There's another facet to this, that I'd label "corporate fad chasing".
That would occur when a bunch of corporations, looking for the next "big thing", pick a market that is growing or is supposed to start growing any day now, and try to chase the current market leader. In order to chase the market leader they try to copy the market leaders development process and wind up with job requirements that seem to match what the market leader is currently using. So, there's suddenly demand for a set of skills needed for one particular type of solution.
There's another option that's rarely discussed here. There's a pretty good article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that has a description of functional prototypes that use intermittent power sources to generate different gas products (methane, towngas, hydrogen...) that can be handled by existing power and gas infrastructure equipment. The typical capacity of a national gas system is weeks to months of supply.
In short, take intermittent power sources like solar, wind, tide,.. generate methane, feed it into the standard natural gas infrastructure to be delivered and used by the natural gas power generation plants. Sufficient storage without additional huge investments in power storage research, development and construction.
The Keystone pipeline was always intended to ship Canadian owned tar sands "oil" to multinational oil refineries on the US gulf coast to be refined into products that would be shipped to world markets (Far East since that's where the most growth was occurring). The refined products would have never stopped in the US, since they could be sold for a higher profit in other markets. Actually, having the Keystone pipeline unfinished, wound up diverting tar sands crude to refineries in the Midwest, which lowered prices in the region.
And then there's always "War is a Racket" by Marine Corp General and Commandant Smedly Butler. (Two Medal of Honor awards also). He was telling his story in the 1930s after the attempt to recruit him to run the Coup to depose FDR.
If I remember correctly, the Koch brothers have a bit more interesting history. Their father was one of the primary funders of the John Birch Society. (Yes, that John Birch Society, they of the "Ike is a communist" and "fluoridation is a commie plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids"...)
I have no problem at all paying for content. I do have a problem paying for content by someone who then consumes my lifespan showing me crap (commercials that they're paid to put in) I have no interest in.
I'm very interested in being able to subscribe directly to production companies and other content creators that make stuff that I'm interested in.
There's another facet to this that I went through last winter. I spent about a week fighting pneumonia. After I spiked a temperature of 104(F), I went in get it checked out. After an hour or so, the GP sent me off to the emergency room to get a quick checkout with the diagnostic equipment they had there. That solidified the diagnosis of pneumonia (with some speculation that it was a legionella variant).
The interesting bit happened then, when they were deciding which antibiotic they wanted to use. They were most interested in whether there was any chance I'd acquired the bacteria in any medical setting (hospital, doctors office, clinic...). Once they'd decided that I almost certainly had acquired it in a "normal" environment, they sent me home with what they called the "grand daddy" of antibiotics for pneumonia. Levafloxacin. It seems like medical establishments are bad for you, beyond it being where all the sick people are.
By the way, the medical establishment was the Mayo Clinic.
When they leave, their economic niche will be open for someone else to occupy. Lather, rinse, repeat, until you have the economic niches filled by people who understand that they're part of a society, not parasites.
It seems more likely that the most critical factor for a sustainable society is lack of corruption. Most of the places that seem to be hell-holes today are fundamentally corrupt, mutual back-scratching, "punish all of "those people" who don't want to play the game", collections.
The more important "who you know" is than "what you can do", the worse off the whole society is.
Converting the (momentarily) excess energy to methane is a nice way to deal with hydrogen leakage and embrittlement and saves on the infrastructure required to consume hydrogen. And the gas peaking plants are already there.
You use the electricity and solar heat to create methane with a Sabatier reaction, and dump the methane into the national natural gas pipeline system. The gas becomes part of the 7-30 day reserve supply and runs the gas turbine peaking plants. There is a German pilot plant that has been running since 2012 and further development is planned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_gas has more information.
I've been using KDE for a long time. I haven't done anything with Gnome since the "Let's remove all the confusing options" movement started.
Thank you for the information, but I haven't been inspired to do any work to improve UI behavior over WAN connections. Years and years ago the worst UI behavior I saw was for a connection that was running over a 26.5 dial up connection. Strangely enough, some X apps were actually still usable. But, most weren't, and some took an hour to paint the first window. The worst ones seemed to be behaving like gimp did, causing a continuous stream of unnecessary synchronous calls to the X-Server.
Mostly LAN. Occasionally WAN. The LAN systems are all OpenSUSE, a couple of different versions. All remote connections are via SSH. The Cura application that uses OpenGL is also via an SSH connection.
I never said that there weren't other ways to do it. I just described what worked for me and how well.
I've been using X since it was X10, that includes all levels of programming from bare Xlib up. I've never written a server extension, but I have worked on the Matrox mga Linux kernel module just enough to make it work on IBM RS-6000 systems (you can grep for my last name in the kernel source if you care to check). I've also done a bit of messing about with the Doom3 sources to make it work better with Xinerama on a multi-screen setup.
