Now don't complain about the fact that "US" is an abbreviation for "United States". It's singular, I tell you.
This is drifting off-topic, but it's an interesting historical side note that for most Americans alive before the U.S. Civil War, it was plural. The war changed it from "are" to "is" for most folks. Mostly because a lot of the side effects of either the war or the reconstruction was radical increase in federal power.
"If it's not in there today I can image a new paragraph in the near future."
Why would Microsoft care? They would be happy to find a new group of would-be customers going out to the store to buy a copy of Windows. The installation procedure is probably not supported, but that doesn't make it "illegal."
"They're not concerned with whether or not your voluntary porn viewing becomes public"
That's not quite what I was saying - I was saying that because internet pr0n downloading and, uh, "enjoyment" takes place in private, they have no basis to restrict it. If I read your response as "they don't have any interest in restricting it," then I would say that clearly they do, otherwise the community standards of Buloxi would equal the community standards of the Tenderloin. Appealing to the "needs" of the children is just a backdoor way to push fundamentalist standards on those who do not want them.
"By the time I finished that first year, I knew the material so well that I can still do multi-variable regressions, transforms & D.E., model an E&M problem, and solve for algorithms"
none of which is relevant to the LAW SCHOOL classes talked about in TFA.
The only use for a laptop in that class would have been for taking notes.
I think the whole argument about community standards with regards to Internet activity is moot. Why? Because using the Internet is not a community activity. Opening up a dirty book shoppe is a community activity because everyone in the community will know of its existence and ostensibly have to walk by it with their nose turned up on a daily basis. But when I download pr0n, there isn't suddenly a giant red "P" glowing above my house. Hell, I've surfed pr0n at Starbucks (with my back to a wall) without anyone nearby knowing what I was looking at. That makes it private with a capital "P". Regardless of how notorious a web site is, visiting it is done in private unless you do it with your computer hooked up to a Jumbotron at a stadium. So if the supremes were able to strike down laws on consentual sodomy because it is an activity that occurs in private, there should be no problem at all with making the same argument about pr0n.
"Not to mention that they're handing a near-fatal blow to OpenGL support, too."
Uh, that's by design. DirectX is not cross-platform, at least not to the extent that OpenGL is. So this is yet another platform lock-in play by Redmond. Color me shocked.
Yes, they are ostensibly point releases, but if you compare, for example, the feature sets of Panther and Tiger, you definitely see more dramatic feature additions than you'd typically see in a "point release." BSD 4.3->4.4 was a "point release" too, but they were quite different.
You paid about the same to go from Windows 2000 to XP if you upgraded a machine, and I'd say the parallel holds. And every boxed copy of OS X is effectively an upgrade, since one gets the current release bundled with every mac sold. It's not like you can go out and build a white-box mac and buy a copy of OS X and install it like you can with x86 machines and Windows.
Some people, as weird as it sounds, do actually like opera!
Which PotO is not. It's an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, which in any event argues in favor of impressive sound much more than impressive picture quality. And DVDs can already do that.
Not only that, but the light in a DLP set is, if I am not mistaken, usually a halogen incandescent bulb that just runs on line current. No fancy HV power supply required.
This is exactly how it worked for me back when I bought my first mac. The only difference was that it wasn't dual-booting, but virtual PC that I discovered very shortly I could do without.
Well, and you do it fundamentally different ways. To boot Linux, you hack Linux until it boots on the machine normally. To boot Windows, you hack the machine until it boots Windows normally. Opposite approach.
It may be legal, but it means you've got to stick one of those stupid clown paint "authenticity" stickers on the back/bottom of your mac. Who wants to do THAT?
The DOE site claims that 94% of the people who installed a solar system thought it a good investment, which runs contrary to your claim that they cause problems.
I admit that I have a small sample size. But at the same time, those who have solar systems have tank water heaters. If a tankless water heater saves 30% over a tank one, then for it to make sense the solar system needs to last as long, be no more expensive than the tankless premium and add a 30% efficiency gain (or some combination that adds up to the same thing). I'm dubious that it can achieve this.
It turns out that for us, we expect tankless to be an even bigger than expected gain. It just my wife and I and I believe we're under the curve on hot water usage. We have high efficiency clothes and dish washers, and in terms of showers and the like, it's just the two of us. The less you use, the better deal the tankless units are.
A smaller tank, more water usage or more insulation would reduce this, in the limit you get a continuous flow system.
