Maybe I should have dumbed it down to politics not being a huge deal in voting for who gets an award for a work in SF than it is now with a fucking voting guide from manipulative pricks who are politicizing the process instead of readers voting for what they like independently. Now do you get what this is about instead of rolling out Diamond Age and some out of touch Russian that saw the capitalist system in a republic as a dystopia?
Here it is loser for THE THIRD FUCKING TIME: http://slashdot.org/comments.p... Read before you screed. Spend a little bit of that integrity you are too cheap to waste on the likes of the readers of this site.
Oddly enough I think you're the first person to mention feminist SF in this entire affair. Good strawman though keep whacking it.
Strawman? Vox rants about it length so I'm describing a real man pointlessly charging at figurative windmills. While Vox is possibly just an attention seeker trying to stir up trouble that is still the centre of this ridiculous vortex of shit - pointless hate of feminist SF for the sake of it.
Others have in the comments, quotes about turning the Hugos into a smoking hole, but don't take it from me or them - take a look at "Vox's" website so that you can find out what is going on instead of wasting time guessing about it and wasting time writing down your guesses.
Yes I know the "stop wasting my time" is just movie inspired shit to try to look tough, but it's pretty funny since you are so busy wasting it instead of spending far less time looking at the source to see what is going on.
All of the above factional bullshit just shows it's pointless student politics that escaped into the real world. All the possibilities in SF and fantasy and they waste time on a ridiculous sideshow. A Vox on all those losers.
I'm not saying it's bad, but if that's science fiction I'm a helicopter gunship
It's fantasy as well these days - so much so that a guy that wrote a sequel to a small part of "Gulliver's Travels" accused Greg Egan of having too much science in his fiction for it to be SF! Apparently Greg Egan's aliens are a bit too alien as well, perhaps they should have been like little people who behaved exactly the same as full sized people.
They were outside the usual bunch of Hugo voters and joined as a Bloc to indulge in petty student political branch stacking bullshit. It's pathetic, annoying, and their childish attention getting rants are deliberately disturbing. Hence the fuss.
The sad thing is the people labelled "SJWs" in this case is everyone apart from a bunch that has an attitude hard to distinguish from the Taliban. So it appears that if you think a woman should be allowed to write for a living you are an "SJW"? It's ridiculous. This Vox puppy shit is going way back before 1900.
Men's Rights Activist - it's about taking the most distorted view of the most extreme feminists on the planet to the point of parody and then saying that men should be able to whine like that as well. Some feel a family court system has done them wrong but many who apply that title to themselves just seem to be angry virgins who feel that the world owes them a supermodel. So if someone calls themselves that they are likely to have extreme views, up to and including domestic (and other) violence. If someone calls another an MRA it's hard to take that seriously since it can be seen as just a very nasty insult, just shy of calling them a member of the Taliban.
So to sum up it's a ridiculous label which means nothing in itself until you know what inspired it. Look for rants about losing the kids just because of a bit of violence to identify the hardcore ones that inspired it's use as an insult.
Most of the time you'd be right but take a look at the sick puppy web site and you'll see it really does fit the stereotype to to point of being barely distinguishable from parody. It really is weird anti-feminist shit going so far that Grandpa would give them a paddlin' for having a heathen attitude to women.
This is an example. We have a bald assertion that the Hugo picks by "the puppies" were chosen on the basis of politics.
If you had been following this you would have noticed that the assertion was made by "the puppies" themselves on the initial website instead of being some shameful secret. It's grubby student political shit that has escaped the playpen and for some reason they are proud of it.
making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters
Hence the branch stacking by a bunch of angry virgins who think the world owes them a Supermodel. It's utterly pathetic student political shit that has escaped into an area where politics was previously not a huge deal. To feel threatened by such a tiny niche as feminist SF is as pathetic as getting upset at women riding bicycles. If they don't like it they can look the other way.
