Two reasons: 1. Wind is unpredictable. You can't supply a guaranteed base load with wind power unless you overbuild it to extreme levels.
2. Some of the environmental types keep trying to kill wind power because the turbines are ugly and they hurt the birds.
The environmental lobby can't find anything they like meaning that nothing new gets developed and we keep burning coal that throws more radioactive crap into the air than any nuclear plant.
That being said, solar thermal is looking good for daytime supplementary power. It's just not good for base load. The article indicates that some people have discovered this need.
I actually quite like his work. I only caught bits of Forgotten Silver when it was on TV here but he did a pretty good job of it. I have DVDs of the earlier stuff, because they are classics. You're right on production, he did Bad Taste with a tiny budget.
My comment was aimed at the extreme Peter Jackson / Lord of the Rings fan-boys. Some of them can be a bit over the top. Showing them the earlier films makes their heads explode.
This is like the time I had to explain a joke to an entire cinema. In Suburban Commando, some criminal steals Hulk Hogan's freeze ray and hits a bank. Hulk goes in to investigate and I hear Jingle Bells playing. I'm laughing at the whole white Christmas gag and my mate asks me what's funny. I tell him that it's Jingle Bells. I could hear the laughter start as people started telling their friends.
For the Lord of the Rings fans that gush about Peter Jackson, point them to his earlier works. Seriously. I bet none of them have seen Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles or Brain Dead. Classics of New Zealand cinema.
This is to offset the costs of law-suits and other payouts. It's more for QA than patient care. Making sure you didn't leave anything behind is one thing, being able to prove it is another. They then need to not only label the sponges, but all of the tools.
Given the quality of country hospitals in Australia, we had this guy and others like him, I can't see this being a high priority here. We also have less malpractice lawsuits, so that may be the difference.
If the US government makes half of the country cops and puts the other half in jail, there'll be no unemployment. Well, not until they outsource the cops. Wait, they're already sending their cops to other countries. I see, the US is going to try to corner the world market in law enforcement.
That almost makes sense. I think it's time for bed.
Let me tell you about our recent federal election. We had two pieces of paper to fill out. I marked them with a pencil and placed them in boxes being watched by multiple election officials. These boxes are then transported to a central location by multiple officials. Each ballot is then counted with officials from each party watching. We had a result by midnight and nobody is crying foul.
Why isn't the FDA at the head of the War on Spam. All it takes is them deciding that these guys are peddling unsafe pharmaceuticals without appropriate regulation. The FDA can then declare that they are doing more for the War on Drugs than the DEA.
I keep wondering, why do we need to charge the spammers with anti-spam laws. I haven't seen any that aren't drug dealers, stock scams, or outright fraud. Nail the bastards for those with all of the current laws. Funny, the more they made from these, the more counts that can hang them.
If Bob, the neighborhood dealer, was offering as much product as these scumbags, he'd be in jail for life.
Oh well, we have the anti-spam laws now, so we might as well hit them for both.
When we moved, they set things up as open plan with 5 foot partitions. The people (mainly management) who loved this idea and said it was great all got offices. The HR person who was too lazy to lock her files had to have an office for security but didn't get a door.
The end-user receives less spam, but the filter sees it all. I used to keep old addresses around because they provided good training for the spam filters. Once an address is out there, there is no pulling it back. The spammers will hit it for years.
Pretty much all of the spam I see if for one of the following: 1. Stock scams like pump and dump. 2. Sale of 'drugs' without prescription and without a pharmacist. 3. Dubious financial transactions.
Pretty much all of these are illegal or regulated. Target the money and the people behind this. Swing some of the resources of the War on Drugs / War on Terror towards these criminal masterminds and the spamming should dry up. Hopefully, if they don't have a product to sell, they'll stop selling them.
Can you imagine if the Americans' DEA/FDA got together and took out the top 50 penis enhancement spammers. They'd be popular for having done the community a service.
The best way to get rid of a stupid rule is to enforce it to the letter. "I'm sorry Senator, we have to check you against a watch list. Oh dear, your profile says that you have access to significant resources including military connections and have made anti-government statements." I'd have less problems if everybody was treated equally. Nobody bypasses the system. Air Force One comes home and everybody gets checked. It's not going to happen, but I can dream.
I'm surprised some of the states don't do this. Add a processing fee for anyone crossing the line and you've got a revenue raiser on people who can't vote you out. (At least those only passing through.)
Pretty much, but he also mentioned making custom tags and attributes first class citizens for CSS. Won't this be fun when text and style-sheets get separated. It's all the fun of xml combined with all the fun of xml.