But in the limit, the water doesn't get to the target temperature with a tank unit. A tank unit has all day long to get the tank back up to temperature after my shower is over. That's why a tank water heater has 34 kBTU input and a tankless one has 175 kBTU.
a 100% efficient tankless heater (less reasonable)
The Bosch 250SX tankless heater has an energy factor of 0.82, which I believe means that 82% of the energy is used to heat the water, and 18% goes up the vent.
Ok, how about this page at the U.S. Department of Energy?
Long-Term Savings Tip: Consider demand or tankless water heaters. Researchers have found savings can be as much as 34% compared with a standard electric storage tank water heater.
They're talking about electric units rather than gas ones, but heat is heat, so long as you're comparing two units that use the same source of it.
In any event, I found this page within 2 minutes using Google. The conventional wisdom is that tankless heaters save at least 30% over tank ones. You disagree. I don't know what's wrong with your math, but if you were correct, then the rest of the universe would surely agree with you. So I say the onus is on you to prove how everyone else is wrong.
Well, then shout it to the world. I'd say your first port of call is the Wikipedia page on water heaters.
Tankless heaters can be far more efficient than storage water heaters. [With tankless heaters], the absence of a tank saves energy as conventional water heaters have to reheat the water in the tank as it cools off.
But do any google search on tankless water heaters and they talk about saving 1/3-1/2 on your hot water heating costs by going tankless. They all disagree with you.
If someone copies the paper that you got an A on, then they must be doing so after you got your grade. In this instance, you are not harmed in the slightest. The person who copied did do wrong, but in actual fact the only person they've harmed is themselves (because they won't learn anything) and possibly their classmates (if the course is being graded on a curve).
This does not parallel the copyright cartels very well because if someone copies an MP3 rather than buy it from the copyright holder, then the copyright holder loses the price of the MP3.
The real questions in the copyright debate are the value of an MP3 and how to insure that the copyright holders can be assured of payment if the file format is open. Right now the problem is that on the latter question there is no good answer.
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This is drifting off-topic, but it's an interesting historical side note that for most Americans alive before the U.S. Civil War, it was plural. The war changed it from "are" to "is" for most folks. Mostly because a lot of the side effects of either the war or the reconstruction was radical increase in federal power.
I think more damage has been done to society by your shockingly bad grammar than any amount of Internet pornography.
If you're talking about Microsoft, then you should use A Perfect Circle's version.
"If it's not in there today I can image a new paragraph in the near future."
Why would Microsoft care? They would be happy to find a new group of would-be customers going out to the store to buy a copy of Windows. The installation procedure is probably not supported, but that doesn't make it "illegal."
"They're not concerned with whether or not your voluntary porn viewing becomes public"
That's not quite what I was saying - I was saying that because internet pr0n downloading and, uh, "enjoyment" takes place in private, they have no basis to restrict it. If I read your response as "they don't have any interest in restricting it," then I would say that clearly they do, otherwise the community standards of Buloxi would equal the community standards of the Tenderloin. Appealing to the "needs" of the children is just a backdoor way to push fundamentalist standards on those who do not want them.
"By the time I finished that first year, I knew the material so well that I can still do multi-variable regressions, transforms & D.E., model an E&M problem, and solve for algorithms"
none of which is relevant to the LAW SCHOOL classes talked about in TFA.
The only use for a laptop in that class would have been for taking notes.
I think the whole argument about community standards with regards to Internet activity is moot. Why? Because using the Internet is not a community activity. Opening up a dirty book shoppe is a community activity because everyone in the community will know of its existence and ostensibly have to walk by it with their nose turned up on a daily basis. But when I download pr0n, there isn't suddenly a giant red "P" glowing above my house. Hell, I've surfed pr0n at Starbucks (with my back to a wall) without anyone nearby knowing what I was looking at. That makes it private with a capital "P". Regardless of how notorious a web site is, visiting it is done in private unless you do it with your computer hooked up to a Jumbotron at a stadium. So if the supremes were able to strike down laws on consentual sodomy because it is an activity that occurs in private, there should be no problem at all with making the same argument about pr0n.
Um... You didn't know that Sandra Day O'Connor is no longer a supreme court justice? How did you miss that memo?
"The problem with keeping ahead of Microsoft has never been one of technology, but mindshare, and thus market share."
Well, that, and the anti-competitive behavior they use to insure their monopoly (which they were CONVICTED OF in federal court, lest anyone forget).
