the back of their minivan to Raise Awareness, and then pretend they've done something. You being all alarmed or convinced or otherwise aware of the problem after seeing the movie, doesn't actually accomplish anything.
DO SOMETHING.
Plant a tree. Plant a thousand trees. Install solar panels. Change your light bulbs over to LED. Turn down the thermostat. Properly inflate your tires. Get a job closer to home. DO SOMETHING.
I've planted around 10,000 trees, and installed around 10KW of solar panels. The solar panels are on a 4-5 year schedule to pay back the money spent on them, after which it's pure profit. AND, all the CO2 emissions that have been avoided by having them producing energy. I changed jobs to reduce my drive by an hour a day. We even gave tree seedlings to our wedding reception guests. Maybe I don't have a magnet on the back of my car, but, to me, actually doing something about it is more important than "raising awareness".
Solar is a great way to do something, and, have a great investment. Where else can you put your money and get a ~5 year ROI?
Exactly. Us Cupcake owners financed his team's development of the Thing-O-Matic. We were fine with that, we welcomed it as the next release of an open-source success story. And then Bre abandoned us Cupcake owners, 3 months afther the ToM was live, with a tacit "fuck you, buy the new stuff" message. Out of stock for months is a passive-aggressive approach to abandoning your supporters. Not cool, Bre.
Bre has abandoned the people who gave him his start. Sorry, but abandoning the first-gen "Cupcake" bot, 3 MONTHS after the next bot came out, and doing the same to the Thing-O-Matic folks, is a slap in the face to the open-source community who gave him his start. He's nothing other than a money-seeking whore, who betrayed his early supporters for the Almighty Buck. Even today's software updates, which have nothing different from the Whatzitplicator mark 1 and 2 other than a volumetric envelope setting, Makerbot Industries have abandoned the ones who gave them their start and turned into the entity that they pretended to not be part of.
I wonder how many months before Bre adds some DRM crap to his supplies so you can only print stuff on Makerbot printers if you buy their own branded, DRM'd, overpriced filaments.
And to think that I supported you, Bre. What an idiot I was. You seemed so sincere.
This isn't complicated. They stay with old unsupported crap because they know that the people who set it up are gone, and they aren't sure how to make it work again. They lost the recipe. They would rather saddle their support organizations with bugs that were fixed years ago, than to risk the unknown.
The pathetic part of this is, that they miss out on years of bug fixes and performance improvements, because they think they're saving money by laying off the people who built their critical infrastructure. Intangible costs are intangible....but, they make it hard to retain support staff...
Laboratory samples don't count until I can buy them in 1000 piece quantities. Right now, I can buy 17% efficient solar panels all day, every day, at $1.25 per watt. Until the other options improve on that, they're just a waste of investment.
Nitpicking, my ass. The difference between 10% and 17% is huge. Wake me when someone finds a mass-producable solar cell that has better than that efficiency, and decades of life at that output.
Current (heh...) silicon PV cells have reached the point of a 6 year payback on investment, and where the rails to mount them on cost more than the panels they hold. Until someone finds a hypothetical breakthrough, anything less than this efficiency is a waste of time and money other than for pure research.
Interesting, I might have to contact Oracle support on that one (when I tried to install Solaris 11 on a client's server, I got a "your system isn't supported" error.
Support contracts have to be paid, or that's the answer you get.
So, Sun support sucked because your employer didn't pay for a support contract, and you wanted the benefits of one (the downloading of patches) without paying for it? I'm guessing it's not even worth discussing threading models at this point.
"The Sun Fire server brand was a series of server computers introduced in 2001".
You think something from 2001 is old? What are you? 12?
Eh, it's past end of service life. Fine for a home or lab use, but, yeah, a 1280 is old. Beautiful hardware, built like a battleship. But at this point, having any of the purple generation of Sun gear in a datacenter is just a disaster recovery situation waiting to happen. So, old, certainly. Useless? Not by a far stretch. Just no longer enterprise-ready.
