In this thread/. "nuclear experts" will decry just how costly all this solar stuff is and how great and awesome and cheap nuclear power is. All that on a story about how a multi billion dollar energy company couldn't get a nuclear power plant off the ground even after $800 million dollars.
You're confusing technology with regulatory cost and garbage overheads caused by politics and NIMBYs. Don't do that, it makes you look foolish.
Oh and maybe you want to run the costs of how much 2.2GW of solar with >90% capacity factors will actually cost. But you won't. You'll just see that a large nuclear plant got cancelled while a small piss-weak solar plant gets built in its place. Then in a few years everyone will wonder why we're still burning coal, suffering from rolling power outages, and where all the money has gone.
You know the big problem with the solar panels on your roof? Well nothing technically other than the fact that it has nothing to do with the discussion.
On the other hand the 260 sq km of area needed to generate the 2.2GW of power, capacity factors taken into account, will have quite a different effect on those walking deers.
Solar belongs on roofs, it shouldn't be blanketing vast areas of nature.
The USERS are the people who destroyed the equipment.
And yet on any other day the users don't seem to destroy the equipment. It's like there was some mitigating event that people weren't prepared for.
In other news, all the home owners in Texas destroyed their own houses because they didn't have them built just right to withstand the right amount of water.
A completely bare bones and low level access to a CPU provides far more control than any other method, that doesn't mean that abstraction layers aren't also "better".
It's "a better frame work" because the old one is garbage, slow, buggy, insecure, and contributes heavily to that one thing people like to complain about: memory leaks. Forgive me for not giving a shit that it doesn't allow you to change some elements of the theme.
Since firefox have disregarded what was great about their browser, i.e. the extensions, they are effectively killing it.
Disregarded them by providing a better frame work and a whole 2 year period for developers to port over? Let me help you: http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
It may well be that he still used an ancient machine to actually write his novels that he had been using for some time. If all you're doing is some simple word processing, you could probably get by with using something from the 80's. Probably not a bad idea if you don't want the possibility of distraction.
Hate to break that lovely idea, but Terry Pratchett was the opposite. He was a big advocate of complicated Word processors, used MS Word to write his novels, and did so with all the wonderful distraction of a computer with 6 monitors. Here's a picture of his writing workdesk from an older BBC interview: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/image...
He often quoted as never being without a computer and frequently moved between laptop and the many computers he had in his house.
Not to mention that his last few novels he was using dictation software. It's about as complicated and far from the "quirky weird writers" as it can get.
Correction the shield indicates scripts from untrusted sources. But all the tell tales of the security session are missing. They didn't obtain a valid certificate for the site.
so either the screen shot is fake or they also managed to get hold of a certificate for wikileaks.org
Or more likely you misinterpreted the screenshot.
I see https://wikileaks.org./ I also see an exclamation mark beside it on the left. I also see the broken security icon to the right. No where do I see the characteristic green indication that most browsers will display when a certificate chain is trusted.
I'll bet they have a self signed certificate on the site.
Firefox is supposed to be the browser that people use because they care - they want to customize, they want features, they want control
Yep, and the less than 10% of internet users who care about that stuff actually use it. Don't confuse the general public with the desires of the Slashdot IT elite. Most people couldn't care less about customisation. A few of the general public care only enough to use something that allows them to install an ad blocker, but most don't even care about that.
They want simple, elegant, functional, and out of the way, not at all the browser that Slashdot envisages as ideal.
You can do something with a horse, but can do nothing with a cart that has no horse. It's not a good analogy when discussing content. A real analogy would be which came first the chicken or the egg.
You can't do anything with 8K content without 8K screens, and you can't do anything with 8K screens without 8K content. Choosing to develop either is not a question of carts before horses.
Not quite. The idea is that we all have 4k in that the technology is done and the natural progression is complete. i.e. when your TV dies the likelihood is that the replacement will be a 4k TV.
We all "have" 4k. It's available to us whenever we want to part with the money. There's no point for a display company to develop 4k any further. There's nothing to differentiate a technology company from it's competitors with this technology anymore.
If you think that is a big number for a manufacturer of both equipment and associated consumables all while struggling to expand your market then your in for a surprise of you ever go into business.
Not at all. If they were the juice version of the Keurig then they would be in this mess. There's nothing over priced about Keurig machines and the machines aren't the primary product. These idiots ran their company in the opposite way.
With great difficulty. You see the electrician who wired this apartment has two sets of two double pole switches at opposite sides of the living room. The idea was that each set could independently control the two lights in the living room, but the problem is the lights in the living room are wired up in parallel. This leads to 16 possible combinations of switches of which only 4 are capable of turning off the lights in the living room in addition to the problem that I am unable to control both lights independently.