"Not to mention that they're handing a near-fatal blow to OpenGL support, too."
Uh, that's by design. DirectX is not cross-platform, at least not to the extent that OpenGL is. So this is yet another platform lock-in play by Redmond. Color me shocked.
Yes, they are ostensibly point releases, but if you compare, for example, the feature sets of Panther and Tiger, you definitely see more dramatic feature additions than you'd typically see in a "point release." BSD 4.3->4.4 was a "point release" too, but they were quite different.
You paid about the same to go from Windows 2000 to XP if you upgraded a machine, and I'd say the parallel holds. And every boxed copy of OS X is effectively an upgrade, since one gets the current release bundled with every mac sold. It's not like you can go out and build a white-box mac and buy a copy of OS X and install it like you can with x86 machines and Windows.
Which PotO is not. It's an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, which in any event argues in favor of impressive sound much more than impressive picture quality. And DVDs can already do that.
Given the, uh, budget constraints of most pr0n shoots, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting. We're lucky they switched from super 8 cameras to video.
Not only that, but the light in a DLP set is, if I am not mistaken, usually a halogen incandescent bulb that just runs on line current. No fancy HV power supply required.
A. It was a joke.
B. I think if you buy a non-OEM copy of Windows the EULA says you're supposed to attach the sticker, but I may have misread it. It's been a while.
This is exactly how it worked for me back when I bought my first mac. The only difference was that it wasn't dual-booting, but virtual PC that I discovered very shortly I could do without.
Well, and you do it fundamentally different ways. To boot Linux, you hack Linux until it boots on the machine normally. To boot Windows, you hack the machine until it boots Windows normally. Opposite approach.
Ah, but I don't think Virtual PC works under Rosetta, does it? Or if it does, it's going to suck balls.
It may be legal, but it means you've got to stick one of those stupid clown paint "authenticity" stickers on the back/bottom of your mac. Who wants to do THAT?
No. Nobody does. Well, one guy does, but maybe if you'd read TFA you'd know that.
I admit that I have a small sample size. But at the same time, those who have solar systems have tank water heaters. If a tankless water heater saves 30% over a tank one, then for it to make sense the solar system needs to last as long, be no more expensive than the tankless premium and add a 30% efficiency gain (or some combination that adds up to the same thing). I'm dubious that it can achieve this.
It turns out that for us, we expect tankless to be an even bigger than expected gain. It just my wife and I and I believe we're under the curve on hot water usage. We have high efficiency clothes and dish washers, and in terms of showers and the like, it's just the two of us. The less you use, the better deal the tankless units are.
A smaller tank, more water usage or more insulation would reduce this, in the limit you get a continuous flow system.
But in the limit, the water doesn't get to the target temperature with a tank unit. A tank unit has all day long to get the tank back up to temperature after my shower is over. That's why a tank water heater has 34 kBTU input and a tankless one has 175 kBTU.
a 100% efficient tankless heater (less reasonable)
The Bosch 250SX tankless heater has an energy factor of 0.82, which I believe means that 82% of the energy is used to heat the water, and 18% goes up the vent.
They're talking about electric units rather than gas ones, but heat is heat, so long as you're comparing two units that use the same source of it.
In any event, I found this page within 2 minutes using Google. The conventional wisdom is that tankless heaters save at least 30% over tank ones. You disagree. I don't know what's wrong with your math, but if you were correct, then the rest of the universe would surely agree with you. So I say the onus is on you to prove how everyone else is wrong.
But do any google search on tankless water heaters and they talk about saving 1/3-1/2 on your hot water heating costs by going tankless. They all disagree with you.
Removing the tank means you don't have to keep 50 gallons of hot water hot 24 hours a day. That's where the efficiency gains come from.
Just to play devil's advocate here...
If someone copies the paper that you got an A on, then they must be doing so after you got your grade. In this instance, you are not harmed in the slightest. The person who copied did do wrong, but in actual fact the only person they've harmed is themselves (because they won't learn anything) and possibly their classmates (if the course is being graded on a curve).
This does not parallel the copyright cartels very well because if someone copies an MP3 rather than buy it from the copyright holder, then the copyright holder loses the price of the MP3.
The real questions in the copyright debate are the value of an MP3 and how to insure that the copyright holders can be assured of payment if the file format is open. Right now the problem is that on the latter question there is no good answer.