making completely symbolic bans that will not provide alternative energy
It's not up to the government to create market winners. It's up to them to ban the ones that should lose.
A great many discoveries have been made on the backs of necessity. Unfortunately the current industry doesn't care about climate change (yay capitalism) so other factors need to be brought into play.
Even if you develop a hydrogen jet engine storing the fuel it needs is currently something we do not have the technology for since high pressure tanks are extremely heavy since they are metal and carbon fibre ones have far lower pressures
And yet...the Saturn V managed to store LH2 just fine. As did the Space Shuttle. And both of them flew....
Just fine is relative, as is "flew". The Saturn V had kerosene as the first stage propellant due to the low energy density of hydrogen. It produced the thrust necessary to get the damn heavy thing off the the ground, something LH2 was not capable of. LH2 only came into play at the second stage as it is far more efficient fuel to burn once moving.
While we're at it have you seen a crosssection of the LH2 storage tank? The thickness of insulation needed to keep the LH2 in liquid form at suitable pressures was wider than most fuel tanks are round. You can overcome a whole lot of hurdles when you have lots of space for your storage tank.
Car makers have been playing with hydrogen fuel for a while no. So far no one has come up with a method of doing it without bonding the hydrogen to some other material. Hydrogen storage is not a solved problem.
How is it not functionally a currency if I can buy things with it?
Is that sarcasm?
There's precisely two things that I can purchase with bitcoins: Sweet and Fuck All. Most attempts at using bitcoin as a currency as either been in one of the following forms: a) Silly marketing: e.g. Porche b) A failure: e.g. Steam c) Illegal stuff: e.g. About the only things that people are still using bitcoin as currency for.
That's cute. Most other media players have all that and more. Also claiming Winamp has visualizations is like saying that a 1970 Fiat 300 is a car. Yes, by definition it is. That doesn't mean there aren't far nicer ones around.
To be clear I don't use Winamp because it is inferior to many other options. While I don't know much about Plexamp including its memory use, there's a reason Winamp fell out of favour with many and that has nothing to do with it stopping doing what it was already capable of.
Rather: 1) People needed more. or 2) People were happy with anything, i.e. they didn't give a crap about the resource usage you hold so dear.
Fixed the summary for you. Even if you can get an internet-connected device that doesn't tout spying as a feature, the supply chain is full of counterfeits and tampered items.
There is one key benefit. With counterfeits and tampered items it is likely they may have broken the spying features.
it should be used for things other than 'to accommodate inefficient code'
It wasn't sarcasm. The problem is the vast majority of what people whinge about "inefficient code" isn't actually so, but rather code that simply provides more functionality, different visualisations etc.
Call it bloat if you will, if all you're after is a simple music player, but the reality is not even remotely as inefficient as you think, and with the cost of processing and RAM available to us there's no real requirement to count every cycle and optimise every instruction at the expense of the above.
BTW, love your solutions-oriented approach to things. The world is truly a better place with your contributions, thanks for being such a winner!
Yep blocking horrendous garbage spam from a news feed at the expense of a lost puppy really has made the world a truly better place. I'm glad you're on board.
If you think it's knee-jerk then you clearly don't use Facebook much. This spam is incredibly irritating.
While you're at it: "My kid/pet/grandparent is missing, please share" [algorithm downvotes] - has never solved an issue ever.
"Please share this link to find your local voting station" [algorithm downvotes] - if you can't find you local voting station without a friend sharing you a link then you are probably too dumb to vote anyway.
"Evacuation order in place, please share and get out" [algorithm downvotes] - no one issues evacuation orders on Facebook via "please share" posts. If you feel like getting these kinds of alerts then join the page of your local emergency services. That also provides far more authority to any messages you get.
it's just that in the end most electric cars will be hydrogen fuel cell based, where you can fuel up in a reasonable timeframe just like cars today.
Sorry but that's just ignoring the facts of the state of electric cars and the time spent filling up in normal cars.
1. Average time someone spends on a forecourt is 8minutes. 2. Electric cars that need a super fast charge are usually being driven over long distances. It's probably good you have a long break every 2 hours anyway before you become a danger to yourself and others on the road. Even then the newest charging stations can happily get you those next 2 hours in about 10min of charging. 3. Most electric cars rarely or never see a charging station. You don't need to replace petrol with fast chargers one to one. Some estimates from within the oil industry say you replace them 1:5 on highways and 1:10 in cities. You don't need to fill up a car if it has a "full tank" every morning.
means you cannot get a wideband allocation anymore. But you can get analog.
