I'm certainly not arguing about it worth being the cost, but as I said I hadn't seen plans to replace the power with something else. If there ARE plans then shutting down nuclear plants certainly makes sense if there can be viable, comparably priced (notice I didn't say cheaper), and more acceptable sources of power that will be online as the plants go offline.
See I didn't know that. Most of the people I knew in the EU have emigrated to the USA, Australia, or SE Asia for various reasons, none of which was directly governmental.
That was kind of my point. The federalist system has worked out great for the USA until recently and I think it contributed directly to the economic success it has enjoyed but as the power gets more centralized you start seeing the cracks and paint pealing off the walls...
Heh, of course it does! At least to an extent but the problem with people in power, especially centralized power, is that the people who have it always want more of it. The USA is/will be a perfect text book example of the slow erosion of distributed power by the central authorities gradually chipping away until there the Central Government and those that carry out the will of the Central Government.
As I said there was no intellectual basis for my idea other than it is about the only way something like this makes sense. Having a higher ranking body that could intervene should France and Germany get pissy about electricity. I think it is honestly the next logical step for the EU anyway. They've already unified their currencies for the most part, they have what amounts to a full system of government, pretty much the only things left would be to unify infrastructure and military. The military is already at least partially unified through organizations such as NATO and the infrastructure is, if not unified, at least cooperative.
Exactly, ethanol only works in Brazil because they have such large amounts of sugar domestically. So fuels like butanol (or other forms of ethanol production like you mentioned) which are getting closer to being viable either need to actually make it to market in 5 years like they keep telling us or large scale energy storage needs to suddenly become much much cheaper.
Butanol would probably be better than ethanol at least in the short term since it is virtually a drop in replacement for gasoline but what is the replacement for diesel? The bio-diesel I've seen is just reprocessed discarded oil from other processes...
So their plan is to shutdown domestic nuclear power production without, from what I see, a corresponding increase in production from coal, gas, or "green" power sources. This means they'll be importing from places like France who are increasing their power production. While this is less of a concern now that they're all part of the warm and fuzzy EU brotherhood but Germany is handing the French (and any other country that will be doing the same, such as say the Netherlands) leverage in future negotiations.
The only way I see this really working in the long term is if the EU becomes more of a Federalist system with the EU taking on the role of the Federal Government and the Member Nations taking on the role of the component states. Ultimately I think that may be a decent idea, obviously with more independence for the Member Nations than the states enjoy in the USA but with potential benefits. Keep in mind at this point it is purely idol speculation with no real knowledge on the issues this would generate or hurdles that would have to be jumped.
And how much harder is/was it to root? From what I seen it is significantly more complex but as I don't own a Moto phone it's hard to say with real experience. My HTC is trivial since I've unlocked the bootloader.
He may not be, I've run into some Android users who are decidedly not tech savvy who have rooted their HTC devices and they tell their friends building a wave of support for rooting phones. This is almost exclusively for HTC Android phones and most frequently I field questions about how to do it and can I "fix" their phones since I'm the tech savvy guy in the office. Typically the rooted phones are faster, more stable, and have more features, some of which can be killer.
That said I think HTC is doing this in large part because they HAVE seen people run from Motorola's locked down phones at the rapid rate (and this is backed up by motorola starting to make noise about unlocking theirs too). Not to mention if HTC can partner with the community they can use that work as a resource for releasing stronger offerings for their phones that will really put them ahead of the competition.
I don't know but the better question might be will they care? I suspect the answer at least superficially is the same as asking if the FAA has authority over intra-state traffic. I don't know that answer either.
I know right? No one is going to be particularly impressed with my genitals or physique but honestly if they're that interested they could ask nicely to see my balls... wait no they can't that's sexual harassment... But apparently telling me they're going to look at them or touch them whether I like it or not is ok.
I wonder what would happen to me if I VOLUNTEERED to show them my balls...
What a shame. I was really looking forward to seeing how this would have played out. Texas would be a great place for this kind of challenge too. They're big enough and important enough that not only would this cause HUGE issues across the country but people might care. If a place like Vermont did it not many people would notice.
Perhaps soon we can send someone to come get you and show you to the place of honor you deserve for the path you have forged and the places you have pioneered.
I'm not arguing with their logic but having dealt with both of the products you mentioned I can't say I agree that the Galaxy Tab is better in pretty much any way. At best the new 10.1 inch tablet puts them on even footing except that Honeycomb wasn't really ready for prime time last I checked and Samsung isn't exactly a shining star of after the sale support, especially in the software arena where they have been historically very poor with their phones. If Samsung can put the same level of service into their software updates that Apple does then there will be a real competition here and the benefits of Android will really shine through, especially at with the lower price point.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Apple products and run Gingerbread on my phone.
