Google bought few years ago an old paper mill in Finland. It is located near the sea. It will use sea water for cooling. Winwind has erected three wind turbines there. I think Google donated the land/ let them built them there.
So, it seems, your ideas are rather good.
Yes it works, but what benefits did we truly get from switching so early?
(I'm really asking for your opinion of what's better, not trying to flame.)
Terrestial feed is so crowded that the quality of signal is barely watchable on a 26" flat screen.
( Did you see Tekniikan Maailma's review this summer?)
Cable is a bit better. Practically the only difference is electrical TV-Guide, news are still brought by Text-TV and I can't come up with anything else.
Well, u can remove subtitles and change the audio language, though the language part was possible in analog tv. I don't use either feature, though some of course might.
Now we have a nation full of Digital tuners that are not capable of HD feed...
No politician is going to commit the political suicide of "Remember how we forced you to switch to Digital TV just a couple years ago? Well, we are going to do it again."
Our switch was rushed and in retrospect IMHO for all the wrong reasons. The technological advances that were part of the initial reasons for the switch never came to life and the switch date was kept because it had been set without considering if it really was the right time.
(i.e. user's IQ is equivalent to a mostly dead rodent of unusually small size and any options would confuse poor afore mentioned user and therefore options are bad).
It is funny how everything can be so black and white. Maybe people who disagree with you on how they use the desktop might still not be stupid.
I can understand how people can value the abundance of configuration options. That's ok.
I, however, don't want to configure everything nor do I want everything to be configurable. I just want stuff to work and the defaults to be reasonable. It's a bit the same thing for me with coffee. I just want good coffee, I don't want to make 10 choices before it.
So, this is where people who don't care about choices are coming from, or atleast some of them.
On last sunday at 20.00 when the voting booths closed here in Finland the results of the advance voting were published.
A bit over 20 % voted in advance and about 90 % of the advance votes were counted at 20.00.
( Ballpark numbers, I might be a bit off )
(This was a municipal election but especially in presidential elections, at 20.01 the suspense is pretty much over.)
At around 23.00 the results started to be clear and at the latest at 00.51 all the votes had been counted.
This with paper and pen votes.
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