Texas is on the other side of the world and my little piece of the earth is doing just fine. But what really grinds my gears,... the 1 in 4 chance that I fail to turn off the lights at night.
the union problem goes away because why would anyone want it?
You're assuming the union wants to unionise the plant for the better conditions of the workers.
Unions have ulterior motives too, a key one being self preservation and expansion (accumulation of power). Sure this often benefits the workers but just because the workers are already getting good conditions doesn't mean there isn't a continued drive for the above two.
to daily bitcoin articles? At least we knew where we stood with bitcoin articles, unlike this {$ALTCOINNAME}coin garbage that no one can keep track of.
I challenge you to burn more than a calorie when squeezing juice. If your heart rate raises by more than 1bpm for more than 30 seconds you should see a doctor about your fitness.
1. Microsoft Windows 10 which removes user control and adds spying/telemetry/etc.
2. Tim Cook as the CEO of Apple believes iPad Pro can replace computers, macOS is receiving mostly visual updates that do nothing and even removes useful features for pro users and Mac updates are a joke, they remove things users need, add features no one asked for and the machines are more overpriced than ever.
Yeah sure. After 2 years of Windows 10 without any upgrade or anything out of the ordinary, a long time after the release of the iPad Pro, and out of bounds with any MacOS release, suddenly from one month to the other there was a near 50% increase in Linux usage.
You're right. It is easy to explain when your mouth (or fingers) are not attached to a functioning brain.
Linux has already won. Poeple don't really know it yet.
That's like saying I won because I'm the fastest person... in my house. Linux hasn't won in the market that we're talking about, and that many people care about. No one gives a crap what runs on their phones, and calling it a win for Linux is a perversion of everything Linux and Open Source stands for.
Well if they are too tight to shell out for a pro version of Windows that lets them defer feature updates then they have to participate in the beta testing of their free OS.
Because what you are saying is already done. Window's loaded memory footprint has been reducing with each release since Vista. What you're complaining about is harddisk space, and not some running bloat that will slow down your system.
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In this thread /. "nuclear experts" will decry just how costly all this solar stuff is and how great and awesome and cheap nuclear power is. All that on a story about how a multi billion dollar energy company couldn't get a nuclear power plant off the ground even after $800 million dollars.
You're confusing technology with regulatory cost and garbage overheads caused by politics and NIMBYs. Don't do that, it makes you look foolish.
Oh and maybe you want to run the costs of how much 2.2GW of solar with >90% capacity factors will actually cost. But you won't. You'll just see that a large nuclear plant got cancelled while a small piss-weak solar plant gets built in its place. Then in a few years everyone will wonder why we're still burning coal, suffering from rolling power outages, and where all the money has gone.
You know the big problem with the solar panels on your roof? Well nothing technically other than the fact that it has nothing to do with the discussion.
On the other hand the 260 sq km of area needed to generate the 2.2GW of power, capacity factors taken into account, will have quite a different effect on those walking deers.
Solar belongs on roofs, it shouldn't be blanketing vast areas of nature.
The USERS are the people who destroyed the equipment.
And yet on any other day the users don't seem to destroy the equipment. It's like there was some mitigating event that people weren't prepared for.
In other news, all the home owners in Texas destroyed their own houses because they didn't have them built just right to withstand the right amount of water.
And you call it "a better frame work"?
A completely bare bones and low level access to a CPU provides far more control than any other method, that doesn't mean that abstraction layers aren't also "better".
It's "a better frame work" because the old one is garbage, slow, buggy, insecure, and contributes heavily to that one thing people like to complain about: memory leaks. Forgive me for not giving a shit that it doesn't allow you to change some elements of the theme.
Since firefox have disregarded what was great about their browser, i.e. the extensions, they are effectively killing it.
Disregarded them by providing a better frame work and a whole 2 year period for developers to port over? Let me help you: http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
Doubt it. It's a new beginning.
Err double doubt it. It's business as usual.
Continue to make these unfounded assertions
I take you you don't know or understand most people.
It may well be that he still used an ancient machine to actually write his novels that he had been using for some time. If all you're doing is some simple word processing, you could probably get by with using something from the 80's. Probably not a bad idea if you don't want the possibility of distraction.
Hate to break that lovely idea, but Terry Pratchett was the opposite. He was a big advocate of complicated Word processors, used MS Word to write his novels, and did so with all the wonderful distraction of a computer with 6 monitors.
Here's a picture of his writing workdesk from an older BBC interview: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/image...
He often quoted as never being without a computer and frequently moved between laptop and the many computers he had in his house.
