Imagine Legos. What happens if you build a house out of 2x4s that are all stacked on top of each other, not alternating? Each little 'tower' of 2x4s has nothing to actually attach it to the other little towers on either side of it. Eventually you lean on it wrong and the wall crumbles.
A wall built of blocks stacked directly on top of each other forming unconnected adjacent columns can have some strength, depending on its mass and thickness (relative to its height), but will certainly be less strong than a similar block wall constructed in a running bond pattern, or where the columns are glued together or tied together by rebar.
I didn't mean to seem pissed off at you; I was trying to protest the idea that it's acceptable that the major cell carriers are still trying to nickel-and-dime us.
The fix is to alloy engineers to work for more than one company like doctors work for more than one hospital at a time. This would totally change the balance of power and make engineers far more likely to start their own companies and make even more money that way.
If engineers wanted to start their own companies, they would have just majored in business to begin with.
...they are making engineers take poetry classes and a bunch of other BS.
At the engineering school I attended, art classes were taught by the architecture department (not the other way around), and the classes I took to fulfill my humanities requirement were history of industrial design and history of urban form, the latter of which is actually a city planning class in disguise and thus useful for transportation engineers.
The funny thing is, as an Android user with an unlimited data plan (on Virgin Mobile), I don't have to care how much bandwidth I consume and I pay less per month too!
I'm sorry, but "slightly addictive" is still addictive. That doesn't make it a valid reason to make it illegal though, nicotine is easily more addictive, and it's still legal, so "marijuana is addictive" shouldn't be a valid argument that you even allow. You actually give them credence by arguing against it.
Not to mention, even food is addictive (and I don't mean that in the "if you quit eating you'll starve to death" sense, I mean it in the "it releases dopamine the same way alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs do" sense).
Snow/cloud shading could make a difference: further south might be better if going further north meant the cells were covered in snow for 3 months straight.
The best place for a solar data center, IMHO, would be a cold desert.
The problem is that virtually all reactors on line today are 1960s/1970s technology.
To use a car example, it would be like using pushrod engines with breaker points and still fighting it out over cubic inches as opposed to better ignition systems, with no car maker wanting to use any engine design improvements in the past forty years like EFI or OHC.
Speaking of nuclear, do you know what kind of technology the planned new reactors at Plant Vogtle are going to use?
Look at any other heavily-subsidized industry: Coal, oil, pharmaceuticals, wheat and corn. These are industries that pump money into politicians' election funds to ensure that their beloved tax breaks and subsidies will never go away. Renewable energy is approaching that point where they have extreme control over politics, except they have one extra benefit in that they have the undying support of the citizens as well. If we continue these ridiculous subsidies, they will never go away and we will forever be paying way too much for our energy.
So what you're saying is that we currently pay way too much for our energy because we're subsidizing non-renewable energy, and you're worried that as the renewable energy industry grows that we'll continue to pay way too much for our energy because we'll be subsidizing the renewable energy?
It seems to me that your worry makes no sense:
If we assume that the subsidies won't go away no matter what then we might as well subsidize renewable instead of non-renewable energy (or along with, at least, to level the playing field).
If we assume that the subsidies could go away, then we should be worried about getting rid of the subsidies for non-renewable energy first.
Either way, subsidies for renewable energy isn't the important problem.
You know, that's the thing that's always pissed me off about spreadsheets: you have to operate on a particular range of cells, which means you have to know beforehand how large the range is. Why can't I program my spreadsheet to just SUM(B) (or SUM(B1:the last occupied cell in B))?!
I guess it's because that concept would be too hard for all the spreadsheet-using non-programmers...
You just completely failed to grasp the parent's post (and clearly didn't watch the "Money as Debt" video he linked). The key point is that banks don't just loan out deposits from savers; they are allowed to leverage those deposits and loan out a far greater amount of money than what they actually have. In other words, the loans only have to be partially backed by deposits. As an example, if the bank has $10 in deposits, it's allowed to make something like $100 in loans: $10 from the deposit, and another $90 that the bank itself created out of thin air. This is called "Fractional Reserve Banking," and is the entire crux of the problem with our monetary system.
Cyanogenmod targets a surprisingly limited number of devices, and they tend to be the same high-end "flagship" models that get official updates anyway.
At least, that's my experience as a user of a Samsung Intercept -- a phone that's very popular because it was the first Android available on a prepaid plan, but which (AFAIK) still isn't supported by Cyanogenmod.
Farmers already do plenty of work -- tacking on beekeeping makes it that much harder.
So the farmer could hire a beekeeper to drive around and tend the hives in an area; just don't make him take the hives with him.
Each hive is a significant hit on both time and money; they now have to be carefully monitored and managed.
Sure, in a mobile-monoculture environment. But I believe that the bees could mostly take care of themselves if they were allowed to exist in a more natural setting, in the same way that organic farming techniques cause plant pests and diseases to be naturally regulated. (Or rather, that the bees should simply be regarded as a component of the biodynamic farm system.)
