You calculate your average annual load, and scale your wind farm for that load. If you produce more, it goes into the grid for someone else to use. If you produce less, you draw from the grid and pay rip-off prices from the local power company. Basically you're using the power grid as a huge battery and hoping your numbers were close enough to produce what you draw.
It's better than just a net sum of zero. It's actually better when you use the produced energy yourself, because there is far less energy loss than if the power company sent it to you. Transmission losses for a short distance from the wind farm to you are much lower, assuming you don't skimp on the wiring, and any excess energy will be sent to downstream customers with less loss, too, especially if they make it a high voltage generating station (and I suspect they have to due to the size).
You write your music. You play your music. You convert your music into the game. We take the profit. Note also how it says they get a 30% cut AFTER mtv and microsoft take theirs.
I'm curious... as opposed to what? Not converting your music and being guaranteed of getting nothing?
If you write your music, and play your music at a venue, would you expect to not pay the venue first?
If I take the vaccine and I only sleep with my wife and in 10 years I'm HIV free does it work? Or is one of the pre-requisites of joining the trial that you commit to sleeping with as many sleeezy whores as you can find?
Wouldn't that also depend on how sleazy of a whore your wife is over those 10 years?
There is nothing magical about the metabolic process.
ORLY?
A large (very large) friend of mine spends his days chasing his twin 2-yo's which is a fair amount of exercise, especially at 300 lbs. He eats like a bird, and I don't mean twice his body weight.
Recently, his doctor put him on a 4500 calorie diet. As in, he had to eat over twice what he was previously eating. The whole point of that was to get his body to be less efficient with calories, because his metabolism wasn't letting him lose weight even though he ate less than me (at half his weight). That seems counter-intuitive. One might even say "magical" if it works, and apparently it has helped quite a lot.
My metabolism is very inefficient... that is, I eat a crapton more than my large friends, and I don't gain weight. So although there's a huge amount of people with poor eating habits and little exercise (especially in the USA), metabolisms do differ.
Say your vehicle holds 13 gallons and goes 30 miles per gallon. You are currently paying $2.775 in taxes for those 390 miles. Stretch that out to 15,000 miles and you are paying $106.73 a year in taxes. That is quite a leap from $106.73 to $300.00.
It doesn't matter how much your vehicle holds, it matters how many mpg it gets. So, 30 mpg means 500 gallons to drive 15,000 miles.
Set at $0.01/mi, the tax would be $150. 15,000 mi at $0.02/mi, it's $300. That is a huge tax leap even at the lowest cost per mile.
My car averages 20mpg mixed city/highway, so that's 750 gallons, or $139/year in gas taxes. Of course, in 2020 that might not be so bad.
It's clearly a money grab, based on those figures and today's gas taxes. And you know the oil companies will raise prices to compensate for the cost drop....
MS Windows has so many worms and such because it is a prime target, and the malware criminals get the biggest bang for the buck by targeting it. FOSS OS's have several proof-of-concept worms and such, but it's not the same thing because the user base and different OS versions make malware and worms bear far less fruit.
When you consider a single operating system designed to run on many types of machines and has a high adoption rate, a single bug can make many machines vulnerable. E.g. Windows. FOSS OS's are not a single operating system... it's more like 50 different OS's and distributions running on many types of machines from FPICs to 10,000 node supercomputers. This, combined with the low cost:benefit for malware authors targeting 50 OS's instead of one, makes the infection rate very low. So comparing Windows to many different OS's (as if it's a single competing OS) is not a fair comparison.
If at some point the unheard of became true and everything went to FOSS we'd have the same issues we have with Windows. One or two FOSS operating systems would become most prevalent, and thus, would also become the new targets. Suddenly, the TCO would go up significantly for free software.
Although it's true that the TCO may be higher for Windows, the reasoning of the summary's conclusion is ass-backwards. The TCO will go up on any OS that has a very high adoption rate, because the attacks will be proportional to the number of users. I strongly suspect that the cost of malware cleanup is a constant, weighted by the adoption rate of the particular software. There may be some other factor such as community involvement in reporting and fixing issues, but then you have people donating free time which flies under the TCO radar.
