P.S. While ethanol as done in US is stupid, Ethanol as done in South America makes sense. They take all the production waste from agricultural and make ethanol from it. That would be the leaves, etc. the things we don't eat. In the US on the other hand they put the stuff we actually EAT into the pot. South American plan makes sense, but the US version does not..
I agree that south american (I assume you mean Brazilian) ethanol makes much more sense than US ethanol, but I don't think it's for the reasons you mentioned. I think I've read quite a bit about Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol production, and I've never seen it mentioned that they use the refuse for producing ethanol. The way that I understand they do it is that they use the juice of the sugarcane (one stalk of it has a LOT of sugar) to make the ethanol, and they burn the waste parts of the plant (after the juice is squeezed out) to help produce energy for running the processing plants.
I think that the real advantages with sugar cane ethanol production in Brazil are that the plant has many times the energy density of corn on a given size of land, it grows easily in most of Brazil (because of climate), and finally, I imagine that it helps that labor is so much cheaper in the interior of Brazil than it is in the US.
I've seen explanations for this previously on slashdot: it's because having one early primary gives the "small" guy a chance to run for president. If all states ran the same day, only the most well-funded, establishment candidates would have a chance. In other words, we would now be waiting for the inauguration of President Hillary Clinton.
The best solution that I've seen is that the first primary should rotate to a different (small) state every election year so that we wouldn't have the current situation of Iowa having the whole country by the balls. Unfortunately, I believe that Iowa state law stipulates that they MUST be the first caucus in the country. I think NH has a similar law as to being the first primary. So I don't know how this would get fixed.
I don't know enough about either, but isn't Python the main scripting language in Blender and many (most?) other 3D animation packages? Couldn't it possibly be used to satisfy the desire for having graphics then?
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Someone mentioned in a post above quoting the article saying that this is a limitation with Direct2Drive only I believe. The other services supposedly allow you to use the regular patches.
Because guns are frequently stolen, used in suicides, by accident, etc. Anyway, I wasn't trying to justify gun control in my post. I was just pointing out that you were comparing things that were in different categories.
Is it any surprise that the most valuable assets in a company that is going down the tubes would be its physical assets, real estate, etc? The summary itself says data centers AND HEADQUARTERS. What a shock that "datacenterknowledge.com" is telling us how valuable and important data centers are. I'm almost tempted to say this is spam, but I can't be bothered to go to the website to learn more about it.
I'm not afraid of or lack understanding of guns. Gun crimes are very real and easily quantifiable. And gun crimes cost society not only in terms of lives lost, but in health, law enforcement, and other financial costs to every tax payer.
Apples vs. oranges. For-profit corporations have different motivations and goals than state entities. Corporations would like to make "clients" pay as much as they can for services and products, while the corporation tries to spend as little as they can to provide those same products and services.
And if they're a monopoly, the corporations will abuse their position to push that objective as far as they possibly can.
Finally, state entities have more accountability to the public than corporations do, even if it's indirectly through elected officials.
lupis42 kind of addressed your point in a roundabout way, but I would like to address it more directly.
The things you mentioned are not in the same category as the things the grandparent listed. Gay marriage, interracial marriage, women's right to have abortions, etc have little to no effect on other members of society.
On the other hand, gun ownership, oil drilling, etc have very real effects on others in society who were not involved with such decisions and activities.
In other words, you made a classic apples vs. oranges comparison.
Huh? I haven't seen any street protests and demonstrations against the music labels. Maybe I missed it? I don't think it compares at all. And if it does, it's a shame.
About the only way to remove the influence of equipment on athletics nowadays would be to go back to the way the old olympic games were held, with completely nude athletes.
I heard an interview with a former swimming gold-medalist on NPR in the last couple of days saying that the new Speedo suits being used in this olympics help a swimmer cut about 2% of their time to cover the distance compared to wearing a normal suit.
This shows me that anything besides the athletes natural bodies can influence their performance, so there's no sport currently practiced that is purely about the athletes.
Dude, put it on pay per view TV, and you'll be rich!
