True, but software development and running it in production are different skill sets. While it makes a vast amount of sense to have inhouse software development when you want unique software you have to have enough ongoing work to be able to keep the people who can do it. It becomes a situation that requires good management and good communication between departments and a willingness of management to avoid backstabbing for short term gain. When you have horse judges, cheerleaders and frat boys running things it is difficult to do such a thing in large organizations - especially when one of the horse judges would rather contract out to a bunch represented by a hot chick.
That's the consequence of "small government". If there are enough people in place to make sure that the boss doesn't put his idiot nephew in charge of a department the damage is less. Such a thing applies everywhere so it's not about government as such. Remember that they are working for you so it's your money they are funnelling into their friends pockets.
I do not care about RMS extreme ideology about freaking drivers. I WANT THEM TO JUST WORK.
We are referring to linux which has things such as the NVIDIA binary blobs that RMS would never allow. Linus also refused to use the new GPL that RMS was pushing. Here's a suggestion - outside of the nasty side of politics if you don't know something about a topic it's better to be quiet than make things up.
That would be great if Linux IT professionals existed in any number to make it useful. Can you find one? Or even a few?
Try a place that has a CS department that is not sponsored by Microsoft and you'll find such a thing in close to 100% of CS and IT graduates since about 2005.
I don't have a clue as to WHAT, specifically, you think I'm wrong about.
If you had bothered to read my two explanatory posts in very simple language instead of link spamming me based on the first key words you saw then you would know. Of course the more likely situation is you do know now and just wanted to try and pretend that you were not caught out in a politically motivated lie that relied on the ignorance of the suckers you are trying to fool.
You finally noticed! The pity is that I do not appear to have dumbed it down enough in the face of your invincible ignorance driven by blind ideology. Stalin would be proud of you but I think you are a brainwashed fuckwit. As for your six goalpost shifts - fuck off with pretending you've won something just because I've refused to play your game.
most part you're only capable of arguing on the grade school level
The very good and obvious reason for that is because I am attempting to dispel your misinformation about a very simple concept. You've shown an almost total lack of understanding of the content that you have linked so what is the point of me discussing things at that level? As for your six goalposts shifts - don't you think you've got enough attention already? Why troll for more? What is this shit about expecting me to find three more things wrong with you when you've already shown you are willing to lie about one issue (the "problems" that don't exist)? I already had a very low opinion of you with your first post, it has declined vastly since - why ask for more insults? The pairing of your edict of when people should not be allowed to have solar with symptoms of libertarianism is amusing enough, so to me that just puts it somewhere on the far side of crazy with no idea of what contradictory ideas you have in your head - however by your actions whatever politics you have you are enthusiastic enough about it to consider it more important than honesty or reason. I think you are more disgusting corrupter of the minds of our youth than I would ever write on this page.
If you'd actually read and understand some of those links you've been spamming me with then we would not have had such a long and tedious thread where you have been desperately trying to find a way to make your silly fiction real. None of those links have refuted my point. Your extreme edge case does not refute my point. Those panels make the situation easier instead of harder so your "concerns" remain nothing other than a stupid and empty politically motivated attack that is an insult to the intelligence of anyone that reads it.
So in my opinion calling you an amoral weasel bent on corrupting the youth reading this site to your political ends would be accurate. I've been more restrained in my criticism of your bullshit than perhaps I should have been - if I'd used stronger language you may have given up instead of trying to concoct stupid fictions to convince me that you have some clue about a field you are wilfully ignorant of. If you'd picked up a textbook and spent the time you've wasted here on that instead you'd have the understanding you pretend to have by now.
A Russian invasion of Ukraine is not going to happen so long as everyone continues to do exactly what Putin wants. Nobody is seriously getting in his way apart from very minor annoyances. He's happy with a client state that does what it is told to do, and it's shaping up to be exactly that with no serious opposition from any direction. So the promise to oppose an invasion isn't so bad since it's unlikely to have to be carried out. As for the ignored sanctions looking like weakness and the stupidity of getting involved I agree entirely, but there are hints that there has been some involvement for some time by US agencies dabbling incompetently in Ukrainian politics so abandoning them would have looked bad as well. Stuff that works in Central America doesn't have a chance versus ex-KGB that like to leave Polonium calling cards so it's the wrong place for rogue agencies to play inept games.
