Wouldn't the wind energy captured at the turbine actually be being mostly dissipated at the many different loads that the resulting generated electricity is used for?
The problem with Google developing a search engine that is specifically designed to comply with what the chinese government wants, is that it is a very small step for China to then use that as a lever against Google to use that same search engine for the rest of the world - China could for example, insist that Google change search results about the South China Sea to be more friendly to Chinese policy - and then later want that filter applied to the search results for the rest of the world, or they will block Google's access to the massive Chinese market. As Google's CEO, directed to protect shareholder's profits, what are you going to do?
Since maintenance crew generally know where the pipe is laid (or can find out by looking at piping plans), it is sufficient to know the linear distance from the start - this will give you an accurate enough position of the leaks to start digging. If the flow rate is know, distance can be logged using an on-board timer.(alternatively, it could be computed by relative times from entry and exit point) Once you are close, water from the leak will help you to zero in on where the actual leak is.
You are partly right. Owning residential property does not keep money in circulation, but owning stocks does - it's money that can directly be used by the company to buy machinery and hire people to work.
One of the problems Australia has, is that because of certain tax deductions that can be made investing in property (negative gearing, which lets you write renal losses off against your income tax), everyone thinks it's a great idea to buy a second or third property as an "investment" even if it earns less rent than the costs of financing and other expenses.
This is pushing house prices up to stupid levels - average houses now cost more than 12x average income) while at the same time, starving the country inf investment capital, so it's very hard to get a new business up and running - there simply aren't enough people willing to invest in new businesses, instead of property. Likewise, its very hard to get a loan from the bank to start a business - but very easy to get ridiculous oversized loans to buy residential property.
Back to the topic at hand though - I personally think that income level has relatively little to do with happiness. The real problem is when you start to live outside your means, often in an attempt to keep up with the jones's. More than ever before, we are bombarded with images of how we should be living, what the "in crowd" on social media are are doing and how much that rapper guy with all his bitches is doing so great, with his mega yacht and bling..
Is it any wonder it's so hard to keep a realistic perspective on what's needed to live a happy life, and focusing on the important things like eating right, exercising well, and spending time with family and friends instead of plugged in 24/7?
UNfortunately, you are out by a factor of 1000. I have always thought it was a slight flaw in the metric system that they didn't make the scaling for SI unit of mass consistent with the scaling for the SI unit for water, to avoid this exact confusion, but there you go. the actual conversion for mass to weight for liquids that are the same density of water is as follows:
1 Litre of fresh water at 4 degrees and 1 bar of pressure weighs approximately 1kg. Therefore 1 kg = 1 Litre. 1 g = 1 ml 1 mg = 0.001g (or 1 microlitre) 1 drop = 20 ml so that 100mg made by 1000 roaches = 100ml or - slightly less than half a cup. One roach is only making 0.01 ml -about 1/5 of a drop.
There's no way I'm drinking that though - I'd rather do a Bear Grylls.
When I drive and see a possible danger (kid playing with a ball by the side of the road, dog wandering around near the edge of the road without a leash, motorcycle rider looking the wrong way on a side street as I approach, etc.) I always take my foot off the accelerator and cover the break - ready to instantly respond if something stupid happens. It's called defensive driving, and is how everyone should drive. I never really picked up this habit though until I had been riding motorbikes for a while, when you absolutely have to drive defensively id you want to survive commuting in London or Tokyo traffic. (I used to ride in both).
The safety driver should have been doing this, and it would not be any impediment to testing the autonomy of the car - it can still do the driving, but the safety driver would have had time to react appropriately. The safety driver completely failed in her duty - possibly due to lack of training - but if your getting paid to be a safety driver then you should do your job instead of buggering around with your phone.
The Australian tax payer is being asked to subsidise the project with a huge proposed $1b tax payer funded loan. a huge port and rail line for Adani, with the promise that the coal revenue will pay it back - but coal is dying. its likely the adani project will never actually make enough money to pay for the cost of the infrastructure investment. India, the supposed market for the coal, is decreasing coal usage, preferring to go the nuclear / solar route. The whole project is a huge white elephant.
Besides all that, the company is already facing a $600m fraud investigation in it's home country, India, and there are also tax evasion investigations under way in Australia in relation to it's British Virgin Islands tax haven links.
Oh, and the fact is, having a major port and resulting pollution and risk of spillage on the reef does pose a risk that other coal mones do not. I think it's the project that no voting Australians actually want, but for some reason the LNP is still trying to force on us.
In short, the project stinks and has that smelly whiff of backhanders and corruption, if you ask me. We don't need it.