The entire premise of the article is that Firefox, a web browser, didn't add support for a new fringe picture format, something that isn't really the purpose of the program but they're falling behind because Picasa, a program exclusively for showing pictures did? I should think an image program would be the first to add a new image format.
Am I the only one who thinks the author is an idiot?
Repent Sinners for your doom has come! It is time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble Gum. And we're all out of bubble gum...
DN3D is still a fun game that has more edge than most games. Assuming they haven't screwed up the game play and the content hasn't been tamed by the years I think it will find a large following in the younger crowd who were barely out of diapers last go round. I'll play it but I have a family, job, and life outside of video games now. Duke will be like those buddies your G.F./wife hates but you still go do stupid things with every now and then.
Man how many cell devices do you think I (much less a normal person) carry? Even the Airbus A380 doesn't carry that many passengers except in a single passenger class configuration. For the vast majority (pretty much every plane except that A380) of aircraft that would be close to 2+ (a few of the 747 variants would be closer to 1.5) devices per person.
Other than that your points are spot on. I'm sure that the towers could be engineered to handle the transient loads but the social aspects would likely still be enough to make it a reasonable prohibition.
1) I thought Avatar was a decent movie, obviously lacking in many ways but definitely one of the better efforts in recent years. 2) It was SyFy not SciFi so.... yeah.
That the director feels that way certainly doesn't bode well for a gritty cyberpunk universe containing the likes of the Sprawl, Freeside, and Zion which should hopefully bear little to no resemblance to the bubble gum science fiction of Avatar...
We've already seen how a W. Gibson short story works out as a movie. So they're obviously trying to switch it up. And I think it could be boiled down to a 2-2.5 hour movie similar to how LoTR was done. Mostly faithful to the books but changed for the different format. There is enough visual language in the book that I think it would be much easier to do than LoTR too.
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Have you seen what most people (at least in the USA) eat these days? I hardly think many of them are regular...
I'm certainly not arguing about it worth being the cost, but as I said I hadn't seen plans to replace the power with something else. If there ARE plans then shutting down nuclear plants certainly makes sense if there can be viable, comparably priced (notice I didn't say cheaper), and more acceptable sources of power that will be online as the plants go offline.
See I didn't know that. Most of the people I knew in the EU have emigrated to the USA, Australia, or SE Asia for various reasons, none of which was directly governmental.
Not to mention look at how well that worked out in the first half of the 1900's...
That was kind of my point. The federalist system has worked out great for the USA until recently and I think it contributed directly to the economic success it has enjoyed but as the power gets more centralized you start seeing the cracks and paint pealing off the walls...
Heh, of course it does! At least to an extent but the problem with people in power, especially centralized power, is that the people who have it always want more of it. The USA is/will be a perfect text book example of the slow erosion of distributed power by the central authorities gradually chipping away until there the Central Government and those that carry out the will of the Central Government.
As I said there was no intellectual basis for my idea other than it is about the only way something like this makes sense. Having a higher ranking body that could intervene should France and Germany get pissy about electricity. I think it is honestly the next logical step for the EU anyway. They've already unified their currencies for the most part, they have what amounts to a full system of government, pretty much the only things left would be to unify infrastructure and military. The military is already at least partially unified through organizations such as NATO and the infrastructure is, if not unified, at least cooperative.
Exactly, ethanol only works in Brazil because they have such large amounts of sugar domestically. So fuels like butanol (or other forms of ethanol production like you mentioned) which are getting closer to being viable either need to actually make it to market in 5 years like they keep telling us or large scale energy storage needs to suddenly become much much cheaper.
Butanol would probably be better than ethanol at least in the short term since it is virtually a drop in replacement for gasoline but what is the replacement for diesel? The bio-diesel I've seen is just reprocessed discarded oil from other processes...
So their plan is to shutdown domestic nuclear power production without, from what I see, a corresponding increase in production from coal, gas, or "green" power sources. This means they'll be importing from places like France who are increasing their power production. While this is less of a concern now that they're all part of the warm and fuzzy EU brotherhood but Germany is handing the French (and any other country that will be doing the same, such as say the Netherlands) leverage in future negotiations.
The only way I see this really working in the long term is if the EU becomes more of a Federalist system with the EU taking on the role of the Federal Government and the Member Nations taking on the role of the component states. Ultimately I think that may be a decent idea, obviously with more independence for the Member Nations than the states enjoy in the USA but with potential benefits. Keep in mind at this point it is purely idol speculation with no real knowledge on the issues this would generate or hurdles that would have to be jumped.
