Why is gas at $3 and more a gallon on your list? I agree that the W administration is flawed, does not stand for conservative american policy, etc. But the price of gas should probably be higher than it is now . . . It seems like the gas price as a political issue is just a tool with which to distract the voters.
That quote is from the Declaration of Independance . . . not a legal or governmental document. Not a document pertaining to separation of powers, limits to the government, or even the rights of the citizenry. It is merely a piece of propaganda, and has no bearing on representation, the representatives, the judiciary, or any government office or seat. So, while I may not agree with OP, he or she is right that we have not voted for privacy in public places, and this expectation is entirely misplaced. This is fixable though, if it were more widely understood and made a political issue by the citizenry.
Perhaps it does make a crackers job more difficult, but I won't concede that it absolutely does. But I agree with a previous poster that in reality obscurity only helps a weak security system. Encryption IMHO is not security through obscurity in the same way a password isn't. Take a door lock that opens with a key. This is not security through obscurity, but if you hide the door (or lock) then it is. Hiding presumably because you know a lock pick can get through your poorly designed lock.
I suppose I could have used a car analogy to be more clear . . .
I don't know about the air quality but wonder about the energy requirements. All of the lower levels require HID lighting to simulate sunlight to the plants. So while it increases plant production per unit land, it also increases energy requirements per unit land. The economy of this system seems very non sustainable to me.
I'd like to see your stats. "Most" people use IE on Windows too. But of the Mac users I know who actually installed Firefox (myself included), all of them use firefox as their main browser.
IIRC there are cases shown where bio engineered plants cross with natural varieties. This happens with Corn where farmers started out with their own corn from their own seed stockes and ended up with corn that shared genetics with proprietary bio engineered corn. So it is shown that pollen from bio corn has been spreading around and "infecting" regular corn. Now, if one of the traits being propagated is the t-gene then the resulting seeds would not be viable, and naturally reproducing corn goes extinct.
The t-gene does not stop the genetic deployment process (ie, pollination, seed production, etc.) it simply makes the seeds non viable. This is a great threat to bio diversity.
InDesign -> Scribus (link removed out of compassion)
-1: Highly misleading. I use InDesign for basic layout . . . I do architectural renderings, add people, cars, landscape, sky, etc. with Photoshop, and then assemble my renderings, text, other drawings into documents in InDesign. It works quite well for my purposes. Recently (at work) CS2 was uninstalled on my machine, and installed elsewhere . . . I don't know why, but we only have one copy and this is how it is. So I started using OpenOffice (Presentation) to approximately do the same thing, but this is cumbersome.
So reading the parent post got me excited about the possibility to have an InDesign like program again. But . . . you can't even scale an image to fit it on the page. WTF!? Even OO lets you do this, as well as crop. This is basic functionality in regards to image layout. If you have to size all of the images in another program, then you might as well do all of the layout in the other program. Scribus may be a usefull program (for some use which I don't understand) but it does not even approximate the use of InDesign.
Since when is drawing parallels on slashdot offtopic? The article brings up the United States, which just nixed habeous corpus . . . also Soviet style.
! I have one from 1985 that I still use . . . from field surveying to an AE degree and now architecture the 15C does everything I need. It is the oldest piece of electronics that I own, and by far the most reliable. I shudder to think what happens if it is ever lost or damaged.
Ok, sure, there will be houses where their consumption requirements are, well, rich. But I bet that over half of USian households, and very nearly all of the rest of the world can live quite comfortably on 5.5kW for 6.5 hours = 30+kWh per day. thats over 1kW per hour. Pretty easy limbo bar. Of course this does not allow for massive computing . . . but when I run my computer all day I still come up within that limit. Efficiency is better pointed at the appliances where large gains have been made, and can still be made. Refrigeration is easily the top electric user, heat can come from gas (think bio-fuels, ie, methane from compost etc.) and the residential energy equation gets really easy. Daylighting, LED and CF make lighting very energy efficient (my house, 1kWhr per day with 90% CF and 100W of 12v halogen).
So it becomes the kind of lifestyle choice that is easy once you've made it, but a barrier that people looking to maintain or exceed 10kW peak are going to have issues with.
But you obviously have a stake in this, and wish to skew things toward standard Si. I applaud the intent, but better aim at the current mainstream market for poaching, and support all of the alternatives, or at least don't contribute FUD.
