Of course not. They don't want you to know that they will exclude your computer from future OS upgrades in roughly 3 years.
~former Apple repair tech, specialized in OSX installations (did you know certain G3 and G4 iBooks/PowerBooks would only accept 10.2.3 or 10.2.8 and NOTHING ELSE? Bet you the school districts that had these laptops wouldn't have bought them if they knew that!)
I know plenty of carbureted engines that get far better emissions and mileage than their fuel-injected counterparts. My old '87 Tercel hatchback could pull 35MPG highway and minimal ppm emissions that could ALMOST qualify it as LEV had that standard existed back then. That was 1987. Most cars now are only just reaching that fuel efficiency and emissions after being forced to by the EPA within the past few years, what, 20+ years later?
There's an idea. A car company based upon the idea of standardized critical parts that are compatible with all vehicles from that manufacturer (though you may end up with performance decrease, say your V8 blows the 4-barrel standard carburetor and you drop in a 2-barrel. It'll still work, just not as well as it used to.)
"Gone is the time when integrated Intel GPUs were worthless"
Actually, here's something funny about that. You want to know why Intel GMA945/950/X3100 sucked balls?
They were all deliberately crippled by Intel. Their original spec speed was to be 400 MHz. Every desktop and laptop that had these had them at 133/166 MHz speed. Unusable for even Quake 3.
But suddenly - if you fixed that clock speed issue, holy crap, you could play Q3 in OpenGL mode! Suddenly newer games like Faster Than Light run full speed instead of 2 FPS. I'm on a laptop that has an Intel GMA950, and since I installed GMABooster as well as reset the clock speed to the proper 400MHz, this system has suddenly become a LOT more usable, and it's still not getting any hotter than typical.
"led monitors use less power than ccfl at the expense of some colour quality"
What? Not even close. Go look at a spectrograph of a white LED versus any fluorescent. A white LED is only beat by an incandescent lamp as far as a complete light emission range goes.
"I mean really, even for someone as determined to shriek until the bad facts go away as yourself"
Very funny coming from a peak oil shill. Please, child.
"Regarding your other post, the low levels of nitrogen in that kind of asteroid is why you don't just extract nitrogen from them,"
Apparently you're failing to understand why I'm disappointed regarding the low nitrogen content. You're not growing anything without nitrogen, pal. Go back to your basic high school biology classes.
Ain't growing shit in space from asteroids when they don't even have a useful supply of essential macronutrients.
"This is something that is easy enough that it is recommended as a science fair project for students"
Umm, what level of student? That link is university-level paper using laboratory-grade equipment that no high school has access to.
"I've seen it come up multiple times, and the students quite clearly show that green light sucks for growing plants compared to a blue-red mixture"
And you'd be wrong as that link clearly demonstrates separate monochromatic testing as well.
"That paper doesn't contradict this at all, since it says the same thing that red is more efficient than green except when lighting with a strong white light source at the same time"
You didn't read the paper, not even the abstract. If you had, you wouldn't even be saying this.
"maybe you should make it more clear that you were referring to the efficiency of the plant and not light source"
We're talking about the plant here, and anyone with half a brain could realize that off the bat.
The problem with sealing an aeroponics system is that there needs to be some room to allow pressure to escape. No pressure, aeroponics system goes 'pop' and your lid is suddenly half-off, with water droplets floating around.
Ahem, now what does that have to do with availablity IN ORBIT?
Oh, wait, we'll still need to expend insane amounts of energy and time trying to get shit from asteroids and the moon just to get the stuff in orbit. The caloric cost alone is disparate by many many orders of magnitude. It's a total waste.
Your links provide no answers, just thoughts that have nothing to do with what you said in regards to a station IN ORBIT. You said 'They can make it' in answer to someone asking 'What will they use for fertilizer?' with 'They' being the people in orbit on the ISS.
Now you tell me how the fuck people from the ISS RIGHT NOW are going to find the time and resources to go mining something from the moon or passing asteroids? There's not enough crew, not enough fuel, not enough resources. Period.
Please try again when your logic circuits actually work and you can follow a conversation.
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Of course not. They don't want you to know that they will exclude your computer from future OS upgrades in roughly 3 years.
~former Apple repair tech, specialized in OSX installations (did you know certain G3 and G4 iBooks/PowerBooks would only accept 10.2.3 or 10.2.8 and NOTHING ELSE? Bet you the school districts that had these laptops wouldn't have bought them if they knew that!)
"required to meet emission regulations."
I know plenty of carbureted engines that get far better emissions and mileage than their fuel-injected counterparts. My old '87 Tercel hatchback could pull 35MPG highway and minimal ppm emissions that could ALMOST qualify it as LEV had that standard existed back then. That was 1987. Most cars now are only just reaching that fuel efficiency and emissions after being forced to by the EPA within the past few years, what, 20+ years later?
"Don't act like an idiot."
That'd be you for failing to even understand what I was talking about.
"Try and find tech that Isn't for sale"
Yet we keep hearing '5 years away' and it never materializes.
And yes, as general as that is, you should know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
I like to read about developments in the hardware, not stuff saying "Hey! This is for sale, now!"
"If you're using Kickstarter as a pre-order concept, you're not very smart."
Go tell that to DoubleBear productions with their game Dead State.
There's an idea. A car company based upon the idea of standardized critical parts that are compatible with all vehicles from that manufacturer (though you may end up with performance decrease, say your V8 blows the 4-barrel standard carburetor and you drop in a 2-barrel. It'll still work, just not as well as it used to.)
