Precisely. After a year of troll articles about Trump,/. has now become Russia Watch. In addition to a meteorological site. Fuck BeauHD, MSMASH, EditorDavid and WhipSlash. I joined this the day after CmdrTaco left, but the articles used to be about tech stuff - be it OSs, computers, phones, et al
Then just ignore the main site and set your home pages directly to the Science, Open Source, Devices subs
The size of his ego and the crassness of literally everything he does, is absolutely staggering.
Much as I've always considered him a deplorable human being, he's not the real problem - he didn't elect himself. The problem are the people who supported his campaign and the voters who elected him
Weren't you moved by the warmth of his New Year's Greetings?
Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love! https://twitter.com/realDonald...
Average capacity factor for wind in the US is over 30% every year [eia.gov]
A substantial amount of progress in improving wind turbine capacity factors has been made in recent years.
Wikipedia charts on wind turbines shows 2.5GW nameplate in 2000 with 5.6 GWhs generated or a capacity factor of 25.6% In 2010, there was a total of 40GW generating 94,650 GWh, a capacity factor of 27%, so not much average improvement But if you remove all those turbines & their generation from succeeding years, what do you get? For 2013, that would be 20 GW generating 71,500 GWh or 41% capacity factor For 2014, that would be 26 GW generating 87000 GWh or 38% capacity factor These numbers are approximate and would be affected by when during the year a wind farm comes online and when its power generation starts getting counted but I think a solid case can be made for upgrading or replacing any tower that's 10 or more years old. If the 3 infamous farms in California are still using any of those old turbines from the 1980s, that's a inefficient, shameful display of outdated tech
"And Maia is not just about a slave girl, it's about a sex slave girl" I pondered whether to include that in my story submission but decided against it. But it's true that not only is sexuality woven throughout the story, it's very explicit, more so than any other mainstream fantasy story I can recall.
Automation my ass. You smartphone is still hand-assembled. Just 'cause the work doesn't happen here where you can see it doesn't mean that nobody does it. Before "The Singularity" was a thing that people worshipped, it was called a "cargo cult."
Given today's revelation that Foxconn - I trust I don't need to explain who they are - is moving heavily towards factory automation, it may not be long before your ass and your smartphone's assembly is fully automated https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
When the western half of the US is covered in clouds (and much of it was covered just last week), there's no way you're going to have enough solar power
A mix of generation will likely always be needed; even France doesn't run on 100% nuclear and a certain amount of overbuilding will be needed but the penetration of renewables at this time is low enough that's not a concern - yet. But for a place like Denmark, wind power alone can sometimes supply more electricity than the country's *entire* demand and most be exported or curtailed.
A lot of people, including a great many Slashdotters got interested in space, science & tech because of Star Wars, Star Trek and the like. Zsa Zsa was a fanstastic contributor to advancing divorce settlements for women. As she remarked, "I'm a great housekeeper. When I leave a husband, I keep his house"
As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.
Perhaps you'll like the following connection better
Not only does Carrie Fisher pass away on Dec 27th, just 3 days after being declared stable following her heart attack on a transatlantic flight but her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who came to fame for her role in Singin' in the Rain, suffers a stroke and dies just one day later
Also Tracy Morgan is not one to garner much public sympathy especially after his joke about jerking off to images of Sarah Palin.
And I forgot he pissed off the left with his remarks that if lesbians are only pretending to love women because they only really hate men and if had a gay son , he'd "stab the little ni***r to death"
The WalMart crash was caused by a human who dozed off and charged with several counts of vehicular assault and one of vehicular manslaughter. And he & WalMart were blaming each other back & forth. With a robot truck, all blame falls on the company. Also Tracy Morgan is not one to garner much public sympathy especially after his joke about jerking off to images of Sarah Palin.
And yet there will be fewer posts on here than on the one about the do-nothing space princess.
