No the consumption of 15tw has raised the Global land temperatures by 1.5 degrees C over the past 250 years. (http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings)
And most of, if not all of that effect has been due to the (at the time) unavoidable pollution, not the simple expenditure of energy. Helium 3 (fusion) suggests an energy approach that eliminates all of the green-house gas and pollution, leaving us with just the heat byproduct of using electrical energy. As our energy use becomes more and more efficient, even this is reduced.
However, with lower greenhouse emissions the excess heat would just dissipate into space, with no measurable ill effect. (Well some say it will balloon the gas envelop a tiny bit).
Information wants to be free, man. Seriously though this is par for the course in business. The only unusual thing is that they got caught and the courts are taking the claims seriously. Low hanging, fat, and easy, just the way the justice system likes 'em.
Its highly likely the company stole some of that code from their competitors in the first place.
Software reverse engineering is the cheap, but not as cheap as slipping some competitor's employee a couple hundred grand under the table, especially when there is potential for huge profits involved.
If something works well and does what you want, and you follow your own advice and look no further, how would you ever know about something that worked better and does even more than you THOUGHT you wanted?
With any competent distro (I.E. Not ubuntu) you can have Gnome and KDE, (and a couple others that have been gaining in power quietly). All they cost is a little disk space, (very little) and your reward might be discovering a whole new world that you THOUGHT you didn't need.
So go ahead, and be satisfied with what you have if you want, but most Linux users like the choice.
There was never a reason for you to weigh in saying in strong language that there is "absolutely no need to try others" when choice is the WHOLE point of linux in the first place.
In this case, it means that all files are only accessible through calibre and not through the file system.
Nonsense. The ebooks in the Calibre library are store as common eBook formatted files, and can be accessed by simply looking for them with your file browser. You can search them with your desktop search facility, click them to open them for reading with your favorite ebook reader.
Because the files are simply FILES, you can point your favorite ebook reader at the directory and it works perfectly. Please stop spreading fud.
Now if I have all my other (thousands) of ebooks in a single folder
Really? The mind boggles!
The discussion here is about people who sort their ebooks into non-standard directory structures, and complain that Calibre does not work with those odd-ball structures. But it can import those ebooks just the same, and it can export them back to what ever goofball structure you want.
But within its library it works with its own structure. And this is said to be a lock in. Its clearly NOT a lock in since it will export back to your structure if you want.
This whole argument is the last gasp of those who painstakingly hand-built built directories upon directories to house their ebooks, only to find their structure didn't work, and re built it yet again. They still can't find anything, but it sure looks organized. Its the same way they organize their music, First by horns, and woodwinds, drums, then below that by genera, then tempo, then by author, and finally by song name. When done, they can't find anything, but they rail at any other software that suggests a reasonable structure with the ability to search. (I suspect these folks also pigeon-hole into their pet categories too.
If anything Calibre actually makes harebrained directory structures MORE possible and sustainable, because you can store it in Calibre, tag it any way you want, (the tagging system is extensible), then export it into a structure that includes directories based on your tagging.
Exactly. So it's OK the USA does it but not the Chinese?
Actually, I suspect at least half the break-ins blamed on the Chinese are actually the NSA doing it, then planting a trail designed to point to the Chinese. Not that I doubt the Chinese are doing hacking, just that because the do attempt to penetrate important sites, the NSA can use that as cover.
Compared to Microsoft's other OSes it's the best they've done.
Agreed, Win7 is pretty darned good, in fact its probably the first version that is better than Windows 2000.
I suspect it will be hard for Windows 8 to dislodge win 7 from the work place, even with the 8.1 changes. Microsoft has this habit of one horrible version followed by one reasonably good version.
Unfortunately, unlike the Linux world where you can totally step away from a botched UI, windows pretty much locks you into the struggle till a totally new version comes out, or you get so fed up you nuke it and install Linux, (which gets you fired from most companies).
It is a big deal if you have to replace a core component of an OS with a third party solution to make it usable.
For some of us, that is the normal course of events. Linux without some form of X based desktop is fine for servers, but really less than appealing in user land. We are use to trying out several totally different UIs before settling on one.
