Also of course thorium would solve that other problem current nuclear plants give us to.
As for running the old nuclear "garbage" we have I don't knoiw how that part work but in the case of the new stuff and newly produced one we'd only have to care say 300 years or so and I think we're able to make containers / storage which hold up reliably for that time and inform each other about it.
For 100.000 is a different story. (And if we could get those 100.000 years down to something much smaller the better. If the choice is to build storage vs build new reactors then maybe they look more feasible? As is I think it's India and China (?) who are closest to building them and as such there may be some lost prestige, sold equipment, ideas, and so on lost too if that would had encouraged anyone.)
Though one could argue they are in debt and as such not really.
Someone mentioned 500 billion dollar for that solar cells on the moon thingy, but that was compared with the oil industry using that to prospect for new oil each year... and of course those wars cost a few trillion some claim (I don't know how true it is and whatever it include that just having the military capacity in general also cost money even if it's not used.)
Anyway one can always tax more (and one can tax on environmental impact though it will be subjective.)
Every coal- or oil-fired power plant could have it's adjacent brick factory and become carbon neutral. We could stay on fossil fuels for centuries without aggravating the global climate
Or we could run on thorium for thousand(s?) years.
Or we could build those damn solar cells on the moon and not care any more (though I assume that bring some more energy here which will contribute to.)
Since we're in a fucking hurry best thing to do now would be to stop consume items until we've catched up with solutions.
Those barren (oil producing) lands look like shit if you ask me.
Wish we could get rid of all the damn plastic. It's kinda ok if you burn it but all obviously isn't burned.
Maybe this one didn't had the mobile parts? For regular cards I doubt 675 and 680 would be slower than 760.
Seem like Apple like they always do cripple the machines on purpose to make them stink and force you to upgrade at inflated prices though. 512MB VRAM? Why? The 660M is even in a 27" machine which I suppose is QHD? 512MB likely limit your gaming abilities in 2560x1440 quite a bit.
I don't understand most of what you're saying. So I can't really comment on it.
US economy and purchasing power is higher. And that's one reason to assume they pollute more. If the poor would get rich more consumtion would happen and with that likely more pollution.
I don't get the low threshold, like in easy to pass or like amount?
I don't get the magnitude higher and what that have to do with say hydroelectric power. Or you mean one pass say CO2 levels easier becayse of having hydroelecric power? I have no idea what it was all supposed to be about.
I don't get the protectionist talk either. It had nothing with protectionism to do. If I buy lots of useless junk from China I feel guilty because I'm buying lots of useless junk (say a set of paint knives, in the store you may get 10 or 15 of them at a price not much more than for a few of them but did you needed 15 of them? Same with all the crap which may come with advertisment or magazine subscriptions and such, uesless junk produced for nothing because I didn't even wanted it. Dealextreme sell lots which I think of as crap to.)
Consumer is doing the demand and picking the product. You've got choices. Take responsibility for buying more shit and the shit you're buying. Thinking something else is just retarded imho.
It wasn't at all about "oh don't buy this and that from China because they are filthy" (if so I would had said that. I don't give a shit about where it's from. Though I do understand a more environmental friendly product is more environmental friendly regardless of where it's from.)
So the idea was that we have higher environmental standards and fill them ourself and then say that oh no we can't buy from you because you don't live up to them?
Whatever. I see US as a filthy stinking ignorant garbage patch so.. let's go both ways.
There are people who will complain at 240 Hz refresh rates for their displays as being too slow. Luckily they'll be able to buy Denon cables to fix this.
On the other hand it should be criminal to even suggest someone exchange their cables (well, unless they are broken / doesn't work.)
Nice to see them lead but it's not really an act the whole world can follow.
Sure it can. At the cost of higher energy price.
There's lots of related stories.
I just read in a somewhat recent magazine (0-2 year old) how here in Sweden/Scandinavia I think they was often recycling 90-95% (or just 95%) of the building material when they broke down a building. In the rest of the Europe they was trying to reach 50-95% (or 50-90.) In the US? 20%.
There's also that story about that plastic stuff in the pacific.
Over here in Sweden almost all aluminium cans are recycled, you pay 1 SEK for them when you get your drink and you get 1 SEK back when you recycle them. When people go out and drink (and just throw or put down their beer somewhere) or maybe leave their soda cans some people browse the cities for cans and look through the trash cans to pick them up and return them. We do the same for glass (1 SEK) and PET (1 or 2 SEK) bottles. We have had the same system for beer, cider and wine bottles to. I don't know how it works atm because I don't buy them anyway.
