Dutch has the advantage of getting rid of gendered nouns (which was a mindbogglingly stupid idea in the first place). (Gendered pronouns are also stupid but at least there are far less of them.)
I predict that within 5 years, LCD monitors will be in the dustbin of history. Once OLEDs reach price parity, no one will want an LCD.
OLED still has a very serious burn-in problem and that just does not seem to go away in the mid term - so no, OLED will not replace LCD in the monitors any time soon. The burn-in is not that problematic in TVs and OLED is already dominating the high-end - if the prices keep dropping, LCD will be driven back to the lower end of the TV market. But monitors - I expect seeing mostly LCDs there for a long time.
Because precious snowflakes can't handle the reality that computer programs are supposed to work?
It seems it's much more about taking teaching seriously. Where you don't just seek an easy way to assign grades but actually do all the hard work that is needed to truly get an insight of what the student has accomplished (or has not).
They are providing a really valuable, real life example of why net neutrality is important: because otherwise we will get shit like this Google-Amazon cat fight where the only ones that really lose are the customers.
Similar issues apply to multiprocessor systems, which have also been used in the scientific/HPC field for decades. So it's funny how it suddenly becomes completely new and hard to program for, when the same tech is sold to the general public in the form of multi"core" systems.
It shows that you are not a programmer. In HPC applications you have workloads that are basically embarrassingly parallel and it's very easy to spread them out to n cores. On the other hand with desktop applications the parallelism is not so apparent and all the threads try to use the same data leading to a much more chaotic behaviour. Of course the latter is a lot more harder to handle - it would be a miracle if it were not.
So it's not about if it's solde to the scientific field or the general public but the nature of the paralllelism.
You might want to roll the dice and see if Russia will at least attempt to be reasonable
The problem with you, Americans, is that you are too comfortably couched in your democracy and rule of the law. Yes, it is not perfect but if you think it is anything near what goes on in Russia that clearly shows how clueless you are.
Amazon etc will no longer be able to offer lower "market bearing" pricing specifically for them
Thing is, there is no such pricing. It simply does not exist. Living in Eastern Europe and regularly shopping on Amazon (using an Austrian bank account and an Austrian delivery address) I have yet to notice any meaningful price difference between stuff on Amazon and in local shops (or for that matter between the prices of Lidl in Hungary and Lild in Austria).
Sure, you can get a haircut, a dinner in a restaurant or a house much cheaper in the East - but that's the stuff that you can not order from abroad. As soon as you get to stuff that you can buy on Amazon, there is no real difference between West-EU and East-EU.
New phones were never "Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android." In fact, it is actually rather common for new phones to ship with an older version of Android and understandably so: the manufacturers need time to get the new drivers from the chipset manufacturers, pack the new version of Android full of their crapware, run it through their QA, fix the bugs that are not considered features etc - and that takes time so a manufacturers own Android version lags at least a few months beyond Google's Android.
It is stupid and should be fixed, but that's how it is and how it basically always was.
Wide spaced keys are closer to a desktop keyboard layout
It has nothing to do with that. If you care to compare an older Thinkpad T's keyboard (T4x, T6x) to a contemporary one you will realise that they are of the same size - it's just that the deeper, better keybed has been replaced with a much shallower, cheaper and inferior version and that leads to the seemingly larger gaps.
Here in the Netherlands all electric trains ride on wind energy.
No, they don't. All that "100% wind" comes down to reality is about whom do they pay their electricity bill, nothing more.
To elaborate on why it's impossible for NS to run on "100% wind":
1. It gets its electricity simply from the grid and thus it is impossible to control or even to tell where the actual electricity does come from - however, knowing the actual dutch electricity mix, an overwhelming majority of it comes from burning coal.
2. Wind is a rather unreliable source of power - it may happen that the actual power usage of the trains exceed the actual power output of all the contracted wind farms (as the latter number may very well drop down to practically zero) and thus it would be very inconvenient to really run trains with just wind-generated electricity.
The closer you are to the actual killing the less likely you are to accidentally kill innocent people it seems.
On the other hand, being close to the killing seems to make it more likely that soldiers kill innocent people intentionally. I mean no drone raped anyone nor has a drone operator gone on a killing spree killing a whole village.
Its CPU is a U series (that's the low power one) mobile CPU (i5-7300U or i7-8650U, both have 15W TDP) and it has the mobile version of the Nvidia GPU, too (and 16 GB max memory is pretty puny).
So it actually has a pretty run-of-the-mill laptop HW, it's the case and the display that is interesting.
and was planned to produce 2200 MW, just a bit more than 3x 700 MW
Do not make the error of comparing nameplate capacities ignoring capacity factors (i.e. how much of the nominal power is actually produced). Capacity factor for nuclear tend to be around 90%, for solar it's location-dependent but in California it may go as high as 25%. If you take that into consideration then the difference between 2200 MV nuclear and 700 MW solar is almost ten-fold.
Electron is basically Chromium. There are a few extras here and there but in the end an Electron application is some html, css and javascript code packed together with a browser - so it's not that suprising that it eats up ram just like Chrome.
Amazon is already taking 30% of the sales price PLUS 30% OF SHIPPING.
Taking the same percentage of the shipping is standard business practice, eBay also does it and import duty works the same way too - else everybody would sell everything for $1 and charge the rest as "shipping fee".