Our tourism and fishing industries do need the reef.
The only marketing that should be required is a single publication in an appropriate medical journal, which the physician should be a subscriber to. Drug selection and treatment plans for a disease or condition should be made solely on the merit of peer reviewed articles and studies, or by recommendations by a medical board who has done this already. It should not be made based on which drug company handed out the most free dinners, fancy pens or coffee mugs.
Audible ads wouldn't be so bad, and I could even see how they might be fair enough considering I'm getting to listen to music for free - but if there's one thing that pisses me off about them, its that the volume level is substantially louder than the music you are listening to. This is what really pisses me off about ads more than anything else - same for TV ads too.
I shouldn't have to reach for the remote control to turn down the fucking volume for fear of going deaf every time an add break comes on.
My watch has a 6 month battery life - if I leave it in a drawer. it's solar powered though so if I wear it normally, it never needs a battery change or manual intervention at all. Tells the time great, does the usual stopwatch stuff and looks good on my wrist too. I just don't get why you'd want to have all the hassle of having to recharge a watch all the time, for the sake of a few extra functions your phone already does much better than the small watch form factor ever can.
I like programming on Linux, but still have to admit that visual studio offers a better integrated development experience than any other. (Qt is a close second) I hate the fact that every time I upgrade Ubuntu, I'm never 100% certain I'm going to have a pain free experience with my video drivers. I also hate that Libre office still cannot allow me to select columns by clicking on the header when entering in columns expressions like =sum(A:A) the way Excel does. I like that it's got a menu system still though - I hate Microsoft's ribbon interface.
I hate that Macs have that annoyingly cut down interface that leaves out options that i want, and a pain in the butt file manager that ends up opening loads of different windows as I navigate deeper in my file system.
There is no one perfect computer - but for Me Linux has slightly fewer annoyances than windows
I love the Linux has the ability to run on so many platforms, and it's so easy to get it running in a VM at whatever level of capability I want - lightweight server only, full desktop, etc.
I love that Windows has such great support for games. I love that Mac does have that very consistent user interface from app to app.
Embrace the difference in each and try to bring the best of each system into the others - eventually we'll get there and make a computer that doesn't suck.
I use synergy to have one keyboard and mouse between a Windows and Linux laptop - that makes a lot of the pain go away, because I can use each for what it's best at. Love that app.
With a fixed number of transactions per block, and a limited block frequency, the transaction fees must by necessity increase as trading volume increases. Increasing volume will only push up competition for the limited number of transaction slots available, which with a 1 MB block is 3.3 to 7 transactions per second. That's a hard limit of 400k to 600k transactions per day. Right now, the biggest peak has been 498000 transactions per day - on Fri 15 Dec, right before the peak value on 17 Dec.
Wait till the bubble really pops - the transaction fees are going to be massive as there is a mad scrabble for people desperate to get their money out. The miners are going to make an absolute killing when bitcoin plummets. Unfortunately for them, it's going to be a fortune in bitcoin.
As a currency, it's useless. As a store of value, it's also questionable - you'd be better off putting your money into something that there is actually a use for in the economy - natural resources or investments in productive capital.
The difference is, most gamers don't play more than 8 hours a day - probably 4 or so would be more like the average. The hardware in the datacenter could get much higher utilisation than that - up to 24 hours per day, so the amortised cost of hardware per user is much less for gamers playing on time shared hardware compared to owning their own. In addition, when there isn't sufficient demand for gaming, it could be used for render farm work, protein folding, AI training or whatever. So all in all, it should be possible for them to offer a quality gaming experience at a lower cost than people buying their own high end rigs. I think I'm starting to see why they possibly want to slap down a ban on game hardware in datacenters, so they don't get competitors in this new business. I do wonder though at what the end result will be on the bottom line, given that it will potentially erode that home gamer market, and reduce hardware sales.
I had a quad boot setup on an experimental rig I was using to trial various OS's at the company I was working for in Japan. it had Japanese windows 3.1 running in DosV, English winows 3.1, SCO Unix (which I think cost about $700 or so) , and NeXTSTEP - the intel based release of NextOS, that had just been released and ran like a speed demon on the super hot 486-100 that I'd built Hardest thing was finding hardware that was compatible within the narrow range of hardware supported by both NExtSTEP and SCO.
Unless NVidiay make hardware specs available so that other vendors can make software for the card, I think you would have a very strong argument that their software is an intrinsic part of the hardware and should be able to be subject to the same rules as use of the hardware is, since the hardware can not work without it. Otherwise you could also say that the microcode on any general purpose CPU of any kind is also likewise licensed and able to be restricted in the same way. If GM can't prevent you buying a car and using it anywhere because of a software license on the microcode of the car's engine control unit, then NVidia should likewise not be allowed to restrict use of their cards in this way, based on a software license for software that is a necessary part of the card's use, for which there is no alternative. Wish I was a lawyer.