Not to mention that his last few novels he was using dictation software. It's about as complicated and far from the "quirky weird writers" as it can get.
Correction the shield indicates scripts from untrusted sources. But all the tell tales of the security session are missing. They didn't obtain a valid certificate for the site.
so either the screen shot is fake or they also managed to get hold of a certificate for wikileaks.org
Or more likely you misinterpreted the screenshot.
I see https://wikileaks.org./ I also see an exclamation mark beside it on the left. I also see the broken security icon to the right. No where do I see the characteristic green indication that most browsers will display when a certificate chain is trusted.
I'll bet they have a self signed certificate on the site.
Firefox is supposed to be the browser that people use because they care - they want to customize, they want features, they want control
Yep, and the less than 10% of internet users who care about that stuff actually use it. Don't confuse the general public with the desires of the Slashdot IT elite. Most people couldn't care less about customisation. A few of the general public care only enough to use something that allows them to install an ad blocker, but most don't even care about that.
They want simple, elegant, functional, and out of the way, not at all the browser that Slashdot envisages as ideal.
You can do something with a horse, but can do nothing with a cart that has no horse. It's not a good analogy when discussing content. A real analogy would be which came first the chicken or the egg.
You can't do anything with 8K content without 8K screens, and you can't do anything with 8K screens without 8K content. Choosing to develop either is not a question of carts before horses.
Not quite. The idea is that we all have 4k in that the technology is done and the natural progression is complete. i.e. when your TV dies the likelihood is that the replacement will be a 4k TV.
We all "have" 4k. It's available to us whenever we want to part with the money. There's no point for a display company to develop 4k any further. There's nothing to differentiate a technology company from it's competitors with this technology anymore.
The real problem on content quality to me. Not image quality!
There's plenty of high quality content coming out of places other than Hollywood.
If you think that is a big number for a manufacturer of both equipment and associated consumables all while struggling to expand your market then your in for a surprise of you ever go into business.
Not at all. If they were the juice version of the Keurig then they would be in this mess. There's nothing over priced about Keurig machines and the machines aren't the primary product. These idiots ran their company in the opposite way.
How do you turn off your lights at night?
With great difficulty. You see the electrician who wired this apartment has two sets of two double pole switches at opposite sides of the living room. The idea was that each set could independently control the two lights in the living room, but the problem is the lights in the living room are wired up in parallel. This leads to 16 possible combinations of switches of which only 4 are capable of turning off the lights in the living room in addition to the problem that I am unable to control both lights independently.
Texas is on the other side of the world and my little piece of the earth is doing just fine. But what really grinds my gears, ... the 1 in 4 chance that I fail to turn off the lights at night.
the union problem goes away because why would anyone want it?
You're assuming the union wants to unionise the plant for the better conditions of the workers.
Unions have ulterior motives too, a key one being self preservation and expansion (accumulation of power). Sure this often benefits the workers but just because the workers are already getting good conditions doesn't mean there isn't a continued drive for the above two.
to daily bitcoin articles? At least we knew where we stood with bitcoin articles, unlike this {$ALTCOINNAME}coin garbage that no one can keep track of.
Calories need to be burned somehow.
I challenge you to burn more than a calorie when squeezing juice. If your heart rate raises by more than 1bpm for more than 30 seconds you should see a doctor about your fitness.
1. Microsoft Windows 10 which removes user control and adds spying/telemetry/etc.
2. Tim Cook as the CEO of Apple believes iPad Pro can replace computers, macOS is receiving mostly visual updates that do nothing and even removes useful features for pro users and Mac updates are a joke, they remove things users need, add features no one asked for and the machines are more overpriced than ever.
Yeah sure. After 2 years of Windows 10 without any upgrade or anything out of the ordinary, a long time after the release of the iPad Pro, and out of bounds with any MacOS release, suddenly from one month to the other there was a near 50% increase in Linux usage.
You're right. It is easy to explain when your mouth (or fingers) are not attached to a functioning brain.
Linux has already won. Poeple don't really know it yet.
That's like saying I won because I'm the fastest person ... in my house.
Linux hasn't won in the market that we're talking about, and that many people care about. No one gives a crap what runs on their phones, and calling it a win for Linux is a perversion of everything Linux and Open Source stands for.
... two notebooks here that used to run Windows are now running a Debian distribution of Linux.
That explains that almost 100% increase in Linux usage.
Well if they are too tight to shell out for a pro version of Windows that lets them defer feature updates then they have to participate in the beta testing of their free OS.
Because what you are saying is already done. Window's loaded memory footprint has been reducing with each release since Vista. What you're complaining about is harddisk space, and not some running bloat that will slow down your system.