I'm supplied with a compost bag holder and free paper bags to put my compost in and suppost to drop that content into a compost box outside. At the parking lot (same area) I can also leave all packaging which is made of plastic, metal, glass, cardboard and papers&magazines. If you live further out on the country side there's bigger ones like these: http://www.orebro.se/310.html
There you can leave more or less everything. Electronic (everything with built in battery, TVs,..), dish washers, fridges, freezers, things you can burn (mostly wood and furniture), plastic, asbestos, metal, light bulbs and FLs, I assume there's also room for things like garden left overs for people with no compost of their own, batteries, paint, thinners, oil,..
In general the rest garbage is burned for long-distance/district heating (and there's places which burn more nasty stuff to.)
As for land fills those exist to but with clay in the bottom and they put stuff above and so on but I guess that may be the case in many places. But as I understand things we've actually got a bigger demand for garbage to burn (though I assume we get some pollutans/filter material by doing so) than garbage so we import garbage..
I've read earlier being further north is actually better.
I don't remember why for sure but it may have been that the circuits work better at a lower temperature and as such you still win.
I read of some which made both electricity and heat with a claim that they normally didn't do that (likely depending on what electromagnetic wavelengths they focus on picking up.)
Does it really take work? Or well, what do I know. If one run Microsoft own antivirus (they have one right?) and have automatic updates are there any issues to be had?
Though I guess something like Steam Linux with drivers, Steam and everything else setup and say borrow the rest from somewhere (though I hate useless new distributions) is one way of doing it + provide Steam for others to.
If your distribution is just Ubuntu + Steam added in the package manager I guess it wouldn't be all that much work..? Or maybe more work than Windows when it comes to updates...?
Also if Nvidia perfected shield better with offering streaming at HIGHER quality to ANY android device with ANY input method then you could get MORE AWESOME portable gaming and still have need for a PC;)
4k is here but my display or graphics card able to use it (for games) isn't. Heck as you can see in your own link with HDMI you're still stuck with 30 FPS at most and that's with 8 bit / color. (Maybe you could over clock what do I know (yeah there's tools to try higher refresh rates.))
People already complain on 60 Hz on computer monitors as too slow for games.
3a) You've got the right to think that others shouldn't have the right to think, speak or be themself. 2a) You've even got the right to express how you don't think others don't have the right to think, speak or be themself. 1a) However, don't assume that any of the shit mentioned in 3a or 2a matters and if you'd even try to enforce that then fuck you.
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The US isn't the good guys.
The US is the US guys.
So from a US perspective it's ok if the US does it but not China.
Same with everything else.
Also of course thorium would solve that other problem current nuclear plants give us to.
As for running the old nuclear "garbage" we have I don't knoiw how that part work but in the case of the new stuff and newly produced one we'd only have to care say 300 years or so and I think we're able to make containers / storage which hold up reliably for that time and inform each other about it.
For 100.000 is a different story. (And if we could get those 100.000 years down to something much smaller the better. If the choice is to build storage vs build new reactors then maybe they look more feasible? As is I think it's India and China (?) who are closest to building them and as such there may be some lost prestige, sold equipment, ideas, and so on lost too if that would had encouraged anyone.)
delete all cookies etc. every time they exit.
I have to log in again the next time I visit slashdot.
Too much work. Well, except if I'd never quit the browser but then it wouldn't make any difference.
Then again USA, Germany and such can afford it.
Though one could argue they are in debt and as such not really.
Someone mentioned 500 billion dollar for that solar cells on the moon thingy, but that was compared with the oil industry using that to prospect for new oil each year. .. and of course those wars cost a few trillion some claim (I don't know how true it is and whatever it include that just having the military capacity in general also cost money even if it's not used.)
Anyway one can always tax more (and one can tax on environmental impact though it will be subjective.)
Apple's response to it.
Reminds me of Apple benchmarks.
Like iMac GTX 675m 1GB vs Dell 520m 512MB and then declare the mac clearly superior to a PC for gaming.
On the other hand someone surely asked for something which you know, kinda worked with using your fingers and more inprecise than a mouse or stylus.
Every coal- or oil-fired power plant could have it's adjacent brick factory and become carbon neutral. We could stay on fossil fuels for centuries without aggravating the global climate
Or we could run on thorium for thousand(s?) years.