How about we put bad guys in jail, instead of punishing the millions of gun owners who haven't done anything wrong? A dramatic, double digit drop in murder rates for "Project Exile", vs. "challenges in discerning the effects of the ban"?
Richmond, Virginia, had a program in the 1990s. "Project Exile". Short version: Mandatory additional 5 years in jail if you use a gun in a crime, or if you're a felon found possessing a gun or ammunition. Crime went down 40%. https://house.resource.org/106/org.c-span.153371-1.pdf
From page 2 of this report, "Since the project began, the results have been evident. More than
200 armed criminals were removed from Richmond streets during
the first year of Project Exile alone. An entire gang responsible for
multiple murders has been dismantled.
In 1998, murders were 33 percent below 1997, the lowest number
since 1987. In 1999, murders are down yet another 29 percent."
Compare this with the Assault Weapons Ban, which accomplished nothing. Here's the National Institute of Justice's report, describing how it had no effect in reducing crime:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee/research/aw_brief1999.pdf
"A number of factors—including the fact
that the banned weapons and magazines
were rarely used to commit murders in
this country, the limited availability of
data on the weapons, other components of
the Crime Control Act of 1994, and State
and local initiatives implemented at the
same time—posed challenges in discerning
the effects of the ban."
A century and a half of evidence says otherwise. Unless you intend to include sources that are, you know, ignorant and wrong. Referring to the cartridge as "casing" may be used in as many as several percent of references. All of which are, like you, wrong. Sorry to be blunt but, words have meanings.
Can you name one gun control measure, ever, which has reduced crime? Chicago has 'em all, it's one of the worst places in the country.
I'd rather we go with "Project Exile" as implemented in Richmond, VA, in the 1990s. Mandatory 5 years additional in jail if you use a gun in a crime, mandatory jail if you're a felon in possession of a gun, etc. Punishes the bad people, while not disarming their potential victims. Oh, and crime went down 40% in a year.
Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics.
They are murdered WITH handguns, not BY them. They are murdered by criminals.
Focus on the bad guys, not the hardware. Blaming the hardware, then, by extension, blames the millions of us who are NOT criminals. And you people wonder why gun owners find this offensive.
The cartridge is just the brass part. The round includes the cartridge, the primer, the propellant (powder), and the projectile (bullet). I know this seems like pointless discussion over terminology, but, it's the equivalent of someone pointing at their PC and referring to it as the "CPU".
Exactly. Treat it like being defib or CPR certified. Those who qualify and take the training, should be allowed to protect our children in this way also. And if they can't pass a background check, why the hell are they around our kids?
Don't force them to do it, of course, but give them the option. Almost all states have CCW permits with the usual requirements, and those requirements match up pretty well to who we allow to be teachers (I'd hope).
...But how are we going to get the criminals to follow the law that says they should use that kind of gun? Every attempt at legislating the problem away ignores the basic, obvious fact, that criminals don't follow the laws.
See. when an app gives a control panel mechanism that claims to care what percent of a given resource pool it will use, yet, it uses 100% of the resources, it leads to questions such as mine. But thanks never so much for being useless. Let me guess, you want to pretend MacOS Wotever Cat is the problem, when in reality it's some misbehaving app that I tried to help with but which won't play nice. Huh.
So, I just bought a new 4/8 core I7 Mac. Told Folding@home to use 50% of my cores. It persisted in using 100% of my cores, despite what I told it to do, until I uninstalled it. Is there a distributed project whose client will honor my request to only donate half of my resources? Bonus points for one which lets me say which hours of which days it can run. If none of them can, I'll let ElectricSheep provide the eye candy, I really don't care. But I'd rather help out a cause that behaves as I specify on my hardware. Anyone?
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It's just a Pink Floyd quote. Calm your tits, man.
I mean, look at who is... Oh, nevermind.