Be aware, I'm no windows apologist. But the original cost of your software doesn't matter for the TCO considering cleanup costs; what really matters is how big a target it is. Use something obscure and present a useless target, and your cleanup costs will generally be lower.
Professional courtesy is a very common thing in all areas.
News will blackout information for all sorts of reasons. You never hear the names of rape victims or child criminals/victims either. And the government makes requests and threats all the time.
Hate to break it to you but... wait, no, I'm ecstatic to break this to you:
Your new car has been driven by several other people. Someone else popped its cherry.
And that $35,000 new car you just bought (that isn't really new) is way more than the $35 disk you just bought. And when it comes down to it, you can usually tell if you didn't get all the bits you paid for on a CD, but it's more difficult to tell if your new car has been abused.
In some ways, it's probably better to be played. At least you know there are no immediate catastrophic errors on the disk.
just keep taking the drug, forever, and you'll never get the symptoms that your immune system needs to tell it to fight off the infection
You do have a good point... delaying virulence while the bacterium continues reproducing is probably bad because if you ever stop the drugs, you get a much worse infection. But I would bet your body will still know the bacteria are there, before they reach critical mass. It would still detect the proteins of the bacterium cell walls.
You could go the other direction: on exposure to something, you could get a shot of the receptor that caused virulence. The bacterium would, possibly, burn itself out before reaching critical mass or release useless pathogens before it was bound to a host's cell (e.g.).
This type of treatment might be able to slow down infection, giving your system time to fight it off. It might be useful for, say, battlefield injuries to slow the nasty infection while they drag your limp body to a medic, despite the fact you'll have to fight off more of the pathogen.
It would also be really useful as an on-off switch for a living glow-stick:-)
....Must..... Get.... Achievements. The April Fool -- posted in the April fools story
This is going to be worse than farming achievements in Warcraft. Now how the hell am I going to get the 4/3/2/1 digit member achievements?! do I have to kill 9999 slashdot mobs (assuming no uid 0)?
At least in warcraft you get a free mount with achievements. I'm pretty sure farming them on slashdot guarantees we have to pay for one IRL.
But aren't we all just better off waiting 5 years, or ten years and paying the same amount of money for 10 times the power production, thereby in the long run generating far more energy from solar and ultimately reducing our carbon footprint by a greater amount despite starting later.
Your analogy is closer to "why should I eat now, if I'm just going to be hungry tomorrow?"
In 5 years, unless there's a huge breakthrough, we won't be getting 10x the power from the same footprint. There have been some big advances, but nothing to cause a 10-fold increase in power production within 5 years. The biggest thing driving PV panels is not the efficiency or power per sq foot. It's the cost per watt. Some advances have significantly reduced the cost (amorphous Si), but the power per sq foot is actually much lower. Other advances have larger sun gathering, with smaller amounts of the expensive silicon.
The biggest thing driving the cost is actually the energy cost to make silicon. It takes a fair amount of power and materials, and then add on the materials for the tempered glass and frame, and installation.
But the real reason you want to do it now is that your PV system will pay for itself within about 10 years if you're grid-tied, but it's expected to last 30+ years. It doesn't need to have a huge advance in the science to be worth it today. If something awesome happens in 5 years, you can simply addon to your existing system, and realize even more savings. And again in another 5 years. But I really don't think the advances in PV power are going as fast as you might think, but they definitely are moving along.
Panels today have a usable lifespan of over 25 years.
They have the proper connectors, and the appropriate gauge wire. They can handle 50mph hailstones and 90mph wind, and they're all UL listed. They're warranteed, usually for 20+ years. Some are hybrid (sandwiching amorphous Si and crystalline Si), which gather more light and produces more power per sq foot, something that can't currently be made in the garage.