Carrie Fisher was an author, playwright and script and public speaker on bipolar disorder and substance abuse. I love that cosmological stuff something fierce but none of it has an immediate impact on my daily life whereas I personally know about a dozen with bipolar & dozens more through them
Get ready for third world style "traffic safety". Overloading, low bridges, whatever, rules are for other people
My tired old adage is that nothing changes until someone dies. The 1st Uber robot-truck that takes out several lanes of cars will see them sued, legislated and reined in right fucking quick
"Uber is a private company. The only investors (so far) are VCs. VCs may be stupid, but they are not rubes"
I think that statement is almost making mattwarden's case, that Uber always had a plan beyond cab-driving-and-pizza-delivery for everyone. Problem for them is that there's so much legislation & so many forces at play in freight & transport that you can lose years & huge amount of cash trying to be the disruptor. Look at the history of Amazon, who wasn't limited (much) by what they could sell & to whom
I'm really curious about the details of that commitment. Something tells me it'll be Tesla getting the pointy end if this relationship sours or if much better tech comes along. Tesla helped Panasonic become or remain the market leader but it seems they're more welded than wedded and a breakup wouldn't be in Tesla's favor except in the very unlikely event that they develop their very own superior battery tech.
Interesting....did not know there once was a cheetah-like feline in NorthAm. Weak design or not, it'll be a damn shame if they do die out, especially if it's because of humans. Perhaps one day many years from now we can have cloned ones - or perhaps we'll eventually have to clone every damn creature except raccoons, squirrels, rats, pigeons & gulls.
Slashdot Mirror
Precisely. After a year of troll articles about Trump, /. has now become Russia Watch. In addition to a meteorological site. Fuck BeauHD, MSMASH, EditorDavid and WhipSlash. I joined this the day after CmdrTaco left, but the articles used to be about tech stuff - be it OSs, computers, phones, et al
Then just ignore the main site and set your home pages directly to the Science, Open Source, Devices subs
The size of his ego and the crassness of literally everything he does, is absolutely staggering.
Much as I've always considered him a deplorable human being, he's not the real problem - he didn't elect himself.
The problem are the people who supported his campaign and the voters who elected him
And here, in words direct today from our new Leader, is some V. Putin bromantic fanfic:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
Weren't you moved by the warmth of his New Year's Greetings?
Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me
and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
Wikipedia charts on wind turbines shows 2.5GW nameplate in 2000 with 5.6 GWhs generated or a capacity factor of 25.6%
That should be 5,600 GWh, not 5.6. See charts under National Trends at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Average capacity factor for wind in the US is over 30% every year [eia.gov]
A substantial amount of progress in improving wind turbine capacity factors has been made in recent years.
Wikipedia charts on wind turbines shows 2.5GW nameplate in 2000 with 5.6 GWhs generated or a capacity factor of 25.6%
In 2010, there was a total of 40GW generating 94,650 GWh, a capacity factor of 27%, so not much average improvement
But if you remove all those turbines & their generation from succeeding years, what do you get?
For 2013, that would be 20 GW generating 71,500 GWh or 41% capacity factor
For 2014, that would be 26 GW generating 87000 GWh or 38% capacity factor
These numbers are approximate and would be affected by when during the year a wind farm comes online and when its power generation starts getting counted but I think a solid case can be made for upgrading or replacing any tower that's 10 or more years old.
If the 3 infamous farms in California are still using any of those old turbines from the 1980s, that's a inefficient, shameful display of outdated tech
>but you'll never forget Princess Leia.
Because Disney won't let you.
So not all Disney princesses have to spend 20 years in the Vault?
"And Maia is not just about a slave girl, it's about a sex slave girl"
I pondered whether to include that in my story submission but decided against it.
But it's true that not only is sexuality woven throughout the story, it's very explicit, more so than any other mainstream fantasy story I can recall.
Automation my ass. You smartphone is still hand-assembled. Just 'cause the work doesn't happen here where you can see it doesn't mean that nobody does it. Before "The Singularity" was a thing that people worshipped, it was called a "cargo cult."