Onyx Boox have an e-ink tablet that you can put in landscape mode to show half an A4 page at full size at a time. It's good for many PDF files. Of course some others for some insane reason are encoded badly enough that you need the grunt of a recent desktop computer to avoid rendering times of many seconds per page.
OK then - answer this: Why is it that my statement was considered incorrect enough to attract an insult when I wrote it but you consider it correct when you do?
There is an obvious answer that does not depend on distractions of high school level lectures to readers. Just because your education was so fucked that reading a book on philosophy allows you to dazzle others does not mean that all others here are as unfortunate as yourself.
I'm sure you can work it out.
little way is trying to change your position ex post facto to mine
By quoting my original post? Wow - so I'm either an epic hacker, invented time travel or you are lying. How petty.
The problem is that you need shitloads of waste heat well over the boiling point in atmosphere - which is typically not wasted in such quantities. Everything that doesn't have a long and involved heat exchange system, using the boiler outlet water to do a LOT of preheating of the inlet water is either getting very old or is tiny - plus having to be coastal limits things a bit, so while there may be a few sites where it is possible they are going to be rare. There's even some places (eg. Liddell power station) where not only is the waste heat recovered as mush as possible but a bit of solar heating is added on top before it goes into the boiler to cut down on fuel use. There's co-generation with stuff like burning methane from garbage, sewage etc with no boiler to heat, but projects like that are using their waste heat for stuff like warm water for aquaculture because they don't have the sort of waste heat to evaporate a lot of water - even at atmospheric pressure. Gas turbines often have a bit of heat that's not recovered but you would need a lot of them at one site for this sort of thing, so there's an option for a new site designed for those two purposes. So while it is far cheaper to use waste heat of you can get it there's not dependable amounts of it about for a total solution, and it's pretty expensive if you are burning stuff for the thermal desalination instead of getting the heat cheap as a by-product.
Thus if cheap heat is not available the opportunities shift to cheap mechanical energy to pump some pressure behind those membranes: http://www.carnegiewave.com/projects/perth-project.html
I actually addressed that point at length. I conceded that there are contexts where a tank is inferior.
Yes - you insulted me for stating something you later asserted yourself.
Consider what such an action means.
It's not about you setting me up as a sophist strawman and you pretending to be a stoic - far more simple, it's about being an immature insulting little piece of shit instead of there being any reason involved at all
Move? You pathetic and lazy game playing piece of shit - but here is the post above repeated - the one that you didn't bother to read before your insulting screed. I suggest you read it this time so that you can properly apologize for being a condescending while incorrect game playing lazy piece of shit:
Which is what tanks utterly suck against. In built up areas against infantry that can have either anti-tank weapons or force the tank down a path and drop a building on it with explosives you have a waste of the tank.
So the tanks sit outside and organised ground troops go against the disorganised ground troops.
That's really just a reinforcement of your point - many tools for different jobs.
Now are you man enough to apologize or just a mewling child that got old?
Get one of those 2k screens and suddenly you have a desire for an insanely powerful card just so that you can get beyond 30Hz refresh.
My current beef is with the laws of physics and human ingenuity, neither will allow the ping time from Oz to US/EU game server to drop below ~200ms.
The problem is more managerial. Internode and others offered Blizzard dirt cheap hosting in Australia but the policy was that an extra site added more complications and that ~200ms did not appear to be costing customers.
Is anyone considering the local effects of warming the water in the harbors these centers will be docked in?
If they are forced to use multiple outputs as power stations are forced to do then that problem goes away. Local warming is a cheapskate shortcut problem and not an inherent problem with the technology
The limits depend on the size of the gear. Power stations can cope with cooling water that is very dirty but the insides of the cooling towers look like the hanging gardens of Babylon, and there is plenty of "wildlife" in the water droplets so face masks are essential. All that algae etc cuts down on heat transfer but killing it instead of manually cleaning it means very nasty poisons and unintended consequences - eg. if there is a bit of silicon dissolved in the water that can mean a huge population of diatoms, and a vast number of dead spiky hard diatoms sandblasting the soft brass tubes of condensers rips decades off the life of the tubes.