By the way, I've still haven't seen a window layout object that works as well as the Motif Form Widget.
X-Windows can be doing either remote drawing command or sending blobs of pixels, it's all within the protocol. So, the only way to tell is to get something like xscope into the picture and see how the application is handling the data. One of the better ways to handle general window drawing (not pictures or video or other random pixels) is to send the drawing commands to the server to draw into an off-screen pixmap in the X-server, then have the X-server do a blit from the off-screen area to the viewable screen buffer.
So, yes, I can know its not falling back to some non-X compatibility layer.
Mostly these days I don't bother with xscope, because performance is pretty good. The last time I used xscope was when I thought Gnome was pretty neat, but wondered why remote performance was so poor. When I ran gimp through xscope I saw what seemed to be the toolkit asking the X-Server thousands of times how big its window was. Every one of those calls had to be synchronous and had to make a round trip to the X-Server and back. I never saw if they fixed that, but the proper way to deal with window sizes in X-Windows is to track the window size in local variables that are updated by the X-Windows event notifications the come every time the window changes.
Running the Cura slicer program on a Thinkpad t400 running OpenSuSE 13.2 ssh remote connection to another OpenSuse 13.2 desktop system with an Nvidia GTX 660. I loaded the nividia glx libraries on the Thinkpad to allow the application to use Nvidia's glx application interface.
This statement is fundamentally crap. Every day I run multiple kde 4 applications on multiple systems back to a single desktop with ssh. The applications are not degraded and I don't have to disable any X11 features to do it. Occasionally I even use OpenGL applications remotely and they perform just fine.
And one of the things that is observed is that the energy of the emitted photon is observed by an external observer to be altered by the kinetic energy of the moving origin. In the direction of travel the photon will be observed to have been blue-shifted, in the opposite direction it will be observed to have been red-shifted.
Because the ice only exposed to the ocean water on the bottom. On the top is air, and on the sides is either land mass or more ice. One of the ideas for why the area of Antarctic ice is increasing is because the new ice is frozen fresh water from the ice melt. The fresh water, being less dense than the salt water floats on top of the more saline ocean water. And, because it has less salt in it, the freezing point is higher, so it's easier to freeze. VOLUME is AREA*depth. Decrease the depth and the VOLUME drops.
Then there's the cube-squared law, for a given VOLUME, increasing the surface AREA by decreasing the depth, increases the heat transfer capability. So, thinner ice over a larger area can give off or absorb heat more quickly. If the average temp is below freezing, you'll observe more heat given off to the surroundings and more ice forming, if the average temp is above freezing you'll observer more heat absorbed from the surroundings and more ice melting.
The Antarctic ice cap is up to 45.5 million years old. 3000/45,500,000 = ? Then subtract some for the interglacial periods in the last 45.5 million years. That makes the accumulation rate miniscule. As well as having nothing to say about the current rate of accumulation.
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That would occur when a bunch of corporations, looking for the next "big thing", pick a market that is growing or is supposed to start growing any day now, and try to chase the current market leader. In order to chase the market leader they try to copy the market leaders development process and wind up with job requirements that seem to match what the market leader is currently using. So, there's suddenly demand for a set of skills needed for one particular type of solution.
They go something like this
There's nothing going on that would negatively affect our society
There might be something going on that would negatively affect our society, but nobody knows for certain. So, we shouldn't do anything different.
There's probably something going on that would negatively affect our society, but it would cost too much to do anything about it.
Our society is definitely in trouble, but it's too late for us to do anything about it. Everybody pray..
Of course, there are also societies described that didn't collapse, but they had a different response at some stage before the last on.
In short, take intermittent power sources like solar, wind, tide,.. generate methane, feed it into the standard natural gas infrastructure to be delivered and used by the natural gas power generation plants. Sufficient storage without additional huge investments in power storage research, development and construction.
The worst case scenario is both, I think.
Although there is some resemblance to a dinner conversation.
The Keystone pipeline was always intended to ship Canadian owned tar sands "oil" to multinational oil refineries on the US gulf coast to be refined into products that would be shipped to world markets (Far East since that's where the most growth was occurring). The refined products would have never stopped in the US, since they could be sold for a higher profit in other markets. Actually, having the Keystone pipeline unfinished, wound up diverting tar sands crude to refineries in the Midwest, which lowered prices in the region.
