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Exactly my point. Hence kWh is useless for what you seek.

Tell all of these organizations that their approach is useless;

https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/...
http://energyinnovation.org/20...
http://www.renewable-energysou...
http://about.bnef.com/press-re...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

Or maybe you know more than them. Methinks you just want to avoid proper comparisons.

If you want to compare the cost of energy, use MWh. A MW is not energy. A MWh is energy. And finally, a nice easy to read statement from wikipedia;

In electrical power generation, the distinct ways of generating electricity incur significantly different costs. Calculations of these costs at the point of connection to a load or to the electricity grid can be made. The cost is typically given per kilowatt-hour or megawatt-hour. It includes the initial capital, discount rate, as well as the costs of continuous operation, fuel, and maintenance. This type of calculation assists policy makers, researchers and others to guide discussions and decision making.

The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a measure of a power source which attempts to compare different methods of electricity generation on a comparable basis. It is an economic assessment of the average total cost to build and operate a power-generating asset over its lifetime divided by the total energy output of the asset over that lifetime. The LCOE can also be regarded as the minimum cost at which electricity must be sold in order to break-even over the lifetime of the project.

If you want to refute, provide a source instead of meandering rationalizations.

Not exactly. If you account for SG&A, R&D expenses and Amortization, they made a neat $134.93M in Operating Loss. And during the first quarter of this year alone, they have managed to make an Operating Loss of $167.21M. Isn't that a failing business?

https://www.google.com/finance...

If you look at their balance sheet, their Total Equity is about $28.48B. The value of their investment in Alibaba is worth about $32B. Now, isn't that a failing business?

It's UI design, and that's task-oriented.

the Google Maps UI was a little more versatile, but in general it does really well at the kinds of search people mainly use it for, e.g. finding all the doughnut stores in Quincy, MA.

So, you're telling us that you're a cop?

You can still measure distances on the mobile Maps app (at least, on Android) https://support.google.com/map...

If the data on Google Maps is wrong then you can submit a correction. They offer this function for a reason.

It's UI design, and that's task-oriented.

Paper maps are highly versatile, general purpose tools. You can do all kinds of things with them, and generally speaking the more data they cram in (in a clever way of course) the better. They're like a swiss army knife; you want them to serve in any possible occasion.

Digital map displays are embedded in a user interface; they're a backdrop that provides the user with useful contextual information as he attempts to perform some specific task. The better you understand how the user performs that task, the more you can pare down irrelevant context that might detract from that task. Now there have been many times I wished the Google Maps UI was a little more versatile, but in general it does really well at the kinds of search and navigation tasks people mainly use it for, e.g. finding all the doughnut stores in Quincy, MA.

So basically you can't automatically apply criteria you'd use in a paper map to a digital display, although it's certainly helpful to under stand those criteria.

define haven

... same if I accessed it simply by the IP number

Wait, how would that work. I mean, all the name->IP translation happens locally, and only IP addresses are sent out...

When you go to http://www.google.com/, your browser sends a header saying:
Host: www.google.com

When you go to http://206.111.13.26/, that's not sent.

I suspect the speedtest site was something like HisProvidersName.speedtest.net, and maybe it faked it if it got a connection from an IP within that provider.

Back in 1991, California spent $12.5 million extending the 55 freeway for easier access to Newport Beach. Shortly before it was set to open, they discovered a mother fox had had kits in burrow on the side of the extension. The kits would've been easy to collect, but they didn't want to separate them from the mother. For about a month they tried all sorts of things to capture her. But she proved wily enough to elude traps, bait, and even tranquilizer darts. Eventually they finally caught her, and the extended portion of the freeway finally opened - a month behind schedule.

Back in 1991, California spent $12.5 million extending the 55 freeway for easier access to Newport Beach. Shortly before it was set to open, they discovered a mother fox had had kits in burrow on the side of the extension. The kits would've been easy to collect, but they didn't want to separate them from the mother. For about a month they tried all sorts of things to capture her. But she proved wily enough to elude traps, bait, and even tranquilizer darts. Eventually they finally caught her, and the extended portion of the freeway finally opened - a month behind schedule.