So by extension: An FM station stuck with these kind of requirements would start sounding a lot more like AM. The point is that FM is wasteful on spectrum.
Just because something isn't broken doesn't mean it can't be vastly improved, or needs to be vastly improved for that matter. Old coal fired power stations also aren't broken, that doesn't mean they don't need to be replaced with something better.
Every option available in the current context is explorable. On the flip side hiding those options in a list of unavailable and de-activated options is not user friendly.
has everything you need at the wrong places
Your "wrong places" is debatable. Personally I find it a great improvement in most of the office apps.
and only works via buttons
Except it doesn't.
The MS ribbon nonsense requires formal training to be able to use the Office packages and Outlook.
Only for people stuck in the early 90s who expect a menu with every option always available. For everyone else the ribbon is far more intuitive and easier to pick up.
And add Autodesk to the list of horrendous interfaces - though at least you can still type the same commands you could in 1993.
That is an interesting observation given the old command based system is one of the least user friendly ways of interacting with an application. There's no doubt for the expert it is a great benefit, but the world is built on experts alone.
I'm sorry, but having now used the ribbon for 6 or 7 years vs. having previously used the old menu systems for almost 20, I just haven't seen any productivity improvements
I have. The interesting thing is so have the millions of other people who more welcome context based options rather than menus of everything.
Okay facetiousness aside, this happens everywhere all the time. There's constantly people who mortgage their house for utterly stupid reasons. Frequently that doesn't pay back. Bitcoin is just the latest in that trend but it won't have any noticeable effect since all it's done is draw stupid people away from one stupid decision and towards another. I bet the rate of foreclosures won't even register a change when the bitcoin bubble bursts.
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making completely symbolic bans that will not provide alternative energy
It's not up to the government to create market winners. It's up to them to ban the ones that should lose.
A great many discoveries have been made on the backs of necessity. Unfortunately the current industry doesn't care about climate change (yay capitalism) so other factors need to be brought into play.
And yet...the Saturn V managed to store LH2 just fine. As did the Space Shuttle. And both of them flew....
Just fine is relative, as is "flew". The Saturn V had kerosene as the first stage propellant due to the low energy density of hydrogen. It produced the thrust necessary to get the damn heavy thing off the the ground, something LH2 was not capable of. LH2 only came into play at the second stage as it is far more efficient fuel to burn once moving.
While we're at it have you seen a crosssection of the LH2 storage tank? The thickness of insulation needed to keep the LH2 in liquid form at suitable pressures was wider than most fuel tanks are round. You can overcome a whole lot of hurdles when you have lots of space for your storage tank.
Car makers have been playing with hydrogen fuel for a while no. So far no one has come up with a method of doing it without bonding the hydrogen to some other material. Hydrogen storage is not a solved problem.
How is it not functionally a currency if I can buy things with it?
Is that sarcasm?
There's precisely two things that I can purchase with bitcoins: Sweet and Fuck All. Most attempts at using bitcoin as a currency as either been in one of the following forms:
a) Silly marketing: e.g. Porche
b) A failure: e.g. Steam
c) Illegal stuff: e.g. About the only things that people are still using bitcoin as currency for.
That's cute. Most other media players have all that and more. Also claiming Winamp has visualizations is like saying that a 1970 Fiat 300 is a car. Yes, by definition it is. That doesn't mean there aren't far nicer ones around.
To be clear I don't use Winamp because it is inferior to many other options. While I don't know much about Plexamp including its memory use, there's a reason Winamp fell out of favour with many and that has nothing to do with it stopping doing what it was already capable of.
Rather:
1) People needed more. or
2) People were happy with anything, i.e. they didn't give a crap about the resource usage you hold so dear.
Those most people who have 2GB of RAM aren't the multitaskers who are going to give a damn if a single app uses more than 10MB.
I don't know of any products in the EU/Belgium that have similar guarantees, hence the need for telegrams.
Registered mail exists in pretty much every country that has a mail system.
Fixed the summary for you. Even if you can get an internet-connected device that doesn't tout spying as a feature, the supply chain is full of counterfeits and tampered items.
There is one key benefit. With counterfeits and tampered items it is likely they may have broken the spying features.
No that is "open government" hell it's not even just governments, private corporations sue each other over this stuff constantly.
it should be used for things other than 'to accommodate inefficient code'
It wasn't sarcasm. The problem is the vast majority of what people whinge about "inefficient code" isn't actually so, but rather code that simply provides more functionality, different visualisations etc.
Call it bloat if you will, if all you're after is a simple music player, but the reality is not even remotely as inefficient as you think, and with the cost of processing and RAM available to us there's no real requirement to count every cycle and optimise every instruction at the expense of the above.