The problem is in the windows world, people are so use to the "take it or leave it" approach they never understood you could replace key parts or even the entire UI if you wanted to.
Microsoft did a good job at suppressing information about replacements or add-ons that virtually nobody knew they existed. But if you go looking for them you will find them.
This release signals the great experiment is finally OVER, and both methods will again be available. Windows 8.1 may actually survive for a while with this feature if they can Just Fix The Security Flaws they designed into it.
He realized tags made way more sense than odd-ball sorting into directories. Any directory structure is a lock in, as soon as you realize it doesn't work.
So he added tagging with your tags or standard tags.
But For people who insist on organizing in some antiquated way he created Save to Disk settings where you can change the order used when exporting. You can customize to create any sort of directory structure for your exported files. So lock-in go Poof, vanished before your very eyes.
Further you can also create the custome structure when sending books to a device (e-reader), and guess what... It can be different than you use for exporting. So when you find that your eReader doesn't support sorting by Genre, you can change that back to something sensible.
Tagging is way better than structured directories. You can sort by any tag within Calibre, and output in any order you want. There is no lock in.
(Its 2013. Tagging is where its at. Obscure Structured directories are so 1999.
So little late to ask here unless they are planning for next year.
But yeah, the Carriers can wheel in portable towers if you can convince them its worth their while for a short duration event, and give them enough time.
Nobody is going to trust any silly mesh network or open wifi, especially at an event like hempfest which was basically hands off for Seattle police, but crawling with undercover DEA.
Give it time, the interface grows on you. And having the same interface on Linux and Windows is worth learning what the icons mean. (hover works)
Nobody has mentioned that it the ability to send ebooks to your android without cabling up, sucking down newspapers or other periodicals and pushing them to your devices so you can read on the plane, or serving ebooks to your whole household for download via a simple web browser. Or managing multiple ebook libraries, so you can keep the kids books out of your books and vise versa.
I think it looks complicated, because it has a lot of power, but if you sit down and play with one feature a day, it becomes second nature.
So far you had to import all of your files into calibre, it can't reference external files. So it is pretty much unusable for importing larger existing libraries, and you get locked in.
Almost everything you said is NOT true.
Import into Calibre is simply drag and drop, or select from a file browser, and you can keep your existing library. Once in Calibre the file are easily Exported. Further you can use them in place, right out of the Calibre directory, because the files stay in what ever format you wish. You can even keep your ebooks in multiple formats, because it converts between multiple virtually flawlessly. It fetches covers and metadata and its just a joy to use.
I've dragged and dropped my entire ebook collection into it. Most of them I converted to epub, but in a few cases I retained the existing format as well. It handles it all. It has an export function that will export any given format, all formats, all formats with metadata and covers. Its just a stupendous piece of work. (Yeah, I sent him $50 some years ago).
There is no lock in. Its the most versatile program for ebook management I've ever seen.
And, yes, if you hunt around you will be able to find third party DRM removal plugins, so when your old DRM device dies, or your old format with DRM goes out of use, you can convert to almost any other format and leave the DRM behind.
Hi. Actually these are storage tanks and are designed to hold water. Once they are filled, its unlikely water is pumped out unless there's a suitable place to dump it. That doesn't seem to be the case.
No, the tanks levels are constantly changing, these tanks are in the cooling water refining circuit.
Well, no. The situation is this. The melted-down cores at the damaged reactors (the site is not "crippled", two reactors were undamaged and will return to service) are still hot - though much less hot than they were two years ago - and need to be cooled. This is done by pumping water through their buildings, then sucking it out again and putting it into holding tanks before purifying it to remove the radiation it picks up from the cores. Then it gets used again.
The radiation in these tanks is easily stopped by the tank wall. (Its almost solely Beta radiation). So climbing the tank is not particularly a problem.
Water is always being pumped into and out of these tanks (they are used to circulate cooling water for shut down reactors and the separation plant where radioactive elements are separated). As such, water level in the tank is not static, there are surges as pumps start and stop, etc. Think of the tank as a buffer in a continuous flowing circuit. There are systems to make sure there is always sufficient water in the circuit, and water may be added at locations far removed from the actual tank. Its vitally important to make sure there is adequate cooling water, it can never be allowed to run dry.