Or we could build those damn solar cells on the moon and not care any more (though I assume that bring some more energy here which will contribute to.)
Since we're in a fucking hurry best thing to do now would be to stop consume items until we've catched up with solutions.
Those barren (oil producing) lands look like shit if you ask me.
Wish we could get rid of all the damn plastic. It's kinda ok if you burn it but all obviously isn't burned.
Haven't the imacs always come with low and mid-range graphics cards?
Current spec:
GT 540M 512MB
GT 650M 512MB
GTX 660M 512MB
GTX 675MX 1GB
GTX 680MX 2GB
Maybe this one didn't had the mobile parts? For regular cards I doubt 675 and 680 would be slower than 760.
Seem like Apple like they always do cripple the machines on purpose to make them stink and force you to upgrade at inflated prices though. 512MB VRAM? Why? The 660M is even in a 27" machine which I suppose is QHD? 512MB likely limit your gaming abilities in 2560x1440 quite a bit.
That the animal has eaten and pooped it out obviously.
I assume it changes the flavor, or just if flashy.
I don't understand most of what you're saying. So I can't really comment on it.
US economy and purchasing power is higher. And that's one reason to assume they pollute more. If the poor would get rich more consumtion would happen and with that likely more pollution.
I don't get the low threshold, like in easy to pass or like amount?
I don't get the magnitude higher and what that have to do with say hydroelectric power. Or you mean one pass say CO2 levels easier becayse of having hydroelecric power? I have no idea what it was all supposed to be about.
I don't get the protectionist talk either. It had nothing with protectionism to do. If I buy lots of useless junk from China I feel guilty because I'm buying lots of useless junk (say a set of paint knives, in the store you may get 10 or 15 of them at a price not much more than for a few of them but did you needed 15 of them? Same with all the crap which may come with advertisment or magazine subscriptions and such, uesless junk produced for nothing because I didn't even wanted it. Dealextreme sell lots which I think of as crap to.)
Consumer is doing the demand and picking the product. You've got choices. Take responsibility for buying more shit and the shit you're buying. Thinking something else is just retarded imho.
It wasn't at all about "oh don't buy this and that from China because they are filthy" (if so I would had said that. I don't give a shit about where it's from. Though I do understand a more environmental friendly product is more environmental friendly regardless of where it's from.)
So the idea was that we have higher environmental standards and fill them ourself and then say that oh no we can't buy from you because you don't live up to them?
Whatever. I see US as a filthy stinking ignorant garbage patch so.. let's go both ways.
The problem is more that the people living around a nuclear plant doesn't dive all that well and haven't got any houses under the sea.
I guess that's possible to fix with global warming and all but further away from the leakage. :)
(And no, it's likely not all that dangerous but it ruin a site pretty well.)
There are people who will complain at 240 Hz refresh rates for their displays as being too slow. Luckily they'll be able to buy Denon cables to fix this.
On the other hand it should be criminal to even suggest someone exchange their cables (well, unless they are broken / doesn't work.)
At least finally some part of the US is going metric.
US is about as polluting as the EU?
Locally or / capita?
Feel free to back that claim up with something. I'm much more interested / capita than anything else.
You buy a new TV, car or whatever = You pollute.
Nice to see them lead but it's not really an act the whole world can follow.
Sure it can. At the cost of higher energy price.
There's lots of related stories.
I just read in a somewhat recent magazine (0-2 year old) how here in Sweden/Scandinavia I think they was often recycling 90-95% (or just 95%) of the building material when they broke down a building.
In the rest of the Europe they was trying to reach 50-95% (or 50-90.)
In the US? 20%.
There's also that story about that plastic stuff in the pacific.
Over here in Sweden almost all aluminium cans are recycled, you pay 1 SEK for them when you get your drink and you get 1 SEK back when you recycle them. When people go out and drink (and just throw or put down their beer somewhere) or maybe leave their soda cans some people browse the cities for cans and look through the trash cans to pick them up and return them.
We do the same for glass (1 SEK) and PET (1 or 2 SEK) bottles.
We have had the same system for beer, cider and wine bottles to. I don't know how it works atm because I don't buy them anyway.
