The problem here, I suspect, is not that renewables are insufficient to our energy needs, it's that they are often not available in jurisdictionally convenient places. Iceland likely has geothermal capacity great enough to power a goodly chunk of Europe, but it's stuck in the middle of the North Atlantic, which means there cost of building and maintaining transmission capacity is very large.
The same applies where I am in British Columbia. The north coast of BC has huge geothermal potential, but no one wants to put up the capital. The government will bow who knows how much money making massive upgrades to transmission lines to isolated places like Kitimat to produce LNG, which will have to be supplied by the rest of the grid (read: electricity ratepayers and taxpayers) but won't investigate in any meaningful way geothermal capacity that could once again make BC a frequent net exporter of electricity.
In Microsoft Newspeak, sitting on shelves collecting dust which is only disturbed by people with new Android and iPads walking by is a sign of fantastic sales. Tune in next week when dumping a million units in a hole in the Mojave Desert is signified by "Microsoft announces a million Surface tablets moved in the last quarter!"
I was going to ask the same about buying a Windows tablet. Why the fuck would anyone want one? So you can see how hideously awkward your standard Win32 or.Net app will be to use without a keyboard and mouse?
Just out of curiousity , how much does Redmond pay you per post. I'm thinking about surrendering all sense of decency or honor and astroturfing for Redmond.
The copy I bought a few months ago wasn't connected to Google Drive, so I'm pretty sure it does its own processing and rendering. It is usable, and good in a pinch, but no replacement for a full office suite. But what do It need a full office suite on a Nexus 7 for anyways?
Oh BS. A kernel is a helluva lot more complex. Big or small, sites like Healthcare.gov are, no matter how you look at it, scripts gluing together database queries. A big job, to be sure, but certainly not one invoking the complexities of a modern-day kernel.
Exactly. I think the Linux kernel is a damned good example of how a large number of developers working in very different kinds of development environments, some working in side-projects like Netfilter, are coordinated by one guy intimately acquainted with the kernel.
You can say what you like about Linus's attitude at times, but the fact that the Linux kernel is running on everything from supercomputers to be Nexus 7 tablet tells you that there is a way to successfully and productively organize multiple teams to produce a successful software product.
I've played plenty of immersive games. Heck, one of the first games I got truly addicted to was Dungeons of Daggorath way back in the old days on my CoCo 2, to the point where I actually would get freaked out when some monster would sneak up on me.
I think that may be the reason why games don't work like movies, whether it's video games or tabletop roleplaying games. They're both immersive, but they require a good deal of mental effort and interaction. A movie like 2001 is more like a painting, something that requires your attention, but not your input. More of your mental space can be dedicated to appreciation.
Frankly I always thought Ebert's claim was bunk. I've seen some damned beautiful games out there. But still, there's a special place for the great novels, the great paintings or the great films and plays that I don't think interactive entertainments can go.
The last time I had to "re-architect" an existing website, I ended up putting in roughly twice the amount of time as the original "architects" (and I use that word very very loosely). Believe me, there's a lot of shit out there that will require a lot more effort to fix than originally went into building it.
Everytime I watch something like 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Rules of the Game or Rear Window, I get something I have never gotten from playing a video game.
I get that a lot of movies are just brainless entertainment, which is fine, sometimes I enjoy numbing my brain on something like Aquateen Hunger Force: The Movie, but a few days ago I rewatched Kurosawa's Ran and stood in awe of one of the greatest auteurs the world has ever seen.
I'm through being polite about Canonical. Ubuntu had its place, but now it's been supplanted. Frankly, I wish they wouldn't have a voice on Debian at all. Let them fork and do their own thing.
I'm with this too. Fuck Canonical. They have become a real pain in the ass, and worst of all, they're a pack of fucking retarded assholes. I can't say it enough. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical.
Debian is one of the best distros out there, let's not allow the fuckwaddery that is Canonical and their arrogance and intense stupidity ruin it. The current init system works just fine.
Oh, and in case you didn't get it. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical.
Surely some of the AGW denying researchers like Roy Spencer will take up the invitation. Funny thing about Spencer and his ilk, though. They're quick to take Koch money to attack AGW, but seem reticent to do actual research to back up their frequent public skepticism.