Do you have a better one? Can you point out some specific flaws in the methodology of that study? I note that a few other widely cited studies used the ICRG corruption index, what are your thoughts on that one?

I'd appreciate your thoughts on the subject, if you have any.

I'll be happy to consider any evidence or reasoned argument you have for that claim. You know, those things I've supplied that you're wilfully ignoring? Hyperbole and conjecture won't work here.

For what exactly? That Google is just as ready to give out data to LEOs (because that's the fucking law in case you wondered)? https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/legalprocess/ Are you actually too stupid to find those?

You have real buttons, adjacent to your late-model Apple touchpad? Fancy! Are they above the touchpad, or below? I prefer to have them below, myself.

On this MacBook, Apple continues with their misguided idea (started with the almost universally-loathed Abominable Puck mouse on the original iMac) that one button should be enough for everyone. Except they decided that this crappy, somewhat tilty touchpad should pretend that the whole thing is a button--better yet, it should pretend to be *multiple* buttons, depending on where your finger is when you click... yet with no haptic indication whatsoever of where to actually place that finger for a left/middle/right click (and woe betide the hapless user who accidentally lets another finger touch the pad while attempting a middle- or right-click).

As one deeply learned and wise person once said on the internets, you "just gotta know where they are".

If that's what you have, and you like it, fine. I have no argument with your subjective opinion. I said, objectively, that this touchpad has no real buttons.

The Magic/Mighty Mouse is almost as bad, but at least I find it usable most of the time... even though it, likewise, has no real buttons.

I forget. Why are we arguing about this? Oh right, you're trying to tell me that I'm ignorant. But unless you're the idiot who designed this thing, I really have no issue with you. I'm happy for you that you like it. Rock on!

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https://support.google.com/doc...

Yes.

I've wanted to throw my phone

Then I would recommend the game Send Me to Heaven

In principle, the state of USB power delivery is such that this should be doable(with an external dongle of some kind, if the phone has just one USB-C port and the headphones don't have a power plug you obviously need some additional hardware just to have somewhere to plug in the power); the ugly detail is that nobody actually seems to obey those specs yet(as the Google guy on a Quixotic crusade against dodgy USB-C peripherals has discovered you can't even trust a cable to not kill your device on occasion); and when it comes to something more complex like "connect to a phone's USB-C port, accept a DC input and pass through USB-C audio" your mileage will vary, probably enough to make shopping a giant PITA. Until that settles down, odds are that we'll see a lot of enthusiastic cashing in from phone OEMs on the fact that(while nominally 'standardized'/'standards-based') the market is unpredictable and untrustworthy enough that anyone without a moderately techie understanding of USB-C and a masochistic desire to shop by trial and error will basically have to purchase the accessory from whoever they bought their phone from in order to have a reasonable expectation of it actually working.

In the noble world of theory, USB-C can actually be used to do some really cool stuff(something like Microsoft's Lumia dock, while not known to actually be supported on anything except select models of Windows Phones, apparently doesn't require doing anything freaky and nonstandard over the USB-C connector); but the quality varies so widely, and the number of possible combinations is unpredictable enough, that it's hard to make use of the potential without getting burned by crap or sticking exclusively to first-party accessories.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

John Kerry is dirty

From TFA: A DCNF investigation has confirmed that the former Massachusetts Democratic senator and his billionaire wife, using an elaborate set of Heinz family trusts, have invested “more than $1 million” each

ONE million? Seriously? They are poorer than I am.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

John Kerry is dirty

Brandon Sanderson has posted his view on Google+ and I think it's insightful and well thought-out. His novella "Perfect State" was included in the slates of both the Sad Puppies, which he found out about before the nominations were submitted, and the Rabid Puppies, which he didn't hear about until after. Last year, he asked the Sad Puppies to remove him from their slate, but this year he decided that although he disagrees with bloc nominations and some of the methods of the Sad Puppies, he feels their hearts are in the right place and they're nominating works they really feel are good. However, if he'd known he was on the Rabid Puppies' slate, he'd have asked to be removed, and he has seriously considered withdrawing his book from the award entirely merely because the Rabid Puppies put him forward. He's decided not to do that, though, because if many authors remove their works for being put forward by this group of trolls, that gives the trolls too much power.

