Since my checkbook and those of almost all people buying software are not designed for my little sister, Metro UI 8 can go stack overflow donkey kong b411s.
Killing Windows 7 on October 31 will not stop the cold hard fact nobody wants Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 - not just unit sales are down but active resistance is off the charts.
Sometimes, you just have to Kill It With Fire. And the Windows 8 Metro is a prime candidate for being Killed With Fire.
At this point, you can expect 100 year storms every 2-3 years in all coastal areas and record heat waves until at least 2050, even if you start changing your behavior (emissions) like we in the True West (AK/BC/WA/OR/ID/CA) are doing. Our energy sources are shifting fast to alternative energy and our carbon footprints are actually dropping fast, but the rest of the country is still stuck in denial.
I think you're focused on the "new" power stations. I'm talking about cogeneration, which is a method used in advanced societies like China and Vietnam, whereby you turn the waste heat at all levels into power.
Perhaps Germany isn't up to that level, sadly, but maybe they can join the 21st Century soon and, instead of making "new" power generation, cut the energy use they currently waste in power generation (coal plants) and in heating/cooling buildings (most can use passive solar to drive fans and cut energy in industrial storage and prefab in half) and in industrial production (cogeneration using waste heat again).
But, hey, I used to be a member of USWA, so what does a former steelworker know about such things that have been around for more than 30 years but never were done because the old methods were/are subsidized.... even if I have college courses in that and am reading all the power generation scientific papers on what's happening in this field in preparation for my doctorate.
No, let's just stick to the old wasteful energy-inefficient tax-subsidized methods and build more power plants and transmission lines we don't need.
There's a reason why we in the Western US (CA,OR,WA,BC) are eating your shorts in terms of GDP per capita. And it has to do with letting go of the past and becoming more efficient.
Actually, if you just replaced the local coal power used in the industrial south with more efficient coal co-generation, using the excess waste heat both at the power generation and at the industrial use to generate power from the waste heat, you'd reduce coal use, reduce waste heat (which impacts water supplies), and replace older dirtier industrial production and older dirtier coal usage with more efficient sources.
Reducing the need for new transmission lines in the first place.
You're ignoring the increased power cost to build, ship, and regulate loads of power over long distances.
Co-generation allows one to REDUCE power used, REDUCE pollution (since site location means no transmission), and also reduce heat impacts on the environment.
All supposed aims of the German government.
Plus, it's cheaper.
But it does require you to stop subsidizing old inefficient methods of industrial production.
Which, surprisingly, creates more German jobs for Germans.
Ignores the energy loss due to transmission. Smarter to modernize outdated industrial processes so they use cogeneration on-site. No need for new transmission lines, less vulnerable to terrorism, less vulnerable to 100 year events that climate change is making happen every 2-3 years now.
Easiest way to do that is remove capital depreciation on older plants that don't use cogeneration and provide 1 percent interest capital loans with 5 year payback cycles for installing new cogeneration equipment. Carrot and stick.
Seriously, all energy transmission involves impacts. Visual impacts, noise impacts, perceived risk factors from electromagnetic effects.
The only way around that is on-site generation and co-generation.
Maybe they should stop making "more" transmission lines for power and start using co-generation of their waste heat in the industrial south so that they "need" less energy.
And slap some solar panels and some passive solar on those buildings, reducing the cooling power usage by better building and manufacturing designs.
That would be wiser.
And less dependent on stolen Greek money by German banks that never paid WW II reparations for looting Greece.
1. Profit 2. Come up with reason for spying... 4. Ask for authorization seven years later in secret cabinet meeting held in disused lavatory in sub-sub-basement of outmoded surplus warehouse.
I should point out that Toyota, Ford, Fiat, Honda, and even Chevy are all rolling out $26,000 to $30,000 all-electric cars.
One assumes this is not for the US markets where electricity primarily comes from coal, but for the 90 percent of the US GDP-creating middle class that lives in places where electricity comes from solar, wind, nuclear fission, and hydroelectric sources (mostly the West and NorthEast).
For us in these areas, solar is cheaper than coal, and wind is cheaper than oil. Which makes a full tank of electricity cost about 1/10th to 1/20th the cost of gasoline.
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What could possibly go wrong when I remove my concentration from the road ahead and try to use a device that malfunctions when I eat chips or fries?
It's like they don't GET Americans.
Really.
Yes, but the US does not recognize other countries constitutions.
For example, we signed legally binding Data Privacy Treaties with Canada and the EU and we still steal your data.
QED.
Since my checkbook and those of almost all people buying software are not designed for my little sister, Metro UI 8 can go stack overflow donkey kong b411s.
Killing Windows 7 on October 31 will not stop the cold hard fact nobody wants Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 - not just unit sales are down but active resistance is off the charts.
Sometimes, you just have to Kill It With Fire. And the Windows 8 Metro is a prime candidate for being Killed With Fire.
Should be Trillions.
At this point, you can expect 100 year storms every 2-3 years in all coastal areas and record heat waves until at least 2050, even if you start changing your behavior (emissions) like we in the True West (AK/BC/WA/OR/ID/CA) are doing. Our energy sources are shifting fast to alternative energy and our carbon footprints are actually dropping fast, but the rest of the country is still stuck in denial.
Adapt.
Because you waited too long.
