My idea of a paid app for the FF OS is one which collects Underwear and advertising Cookies, stuffs the cookies in the underwear, wraps them in a 3D printed biodegradeable "plastic" wrap, and sells them at a profit.
In other words:
1. Underwear 2. Cookies 3. Package them... 5. Profit!
Best part is it's green.
Cause that's what the cookies and underwear look like by the time they get to the end consumer.
In fact, it is highly likely (read CIA analyses and various scientific studies) that much of the world will more resemble 50 C areas of Australia, but without access to clean water and power.
In the US, this will hit most regions of the country, with the marked exception of the Pacific NW (BC, WA, ID, part of MT, OR).
Adapt. Or die.
Or maybe stop using coal and oil and stop whining about it. But changing that won't affect things before 2040, by which time it will be much worse.
We're not going to replace all our generating capacity with wind. Or solar. Or wave. Or hydro. Or biofuels. None of them are even close to the scale of hydrocarbon energy as we use it now, nor will they ever be.
(skipped, pushes one)
The likely reality is that we need wind, hydro, solar and geothermal so that there will be *some* sort of local, maintainable, electrical power left after hydrocarbons, particularly oil, stop being useful as an industrial-scale energy source (i.e. having enough net energy to run a civilization and at a price that's affordable).
When hydrocarbons cease to be useful, and the international, interdependent web of "just-in-time" supply chains starts breaking down, and we can no longer affordably transport the materials necessary to find, extract, refine and distribute the natural gas, oil or coal to the power plant, what we'll have left is nuclear (which we won't be able to maintain), hydro, wind and solar.
So, if you have grandchildren, or children, you want this. It won't be much. It won't be nearly enough, but by 2050 through 2100, a few less people will be shivering in the dark.
See, the main problem we have is that everyone has their favorite energy source.
The answer to (less energy) is not (energy source A), it is (energy source A + B + C + D) adjusted by the optimal sources for the region you are in.
Hydro is not that great in plains areas. Wind works well in many areas, but not all. Solar works well in many areas, but best for passive solar heating and cooling, even in places that have overcast days (Seattle has 80 pct efficiency for solar on cloudy days).
The answer is not A or B or C. The answer is a mix of energy supplies, optimized for each region.
In certain areas, (e.g. Sydney Australia) coal is one of the more optimal answers, due to easy availability and short distance to deliver and method of collecting).
However, more coal and oil means more global warming, which increases systemic energy and has heavily negative impacts.
Only if they are firmware and you can't put a dongle device (which is under the steering column on most vehicles) or attach one to the internal system.
Good points. But it goes back to the whole system energy usage, and where that energy comes from.
I'm far more impressed by a recent soon to be published article on Chinese usage of windows - they lose a lot of energy in heating due to their usage of non-optimal window pane design.
YOU (I mean USA) did not become us (Russian Federation), yet. And will not, because modern Russia slides to totalitarian state much faster. For now, I am just afraid to visit half of Internet without VPN.
The Iron Oxide beads are mined and processed, using coke and various other carbon-creating materials.
To adequately measure the GHG (or climate change gasses) we have to consider the cradle to grave carbon impacts of all the constituent components, from mining to use to final process to usage.
This might be useful in crowded Chinese cities, where the source pollution is high at point of use (e.g. home and industrial heating and power usage), but does nothing per se to alter the total environmental impact of the use of coal itself.
Kind of like how electric cars, if run off of coal or oil power plants, do nothing to reduce emissions, except at point of vehicular usage.
The problem we all face, both in China and the rest of the industrialized world, is that we are overloading our GLOBAL systems with too much carbon or fossil fuel emissions. It doesn't matter if we do it in the coal regions of the US or China, it still puts too much energy into the climate systems, and accelerates extreme weather conditions worldwide, such as massive storms, dust bowls growing to TX CA and FL, and things like that.
Nice try. Good for a polluted Chinese city choking on its own pollution, but not good enough to deal with the source PROBLEM.
(caveat - based on my reading of the various papers by Chinese scientists in peer-reviewed journals and their own internal numbers, which we all know they fudged)
This sounds an awful lot like the police ability to "request" Twitter and FB kill status feeds and uploaded movies and pics when the cops get out of control.
Be a shame if someone used a 3D printer and some filament wire or some ground lasers to take one of them out, if they happened to stray into our airspace.
The article is about making people unable to consume alcohol, permanently. It is not about restricting the sale of alcohol. After you are biologically incapable of drinking, how would a change of venue help?
I am not referring to the consumption or imbibing of alcoholic beverages.