Who wouldn't want to watch weightlifters literally explode into pieces (on live TV!) from the overwhelming stress on their bodies, or watch losers in a race go into a 'roid rage and kill half the officials and coaches with their bare hands? Or swimmers with conehead and shovelhand implants?
It's a winning formula!
I'm only half joking since it would be quite a spectacle, but in a very sick, twisted, and depressing kind of way.
This always seemed like an awful restriction of individual rights. Now if this ends up going up to the US Supreme Court, I'm afraid that there's a good chance that we'd see another 5-4 decision in favor of the corporations and their non-compete causes and against individuals. Recent history after Alito and Roberts joined has been showing a solid pattern of SCOTUS leaning in that direction when it comes to employer-worker disputes.
I frequent some 3d animation forums (cgtalk.com) and the topic of running Softimage XSI, one of the major 3d animation software packages, on linux came up a few weeks ago. Their target distro is Fedora, but people apparently can finagle other RPM based distros to work, but someone mentioned there that it will just not work with Debian based distros. Who knows if it's something that a Linux hacker could figure out though...
The best business minds in the U.S can't make the pile of free processors from old computers that we are sitting on work cost-effectively in the U.S.; I don't know why the results would be any different in the third world.
Maybe because pay rates in many parts of the world (for those lucky few that can get jobs) are under one dollar per day? How much labor do you think they could afford to put into fixing and supporting free/cheap old computers? The parameters can be completely different in different parts of the world than they are in the US, so things that would not work here can work in those places.
I'll give you an actual example: I first started doing computer repair in a developing country in 1990. I recall some of my co-workers doing component-level repairs on CGA video cards because it made sense financially! Nowadays it's unlikely that anyone would attempt that especially with all the surface mount miniature components, but I doubt they would hesitate to swap boards, power supplies, drives, etc around to get some working computers.
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P.S. While ethanol as done in US is stupid, Ethanol as done in South America makes sense. They take all the production waste from agricultural and make ethanol from it. That would be the leaves, etc. the things we don't eat. In the US on the other hand they put the stuff we actually EAT into the pot. South American plan makes sense, but the US version does not..
I agree that south american (I assume you mean Brazilian) ethanol makes much more sense than US ethanol, but I don't think it's for the reasons you mentioned. I think I've read quite a bit about Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol production, and I've never seen it mentioned that they use the refuse for producing ethanol. The way that I understand they do it is that they use the juice of the sugarcane (one stalk of it has a LOT of sugar) to make the ethanol, and they burn the waste parts of the plant (after the juice is squeezed out) to help produce energy for running the processing plants.
I think that the real advantages with sugar cane ethanol production in Brazil are that the plant has many times the energy density of corn on a given size of land, it grows easily in most of Brazil (because of climate), and finally, I imagine that it helps that labor is so much cheaper in the interior of Brazil than it is in the US.
I've seen explanations for this previously on slashdot: it's because having one early primary gives the "small" guy a chance to run for president. If all states ran the same day, only the most well-funded, establishment candidates would have a chance. In other words, we would now be waiting for the inauguration of President Hillary Clinton.
The best solution that I've seen is that the first primary should rotate to a different (small) state every election year so that we wouldn't have the current situation of Iowa having the whole country by the balls. Unfortunately, I believe that Iowa state law stipulates that they MUST be the first caucus in the country. I think NH has a similar law as to being the first primary. So I don't know how this would get fixed.
I don't know enough about either, but isn't Python the main scripting language in Blender and many (most?) other 3D animation packages? Couldn't it possibly be used to satisfy the desire for having graphics then?
Don't forget about gog.com where you can buy games that are completely DRM-free, and cheap. Show the industry that this is what we want.
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Care to tell us how they fended off the hijacking attempt? Just curious - thanks!
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Someone mentioned in a post above quoting the article saying that this is a limitation with Direct2Drive only I believe. The other services supposedly allow you to use the regular patches.
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Because guns are frequently stolen, used in suicides, by accident, etc. Anyway, I wasn't trying to justify gun control in my post. I was just pointing out that you were comparing things that were in different categories.
