Hear hear. When I looked for a replacement netbook I ended up with a 14" low end laptop. Why are 14" laptops cheaper than 12" netbooks and 15" is sometimes even cheaper yet? The most important component is price. Under $300 is where the fun is.
OK I didn't know that the DB IPO had been canceled and I'll have to apologize. But that buses are somehow illegal doesn't make sense. There are buses all over the place. That's probably one of those laws that nobody takes seriously so everybody ignores it.
The Deutsche Bahn is a publicly traded corporation. My parents took a bus halfway through Germany just a few years ago. They didn't like it but it was some nearly free deal. You are full of shit.
I've driven all over Germany and I've taken the ICE. After driving from Frankfurt to Munich, you're tired, ready for a shower, and have exposed yourself to quite the accident risk (and we don't even need to talk about the amount of energy it took.) The ICE is faster, you can read or do whatever, and you're fresh when you've arrived.
Compared to what? Driving or flying over medium distances? I beg to differ. Oh and the car/interstate and airline/airport systems aren't heavily subsidized and protected?
That's the usual crap excuse by people who don't want to admit that it's just a matter of money, i.e. regulation, incentives, taxation etc. Europe and Russia have well developed (hence popular) passenger railway systems. Oh and the US used to also. You may want to look up why it was run down.
That happens only if those utilities are socialized or at least heavily regulated. The issue here is that networking and wireless are in the transition phase from newfangled with high investments to utilities which have to be regulated because otherwise the providers can squeeze the customers because there's no market, hence no competition.
Not if you're used to making money with hardly any investment at all (because you're the incumbent) and have to pay off many people (execs, politicians...)
The Saudis sucked their aquifer dry irrigating wheat fields, had to give up large scale grain growing, and these days irrigate with desalinated sea water, powered by oil and gas. Within 15 years they will fall down the cliff way harder than Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
In other words, over the next century the adaptation humans will be forced to make as a species will be to aquire the gene that stops them from in their own nest.
Only the hard way, after significant overshoot. As long as birth rates don't drop significantly people haven't gotten the message. Actually I fear a (temporary) positive feedback, as only the religious/optimistic/cornucopian breed.
Did anybody notice that this leveling off of plant biomass is *despite* the enormous amounts of energy spent on irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides, aka the Green Revolution, and industrial food production? Oh and most of that energy is produced from fossil fuels. *That* is why we're way beyond the Earth's carrying capacity, why world food production is slacking, prices are rising and we see food riots. And I didn't even mention global warming (yet, heh.)
The efficiency is way lower than PV right now. But you can stick one on the back side of a solar panel with a heat sink. Those solar cells get quite hot in full sun. If it would be cost effective is another question of course.
Ah yes, of course there's infinite fossil fuel in a finite Earth. Available Net Exports or crude oil have been falling by 2% per year recently. Saudi Arabia will be an oil importer by 2030. The US passed Peak Coal in 1998. Whoever told you that "hundreds of years" lie was a fossil fuel company. Of course their stock prices hinge on these lies.
You forgot the fact that by 2030 oil will be so scarce and expensive that major construction projects will hardly be feasible any more. That's the "energy trap."
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Then why were basic netbooks so cheap?
Hear hear.
When I looked for a replacement netbook I ended up with a 14" low end laptop.
Why are 14" laptops cheaper than 12" netbooks and 15" is sometimes even cheaper yet?
The most important component is price. Under $300 is where the fun is.
Oh. I guess they have their work carved out if they want similar functionality as before.
OK I didn't know that the DB IPO had been canceled and I'll have to apologize.
But that buses are somehow illegal doesn't make sense. There are buses all over the place. That's probably one of those laws that nobody takes seriously so everybody ignores it.
Yup, I really wonder what RedHat is going to do.
Keep GNOME2 and maintain it? Mate? KDE? XFCE?
The Deutsche Bahn is a publicly traded corporation. My parents took a bus halfway through Germany just a few years ago. They didn't like it but it was some nearly free deal.
You are full of shit.
I've driven all over Germany and I've taken the ICE.
After driving from Frankfurt to Munich, you're tired, ready for a shower, and have exposed yourself to quite the accident risk (and we don't even need to talk about the amount of energy it took.)
The ICE is faster, you can read or do whatever, and you're fresh when you've arrived.
In the end, they are not a good deal.
Compared to what? Driving or flying over medium distances? I beg to differ.
Oh and the car/interstate and airline/airport systems aren't heavily subsidized and protected?
That's the usual crap excuse by people who don't want to admit that it's just a matter of money, i.e. regulation, incentives, taxation etc.
Europe and Russia have well developed (hence popular) passenger railway systems. Oh and the US used to also. You may want to look up why it was run down.
And into greasing the wheels:
http://www.followthemoney.org/database/topcontributor.phtml?u=259&y=0 (scroll down to see who they greased.)
That happens only if those utilities are socialized or at least heavily regulated.
The issue here is that networking and wireless are in the transition phase from newfangled with high investments to utilities which have to be regulated because otherwise the providers can squeeze the customers because there's no market, hence no competition.
Not if you're used to making money with hardly any investment at all (because you're the incumbent) and have to pay off many people (execs, politicians ...)
Don't forget the Aswan dam.
What made the Nile valley fertile was the periodic deposition of mud by flooding.
The Saudis sucked their aquifer dry irrigating wheat fields, had to give up large scale grain growing, and these days irrigate with desalinated sea water, powered by oil and gas.
Within 15 years they will fall down the cliff way harder than Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Mod parent up!
LTG is more applicable than ever with Peak Everything looming (or already here, for some values of "Everything".)
In other words, over the next century the adaptation humans will be forced to make as a species will be to aquire the gene that stops them from in their own nest.
Only the hard way, after significant overshoot.
As long as birth rates don't drop significantly people haven't gotten the message.
Actually I fear a (temporary) positive feedback, as only the religious/optimistic/cornucopian breed.
Did anybody notice that this leveling off of plant biomass is *despite* the enormous amounts of energy spent on irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides, aka the Green Revolution, and industrial food production?
Oh and most of that energy is produced from fossil fuels. *That* is why we're way beyond the Earth's carrying capacity, why world food production is slacking, prices are rising and we see food riots.
And I didn't even mention global warming (yet, heh.)
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRLg8No0RVQ.
Dude, you missed the keyword "everyone".
So make that
"Pilots training flight attendants and passengers how to fly"
What could *possibly* go wrong?
I'm looking forward to see the janitor working on our modified FC kernel driver.
Corollary: Don't even think about using FreeCause products.
The efficiency is way lower than PV right now.
But you can stick one on the back side of a solar panel with a heat sink. Those solar cells get quite hot in full sun.
If it would be cost effective is another question of course.
Randall must have played too many games back in the day.
If you cool the memory package to sub-zero the CPU will probably cooled quite well.
Ah yes, of course there's infinite fossil fuel in a finite Earth.
Available Net Exports or crude oil have been falling by 2% per year recently. Saudi Arabia will be an oil importer by 2030. The US passed Peak Coal in 1998.
Whoever told you that "hundreds of years" lie was a fossil fuel company. Of course their stock prices hinge on these lies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7DHMqHFSB8
Watch it and you'll never touch that stuff without a long pole.
Oh noes! The communists are everywhere!
You forgot the fact that by 2030 oil will be so scarce and expensive that major construction projects will hardly be feasible any more.
That's the "energy trap."