Actually I have done a number of solar design charettes for my area. The typical house has about 1000 sf of roof area (conservative) available (unshaded) for PV systems. The sun's output is something like 1100 Watts/m2, which according to Google is about 110 Watts per sqare foot, or 110,000 Watts for the roof. The efficiency is 5%, giving an output of 5500 Watts. A pretty good start, and is almost 3x the typical residential install in the Si based systems. I have tried to be conservative with every estimate, and still reach a very usable value. Over time these numbers will go up as efficiency increases. Note that if you don't live in NM then you might not get the same results, although these Ti based systems are (supposedly) less adversly affected by clouds.
If you care to quantify the losing part of this proposition I'd like to hear it.
PNM (power co in New Mexico) has a deal where they pay you $.13 as a producer, whether or not the power you produce makes it to the grid. That is, you must be connected in the "net metering" fashion, but even if you use the power you generate then and there, you get the producer credit. They do this because if they meet a certain renewables threshold they get a state credit. It turns out to be a kind of Milo Mindbender deal where you can buy eggs for 2 cents, sell them for 1 cent and make a profit.
I don't think you've thought it through . . . if you look at the cost vs. efficiency the paint still comes ahead, even with the efficiency hit. You just bump the area requirements by 2, so you only get a 1/5 cost advantage, so you pay 20% of the equivalent silicon system. Still pretty good. To be sure the efficiency of both is what will change, and as they do this calculation will need to be redone. If you start running into area restrictions (ie the roof area no longer provides enough power) then this might also tip the scales back to the silicon.
But, I've been hearing about doped polymer based PV cells for a while (along with this 1/10th the cost and 1/2 the efficiency) and they are still not something that I've seen actually working, not to mention actually deployable for a residential application. Interesting idea, hopefully becomes something.
Mighty words. To further that, since the people that make up the corporation have a voice in government, then the entity needs no such voice and should be overtly denied such voice.
DATs strength was field recording . . . live concert recordings. Better than tape and minidisc. But for listening purposes, it was best to create CDs. That way you get direct access and reliability. I've not experienced it directly, but hear that dat suffers from shelf life issues . . . happily my library is intact. I believe that these issues must arise from usage rather than simply age. At the end all of the Dead tapers had transitioned to DAT, and the early mixing board bootlegs were also being traded as DAT (from the original reel tapes, not dubbed from cassettes). The SCMS could be switched off on the TASCAM decks, I don't know about the Panasonic models.
And, if the door was unlocked there is no "breaking" it is just unlawful entry. He did knowingly commit a crime, but not one that is much worse than speeding.
I live in the desert, and anywhere you have standing water you have skeeters by the droves. It is a big problem. Perhaps not all deserts would be this way, but desert != no mosquitos.
I can't find the source, but just because this article claims one thing does not make it so. Of course just because I do, or my other source did, does not make it so either. But, no, I did not RTFA.
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Why is gas at $3 and more a gallon on your list? I agree that the W administration is flawed, does not stand for conservative american policy, etc. But the price of gas should probably be higher than it is now . . . It seems like the gas price as a political issue is just a tool with which to distract the voters.
That quote is from the Declaration of Independance . . . not a legal or governmental document. Not a document pertaining to separation of powers, limits to the government, or even the rights of the citizenry. It is merely a piece of propaganda, and has no bearing on representation, the representatives, the judiciary, or any government office or seat. So, while I may not agree with OP, he or she is right that we have not voted for privacy in public places, and this expectation is entirely misplaced. This is fixable though, if it were more widely understood and made a political issue by the citizenry.
Perhaps it does make a crackers job more difficult, but I won't concede that it absolutely does. But I agree with a previous poster that in reality obscurity only helps a weak security system. Encryption IMHO is not security through obscurity in the same way a password isn't. Take a door lock that opens with a key. This is not security through obscurity, but if you hide the door (or lock) then it is. Hiding presumably because you know a lock pick can get through your poorly designed lock.
I suppose I could have used a car analogy to be more clear . . .
I don't know about the air quality but wonder about the energy requirements. All of the lower levels require HID lighting to simulate sunlight to the plants. So while it increases plant production per unit land, it also increases energy requirements per unit land. The economy of this system seems very non sustainable to me.
"Senator Clinton, Have you stopped beating your husband?"
I'd like to see your stats. "Most" people use IE on Windows too. But of the Mac users I know who actually installed Firefox (myself included), all of them use firefox as their main browser.