Purchased panels also cost about 3x the price of doing it yourself (maybe $4-6/watt). However, I would strongly bet that the overall cost of ownership will be higher for DIY folks, who can't compete with the quality of fully-assembled panels. They will have to make their own mountable panels, and doing that right will not be cheap. They will have to be able to handle high winds and weather, too. And the UL listing will also mean that you can be grid-tied, since the utility companies won't allow you to connect non-UL-listed generating stations to the grid.
Some cool things you can do with DIY panels is get exactly the shape you want. You can also add more bypass diodes to handle partial shading better. One of the biggest issues with PV panels is the significant drop in output with only minor amounts of shade.... A single leaf stuck over part of a cell can reduce the panel's output by 25%. But if you DIY, you can put many more bypass diodes into it, causing a much smaller fraction lost. You can even mount it on some sort of heat sink or antifreeze-filled copper plating to get better performance (PV cells work better when cool.)
It's a cool project. But if you're trying to save money over the long term, DIY is probably not the way to go.
After being in the work world for a couple decades, I've observed the same thing. But... nothing has changed! New graduates remind me of myself and my friends, many years ago. New graduates are not any worse than they were two decades ago, only that now I'm old enough to recognize the folly that we all once had.
What is missing is the same thing missing from most people newly joining the work force. They have little to no investment in the company. They are entering a field where they have little knowledge of what goes on, and where funding comes from. They enter, thinking there's an everflowing pot of money and they just want a share of it. They view management as top-heavy, who do little and skim money from everything. I would guess that most new graduates take a job with the thought, "This will look good on my resume" and rarely "This will be a great career."
After working for a while and possibly being forced to help write grants, they start to see just why managers exist. They start to realize that if they want to do well, they must help the company do well, too. And they're usually happy they get to program instead of hunt down funding like managers generally have to do.
It's very rare to have someone new in the workforce that has any investment in the company hiring him. And in hindsight, this certainly looks like a form of narcissism, but it's just inexperience of how the flow of money moves around.
So draw a Venn diagram of all evidence (shadow-of-a-doubtable evidence unioned with unshadow-of-a-doubtable evidence) and show that if there exists any evidence outside of the shadow-of-a-doubtable circle than you're boned.
There's no measuring stick with "shadow of doubt" in our legal system, afaik. It's "beyond reasonable doubt", which is the amount of "Hrmm...." that would cause a reasonable person to suspect it might not be true.
Many times, lots of evidence with reasonable doubt can be compounded to produce beyond reasonable doubt due to sheer quantity.... where it's unreasonable to think someone not guilty would have so much evidence against him, even if it could have other explanations. Might want to get rid of all those ancient "how to hack into any computer" and "the anarchist's cookbook" texts you printed out... when your house is searched, they'll be used against you even if you forgot you had them.
(The unit "Hrmm...." is a small quantity of doubt.)
Speaking of bestbuysucks.com/org/net/tv/co.uk/etc, has anyone heard of the disposition of those illegal detentions and arrests they made when people wouldn't show a receipt for their own purchased items?
I remember a couple posted on slashdot a few years ago, and one was particularly egregious.
In all seriousness, he's clearly churning out self-referential articles, which probably accounts for half of his references. The other half are by his "students". I remember that the Church of Scientology was doing this with websites, to mess with search engine ranks, which is very similar to Impact Factor.
On an aside... is El Naschie related to Dirty Sanchez?
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You calculate your average annual load, and scale your wind farm for that load. If you produce more, it goes into the grid for someone else to use. If you produce less, you draw from the grid and pay rip-off prices from the local power company. Basically you're using the power grid as a huge battery and hoping your numbers were close enough to produce what you draw.
It's better than just a net sum of zero. It's actually better when you use the produced energy yourself, because there is far less energy loss than if the power company sent it to you. Transmission losses for a short distance from the wind farm to you are much lower, assuming you don't skimp on the wiring, and any excess energy will be sent to downstream customers with less loss, too, especially if they make it a high voltage generating station (and I suspect they have to due to the size).