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Dutch has the advantage of getting rid of gendered nouns (which was a mindbogglingly stupid idea in the first place).
(Gendered pronouns are also stupid but at least there are far less of them.)
Being a Hungarian: [citation needed]
OLED still has a very serious burn-in problem and that just does not seem to go away in the mid term - so no, OLED will not replace LCD in the monitors any time soon.
The burn-in is not that problematic in TVs and OLED is already dominating the high-end - if the prices keep dropping, LCD will be driven back to the lower end of the TV market.
But monitors - I expect seeing mostly LCDs there for a long time.
It seems it's much more about taking teaching seriously. Where you don't just seek an easy way to assign grades but actually do all the hard work that is needed to truly get an insight of what the student has accomplished (or has not).
The first Year In Review post in 2013 tabulated that 14.7 billion people visited the site.
Something keeps telling me that this number may be a little bit inflated.
They are providing a really valuable, real life example of why net neutrality is important: because otherwise we will get shit like this Google-Amazon cat fight where the only ones that really lose are the customers.
It does show that smaller donations cost more in processing than larger donations
Except they don't - that's the whole point of the uproar.
You have never met a German, have you?
It shows that you are not a programmer.
In HPC applications you have workloads that are basically embarrassingly parallel and it's very easy to spread them out to n cores. On the other hand with desktop applications the parallelism is not so apparent and all the threads try to use the same data leading to a much more chaotic behaviour. Of course the latter is a lot more harder to handle - it would be a miracle if it were not.
So it's not about if it's solde to the scientific field or the general public but the nature of the paralllelism.
The problem with you, Americans, is that you are too comfortably couched in your democracy and rule of the law. Yes, it is not perfect but if you think it is anything near what goes on in Russia that clearly shows how clueless you are.
Thing is, there is no such pricing. It simply does not exist. Living in Eastern Europe and regularly shopping on Amazon (using an Austrian bank account and an Austrian delivery address) I have yet to notice any meaningful price difference between stuff on Amazon and in local shops (or for that matter between the prices of Lidl in Hungary and Lild in Austria).
Sure, you can get a haircut, a dinner in a restaurant or a house much cheaper in the East - but that's the stuff that you can not order from abroad. As soon as you get to stuff that you can buy on Amazon, there is no real difference between West-EU and East-EU.
New phones were never "Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android." In fact, it is actually rather common for new phones to ship with an older version of Android and understandably so: the manufacturers need time to get the new drivers from the chipset manufacturers, pack the new version of Android full of their crapware, run it through their QA, fix the bugs that are not considered features etc - and that takes time so a manufacturers own Android version lags at least a few months beyond Google's Android.
It is stupid and should be fixed, but that's how it is and how it basically always was.
It has nothing to do with that. If you care to compare an older Thinkpad T's keyboard (T4x, T6x) to a contemporary one you will realise that they are of the same size - it's just that the deeper, better keybed has been replaced with a much shallower, cheaper and inferior version and that leads to the seemingly larger gaps.
Here in the Netherlands all electric trains ride on wind energy.
No, they don't. All that "100% wind" comes down to reality is about whom do they pay their electricity bill, nothing more.
To elaborate on why it's impossible for NS to run on "100% wind":
1. It gets its electricity simply from the grid and thus it is impossible to control or even to tell where the actual electricity does come from - however, knowing the actual dutch electricity mix, an overwhelming majority of it comes from burning coal.
2. Wind is a rather unreliable source of power - it may happen that the actual power usage of the trains exceed the actual power output of all the contracted wind farms (as the latter number may very well drop down to practically zero) and thus it would be very inconvenient to really run trains with just wind-generated electricity.
On the other hand, being close to the killing seems to make it more likely that soldiers kill innocent people intentionally. I mean no drone raped anyone nor has a drone operator gone on a killing spree killing a whole village.
Yes, of course, repurpose old HW, great idea, except that they are actually locked down specifically so that you can not repurpose them.
Yes. And coming from an ex-Eastern Block country that seems to be a damn good reason.
That desktop part is pure bullshit.
Its CPU is a U series (that's the low power one) mobile CPU (i5-7300U or i7-8650U, both have 15W TDP) and it has the mobile version of the Nvidia GPU, too (and 16 GB max memory is pretty puny).
So it actually has a pretty run-of-the-mill laptop HW, it's the case and the display that is interesting.
I'm not really sure where you got that idea but it does not seem to correlate with my everyday experience.
Do not make the error of comparing nameplate capacities ignoring capacity factors (i.e. how much of the nominal power is actually produced). Capacity factor for nuclear tend to be around 90%, for solar it's location-dependent but in California it may go as high as 25%.
If you take that into consideration then the difference between 2200 MV nuclear and 700 MW solar is almost ten-fold.
Looking out of the window I see three lamp posts (all on the same side of the street) and about 30 parked cars (on both sides of the street).
It's not that trivial.
Electron is basically Chromium.
There are a few extras here and there but in the end an Electron application is some html, css and javascript code packed together with a browser - so it's not that suprising that it eats up ram just like Chrome.
Nothing to see here citizen, move along. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
Fair point: I do not think there are many people who would exchange real money for Bolivars.
Taking the same percentage of the shipping is standard business practice, eBay also does it and import duty works the same way too - else everybody would sell everything for $1 and charge the rest as "shipping fee".