And then there's always "War is a Racket" by Marine Corp General and Commandant Smedly Butler. (Two Medal of Honor awards also). He was telling his story in the 1930s after the attempt to recruit him to run the Coup to depose FDR.
rm -rf .*
I ran across it when I was trying to clean out some .name directories in a home directory. (The key to the thing is that .. matches .*)
If I remember correctly, the Koch brothers have a bit more interesting history. Their father was one of the primary funders of the John Birch Society. (Yes, that John Birch Society, they of the "Ike is a communist" and "fluoridation is a commie plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids"...)
Of course that brings up the hard part, thinking about the answer.
My personal direct experience for firearms is 2 suicides by shotgun, one maiming, one emasculation. No "saves".
I'm very interested in being able to subscribe directly to production companies and other content creators that make stuff that I'm interested in.
The interesting bit happened then, when they were deciding which antibiotic they wanted to use. They were most interested in whether there was any chance I'd acquired the bacteria in any medical setting (hospital, doctors office, clinic...). Once they'd decided that I almost certainly had acquired it in a "normal" environment, they sent me home with what they called the "grand daddy" of antibiotics for pneumonia. Levafloxacin. It seems like medical establishments are bad for you, beyond it being where all the sick people are.
By the way, the medical establishment was the Mayo Clinic.
When they leave, their economic niche will be open for someone else to occupy. Lather, rinse, repeat, until you have the economic niches filled by people who understand that they're part of a society, not parasites.
The more important "who you know" is than "what you can do", the worse off the whole society is.
Converting the (momentarily) excess energy to methane is a nice way to deal with hydrogen leakage and embrittlement and saves on the infrastructure required to consume hydrogen. And the gas peaking plants are already there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_gas has more information.
Thank you for the information, but I haven't been inspired to do any work to improve UI behavior over WAN connections. Years and years ago the worst UI behavior I saw was for a connection that was running over a 26.5 dial up connection. Strangely enough, some X apps were actually still usable. But, most weren't, and some took an hour to paint the first window. The worst ones seemed to be behaving like gimp did, causing a continuous stream of unnecessary synchronous calls to the X-Server.
Mostly LAN. Occasionally WAN. The LAN systems are all OpenSUSE, a couple of different versions. All remote connections are via SSH. The Cura application that uses OpenGL is also via an SSH connection.
I've been using X since it was X10, that includes all levels of programming from bare Xlib up. I've never written a server extension, but I have worked on the Matrox mga Linux kernel module just enough to make it work on IBM RS-6000 systems (you can grep for my last name in the kernel source if you care to check). I've also done a bit of messing about with the Doom3 sources to make it work better with Xinerama on a multi-screen setup.
By the way, I've still haven't seen a window layout object that works as well as the Motif Form Widget.
X-Windows can be doing either remote drawing command or sending blobs of pixels, it's all within the protocol. So, the only way to tell is to get something like xscope into the picture and see how the application is handling the data. One of the better ways to handle general window drawing (not pictures or video or other random pixels) is to send the drawing commands to the server to draw into an off-screen pixmap in the X-server, then have the X-server do a blit from the off-screen area to the viewable screen buffer.
So, yes, I can know its not falling back to some non-X compatibility layer.
Mostly these days I don't bother with xscope, because performance is pretty good. The last time I used xscope was when I thought Gnome was pretty neat, but wondered why remote performance was so poor. When I ran gimp through xscope I saw what seemed to be the toolkit asking the X-Server thousands of times how big its window was. Every one of those calls had to be synchronous and had to make a round trip to the X-Server and back. I never saw if they fixed that, but the proper way to deal with window sizes in X-Windows is to track the window size in local variables that are updated by the X-Windows event notifications the come every time the window changes.
Running the Cura slicer program on a Thinkpad t400 running OpenSuSE 13.2 ssh remote connection to another OpenSuse 13.2 desktop system with an Nvidia GTX 660. I loaded the nividia glx libraries on the Thinkpad to allow the application to use Nvidia's glx application interface.
This statement is fundamentally crap. Every day I run multiple kde 4 applications on multiple systems back to a single desktop with ssh. The applications are not degraded and I don't have to disable any X11 features to do it. Occasionally I even use OpenGL applications remotely and they perform just fine.
There are always the gravitational fields of the star system to react against. Although the orbital mechanics can make many things counter-intuitive.
And one of the things that is observed is that the energy of the emitted photon is observed by an external observer to be altered by the kinetic energy of the moving origin. In the direction of travel the photon will be observed to have been blue-shifted, in the opposite direction it will be observed to have been red-shifted.
Then there's the cube-squared law, for a given VOLUME, increasing the surface AREA by decreasing the depth, increases the heat transfer capability. So, thinner ice over a larger area can give off or absorb heat more quickly. If the average temp is below freezing, you'll observe more heat given off to the surroundings and more ice forming, if the average temp is above freezing you'll observer more heat absorbed from the surroundings and more ice melting.
QED is apparently mistranslated in this case.