BTW, love your solutions-oriented approach to things. The world is truly a better place with your contributions, thanks for being such a winner!
Yep blocking horrendous garbage spam from a news feed at the expense of a lost puppy really has made the world a truly better place. I'm glad you're on board.
I would wager that this number is closer to 100%
Winamp is using 10.6 MB of RAM and 0.4% CPU on my machine right now
LOL, saving RAM in this day and age? The cold war is over man. Get yourself 32GB for Christmas and never look at your RAM consumption again.
Huh? Foobar doesn't do album art?
*stares at the album art visible in the foobar window*.
If you think it's knee-jerk then you clearly don't use Facebook much. This spam is incredibly irritating.
While you're at it:
"My kid/pet/grandparent is missing, please share" [algorithm downvotes] - has never solved an issue ever.
"Please share this link to find your local voting station" [algorithm downvotes] - if you can't find you local voting station without a friend sharing you a link then you are probably too dumb to vote anyway.
"Evacuation order in place, please share and get out" [algorithm downvotes] - no one issues evacuation orders on Facebook via "please share" posts. If you feel like getting these kinds of alerts then join the page of your local emergency services. That also provides far more authority to any messages you get.
You answered your own question as you asked it. It's "unwritten".
The thing is Facebook's algorithms promote things that are popular (i.e. liked by many, commented on by many, and shared by many).
This is nothing more than a battle against spam, not an attack on the fundamental reason people use Facebook.
If you disagree with this post: Comment
If you agree with this post: Share!
^^^ The kind of shit that it common in Facebook.
I bet you it does. The data is there, just needs a bit of massaging.
Or, you know, water. Which releases.... oxygen.
Also known as the most energy intensive way of creating hydrogen.
it's just that in the end most electric cars will be hydrogen fuel cell based, where you can fuel up in a reasonable timeframe just like cars today.
Sorry but that's just ignoring the facts of the state of electric cars and the time spent filling up in normal cars.
1. Average time someone spends on a forecourt is 8minutes.
2. Electric cars that need a super fast charge are usually being driven over long distances. It's probably good you have a long break every 2 hours anyway before you become a danger to yourself and others on the road. Even then the newest charging stations can happily get you those next 2 hours in about 10min of charging.
3. Most electric cars rarely or never see a charging station. You don't need to replace petrol with fast chargers one to one. Some estimates from within the oil industry say you replace them 1:5 on highways and 1:10 in cities. You don't need to fill up a car if it has a "full tank" every morning.
The exception there is ... commercial drivers.
What the F are they smoking?
There is no right to have people buy your products...
I'm not sure about the USA, but in many countries you do have the right not to be unfairly excluded from the procurement process.
means you cannot get a wideband allocation anymore. But you can get analog.
So by extension: An FM station stuck with these kind of requirements would start sounding a lot more like AM. The point is that FM is wasteful on spectrum.
Just because something isn't broken doesn't mean it can't be vastly improved, or needs to be vastly improved for that matter. Old coal fired power stations also aren't broken, that doesn't mean they don't need to be replaced with something better.
is not explorable
Every option available in the current context is explorable. On the flip side hiding those options in a list of unavailable and de-activated options is not user friendly.
has everything you need at the wrong places
Your "wrong places" is debatable. Personally I find it a great improvement in most of the office apps.
and only works via buttons
Except it doesn't.
The MS ribbon nonsense requires formal training to be able to use the Office packages and Outlook.
Only for people stuck in the early 90s who expect a menu with every option always available. For everyone else the ribbon is far more intuitive and easier to pick up.
My 1024x768 monitor weeps for your 2003 problem.
And add Autodesk to the list of horrendous interfaces - though at least you can still type the same commands you could in 1993.
That is an interesting observation given the old command based system is one of the least user friendly ways of interacting with an application. There's no doubt for the expert it is a great benefit, but the world is built on experts alone.
I'm sorry, but having now used the ribbon for 6 or 7 years vs. having previously used the old menu systems for almost 20, I just haven't seen any productivity improvements
I have. The interesting thing is so have the millions of other people who more welcome context based options rather than menus of everything.
Greater good.
Yeah both of those people are screwed.
Okay facetiousness aside, this happens everywhere all the time. There's constantly people who mortgage their house for utterly stupid reasons. Frequently that doesn't pay back. Bitcoin is just the latest in that trend but it won't have any noticeable effect since all it's done is draw stupid people away from one stupid decision and towards another. I bet the rate of foreclosures won't even register a change when the bitcoin bubble bursts.