No, I'm saying you should have a plan that has some hope of working before you start to implement it. Building wind and solar plants for supplemental power generation is great (though expensive), but for now nuclear is a far better option.
When has wind or solar ever been shown to be an effective, reliable replacement for fossil fuels? We need to develop methods for storing massive quantities of electrical(or thermal in the case of solar-thermal) energy before these power sources could be anything other than a supplemental power source.
Perhaps they could consider a nuke plant instead. Those are actually cheaper than fossil fuels, and they are certainly more reliable than wind or solar.
I was being sarcastic. You are, or course, absolutely correct. My only fear is that the person/persons who modded that up may not have understood that. . .
Maybe they should have a "finalize" option, whereby you save a special, read-only file, and it saves a backup of each "finalized" version. There's really no reason you should lose what you are working on when your computer crashes. And having an unsaved file shouldn't hold up quitting applications. Just start where you left off when you resume the application.
And does he mean what I think he does when he says "confronting them physically"? If he confronted me that way I'd probably back down too, because he's obviously gotten the wrong idea.
Has anyone else noticed that trolls almost always invoke homosexuality when posting on Slashdot? For something they seem to view so negatively, it is on their mind an awful lot. Not that there's anything wrong with that. . .
We must look at the big picture. Individual problems are unimportant and need not be addressed.
Shame on anybody who tries to solve their their individual problems for themselves. Such anti-social behavior can not be tolerated in a civilized society. Individuals must make individual sacrifices for the greater good.
One must never think of themselves and their own, insignificant, needs and problems.
Did you know that you risk death every time you are anesthetized? Yet people will have it done just to have a tooth pulled. The trick is that they don't read the release form before they sign it.
My roommate was telling me to get lasic instead of glasses. He was shocked when I told him that I didn't think it was worth the added expense and the risk of blindness. 1/2000 chance. I guess he didn't read the release form before he had it done on himself.
"The people losing jobs are not getting different jobs that are actually productive."
Yet. They need to realize that they're not getting their old jobs back first.
"The idea of public stimulus is, in part, to break that cycle."
What I'm trying to say is that people have been doing the wrong work. The mortgage industry contributes nothing real to our economy, so naturally it has collapsed. The auto industry is in a similar situation, though realistically if one of the big 3 went under the others would be fine, and foreign manufacturers like toyota would probably pick up the labour, at a reduced price.
Breaking the cycle is exactly the last thing we should be doing. We need to reevaluate the important parts of our economy and focus on them. We shouldn't be so wasteful in light of the upcoming retirement "boom".
If the recession has been going on since last year, it should have showed up by now. Likewise with the money printing. Congress has already spent something like $300 billion of the bailout money, and the earlier stimulus package went out as well. But no matter how much money they print, it won't cause inflation until people start spending the money.
The problem is that retirees now see the writing on the wall, and they know they aren't going to have as much money as they were planning. This is a good thing. Might as well cut back now rather than run full speed into a brick wall later.
Congress should just quit now while things are looking up rather than trying to push people to overspend and get themselves into a bunch of trouble. Enough with the bailouts and economic stimulus already, let us figure it out for ourselves.
I'm not talking about the specific incident as much as I'm talking about cooperation in general. It is often not prudent for the executive to wait for congress to pass laws, as it takes some time. Does congress really want to send the message to corporations that if they don't wait they can be sued? It will hinder the operations of the government.
Thanks to reduced consumer spending, the CPI has gone down, so our money is worth more. The price of oil has also gone down very significantly because of reduced spending. If it was worth it to work last year, it will be more worthwhile this year.
I can see that the Gov't is really trying to devalue the dollar as much a possible to try to encourage us all to waste our money and get further into debt. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be working. I would say this is a good thing.
"people being laid off means less productivity"
That is only true if the people being laid off were productive. Since our GDP is still fine, I'd say they weren't. Now they can get different jobs that are actually productive, and we will all be better off.
"Wrong" is a subjective term. You say it's wrong for them to comply without literally being forced to, some government officials may say it is a corporation's "patriotic duty" to assist the government (I think I read a statement from the mayor of NYC to that affect earlier this morning).
Of course, it's the congress who writes the federal laws, so their version of "right" and "wrong" is what will be codified into our nations laws. Do you honestly expect them to write a law that would encourage corporations to not cooperate with them?
How cares? What is the "economy" anyway? We have just as many resources this year as we did last year. That means plenty of everything we need to get by.