When you view it this way, missing a couple hundred gallons over the course of a month is not something you can count on detecting by monitoring water lever in a tank, because it fluctuates naturally, loss will be automatically compensated by new water additions.
So thanks for playing along, but I believe this issue is best left to the big boys,(even the ones you might, in your make-believe environment, consider to be incompetent). The problem is much more complex than you know, and won't be solved with your cute little lash-up toys.
It does not make any sense whatsoever for the NSA to be slowing or otherwise blocking connectivity, as that is counterproductive to the acquisition of intelligence data.
Normally I would agree with you, but since "THEY" (the generic they) are forcing Presidential planes to land, detaining boyfriends, seizing electronics, what makes you so sure some arm of the US government isn't deliberately slowing or blocking binary transfer streams in an attempt to stop Snowdens 400gigabyte cache of information from spreading ?
(I suspect his Peru ISP is lying to him, but still I consider the possibility of intentional interference).
Actually, it was proposed by me several levels up, and there is no inherent problem in doing this if the automated vehicles maintain a safe minimal distance even when stopped. No one suggested a tightly packed convoy.
Especially in stop and go traffic, speeds are seldom likely to climb quickly, and the vehicles can space themselves according to speed automatically as the entire traffic chain speed increases. As the second car senses a speed requiring greater spacing, it simply ceases accelerating until that spacing is achieved. Then the third car, etc.
But this would only happen or be necessary somewhere above 30mph. For stoplight to stoplight, or bumper to bumper traffic, the problem is that people car constantly running up on the bumper of the person in front, instead of stopping some distance back, and maintaining that gap when stopped.
As a consequence traffic moves like a slinkie, with the back end catching up to the front and inter-vehicle gaps evaporating. This just exacerbates the problem. A one car length gap would allow all of them to start moving at once (assuming inter vehicle telemetry).
This also applies in moving traffic. The tendency of humans to close up gaps between cars causes jams. Simply not doing that eliminates jams. But where humans don't have that kind of discipline, the autonomous vehicle might.
Do you brake as hard as you can to maximise the chance of saving the life of whatever stepped out in front of you but also risking causing a pileup if the cars behind you have weaker breaks then you do or do you break based on some estimate of the characteristics of the worst brakes in the convoy and hit whatever is in front of you harder?
Wouldn't a computerized car know its stopping distance, adjusted for weather, and monitored over the life of the vehicle? Wouldn't it adjust its following distance accordingly?
Imagine a row of automated cars, all accelerating in unison from a traffic light. Somewhere down the street they'll all be going at 30MPH, and all still be separated by 3 feet.
Oh don't be silly. Following distance is ALREADY speed adjusted in cars with Adaptive Cruise Control. Its a trivial engineering problem.
Well bringing the discussion back on point, (I know, I know), how would Wiki predict a flop ahead of time?
After all, people have to see it, or at least have access to the script, a complete list of cast, production crew, and special effects to even begin to write a stub article on Wiki.
It would appear TFA addresses none of this. They don't appear to throw out updates and page views that pre-date the actual release date. The look at AFTER-THE FACT data.
Further, these results could and would be gamed the minute it was revealed anyone was paying attention. The posts prior to casting, shooting, and editing would be from insiders, looking to feather their own nest. There are no actual movie goers involved that early. Usually the script is closely guarded so that even enthusiasts of the book are clueless. Even the actors don't necessarily know how something will turn out, and don't have a concept of the entire film until after its been cut, scored, and edited. That leaves a very small cadre of knowledgeable people who would have anything authoritative to say ahead of time.
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Well certainly not initially.
No the consumption of 15tw has raised the Global land temperatures by 1.5 degrees C over the past 250 years. (http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings)
And most of, if not all of that effect has been due to the (at the time) unavoidable pollution, not the simple expenditure of energy.
Helium 3 (fusion) suggests an energy approach that eliminates all of the green-house gas and pollution, leaving us with just the heat byproduct of using electrical energy. As our energy use becomes more and more efficient, even this is reduced.
