I have a feeling that from revenue gained by selling results of data mining associated with win10 that it's going to be a lot more than we would like from selling some information we'd prefer not to be sold.
Which makes me wonder: why did MS think it needs a viable smartphone (smartphone OS?) just to survive
Apple had one so via cargo cult mentality MS had to have one to get success as well. The irony is they did it by getting hold of an already viable phone company and then removing everything that made it viable - destructive idiots.
Indeed. Sometimes I just cannot believe it's decided to let me wait while it renders a huge number of thumbnail images instead of letting me actually do stuff. Context switches just browsing into another directory are also difficult to believe are a good idea. Incredible indeed. They managed to make it far worse than the earlier version.
Stop pretending to be stupid, you are not a cocaine ravaged former DJ so stop pretending to be one - a massive drop in expenditure on wages due to job losses. Also no innovation means no paying people to improve stuff so another false spike on "productivity" numbers. You are pretending to be ignorant or actually are, so how about a little lesson? In the early 1990s I worked at a steelworks with fantastic productivity numbers with almost exponential growth (tons of steel per man hour), yet somehow not enough steel could be produced to meet orders that had previously been met easily and the place started losing massive amounts of money. It turns out the hours of contractors were not counted in the "productivity" numbers and there was a process of shedding skilled staff to drive those numbers. All the numbers that mattered - revenue, product shipped, expenses, hours of lost production from breakdowns, accidents, fatalities - were bad, but that productivity number was great so it was all bonuses at the top end of town until the parent company took a closer look and shut most of the place down. Don't blame me (some idiots like to shoot messengers), the rolling mill I worked at was one of only two parts of the place that kept going. That example illustrates why "productivity" numbers are entirely useless without context. If you were not born yesterday you should be able to find a few more of your own.
No Problem- I used to work for a utility and even I hate their price gouging. If the utilities are pricing themselves out of electricity generation and now even supply then why shed tears for them?
the power grid wants to be in a stable state
Lots of tiny little generators with very fancy control systems we couldn't have dreamed of in the 1990s easily switched in and out make that easier not harder.
Dumping it into the grid would just cause more headache
No. It's not very hard you've been overthinking things. Try again without the silly assumption that 100% of that available power is going back into the grid instead of what is actually required at the time and it will be obvious.
All that said the "technical" problems didn't stop someone deciding to set up solar panels vertically at Dome A in Antarctica was better than flying in extra fuel:) Kind of makes your "technical" problems look a bit trivial doesn't it? Like it or not photovoltaics are mainstream now and there is no point charging at windmills, the world has moved on.
Have you seen the price gouging by many electricity companies around the world lately? That's mainly why solar is paying for itself quickly in a lot of areas. It's starting to look like even a diesel generator is going to pay for itself in some places.
I'll point out to readers that the above poster is the imbecile that suggested that manufacturing is in great shape because despite a massive drop in both production and wages the wages dropped more - hence greater productivity! How wonderful! Far less income for the country, but look at those lovely numbers!
Ooloorie, I asked you some questions before as to why you felt justified in insulting me - please answer them instead of avoiding the topic.
thorium, on paper is a great idea, so is pebble bed. we should do that. we should build reactors that use the VAST MAJORITY of the fuel before it is designated waste and stored in a pool...
Tell that to the nuclear lobby who paid for a PR campaign AGAINST the government thorium research in Clinton's presidency. That, and a pile of other things, assured that future nuclear power in the US is effectively dead unless purchased from overseas. Even the Westinghouse dinosaur of the AP1000 relies on Japanese work to bring it from 1970s technology to the 1980s.
Apparently it's the American way. If Jesus loved them he would sent them money or something according to Christianity Lite so there's no need for charity, just hate.
If San Francisco wants to have a future free of fossil fuels then they need to consider nuclear power
A city doesn't have that kind of budget - go talk to someone federal. You already know that so why write such shit?
Oh, and nuclear power is cheaper than solar
Don't be stupid. Cheaper per MW at the top end of town in theory maybe but the entry cost makes your comment beneath contempt as a very blatant lie that insults intelligence. If you meant something else, such as cheaper per MW at huge scales, then write something else.
To dumb things down to a level you already know but forgot to apply: Silicon increases in resistance with temperature thus a hot PC is bad news. Many photovoltaics are made of silicon.
That terracotta colour is pretty close to ideal for absorbing the wavelengths of light that hit the ground. A brown copper patina is pretty close as well. The "thermal pollution" thing is bullshit unless the roof before was painted white.
and does not require complicated social ritual of tipping
The best way to deal with that is have a society that doesn't need the complicated social ritual of tipping and the reliance on the charity of strangers for people who actually have a job to have enough money to live on. The USA never completely got over slavery, and waitresses willing to put up with sexual harrassment in the hope of getting tips a symptom.