I wonder if Scotland will join the EU but still send emails thru London?
We already have nodes running inside both countries which tap the main lines.
Illegal? Of course.
Unconstitutional? Only if, as they are designed to do, they capture American emails too.
Stupid? Heck, this is America ... does that answer your question?
I think you may wish to issue people a personal visibility limitation device.
These are commonly referred to by canines as the "Cone of Shame".
I think you're focused on the "new" power stations. I'm talking about cogeneration, which is a method used in advanced societies like China and Vietnam, whereby you turn the waste heat at all levels into power.
Perhaps Germany isn't up to that level, sadly, but maybe they can join the 21st Century soon and, instead of making "new" power generation, cut the energy use they currently waste in power generation (coal plants) and in heating/cooling buildings (most can use passive solar to drive fans and cut energy in industrial storage and prefab in half) and in industrial production (cogeneration using waste heat again).
But, hey, I used to be a member of USWA, so what does a former steelworker know about such things that have been around for more than 30 years but never were done because the old methods were/are subsidized .... even if I have college courses in that and am reading all the power generation scientific papers on what's happening in this field in preparation for my doctorate.
No, let's just stick to the old wasteful energy-inefficient tax-subsidized methods and build more power plants and transmission lines we don't need.
There's a reason why we in the Western US (CA,OR,WA,BC) are eating your shorts in terms of GDP per capita. And it has to do with letting go of the past and becoming more efficient.
Actually, if you just replaced the local coal power used in the industrial south with more efficient coal co-generation, using the excess waste heat both at the power generation and at the industrial use to generate power from the waste heat, you'd reduce coal use, reduce waste heat (which impacts water supplies), and replace older dirtier industrial production and older dirtier coal usage with more efficient sources.
Reducing the need for new transmission lines in the first place.
But that would be smart.
You're ignoring the increased power cost to build, ship, and regulate loads of power over long distances.
Co-generation allows one to REDUCE power used, REDUCE pollution (since site location means no transmission), and also reduce heat impacts on the environment.
All supposed aims of the German government.
Plus, it's cheaper.
But it does require you to stop subsidizing old inefficient methods of industrial production.
Which, surprisingly, creates more German jobs for Germans.
Can't have that, right?
Ignores the energy loss due to transmission. Smarter to modernize outdated industrial processes so they use cogeneration on-site. No need for new transmission lines, less vulnerable to terrorism, less vulnerable to 100 year events that climate change is making happen every 2-3 years now.
Easiest way to do that is remove capital depreciation on older plants that don't use cogeneration and provide 1 percent interest capital loans with 5 year payback cycles for installing new cogeneration equipment. Carrot and stick.
Problem solved.
NEXT!
Seriously, all energy transmission involves impacts. Visual impacts, noise impacts, perceived risk factors from electromagnetic effects.
The only way around that is on-site generation and co-generation.
Maybe they should stop making "more" transmission lines for power and start using co-generation of their waste heat in the industrial south so that they "need" less energy.
And slap some solar panels and some passive solar on those buildings, reducing the cooling power usage by better building and manufacturing designs.
That would be wiser.
And less dependent on stolen Greek money by German banks that never paid WW II reparations for looting Greece.
Mine says "CHA1RF4CE CHIPENDALE"
Guess it's safe.
The cold hard fact is they always cut both the required resources and the required testing to reduce bugs.
Tell your PHB to jump in a frozen pond from a height of 2000 miles up.
Tell him it's safe, or as safe as insufficient testing and inadequate resources made the jump.
You forgot we also have literal circuits in the chipsets. You'd be surprised.
The thing you civilians don't get is we backdoored the basic encryption protocols a long long time ago.
And, as you're now finding out, we have been watching.
There are five NSA sites in North America, btw. Not two.
Which part of all electric don't you get?
Aerodynamics and chassis and frame aren't going to differ much. We're only talking about the engine and drive train parts after the rotor.
Not really the True West. Your fossil fuel days are numbered, and Tesla and other electric car manufacturers know it.
The US paid for 75% of the space station.
Amazing. So?
Greece paid for Germany's banks, but Germany never paid back the assets they looted from Greece during WW II ...
"What have you done for the Moon lately?"
1. Profit ...
2. Come up with reason for spying
4. Ask for authorization seven years later in secret cabinet meeting held in disused lavatory in sub-sub-basement of outmoded surplus warehouse.
Agreed.
That said, one of my ex-relatives works for NASA. Great place! Wish it got funding ...
I own the moon and have claimed it for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Squid.
Let me get this straight ...
A country with zero shuttles, zero missions to the moon this century, and zero space stations wants to mine the moon?
Right ... I'll tell Norway they own North America, ok?
I should point out that Toyota, Ford, Fiat, Honda, and even Chevy are all rolling out $26,000 to $30,000 all-electric cars.
One assumes this is not for the US markets where electricity primarily comes from coal, but for the 90 percent of the US GDP-creating middle class that lives in places where electricity comes from solar, wind, nuclear fission, and hydroelectric sources (mostly the West and NorthEast).
For us in these areas, solar is cheaper than coal, and wind is cheaper than oil. Which makes a full tank of electricity cost about 1/10th to 1/20th the cost of gasoline.
I agree, it's mostly about keeping overpaid defense contractors happy.
And the slashdot beta sucks.