However, with lower greenhouse emissions the excess heat would just dissipate into space, with no measurable ill effect. (Well some say it will balloon the gas envelop a tiny bit).
Information wants to be free, man. Seriously though this is par for the course in business. The only unusual thing is that they got caught and the courts are taking the claims seriously. Low hanging, fat, and easy, just the way the justice system likes 'em.
Its highly likely the company stole some of that code from their competitors in the first place.
Software reverse engineering is the cheap, but not as cheap as slipping some competitor's employee a couple hundred grand under the table, especially when there is potential for huge profits involved.
The problem is, how do you know whether the bank even uses that as a metric?
You Friend your bank?
Why would you even let your bank know you use facebook? Even your Teenage kids know better than that.
If something works well and does what you want, and you follow your own advice and look no further, how would you ever know about something that worked better and does even more than you THOUGHT you wanted?
With any competent distro (I.E. Not ubuntu) you can have Gnome and KDE, (and a couple others that have been gaining in power quietly). All they cost is a little disk space, (very little) and your reward might be discovering a whole new world that you THOUGHT you didn't need.
So go ahead, and be satisfied with what you have if you want, but most Linux users like the choice.
There was never a reason for you to weigh in saying in strong language that there is "absolutely no need to try others" when choice is the WHOLE point of linux in the first place.
What you call sound policy, the market, and finally Microsoft, has determined was a monumental blunder.
The start bar is coming back, and Metro is going to be less of a demand and more of a choice.
there is absolutely no need to try out any others.
Such a small little world you live in...
In this case, it means that all files are only accessible through calibre and not through the file system.
Nonsense.
The ebooks in the Calibre library are store as common eBook formatted files, and can be accessed by simply looking for them with your file browser. You can search them with your desktop search facility, click them to open them for reading with your favorite ebook reader.
Because the files are simply FILES, you can point your favorite ebook reader at the directory and it works perfectly.
Please stop spreading fud.
Now if I have all my other (thousands) of ebooks in a single folder
Really?
The mind boggles!
The discussion here is about people who sort their ebooks into non-standard directory structures, and complain
that Calibre does not work with those odd-ball structures. But it can import those ebooks just the same,
and it can export them back to what ever goofball structure you want.
But within its library it works with its own structure. And this is said to be a lock in.
Its clearly NOT a lock in since it will export back to your structure if you want.
This whole argument is the last gasp of those who painstakingly hand-built built directories upon directories to house their ebooks, only to find their structure didn't work, and re built it yet again. They still can't find anything, but it sure looks organized. Its the same way they organize their music, First by horns, and woodwinds, drums, then below that by genera, then tempo, then by author, and finally by song name. When done, they can't find anything, but they rail at any other software that suggests a reasonable structure with the ability to search. (I suspect these folks also pigeon-hole into their pet categories too.
If anything Calibre actually makes harebrained directory structures MORE possible and sustainable, because you can store it in Calibre, tag it any way you want, (the tagging system is extensible), then export it into a structure that includes directories based on your tagging.
The world is metadata. Get used to that.
First you realize that you aren't talking about an ebook.
Then you move on from there.
No clue what you just bought, but ebooks don't come on DVDs.
Exactly. So it's OK the USA does it but not the Chinese?
Actually, I suspect at least half the break-ins blamed on the Chinese are actually the NSA doing it, then planting a trail designed to point to the Chinese. Not that I doubt the Chinese are doing hacking, just that because the do attempt to penetrate important sites, the NSA can use that as cover.
Compared to Microsoft's other OSes it's the best they've done.
Agreed, Win7 is pretty darned good, in fact its probably the first version that is better than Windows 2000.
I suspect it will be hard for Windows 8 to dislodge win 7 from the work place, even with the 8.1 changes. Microsoft has this habit of one horrible version followed by one reasonably good version.
Unfortunately, unlike the Linux world where you can totally step away from a botched UI, windows pretty much locks you into the struggle till a totally new version comes out, or you get so fed up you nuke it and install Linux, (which gets you fired from most companies).
