Yes, and that's a problem. I saw the commenter I responded to as saying that we should not be treating mental illnesses as a "separate category" without the possibility of preventive medicine.
Actually, people do think that way when it comes to heart disease, diabetes, etc. It's called using preventive medicine - or just eliminating risk factors from your life.
It's like riding a bicycle to work instead of driving in a car - it can lower stress and your risk of heart disease. Doctors often suggest exercise to people to prevent them from getting diabetes or heart disease. It's better than heart surgery later, or insulin.
In Washington, specifically with Volt and Microsoft, noncompetes have been legally thrown out several times. If Volt doesn't pick an employee up and another company does, Volt loses their right to a noncompete. Of course, those contracts also have a waiver of jury trial in a dispute, etc, so they're pretty much unenforceable anyway.
The US National Renewable Energy Labs made a freely available PDF called "Business Management for Biodiesel Producers". Something it pointed out is that vegetable oils (what you refer to, encompassing most renewable oils), coming from all available crops, can only support about 10% of our current on-road diesel needs.
So, unless you have another several Earths of arable land, do consider that natural oils are not a viable solution for our current processes. When the oil runs low, we'll be shunting it to emergency needs (like food) first, and as the original commenter assessed, there will be no more consumer plastics.
Go read "Cradle to Cradle". Penn and Teller's show oversimplified the issue and described a problem not with recycling, but with production processes.
Most things we recycle now are not made to be recycled. They are made to be used and then to be thrown away. Some things, such as steel, iron, aluminum, can be recycled ad infinitum. There are certain plastics that can be recycled with the same quality, rather than "downcycled" (the issue P&T discussed). "Cradle to Cradle" itself is made from a material that can be recycled without losing quality.
Now, you say you don't know if sustainability is "necessarily efficient". Of course it's not. Using up whatever natural resource is easiest to get it is most efficient - but it runs out. But, as long as we're concerned with being competitive, who cares? Use it all up, we'll find another planet later.
Um... "slow" economic growth? Economic growth has already stagnated, and the US economy will go into decline if they are unable to ship large amounts of raw materials and goods to other countries for their labor.
Thanks - I do appreciate it. It's not exactly a happy situation.
I've made a compelling case to switch over to AMD hardware, and if sales pick up in this quarter there's a chance we'll have the budget next year.
I'm using the term "BIOS" here to refer to the EFI system (which I couldn't remember the name of). We've had a number of problems with it - especially because nobody at Microsoft seems to have written remote management apps for power management via EFI.
Actually, I buy AMD (which I find to be more expensive to maintain when you take into account manpower to set up systems) because they treat their workers better overall.
One, market penetration. Windows *kind of* works on Itaniums. Code has to be compiled specifically for the platform - they're not very good at x86 code through WoW.
The BIOS replacement they use is not functional. It's very difficult to set up disks for use, and if you lose the disk that the BIOS data is kept on, you're screwed. As far as I know, there is no way to make that fault-tolerant short of manually storing the contents of that partition on another drive.
Support for the Itaniums has been terrible. The HP systems are riddled with hardware problems, and their support personnel (at the enterprise level) have no idea how to comprehend that they don't operate quite like any other workstation.
You may want to read a book called "The Politicized Economy" to refine your conclusions - but remember that China is the largest manufacturing state in the world now.
That is one of the best points I've heard made.
Muni wi-fi would keep money local, and provide a few local jobs to support it. In a small town, being able to talk to someone you know on the phone about a problem with your internet is a lot more conducive to new users than talking to someone in India.
But it wouldn't be true. I know folks who get Mac spyware, there's just a lot less of it.
I can just as easily say that the reporter should have mentioned that this was only an issue for personal computers, not typically for large servers.
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That's not redundant, it hasn't already been covered.
Um, yes. I know. I thought it was pretty clear that I was referring to Type II.
Yes, and that's a problem. I saw the commenter I responded to as saying that we should not be treating mental illnesses as a "separate category" without the possibility of preventive medicine.
