I am a Mennonite, and a church owning stock at all probably suprises me more than a church owning MSFT....
It doesn't surprise me. Own one share, and you're a shareholder. You can then shake things up a little at these meetings by asking the questions the rest of the money-focussed shareholders would shy away from like it was 10-day-old roadkill. (Or these days, an envelope filled with white powder.)
Conversion of the energy to hydrogen and transporting it by pipeline would buffer the variations in powerflow
Hydrogen is fairly corrosive, so hydrogen pipelines may not be a great idea. However, you could simply transmit the electricity to a base station, have said base station create hydrogen with any oversupply, and use that to survive lean periods.
However, in this system hydrogen isn't particularly unique. You could probably create other fuels that might be easier to handle, or use flywheels, or other storage systems.
It's difficult to make an electric car that can make a decent top speed.
The Toyota Prius's top speed is 97 mph, although apparently it takes a while to get there. This seems close enough to tolerable that improving battery tech is going to get what most people need out of a car pretty soon, and without the inefficiency of (energy)->hydrogen->electricity.
Note that wind systems seem close to economically viable. In particular, you could probably put a number of wind-powered generators over a square mile of ocean on the continental shelf, creating an artificial reef in the process from the supports. All pretty low-tech, few or no unusual materials, etc. I don't have numbers for cost, energy yield, etc., however.
Exactly, I just don't see much of a situation where using hydrogen as a quasi-battery is better than just using a battery. The Toyota Prius uses an engine to charge batteries which then drive an electric motor, for example. Why mess with the hydrogen intermediate stage? The only reason I can see is that in general, storing electrical power is difficult. Using it to produce hydrogen which can then be burned to generate peak power for the grid (such as half-time during English soccer games, when half the country puts a kettle on for tea at the same time) which can't be done with most green power systems.
(I'd really like to see some way to plug the Prius in, so you don't have to burn fuel when you're just doing short commutes every day; maybe the next generation will have that.)
Remember that iPod retails for *exactly* the same cost as Toshiba sells the hard drive it contains. That is not lame. The only bad thing is no digital still camera I know of has a firewire output, or you could use it as a 5 gig storage thingie for a digicam, with it easily fitting in your pocket.
That's why all GUI e-mail programs have search dialogs with various checkboxes and such for entering the search parameters.
And yet, after working with Visual C++ for over five years, I *still* can't get it to do decent searching. I ended up getting cygwin and using grep, not because I avoid GUIs all day -- I can't -- but because for lots of things, it simply works better.
the GUI does not have to be "less powerful" than the command line.
But for searching, it almost always is. You can't pipe to search for one thing but not another (in Visual, at least I've never gotten it working). You can't set an environment variable to specify a certain set of directories to check. You can't pipe the result to wc the number of hits. There's no checkbox for just listing the files, not all the lines.
In my case, a full compile (when a major header file changes) takes at least an hour. I finish Slashdot -- plus news plus other tech sites -- faster than that, even with a couple of postings. And I goof off occasionally even when I don't have a compile going; I don't need an additional excuse.
For a word to keep full trademark, it can't become the generic name for something. Thus the Lego folks request of all those who create Lego-related websites that they refer to the bricks as Lego bricks, not Legos.
Or, for 1/4 the price you can pack together 2x75GB drives in a raid 0 array, get 30x as much space AND get the same bandwidth.
Bandwidth yes, LATENCY no. No matter how big your RAID, you're still talking about milliseconds of latency before any data starts transferring. That doesn't matter for playing a DVD movie, but it does for compiling with lots of little header files to read and.o/.obj files to write.
I spend a great deal of my life waiting on compiles. That's why I want a RAM drive.
As for the difference between this and VM: the key is that you aren't limited by your processor. I can buy more RAM for $250 (5 512 MB sticks of SDRAM) than just about any PC out there can handle. And it wouldn't have to be RDRAM in the RAM drive either, even if I have a P4.
Well, sir, you don't follow FreeBSD 5, but there's nothing technically interesting in it?
In all seriousness, *is* there anything in FreeBSD that's of particular technical interest? (Or in Linux, for that matter.) That was my take on what Linus meant; not that there's something horrible about it, but that there wasn't anything so dramatically improved, that kernels are essentially a solved problem, and future interesting stuff will be going on above the kernel level, not in it.
They fine MS 10% of its annual revenue, ok, MS just increases the cost of the software by 11%.
If Microsoft could do this without affecting sales, why haven't they done it already anyway?
If you increase the price of something, you increase the number of people who will look for alternatives, skip upgrading, or just say "f--- it, I don't really need a computer." Microsoft's pricing is most likely already at that point that maximizes their profits.
Unfortunately (actually, it's a good thing), no single company controls the Linux desktop/operating system, so we therefore can't make some `Start-up Wizard' that loads when the OS boots-up and makes start time 4 times faster (think M$FT Windows/Office).
The Mozilla installer asks about putting a something in your startup group that will reduce load times when you actually start up the app. So if you login and go for coffee, you'll get faster loads once you come back.