But stop trying to make out that this is either high tech or difficult to make
With respect, it's rocket science you oaf and not just running a cable. It may not be the acme of rockets but it's still had more care and effort put into it than anything you can buy at Walmart, a car dealer or even a used aeroplane auction.
That situation was twist on segments of a huge box girder bridge which amplifies the expansion and contraction. Imagine a T shape twisting as forces are applied. Now imagine two of them.
But maybe magic instantly-setting concrete is different.
You can simulate magical instantly-setting concrete over time by using a lot of wood and enormous steel cables to hold everything together while it sets. That is also engineering.
It's so nice to have computer programmers tell us what engineering is. I understand now why an entry level coder without a degree and not much high school math considers themselves an engineer - they don't seem to think much about the profession at all. Here is a clue guys - there is feedback in each process. Scheduling tasks is also part of engineering. Solving problems is also part of engineering. Getting that last pour done at 2am as the two halves of the bridge expand and contract enough that they are next to each other and not eight metres apart is also part of engineering.
Tape stored offsite. Too expensive? Then something not as good so long as you have multiple copies and format shift every couple of years (with tape you need to format shift around the decade mark or sooner). Hard drives are not designed to last a long time unpowered so you may need to spin them up every year or two - polished surfaces diffuse together over time. The lubricant in drive bearings also has a limited life in comparison to tape (where it doesn't need to deal with high speeds at all). Optical has had problems so multiple copies and not expecting a long life are the way to use that.
Surely you at least know enough about this topic to know where the sun is at the time of least power consumption. As for Hawaii - consider how little industry is in that place and how the heating requirements in winter are zero. However you know that so why pretend to be stupid? You are not a brain damaged ex-DJ that did too much coke so why argue like one?
Sourcing stuff you do not understand did not help you so I provided something which could aid your understanding. Unlike yourself I understand the topic. Put in five minutes (instead of the years I put in) and you can understand enough to see your obvious mistakes.
Did I attack you
"Now I know you're not an engineer" looks a bit like that to me, so long as your vast amounts of patronising verbiage that implied I knew less than a complete outsider like yourself. But of course since you so little about the topic that you'd never be able to tell one way or that other whether I am an engineer or not that does blunt it somewhat. Unlike yourself I am not bluffing with and empty hand, and personally I don't really give a shit whether a political animal like yourself believes me or not. I'm here to stop you corrupting the kiddies with lies. It's somewhat ironic that your lies are so extreme that a person like myself that has been associated with the coal and oil industries for his entire career has to defend solar from your lies.
You might as well just ship Uranium or Plutonium directly to the terrorists
The positive side of that is that people are already shipping expensive rockets to terrorists and they just lay them down on bits of wood to launch instead of sticking them in tubes - thus making them less accurate than a rocket from the mid 1800s. What would such a person do with plutonium? The cleanup of a satellite crash in Canada showed how easy it would be to deal with a "dirty bomb" so that's not much of a problem.
No an engineer. I ran a few classes when I went back to university to do some postgraduate study after some years in industry. It was about the time Slashdot was starting up.
Identify, specifically where I'm wrong. Explain why it's wrong
The posts above entitled "Let's try thinking through an example" and "I think I see where you have a problem" cover it very well so I wish you would stop pretending I have not already done so.
I've raised my hand and asked a question
Nothing of the sort. You've been handing down edicts and setting conditions. You been making incredibly stupid statements such as "Hawaii is darn near perfect test case in the USA" and pretending that not only such a stupid thing is true but an even more stupid extrapolation from 10% to 120% in Hawaii is true. To be frank, you are full of shit and overflowing out of your mouth.
Yet there you were doing exactly that when I called you out on it, and there you've been trying to do that for a very large number of posts and pretending not to be able to grasp some very simple concepts. You've been trying to make a "debate" out of pretending some stupid lies are real instead of just taking a correction at face value.
Nice. A personal attack on my professionalism. My students in the 1990s never tried that when they were out of their depth - instead they acted like adults and checked their work. You are the one making the very wild claims. You are the one that is expected to post something of merit or at least be honest when you have been caught out and it has been exposed as being invented. Solar is mainstream now and helps solve some problems with peaks as the load profiles in that paper you linked show. If you don't like it for political reasons I suggest you lie about it on a political forum instead of making shit up here.
