Here in Spain, close to 1/3 of electricity is wind Not if Wikipedia is right, it isn't. "On April 18, 2008 the all time peak for wind generation was seen (10,879 MW, 32% of Spain's power requirement)."
So on one particular day, wind managed to provide 32% of electrical power. Nice, but I bet most days aren't that good.
Space heaters, whether electric or gas, aren't very efficient. For heating, you want heat pumps. Air, water, earth, whatever is near. You get at least triple the heat out compared to the electricity you put in.
If we moved to 25% renewables, we'd achieve success. By every measure except yours. The people affected by climate change might disagree. 25% is a nice start, but nothing more.
Wind also only works in certain places, doesn't generate that much power and is suspected to disturb bird populations and people living downwind. You can suspect all you want, of course. It just isn't very useful for the debate.
Sure, nuclear is part of the solution, at least temporarily. You are however vastly underestimating the potential of wind and solar.
I don't think that covering 22000 square miles of the planet with solar collectors would be an environmentally friendly thing to do. Why not? Plants and animals can happily live on there.
I don't understand why people think that OpenOffice gets better the more it's like MS Office. The only reason a "word processor" has to exist is to read and write Microsoft Word documents. Therefore it makes sense to mimic Word as closely as possible.
If the goal is to actually edit documents, there are better solutions which are nothing like Word. Framemaker is one. LaTeX is another.
What's ridiculous about a hundred thousand wind turbines?
If Californians don't like them, move them to Nevada and run HVDC lines. More expensive, but when did that ever stop California? (Note: I've never been to Nevada. If it isn't windy there, my idea sucks.)
What's wrong with mini-turbines, exactly? Apart from being ugly and noisy and vibrating and dangerous, they also don't provide any power worth mentioning. Some of them even have trouble making back what it took to manufacture them -- and THAT is a feat in the wind industry.
A considerable foundation must be poured of reinforced concreted, which may have to be anchored to bedrock, but IANACE (...civil engineer...). Denmark is known for its wind turbines. I can guarantee you that there isn't any bedrock involved. Also, some of the turbines are in swamps or otherwise barely-arable land. Foundations are a solved problem, you CAN build a castle in a swamp these days.
we're rapidly moving towards putting out less and less of a signature. Not really. Radio waves are useful for other things apart from communication, and radars are VERY loud.
But beyond that I would assume a 3.5" drive at 10krpm 3.5" drives at 10k aren't 3.5" drives, they just get bulked out to fit in the slot. Open one and you'll see the platter is less than 3". I haven't heard of a disk with a platter close to 3.5" spinning at 10k, I suspect it would be tearing itself to pieces.
But in the case of simple math that the reader can do on their own rather quickly, it is imprudent to do any rounding. This is simply wrong. The original number had 1 digit precision. The new number has 1 digit precision. Don't invent precision.
Why don't ocean freight ships and cruise lines use nuclear power instead of diesel? Bunker fuel is dirt cheap, and nuclear reactors require staff. Modern freight ships have very few people on board.
[..]if the company is giving us a shared bandwidth package instead of a dedicated access. Always shared. Everyone multiplexes and oversells as much as possible. It isn't a problem unless you don't get the service guaranteed by your SLA, and in that case you'll have to try for compensation.
Many spammers send emails via the backup MTA even though the primary is active and reachable. Don't ask me why. Perhaps they think they can circumvent some spam protection this way. Customer buys account at antispam service. Customer sets up customer.com mx 10 antispam.com mx 100 mail.customer.com. Now all mail gets scanned by antispam.com, and antispam.com can just forward it by MX. Easy and convenient, and exploitable by the spammers. That's why they go for the highest MX first.
Not that PHP is a bad language per se, but after living by choice with Tcl for over a decade, most other languages pale in comparison. It's the other way around. TCL isn't a particularly good language, but almost anything is better than PHP.
Do you believe that document formats: 1. are formats for files that store word processors' internal state, or 2. represent information that user intended to store in the document? I believe 2), but I do not believe it is possible to make a word processor which actually does that. At least none so far have come close.
We'd be much better off if that type of application was never invented, and we instead used something like FrameMaker. Anyway, have you ever read ODF files (after unzipping, of course)? They aren't as ugly as OOXML, but they certainly aren't something you can immediately make sense of without knowing the standard, like nice HTML. If only CSS had worked out to be strong enough that you could do a close to 1 1 conversion of FrameMaker documents, it would probably have replaced a lot of Word documents.
The file format should not dictate a user interface, nor be dictated by one -- it should simply provide a way to preserve the data needed to accurately recreate the document in any compliant implementation. That leaves implementations free to make their own decisions about what behaviors are document-specific vs. program-wide. Or, in other words, you should abolish word processors. I'm completely with you on that one. Word processors are all horribly buggy, and users rely on the formatting bugs when they make their documents. If you then FIX the bugs, the documents end up looking like crap (well even more like crap than such documents look even in the best case.)
Anyway, it is basically impossible to emulate the bugs by putting the appropriate formatting directives in the files. The format isn't expressive enough (despite the 6000 pages).
I disagree, and no argument exists that will be able to justify your statement. Is it impossible for you to think of any people at all as enemies? Or just impossible to think that about people from your own country? Or are just politicians exempt?
It's sad that you have so much hatred inside you that you genuinely believe a politician trying to get elected is an "enemy" and not just an "opponent". Some politicians are enemies. Bush is one, for making the torture happen and refusing to stop it, among other things. Whether McCain is at that level I don't know, but maybe the GP poster does.
If this really was about oil, then the US has botched it more badly than I feared. The Iraq war is actually against Global Warming. It was all to make sure that the oil stays in the ground, where it's harmless.
A thin layer of gold is much more difficult to get right. More difficult to verify correctness, and probably harder to repair. It wouldn't be thin, if it was to replace the concrete. Tens of centimeters at least. I don't think verifying correctness would be a big problem, and gold is a very easy material to work with. It could be a problem that gold is such a good conductor of heat, but otherwise I don't foresee major difficulties.
The Apple Computers versus Apple Records battle shows how trademarks can stifle innovation. Apple Computers had to fight long and hard to expand its offerings. They deserved to have to fight long and hard. It is really confusing that there are two Apple's in the music business.
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So on one particular day, wind managed to provide 32% of electrical power. Nice, but I bet most days aren't that good.
Sure, nuclear is part of the solution, at least temporarily. You are however vastly underestimating the potential of wind and solar.
If the goal is to actually edit documents, there are better solutions which are nothing like Word. Framemaker is one. LaTeX is another.
What's ridiculous about a hundred thousand wind turbines?
If Californians don't like them, move them to Nevada and run HVDC lines. More expensive, but when did that ever stop California? (Note: I've never been to Nevada. If it isn't windy there, my idea sucks.)
We'd be much better off if that type of application was never invented, and we instead used something like FrameMaker. Anyway, have you ever read ODF files (after unzipping, of course)? They aren't as ugly as OOXML, but they certainly aren't something you can immediately make sense of without knowing the standard, like nice HTML. If only CSS had worked out to be strong enough that you could do a close to 1 1 conversion of FrameMaker documents, it would probably have replaced a lot of Word documents.
Anyway, it is basically impossible to emulate the bugs by putting the appropriate formatting directives in the files. The format isn't expressive enough (despite the 6000 pages).