My kids' tablets have AppLock installed on it. This locks out features that I don't want them to have access to such as the Google Play and Amazon app stores. If they want a new app installed, they need to give it to me so I can type in the PIN and install it. Could they guess the PIN and get in? Sure, but it's another level of protection against "kid playing game, gets prompt, clicks 'yes', and incurs $$$ in-app purchase charge."

I've heard of extrapolating a process, or even inferring something unknown from known facts (sure, that could be a process). Heck, even "explicate" would work...but "implicate the process"?

Implicate it in what? Manslaughter? Conspiracy to defraud?

Some of the biggest names in tech and corporate America, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, have teamed up with governors and educators to ask Congress to provide $250 million in federal funding to school districts in order to give every single K-12 student in the nation an opportunity to learn how to code.

Cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet for US operations:
Apple $38 Billion
Facebook $18 Billion
Microsoft $105 Billion
Walmart $8 Billion

And they have the nerve to ask the taxpayers to pony up more for something they freely admit will benefit them? Here's an idea, they can fucking fund it themselves if they think it is so damn important. $250 million? Apple makes $70,000 in profit every 60 seconds. That means Apple could cover the entire amount with the profit they make in 2.5 days.

Some of the biggest names in tech and corporate America, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, have teamed up with governors and educators to ask Congress to provide $250 million in federal funding to school districts in order to give every single K-12 student in the nation an opportunity to learn how to code.

Cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet for US operations:
Apple $38 Billion
Facebook $18 Billion
Microsoft $105 Billion
Walmart $8 Billion

And they have the nerve to ask the taxpayers to pony up more for something they freely admit will benefit them? Here's an idea, they can fucking fund it themselves if they think it is so damn important. $250 million? Apple makes $70,000 in profit every 60 seconds. That means Apple could cover the entire amount with the profit they make in 2.5 days.

Some of the biggest names in tech and corporate America, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, have teamed up with governors and educators to ask Congress to provide $250 million in federal funding to school districts in order to give every single K-12 student in the nation an opportunity to learn how to code.

Cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet for US operations:
Apple $38 Billion
Facebook $18 Billion
Microsoft $105 Billion
Walmart $8 Billion

And they have the nerve to ask the taxpayers to pony up more for something they freely admit will benefit them? Here's an idea, they can fucking fund it themselves if they think it is so damn important. $250 million? Apple makes $70,000 in profit every 60 seconds. That means Apple could cover the entire amount with the profit they make in 2.5 days.

Some of the biggest names in tech and corporate America, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, have teamed up with governors and educators to ask Congress to provide $250 million in federal funding to school districts in order to give every single K-12 student in the nation an opportunity to learn how to code.

Cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet for US operations:
Apple $38 Billion
Facebook $18 Billion
Microsoft $105 Billion
Walmart $8 Billion

And they have the nerve to ask the taxpayers to pony up more for something they freely admit will benefit them? Here's an idea, they can fucking fund it themselves if they think it is so damn important. $250 million? Apple makes $70,000 in profit every 60 seconds. That means Apple could cover the entire amount with the profit they make in 2.5 days.

Putin's NOT gay. Nosiree.

Climate reparations.

"The extortion emails encourage targeted victims to Google for the Armada Collective," CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince wrote. "I'm hopeful this article will start appearing near the top of search results and help organizations act more rationally when they receive such a threat."

... and it did: https://www.google.com/search?q=armada+collective has as a top hit Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective - CloudFlare

lol Most cows have never even seen grass. Some have, sure. Mostly dairy cows, though.

WAT?

https://www.google.com/search?...

It's big business, grazing the cattle to fatten them up before slaughter.

Well some people just want to watch a movie once, and that's pretty much the standard price across the various services.

http://store.steampowered.com/...

https://store.playstation.com/...

http://smile.amazon.com/Hunger...

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!c...

https://play.google.com/store/...

How easily confused I am... from the government's actions I thought this was the USA... https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

Not sure if you would like to have the Gmail application link to other provider email service, but here you go: https://support.google.com/mai...

The New York Times reports that the Department of Defense's Cyber Command unit is mounting cyberattacks against the terrorist organization.