The thing is they are employees in all but name without any of the benefits of being an employee or any of the benefits of being a contractor. It's third world style piecework without even the choice of getting piecework from another employer.
The typical way to do things in a democracy is to talk to people about changing the laws instead of either giving up or going ahead and breaking them. That can be difficult, especially in the situation you mentioned where a government is getting money by selling the right to a monopoly (both anti-democratic and anti-capitalist), but it's better than just charging in and busting heads.
Going from Win8 to Win10 meant I needed to find out where Microsoft moved a bunch of stuff I used. Now they're moving it all around again.
Yeah, it's a shame you can't just keep using what you're familiar with instead of upgrading.
Oh wait, you can.
Only because I refused the EULA, let it roll back, cancelled the second scheduled upgrade attempt and then marked it as a hidden update. Annoying. Time consuming. So confusing for the typical user that the MS fanboy excuse of linux being complicated goes out the window.
It was explained to me like this: Domino is a database that tried to become an email system. Exchange is an email system that tried to become a database.
It's funny, whenever I've been critical of how mail transport etc behaves in the MS Exchange suite I've always had a lot of fanboys shouting me down telling me MS Exchange is not an email system:)
I ran away from it long ago after I had to do some registry edits to get it to do something simple (add a disclaimer to all outgoing email) and concluded it was best kept under adult supervision of a different mail system (but that was long ago).
I'm just glad that I'm not supporting 30k users over 100+ sites with sendmail/exim/postfix and whatever for calendaring and a pile of shell/perl scripts written over 20 years.
You are correct, but with simple stuff instead of creeping featurism it isn't hard. The only thing I know for sure about calendar apps is mandating any single one is just going to piss off a lot of people no matter which one you choose.
Based on what exactly? The weird Alex Gabbard shit from when he was a middle manager at Oak Ridge labs (before he started writing about moonshiners and NASCAR) or something actually peer reviewed? If you tell me it's from the same source as the article that warned about terrorists building atomic bombs out of fly ash I will laugh.
In my area there is some mildly radioactive sand that was being mined for titanium (rutile + ilmenite). The mining company for a bit of PR donated a lot of the unwanted sand to schools for sandpits. Unfortunately since the sand was sorted by weight the radioactive stuff was concentrated and ended up being a less than trivial proportion of the sand sent to schools - whoops!
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I have a feeling that from revenue gained by selling results of data mining associated with win10 that it's going to be a lot more than we would like from selling some information we'd prefer not to be sold.
Apple had one so via cargo cult mentality MS had to have one to get success as well. The irony is they did it by getting hold of an already viable phone company and then removing everything that made it viable - destructive idiots.
Less apps than an N900 can get today despite it's age - now that's a step backwards.
Indeed.
Sometimes I just cannot believe it's decided to let me wait while it renders a huge number of thumbnail images instead of letting me actually do stuff. Context switches just browsing into another directory are also difficult to believe are a good idea. Incredible indeed. They managed to make it far worse than the earlier version.
Stop pretending to be stupid, you are not a cocaine ravaged former DJ so stop pretending to be one - a massive drop in expenditure on wages due to job losses. Also no innovation means no paying people to improve stuff so another false spike on "productivity" numbers.
You are pretending to be ignorant or actually are, so how about a little lesson?
In the early 1990s I worked at a steelworks with fantastic productivity numbers with almost exponential growth (tons of steel per man hour), yet somehow not enough steel could be produced to meet orders that had previously been met easily and the place started losing massive amounts of money. It turns out the hours of contractors were not counted in the "productivity" numbers and there was a process of shedding skilled staff to drive those numbers. All the numbers that mattered - revenue, product shipped, expenses, hours of lost production from breakdowns, accidents, fatalities - were bad, but that productivity number was great so it was all bonuses at the top end of town until the parent company took a closer look and shut most of the place down. Don't blame me (some idiots like to shoot messengers), the rolling mill I worked at was one of only two parts of the place that kept going.
That example illustrates why "productivity" numbers are entirely useless without context. If you were not born yesterday you should be able to find a few more of your own.
It's getting to where we could replace Bourne with a shell script :)
If the utilities are pricing themselves out of electricity generation and now even supply then why shed tears for them?
Lots of tiny little generators with very fancy control systems we couldn't have dreamed of in the 1990s easily switched in and out make that easier not harder.
No.