You don't have to put it in a plastic bag. Pick that shit up in a washable tupperware container and bury it in your back yard, if that suits you better. Either way, the rest of us still don't want your dog's crap all over the pavement so we have to dodge it when walking down the street, and be bothered by flies that have hatched in it.
Sovereign immunity went out the window as soon as congress passed a law that the Saudi government could be sued for 911.
At any rate, it's the big energy consumers and fossil based energy companies that will be the likely first targets - probably the smaller ones first to help set precedent. I expect there are any number of lawyers rubbing their hands with glee waiting for the forthcoming litageddon. Just wait til Bangladesh goes underwater. the class action suits will be huge.
If Beer is proof that god loves us, and wants us to be happy, does that mean beer inventing AI also loves us and wants us to be happy? Can I finally convert my robopocalypse-ready bunker into a fully stacked beer cellar?
I would want to wear a computing device - I just don't want to have another thing to charge each night.
I even stopped wearing my dive watch (Citizen Promaster Aqualand (with a metal band replacing the horrible rubber one ) because it needed expensive battery replacements which cost $50 for battery change and predssure test every year.
Now I still have a dive watch, but it's an eco-drive one that has fewer functions (no depth gauge) but has the advantage in that it is solar powered so never needs a battery change.
If you could build even a low powered computing device that had that feature, it'd be a winner - because it would be handy having even a subset of the features a smartphone has, always available at your wrist. That convenience is negated however, if you have to worry about keeping it charged all the time.
You could probably make a nice impermeable bag from canvas, if you impregnated it with a mix of aluminium and iron oxides to protect it from UV and used nitrocellulose to bind it to the canvas.
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Wouldn't the wind energy captured at the turbine actually be being mostly dissipated at the many different loads that the resulting generated electricity is used for?
The problem with Google developing a search engine that is specifically designed to comply with what the chinese government wants, is that it is a very small step for China to then use that as a lever against Google to use that same search engine for the rest of the world - China could for example, insist that Google change search results about the South China Sea to be more friendly to Chinese policy - and then later want that filter applied to the search results for the rest of the world, or they will block Google's access to the massive Chinese market. As Google's CEO, directed to protect shareholder's profits, what are you going to do?
Since maintenance crew generally know where the pipe is laid (or can find out by looking at piping plans), it is sufficient to know the linear distance from the start - this will give you an accurate enough position of the leaks to start digging. If the flow rate is know, distance can be logged using an on-board timer.(alternatively, it could be computed by relative times from entry and exit point) Once you are close, water from the leak will help you to zero in on where the actual leak is.
You are partly right.
Owning residential property does not keep money in circulation, but owning stocks does - it's money that can directly be used by the company to buy machinery and hire people to work.
One of the problems Australia has, is that because of certain tax deductions that can be made investing in property (negative gearing, which lets you write renal losses off against your income tax), everyone thinks it's a great idea to buy a second or third property as an "investment" even if it earns less rent than the costs of financing and other expenses.
This is pushing house prices up to stupid levels - average houses now cost more than 12x average income) while at the same time, starving the country inf investment capital, so it's very hard to get a new business up and running - there simply aren't enough people willing to invest in new businesses, instead of property. Likewise, its very hard to get a loan from the bank to start a business - but very easy to get ridiculous oversized loans to buy residential property.
Back to the topic at hand though - I personally think that income level has relatively little to do with happiness. The real problem is when you start to live outside your means, often in an attempt to keep up with the jones's. More than ever before, we are bombarded with images of how we should be living, what the "in crowd" on social media are are doing and how much that rapper guy with all his bitches is doing so great, with his mega yacht and bling..
Is it any wonder it's so hard to keep a realistic perspective on what's needed to live a happy life, and focusing on the important things like eating right, exercising well, and spending time with family and friends instead of plugged in 24/7?
I blame social media.
There is no real "left" in the US. your choices are right and far right. with varying degrees of authoritarian.
https://politicalcompass.org/u...
I was thinking something similar - using liquid nitrogen. Hot water would definitely be cheaper and easier though.
100mg is in the ballpark of 100ml.
UNfortunately, you are out by a factor of 1000.
