Using a financial argument - and without arguing that somehow future solar panel production is linked to national security..........please explain how trying to directly compete with an established global solar panel producer - who already offer the highest quality panels at the cheapest price on the planet (bar the odd quality product) - is going to be a 'good business plan'?
Debt and credit do not equate to wealth, but I am not even certain the average joe believes that anymore either.
On what grounds is 'local production' of a non-essential, non national security product required, when you can already aqcuire them at high quality at a cheap price? That is the very opposite of a good business plan. Direct competition is idiocy.
Innovation, parallel technologies and applications is where the money is at. Why let American ego ruin your economy?
The illustrious forces of the free market at work. That age-old, right-wing, conservative, Republican mantra. Small government, 'hands-off' business.
I guess the rest of the world doesn't care. We still get the same high-quality 23% efficiency cells from China that we always got - for the same price.
It is amazing how many innovative commercial projects you can power with them.....we just ignore the 'Made in China' bit, because it does not affect our ego.
Raspberry Pi and Arduino are great platforms for learning. But if you want a properly integrated professional system with limitless potential out of the box, LattePanda wins hands-down.
Although it is about 5x the price of a Raspberry Pi, it quite easily operates as a fully-functional Win10 installation with C#, Javascript, Ruby, Visual Studio, NodeJS, Java, Processing etc - powered by USB.
Specs: Intel Cherry Trail Z8350 Quad Core Processor Base Frequency: 1.44GHz (1.92GHz Burst Frequency) Operating System: Windows 10 Home Edition (Unactivated) RAM: 4GB DDR3L Storage Capacity: 64GB GPU: Intel HD Graphics, 12 EUs @200-500Mhz, single-channel memory USB 3.0 x 1, USB 2.0 x 2 Wi-Fi 802.11n 2.4G Bluetooth 4.0 Integrated Arduino Co-processor: ATmega32u4 (Arduino Leonardo) Video output: HDMI and MIPI-DSI Onboard touch panel overlay connector Supports 100Mbps Ethernet Intel Processor GPIO x 6 ATmega Processor GPIO x 20 Gravity Interface Connectors x 6 Voltage: 5V@2A
The real secret is in how the 2 chips operate - with the ability to turn either chip off or on (wake or sleep), from the other chip. The potential of this board is basically limitless.
Because it's almost unheard of in cities it's a great opportunity for global-warming alarmists to gin up another panic, now that they've got a case they can blame on melting ice. If they can get that meme going they can then yell about global warming at each good-weather outbreak - which means several times a year.
Bombing people - to stop them hating you - doesn't work. It's true.
The Korean War didn't work, Vietnam didn't work, Afghanistan didn't work, Iraq didn't work, Syria is not working and the next war won't work either. It just makes more enemies.
In fact, the ones you miss when you bomb - the families, friends and neighbours - often decide to go on a life-long mission for revenge against the US.
Sometimes entire nations hole themselves up for decades, building nukes and waiting. Like North Korea.
What the fuck is wrong with you? If you bomb Nth Korea, they will release hell on the US. Why would you do that? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Just bomb them ASAP. It's clearly a criminal organization at the top. Time to put an end to it. 10,000 tomahawk missiles to strike the targets near the border at 3am. Loads of MOABs JDAMs for the rest of the country. My estimate is 2 days all done and after that South Korea can clean up the rest and integrate.
Just like Iraq - so simple. Except a bit more nuclear, chemical-weapony and bio-weapony. You are the pure definition of dangerous moron.
.....with something we call 'Artificially Intelligent', when in the same post it is identified that it "may be unequipped to consciously counteract learned biases".
Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally wrong with this logic?
*"The device can produce nearly 3 liters of water per day..."
*"...homes in the driest parts of the world could soon have a solar-powered appliance capable of delivering all the water they need, offering relief to billions of people."
Same sentence, yet the statements are not even close to existing in the same galaxy.
That is not even mentioning that this is less efficient that currently existing systems. Bob help us all.
'Feeding the rumour mill' and giving sworn congressional testimony from - and to - some of the nation’s top security officials are not the same thing, Trumpeter.
My wife voluntarily stopped working to raise our 2 children. 7 years later and she is thinking about going back to work. She has a degree in International Studies and is a very intelligent woman. She was considering going into accounting - she has an amazing work ethic and did not care what she did - as long as it paid well (see where this is going?), I suggested to her that coding was less difficult than learning a new language and showed her the pay rates for proficient coders who are management material locally: $USD80,000-$USD170,000 per annum. I logged her onto Khan Academy.
Three months later and this woman has surpassed my coding skills. In another month or so I would suggest she has reached the average skill of any professional coder here (with better theory). She will ACE her first interview (she is also beautiful) and I have no doubt she will soon be managing a group of male coders on close to $USD200,000. Such is the advantage of being a female in the Information Sciences. I can retire and keep being kept in the way I have become accustomed, being just a man.