You write your music. You play your music. You convert your music into the game. We take the profit.
Note also how it says they get a 30% cut AFTER mtv and microsoft take theirs.
I'm curious... as opposed to what? Not converting your music and being guaranteed of getting nothing?
If you write your music, and play your music at a venue, would you expect to not pay the venue first?
If I take the vaccine and I only sleep with my wife and in 10 years I'm HIV free does it work?
Or is one of the pre-requisites of joining the trial that you commit to sleeping with as many sleeezy whores as you can find?
Wouldn't that also depend on how sleazy of a whore your wife is over those 10 years?
There is nothing magical about the metabolic process.
ORLY?
A large (very large) friend of mine spends his days chasing his twin 2-yo's which is a fair amount of exercise, especially at 300 lbs. He eats like a bird, and I don't mean twice his body weight.
Recently, his doctor put him on a 4500 calorie diet. As in, he had to eat over twice what he was previously eating. The whole point of that was to get his body to be less efficient with calories, because his metabolism wasn't letting him lose weight even though he ate less than me (at half his weight). That seems counter-intuitive. One might even say "magical" if it works, and apparently it has helped quite a lot.
My metabolism is very inefficient... that is, I eat a crapton more than my large friends, and I don't gain weight. So although there's a huge amount of people with poor eating habits and little exercise (especially in the USA), metabolisms do differ.
Say your vehicle holds 13 gallons and goes 30 miles per gallon. You are currently paying $2.775 in taxes for those 390 miles. Stretch that out to 15,000 miles and you are paying $106.73 a year in taxes. That is quite a leap from $106.73 to $300.00.
It doesn't matter how much your vehicle holds, it matters how many mpg it gets. So, 30 mpg means 500 gallons to drive 15,000 miles.
Set at $0.01/mi, the tax would be $150. 15,000 mi at $0.02/mi, it's $300. That is a huge tax leap even at the lowest cost per mile.
My car averages 20mpg mixed city/highway, so that's 750 gallons, or $139/year in gas taxes. Of course, in 2020 that might not be so bad.
It's clearly a money grab, based on those figures and today's gas taxes. And you know the oil companies will raise prices to compensate for the cost drop....
MS Windows has so many worms and such because it is a prime target, and the malware criminals get the biggest bang for the buck by targeting it. FOSS OS's have several proof-of-concept worms and such, but it's not the same thing because the user base and different OS versions make malware and worms bear far less fruit.
When you consider a single operating system designed to run on many types of machines and has a high adoption rate, a single bug can make many machines vulnerable. E.g. Windows. FOSS OS's are not a single operating system... it's more like 50 different OS's and distributions running on many types of machines from FPICs to 10,000 node supercomputers. This, combined with the low cost:benefit for malware authors targeting 50 OS's instead of one, makes the infection rate very low. So comparing Windows to many different OS's (as if it's a single competing OS) is not a fair comparison.
If at some point the unheard of became true and everything went to FOSS we'd have the same issues we have with Windows. One or two FOSS operating systems would become most prevalent, and thus, would also become the new targets. Suddenly, the TCO would go up significantly for free software.
Although it's true that the TCO may be higher for Windows, the reasoning of the summary's conclusion is ass-backwards. The TCO will go up on any OS that has a very high adoption rate, because the attacks will be proportional to the number of users. I strongly suspect that the cost of malware cleanup is a constant, weighted by the adoption rate of the particular software. There may be some other factor such as community involvement in reporting and fixing issues, but then you have people donating free time which flies under the TCO radar.
Be aware, I'm no windows apologist. But the original cost of your software doesn't matter for the TCO considering cleanup costs; what really matters is how big a target it is. Use something obscure and present a useless target, and your cleanup costs will generally be lower.
Professional courtesy is a very common thing in all areas.
News will blackout information for all sorts of reasons. You never hear the names of rape victims or child criminals/victims either. And the government makes requests and threats all the time.