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True, but software development and running it in production are different skill sets. While it makes a vast amount of sense to have inhouse software development when you want unique software you have to have enough ongoing work to be able to keep the people who can do it. It becomes a situation that requires good management and good communication between departments and a willingness of management to avoid backstabbing for short term gain. When you have horse judges, cheerleaders and frat boys running things it is difficult to do such a thing in large organizations - especially when one of the horse judges would rather contract out to a bunch represented by a hot chick.
That's the consequence of "small government". If there are enough people in place to make sure that the boss doesn't put his idiot nephew in charge of a department the damage is less. Such a thing applies everywhere so it's not about government as such.
Remember that they are working for you so it's your money they are funnelling into their friends pockets.
We are referring to linux which has things such as the NVIDIA binary blobs that RMS would never allow. Linus also refused to use the new GPL that RMS was pushing. Here's a suggestion - outside of the nasty side of politics if you don't know something about a topic it's better to be quiet than make things up.
Try a place that has a CS department that is not sponsored by Microsoft and you'll find such a thing in close to 100% of CS and IT graduates since about 2005.
If you had bothered to read my two explanatory posts in very simple language instead of link spamming me based on the first key words you saw then you would know. Of course the more likely situation is you do know now and just wanted to try and pretend that you were not caught out in a politically motivated lie that relied on the ignorance of the suckers you are trying to fool.
You finally noticed! The pity is that I do not appear to have dumbed it down enough in the face of your invincible ignorance driven by blind ideology. Stalin would be proud of you but I think you are a brainwashed fuckwit.
As for your six goalpost shifts - fuck off with pretending you've won something just because I've refused to play your game.
There should be a law against punishment of that type carried out without a trial.
I'd say you are both a liability to society and a useful tool to whoever has brainwashed you.
The very good and obvious reason for that is because I am attempting to dispel your misinformation about a very simple concept. You've shown an almost total lack of understanding of the content that you have linked so what is the point of me discussing things at that level?
As for your six goalposts shifts - don't you think you've got enough attention already? Why troll for more? What is this shit about expecting me to find three more things wrong with you when you've already shown you are willing to lie about one issue (the "problems" that don't exist)? I already had a very low opinion of you with your first post, it has declined vastly since - why ask for more insults? The pairing of your edict of when people should not be allowed to have solar with symptoms of libertarianism is amusing enough, so to me that just puts it somewhere on the far side of crazy with no idea of what contradictory ideas you have in your head - however by your actions whatever politics you have you are enthusiastic enough about it to consider it more important than honesty or reason. I think you are more disgusting corrupter of the minds of our youth than I would ever write on this page.
If you'd actually read and understand some of those links you've been spamming me with then we would not have had such a long and tedious thread where you have been desperately trying to find a way to make your silly fiction real. None of those links have refuted my point. Your extreme edge case does not refute my point. Those panels make the situation easier instead of harder so your "concerns" remain nothing other than a stupid and empty politically motivated attack that is an insult to the intelligence of anyone that reads it.
So in my opinion calling you an amoral weasel bent on corrupting the youth reading this site to your political ends would be accurate. I've been more restrained in my criticism of your bullshit than perhaps I should have been - if I'd used stronger language you may have given up instead of trying to concoct stupid fictions to convince me that you have some clue about a field you are wilfully ignorant of.
If you'd picked up a textbook and spent the time you've wasted here on that instead you'd have the understanding you pretend to have by now.
A Russian invasion of Ukraine is not going to happen so long as everyone continues to do exactly what Putin wants. Nobody is seriously getting in his way apart from very minor annoyances. He's happy with a client state that does what it is told to do, and it's shaping up to be exactly that with no serious opposition from any direction.
So the promise to oppose an invasion isn't so bad since it's unlikely to have to be carried out. As for the ignored sanctions looking like weakness and the stupidity of getting involved I agree entirely, but there are hints that there has been some involvement for some time by US agencies dabbling incompetently in Ukrainian politics so abandoning them would have looked bad as well. Stuff that works in Central America doesn't have a chance versus ex-KGB that like to leave Polonium calling cards so it's the wrong place for rogue agencies to play inept games.