Given today's revelation that Foxconn - I trust I don't need to explain who they are - is moving heavily towards factory automation, it may not be long before your ass and your smartphone's assembly is fully automated
https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
When the western half of the US is covered in clouds (and much of it was covered just last week), there's no way you're going to have enough solar power
A mix of generation will likely always be needed; even France doesn't run on 100% nuclear and a certain amount of overbuilding will be needed but the penetration of renewables at this time is low enough that's not a concern - yet.
But for a place like Denmark, wind power alone can sometimes supply more electricity than the country's *entire* demand and most be exported or curtailed.
"We're going to have to care for people without coddling them"
I expect a lot more people are going to end up in the military & Alaska
No, the Virus is call system32, I'm sure you can find instructions on removing it online.
Or toss it and upgrade to system76 - https://system76.com/
In another 90 years, they'll have run out of the visible spectrum, and we'll get the Ultra-Violet Screen of Death.
In another 90 years, MS will be a distant memory.
I wonder if anyone in the late 19th century thought that National Cash Register and Tabulating Machine companies would last over 100 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those are the NSA-approved builds
A lot of people, including a great many Slashdotters got interested in space, science & tech because of Star Wars, Star Trek and the like.
Zsa Zsa was a fanstastic contributor to advancing divorce settlements for women.
As she remarked, "I'm a great housekeeper. When I leave a husband, I keep his house"
their promises didn't turn out so well for the investors
As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.
Perhaps you'll like the following connection better
Not only does Carrie Fisher pass away on Dec 27th, just 3 days after being declared stable following her heart attack on a transatlantic flight but her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who came to fame for her role in Singin' in the Rain, suffers a stroke and dies just one day later
Also Tracy Morgan is not one to garner much public sympathy especially after his joke about jerking off to images of Sarah Palin.
And I forgot he pissed off the left with his remarks that if lesbians are only pretending to love women because they only really hate men and if had a gay son , he'd "stab the little ni***r to death"
I guess North Korea doesn't have Internet as we're used to it; they have a CAN (Country Area Network) and a CAN'T.
And the CAN'T is much, much bigger.
The WalMart crash was caused by a human who dozed off and charged with several counts of vehicular assault and one of vehicular manslaughter.
And he & WalMart were blaming each other back & forth. With a robot truck, all blame falls on the company.
Also Tracy Morgan is not one to garner much public sympathy especially after his joke about jerking off to images of Sarah Palin.
And yet there will be fewer posts on here than on the one about the do-nothing space princess.
Carrie Fisher was an author, playwright and script and public speaker on bipolar disorder and substance abuse.
I love that cosmological stuff something fierce but none of it has an immediate impact on my daily life whereas I personally know about a dozen with bipolar & dozens more through them
Get ready for third world style "traffic safety". Overloading, low bridges, whatever, rules are for other people
My tired old adage is that nothing changes until someone dies. The 1st Uber robot-truck that takes out several lanes of cars will see them sued, legislated and reined in right fucking quick
It's all those fan-boys looking for the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Free on YouTube. Enjoy. Or gouge your eyes out.
"Uber is a private company. The only investors (so far) are VCs. VCs may be stupid, but they are not rubes"
I think that statement is almost making mattwarden's case, that Uber always had a plan beyond cab-driving-and-pizza-delivery for everyone.
Problem for them is that there's so much legislation & so many forces at play in freight & transport that you can lose years & huge amount of cash trying to be the disruptor. Look at the history of Amazon, who wasn't limited (much) by what they could sell & to whom
I'm really curious about the details of that commitment.
Something tells me it'll be Tesla getting the pointy end if this relationship sours or if much better tech comes along.
Tesla helped Panasonic become or remain the market leader but it seems they're more welded than wedded and a breakup wouldn't be in Tesla's favor except in the very unlikely event that they develop their very own superior battery tech.
Interesting....did not know there once was a cheetah-like feline in NorthAm. Weak design or not, it'll be a damn shame if they do die out, especially if it's because of humans. Perhaps one day many years from now we can have cloned ones - or perhaps we'll eventually have to clone every damn creature except raccoons, squirrels, rats, pigeons & gulls.