Contrary to numerous reports echoing each other mocking Donald Trump (but, curiously, not Hillary Clinton) of wanting to "shut down the Internet", his actual proposal was different. Specifically, it was just this:

“I’m not talking about closing the Internet. I’m talking about parts of Syria, parts of Iraq, where ISIS is, spotting it. Now, you could close it. What I like even better than that, is getting our smartest and getting our best, to infiltrate their Internet, so, that we know exactly where they’re going, exactly where they’re going to be. I like that better.”

Nice to know, somebody somewhere was listening... Time, perhaps, for NY Times itself to apologize for or, at least, correct their own piece calling Trump's (and, Clinton's) proposals a "fantasy".

Which graph, has no peaks? See that graph where CO2 levels keep dipping down toward 180ppm 4 separate times; if it had dipped to 150ppm, life on Earth would have ended. Perhaps these graphs that show CO2 levels as high as 17 1/2 times higher than today maybe; are those the ones that only show "the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere only started to go up since the industrial age"?
Of course if volcanoes were only the massive eruptions that make the TV news and Hollywood disaster movies, you would have a point, but in reality those are so rare they are once in a generation events world-wide, real volcanoes the vast majority of volcanoes are boring little cracks in the ground or seabed that leak gasses for centuries and spitup a little lava, often unnoticed every couple of decades. Even those are far outnumbered and out-produced by the Black Smokers world-wide.

Bernie? Please! You are a picture of 'delusion'

Or maybe I was calling BS. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

come on guys, they do not have a close relationship, they are at least a mile away from the white house. on the otherhand, there is microsoft who is a mere quarter mile away.

come on guys, they do not have a close relationship, they are at least a mile away from the white house. on the otherhand, there is microsoft who is a mere quarter mile away.

There's a bunch of important basic stuff that Windows has always been missing

• f-droid so that you can easily prefer and search software libre
• Llama for profile control and security
• stuff like debian that allow you to treat the phone as a local unix device
• proper, native google docs client (and no, Office356 is not the same thing)
• stuff like xprivacy which requires you to root the phone
• proper ad blocking
• proper privacy software like ghostery
• proper up to date, first class clients for all the social networks

This is just the beginning before you even get into the question of which apps are present but don't actually work properly.

> All housing, even privately owned housing, has rules attached to it. I can't dig a big ass moat around my property, nor can I build a five hundred foot tower.

HINT: If you ask for permission for something you think you "own", then you don't own it.

Look up allodial title

Black Bag, the Faithful Border Bin Liner

PS4 has only been out for 3 years, and you are comparing units moved to systems that had a decade or more sales lifetime and drawing conclusions based on those being equivalent things to compare?

The numbers in the article are difficult to understand, but I think their presentation allowed them to talk about a "decline" because gosh, the chart goes down after the Sony PlayStation 2 (2000).

So I took their numbers and actually crunched some data. I temporarily published it via Google: Best-selling videogame consoles. The generated chart doesn't show labels for all the bars, but you can hover your mouse over the bar to see missing labels.

This chart borrows the sales numbers provided from the Quartz article "The golden era of video-game console sales is over" and uses year introduced v year discontinued dates from Wikipedia. In all cases, I used the earliest available date introduced and the latest date discontinued. From there, it's simple math to figure out the average number of units sold per year. Quartz used millions, so my chart displays millions of units sold per year available. The chart is sorted by year introduced (most recent at top).

While not perfect, this is a better comparison because it allows you to compare per year averages rather than total units. (Ravaldy says that the 10 million Xbox One number is wrong, it should be 20 million, so you might double the value in my chart, about on par with PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.)

This shows that the "golden era of videogame consoles" is not over. Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 4 both sold/sell almost 15 million per year, a bit more than PlayStation 2 (12 million/year) and a bit less than the original PlayStation (17.5 million/year). From my interpretation of the data, I think the "golden era" started with the original PlayStation and is still going strong.

Literally every different type of website has something 'hidden' on it. The only criteria is that it has been remotely compromised.

This is such a massive problem that Google have gone to lengths to add features into their Webmaster Tools to hint to website operators that their site has been compromised.