If the "economy" being down means that people are being more careful abut how they spend their time and money, that is a good thing. If it means we are all working to reduce our debt, that's a good thing too.
Sometimes I think people are so concerned with money that they forget what it represents.
Thanks, this is the funniest thing I've read all day. I sense a steep learning curve ahead for you.
What we have seen in the last eight years has been the same as what we've seen since our government's inception. "Great" leadership means a willingness to bend the rules to achieve your goals. A lawyer/politician from Chicago, of all places, is not going to change the realities of how our government works. Anyone with any honest intention to do that would not run for president. . .
For one thing, he seems to have learned to read and understand something before replying to it. . . The very first thing you did was criticize him for saying something you thought he said that was actually the exact opposite of what he said.
That comparison is much better. Was it really necessary for PC Pro to manipulate their numbers just so that they could say say it takes 5x longer instead of saying 4x longer? WTF?
Maybe it's meant to reflect the actual user experience, but they spend a lot more time diking around with websites than the iPhone add. They load two webpages instead of one, and spend time scrolling around those webpages, where as the add merely shows the phone zooming in. They also enter the URL manually, while the add shows them only loading a link. They also spend time scrolling around the PDF document, while in the add the user receives a call immediately after the PDF has loaded. Not to mention that they obviously used different sites and files. They also started from the unlock screen instead of the home screen. You can't call something a recreation if you didn't even try to recreate the add.
Why didn't they actually try to recreate the add ? The iPhone is obviously not that fast over a 3G network (though it is that fast over a 802.11 connection in my experience). What is it about journalists that makes them think they need to exaggerate things that are already plenty bad?
You lose efficiency when you transfer the power into the batteries and back out again. If you do all the math, using a coal fired plant to power an electric car uses almost the same amount of chemical energy (it's about 26% efficient, 40% for the coal plant and 72% for the battery/motor, and 90% for the power inverter, while a conventional engine is around 20%) but generates more CO2. The 60% you cite is for a combined cycle natural gas plant, but that's not where we get most of our power.
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No, I'm saying you should have a plan that has some hope of working before you start to implement it. Building wind and solar plants for supplemental power generation is great (though expensive), but for now nuclear is a far better option.
When has wind or solar ever been shown to be an effective, reliable replacement for fossil fuels? We need to develop methods for storing massive quantities of electrical(or thermal in the case of solar-thermal) energy before these power sources could be anything other than a supplemental power source.
Perhaps they could consider a nuke plant instead. Those are actually cheaper than fossil fuels, and they are certainly more reliable than wind or solar.
I was being sarcastic. You are, or course, absolutely correct. My only fear is that the person/persons who modded that up may not have understood that. . .
Maybe they should have a "finalize" option, whereby you save a special, read-only file, and it saves a backup of each "finalized" version. There's really no reason you should lose what you are working on when your computer crashes. And having an unsaved file shouldn't hold up quitting applications. Just start where you left off when you resume the application.
"Not ALL of us use our firearms as our weenies."
I hope not, you could seriously hurt someone that way.
And does he mean what I think he does when he says "confronting them physically"? If he confronted me that way I'd probably back down too, because he's obviously gotten the wrong idea.
Has anyone else noticed that trolls almost always invoke homosexuality when posting on Slashdot? For something they seem to view so negatively, it is on their mind an awful lot. Not that there's anything wrong with that. . .
We must look at the big picture. Individual problems are unimportant and need not be addressed.
Shame on anybody who tries to solve their their individual problems for themselves. Such anti-social behavior can not be tolerated in a civilized society. Individuals must make individual sacrifices for the greater good.
One must never think of themselves and their own, insignificant, needs and problems.
That's my point.
Net neutrality is anything but.
It's no more ridiculous than believing that a centralized government can provide more physical security. . .
Did you know that you risk death every time you are anesthetized? Yet people will have it done just to have a tooth pulled. The trick is that they don't read the release form before they sign it.
My roommate was telling me to get lasic instead of glasses. He was shocked when I told him that I didn't think it was worth the added expense and the risk of blindness. 1/2000 chance. I guess he didn't read the release form before he had it done on himself.
The CPI fell 1% in October.
"The people losing jobs are not getting different jobs that are actually productive."
Yet. They need to realize that they're not getting their old jobs back first.
"The idea of public stimulus is, in part, to break that cycle."