OK, here's one. comes before , but if you use then we ignore doctype. OK, a forgiving browser will know what you want, but he then goes on to say that browsers shouldn't be tolerant because it causes too many security problems. It's a bit after midnight and my brain hurts.
I'm not sure who you think you were replying to, but it's Friday night and I'm bored.
I never said anything about large site capabilities. Hell, Exchange Server with enough TLC (Tender Loving Care) can handle big volumes.
Many of us know about SAGE and LISA and don't need it spelled out. You may not hear about it on Slashdot much because this isn't a site solely for System Admins. It might also be that the professionals don't want "hordes of people (some of whom will be running a single Linux consumer box from home, with no further experience)" swarming their conferences.
You mention the quality of Slashdot summaries. They've been like this for years. They're intended to read like flame-bait.
DJB's paper on security. I've read parts of it. I've also read other parts of his writings. This includes the bit where he says that fork() needs to be changed to suit his preferences. It also includes the promise of $500 to people who find security holes in his software. Guess what, there are demonstrated holes in his software. Did anyone get the money?
I said nothing of licensing. Only responded that freeing the code from DJB would have been better ten years ago rather than five.
I've had the joy of dealing with qmail and daemontools set up by a DJB fanboy. It was a surreal experience. He shows how well he writes software by the software he has written. He's also shown us the quality of his documentation. Thankfully, others have addressed this need. "Life with qmail" is gold if you have to deal with the beast.
While we're at it, how do you feel about ESMTP pipelining for those large sites you were so interested in. The market doesn't seem to think QMTP is a better choice. Maybe it was the restrictive license of the reference implementation. Maybe it was because it wasn't as fast.
I've commented before on the 'quality' of DJB's fan-boys. You've not even come close to some of them.
Probably closer to ten. qmail used to be the [best|only] alternative to sendmail. This is why a lot of ISPs jumped to it. It's also why its empty security promises meant something. In the interim, several good mail servers have risen up to replace both sendmail and qmail such as exim or postfix or some of the Windows apps if that's your kink.
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Two reasons:
1. Wind is unpredictable. You can't supply a guaranteed base load with wind power unless you overbuild it to extreme levels.
2. Some of the environmental types keep trying to kill wind power because the turbines are ugly and they hurt the birds.
The environmental lobby can't find anything they like meaning that nothing new gets developed and we keep burning coal that throws more radioactive crap into the air than any nuclear plant.
How about C-L-O-U-D or N-I-G-H-T?
That being said, solar thermal is looking good for daytime supplementary power. It's just not good for base load. The article indicates that some people have discovered this need.
And Olympic Dam is officially a copper mine, or is it nickel. It just happens to have a bit of Uranium mixed in.
I actually quite like his work. I only caught bits of Forgotten Silver when it was on TV here but he did a pretty good job of it. I have DVDs of the earlier stuff, because they are classics. You're right on production, he did Bad Taste with a tiny budget.
My comment was aimed at the extreme Peter Jackson / Lord of the Rings fan-boys. Some of them can be a bit over the top. Showing them the earlier films makes their heads explode.
This is like the time I had to explain a joke to an entire cinema. In Suburban Commando, some criminal steals Hulk Hogan's freeze ray and hits a bank. Hulk goes in to investigate and I hear Jingle Bells playing. I'm laughing at the whole white Christmas gag and my mate asks me what's funny. I tell him that it's Jingle Bells. I could hear the laughter start as people started telling their friends.
Anyway, I tell this story better in person.
For the Lord of the Rings fans that gush about Peter Jackson, point them to his earlier works. Seriously. I bet none of them have seen Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles or Brain Dead. Classics of New Zealand cinema.
I don't know. I can handle watching a movie with a group of men.
Given the quality of country hospitals in Australia, we had
this guy and others like him, I can't see this being a high priority here. We also have less malpractice lawsuits, so that may be the difference.
Price check in OR 3. Price check in OR 3.
How do you scan a bar-code on a sponge designed to soak up blood and yuck? That might be the high-tech part of the scanner.
If the US government makes half of the country cops and puts the other half in jail, there'll be no unemployment. Well, not until they outsource the cops. Wait, they're already sending their cops to other countries. I see, the US is going to try to corner the world market in law enforcement.
That almost makes sense. I think it's time for bed.
Um, #|brain>mouth ?
Let me tell you about our recent federal election. We had two pieces of paper to fill out. I marked them with a pencil and placed them in boxes being watched by multiple election officials. These boxes are then transported to a central location by multiple officials. Each ballot is then counted with officials from each party watching. We had a result by midnight and nobody is crying foul.
How is this less secure?
And you've only listed the easy options that don't involve opening the box. Moving the disk to another machine and copying the file is also possible.