Couple this thing with a few femtosharks, and my high-efficiency evil lair will be complete.
bah! the GP said "20th century" so I retract that post :-)
Just not the greatest mind of the century....
Actually, he probably is the greatest mind of the century, at least the greatest mind of which we currently know.
The century is barely 8 years old.
And then you make sure the tattoo display device renders the sanitized html correctly. (for all those n00bs who thought this went off-topic)
Hate to break it to you but...
wait, no, I'm ecstatic to break this to you:
Your new car has been driven by several other people. Someone else popped its cherry.
And that $35,000 new car you just bought (that isn't really new) is way more than the $35 disk you just bought. And when it comes down to it, you can usually tell if you didn't get all the bits you paid for on a CD, but it's more difficult to tell if your new car has been abused.
In some ways, it's probably better to be played. At least you know there are no immediate catastrophic errors on the disk.
just keep taking the drug, forever, and you'll never get the symptoms that your immune system needs to tell it to fight off the infection
You do have a good point... delaying virulence while the bacterium continues reproducing is probably bad because if you ever stop the drugs, you get a much worse infection. But I would bet your body will still know the bacteria are there, before they reach critical mass. It would still detect the proteins of the bacterium cell walls.
You could go the other direction: on exposure to something, you could get a shot of the receptor that caused virulence. The bacterium would, possibly, burn itself out before reaching critical mass or release useless pathogens before it was bound to a host's cell (e.g.).
This type of treatment might be able to slow down infection, giving your system time to fight it off. It might be useful for, say, battlefield injuries to slow the nasty infection while they drag your limp body to a medic, despite the fact you'll have to fight off more of the pathogen.
It would also be really useful as an on-off switch for a living glow-stick :-)
....Must..... Get.... Achievements. The April Fool -- posted in the April fools story
This is going to be worse than farming achievements in Warcraft. Now how the hell am I going to get the 4/3/2/1 digit member achievements?! do I have to kill 9999 slashdot mobs (assuming no uid 0)?
At least in warcraft you get a free mount with achievements. I'm pretty sure farming them on slashdot guarantees we have to pay for one IRL.
But aren't we all just better off waiting 5 years, or ten years and paying the same amount of money for 10 times the power production, thereby in the long run generating far more energy from solar and ultimately reducing our carbon footprint by a greater amount despite starting later.
Your analogy is closer to "why should I eat now, if I'm just going to be hungry tomorrow?"
In 5 years, unless there's a huge breakthrough, we won't be getting 10x the power from the same footprint. There have been some big advances, but nothing to cause a 10-fold increase in power production within 5 years. The biggest thing driving PV panels is not the efficiency or power per sq foot. It's the cost per watt. Some advances have significantly reduced the cost (amorphous Si), but the power per sq foot is actually much lower. Other advances have larger sun gathering, with smaller amounts of the expensive silicon.
The biggest thing driving the cost is actually the energy cost to make silicon. It takes a fair amount of power and materials, and then add on the materials for the tempered glass and frame, and installation.
But the real reason you want to do it now is that your PV system will pay for itself within about 10 years if you're grid-tied, but it's expected to last 30+ years. It doesn't need to have a huge advance in the science to be worth it today. If something awesome happens in 5 years, you can simply addon to your existing system, and realize even more savings. And again in another 5 years. But I really don't think the advances in PV power are going as fast as you might think, but they definitely are moving along.
I would've built it outside, but to each his own.
They're solar panels. Outside means you're soldering a live circuit.
This is actually a potential hazard for installers when putting in certain PV panels which produce high voltage (~90vdc).
Panels today have a usable lifespan of over 25 years.
They have the proper connectors, and the appropriate gauge wire. They can handle 50mph hailstones and 90mph wind, and they're all UL listed. They're warranteed, usually for 20+ years. Some are hybrid (sandwiching amorphous Si and crystalline Si), which gather more light and produces more power per sq foot, something that can't currently be made in the garage.
