So no one should do a PhD to become the world authority on a subject then? No one should try anything new (let's say, for example, a certain chap's musings on the photoelectric effect or relativity)? And by your numbers even spending 0.001 of a single person's time on something not directly productive should be stopped. So let's ban all art and sports (when you've finished off all pure science research), since I have no time for them. And cooking beyond the purely functional, and interior decoration, and sex beyond that strictly necessary for replacement rate childbirth.
And you please certainly stop spending time on/. right now and spare us your narrow-mindedness. Or at least don't post if you have nothing useful to say.
Please accept that just because *you* are not interested does not automatically rob something of value.
(Note that this is not a particular hot topic for me, but it's certainly interesting and I can see a number of intriguing lines of thought running from it, some of which, BTW, may spur practical results.)
Some of us might like and use *nix in various flavours, including Solaris, Linux and OS X, without subscribing to whatever cult you're projecting your hatred onto today.
Yes, one place I was at there were 10x the support staff per Windows desktop compared to the Sun workstations. Sometimes I was the *only* Sun support guy for over 500 machines, which was quite hard work but do-able. Actually, they were so low maint that an audit discovered 100 or so Suns that we had forgotten about and that were doing their jobs just fine! (This was a long time ago...)
And still, the effort that has to go into keeping Windows boxes (even W7) running is hugely more than the Solaris and Linux servers that I have deployed all over the planet, in my experience, though less so than previously.
For the record, if there had not been a dramatic improvement in efficiency up until the time I did the install then I would not have been able to achieve that output. The clue is in the words.
Only if you don't count the fact that (for example) Sanyo/Panasonic HIT panels are good enough that even on my tiny roof I sufficiently overproduce so as to be carbon neutral for all primary energy, and that for now my effective energy bills are zero too. Oh, no, no improvement.
Agreed: failure to include any licence means that there are many commercial and non-commercial situations in which I can't reasonably use your code at all.
At the very least you should include a "Do with this code what you will but I am not responsible for anything bad that happens" clause if you want it actually to be used by people that give a sh*t about others' rights.
(My preference is to release my own code under BSD to give maximum freedom to users of my code to do what they wish with it, but I have bits of my code in Linux/apps as well which presumably means that they are GPLed.)
Unless you run a swapless system (eg entirely on limited-wear Flash) and have limited overcommitment of VM, in which case being unused doesn't let anyone else actually use it fully.
If the Java GC/VM in place is smart enough and obeys the -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio and -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio for the Oracle VM or similar than it too can nominally give back unused blocks of memory to the OS.
Not that I recall ever actually seeing a C++ application do it in all the years that I was writing and using mission-critical C++ apps, and instead I saw plenty leak and hit 2GB and die for the want of GC, even with the best attention to code quality, use of Purify, etc.
Yes, I've seen lots of Java apps die with 'leaks' too (by putting junk in statics for example), but then it's also possible to run pretty efficient Java apps: down to tens of kilobytes of heap with the early KVM (J2ME/CLDC). And I happily run the same Java code on a SheevaPlug as on a big fat co-lo server with careful attention to memory usage.
Upshot: it's possible to write crap code and waste memory in virtually any language. I'm happy with the trade-offs in Java/C# against C++ in general.
Me three. Another annoyance is people using "infinitely" in the same place where in either case they simply mean "a lot". Why cry wolf and throw away all nuance?
Withdrawing my tourist/business £/$ while they keep on doing it seems to be one of the most powerful signals that I can send that it's unacceptable behaviour. And bad theatre. I have made some slight effort to engage with the TSA/DHS on this topic directly at a senior level too.
Anyhow, it's not "punishing myself" though it is unfortunate. I'll simply save my money and footprint for places more welcoming, since there are plenty of those, closer to home, as it happens.
I'm with you: I won't travel to a place where I'm treated as a criminal at the border and have my fingerprints/scans taken (by an organisation in the US's case that infamously lost its own staff's personal data early in its life). So, what with wanting to cut my carbon footprint the US in particular has had none of my tourist £/$ for many years since it started this more invasive rudeness.