What I'm trying to say is that people have been doing the wrong work. The mortgage industry contributes nothing real to our economy, so naturally it has collapsed. The auto industry is in a similar situation, though realistically if one of the big 3 went under the others would be fine, and foreign manufacturers like toyota would probably pick up the labour, at a reduced price.
Breaking the cycle is exactly the last thing we should be doing. We need to reevaluate the important parts of our economy and focus on them. We shouldn't be so wasteful in light of the upcoming retirement "boom".
If the recession has been going on since last year, it should have showed up by now. Likewise with the money printing. Congress has already spent something like $300 billion of the bailout money, and the earlier stimulus package went out as well. But no matter how much money they print, it won't cause inflation until people start spending the money.
The problem is that retirees now see the writing on the wall, and they know they aren't going to have as much money as they were planning. This is a good thing. Might as well cut back now rather than run full speed into a brick wall later.
Congress should just quit now while things are looking up rather than trying to push people to overspend and get themselves into a bunch of trouble. Enough with the bailouts and economic stimulus already, let us figure it out for ourselves.
I'm not talking about the specific incident as much as I'm talking about cooperation in general. It is often not prudent for the executive to wait for congress to pass laws, as it takes some time. Does congress really want to send the message to corporations that if they don't wait they can be sued? It will hinder the operations of the government.
Thanks to reduced consumer spending, the CPI has gone down, so our money is worth more. The price of oil has also gone down very significantly because of reduced spending. If it was worth it to work last year, it will be more worthwhile this year.
I can see that the Gov't is really trying to devalue the dollar as much a possible to try to encourage us all to waste our money and get further into debt. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be working. I would say this is a good thing.
"people being laid off means less productivity"
That is only true if the people being laid off were productive. Since our GDP is still fine, I'd say they weren't. Now they can get different jobs that are actually productive, and we will all be better off.
"Wrong" is a subjective term. You say it's wrong for them to comply without literally being forced to, some government officials may say it is a corporation's "patriotic duty" to assist the government (I think I read a statement from the mayor of NYC to that affect earlier this morning).
Of course, it's the congress who writes the federal laws, so their version of "right" and "wrong" is what will be codified into our nations laws. Do you honestly expect them to write a law that would encourage corporations to not cooperate with them?
How cares? What is the "economy" anyway? We have just as many resources this year as we did last year. That means plenty of everything we need to get by.
If the "economy" being down means that people are being more careful abut how they spend their time and money, that is a good thing. If it means we are all working to reduce our debt, that's a good thing too.
Sometimes I think people are so concerned with money that they forget what it represents.
Thanks, this is the funniest thing I've read all day. I sense a steep learning curve ahead for you.
What we have seen in the last eight years has been the same as what we've seen since our government's inception. "Great" leadership means a willingness to bend the rules to achieve your goals. A lawyer/politician from Chicago, of all places, is not going to change the realities of how our government works. Anyone with any honest intention to do that would not run for president. . .
If it doesn't, what company would ever work with the government willingly ever again?
*For extremely high values of free.
For one thing, he seems to have learned to read and understand something before replying to it. . . The very first thing you did was criticize him for saying something you thought he said that was actually the exact opposite of what he said.
That comparison is much better. Was it really necessary for PC Pro to manipulate their numbers just so that they could say say it takes 5x longer instead of saying 4x longer? WTF?
Maybe it's meant to reflect the actual user experience, but they spend a lot more time diking around with websites than the iPhone add. They load two webpages instead of one, and spend time scrolling around those webpages, where as the add merely shows the phone zooming in. They also enter the URL manually, while the add shows them only loading a link. They also spend time scrolling around the PDF document, while in the add the user receives a call immediately after the PDF has loaded. Not to mention that they obviously used different sites and files. They also started from the unlock screen instead of the home screen. You can't call something a recreation if you didn't even try to recreate the add.
Why didn't they actually try to recreate the add ? The iPhone is obviously not that fast over a 3G network (though it is that fast over a 802.11 connection in my experience). What is it about journalists that makes them think they need to exaggerate things that are already plenty bad?
You lose efficiency when you transfer the power into the batteries and back out again. If you do all the math, using a coal fired plant to power an electric car uses almost the same amount of chemical energy (it's about 26% efficient, 40% for the coal plant and 72% for the battery/motor, and 90% for the power inverter, while a conventional engine is around 20%) but generates more CO2. The 60% you cite is for a combined cycle natural gas plant, but that's not where we get most of our power.