In the right place the chillers could use salt water, but since it means using more expensive materials it's not going to happens unless price or regulations force it.
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Maybe I should have dumbed it down to politics not being a huge deal in voting for who gets an award for a work in SF than it is now with a fucking voting guide from manipulative pricks who are politicizing the process instead of readers voting for what they like independently.
Now do you get what this is about instead of rolling out Diamond Age and some out of touch Russian that saw the capitalist system in a republic as a dystopia?
It's obvious what has happened so I'm just rubbing your nose in it until you stop denying it.
Here it is loser for THE THIRD FUCKING TIME:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Read before you screed. Spend a little bit of that integrity you are too cheap to waste on the likes of the readers of this site.
The Charles Stross blog covers it far better and answers your question.
Strawman? Vox rants about it length so I'm describing a real man pointlessly charging at figurative windmills. While Vox is possibly just an attention seeker trying to stir up trouble that is still the centre of this ridiculous vortex of shit - pointless hate of feminist SF for the sake of it.
Others have in the comments, quotes about turning the Hugos into a smoking hole, but don't take it from me or them - take a look at "Vox's" website so that you can find out what is going on instead of wasting time guessing about it and wasting time writing down your guesses.
Yes I know the "stop wasting my time" is just movie inspired shit to try to look tough, but it's pretty funny since you are so busy wasting it instead of spending far less time looking at the source to see what is going on.
All of the above factional bullshit just shows it's pointless student politics that escaped into the real world. All the possibilities in SF and fantasy and they waste time on a ridiculous sideshow.
A Vox on all those losers.
It's fantasy as well these days - so much so that a guy that wrote a sequel to a small part of "Gulliver's Travels" accused Greg Egan of having too much science in his fiction for it to be SF! Apparently Greg Egan's aliens are a bit too alien as well, perhaps they should have been like little people who behaved exactly the same as full sized people.
They were outside the usual bunch of Hugo voters and joined as a Bloc to indulge in petty student political branch stacking bullshit. It's pathetic, annoying, and their childish attention getting rants are deliberately disturbing. Hence the fuss.
The sad thing is the people labelled "SJWs" in this case is everyone apart from a bunch that has an attitude hard to distinguish from the Taliban.
So it appears that if you think a woman should be allowed to write for a living you are an "SJW"? It's ridiculous. This Vox puppy shit is going way back before 1900.
Men's Rights Activist - it's about taking the most distorted view of the most extreme feminists on the planet to the point of parody and then saying that men should be able to whine like that as well. Some feel a family court system has done them wrong but many who apply that title to themselves just seem to be angry virgins who feel that the world owes them a supermodel.
So if someone calls themselves that they are likely to have extreme views, up to and including domestic (and other) violence. If someone calls another an MRA it's hard to take that seriously since it can be seen as just a very nasty insult, just shy of calling them a member of the Taliban.
So to sum up it's a ridiculous label which means nothing in itself until you know what inspired it. Look for rants about losing the kids just because of a bit of violence to identify the hardcore ones that inspired it's use as an insult.
Most of the time you'd be right but take a look at the sick puppy web site and you'll see it really does fit the stereotype to to point of being barely distinguishable from parody.
It really is weird anti-feminist shit going so far that Grandpa would give them a paddlin' for having a heathen attitude to women.
If you had been following this you would have noticed that the assertion was made by "the puppies" themselves on the initial website instead of being some shameful secret. It's grubby student political shit that has escaped the playpen and for some reason they are proud of it.
Hence the branch stacking by a bunch of angry virgins who think the world owes them a Supermodel. It's utterly pathetic student political shit that has escaped into an area where politics was previously not a huge deal.
To feel threatened by such a tiny niche as feminist SF is as pathetic as getting upset at women riding bicycles. If they don't like it they can look the other way.