I have always thought it was a slight flaw in the metric system that they didn't make the scaling for SI unit of mass consistent with the scaling for the SI unit for water, to avoid this exact confusion, but there you go.
the actual conversion for mass to weight for liquids that are the same density of water is as follows:
1 Litre of fresh water at 4 degrees and 1 bar of pressure weighs approximately 1kg.
Therefore
1 kg = 1 Litre.
1 g = 1 ml
1 mg = 0.001g (or 1 microlitre)
1 drop = 20 ml
so that 100mg made by 1000 roaches = 100ml or - slightly less than half a cup.
One roach is only making 0.01 ml -about 1/5 of a drop.
There's no way I'm drinking that though - I'd rather do a Bear Grylls.
When I drive and see a possible danger (kid playing with a ball by the side of the road, dog wandering around near the edge of the road without a leash, motorcycle rider looking the wrong way on a side street as I approach, etc.) I always take my foot off the accelerator and cover the break - ready to instantly respond if something stupid happens. It's called defensive driving, and is how everyone should drive.
I never really picked up this habit though until I had been riding motorbikes for a while, when you absolutely have to drive defensively id you want to survive commuting in London or Tokyo traffic. (I used to ride in both).
The safety driver should have been doing this, and it would not be any impediment to testing the autonomy of the car - it can still do the driving, but the safety driver would have had time to react appropriately.
The safety driver completely failed in her duty - possibly due to lack of training - but if your getting paid to be a safety driver then you should do your job instead of buggering around with your phone.
The Adani project offers a threat to revenue.
The Australian tax payer is being asked to subsidise the project with a huge proposed $1b tax payer funded loan.
a huge port and rail line for Adani, with the promise that the coal revenue will pay it back - but coal is dying. its likely the adani project will never actually make enough money to pay for the cost of the infrastructure investment.
India, the supposed market for the coal, is decreasing coal usage, preferring to go the nuclear / solar route.
The whole project is a huge white elephant.
Besides all that, the company is already facing a $600m fraud investigation in it's home country, India, and there are also tax evasion investigations under way in Australia in relation to it's British Virgin Islands tax haven links.
Oh, and the fact is, having a major port and resulting pollution and risk of spillage on the reef does pose a risk that other coal mones do not. I think it's the project that no voting Australians actually want, but for some reason the LNP is still trying to force on us.
In short, the project stinks and has that smelly whiff of backhanders and corruption, if you ask me.
We don't need it.
Our tourism and fishing industries do need the reef.
The only marketing that should be required is a single publication in an appropriate medical journal, which the physician should be a subscriber to. Drug selection and treatment plans for a disease or condition should be made solely on the merit of peer reviewed articles and studies, or by recommendations by a medical board who has done this already.
It should not be made based on which drug company handed out the most free dinners, fancy pens or coffee mugs.
Virgin assembly language artisans... but I guess that's axiomatic.
Audible ads wouldn't be so bad, and I could even see how they might be fair enough considering I'm getting to listen to music for free - but if there's one thing that pisses me off about them, its that the volume level is substantially louder than the music you are listening to.
This is what really pisses me off about ads more than anything else - same for TV ads too.
I shouldn't have to reach for the remote control to turn down the fucking volume for fear of going deaf every time an add break comes on.
My watch has a 6 month battery life - if I leave it in a drawer. it's solar powered though so if I wear it normally, it never needs a battery change or manual intervention at all.
Tells the time great, does the usual stopwatch stuff and looks good on my wrist too.
I just don't get why you'd want to have all the hassle of having to recharge a watch all the time, for the sake of a few extra functions your phone already does much better than the small watch form factor ever can.
All computers suck, generally in different ways.
I like programming on Linux, but still have to admit that visual studio offers a better integrated development experience than any other. (Qt is a close second)
I hate the fact that every time I upgrade Ubuntu, I'm never 100% certain I'm going to have a pain free experience with my video drivers.
I also hate that Libre office still cannot allow me to select columns by clicking on the header when entering in columns expressions like =sum(A:A) the way Excel does. I like that it's got a menu system still though - I hate Microsoft's ribbon interface.
I hate that Macs have that annoyingly cut down interface that leaves out options that i want, and a pain in the butt file manager that ends up opening loads of different windows as I navigate deeper in my file system.
There is no one perfect computer - but for Me Linux has slightly fewer annoyances than windows
I love the Linux has the ability to run on so many platforms, and it's so easy to get it running in a VM at whatever level of capability I want - lightweight server only, full desktop, etc.
I love that Windows has such great support for games.
I love that Mac does have that very consistent user interface from app to app.
Embrace the difference in each and try to bring the best of each system into the others - eventually we'll get there and make a computer that doesn't suck.