Where does that energy come from? Well, today, the bulk of our energy comes from oil, so that's why I said we'd need to burn more oil to make hydrogen than we would if we simply used the oil directly.
I don't think the bulk of our grid energy comes from oil; I think oil is mainly used in vehicles (due to its high power density) and some home heating systems. You would be using grid energy to produce the hydrogen, so that's more likely to use coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, etc., most of which can be found locally.
I can't even tell you how many ADMINS I have met in corporate who say things like, "But all the upper-lower case, numbers, &$% stuff is hard to remember."
This is why I like things like the U.are.U fingerprint scanner and the recently mentioned laptop. For the great majority of purposes, it's safer (and faster) than passwords, and even a three-year-old can use it.
But even if we could use wind power and solar power to generate electricity cheaply and effectively, it would still make more sense to use them to produce electricity, and then use the electricity directly.
How would you power a plane by electricity? Batteries are too heavy, and electricity won't power a jet engine anyway. If wind and solar (or fusion) get cheap enough -- and wind may be getting there -- then you use them for *all* your power needs. (Both by powering the electric grid and by using its energy to produce fuels where you need fuels.)
The men and women of the record companies have made money in the past by promoting music, making copies of it and distributing it. Their profession has been made irrelevant because the Internet means that anyone can promote, copy and distribute music at virtually zero cost.
Yes, but how many people are learning about music via the internet? I'd say the radio and TV are still by far the dominant channel. It doesn't matter if promotion is free if no one hears about it. Until broadband and perhaps multicasting become far more widespread, the Internet still isn't the best way to promote your music. Perhaps once that change occurs and organizations spring up to take advantage of it, the record companies will be in trouble. Until then, signing the contract is the only way to the big time.
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Great, go ahead, Pal. Do what ya need to do. Leap around the stage, waving your arms, spitting, screaming: "I love this COMPANY! I love this company!"
...", did he? Woulda made for another funny vidclip...
He didn't shout "Shareholders shareholders shareholders
I am a Mennonite, and a church owning stock at all probably suprises me more than a church owning MSFT....
It doesn't surprise me. Own one share, and you're a shareholder. You can then shake things up a little at these meetings by asking the questions the rest of the money-focussed shareholders would shy away from like it was 10-day-old roadkill. (Or these days, an envelope filled with white powder.)
Conversion of the energy to hydrogen and transporting it by pipeline would buffer the variations in powerflow
Hydrogen is fairly corrosive, so hydrogen pipelines may not be a great idea. However, you could simply transmit the electricity to a base station, have said base station create hydrogen with any oversupply, and use that to survive lean periods.
However, in this system hydrogen isn't particularly unique. You could probably create other fuels that might be easier to handle, or use flywheels, or other storage systems.
It's difficult to make an electric car that can make a decent top speed.
The Toyota Prius's top speed is 97 mph, although apparently it takes a while to get there. This seems close enough to tolerable that improving battery tech is going to get what most people need out of a car pretty soon, and without the inefficiency of (energy)->hydrogen->electricity.
Note that wind systems seem close to economically viable. In particular, you could probably put a number of wind-powered generators over a square mile of ocean on the continental shelf, creating an artificial reef in the process from the supports. All pretty low-tech, few or no unusual materials, etc. I don't have numbers for cost, energy yield, etc., however.
Exactly, I just don't see much of a situation where using hydrogen as a quasi-battery is better than just using a battery. The Toyota Prius uses an engine to charge batteries which then drive an electric motor, for example. Why mess with the hydrogen intermediate stage? The only reason I can see is that in general, storing electrical power is difficult. Using it to produce hydrogen which can then be burned to generate peak power for the grid (such as half-time during English soccer games, when half the country puts a kettle on for tea at the same time) which can't be done with most green power systems.
(I'd really like to see some way to plug the Prius in, so you don't have to burn fuel when you're just doing short commutes every day; maybe the next generation will have that.)
Apple == iPod == lame?
Remember that iPod retails for *exactly* the same cost as Toshiba sells the hard drive it contains. That is not lame. The only bad thing is no digital still camera I know of has a firewire output, or you could use it as a 5 gig storage thingie for a digicam, with it easily fitting in your pocket.
This is already a problem with a few MMPORPGs.
What do the Mighty Morphing POwer Rangers have to do with it?
Um, technically, goatse.cx fits your rule.
...so what's the other one?
If this were on FARK.com, it would surely be labeled "Asinine".
...which, curiously, *is* in Word 2002's thesaurus... perhaps it's a scheme to improve the quality of insults?
"Effete sophistry, you malodorous, asinine popinjay!"
That's why all GUI e-mail programs have search dialogs with various checkboxes and such for entering the search parameters.
And yet, after working with Visual C++ for over five years, I *still* can't get it to do decent searching. I ended up getting cygwin and using grep, not because I avoid GUIs all day -- I can't -- but because for lots of things, it simply works better.
the GUI does not have to be "less powerful" than the command line.