Poor Trigger - he should have known that Roy rodgers.
Now he's completely stuffed.
Onyx Boox have an e-ink tablet that you can put in landscape mode to show half an A4 page at full size at a time. It's good for many PDF files. Of course some others for some insane reason are encoded badly enough that you need the grunt of a recent desktop computer to avoid rendering times of many seconds per page.
That said, if it had e-ink on it and didn't cost more than an "ultrabook" laptop I'd go for something that big.
I did.
A couple of posts up
Why do you need it a third time?
Epic fail.
You still haven't worked out the simple answer - here's a clue - use a mirror.
LOL! You seem to value it far too much to use it here!
Why is it that my statement was considered incorrect enough to attract an insult when I wrote it but you consider it correct when you do?
There is an obvious answer that does not depend on distractions of high school level lectures to readers. Just because your education was so fucked that reading a book on philosophy allows you to dazzle others does not mean that all others here are as unfortunate as yourself.
I'm sure you can work it out.
By quoting my original post? Wow - so I'm either an epic hacker, invented time travel or you are lying. How petty.
The problem is that you need shitloads of waste heat well over the boiling point in atmosphere - which is typically not wasted in such quantities. Everything that doesn't have a long and involved heat exchange system, using the boiler outlet water to do a LOT of preheating of the inlet water is either getting very old or is tiny - plus having to be coastal limits things a bit, so while there may be a few sites where it is possible they are going to be rare. There's even some places (eg. Liddell power station) where not only is the waste heat recovered as mush as possible but a bit of solar heating is added on top before it goes into the boiler to cut down on fuel use.
There's co-generation with stuff like burning methane from garbage, sewage etc with no boiler to heat, but projects like that are using their waste heat for stuff like warm water for aquaculture because they don't have the sort of waste heat to evaporate a lot of water - even at atmospheric pressure.
Gas turbines often have a bit of heat that's not recovered but you would need a lot of them at one site for this sort of thing, so there's an option for a new site designed for those two purposes.
So while it is far cheaper to use waste heat of you can get it there's not dependable amounts of it about for a total solution, and it's pretty expensive if you are burning stuff for the thermal desalination instead of getting the heat cheap as a by-product.
Thus if cheap heat is not available the opportunities shift to cheap mechanical energy to pump some pressure behind those membranes:
http://www.carnegiewave.com/projects/perth-project.html
Yes - you insulted me for stating something you later asserted yourself.
Consider what such an action means.
It's not about you setting me up as a sophist strawman and you pretending to be a stoic - far more simple, it's about being an immature insulting little piece of shit instead of there being any reason involved at all
Move?
You pathetic and lazy game playing piece of shit - but here is the post above repeated - the one that you didn't bother to read before your insulting screed. I suggest you read it this time so that you can properly apologize for being a condescending while incorrect game playing lazy piece of shit:
Now are you man enough to apologize or just a mewling child that got old?
The problem is more managerial. Internode and others offered Blizzard dirt cheap hosting in Australia but the policy was that an extra site added more complications and that ~200ms did not appear to be costing customers.
If they are forced to use multiple outputs as power stations are forced to do then that problem goes away. Local warming is a cheapskate shortcut problem and not an inherent problem with the technology
The limits depend on the size of the gear. Power stations can cope with cooling water that is very dirty but the insides of the cooling towers look like the hanging gardens of Babylon, and there is plenty of "wildlife" in the water droplets so face masks are essential. All that algae etc cuts down on heat transfer but killing it instead of manually cleaning it means very nasty poisons and unintended consequences - eg. if there is a bit of silicon dissolved in the water that can mean a huge population of diatoms, and a vast number of dead spiky hard diatoms sandblasting the soft brass tubes of condensers rips decades off the life of the tubes.
In the right place the chillers could use salt water, but since it means using more expensive materials it's not going to happens unless price or regulations force it.