The US Dept of Energy is irrelevant.
Relevant is the price you pay if you buy solar panels or wind mills on the market. And your parent is right. Solar is even cheaper than wind right now, and both are significantly cheaper than coal.
Go figure!
I doubt that money is still important, or more precisely: that important.
I have the 'wrong' number of 40k as income on okcupid, and I get plenty of messages of girls claiming to earn up to a million.
I for my part don't care how much my 'future/potential' wife earns
However, I never would marry a woman who can not drag her own weight
Rofl! that was a good one!
The thing with the picture might work in america.
Mentioning dogs/horses is plain stupid. Rather mention you like animals. Or politely ask if she is more a cat or a dog woman.
You underestimate how many people either hate 'insert specific animal' or are allergic to it.
I hate dogs, well not hate, but I never would have one, I HATE their smell and I have not the time for their attention whoring nor for walking them outside.
Well, from roughly 16 to roughly 40 I thought and behaved like that.
Meanwhile I know that a wink and a smile is all what women ever do.
After that it is up to the male one to engage in a 'talk'
I can understand that you are shy in real life and don't 'get it' when a woman blinks, waves, smiles at you.
But when a woman does that on a dating site, it is a clear signal, made for geeks, nerds and idiots like you and me.
Still insisting, she should message you, is: brain dead!
Does not change a thing.
It is still based on photons, only in the IR band
Thermodynamics is about heat exchanges, consider a heat reservoir and a heat sink. Does not matter if it is a fluid or a gas. It is 'mechanic' in the sense of real materials involved, not a spooky photon radiation
That is vary true, and seeing how 'badly' the ebola case in the USA is handled it is even scary!
Apple is not more late than the Linux community.
So what is your point? That there are still 'Mac OS X' server oses around? Or do you really want to claim that there are morons using Mac OS X Server editions to run CGI bash scripts from an Apache web server?
Who actually is doing that? I never heard about a person using CGI _and_ a shell (what ever shell)
Running shell scripts by a web server as CGI scripts is simply retarded, regardless what flaws the shell might have.
So picking on Apple because a fix is a day later than the hot debian or ubuntu distro is just brain dead.
I have an old Mac that runs 10.6.8.
My new one runs 10.9. And my Mac mini 10.8.
Never tried to upgrade the old one, for various reasons.
But my oldest (meanwhile sold) G5 17" usually liked the upgrades.
I upgraded my ex GFs Powerbook from 10.5 to 10.7 and it got a little bit faster. No idea about your friend, perhaps a bad computer versus new OS combination?
Thermodynamics has nothing to do with photovoltaic.
There is no physical (as in laws of physic) limit that prevents a photovoltaic cell to be 100% efficient.
Why are americans so obsessed with 'laws of thermodynamic' and have no clue about them?
You somehow sounded annoyed about the amount of money the US spends for education, or the amount of taxes you pay for it. But likely I misunderstood you. Sorry for that!
If you once have approved it, it asks you again for that app and asks you again for that and asks you again for that app as often as you restart the app. At least that happens for me on OS X 10.9 hence I disabled that 'feature'
Mac OS X 10.6.xxx did not have those Gatekeeper options, hence there is no default setting
Yeah, I used similar 'approximations'.
I'm not sure if it was a story of Vernor Vinge, though. I thought more about Charles Stross (Glasshouse, Accelerando). But you might be right. Have to check my book shelf. If it was a Vernor Vinge story it must be far longer ago than I thought when I wrote my comment.
The claim that ARM devices are better due to superior power usage is total nonsense. If you use them as general purpose devices, they will have equally horrible battery life. They have no real advantage over a faster machine.
With a non-ARM device, I can stray off the reservation.
The whole "general purpose" computing concept actually works and isn't effectively sabotaged by the poor performance of the platform.
...then you use an older version of Linux.
Your argument ad extremism doesn't alter the fact that Linux is more likely to be supported on old but still useful Macs. This even includes Intel based machines. I had one of those myself.
It was an Apple orphan but Linux still supported it perfectly fine. Windows probably did too.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