I am sorry, but I have no sympathy for these women. They have every door open already.
How much of this is related to the fact that the original researchers were pioneers in their field - experts? Either that or their 'discovery' would be of no note.
What makes another scientist capable of exactly reproducing an extremely complicated set of dependent tasks? A set of instructions? Who is to say they can carry this out in the required identical manner?
In reality, the ONLY thing that matters is that the original researcher can reliably recreate the results. The ability of someone ELSE to perform it is subject to far too many untraceable mistakes - not least of all the original discoverer's ability to write papers.
Is this 'reproducability crisis' a result of the original author's error's, or partly to do with the uncertainty inherent with 'reproducing' a set of conditions and causes, accurately?
"Basic math shows that one large indoor farming skyscraper like they are building in Singapore or even an underground facility powered by a large solar array or other power plant (nuclear fusion, maybe in 25 years) would be able to provide all the food for a large city."
I am not sure what industry you are in, but I know you have not looked into intensive food production productivity per square meter per year. A large skyscraper for a large city?
Not even close. Your basic math is woo, hence no sources.
When a human job is replaced by a robot, a significant fraction of tax dollars is lost to the local community and is not made up by the corporation.
This undermines our whole civilisation. Blind capitalist idealism has no solution to this problem of society devolving into a dog-eat-dog situation of black-and-white have's-and-have-not's. There is no value in gaining hegemony of a population of monkeys reduced to eating body-lice.
We need to find a solution to this abominable greed.
That little evolutionary thing that requires reproduction is also a decent reason for having children. I am sure nature will cope with having all the genes of people who didn't want to have children for selfish reasons removed from the gene pool.
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....as Trump has done and is doing in his solar-tariff game. Or you could innovate your way out. Everyone is in the same boat.
ROFL, people shouting MAGA HAIL TRUMP etc are not trolls, but I am?
Great job.
THAT comment gets downmarked as a troll?
Holy cow, you certainly know where you are when getting modded on Slashdot. You sure aint anywhere else.
Just...wow.
Using a financial argument - and without arguing that somehow future solar panel production is linked to national security..........please explain how trying to directly compete with an established global solar panel producer - who already offer the highest quality panels at the cheapest price on the planet (bar the odd quality product) - is going to be a 'good business plan'?
Debt and credit do not equate to wealth, but I am not even certain the average joe believes that anymore either.
On what grounds is 'local production' of a non-essential, non national security product required, when you can already aqcuire them at high quality at a cheap price? That is the very opposite of a good business plan. Direct competition is idiocy.
Innovation, parallel technologies and applications is where the money is at. Why let American ego ruin your economy?
The illustrious forces of the free market at work. That age-old, right-wing, conservative, Republican mantra. Small government, 'hands-off' business.
I guess the rest of the world doesn't care. We still get the same high-quality 23% efficiency cells from China that we always got - for the same price.
It is amazing how many innovative commercial projects you can power with them.....we just ignore the 'Made in China' bit, because it does not affect our ego.
Feel free to use whatever platform you prefer, since it encompasses all.
FYI: Vis. Studio, Win10 and C# - between them - are a massive portion of the market.
Raspberry Pi and Arduino are great platforms for learning. But if you want a properly integrated professional system with limitless potential out of the box, LattePanda wins hands-down.
Although it is about 5x the price of a Raspberry Pi, it quite easily operates as a fully-functional Win10 installation with C#, Javascript, Ruby, Visual Studio, NodeJS, Java, Processing etc - powered by USB.
Specs:
Intel Cherry Trail Z8350 Quad Core Processor
Base Frequency: 1.44GHz (1.92GHz Burst Frequency)
Operating System: Windows 10 Home Edition (Unactivated)
RAM: 4GB DDR3L
Storage Capacity: 64GB
GPU: Intel HD Graphics, 12 EUs @200-500Mhz, single-channel memory
USB 3.0 x 1, USB 2.0 x 2
Wi-Fi 802.11n 2.4G
Bluetooth 4.0
Integrated Arduino Co-processor: ATmega32u4 (Arduino Leonardo)
Video output: HDMI and MIPI-DSI
Onboard touch panel overlay connector
Supports 100Mbps Ethernet
Intel Processor GPIO x 6
ATmega Processor GPIO x 20
Gravity Interface Connectors x 6
Voltage: 5V@2A
The real secret is in how the 2 chips operate - with the ability to turn either chip off or on (wake or sleep), from the other chip. The potential of this board is basically limitless.
Because it's almost unheard of in cities it's a great opportunity for global-warming alarmists to gin up another panic, now that they've got a case they can blame on melting ice. If they can get that meme going they can then yell about global warming at each good-weather outbreak - which means several times a year.
