so that I could have a Unix-ish environment without having to worry about power management or weird wifi issues that I'd had with Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Slackware, ZenWalk, Mint, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and PC-BSD...
No, I'm sorry. The correct answer is "BeOS."
That's because the original St. Nicholas came from what in the modern day is Turkey.
And so the profit saith, "Learn and love the multiverse as we know it, for there is more to learn and love, in all it's wonder and splendor."
I hear a storm coming. I think Thor may be aiming a lightning bolt at me for some reason.
They are not 100x more efficient. They use 100x less silicon. Which, if my math is correct, means that the manufacture of one unit of these things generates 99x as much silicon as the manufacture of a similarly performing "standard" unit costs.
Um, yes, which is why those were separate sentences. I didn't imply they were 100x as efficient -- at least in terms of insolation conversion. They are, however, supposedly 100x efficient in terms of material used.
But, you seem to be ignoring the issue I tried to raise: if the costs of materials is irrelevant, then 100x lower material costs isn't interesting. No one has claimed that the retail costs for generating X amount of energy will be 100x less, and since, as I posited, the materials costs are not anywhere near a determining factor for retail costs, an advancement of 100x isn't interesting.
Now, really, tell me something new. Convince me that this isn't anything more than a blowhard PR agent earning his keep. I would love to be proved wrong.
If we can pony up seven to eight hundred BILLION dollars because the banks got greedy,
Then why can't the Government be the Employer of Last Resort? We've got infrastructure falling around our ears, we've got social problems galore, why not simply take every unemployed person in America and put them to work fixing problems far too long neglected?
And yeah, let's put tax rates back to where they were in 1950 to pay for it, and ask any who complain why they hate America?
700,000,000,000 *1
/ 100,000 *2
/ 452,000 *3
gives,
15 *4
15 years of a $100,000 job would really turn things around for this country. It would allow them (including myself) to probably buy that house instead of renting that they have been wanting to. But right now, they are out of work. They could also buy the car that they need. (Even a green efficient one!) We wouldn't need to raise taxes either; anyone who tells you so is either a liar, or under a delusion. Doing the (simple) math just now has told me that Obama, and the whole entire government has sold us out to the bankers and to whoever ultimately controls them.
*1 - Seven hundred billion in bailouts which may be conservative as a Google search of "Total cost of bank bailouts" gives links indicating up to 4 trillion in Jan. and up to 23.7 trillion in July.
*2 - One hundred thousand dollars, which is a comfortable salary anywhere in America, or should be.
*3 - Four hundred and fifty two thousand reported 9 hours ago are unemployed right now according to Google search (news).
*4 - Fifteen years is how long the currently unemployed could be paid one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Yeah, and the costs are exactly on the same level, and the launch frequency probably has nothing to do how much government gives budget.
This sounds like a good working idea.
Trap full -- please empty.
