Slashdot Mirror


User: Dorianny

Dorianny's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
952
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 952

  1. Re:This is complete bullshit on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Windpower does not add heat to the atmosphere of Earth, it just mixes around where it's hot and where it's cold. Greenhouse gases add heat energy (and thus average temperature) to the Earth's global atmosphere. These are completely different things. Attempting to conflate them is pro-fossil-fuel FUD.

    Windpower does not add heat to the atmosphere of Earth, it just mixes around where it's hot and where it's cold. Greenhouse gases add heat energy (and thus average temperature) to the Earth's global atmosphere. These are completely different things. Attempting to conflate them is pro-fossil-fuel FUD.

    There is a difference between global climate and local weather. Greenhouse gasses affect the global climate eventually affecting local weather, mass scale wind-generation affects wind patterns immediately affecting the local weather. As the report indicates, wind-generation can cause local weather to become warmer even without changes in global climate

  2. Re:Portable Docked Mode on Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    >"It'd be tempting to have it run at the docked clock speed while in portable mode"

    There is an easy solution to that. Give the user a CHOICE. I know, it isn't fashionable to let users decide. But a single setting option would allow the user to pick do they want higher performance or longer battery life. Cost $0.

    Unfortunately it is neither simple nor free. Batteries are limited in how much current they can deliver. If you overdraw the battery will exhaust in a almost exponential fashion and you even risk a system crash if the battery can't deliver. That's why Apple was throttling it's phones with spent batteries.

  3. Re:All theories were fringe theories at one point on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 2
    I'm guessing when you picked "relativity" as your example you didn't realize that the "general theory of relativity" is the theory which quarantined inertia contradicts.

    However its major weaknesses is that the transition point where Newtonian dynamics breaks down has to be “tuned” to fit observational data without giving a proper explanation of the adjustment. A good mathematician can tweak almost any theory to match observational data

  4. Re:Isn't this how science works? on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    Quarantined Inertia contradicts the "Equivalence principle" a basic postulate of Einstein's "General theory of relativity," one of the most tested theories in physics.

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  5. The problem is that if it fails, you will end up with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Hence the nuking

  6. Have they thought this thru on Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    I can see this working wonderfully in NYC apartments.

    Hey neighbor mind turning my lights off

  7. Re:Depends on how they got the lobbying group on Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The majority of farming is done by large entities (corporate or privately owned) which would never go without a maintenance contract. The small farmer (Not to be confused with the misleading "family farm" which can be as large as a major corporation,) is the one really interested in the right to repair. Obviously they doesn't hold much sway in the lobby. Whatever JD offered the lobby and their large member interests, obviously was enough to throw the small fry members under the bus

  8. Today's general purpose CPU's use their own microcode to control the processor. Your carefully crafted assembly is no longer directly controlling the CPU, it is being converted into whatever arcane microcode that CPU family is using.

    State diagrams on the other hand are still extremely useful

  9. Re:BUT 1.6 million? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing non-profit and charity. Non-profit simply means that it doesn't have a legal obligation to maximize profits for its shareholders.

    Non-profit do NOT have shareholders or private owners, nobody can own any piece of a non-profit. While non-profits can earn a surplus that income must be reinvested back into the non-profit.

  10. Re:Don't generalize this to welfare on Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid (wired.com) · · Score: 1
    Drug use among welfare recipients is very low around %3.6 which is far lower then the %8 of general population thought to use drugs. "Talking to the councilors" you will get a oven-representation of drug use as those are the sort of difficult cases they deal with most

    I will agree with you on one thing, our mental-healthcare system is extremely underfunded. We need to do more, especially for the most vulnerable

  11. Apple chose not to go all in on Is Apple's 3D Touch a 'Huge Waste' of Engineering Talent? · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem was that because it is not on all the range of hardware they sell, Apple couldn't integrate it as a core UI navigation tool and third party developers for the most part ignored it due to lack of consumer awareness

  12. Hurting the U.S by selling their T-bill holdings at below-value would cost China a fortune. It is a double-edged sward that will cut into them as much as into us.

    The rest of your comment is spot on. Trump is basically pissing away all the hard-earned friendships and good-will the U.S has gained from WW2-forward and willfully relinquishing its status as a global-leader

  13. Re:Do you have a problem with fair? on Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The U.S doesn't keep bases in Europe out of good will. It does because we want Russia to know that a potential war will be fought at their borders and very far away from ours

  14. every state has visitation rights. you can, and you should be evolved

  15. The scam is the father being required to do nothing more for their children then sending a check every month. Put a rubber on it if you don't want them

  16. The purpose of the rating system for costumer support is to put pressure on their staff to work as hard as they can for as little as possible. The rating system is quite useless for gauging performance, you have no idea whether the person giving a bad rating was mad at the rep or company policies

  17. A shrinking workforce is extremely bad for the country. You need workers to cover benefits for retirees and public debt. Just look at Japan and its stagnant economy, what they call the "lost decades". The replacement rate is 2.1. In the U.S it is at 1.8 , if it weren't for immigration we would be shrinking just like Japan. In the U.S each taxpayer already owes 150,000 in public debt

  18. Every state has child-support laws

  19. Re:well now ... on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The EU commissioners are chosen by the elected governments of each State just like U.S Senators were before the 13th amendment. Any proposed law has to be approved by the EU parliament which is directly elected. The big problem with the EU is that politicians have found it very easy to blame their failures on the "faceless EU technocrats" instead of owning up to them. Italian politicians even blamed the EU for the recent bridge collapse in Genoa

  20. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1
    It is pretty amazing watching you come up with irrelevant nonsense post after post so you can avoid owning up to the truth that:

    You turned my post of "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

    into your fake quote of "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

  21. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1
    You can try to deflect all you want. facts remain:

    You turned my post of "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

    into your fake quote of "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

  22. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1
    evidence: You turned my post of "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

    into your fake quote of "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

    It is all in the thread for everyone to see, but obviously facts and evidence don't mean anything to you

    Since you can't refute the facts you just troll with pointless posts about creationists. You are not fooling anyone

  23. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1
    Fact: you fake quoted "sovereign states cannot have too much power"

    Now tell me about your "beliefs"

  24. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1

    facts are facts. Since you can't refute them, I guess the only thing you can do is hurl insults. Pathetic!

  25. Re:EU Parliament resolutions are non-binding on EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair (retaildetail.eu) · · Score: 1
    Fact: my post:

    "Each state get one Commissioner appointed by the elected government of the State. Germany has one vote and so does Malta. Not a Democracy but very fair to all member states, much like the idea behind the U.S Senate. In fact U.S Senators were appointed by States until the 17th amendment was passed. To ensure that smaller States don't have too much power, legislation must be approved by the European Parliament which has representation based on population, just like the U.S Congress"

    Fact: your post

    Each major ruling family got a senator in the early Roman Senate. Hence the comparison. Please stop pretending that this is somehow "undemocratic but fair". Especially considering that you follow up is that "sovereign states cannot have too much power" which indicates that you are anti-sovereignty of the states in addition to being anti-democratic. A common view for Pan-European supremacists. For those ignorant of history, people who are against sovereignty of the European states are the people who drowned continent in blood every time they managed to rise to power in a significantly powerful power structure.

    Fact: you fake quoted "sovereign states cannot have too much power"