I love the assumptions. Flat roof vs. Pitched. Southern facing walls can also hold solar panels. Solar panels can go in the yard, on storage buildings, carports etc. I know a few people right now who have solar only houses, with Propane for cooking and back-up heat, with a lot less than 4000 SF of solar panels. A lot less. Perhaps you, or the majority of USians would need a) more, or b) to use much less. The rule of thumb you quote would not necessarily hold true for a new technology. The inverter is a fixed cost, and storage is a slowly moving cost, mostly moving to cheaper depending on what technology you are pursuing. The need for storage is not a given for most people, as most are already grid connected and the grid is therefor a very economically viable alternative to other methods of storage. I could get a $.13 per kWh credit as a producer without actually selling any of the power I produce (ie, I get paid to produce it and I still get to use it all). Alternatively I could net meter and sell the power I feed to the grid at the same price I buy it for later. While there are real concerns about viability of solar depending on many variables, your straw man is very disingenuous and not helpful for any part of the debate.
But it is the case that TFS describes. Photoshop 7 is a good tool. Still. I think it's silly for schools to want to continually upgrade software when using the oldie but goodie is a viable option.
Perhaps. I seem to recall the size of infinity having something to do with how quickly the set gets there, and the even numbered set gets there half as quickly, so it is a smaller value. Your proof above does not read true to me, in that you state that you can use up all of the elements in both, but you only prove that for each element in one you can map it to an element in the other. Not the same thing, but again this is all 20 years old for me.
You are correct in layman's terms, but numerically infinite sets do have different values, or sizes, so infinite is not simply an adjective, it does connotate some kind of value . . . for instance, the set of integers is infinite, as is the set of even numbered integers, and the set of prime numbered integers. But these three infinite sets have very different sizes, right? Infinities can therefore said to be "equal to", "less than", or "greater than" other infinities (infinities here means infinite sets). Is this what you refer to above as "cardinality"? I am a layman, and am reaching back to undergraduate logic course where we studied Goerthe's proof of the incompleteness of mathematics.
Science fiction as a genre does not at all mean "stuff that can't happen". More often it is a genre that allows examination of the human condition in a new context, so that we can see what absurd animals we are, both individually and especially collectively. SF has in my mind gotten a bad rap in the last 3 decades, and even early on the pulp stuff that claimed to be SF was not. These others fall into more of the Space Western category. While I am a fan of the TV "SciFi" genre, Battlestar Gallactica, Buck Rogers, Space 1999, these are not related to SF of the likes of Heinlein, LeGuin, and others. But I also agree about novels, and more or less about fiction in general. My favorite Heinlein novel is "Job" . . . very funny, and, as I was raised Catholic, very rebelious feeling.
Studies have repeatedly failed to establish a causal relationship between video game violence and real-life violence.
Really? You mean that all those studies that show that children of wife beaters are more likely to grow up to be wife beaters were wrong?
Hmmm . . . so you think that the GP quote questioning the causal relashionship between video game violence and real-life violence is somehow ignoring a proven causal relationship between real-life violence and real-life violence? I'd like to hear (or read) your further explanation of this.
That article is full of nonsense. MS Word comes still with translators to open older MS and other (Word Star, Word Perfect) documents. They are no longer part of the default install, but are still included. The article you link to implies that this is not the case, and that special means (virtualization) are required to ensure that Office 1997 documents could be opened. This is a case of no one in the loop (customer, reporter, editor) having any knowledge about the issue.
The true issue the article touches on is a very different one than file format. Storage medium is a huge proplem. If I have stuff on 8" floppies, how the hell am I supposed to get it? Zip disks, and floppies of all sizes are in danger of being completely outmoded very soon. How long before CDs go away? Perhaps never, but you never know. Hard drives? Memory sticks? This is the kind of legacy support issue that your article adeptly, albeit shortly, addresses.
As an apple user I should be able to make comments like this without being modded down. But alas jokes about apple being less than perfect are modded down.
How does a laser take out a mortar round? I guess perhaps if it's one of those astroid exploding lasers that they have in the movies . . . but here in reality how does that work? Is it an anti-gravity laser?