But for searching, it almost always is. You can't pipe to search for one thing but not another (in Visual, at least I've never gotten it working). You can't set an environment variable to specify a certain set of directories to check. You can't pipe the result to wc the number of hits. There's no checkbox for just listing the files, not all the lines.
After the spacecraft is out of danger and back into normal operations the rate is switched back to something like 28,800 bps.
You think they could have sprung for one of those 56K modems. Sheesh, talk about penny-pinching...
Would it be? How long does a compile take?
In my case, a full compile (when a major header file changes) takes at least an hour. I finish Slashdot -- plus news plus other tech sites -- faster than that, even with a couple of postings. And I goof off occasionally even when I don't have a compile going; I don't need an additional excuse.
And who says that the plural isn't Legos, anyway?
Lego's IP lawyers.
For a word to keep full trademark, it can't become the generic name for something. Thus the Lego folks request of all those who create Lego-related websites that they refer to the bricks as Lego bricks, not Legos.
Well, that's difficult to answer, if you "don't actually follow other oprating systems", isn't it?
Not necessarily, other people who do follow those operating systems might bring to one's attention a particularly noteworthy design.
Or, for 1/4 the price you can pack together 2x75GB drives in a raid 0 array, get 30x as much space AND get the same bandwidth.
.o/.obj files to write.
Bandwidth yes, LATENCY no. No matter how big your RAID, you're still talking about milliseconds of latency before any data starts transferring. That doesn't matter for playing a DVD movie, but it does for compiling with lots of little header files to read and
I spend a great deal of my life waiting on compiles. That's why I want a RAM drive.
As for the difference between this and VM: the key is that you aren't limited by your processor. I can buy more RAM for $250 (5 512 MB sticks of SDRAM) than just about any PC out there can handle. And it wouldn't have to be RDRAM in the RAM drive either, even if I have a P4.
Well, sir, you don't follow FreeBSD 5, but there's nothing technically interesting in it?
In all seriousness, *is* there anything in FreeBSD that's of particular technical interest? (Or in Linux, for that matter.) That was my take on what Linus meant; not that there's something horrible about it, but that there wasn't anything so dramatically improved, that kernels are essentially a solved problem, and future interesting stuff will be going on above the kernel level, not in it.
They fine MS 10% of its annual revenue, ok, MS just increases the cost of the software by 11%.
If Microsoft could do this without affecting sales, why haven't they done it already anyway?
If you increase the price of something, you increase the number of people who will look for alternatives, skip upgrading, or just say "f--- it, I don't really need a computer." Microsoft's pricing is most likely already at that point that maximizes their profits.
Read about marginal value theory sometime.
[...] anyone who tells you that an LCD can't match the color of a CRT hasn't seen the most recent batch.
An interesting report on Solarism's new ultra-bright LCDs didn't make Slashdot, but check out this if you're interested.
Do you think they'll get many impulse buy sales?
I'm just glad they don't have a 1-click purchase option... oops!
What many people may not know is that it is also the secret weapon in a British campaign of cultural assimilation.
A secret weapon? Smeg!
Unfortunately (actually, it's a good thing), no single company controls the Linux desktop/operating system, so we therefore can't make some `Start-up Wizard' that loads when the OS boots-up and makes start time 4 times faster (think M$FT Windows/Office).
The Mozilla installer asks about putting a something in your startup group that will reduce load times when you actually start up the app. So if you login and go for coffee, you'll get faster loads once you come back.
Where does that energy come from? Well, today, the bulk of our energy comes from oil, so that's why I said we'd need to burn more oil to make hydrogen than we would if we simply used the oil directly.
I don't think the bulk of our grid energy comes from oil; I think oil is mainly used in vehicles (due to its high power density) and some home heating systems. You would be using grid energy to produce the hydrogen, so that's more likely to use coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, etc., most of which can be found locally.
I can't even tell you how many ADMINS I have met in corporate who say things like, "But all the upper-lower case, numbers, &$% stuff is hard to remember."
This is why I like things like the U.are.U fingerprint scanner and the recently mentioned laptop. For the great majority of purposes, it's safer (and faster) than passwords, and even a three-year-old can use it.
But even if we could use wind power and solar power to generate electricity cheaply and effectively, it would still make more sense to use them to produce electricity, and then use the electricity directly.
How would you power a plane by electricity? Batteries are too heavy, and electricity won't power a jet engine anyway. If wind and solar (or fusion) get cheap enough -- and wind may be getting there -- then you use them for *all* your power needs. (Both by powering the electric grid and by using its energy to produce fuels where you need fuels.)
The men and women of the record companies have made money in the past by promoting music, making copies of it and distributing it. Their profession has been made irrelevant because the Internet means that anyone can promote, copy and distribute music at virtually zero cost.
Yes, but how many people are learning about music via the internet? I'd say the radio and TV are still by far the dominant channel. It doesn't matter if promotion is free if no one hears about it. Until broadband and perhaps multicasting become far more widespread, the Internet still isn't the best way to promote your music. Perhaps once that change occurs and organizations spring up to take advantage of it, the record companies will be in trouble. Until then, signing the contract is the only way to the big time.