I use synergy to have one keyboard and mouse between a Windows and Linux laptop - that makes a lot of the pain go away, because I can use each for what it's best at. Love that app.
With a fixed number of transactions per block, and a limited block frequency, the transaction fees must by necessity increase as trading volume increases. Increasing volume will only push up competition for the limited number of transaction slots available, which with a 1 MB block is 3.3 to 7 transactions per second. That's a hard limit of 400k to 600k transactions per day.
Right now, the biggest peak has been 498000 transactions per day - on Fri 15 Dec, right before the peak value on 17 Dec.
Wait till the bubble really pops - the transaction fees are going to be massive as there is a mad scrabble for people desperate to get their money out.
The miners are going to make an absolute killing when bitcoin plummets. Unfortunately for them, it's going to be a fortune in bitcoin.
As a currency, it's useless.
As a store of value, it's also questionable - you'd be better off putting your money into something that there is actually a use for in the economy - natural resources or investments in productive capital.
I prefer a car analogy - it's like finding out that you can unlock a car door with a screwdriver, and the patch to fix it welds the door shut.
The difference is, most gamers don't play more than 8 hours a day - probably 4 or so would be more like the average. The hardware in the datacenter could get much higher utilisation than that - up to 24 hours per day, so the amortised cost of hardware per user is much less for gamers playing on time shared hardware compared to owning their own.
In addition, when there isn't sufficient demand for gaming, it could be used for render farm work, protein folding, AI training or whatever.
So all in all, it should be possible for them to offer a quality gaming experience at a lower cost than people buying their own high end rigs.
I think I'm starting to see why they possibly want to slap down a ban on game hardware in datacenters, so they don't get competitors in this new business.
I do wonder though at what the end result will be on the bottom line, given that it will potentially erode that home gamer market, and reduce hardware sales.
I had a quad boot setup on an experimental rig I was using to trial various OS's at the company I was working for in Japan. it had Japanese windows 3.1 running in DosV, English winows 3.1, SCO Unix (which I think cost about $700 or so) , and NeXTSTEP - the intel based release of NextOS, that had just been released and ran like a speed demon on the super hot 486-100 that I'd built Hardest thing was finding hardware that was compatible within the narrow range of hardware supported by both NExtSTEP and SCO.
Unless NVidiay make hardware specs available so that other vendors can make software for the card, I think you would have a very strong argument that their software is an intrinsic part of the hardware and should be able to be subject to the same rules as use of the hardware is, since the hardware can not work without it.
Otherwise you could also say that the microcode on any general purpose CPU of any kind is also likewise licensed and able to be restricted in the same way.
If GM can't prevent you buying a car and using it anywhere because of a software license on the microcode of the car's engine control unit, then NVidia should likewise not be allowed to restrict use of their cards in this way, based on a software license for software that is a necessary part of the card's use, for which there is no alternative. Wish I was a lawyer.
I don't get the objection to google buses. Wouldn't the community be worse off if instead of 1 bus there was 30 additional cars on the road?
You don't have to put it in a plastic bag. Pick that shit up in a washable tupperware container and bury it in your back yard, if that suits you better.
Either way, the rest of us still don't want your dog's crap all over the pavement so we have to dodge it when walking down the street, and be bothered by flies that have hatched in it.
Sovereign immunity went out the window as soon as congress passed a law that the Saudi government could be sued for 911.
At any rate, it's the big energy consumers and fossil based energy companies that will be the likely first targets - probably the smaller ones first to help set precedent.
I expect there are any number of lawyers rubbing their hands with glee waiting for the forthcoming litageddon.
Just wait til Bangladesh goes underwater. the class action suits will be huge.
If Beer is proof that god loves us, and wants us to be happy, does that mean beer inventing AI also loves us and wants us to be happy? Can I finally convert my robopocalypse-ready bunker into a fully stacked beer cellar?
I would want to wear a computing device - I just don't want to have another thing to charge each night.
I even stopped wearing my dive watch (Citizen Promaster Aqualand (with a metal band replacing the horrible rubber one ) because it needed expensive battery replacements which cost $50 for battery change and predssure test every year.
Now I still have a dive watch, but it's an eco-drive one that has fewer functions (no depth gauge) but has the advantage in that it is solar powered so never needs a battery change.
If you could build even a low powered computing device that had that feature, it'd be a winner - because it would be handy having even a subset of the features a smartphone has, always available at your wrist. That convenience is negated however, if you have to worry about keeping it charged all the time.
You could probably make a nice impermeable bag from canvas, if you impregnated it with a mix of aluminium and iron oxides to protect it from UV and used nitrocellulose to bind it to the canvas.