It is a big deal if you have to replace a core component of an OS with a third party solution to make it usable.
For some of us, that is the normal course of events.
Linux without some form of X based desktop is fine for servers, but really less than appealing in user land. We are use to trying out several totally different UIs before settling on one.
The problem is in the windows world, people are so use to the "take it or leave it" approach they never understood you could replace key parts or even the entire UI if you wanted to.
Microsoft did a good job at suppressing information about replacements or add-ons that virtually nobody knew they existed. But if you go looking for them you will find them.
This release signals the great experiment is finally OVER, and both methods will again be available. Windows 8.1 may actually survive for a while with this feature if they can Just Fix The Security Flaws they designed into it.
He realized tags made way more sense than odd-ball sorting into directories.
Any directory structure is a lock in, as soon as you realize it doesn't work.
So he added tagging with your tags or standard tags.
But For people who insist on organizing in some antiquated way he created Save to Disk settings where you can change the
order used when exporting. You can customize to create any sort of directory structure for your exported files.
So lock-in go Poof, vanished before your very eyes.
Further you can also create the custome structure when sending books to a device (e-reader), and guess what... It can be
different than you use for exporting. So when you find that your eReader doesn't support sorting by Genre, you
can change that back to something sensible.
Tagging is way better than structured directories. You can sort by any tag within Calibre, and output in any order you want.
There is no lock in.
(Its 2013. Tagging is where its at. Obscure Structured directories are so 1999.
But nobody knows how to use it. Especially stoners.
Come on, its a three day event! Its got to be mainstream, fast to set up and tear down.
Furthermore, hempfest is over, last week.
So little late to ask here unless they are planning for next year.
But yeah, the Carriers can wheel in portable towers if you can convince them its worth their while for a short duration event, and give them enough time.
Nobody is going to trust any silly mesh network or open wifi, especially at an event like hempfest which was basically hands off for Seattle police, but crawling with undercover DEA.
Give it time, the interface grows on you. And having the same interface on Linux and Windows is worth learning what the icons mean. (hover works)
Nobody has mentioned that it the ability to send ebooks to your android without cabling up, sucking down newspapers or other periodicals and pushing them to your devices so you can read on the plane, or serving ebooks to your whole household for download via a simple web browser. Or managing multiple ebook libraries, so you can keep the kids books out of your books and vise versa.
I think it looks complicated, because it has a lot of power, but if you sit down and play with one feature a day, it becomes second nature.
So far you had to import all of your files into calibre, it can't reference external files. So it is pretty much unusable for importing larger existing libraries, and you get locked in.
Almost everything you said is NOT true.
Import into Calibre is simply drag and drop, or select from a file browser, and you can keep your existing library. Once in Calibre the file are easily Exported. Further you can use them in place, right out of the Calibre directory, because the files stay in what ever format you wish.
You can even keep your ebooks in multiple formats, because it converts between multiple virtually flawlessly. It fetches covers and metadata and its just a joy to use.
I've dragged and dropped my entire ebook collection into it. Most of them I converted to epub, but in a few cases I retained the existing format as well. It handles it all. It has an export function that will export any given format, all formats, all formats with metadata and covers. Its just a stupendous piece of work. (Yeah, I sent him $50 some years ago).
There is no lock in. Its the most versatile program for ebook management I've ever seen.
And, yes, if you hunt around you will be able to find third party DRM removal plugins, so when your old DRM device dies, or your old format with DRM goes out of use, you can convert to almost any other format and leave the DRM behind.
Hi. Actually these are storage tanks and are designed to hold water. Once they are filled, its unlikely water is pumped out unless there's a suitable place to dump it. That doesn't seem to be the case.
No, the tanks levels are constantly changing, these tanks are in the cooling water refining circuit.
See: The Register article
Well, no. The situation is this. The melted-down cores at the damaged reactors (the site is not "crippled", two reactors were undamaged and will return to service) are still hot - though much less hot than they were two years ago - and need to be cooled. This is done by pumping water through their buildings, then sucking it out again and putting it into holding tanks before purifying it to remove the radiation it picks up from the cores. Then it gets used again.