Most motherboards use tantalum, tin, and other conflict minerals, but don't let that get in the way of your sheer ignorance and lacking education.
I challenge slashdot to go a full month without shilling some fucking product or another.
2 years of work? I bet you ten to one it was two years of negotiating with Matrox for the patent licensing.
That pretty much hints at a driver issue, or bad GPU sync.
" I work at a university doing research full time"
Your appeal by authority is pretty weak. That's the whole point of the argument, to address that nonsense.
After all, we've had power extensions for years!
"a fully overclocked 4770K (~4.4GHz) is only 1.37x as fast as a fully overclocked i7 920 (~4GHz)."
You got some benchmarks on that?
"Gone is the time when integrated Intel GPUs were worthless"
Actually, here's something funny about that. You want to know why Intel GMA945/950/X3100 sucked balls?
They were all deliberately crippled by Intel. Their original spec speed was to be 400 MHz. Every desktop and laptop that had these had them at 133/166 MHz speed. Unusable for even Quake 3.
But suddenly - if you fixed that clock speed issue, holy crap, you could play Q3 in OpenGL mode! Suddenly newer games like Faster Than Light run full speed instead of 2 FPS. I'm on a laptop that has an Intel GMA950, and since I installed GMABooster as well as reset the clock speed to the proper 400MHz, this system has suddenly become a LOT more usable, and it's still not getting any hotter than typical.
"led monitors use less power than ccfl at the expense of some colour quality"
What? Not even close. Go look at a spectrograph of a white LED versus any fluorescent. A white LED is only beat by an incandescent lamp as far as a complete light emission range goes.
Here you go.
"As the AC you replied to, while I've worked mainly with high school students doing such experiment in detail,"
Then you won't mind telling us what school you teach at, as a public figure, yes?
After all, academia doesn't go hiding.
Of course, you'll keep hiding and fail to provide citable proof that you teach this to students.
That picture/video was over 5 years old.
But hey, you keep making assumptions.
"I mean really, even for someone as determined to shriek until the bad facts go away as yourself"
Very funny coming from a peak oil shill. Please, child.
"Regarding your other post, the low levels of nitrogen in that kind of asteroid is why you don't just extract nitrogen from them,"
Apparently you're failing to understand why I'm disappointed regarding the low nitrogen content. You're not growing anything without nitrogen, pal. Go back to your basic high school biology classes.
Ain't growing shit in space from asteroids when they don't even have a useful supply of essential macronutrients.
Your supposition is a complete failure.
"This is something that is easy enough that it is recommended as a science fair project for students"
Umm, what level of student? That link is university-level paper using laboratory-grade equipment that no high school has access to.
"I've seen it come up multiple times, and the students quite clearly show that green light sucks for growing plants compared to a blue-red mixture"
And you'd be wrong as that link clearly demonstrates separate monochromatic testing as well.
"That paper doesn't contradict this at all, since it says the same thing that red is more efficient than green except when lighting with a strong white light source at the same time"
You didn't read the paper, not even the abstract. If you had, you wouldn't even be saying this.
"maybe you should make it more clear that you were referring to the efficiency of the plant and not light source"
We're talking about the plant here, and anyone with half a brain could realize that off the bat.
But keep on talking nonsense.
"But you've probably painted yourself into a corner"
Not even close. Anyone with even a miniscule amount experience with hydroponics systems knows that you don't need to give it daily attention.
Most DWC systems can go two weeks without a change or even a few simple water tests. These tend to run themselves.
Most NFT systems can go for three assuming you don't have a heavy water flow and at least partially-sealed channels.
Ebb and Flow/table systems need to be checked twice a week to ensure no garbage has come from the rockwool slabs and gotten stuck in your lines.
Aeroponics needs to be checked once a week for nutrient/water change, and checking the sprayer heads to ensure none have clogged.
But you keep talking about that which you obviously know nothing of.
"It's OK to admit you got ripped off when choosing your lights."
I design my own.
"Pictures or it didn't happen"
There're thousands all across the internet from other companies showing LEDs producing just freaking fine.
"Come on post your loose bud heads"
Oh, you mean my 2009 High Times Pix of the Crop winner?
http://i.imgur.com/Kh04ew9.jpg
There ya go! 3-4" wide colas.
The problem with sealing an aeroponics system is that there needs to be some room to allow pressure to escape. No pressure, aeroponics system goes 'pop' and your lid is suddenly half-off, with water droplets floating around.
"By weight"
Nitrogen 0.2%
That's piss-fucking poor given the typical ratio of NPK most plants thrive best under. Give me a fucking break. That's a shit resource.
Ahem, now what does that have to do with availablity IN ORBIT?
Oh, wait, we'll still need to expend insane amounts of energy and time trying to get shit from asteroids and the moon just to get the stuff in orbit. The caloric cost alone is disparate by many many orders of magnitude. It's a total waste.
Your links provide no answers, just thoughts that have nothing to do with what you said in regards to a station IN ORBIT. You said 'They can make it' in answer to someone asking 'What will they use for fertilizer?' with 'They' being the people in orbit on the ISS.
Now you tell me how the fuck people from the ISS RIGHT NOW are going to find the time and resources to go mining something from the moon or passing asteroids? There's not enough crew, not enough fuel, not enough resources. Period.
Please try again when your logic circuits actually work and you can follow a conversation.