Like so many other things, people slap a magnet on the back of their minivan to Raise Awareness, and then pretend they've done something. You being all alarmed or convinced or otherwise aware of the problem after seeing the movie, doesn't actually accomplish anything. DO SOMETHING. Plant a tree. Plant a thousand trees. Install solar panels. Change your light bulbs over to LED. Turn down the thermostat. Properly inflate your tires. Get a job closer to home. DO SOMETHING.
I've planted around 10,000 trees, and installed around 10KW of solar panels. The solar panels are on a 4-5 year schedule to pay back the money spent on them, after which it's pure profit. AND, all the CO2 emissions that have been avoided by having them producing energy. I changed jobs to reduce my drive by an hour a day. We even gave tree seedlings to our wedding reception guests. Maybe I don't have a magnet on the back of my car, but, to me, actually doing something about it is more important than "raising awareness".
Solar is a great way to do something, and, have a great investment. Where else can you put your money and get a ~5 year ROI?
So, it's like a teapot when it gets boiling?
Purple? Newb...it's red. No, green. Wait, I'll come in again.
Exactly. Us Cupcake owners financed his team's development of the Thing-O-Matic. We were fine with that, we welcomed it as the next release of an open-source success story. And then Bre abandoned us Cupcake owners, 3 months afther the ToM was live, with a tacit "fuck you, buy the new stuff" message. Out of stock for months is a passive-aggressive approach to abandoning your supporters. Not cool, Bre.
Bre has abandoned the people who gave him his start. Sorry, but abandoning the first-gen "Cupcake" bot, 3 MONTHS after the next bot came out, and doing the same to the Thing-O-Matic folks, is a slap in the face to the open-source community who gave him his start. He's nothing other than a money-seeking whore, who betrayed his early supporters for the Almighty Buck. Even today's software updates, which have nothing different from the Whatzitplicator mark 1 and 2 other than a volumetric envelope setting, Makerbot Industries have abandoned the ones who gave them their start and turned into the entity that they pretended to not be part of. I wonder how many months before Bre adds some DRM crap to his supplies so you can only print stuff on Makerbot printers if you buy their own branded, DRM'd, overpriced filaments. And to think that I supported you, Bre. What an idiot I was. You seemed so sincere.
This isn't complicated. They stay with old unsupported crap because they know that the people who set it up are gone, and they aren't sure how to make it work again. They lost the recipe. They would rather saddle their support organizations with bugs that were fixed years ago, than to risk the unknown. The pathetic part of this is, that they miss out on years of bug fixes and performance improvements, because they think they're saving money by laying off the people who built their critical infrastructure. Intangible costs are intangible. ...but, they make it hard to retain support staff...
Laboratory samples don't count until I can buy them in 1000 piece quantities. Right now, I can buy 17% efficient solar panels all day, every day, at $1.25 per watt. Until the other options improve on that, they're just a waste of investment.
Nitpicking, my ass. The difference between 10% and 17% is huge. Wake me when someone finds a mass-producable solar cell that has better than that efficiency, and decades of life at that output. Current (heh...) silicon PV cells have reached the point of a 6 year payback on investment, and where the rails to mount them on cost more than the panels they hold. Until someone finds a hypothetical breakthrough, anything less than this efficiency is a waste of time and money other than for pure research.
Interesting, I might have to contact Oracle support on that one (when I tried to install Solaris 11 on a client's server, I got a "your system isn't supported" error.
Support contracts have to be paid, or that's the answer you get.
So, Sun support sucked because your employer didn't pay for a support contract, and you wanted the benefits of one (the downloading of patches) without paying for it? I'm guessing it's not even worth discussing threading models at this point.
See, it's a mat with conclusions on it. And then you jump to them.
No, pendantic is right, he's hanging around making comments.
WTF?
"The Sun Fire server brand was a series of server computers introduced in 2001".
You think something from 2001 is old? What are you? 12?