Actually, people do think that way when it comes to heart disease, diabetes, etc. It's called using preventive medicine - or just eliminating risk factors from your life. It's like riding a bicycle to work instead of driving in a car - it can lower stress and your risk of heart disease. Doctors often suggest exercise to people to prevent them from getting diabetes or heart disease. It's better than heart surgery later, or insulin.
It's been there for a couple years, in Keyhole (now Google Earth). I think you may have to get the Plus edition.
Sorting through porn tends to be a one-handed activity.
In Washington, specifically with Volt and Microsoft, noncompetes have been legally thrown out several times. If Volt doesn't pick an employee up and another company does, Volt loses their right to a noncompete. Of course, those contracts also have a waiver of jury trial in a dispute, etc, so they're pretty much unenforceable anyway.
The US National Renewable Energy Labs made a freely available PDF called "Business Management for Biodiesel Producers". Something it pointed out is that vegetable oils (what you refer to, encompassing most renewable oils), coming from all available crops, can only support about 10% of our current on-road diesel needs.
So, unless you have another several Earths of arable land, do consider that natural oils are not a viable solution for our current processes. When the oil runs low, we'll be shunting it to emergency needs (like food) first, and as the original commenter assessed, there will be no more consumer plastics.
Go read "Cradle to Cradle". Penn and Teller's show oversimplified the issue and described a problem not with recycling, but with production processes.
Most things we recycle now are not made to be recycled. They are made to be used and then to be thrown away. Some things, such as steel, iron, aluminum, can be recycled ad infinitum. There are certain plastics that can be recycled with the same quality, rather than "downcycled" (the issue P&T discussed). "Cradle to Cradle" itself is made from a material that can be recycled without losing quality.
Now, you say you don't know if sustainability is "necessarily efficient". Of course it's not. Using up whatever natural resource is easiest to get it is most efficient - but it runs out. But, as long as we're concerned with being competitive, who cares? Use it all up, we'll find another planet later.
Um... "slow" economic growth? Economic growth has already stagnated, and the US economy will go into decline if they are unable to ship large amounts of raw materials and goods to other countries for their labor.
Other than small amounts of coal, Edo period Japan was sustainable.
Thanks - I do appreciate it. It's not exactly a happy situation. I've made a compelling case to switch over to AMD hardware, and if sales pick up in this quarter there's a chance we'll have the budget next year.
Yes, in fact, I was working for Microsoft at the time. We're currently using Windows 2003 Server SP1 for Itanium.
I'm using the term "BIOS" here to refer to the EFI system (which I couldn't remember the name of). We've had a number of problems with it - especially because nobody at Microsoft seems to have written remote management apps for power management via EFI.
Actually, I buy AMD (which I find to be more expensive to maintain when you take into account manpower to set up systems) because they treat their workers better overall.
One, market penetration. Windows *kind of* works on Itaniums. Code has to be compiled specifically for the platform - they're not very good at x86 code through WoW.
The BIOS replacement they use is not functional. It's very difficult to set up disks for use, and if you lose the disk that the BIOS data is kept on, you're screwed. As far as I know, there is no way to make that fault-tolerant short of manually storing the contents of that partition on another drive.
Support for the Itaniums has been terrible. The HP systems are riddled with hardware problems, and their support personnel (at the enterprise level) have no idea how to comprehend that they don't operate quite like any other workstation.
You may want to read a book called "The Politicized Economy" to refine your conclusions - but remember that China is the largest manufacturing state in the world now.
That is one of the best points I've heard made. Muni wi-fi would keep money local, and provide a few local jobs to support it. In a small town, being able to talk to someone you know on the phone about a problem with your internet is a lot more conducive to new users than talking to someone in India.
But it wouldn't be true. I know folks who get Mac spyware, there's just a lot less of it. I can just as easily say that the reporter should have mentioned that this was only an issue for personal computers, not typically for large servers.
Except that almost all "regular joe" computer users are on Windows. Come on, this is nuts.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could find parts we knew not to be child-labor manufactured?
Actually... they're not saying anything that's not in the publicly filed lawsuit.
Got any examples that aren't easily countered by those who know what they're talking about, or are you just trolling?
And many digital satellite consumers use analog broadcast for local news.
They bought the basic interface from Keyhole... and then added 3D buildings. They didn't just buy the whole thing.