......melting ice? 'Each good weather outbreak?
For you I have one word:
PERMAfrost. Work it out yourself.
Bombing people - to stop them hating you - doesn't work. It's true.
The Korean War didn't work, Vietnam didn't work, Afghanistan didn't work, Iraq didn't work, Syria is not working and the next war won't work either. It just makes more enemies.
In fact, the ones you miss when you bomb - the families, friends and neighbours - often decide to go on a life-long mission for revenge against the US.
Sometimes entire nations hole themselves up for decades, building nukes and waiting. Like North Korea.
What the fuck is wrong with you? If you bomb Nth Korea, they will release hell on the US. Why would you do that? What the fuck is wrong with you?
.
Just bomb them ASAP. It's clearly a criminal organization at the top. Time to put an end to it. 10,000 tomahawk missiles to strike the targets near the border at 3am. Loads of MOABs JDAMs for the rest of the country. My estimate is 2 days all done and after that South Korea can clean up the rest and integrate.
Just like Iraq - so simple. Except a bit more nuclear, chemical-weapony and bio-weapony. You are the pure definition of dangerous moron.
Is that you, Cheney?
.....with something we call 'Artificially Intelligent', when in the same post it is identified that it "may be unequipped to consciously counteract learned biases".
Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally wrong with this logic?
*"The device can produce nearly 3 liters of water per day..."
*"...homes in the driest parts of the world could soon have a solar-powered appliance capable of delivering all the water they need, offering relief to billions of people."
Same sentence, yet the statements are not even close to existing in the same galaxy.
That is not even mentioning that this is less efficient that currently existing systems. Bob help us all.
Lol modded 'Insightful"?!?! HAHAHA
'Feeding the rumour mill' and giving sworn congressional testimony from - and to - some of the nation’s top security officials are not the same thing, Trumpeter.
No easier than it is to scroll through the rest of the internet looking for decent tech-related articles. That is why we come here.
My wife voluntarily stopped working to raise our 2 children. 7 years later and she is thinking about going back to work. She has a degree in International Studies and is a very intelligent woman. She was considering going into accounting - she has an amazing work ethic and did not care what she did - as long as it paid well (see where this is going?), I suggested to her that coding was less difficult than learning a new language and showed her the pay rates for proficient coders who are management material locally: $USD80,000-$USD170,000 per annum. I logged her onto Khan Academy.
Three months later and this woman has surpassed my coding skills. In another month or so I would suggest she has reached the average skill of any professional coder here (with better theory). She will ACE her first interview (she is also beautiful) and I have no doubt she will soon be managing a group of male coders on close to $USD200,000. Such is the advantage of being a female in the Information Sciences. I can retire and keep being kept in the way I have become accustomed, being just a man.
I am sorry, but I have no sympathy for these women. They have every door open already.
Careful. I am being targeted as a 'troll' and down modded for saying just the same things. It seems /. doesn't care what regulars readers want anymore.
...and comments section ever
...that /. was starting an 'Explain Like I am 5' section, just like Reddit.
"Killed By Man Yelling...
Congrats on the worst headline-gore I have seen this year.
How much of this is related to the fact that the original researchers were pioneers in their field - experts? Either that or their 'discovery' would be of no note.
What makes another scientist capable of exactly reproducing an extremely complicated set of dependent tasks? A set of instructions? Who is to say they can carry this out in the required identical manner?
In reality, the ONLY thing that matters is that the original researcher can reliably recreate the results. The ability of someone ELSE to perform it is subject to far too many untraceable mistakes - not least of all the original discoverer's ability to write papers.
Is this 'reproducability crisis' a result of the original author's error's, or partly to do with the uncertainty inherent with 'reproducing' a set of conditions and causes, accurately?
"Basic math shows that one large indoor farming skyscraper like they are building in Singapore or even an underground facility powered by a large solar array or other power plant (nuclear fusion, maybe in 25 years) would be able to provide all the food for a large city."
I am not sure what industry you are in, but I know you have not looked into intensive food production productivity per square meter per year. A large skyscraper for a large city?
Not even close. Your basic math is woo, hence no sources.
When a human job is replaced by a robot, a significant fraction of tax dollars is lost to the local community and is not made up by the corporation.
This undermines our whole civilisation. Blind capitalist idealism has no solution to this problem of society devolving into a dog-eat-dog situation of black-and-white have's-and-have-not's. There is no value in gaining hegemony of a population of monkeys reduced to eating body-lice.
We need to find a solution to this abominable greed.
It is hilarious reading so many comments from posters who have pro-Trump posts to their name on /.
There are far, far too many who seem to have no memory of supporting him......
That little evolutionary thing that requires reproduction is also a decent reason for having children. I am sure nature will cope with having all the genes of people who didn't want to have children for selfish reasons removed from the gene pool.