I am referring to other intoxicants which are legal in other states and provinces, specifically BC, WA, CO, and CA.
Hence, an other option which exists for people who (as the original post above asked) "where will they go for their high".
Doubt this would impact Kaht in NE Africa, or similar other things, as well. Different biochemical chain.
Did you even read the original article, or even the title?
Yes, I did.
In fact, I've read various scientific papers on Asian inability to tolerate milk substances and alcoholic beverages, and I work in medical genetics as a bioinformatician.
I was answering the question. (hence the subject line above)
You don't seem to like the answer, even if it's true. That's not my problem.
Use tons of different monitors - sometimes a 42 inch HDTV I hooked up to my computer at home via HDMI, sometimes a 20 inch or 24 inch monitor, sometimes I even use my iPad to view code. The code lives in MySQL, php, and perl scripts anyway, how I look at it depends on what's around. Or if it's sunny.
So after the latest Dice ad, I finally created an account on Reddit, and already read about this story there. Now I understand all the posts about Slashdot always being the last to the party. Can anyone recommend the best subreddits to subscribe to when trying to replace Slashdot news?
Slashdot Mirror
My idea of a paid app for the FF OS is one which collects Underwear and advertising Cookies, stuffs the cookies in the underwear, wraps them in a 3D printed biodegradeable "plastic" wrap, and sells them at a profit.
In other words:
1. Underwear ...
2. Cookies
3. Package them
5. Profit!
Best part is it's green.
Cause that's what the cookies and underwear look like by the time they get to the end consumer.
In fact, it is highly likely (read CIA analyses and various scientific studies) that much of the world will more resemble 50 C areas of Australia, but without access to clean water and power.
In the US, this will hit most regions of the country, with the marked exception of the Pacific NW (BC, WA, ID, part of MT, OR).
Adapt. Or die.
Or maybe stop using coal and oil and stop whining about it. But changing that won't affect things before 2040, by which time it will be much worse.
Wrong. Here in the Pacific NW, Hydro plus Wind provide almost all of our power - WA, OR, ID, BC.
Just because you're stuck using 18th century power sources doesn't mean we have to.
Heck, up to 40 percent of US and Chinese power consumption (if you include coal) goes to Heat or Cool buildings.
Ummm... We certainly aren't primitive.
How's that 1000 Gbps Internet working for you? The one that costs $10 a month and has wireless plans that cost less than that? ...
Yup, primitive.
We're not going to replace all our generating capacity with wind. Or solar. Or wave. Or hydro. Or biofuels. None of them are even close to the scale of hydrocarbon energy as we use it now, nor will they ever be.
(skipped, pushes one)
The likely reality is that we need wind, hydro, solar and geothermal so that there will be *some* sort of local, maintainable, electrical power left after hydrocarbons, particularly oil, stop being useful as an industrial-scale energy source (i.e. having enough net energy to run a civilization and at a price that's affordable).
When hydrocarbons cease to be useful, and the international, interdependent web of "just-in-time" supply chains starts breaking down, and we can no longer affordably transport the materials necessary to find, extract, refine and distribute the natural gas, oil or coal to the power plant, what we'll have left is nuclear (which we won't be able to maintain), hydro, wind and solar.
So, if you have grandchildren, or children, you want this. It won't be much. It won't be nearly enough, but by 2050 through 2100, a few less people will be shivering in the dark.
See, the main problem we have is that everyone has their favorite energy source.
The answer to (less energy) is not (energy source A), it is (energy source A + B + C + D) adjusted by the optimal sources for the region you are in.
Hydro is not that great in plains areas. Wind works well in many areas, but not all. Solar works well in many areas, but best for passive solar heating and cooling, even in places that have overcast days (Seattle has 80 pct efficiency for solar on cloudy days).
The answer is not A or B or C. The answer is a mix of energy supplies, optimized for each region.
In certain areas, (e.g. Sydney Australia) coal is one of the more optimal answers, due to easy availability and short distance to deliver and method of collecting).
However, more coal and oil means more global warming, which increases systemic energy and has heavily negative impacts.
I think you meant to say that US and Canadian coal and oil reserves are dramatically overestimated.
There, fixed it for you.
Only if they are firmware and you can't put a dongle device (which is under the steering column on most vehicles) or attach one to the internal system.
I'd rather have 1000 GBPS wireless for free than 10 GBPS wireless and stupid talking cars that anyone can hack if they have a decent rootkit, anyway.
Kitt; Micheal, you're going too fast.