Is it any surprise that the most valuable assets in a company that is going down the tubes would be its physical assets, real estate, etc? The summary itself says data centers AND HEADQUARTERS. What a shock that "datacenterknowledge.com" is telling us how valuable and important data centers are. I'm almost tempted to say this is spam, but I can't be bothered to go to the website to learn more about it.
I'm not afraid of or lack understanding of guns. Gun crimes are very real and easily quantifiable. And gun crimes cost society not only in terms of lives lost, but in health, law enforcement, and other financial costs to every tax payer.
Apples vs. oranges. For-profit corporations have different motivations and goals than state entities. Corporations would like to make "clients" pay as much as they can for services and products, while the corporation tries to spend as little as they can to provide those same products and services.
And if they're a monopoly, the corporations will abuse their position to push that objective as far as they possibly can.
Finally, state entities have more accountability to the public than corporations do, even if it's indirectly through elected officials.
lupis42 kind of addressed your point in a roundabout way, but I would like to address it more directly.
The things you mentioned are not in the same category as the things the grandparent listed. Gay marriage, interracial marriage, women's right to have abortions, etc have little to no effect on other members of society.
On the other hand, gun ownership, oil drilling, etc have very real effects on others in society who were not involved with such decisions and activities.
In other words, you made a classic apples vs. oranges comparison.
Huh? I haven't seen any street protests and demonstrations against the music labels. Maybe I missed it? I don't think it compares at all. And if it does, it's a shame.
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About the only way to remove the influence of equipment on athletics nowadays would be to go back to the way the old olympic games were held, with completely nude athletes.
I heard an interview with a former swimming gold-medalist on NPR in the last couple of days saying that the new Speedo suits being used in this olympics help a swimmer cut about 2% of their time to cover the distance compared to wearing a normal suit.
This shows me that anything besides the athletes natural bodies can influence their performance, so there's no sport currently practiced that is purely about the athletes.
Dude, put it on pay per view TV, and you'll be rich!
Who wouldn't want to watch weightlifters literally explode into pieces (on live TV!) from the overwhelming stress on their bodies, or watch losers in a race go into a 'roid rage and kill half the officials and coaches with their bare hands? Or swimmers with conehead and shovelhand implants?
It's a winning formula!
I'm only half joking since it would be quite a spectacle, but in a very sick, twisted, and depressing kind of way.
They have many links to local and national outlets to recycle computers and electronics, and many of them are free or low cost:
http://www.epa.gov/e-cycling/donate.htm
This always seemed like an awful restriction of individual rights. Now if this ends up going up to the US Supreme Court, I'm afraid that there's a good chance that we'd see another 5-4 decision in favor of the corporations and their non-compete causes and against individuals. Recent history after Alito and Roberts joined has been showing a solid pattern of SCOTUS leaning in that direction when it comes to employer-worker disputes.
on all the stories today?
Nice setup, but you didn't say what paint/screen setup you have for the projection wall/screen. Just curious.
I frequent some 3d animation forums (cgtalk.com) and the topic of running Softimage XSI, one of the major 3d animation software packages, on linux came up a few weeks ago. Their target distro is Fedora, but people apparently can finagle other RPM based distros to work, but someone mentioned there that it will just not work with Debian based distros. Who knows if it's something that a Linux hacker could figure out though...
The best business minds in the U.S can't make the pile of free processors from old computers that we are sitting on work cost-effectively in the U.S.; I don't know why the results would be any different in the third world.
Maybe because pay rates in many parts of the world (for those lucky few that can get jobs) are under one dollar per day? How much labor do you think they could afford to put into fixing and supporting free/cheap old computers? The parameters can be completely different in different parts of the world than they are in the US, so things that would not work here can work in those places.
I'll give you an actual example: I first started doing computer repair in a developing country in 1990. I recall some of my co-workers doing component-level repairs on CGA video cards because it made sense financially! Nowadays it's unlikely that anyone would attempt that especially with all the surface mount miniature components, but I doubt they would hesitate to swap boards, power supplies, drives, etc around to get some working computers.