I think this gets into the philosophical debate as to where fantasy begins and SF ends. In the end, I tend to think it's all pretty fuzzy, and that most SF in the movies and on TV tends to straddle the line. There are a few films that I would consider SF, even if the physics is dicey or even outrageous; Metropolis, The Day The Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Alien franchise, Blade Runner are all what I'd view as science fiction. Star Trek, despite the technobabble, is still SF. Dr. Who sits in the same category as Star Trek; a lot of technobabble and mumbo jumbo, but still presented as essentially scientific and realistic.
The science fictionesque shows that I consider fail the test are the Star Wars saga and the X Files, that while they have the veneer of science fiction, are thematically fantastical/supernatural in nature. Any "sciency" aspects are very thin veneer over mystical and mythical themes. Sure Star Trek has its Vulcan mindmelds and other telepaths, but the show still tried to portray itself with some level of faux realism.
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What do I care about a scripting language's performance. The bulk of my work is basically using scripting languages as glue and display functions for RDBMS queries. The amount of cycles the interpreter/JIT/whatever has to consume is dwarfed by the cycles eaten up by the SQL database.
I have copies of the OEM versions of Vista and Windows 7 Home variants downloaded from Digital River. I have reinstalled Windows on several Acer and HP machines from these discs. Yes, you have to phone the 1-800 number to activate them, but for five minutes out of my life I have a legit Windows box without crapware or spyware. Okay, I do have to track down drivers in most cases, but still, it's worth the effort.
If a corporate monkey says the word "fair", you know damned well what he's really saying is "We're going to fuck you up the ass so much you'll be able to park a locomotive in there."
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I was going to say the same thing.
The problem here, I suspect, is not that renewables are insufficient to our energy needs, it's that they are often not available in jurisdictionally convenient places. Iceland likely has geothermal capacity great enough to power a goodly chunk of Europe, but it's stuck in the middle of the North Atlantic, which means there cost of building and maintaining transmission capacity is very large.
The same applies where I am in British Columbia. The north coast of BC has huge geothermal potential, but no one wants to put up the capital. The government will bow who knows how much money making massive upgrades to transmission lines to isolated places like Kitimat to produce LNG, which will have to be supplied by the rest of the grid (read: electricity ratepayers and taxpayers) but won't investigate in any meaningful way geothermal capacity that could once again make BC a frequent net exporter of electricity.
In Microsoft Newspeak, sitting on shelves collecting dust which is only disturbed by people with new Android and iPads walking by is a sign of fantastic sales. Tune in next week when dumping a million units in a hole in the Mojave Desert is signified by "Microsoft announces a million Surface tablets moved in the last quarter!"
I was going to ask the same about buying a Windows tablet. Why the fuck would anyone want one? So you can see how hideously awkward your standard Win32 or .Net app will be to use without a keyboard and mouse?
How odd. The one thing I don't do with my Nexus 7 is play Angry Birds.
Just out of curiousity , how much does Redmond pay you per post. I'm thinking about surrendering all sense of decency or honor and astroturfing for Redmond.
The copy I bought a few months ago wasn't connected to Google Drive, so I'm pretty sure it does its own processing and rendering. It is usable, and good in a pinch, but no replacement for a full office suite. But what do It need a full office suite on a Nexus 7 for anyways?
Oh BS. A kernel is a helluva lot more complex. Big or small, sites like Healthcare.gov are, no matter how you look at it, scripts gluing together database queries. A big job, to be sure, but certainly not one invoking the complexities of a modern-day kernel.
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Exactly. I think the Linux kernel is a damned good example of how a large number of developers working in very different kinds of development environments, some working in side-projects like Netfilter, are coordinated by one guy intimately acquainted with the kernel.
You can say what you like about Linus's attitude at times, but the fact that the Linux kernel is running on everything from supercomputers to be Nexus 7 tablet tells you that there is a way to successfully and productively organize multiple teams to produce a successful software product.
Yes, because it's likely they'll have to put as much effort into fixing it as the original designers, if not more.