Michael: Kitt, see this switch on your dashboard, it turns off your control of the accelerator.
Good points. But it goes back to the whole system energy usage, and where that energy comes from.
I'm far more impressed by a recent soon to be published article on Chinese usage of windows - they lose a lot of energy in heating due to their usage of non-optimal window pane design.
YOU (I mean USA) did not become us (Russian Federation), yet. And will not, because modern Russia slides to totalitarian state much faster. For now, I am just afraid to visit half of Internet without VPN.
Even VPN can be hacked.
The Iron Oxide beads are mined and processed, using coke and various other carbon-creating materials.
To adequately measure the GHG (or climate change gasses) we have to consider the cradle to grave carbon impacts of all the constituent components, from mining to use to final process to usage.
This might be useful in crowded Chinese cities, where the source pollution is high at point of use (e.g. home and industrial heating and power usage), but does nothing per se to alter the total environmental impact of the use of coal itself.
Kind of like how electric cars, if run off of coal or oil power plants, do nothing to reduce emissions, except at point of vehicular usage.
The problem we all face, both in China and the rest of the industrialized world, is that we are overloading our GLOBAL systems with too much carbon or fossil fuel emissions. It doesn't matter if we do it in the coal regions of the US or China, it still puts too much energy into the climate systems, and accelerates extreme weather conditions worldwide, such as massive storms, dust bowls growing to TX CA and FL, and things like that.
Nice try. Good for a polluted Chinese city choking on its own pollution, but not good enough to deal with the source PROBLEM.
(caveat - based on my reading of the various papers by Chinese scientists in peer-reviewed journals and their own internal numbers, which we all know they fudged)
This sounds an awful lot like the police ability to "request" Twitter and FB kill status feeds and uploaded movies and pics when the cops get out of control.
Sorry - when did we become Soviet Russia?
mind you, my password is 1234 ...
I for one welcome our new warrent-enabled Mounties.
Too bad I'm using a 256 key and was trained by the Canadian Army in how to resist interrogation.
Mwah hah hah hah.
Have fun cracking it!
Drones are illegal in Seattle.
Be a shame if someone used a 3D printer and some filament wire or some ground lasers to take one of them out, if they happened to stray into our airspace.
Just saying.
A real shame ...
Okay we know you smoke dope, we get it.
Actually, I don't. Nice try, though.
Freedom doesn't require you do the things you want to be free.
The article is about making people unable to consume alcohol, permanently. It is not about restricting the sale of alcohol. After you are biologically incapable of drinking, how would a change of venue help?
I am not referring to the consumption or imbibing of alcoholic beverages.
I am referring to other intoxicants which are legal in other states and provinces, specifically BC, WA, CO, and CA.
Hence, an other option which exists for people who (as the original post above asked) "where will they go for their high".
Doubt this would impact Kaht in NE Africa, or similar other things, as well. Different biochemical chain.
Did you even read the original article, or even the title?
Yes, I did.
In fact, I've read various scientific papers on Asian inability to tolerate milk substances and alcoholic beverages, and I work in medical genetics as a bioinformatician.
I was answering the question. (hence the subject line above)
You don't seem to like the answer, even if it's true. That's not my problem.
Actually, I tend to drink for the taste. I prefer Ice Cider, a good red wine with meat, a nice Gewurztraminer with salads, and various mixed drinks.
Don't like most beers, gin, whiskey, but there are some decent rums.
Where? Hmm. How about BC, WA, CO, or CA?
You guys live in your right wing nanny state if you want. We're Free in the West.
It's a good thing some of us live in states or provinces where we have other choices, besides alcohol.
Or as I like to call them "pedestrian and cyclist killing machines of death".
Yeah I wonder what their plan is for parsing hand signals.
Hand up means speed up, Hand down means speed up, and no hands mean gun the engine and floor it.
I like to print my code.
Use tons of different monitors - sometimes a 42 inch HDTV I hooked up to my computer at home via HDMI, sometimes a 20 inch or 24 inch monitor, sometimes I even use my iPad to view code. The code lives in MySQL, php, and perl scripts anyway, how I look at it depends on what's around. Or if it's sunny.
So after the latest Dice ad, I finally created an account on Reddit, and already read about this story there. Now I understand all the posts about Slashdot always being the last to the party. Can anyone recommend the best subreddits to subscribe to when trying to replace Slashdot news?
You could always post the article yourself.
(crickets)
As the AC above points out, they are testing self-driving cars at Oxford University.
Or as I like to call them "pedestrian and cyclist killing machines of death".
At least they don't run on horsemeat.