Perhaps that's a McDonald's problem, not a "fast food in general" problem. I have no problem making custom requests at Burger King, Checkers or Wendy's.
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A wall built of blocks stacked directly on top of each other forming unconnected adjacent columns can have some strength, depending on its mass and thickness (relative to its height), but will certainly be less strong than a similar block wall constructed in a running bond pattern, or where the columns are glued together or tied together by rebar.
Is that what you were talking about?
(Yes, IAACE)
I didn't mean to seem pissed off at you; I was trying to protest the idea that it's acceptable that the major cell carriers are still trying to nickel-and-dime us.
I don't know, I don't care, and most importantly I shouldn't have to care!
If engineers wanted to start their own companies, they would have just majored in business to begin with.
At the engineering school I attended, art classes were taught by the architecture department (not the other way around), and the classes I took to fulfill my humanities requirement were history of industrial design and history of urban form, the latter of which is actually a city planning class in disguise and thus useful for transportation engineers.
The funny thing is, as an Android user with an unlimited data plan (on Virgin Mobile), I don't have to care how much bandwidth I consume and I pay less per month too!
Slashdot does allow editing; that's what happens when you hit "Preview" instead of "Submit."
Which is, of course, why money "lenders" never charge interest...
So what keeps them from using something like a pebble bed design?
Not to mention, even food is addictive (and I don't mean that in the "if you quit eating you'll starve to death" sense, I mean it in the "it releases dopamine the same way alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs do" sense).
Snow/cloud shading could make a difference: further south might be better if going further north meant the cells were covered in snow for 3 months straight.
The best place for a solar data center, IMHO, would be a cold desert.
Speaking of nuclear, do you know what kind of technology the planned new reactors at Plant Vogtle are going to use?
So what you're saying is that we currently pay way too much for our energy because we're subsidizing non-renewable energy, and you're worried that as the renewable energy industry grows that we'll continue to pay way too much for our energy because we'll be subsidizing the renewable energy?
It seems to me that your worry makes no sense:
Either way, subsidies for renewable energy isn't the important problem.
I'm using Openoffice (actually Libreoffice) -- the "B:B" syntax doesn't exist.
Well, your suggestion wasn't the solution I wanted, but it did lead me to the actual solution:
Now, how do I refer to all of column A? The "$A:$A" syntax I've found doesn't work in Libreoffice...
You know, that's the thing that's always pissed me off about spreadsheets: you have to operate on a particular range of cells, which means you have to know beforehand how large the range is. Why can't I program my spreadsheet to just SUM(B) (or SUM(B1:the last occupied cell in B))?!
I guess it's because that concept would be too hard for all the spreadsheet-using non-programmers...
The answer to all those questions is "for the lulz." (And that's especially true for the questions for which that answer makes no sense.)
You just completely failed to grasp the parent's post (and clearly didn't watch the "Money as Debt" video he linked). The key point is that banks don't just loan out deposits from savers; they are allowed to leverage those deposits and loan out a far greater amount of money than what they actually have. In other words, the loans only have to be partially backed by deposits. As an example, if the bank has $10 in deposits, it's allowed to make something like $100 in loans: $10 from the deposit, and another $90 that the bank itself created out of thin air. This is called "Fractional Reserve Banking," and is the entire crux of the problem with our monetary system.
Cyanogenmod targets a surprisingly limited number of devices, and they tend to be the same high-end "flagship" models that get official updates anyway.
At least, that's my experience as a user of a Samsung Intercept -- a phone that's very popular because it was the first Android available on a prepaid plan, but which (AFAIK) still isn't supported by Cyanogenmod.
A device that releases pressure from a volcano is called "a volcano."
Imagine sucking the entire world's ocean through a straw.
Now, imagine that the ocean extends through the entire thickness of the planet, instead of only a few thin kilometers.
Now you understand how little effect geothermal could possibly have.
There's also some red in Texas/Arkansas/Louisiana and West Virginia. Not as much as out west, true, but probably enough to be useful.
So the farmer could hire a beekeeper to drive around and tend the hives in an area; just don't make him take the hives with him.
Sure, in a mobile-monoculture environment. But I believe that the bees could mostly take care of themselves if they were allowed to exist in a more natural setting, in the same way that organic farming techniques cause plant pests and diseases to be naturally regulated. (Or rather, that the bees should simply be regarded as a component of the biodynamic farm system.)
Also because any particular species of flower doesn't bloom year-round, so if the bees had only one kind of flower around they'd starve.
The solution is for the farmers to keep their own bees, along with enough plant diversity to keep them happy year-round.
Trucking bees cross-country from monoculture to monoculture is a fundamentally stupid idea.
Perhaps that's a McDonald's problem, not a "fast food in general" problem. I have no problem making custom requests at Burger King, Checkers or Wendy's.