From being a frequent traveller abroad, I'm considering not renewing my passport given the security theatre and incivility shown by the US in particular. I didn't know that the Japanese were doing it too; I enjoyed visiting Japan.
That was a while ago for me. I don't drive a lot, I'm not into road trips, and California isn't the only beautiful place in this world that can look remarkably unspoilt, but down from SF on Highway 1 was very pleasant.
I took a pic that I thought was great and noticed that I'd almost exactly reproduced the scenic shot on the front cover of the magazine on the table in my hotel room!
For the UK for example, IIRC there probably isn't any significant benefit of scale of solar farms of any type vs domestic-scale PV, and the advantages of (a) not taking new land and (b) injecting power directly into the local distribution system avoiding ~9% transmission/distribution losses (c) and focussing the mind of the householder and neighbours on conservation, might make domestic-scale better.
I am both being a pedant and saying that I disagree with his sweeping cheap dismissal of the EC's credibility. Logically/pedantically it probably negates the whole argument; in normal parlance probably less so. But why start with a silly assertion unless you want to drive readers to "tl;dr"?
At worst the EC is a curate's egg, but in my view it's generally better than that.
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So no one should do a PhD to become the world authority on a subject then? No one should try anything new (let's say, for example, a certain chap's musings on the photoelectric effect or relativity)? And by your numbers even spending 0.001 of a single person's time on something not directly productive should be stopped. So let's ban all art and sports (when you've finished off all pure science research), since I have no time for them. And cooking beyond the purely functional, and interior decoration, and sex beyond that strictly necessary for replacement rate childbirth.
And you please certainly stop spending time on /. right now and spare us your narrow-mindedness. Or at least don't post if you have nothing useful to say.
Please accept that just because *you* are not interested does not automatically rob something of value.
(Note that this is not a particular hot topic for me, but it's certainly interesting and I can see a number of intriguing lines of thought running from it, some of which, BTW, may spur practical results.)
Rgds
Damon
So nothing that cannot be immediately used to make money is of any interest then?
Rgds
Damon
The spittle's really flying.
Some of us might like and use *nix in various flavours, including Solaris, Linux and OS X, without subscribing to whatever cult you're projecting your hatred onto today.
Rgds
Damon
Yes, one place I was at there were 10x the support staff per Windows desktop compared to the Sun workstations. Sometimes I was the *only* Sun support guy for over 500 machines, which was quite hard work but do-able. Actually, they were so low maint that an audit discovered 100 or so Suns that we had forgotten about and that were doing their jobs just fine! (This was a long time ago...)
And still, the effort that has to go into keeping Windows boxes (even W7) running is hugely more than the Solaris and Linux servers that I have deployed all over the planet, in my experience, though less so than previously.
Rgds
Damon
http://www.earth.org.uk/towards-a-LZC-office.html
covers most of that. Note that there were three rounds of install.
Rgds
Damon
Are you being an idiot trolling as AC?
For the record, if there had not been a dramatic improvement in efficiency up until the time I did the install then I would not have been able to achieve that output. The clue is in the words.
What he said too...
Only if you don't count the fact that (for example) Sanyo/Panasonic HIT panels are good enough that even on my tiny roof I sufficiently overproduce so as to be carbon neutral for all primary energy, and that for now my effective energy bills are zero too. Oh, no, no improvement.
Rgds
Damon
Agreed: failure to include any licence means that there are many commercial and non-commercial situations in which I can't reasonably use your code at all.
At the very least you should include a "Do with this code what you will but I am not responsible for anything bad that happens" clause if you want it actually to be used by people that give a sh*t about others' rights.
(My preference is to release my own code under BSD to give maximum freedom to users of my code to do what they wish with it, but I have bits of my code in Linux/apps as well which presumably means that they are GPLed.)
Rgds
Damon
Why do you say that? Given that my subject line is an excerpt of the title of the paper I referenced, which seems applicable, where's the disconnect?
Rgds
Damon
Why do twits like you troll as AC?