I read the bit about the police state as implying that USA is now all but a police state . . . which I have heard from many people, mostly travelling here (yes I'm in the USA) from abroad. If it is true, which I am sometimes close to thinking, then it is because we citizens tend to gladly grant our freedom to settle our own affairs to the institutional justice system. The police are now enforcers, rather than a group that serves communities. The mayor of my city called the police force a "para-military" force, which is true. But I think that is a bad thing . . . para-military forces do little to serve communities, and a lot to tear them apart. We now have 2 groups of gun carrying thugs to be concerned about: the criminals and the police. And no, I dont mean to start a gun debate, and I don't think that every citizen who owns a gun falls into one of those groups.
Very nicely put. Why haven't you been slammed as some kind of hippie or commie yet? Obviously I'm joking, but truly it seems these days anyone who observes the lack of clothing is flamebait. I was bothered by the American reaction of "Democracy" evoking left wing media tricks. Where the hell does that come from?
IIRC the clean coal initiative in some circles relates to the gassified coal process which for a centralized power plant means that it is quite possible to sequester the carbon emmissions, as well as others like sulfur. They even built a prototype in fla (they being a fla power company) as proof of concept. It irks me that every time I read about gassified coal lately it is in relation to a diesel fuel to be used in cars . . . a complete mis-use of the technology. Why is it that almost every energy technology being developed is immediately applied to the auto even when most if not all of them are most appropriate for large scale power generation? For the time being I feel like we're better off keeping the car on gas and replacing our old coal power plant with newer coal and other "green" and renewable technologies. Once that is switched than the electric car becomes a no-brainer.
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I love the assumptions. Flat roof vs. Pitched. Southern facing walls can also hold solar panels. Solar panels can go in the yard, on storage buildings, carports etc. I know a few people right now who have solar only houses, with Propane for cooking and back-up heat, with a lot less than 4000 SF of solar panels. A lot less. Perhaps you, or the majority of USians would need a) more, or b) to use much less. The rule of thumb you quote would not necessarily hold true for a new technology. The inverter is a fixed cost, and storage is a slowly moving cost, mostly moving to cheaper depending on what technology you are pursuing. The need for storage is not a given for most people, as most are already grid connected and the grid is therefor a very economically viable alternative to other methods of storage. I could get a $.13 per kWh credit as a producer without actually selling any of the power I produce (ie, I get paid to produce it and I still get to use it all). Alternatively I could net meter and sell the power I feed to the grid at the same price I buy it for later. While there are real concerns about viability of solar depending on many variables, your straw man is very disingenuous and not helpful for any part of the debate.
But it is the case that TFS describes. Photoshop 7 is a good tool. Still. I think it's silly for schools to want to continually upgrade software when using the oldie but goodie is a viable option.
A Nintendon't . . . thanks, I'll be here all week.
Nicely stated. Ok, I give, and the problem is in treating infinity as a number . . . an easy trap to fall into. Thanks for the explanation.
Perhaps. I seem to recall the size of infinity having something to do with how quickly the set gets there, and the even numbered set gets there half as quickly, so it is a smaller value. Your proof above does not read true to me, in that you state that you can use up all of the elements in both, but you only prove that for each element in one you can map it to an element in the other. Not the same thing, but again this is all 20 years old for me.
So, one apple labeled computer, and as many other computers (non apple) as I want.
You are correct in layman's terms, but numerically infinite sets do have different values, or sizes, so infinite is not simply an adjective, it does connotate some kind of value . . . for instance, the set of integers is infinite, as is the set of even numbered integers, and the set of prime numbered integers. But these three infinite sets have very different sizes, right? Infinities can therefore said to be "equal to", "less than", or "greater than" other infinities (infinities here means infinite sets). Is this what you refer to above as "cardinality"? I am a layman, and am reaching back to undergraduate logic course where we studied Goerthe's proof of the incompleteness of mathematics.