It's not very hard you've been overthinking things. Try again without the silly assumption that 100% of that available power is going back into the grid instead of what is actually required at the time and it will be obvious.
Gas turbines
All that said the "technical" problems didn't stop someone deciding to set up solar panels vertically at Dome A in Antarctica was better than flying in extra fuel :)
Kind of makes your "technical" problems look a bit trivial doesn't it?
Like it or not photovoltaics are mainstream now and there is no point charging at windmills, the world has moved on.
Have you seen the price gouging by many electricity companies around the world lately?
That's mainly why solar is paying for itself quickly in a lot of areas.
It's starting to look like even a diesel generator is going to pay for itself in some places.
I'll point out to readers that the above poster is the imbecile that suggested that manufacturing is in great shape because despite a massive drop in both production and wages the wages dropped more - hence greater productivity! How wonderful! Far less income for the country, but look at those lovely numbers!
Ooloorie, I asked you some questions before as to why you felt justified in insulting me - please answer them instead of avoiding the topic.
Tell that to the nuclear lobby who paid for a PR campaign AGAINST the government thorium research in Clinton's presidency. That, and a pile of other things, assured that future nuclear power in the US is effectively dead unless purchased from overseas. Even the Westinghouse dinosaur of the AP1000 relies on Japanese work to bring it from 1970s technology to the 1980s.
Apparently it's the American way. If Jesus loved them he would sent them money or something according to Christianity Lite so there's no need for charity, just hate.
A city doesn't have that kind of budget - go talk to someone federal. You already know that so why write such shit?
Don't be stupid. Cheaper per MW at the top end of town in theory maybe but the entry cost makes your comment beneath contempt as a very blatant lie that insults intelligence. If you meant something else, such as cheaper per MW at huge scales, then write something else.
To dumb things down to a level you already know but forgot to apply:
Silicon increases in resistance with temperature thus a hot PC is bad news.
Many photovoltaics are made of silicon.
Yet you people keep on turkey slapping us with "land of the free".
That terracotta colour is pretty close to ideal for absorbing the wavelengths of light that hit the ground. A brown copper patina is pretty close as well.
The "thermal pollution" thing is bullshit unless the roof before was painted white.
The best way to deal with that is have a society that doesn't need the complicated social ritual of tipping and the reliance on the charity of strangers for people who actually have a job to have enough money to live on.
The USA never completely got over slavery, and waitresses willing to put up with sexual harrassment in the hope of getting tips a symptom.
The thing is they are employees in all but name without any of the benefits of being an employee or any of the benefits of being a contractor. It's third world style piecework without even the choice of getting piecework from another employer.
The typical way to do things in a democracy is to talk to people about changing the laws instead of either giving up or going ahead and breaking them.
That can be difficult, especially in the situation you mentioned where a government is getting money by selling the right to a monopoly (both anti-democratic and anti-capitalist), but it's better than just charging in and busting heads.
Not so much disruptive as regressive.
Piecework instead of wages is not a new thing.
No comparable since there are a few dozen alternatives. With MS it's their way or the highway.
Going from Win8 to Win10 meant I needed to find out where Microsoft moved a bunch of stuff I used. Now they're moving it all around again.
Yeah, it's a shame you can't just keep using what you're familiar with instead of upgrading. Oh wait, you can.
Only because I refused the EULA, let it roll back, cancelled the second scheduled upgrade attempt and then marked it as a hidden update.
Annoying.
Time consuming.
So confusing for the typical user that the MS fanboy excuse of linux being complicated goes out the window.
It's funny, whenever I've been critical of how mail transport etc behaves in the MS Exchange suite I've always had a lot of fanboys shouting me down telling me MS Exchange is not an email system :)
I ran away from it long ago after I had to do some registry edits to get it to do something simple (add a disclaimer to all outgoing email) and concluded it was best kept under adult supervision of a different mail system (but that was long ago).
You are correct, but with simple stuff instead of creeping featurism it isn't hard. The only thing I know for sure about calendar apps is mandating any single one is just going to piss off a lot of people no matter which one you choose.
Based on what exactly? The weird Alex Gabbard shit from when he was a middle manager at Oak Ridge labs (before he started writing about moonshiners and NASCAR) or something actually peer reviewed? If you tell me it's from the same source as the article that warned about terrorists building atomic bombs out of fly ash I will laugh.
In my area there is some mildly radioactive sand that was being mined for titanium (rutile + ilmenite). The mining company for a bit of PR donated a lot of the unwanted sand to schools for sandpits. Unfortunately since the sand was sorted by weight the radioactive stuff was concentrated and ended up being a less than trivial proportion of the sand sent to schools - whoops!