Purchased panels also cost about 3x the price of doing it yourself (maybe $4-6 /watt). However, I would strongly bet that the overall cost of ownership will be higher for DIY folks, who can't compete with the quality of fully-assembled panels. They will have to make their own mountable panels, and doing that right will not be cheap. They will have to be able to handle high winds and weather, too. And the UL listing will also mean that you can be grid-tied, since the utility companies won't allow you to connect non-UL-listed generating stations to the grid.
Some cool things you can do with DIY panels is get exactly the shape you want. You can also add more bypass diodes to handle partial shading better. One of the biggest issues with PV panels is the significant drop in output with only minor amounts of shade.... A single leaf stuck over part of a cell can reduce the panel's output by 25%. But if you DIY, you can put many more bypass diodes into it, causing a much smaller fraction lost. You can even mount it on some sort of heat sink or antifreeze-filled copper plating to get better performance (PV cells work better when cool.)
It's a cool project. But if you're trying to save money over the long term, DIY is probably not the way to go.
After being in the work world for a couple decades, I've observed the same thing. But ... nothing has changed! New graduates remind me of myself and my friends, many years ago. New graduates are not any worse than they were two decades ago, only that now I'm old enough to recognize the folly that we all once had.
What is missing is the same thing missing from most people newly joining the work force. They have little to no investment in the company. They are entering a field where they have little knowledge of what goes on, and where funding comes from. They enter, thinking there's an everflowing pot of money and they just want a share of it. They view management as top-heavy, who do little and skim money from everything. I would guess that most new graduates take a job with the thought, "This will look good on my resume" and rarely "This will be a great career."
After working for a while and possibly being forced to help write grants, they start to see just why managers exist. They start to realize that if they want to do well, they must help the company do well, too. And they're usually happy they get to program instead of hunt down funding like managers generally have to do.
It's very rare to have someone new in the workforce that has any investment in the company hiring him. And in hindsight, this certainly looks like a form of narcissism, but it's just inexperience of how the flow of money moves around.
So draw a Venn diagram of all evidence (shadow-of-a-doubtable evidence unioned with unshadow-of-a-doubtable evidence) and show that if there exists any evidence outside of the shadow-of-a-doubtable circle than you're boned.
There's no measuring stick with "shadow of doubt" in our legal system, afaik. It's "beyond reasonable doubt", which is the amount of "Hrmm...." that would cause a reasonable person to suspect it might not be true.
Many times, lots of evidence with reasonable doubt can be compounded to produce beyond reasonable doubt due to sheer quantity.... where it's unreasonable to think someone not guilty would have so much evidence against him, even if it could have other explanations. Might want to get rid of all those ancient "how to hack into any computer" and "the anarchist's cookbook" texts you printed out... when your house is searched, they'll be used against you even if you forgot you had them.
(The unit "Hrmm...." is a small quantity of doubt.)
I have a mug-shaped coffee printer. Currently, it can only print 'o', but I suppose that's good enough if you're a ghost in UO.
That is right out of The Fifth Element when someone is spying on the president using a remote-controlled live beetle.
Speaking of bestbuysucks.com/org/net/tv/co.uk/etc, has anyone heard of the disposition of those illegal detentions and arrests they made when people wouldn't show a receipt for their own purchased items?
I remember a couple posted on slashdot a few years ago, and one was particularly egregious.
So... lemme see if I got this straight.
You're saying in Delphi, they don't put trojans on their small packers?
How did El Naschie game the system?
He got posted on slashdot!
In all seriousness, he's clearly churning out self-referential articles, which probably accounts for half of his references. The other half are by his "students". I remember that the Church of Scientology was doing this with websites, to mess with search engine ranks, which is very similar to Impact Factor.
On an aside... is El Naschie related to Dirty Sanchez?
The difference is that no one is going to forgo some other important service because they buy the book.
What about the time I spend reading the book, when I really need to read slashdot?