I'm supplied with a compost bag holder and free paper bags to put my compost in and suppost to drop that content into a compost box outside. At the parking lot (same area) I can also leave all packaging which is made of plastic, metal, glass, cardboard and papers&magazines. If you live further out on the country side there's bigger ones like these: http://www.orebro.se/310.html
Around the city there's places like this:
http://www.orebro.se/305.html
They are made like this:
http://www.orebro.se/download/18.1ae77d4612f5d50ab538000632/Atleverket_karta+%C3%B6ver+ramp+och+containrar.pdf
http://www.orebro.se/download/18.1ae77d4612f5d50ab538000634/Mellringe_karta+%C3%B6ver+ramp+och+containrar.pdf
http://www.trollhattan.se/Documents/Tekniska/renhallning/avc_detaljplan_stor2.jpg
Here's a photo of one:
http://www.orebrohus21.se/att/Hovstas%20nya%20%C3%A5tervinningscentral.JPG
http://www.emmaboda.se/upload/Om%20kommunen/Kommunala%20bolag/MHAB/Kopia%20av%20IMG_3356.JPG
There you can leave more or less everything. Electronic (everything with built in battery, TVs, ..), dish washers, fridges, freezers, things you can burn (mostly wood and furniture), plastic, asbestos, metal, light bulbs and FLs, I assume there's also room for things like garden left overs for people with no compost of their own, batteries, paint, thinners, oil, ..
In general the rest garbage is burned for long-distance/district heating (and there's places which burn more nasty stuff to.)
As for land fills those exist to but with clay in the bottom and they put stuff above and so on but I guess that may be the case in many places. But as I understand things we've actually got a bigger demand for garbage to burn (though I assume we get some pollutans/filter material by doing so) than garbage so we import garbage ..
They are rebuilding the largest one (?) in VÃsterÃ¥s:
http://www.malarenergi.se/sv/om-malarenergi/vara-anlaggningar/kraftvarmeverket/Valkommen-till-fornyelsebloggen/
I don't know where to find the nice looking schematics picture but whatever.
I've read earlier being further north is actually better.
I don't remember why for sure but it may have been that the circuits work better at a lower temperature and as such you still win.
I read of some which made both electricity and heat with a claim that they normally didn't do that (likely depending on what electromagnetic wavelengths they focus on picking up.)
Does it really take work? Or well, what do I know. If one run Microsoft own antivirus (they have one right?) and have automatic updates are there any issues to be had?
Though I guess something like Steam Linux with drivers, Steam and everything else setup and say borrow the rest from somewhere (though I hate useless new distributions) is one way of doing it + provide Steam for others to.
If your distribution is just Ubuntu + Steam added in the package manager I guess it wouldn't be all that much work ..? Or maybe more work than Windows when it comes to updates...?
There are quite a few US states that have no sales tax at all, so that explanation doesn't quite work.
Of course it still work because in the EU there is "sales tax."
Most toys cost more here.
ASUS GTX 760 DC2OC 2GB vram = 259.99 on newegg.
Good keyboard and mouse = $140
= Same price.
Performance = about equal or better on the PC?
Sure I know there's more to a PC than that. But some cheaper shit may be sufficient and PCs got other usages to and what not. Prices will fall to.
(or cloud service, which I guess may be more likely in the end.)
Also if Nvidia perfected shield better with offering streaming at HIGHER quality to ANY android device with ANY input method then you could get MORE AWESOME portable gaming and still have need for a PC ;)
4k is here but my display or graphics card able to use it (for games) isn't. Heck as you can see in your own link with HDMI you're still stuck with 30 FPS at most and that's with 8 bit / color. (Maybe you could over clock what do I know (yeah there's tools to try higher refresh rates.))
People already complain on 60 Hz on computer monitors as too slow for games.
In six years your PC will be.
399 USD =
297.206704 Euros
2 585.48629 Swedish kronor
Online prices in Sweden seem to be 3889 SEK atm.
But we've got 25% VAT so add that and you're up to 3232,50 kr.
We may also have better warranties and well, we're also getting somewhat screwed. But part of it is VAT.
Let's all move to Iceland.
Maybe one should write new ones.
1) You've got the right to be you.
2) You've got the right to speak.
3) You've got the right to think.
3a) You've got the right to think that others shouldn't have the right to think, speak or be themself.
2a) You've even got the right to express how you don't think others don't have the right to think, speak or be themself.
1a) However, don't assume that any of the shit mentioned in 3a or 2a matters and if you'd even try to enforce that then fuck you.
There. Short, simple and efficient.