The radiation in these tanks is easily stopped by the tank wall. (Its almost solely Beta radiation). So climbing the tank is not particularly a problem.
Water is always being pumped into and out of these tanks (they are used to circulate cooling water for shut down reactors and the separation plant where radioactive elements are separated). As such, water level in the tank is not static, there are surges as pumps start and stop, etc. Think of the tank as a buffer in a continuous flowing circuit. There are systems to make sure there is always sufficient water in the circuit, and water may be added at locations far removed from the actual tank. Its vitally important to make sure there is adequate cooling water, it can never be allowed to run dry.
When you view it this way, missing a couple hundred gallons over the course of a month is not something you can count on detecting by monitoring water lever in a tank, because it fluctuates naturally, loss will be automatically compensated by new water additions.
So thanks for playing along, but I believe this issue is best left to the big boys,(even the ones you might, in your make-believe environment, consider to be incompetent). The problem is much more complex than you know, and won't be solved with your cute little lash-up toys.
It does not make any sense whatsoever for the NSA to be slowing or otherwise blocking connectivity, as that is counterproductive to the acquisition of intelligence data.
Normally I would agree with you, but since "THEY" (the generic they) are forcing Presidential planes to land, detaining boyfriends, seizing electronics, what makes you so sure some arm of the US government isn't deliberately slowing or blocking binary transfer streams in an attempt to stop Snowdens 400gigabyte cache of information from spreading ?
(I suspect his Peru ISP is lying to him, but still I consider the possibility of intentional interference).
Actually, it was proposed by me several levels up, and there is no inherent problem in doing this if the automated vehicles maintain a safe minimal distance even when stopped. No one suggested a tightly packed convoy.
Especially in stop and go traffic, speeds are seldom likely to climb quickly, and the vehicles can space themselves according to speed automatically as the entire traffic chain speed increases. As the second car senses a speed requiring greater spacing, it simply ceases accelerating until that spacing is achieved. Then the third car, etc.
But this would only happen or be necessary somewhere above 30mph. For stoplight to stoplight, or bumper to bumper traffic, the problem is that people car constantly running up on the bumper of the person in front, instead of stopping some distance back, and maintaining that gap when stopped.
As a consequence traffic moves like a slinkie, with the back end catching up to the front and inter-vehicle gaps evaporating.
This just exacerbates the problem. A one car length gap would allow all of them to start moving at once (assuming inter vehicle telemetry).
This also applies in moving traffic. The tendency of humans to close up gaps between cars causes jams. Simply not doing that eliminates jams. But where humans don't have that kind of discipline, the autonomous vehicle might.
Do you brake as hard as you can to maximise the chance of saving the life of whatever stepped out in front of you but also risking causing a pileup if the cars behind you have weaker breaks then you do or do you break based on some estimate of the characteristics of the worst brakes in the convoy and hit whatever is in front of you harder?
Wouldn't a computerized car know its stopping distance, adjusted for weather, and monitored over the life of the vehicle?
Wouldn't it adjust its following distance accordingly?
Imagine a row of automated cars, all accelerating in unison from a traffic light. Somewhere down the street they'll all be going at 30MPH, and all still be separated by 3 feet.
Oh don't be silly.
Following distance is ALREADY speed adjusted in cars with Adaptive Cruise Control. Its a trivial engineering problem.
Well bringing the discussion back on point, (I know, I know), how would Wiki predict a flop ahead of time?
After all, people have to see it, or at least have access to the script, a complete list of cast, production crew, and special effects to even begin to write a stub article on Wiki.
It would appear TFA addresses none of this. They don't appear to throw out updates and page views that pre-date the actual release date. The look at AFTER-THE FACT data.
Further, these results could and would be gamed the minute it was revealed anyone was paying attention. The posts prior to casting, shooting, and editing would be from insiders, looking to feather their own nest. There are no actual movie goers involved that early. Usually the script is closely guarded so that even enthusiasts of the book are clueless. Even the actors don't necessarily know how something will turn out, and don't have a concept of the entire film until after its been cut, scored, and edited. That leaves a very small cadre of knowledgeable people who would have anything authoritative to say ahead of time.