I suspect that it'll to take a lot longer than a couple of years to know for sure: a couple of decades maybe.
Rgds
Damon
AFAIK it is still entirely pertinent...
Rgds
Damon
In this case it seems that most of the methane is locked up far deeper than will be affected by rising temperatures for the foreseeable future.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011EO490014.shtml
So, not good, but maybe not as bad as appears at first blush, thankfully...
Rgds
Damon
Unless you run a swapless system (eg entirely on limited-wear Flash) and have limited overcommitment of VM, in which case being unused doesn't let anyone else actually use it fully.
Rgds
Damon
If the Java GC/VM in place is smart enough and obeys the -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio and -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio for the Oracle VM or similar than it too can nominally give back unused blocks of memory to the OS.
Not that I recall ever actually seeing a C++ application do it in all the years that I was writing and using mission-critical C++ apps, and instead I saw plenty leak and hit 2GB and die for the want of GC, even with the best attention to code quality, use of Purify, etc.
Yes, I've seen lots of Java apps die with 'leaks' too (by putting junk in statics for example), but then it's also possible to run pretty efficient Java apps: down to tens of kilobytes of heap with the early KVM (J2ME/CLDC). And I happily run the same Java code on a SheevaPlug as on a big fat co-lo server with careful attention to memory usage.
Upshot: it's possible to write crap code and waste memory in virtually any language. I'm happy with the trade-offs in Java/C# against C++ in general.
Rgds
Damon
What are you doing? B^>
My entire family of four generates the equivalent of about 1 bag a week (YMMV on bag size of course).
Plus a somewhat smaller volume of recycling.
Rgds
Damon
Me three. Another annoyance is people using "infinitely" in the same place where in either case they simply mean "a lot". Why cry wolf and throw away all nuance?
Rgds
Damon
You maybe haven't heard of Employment Tribunals then?
Rgds
Damon
#!/bin/sh
echo 42
or just
echo 42
Maybe?
Rgds
Damon
Withdrawing my tourist/business £/$ while they keep on doing it seems to be one of the most powerful signals that I can send that it's unacceptable behaviour. And bad theatre. I have made some slight effort to engage with the TSA/DHS on this topic directly at a senior level too.
Anyhow, it's not "punishing myself" though it is unfortunate. I'll simply save my money and footprint for places more welcoming, since there are plenty of those, closer to home, as it happens.
Rgds
Damon
I'm with you: I won't travel to a place where I'm treated as a criminal at the border and have my fingerprints/scans taken (by an organisation in the US's case that infamously lost its own staff's personal data early in its life). So, what with wanting to cut my carbon footprint the US in particular has had none of my tourist £/$ for many years since it started this more invasive rudeness.
From being a frequent traveller abroad, I'm considering not renewing my passport given the security theatre and incivility shown by the US in particular. I didn't know that the Japanese were doing it too; I enjoyed visiting Japan.
Rgds
Damon
Pacifica, Highway 1...
That was a while ago for me. I don't drive a lot, I'm not into road trips, and California isn't the only beautiful place in this world that can look remarkably unspoilt, but down from SF on Highway 1 was very pleasant.
I took a pic that I thought was great and noticed that I'd almost exactly reproduced the scenic shot on the front cover of the magazine on the table in my hotel room!
Rgds
Damon
Not in cloudier climes.
For the UK for example, IIRC there probably isn't any significant benefit of scale of solar farms of any type vs domestic-scale PV, and the advantages of (a) not taking new land and (b) injecting power directly into the local distribution system avoiding ~9% transmission/distribution losses (c) and focussing the mind of the householder and neighbours on conservation, might make domestic-scale better.
Rgds
Damon
I am both being a pedant and saying that I disagree with his sweeping cheap dismissal of the EC's credibility. Logically/pedantically it probably negates the whole argument; in normal parlance probably less so. But why start with a silly assertion unless you want to drive readers to "tl;dr"?
At worst the EC is a curate's egg, but in my view it's generally better than that.
Rgds
Damon