With respect, it's rocket science you oaf and not just running a cable. It may not be the acme of rockets but it's still had more care and effort put into it than anything you can buy at Walmart, a car dealer or even a used aeroplane auction.
That situation was twist on segments of a huge box girder bridge which amplifies the expansion and contraction. Imagine a T shape twisting as forces are applied. Now imagine two of them.
You can simulate magical instantly-setting concrete over time by using a lot of wood and enormous steel cables to hold everything together while it sets. That is also engineering.
Not until you apologise for you politically motivated F.U.D. about the "problems" that do not exist.
It's so nice to have computer programmers tell us what engineering is. I understand now why an entry level coder without a degree and not much high school math considers themselves an engineer - they don't seem to think much about the profession at all.
Here is a clue guys - there is feedback in each process. Scheduling tasks is also part of engineering. Solving problems is also part of engineering. Getting that last pour done at 2am as the two halves of the bridge expand and contract enough that they are next to each other and not eight metres apart is also part of engineering.
Tape stored offsite. Too expensive? Then something not as good so long as you have multiple copies and format shift every couple of years (with tape you need to format shift around the decade mark or sooner). Hard drives are not designed to last a long time unpowered so you may need to spin them up every year or two - polished surfaces diffuse together over time. The lubricant in drive bearings also has a limited life in comparison to tape (where it doesn't need to deal with high speeds at all). Optical has had problems so multiple copies and not expecting a long life are the way to use that.
Very different.
Surely you at least know enough about this topic to know where the sun is at the time of least power consumption. As for Hawaii - consider how little industry is in that place and how the heating requirements in winter are zero. However you know that so why pretend to be stupid? You are not a brain damaged ex-DJ that did too much coke so why argue like one?
Sourcing stuff you do not understand did not help you so I provided something which could aid your understanding. Unlike yourself I understand the topic. Put in five minutes (instead of the years I put in) and you can understand enough to see your obvious mistakes.
"Now I know you're not an engineer" looks a bit like that to me, so long as your vast amounts of patronising verbiage that implied I knew less than a complete outsider like yourself. But of course since you so little about the topic that you'd never be able to tell one way or that other whether I am an engineer or not that does blunt it somewhat. Unlike yourself I am not bluffing with and empty hand, and personally I don't really give a shit whether a political animal like yourself believes me or not. I'm here to stop you corrupting the kiddies with lies. It's somewhat ironic that your lies are so extreme that a person like myself that has been associated with the coal and oil industries for his entire career has to defend solar from your lies.
India is has almost completed construction of what you say is "decades away".
The positive side of that is that people are already shipping expensive rockets to terrorists and they just lay them down on bits of wood to launch instead of sticking them in tubes - thus making them less accurate than a rocket from the mid 1800s. What would such a person do with plutonium? The cleanup of a satellite crash in Canada showed how easy it would be to deal with a "dirty bomb" so that's not much of a problem.
No an engineer. I ran a few classes when I went back to university to do some postgraduate study after some years in industry. It was about the time Slashdot was starting up.
The posts above entitled "Let's try thinking through an example" and "I think I see where you have a problem" cover it very well so I wish you would stop pretending I have not already done so.
Nothing of the sort. You've been handing down edicts and setting conditions. You been making incredibly stupid statements such as "Hawaii is darn near perfect test case in the USA" and pretending that not only such a stupid thing is true but an even more stupid extrapolation from 10% to 120% in Hawaii is true.
To be frank, you are full of shit and overflowing out of your mouth.
Yet there you were doing exactly that when I called you out on it, and there you've been trying to do that for a very large number of posts and pretending not to be able to grasp some very simple concepts. You've been trying to make a "debate" out of pretending some stupid lies are real instead of just taking a correction at face value.
Nice. A personal attack on my professionalism. My students in the 1990s never tried that when they were out of their depth - instead they acted like adults and checked their work.
You are the one making the very wild claims. You are the one that is expected to post something of merit or at least be honest when you have been caught out and it has been exposed as being invented.
Solar is mainstream now and helps solve some problems with peaks as the load profiles in that paper you linked show. If you don't like it for political reasons I suggest you lie about it on a political forum instead of making shit up here.