So this is staggeringly unsurprising. It's just another reminder that the average tolerance for security is very low.

Characters in the anime/manga "Ghost in the Shell" had external memories where they could store things to augment their own memories. You could talk with someone using term "tapetum lucidum", your external memory would kick in and you would instantly recognize what the speaker meant. (The reflective tissue behind the retinas of some mammals, the thing that makes predator eyes reflect light at night.)

I've come to realize that I use Google in exactly this way - as an external memory. I *knew* about the tapetum lucidum, didn't quite know how to spell it, and relied on google to give me the correct spelling and verify that I had the right concept.

Google is an adjunct to my computer science knowledge as well. I use Perl a lot, and... what was the built-in function that deletes a file? Oh yeah - it's "unlink". How do I fix this error message? Stack exchange suggests these two lines.

And so on.

If you have a penchant for correct information it's even more interesting. Google allows you to drill down to find the actual source of something that is being reported on, and there are any number of sites that will attempt to sort out the truth of something. Did someone strap a JATO to a car and go 300mph in Arizona? (Snopes.com) Is Ted Cruz ineligible for president because he was born in Canada? (Politifact.com) Did Archimedes destroy an army of ships using focused mirrors? (Mythbusters)

All this information at our fingertips, and the "truthiness" is slowly being squeezed out like the damp from a sponge.

We already have external memories... it's just not efficiently integrated.

Basically, with just a phone, you have the choice between cranking up the volume on notifications and having them be super-loud when you're in a quiet environment, or turning them down and miss missing them if you're in a loud environment

Don't know if iOS has evolved yet to allow automation apps like Tasker (and many others like it) that can automagically make your phone stay silent during meetings and return to regular volume afterwards (besides automating many other things, like starting my music app when I plug in headphones)

https://books.google.com/books...

Yeah, that the Nordic countries' prison systems for you ;) Remember the whole "Iceland jailed its bankers" meme? (actually they only got the real egregious fraudsters, but that's neither here nor there). Here's where they went to jail. There's no fences. They even went out for ice cream at one point recently. No need to do that any more, though, as the government recently changed the law to let them out early.

At first I thought this was a clever Islamophobe troll, given the general quality of the comments lately, that was going to conclude by claiming that Christians and Jews are the farmers and Muslims are the herders. [...] Then I looked up and saw your nick, so I kept reading.

I cannot for the life of me find the book that presents this theory. It might have been this one. I think this might link to the original paper somewhere.

The study had students fill out a form and then walk down a long corridor to submit the form to the researcher. Along the way they had to slide past another student moving a locker.

After sliding past, the student moving the locker mumbled "asshole" under their breath. When the student got to the end to deliver the form, their stress hormones were measured.

(The student moving the locker was in on the research, and the student delivering the paper wasn't aware of any of this.)

The study found that people whose ancestors were farmers tended to let the insult go, while people whose ancestors were herders were more apt to take offence.

The book was quite engaging, especially the sections about the hill people of Tennessee. We only hear about the Hatfields and McCoys, but there was apparently a *lot* of killing going on in those small communities. Something like 14% of *everyone* died by violence in that small area during that time.

[Will's Mom:] “Die like a man, like your brother did!” She belonged to a world so well acquainted with fatal gunshots that she had certain expectations about how they ought to be endured. Will shut his mouth, and he died.”

It puts an interesting perspective on human behaviour.

But these auto companies are notorious for penny pinching too. One of the Chrysler mini van tail gate latches were weak. A proposal to strengthen it was rejected because the additional cost of some 50 cents was deemed too high.

My brother consulted for Chrysler. The employees will get a beige phone with a blinking red light to show there was pending voice mail. But contractors are not allowed that expensive phone. They get a phone without the light. Stupidly the phones were all rented from the telco, for ages, decade after decade. This was not in 1970s or 80s. It was in 1999 or so. They could have bought the whole damned phone, better phone for cheaper price. But still Chrysler rented these phones and saved money by denying the consultants the blinking red light.

In general, in all bureaucracies, once a precedent is set, it will be followed, come hell or high water, costs be damned. But getting the precedent set would be very difficult.

It's weird how the most religious states (like Utah) have the highest porn consumption.

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