Science fiction as a genre does not at all mean "stuff that can't happen". More often it is a genre that allows examination of the human condition in a new context, so that we can see what absurd animals we are, both individually and especially collectively. SF has in my mind gotten a bad rap in the last 3 decades, and even early on the pulp stuff that claimed to be SF was not. These others fall into more of the Space Western category. While I am a fan of the TV "SciFi" genre, Battlestar Gallactica, Buck Rogers, Space 1999, these are not related to SF of the likes of Heinlein, LeGuin, and others. But I also agree about novels, and more or less about fiction in general. My favorite Heinlein novel is "Job" . . . very funny, and, as I was raised Catholic, very rebelious feeling.
"I'm the bum of the future."
Studies have repeatedly failed to establish a causal relationship between video game violence and real-life violence.
Really? You mean that all those studies that show that children of wife beaters are more likely to grow up to be wife beaters were wrong?
Hmmm . . . so you think that the GP quote questioning the causal relashionship between video game violence and real-life violence is somehow ignoring a proven causal relationship between real-life violence and real-life violence? I'd like to hear (or read) your further explanation of this.
I sort of want some proof before I start stringing people up.
You must be new here . . . but how did you grab such a low UID?
That article is full of nonsense. MS Word comes still with translators to open older MS and other (Word Star, Word Perfect) documents. They are no longer part of the default install, but are still included. The article you link to implies that this is not the case, and that special means (virtualization) are required to ensure that Office 1997 documents could be opened. This is a case of no one in the loop (customer, reporter, editor) having any knowledge about the issue.
The true issue the article touches on is a very different one than file format. Storage medium is a huge proplem. If I have stuff on 8" floppies, how the hell am I supposed to get it? Zip disks, and floppies of all sizes are in danger of being completely outmoded very soon. How long before CDs go away? Perhaps never, but you never know. Hard drives? Memory sticks? This is the kind of legacy support issue that your article adeptly, albeit shortly, addresses.
I'm a neo-Nazi fascist authoritarian you insensitive clod!
Nice car, but the guy spent $120,000 on it and is selling it for $95,000.
It only works when comparing to Apple stuff.
As an apple user I should be able to make comments like this without being modded down. But alas jokes about apple being less than perfect are modded down.
More like Bubba Ho Tep . . .
I have a 16:9 rectangle burned into my eyes after reading . . .
Mod parent up . . . this is not flamebait, but truth. LCDs generally use power to show black, while CRTs generally don't.
How does a laser take out a mortar round? I guess perhaps if it's one of those astroid exploding lasers that they have in the movies . . . but here in reality how does that work? Is it an anti-gravity laser?
Personal attacks are not good with ice cream. Why would you say they are?
You're right . . . it shouldn't. But this is slashdot, and I've seen less start debates based on reactionary mindsets.
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Or, perhaps you are new here
I read the bit about the police state as implying that USA is now all but a police state . . . which I have heard from many people, mostly travelling here (yes I'm in the USA) from abroad. If it is true, which I am sometimes close to thinking, then it is because we citizens tend to gladly grant our freedom to settle our own affairs to the institutional justice system. The police are now enforcers, rather than a group that serves communities. The mayor of my city called the police force a "para-military" force, which is true. But I think that is a bad thing . . . para-military forces do little to serve communities, and a lot to tear them apart. We now have 2 groups of gun carrying thugs to be concerned about: the criminals and the police. And no, I dont mean to start a gun debate, and I don't think that every citizen who owns a gun falls into one of those groups.
Very nicely put. Why haven't you been slammed as some kind of hippie or commie yet? Obviously I'm joking, but truly it seems these days anyone who observes the lack of clothing is flamebait. I was bothered by the American reaction of "Democracy" evoking left wing media tricks. Where the hell does that come from?
IIRC the clean coal initiative in some circles relates to the gassified coal process which for a centralized power plant means that it is quite possible to sequester the carbon emmissions, as well as others like sulfur. They even built a prototype in fla (they being a fla power company) as proof of concept. It irks me that every time I read about gassified coal lately it is in relation to a diesel fuel to be used in cars . . . a complete mis-use of the technology. Why is it that almost every energy technology being developed is immediately applied to the auto even when most if not all of them are most appropriate for large scale power generation? For the time being I feel like we're better off keeping the car on gas and replacing our old coal power plant with newer coal and other "green" and renewable technologies. Once that is switched than the electric car becomes a no-brainer.
Brilliant! I'm off to copyright the self licking ice cream cone.