I've played plenty of immersive games. Heck, one of the first games I got truly addicted to was Dungeons of Daggorath way back in the old days on my CoCo 2, to the point where I actually would get freaked out when some monster would sneak up on me.
I think that may be the reason why games don't work like movies, whether it's video games or tabletop roleplaying games. They're both immersive, but they require a good deal of mental effort and interaction. A movie like 2001 is more like a painting, something that requires your attention, but not your input. More of your mental space can be dedicated to appreciation.
Frankly I always thought Ebert's claim was bunk. I've seen some damned beautiful games out there. But still, there's a special place for the great novels, the great paintings or the great films and plays that I don't think interactive entertainments can go.
The last time I had to "re-architect" an existing website, I ended up putting in roughly twice the amount of time as the original "architects" (and I use that word very very loosely). Believe me, there's a lot of shit out there that will require a lot more effort to fix than originally went into building it.
Everytime I watch something like 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Rules of the Game or Rear Window, I get something I have never gotten from playing a video game.
I get that a lot of movies are just brainless entertainment, which is fine, sometimes I enjoy numbing my brain on something like Aquateen Hunger Force: The Movie, but a few days ago I rewatched Kurosawa's Ran and stood in awe of one of the greatest auteurs the world has ever seen.
I'm through being polite about Canonical. Ubuntu had its place, but now it's been supplanted. Frankly, I wish they wouldn't have a voice on Debian at all. Let them fork and do their own thing.
I'm with this too. Fuck Canonical. They have become a real pain in the ass, and worst of all, they're a pack of fucking retarded assholes. I can't say it enough. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical.
Debian is one of the best distros out there, let's not allow the fuckwaddery that is Canonical and their arrogance and intense stupidity ruin it. The current init system works just fine.
Oh, and in case you didn't get it. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical. Fuck Canonical.
Surely some of the AGW denying researchers like Roy Spencer will take up the invitation. Funny thing about Spencer and his ilk, though. They're quick to take Koch money to attack AGW, but seem reticent to do actual research to back up their frequent public skepticism.
Wait, are you trying to say we couldn't install Linux on the Tardis, but we probably could install a microwave oven operating system?
I think this gets into the philosophical debate as to where fantasy begins and SF ends. In the end, I tend to think it's all pretty fuzzy, and that most SF in the movies and on TV tends to straddle the line. There are a few films that I would consider SF, even if the physics is dicey or even outrageous; Metropolis, The Day The Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Alien franchise, Blade Runner are all what I'd view as science fiction. Star Trek, despite the technobabble, is still SF. Dr. Who sits in the same category as Star Trek; a lot of technobabble and mumbo jumbo, but still presented as essentially scientific and realistic.
The science fictionesque shows that I consider fail the test are the Star Wars saga and the X Files, that while they have the veneer of science fiction, are thematically fantastical/supernatural in nature. Any "sciency" aspects are very thin veneer over mystical and mythical themes. Sure Star Trek has its Vulcan mindmelds and other telepaths, but the show still tried to portray itself with some level of faux realism.
What do I care about a scripting language's performance. The bulk of my work is basically using scripting languages as glue and display functions for RDBMS queries. The amount of cycles the interpreter/JIT/whatever has to consume is dwarfed by the cycles eaten up by the SQL database.
I guess my point is that it didn't cost me anything, except a little time.
I have copies of the OEM versions of Vista and Windows 7 Home variants downloaded from Digital River. I have reinstalled Windows on several Acer and HP machines from these discs. Yes, you have to phone the 1-800 number to activate them, but for five minutes out of my life I have a legit Windows box without crapware or spyware. Okay, I do have to track down drivers in most cases, but still, it's worth the effort.
If a corporate monkey says the word "fair", you know damned well what he's really saying is "We're going to fuck you up the ass so much you'll be able to park a locomotive in there."
It certainly will help Linux on the desktop if more optimized graphics drivers are made available. That's the whole point of this article.
Fartbongocare? Is that Ted Cruz's up and coming proposed replacement to the ACA?
I'm too busy thinking about how many children with cancer could be saved for 400 million US dollars.