And how much harder is/was it to root? From what I seen it is significantly more complex but as I don't own a Moto phone it's hard to say with real experience. My HTC is trivial since I've unlocked the bootloader.
That's a shame, I wonder when they'll kick me off their network. Or the thousands of others who have unlocked Android phones on their network...
He may not be, I've run into some Android users who are decidedly not tech savvy who have rooted their HTC devices and they tell their friends building a wave of support for rooting phones. This is almost exclusively for HTC Android phones and most frequently I field questions about how to do it and can I "fix" their phones since I'm the tech savvy guy in the office. Typically the rooted phones are faster, more stable, and have more features, some of which can be killer.
That said I think HTC is doing this in large part because they HAVE seen people run from Motorola's locked down phones at the rapid rate (and this is backed up by motorola starting to make noise about unlocking theirs too). Not to mention if HTC can partner with the community they can use that work as a resource for releasing stronger offerings for their phones that will really put them ahead of the competition.
I don't know but the better question might be will they care? I suspect the answer at least superficially is the same as asking if the FAA has authority over intra-state traffic. I don't know that answer either.
I was going to bring up the guy being arrested for doing pretty much just that in SF International but apparently it wasn't a true story.
I know right? No one is going to be particularly impressed with my genitals or physique but honestly if they're that interested they could ask nicely to see my balls... wait no they can't that's sexual harassment... But apparently telling me they're going to look at them or touch them whether I like it or not is ok.
I wonder what would happen to me if I VOLUNTEERED to show them my balls...
What a shame. I was really looking forward to seeing how this would have played out. Texas would be a great place for this kind of challenge too. They're big enough and important enough that not only would this cause HUGE issues across the country but people might care. If a place like Vermont did it not many people would notice.
Perhaps soon we can send someone to come get you and show you to the place of honor you deserve for the path you have forged and the places you have pioneered.
I'm not arguing with their logic but having dealt with both of the products you mentioned I can't say I agree that the Galaxy Tab is better in pretty much any way. At best the new 10.1 inch tablet puts them on even footing except that Honeycomb wasn't really ready for prime time last I checked and Samsung isn't exactly a shining star of after the sale support, especially in the software arena where they have been historically very poor with their phones. If Samsung can put the same level of service into their software updates that Apple does then there will be a real competition here and the benefits of Android will really shine through, especially at with the lower price point.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Apple products and run Gingerbread on my phone.
The entire premise of the article is that Firefox, a web browser, didn't add support for a new fringe picture format, something that isn't really the purpose of the program but they're falling behind because Picasa, a program exclusively for showing pictures did? I should think an image program would be the first to add a new image format.
Am I the only one who thinks the author is an idiot?
The End Times have come!
Repent Sinners for your doom has come! It is time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble Gum. And we're all out of bubble gum...
DN3D is still a fun game that has more edge than most games. Assuming they haven't screwed up the game play and the content hasn't been tamed by the years I think it will find a large following in the younger crowd who were barely out of diapers last go round. I'll play it but I have a family, job, and life outside of video games now. Duke will be like those buddies your G.F./wife hates but you still go do stupid things with every now and then.
I said could be. You pretty much backed up what I was saying.
Man how many cell devices do you think I (much less a normal person) carry? Even the Airbus A380 doesn't carry that many passengers except in a single passenger class configuration. For the vast majority (pretty much every plane except that A380) of aircraft that would be close to 2+ (a few of the 747 variants would be closer to 1.5) devices per person.
Other than that your points are spot on. I'm sure that the towers could be engineered to handle the transient loads but the social aspects would likely still be enough to make it a reasonable prohibition.
1) I thought Avatar was a decent movie, obviously lacking in many ways but definitely one of the better efforts in recent years. 2) It was SyFy not SciFi so.... yeah.
That the director feels that way certainly doesn't bode well for a gritty cyberpunk universe containing the likes of the Sprawl, Freeside, and Zion which should hopefully bear little to no resemblance to the bubble gum science fiction of Avatar...
We've already seen how a W. Gibson short story works out as a movie. So they're obviously trying to switch it up. And I think it could be boiled down to a 2-2.5 hour movie similar to how LoTR was done. Mostly faithful to the books but changed for the different format. There is enough visual language in the book that I think it would be much easier to do than LoTR too.
I saw that after I posted... it made me die a little inside... I want to say at least it's not Uwe Boll but I'm not sure that would be accurate...
Just Please don't suck... The books are great and there is a story begging to be made into a movie in them but it would be so easy to screw up...