Yes thank you. But you see, that does not scale the image, it scales the frame. The image is therefore cropped, not scaled.
IIRC there are cases shown where bio engineered plants cross with natural varieties. This happens with Corn where farmers started out with their own corn from their own seed stockes and ended up with corn that shared genetics with proprietary bio engineered corn. So it is shown that pollen from bio corn has been spreading around and "infecting" regular corn. Now, if one of the traits being propagated is the t-gene then the resulting seeds would not be viable, and naturally reproducing corn goes extinct.
The t-gene does not stop the genetic deployment process (ie, pollination, seed production, etc.) it simply makes the seeds non viable. This is a great threat to bio diversity.
InDesign -> Scribus (link removed out of compassion)
-1: Highly misleading. I use InDesign for basic layout . . . I do architectural renderings, add people, cars, landscape, sky, etc. with Photoshop, and then assemble my renderings, text, other drawings into documents in InDesign. It works quite well for my purposes. Recently (at work) CS2 was uninstalled on my machine, and installed elsewhere . . . I don't know why, but we only have one copy and this is how it is. So I started using OpenOffice (Presentation) to approximately do the same thing, but this is cumbersome.
So reading the parent post got me excited about the possibility to have an InDesign like program again. But . . . you can't even scale an image to fit it on the page. WTF!? Even OO lets you do this, as well as crop. This is basic functionality in regards to image layout. If you have to size all of the images in another program, then you might as well do all of the layout in the other program. Scribus may be a usefull program (for some use which I don't understand) but it does not even approximate the use of InDesign.
exactly the point . . . thanks for putting it so cogently.
I'll be here all week.
Uh, Dr. Evil, one million dollars isn't what it used to be . . .
Since when is drawing parallels on slashdot offtopic? The article brings up the United States, which just nixed habeous corpus . . . also Soviet style.
! I have one from 1985 that I still use . . . from field surveying to an AE degree and now architecture the 15C does everything I need. It is the oldest piece of electronics that I own, and by far the most reliable. I shudder to think what happens if it is ever lost or damaged.
So it becomes the kind of lifestyle choice that is easy once you've made it, but a barrier that people looking to maintain or exceed 10kW peak are going to have issues with.
But you obviously have a stake in this, and wish to skew things toward standard Si. I applaud the intent, but better aim at the current mainstream market for poaching, and support all of the alternatives, or at least don't contribute FUD.
If you care to quantify the losing part of this proposition I'd like to hear it.
PNM (power co in New Mexico) has a deal where they pay you $.13 as a producer, whether or not the power you produce makes it to the grid. That is, you must be connected in the "net metering" fashion, but even if you use the power you generate then and there, you get the producer credit. They do this because if they meet a certain renewables threshold they get a state credit. It turns out to be a kind of Milo Mindbender deal where you can buy eggs for 2 cents, sell them for 1 cent and make a profit.
But, I've been hearing about doped polymer based PV cells for a while (along with this 1/10th the cost and 1/2 the efficiency) and they are still not something that I've seen actually working, not to mention actually deployable for a residential application. Interesting idea, hopefully becomes something.
Mighty words. To further that, since the people that make up the corporation have a voice in government, then the entity needs no such voice and should be overtly denied such voice.
DATs strength was field recording . . . live concert recordings. Better than tape and minidisc. But for listening purposes, it was best to create CDs. That way you get direct access and reliability. I've not experienced it directly, but hear that dat suffers from shelf life issues . . . happily my library is intact. I believe that these issues must arise from usage rather than simply age. At the end all of the Dead tapers had transitioned to DAT, and the early mixing board bootlegs were also being traded as DAT (from the original reel tapes, not dubbed from cassettes). The SCMS could be switched off on the TASCAM decks, I don't know about the Panasonic models.
And, if the door was unlocked there is no "breaking" it is just unlawful entry. He did knowingly commit a crime, but not one that is much worse than speeding.
I don't know. It reads like satire to me (or in the dialect of the GP), when you read it did you hear a whoosh sound?
I live in the desert, and anywhere you have standing water you have skeeters by the droves. It is a big problem. Perhaps not all deserts would be this way, but desert != no mosquitos.
less = less. whether or not is significant is insignificant :)
I can't find the source, but just because this article claims one thing does not make it so. Of course just because I do, or my other source did, does not make it so either. But, no, I did not RTFA.