Last known good is part of booting a specific installation. Boot.ini tells NTLDR and follow-ons where to find this.
Free speech does not include commercial speech. Advertising (including spam) has requirements that must be met.
That being said, I'm a fan of punishing the existing crime rather than making up new ones for every circumstance.
Why isn't the FDA at the head of the War on Spam. All it takes is them deciding that these guys are peddling unsafe pharmaceuticals without appropriate regulation. The FDA can then declare that they are doing more for the War on Drugs than the DEA.
In other words, they should be regulated just like any other business. So should their 'ad agencies.'
I keep wondering, why do we need to charge the spammers with anti-spam laws. I haven't seen any that aren't drug dealers, stock scams, or outright fraud. Nail the bastards for those with all of the current laws. Funny, the more they made from these, the more counts that can hang them.
If Bob, the neighborhood dealer, was offering as much product as these scumbags, he'd be in jail for life.
Oh well, we have the anti-spam laws now, so we might as well hit them for both.
When we moved, they set things up as open plan with 5 foot partitions. The people (mainly management) who loved this idea and said it was great all got offices. The HR person who was too lazy to lock her files had to have an office for security but didn't get a door.
The end-user receives less spam, but the filter sees it all. I used to keep old addresses around because they provided good training for the spam filters. Once an address is out there, there is no pulling it back. The spammers will hit it for years.
Pretty much all of the spam I see if for one of the following:
1. Stock scams like pump and dump.
2. Sale of 'drugs' without prescription and without a pharmacist.
3. Dubious financial transactions.
Pretty much all of these are illegal or regulated. Target the money and the people behind this. Swing some of the resources of the War on Drugs / War on Terror towards these criminal masterminds and the spamming should dry up. Hopefully, if they don't have a product to sell, they'll stop selling them.
Can you imagine if the Americans' DEA/FDA got together and took out the top 50 penis enhancement spammers. They'd be popular for having done the community a service.
The best way to get rid of a stupid rule is to enforce it to the letter. "I'm sorry Senator, we have to check you against a watch list. Oh dear, your profile says that you have access to significant resources including military connections and have made anti-government statements." I'd have less problems if everybody was treated equally. Nobody bypasses the system. Air Force One comes home and everybody gets checked. It's not going to happen, but I can dream.
I'm surprised some of the states don't do this. Add a processing fee for anyone crossing the line and you've got a revenue raiser on people who can't vote you out. (At least those only passing through.)
Pretty much, but he also mentioned making custom tags and attributes first class citizens for CSS. Won't this be fun when text and style-sheets get separated. It's all the fun of xml combined with all the fun of xml.
OK, here's one. comes before , but if you use then we ignore doctype. OK, a forgiving browser will know what you want, but he then goes on to say that browsers shouldn't be tolerant because it causes too many security problems. It's a bit after midnight and my brain hurts.
I'm not sure who you think you were replying to, but it's Friday night and I'm bored.
I never said anything about large site capabilities. Hell, Exchange Server with enough TLC (Tender Loving Care) can handle big volumes.
Many of us know about SAGE and LISA and don't need it spelled out. You may not hear about it on Slashdot much because this isn't a site solely for System Admins. It might also be that the professionals don't want "hordes of people (some of whom will be running a single Linux consumer box from home, with no further experience)" swarming their conferences.
You mention the quality of Slashdot summaries. They've been like this for years. They're intended to read like flame-bait.
DJB's paper on security. I've read parts of it. I've also read other parts of his writings. This includes the bit where he says that fork() needs to be changed to suit his preferences. It also includes the promise of $500 to people who find security holes in his software. Guess what, there are demonstrated holes in his software. Did anyone get the money?
I said nothing of licensing. Only responded that freeing the code from DJB would have been better ten years ago rather than five.
I've had the joy of dealing with qmail and daemontools set up by a DJB fanboy. It was a surreal experience. He shows how well he writes software by the software he has written. He's also shown us the quality of his documentation. Thankfully, others have addressed this need. "Life with qmail" is gold if you have to deal with the beast.
While we're at it, how do you feel about ESMTP pipelining for those large sites you were so interested in. The market doesn't seem to think QMTP is a better choice. Maybe it was the restrictive license of the reference implementation. Maybe it was because it wasn't as fast.
I've commented before on the 'quality' of DJB's fan-boys. You've not even come close to some of them.
Probably closer to ten. qmail used to be the [best|only] alternative to sendmail. This is why a lot of ISPs jumped to it. It's also why its empty security promises meant something. In the interim, several good mail servers have risen up to replace both sendmail and qmail such as exim or postfix or some of the Windows apps if that's your kink.