Eh, it's past end of service life. Fine for a home or lab use, but, yeah, a 1280 is old. Beautiful hardware, built like a battleship. But at this point, having any of the purple generation of Sun gear in a datacenter is just a disaster recovery situation waiting to happen. So, old, certainly. Useless? Not by a far stretch. Just no longer enterprise-ready.
How about we put bad guys in jail, instead of punishing the millions of gun owners who haven't done anything wrong? A dramatic, double digit drop in murder rates for "Project Exile", vs. "challenges in discerning the effects of the ban"? Richmond, Virginia, had a program in the 1990s. "Project Exile". Short version: Mandatory additional 5 years in jail if you use a gun in a crime, or if you're a felon found possessing a gun or ammunition. Crime went down 40%.
https://house.resource.org/106/org.c-span.153371-1.pdf
From page 2 of this report, "Since the project began, the results have been evident. More than 200 armed criminals were removed from Richmond streets during the first year of Project Exile alone. An entire gang responsible for multiple murders has been dismantled. In 1998, murders were 33 percent below 1997, the lowest number since 1987. In 1999, murders are down yet another 29 percent."
Compare this with the Assault Weapons Ban, which accomplished nothing. Here's the National Institute of Justice's report, describing how it had no effect in reducing crime:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee/research/aw_brief1999.pdf
"A number of factors—including the fact that the banned weapons and magazines were rarely used to commit murders in this country, the limited availability of data on the weapons, other components of the Crime Control Act of 1994, and State and local initiatives implemented at the same time—posed challenges in discerning the effects of the ban."
A century and a half of evidence says otherwise. Unless you intend to include sources that are, you know, ignorant and wrong. Referring to the cartridge as "casing" may be used in as many as several percent of references. All of which are, like you, wrong. Sorry to be blunt but, words have meanings.
Can you name one gun control measure, ever, which has reduced crime? Chicago has 'em all, it's one of the worst places in the country.
I'd rather we go with "Project Exile" as implemented in Richmond, VA, in the 1990s. Mandatory 5 years additional in jail if you use a gun in a crime, mandatory jail if you're a felon in possession of a gun, etc. Punishes the bad people, while not disarming their potential victims. Oh, and crime went down 40% in a year.
Here are my views on gun control:
Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics.
They are murdered WITH handguns, not BY them. They are murdered by criminals. Focus on the bad guys, not the hardware. Blaming the hardware, then, by extension, blames the millions of us who are NOT criminals. And you people wonder why gun owners find this offensive.
The cartridge is just the brass part. The round includes the cartridge, the primer, the propellant (powder), and the projectile (bullet). I know this seems like pointless discussion over terminology, but, it's the equivalent of someone pointing at their PC and referring to it as the "CPU".
Exactly. Treat it like being defib or CPR certified. Those who qualify and take the training, should be allowed to protect our children in this way also. And if they can't pass a background check, why the hell are they around our kids? Don't force them to do it, of course, but give them the option. Almost all states have CCW permits with the usual requirements, and those requirements match up pretty well to who we allow to be teachers (I'd hope).
...But how are we going to get the criminals to follow the law that says they should use that kind of gun? Every attempt at legislating the problem away ignores the basic, obvious fact, that criminals don't follow the laws.
See. when an app gives a control panel mechanism that claims to care what percent of a given resource pool it will use, yet, it uses 100% of the resources, it leads to questions such as mine. But thanks never so much for being useless. Let me guess, you want to pretend MacOS Wotever Cat is the problem, when in reality it's some misbehaving app that I tried to help with but which won't play nice. Huh.
Wow, THAT's helpful. Oh wait, what's that other word.
So, I just bought a new 4/8 core I7 Mac. Told Folding@home to use 50% of my cores. It persisted in using 100% of my cores, despite what I told it to do, until I uninstalled it. Is there a distributed project whose client will honor my request to only donate half of my resources? Bonus points for one which lets me say which hours of which days it can run. If none of them can, I'll let ElectricSheep provide the eye candy, I really don't care. But I'd rather help out a cause that behaves as I specify on my hardware. Anyone?