To be honest there is a lot of paper it isn't printed on. The annual turnover for the paper industry is in the millions, probably more but I can't be arsed to find a number for a joke.
They didn't betray their country. They betrayed their jobs, betrayed their bosses and breached contract. Exposing government idiocy and corruption is not betraying the country.
While water electrolysis may be easy to do on a small scale in high school, that does not mean it's feasible in a large scale. In large scale there are massive problems with corrosion of the electrodes. The high school electrodes corrode to, but it doesn't last long enough to make this noticeable. Running electricity from an electrode into water means it corrodes fast. Even if it's the best stainless steel you can afford. And for hydrogen there is a safety and storage problem. Hydrogen burns in air in any mixture between 4% and 75%. That's a large range, thus safety is difficult. Hydrogen has a low density. It may offer a lot of power per kg, it does need a lot of m3 to make a kg of hydrogen. Thus you need to store it in high pressure tanks or exotic solutions.
#1 isn't really true. It's a trade-off between durability and capacity. This trade-off is made by the manufacturer. Sadly a high battery capacity looks nicer in the specs. The durability suffers from that.
The charger got smarter and they use more data that's just not available to the user. If a manufacturer wants to prevent customer dissatisfaction over these sort of things he can't rely on the customer to do the correct thing. Once upon a time it wasn't possible to do this with a decent charge controller. Nowadays a decent charge controller isn't all that expensive anymore. A decent one will know the max capacity and measure the energy supplied. That gives it the rest capacity. Probably the battery manufacturer loaded the charge controller with a decent algorithm to predict the degradation, because if the battery never reaches 100 % then its difficult to check the max.
The short peaks of power usage that new processors do should be pulled from a few electrolytic capacitors and a few tantalum capacitors (for those pesky ns power drains). A Pentium 4 pulled about 70-90 amps peak. No way that came directly from the powersupply. There was a large array of capacitors on each motherboard to buffer for those power draws. Inside the socket was an open space. Usually there were a few high speed capacitors there to buffer for the fast pulses. Newer processors will have a similar power requirement. If the MBA would draw pulses like that directly from the battery then it wouldn't last a week. Probably not even first boot. If they choose to keep the capacitance low (never zero) due to space requirements then that would cost battery durability. With details and testing this can be optimized to 1.5 times the warranty. Note: I have no information on the capacitance on the powerlines in an MBA. I have no information on durability of MBA batteries or the projections and calculations done for it by Apple.
As for the older battery: it is true that there is a balance between rechargabilty and capacity of any battery. A company with custom batteries can set the slide anywhere between "will last 10.000 charges with 80% left but the initial capacity is crap" to "Has a freakishly large capacity but will be at 50% after a hundred charges". The advancement in battery technology is both to make batteries that don't have that trade off as much and to increase either maximum. The 2009 battery will have that balance set to more charges. Coupled with the advances in battery technology that means the capacity (per cubic cm of battery) is a lot lower. Probably less than half.
You are allowed to generate RF at 2.4 GHz, but at a limited power. In the Netherlands you are allowed to put 20 mA into an antenna, more would require a license. In the USA this is a lot higher. If you choose to dismantle a microwave oven and turn the magnetron radio emitter on without shielding there will probably be consequences, aside from the severe burns if you leave it on to long. And a microwave is in the 2.4 GHz band, so according to you "You're perfectly allowed to generate RF in these band." I have no idea what intensity of noise these devices need to send their signals, but if it is above the max you can send then the power device may be illegal.
Even with a space elevator orbital speed is a lot. A space elevator will help you with getting the material up there, true, but it also imparts orbital speed on the elevator cart. "For each action an equal and opposite reaction" means that the counterweight is going to lose it's orbit a bit for each object accelerated to that speed. Unless you compensate for that loss the elevator is going down and you are going to have a lot of very angry people. And a lot of very dead people.
You choose to give your work away for free. Good choice. But it is your choice, since it's your work. Not everyone feels like that. Some choose to ask money directly for their work, some choose to display advertising to pay for their work. That's also the choice of the creator. If you don't want to pay for the work with advertising then you can simply not use it. There are plenty of websites that I don't use because I dislike the amount of adds they display. Their loss, because that does limit the income from adds. But blocking the adds and using the work anyway is dodgy at best IMHO. We don't have to agree on that, you can feel different. I won't hate you for it.
They pay for the use you have of the sites. Do you really think Google's servers run on unicorn farts? Do you pay Google for the electricity for their servers? And their bandwith?
Separate from that crappy scrips are not required to display an ad. Noscript is necessary and sufficient to prevent what the article is talking about. Adblock isn't required and could be considered theft. If you don't want the site owner to be paid for the service he provides you then you can always choose not to use that site. Using the site but preventing them from getting paid is dodgy at best IMHO.
Because search engines still have trouble identifying who is in a picture. If, however, that picture is tagged with "Bob" and "Sarah" then the search engine can easily find that "Bob" is in the picture. Thus if you search for "Bob" then the search engine can find all pictures tagged with "Bob".
Right now this has to be done by hand. Humans are not good at these things, because we are often to lazy to tag and such. That's why companies like Google and Facebook are busy to auto-generate the tags based on the image. This is computer intensive work and I do not know how far they have advanced yet.
My experience:
You can place IKEA furniture (or other brand cheap fiberwood) and use it for years without problems.
You can take it apart and reassemble it. There may be some additional play on the connections, but nothing major. If you are a klutz and bump into your furniture all the time this little bit of play will become a large bit of play and the furniture is destroyed.
If you do not bump into your furniture all the time, you can disassemble it again and reassemble it. But you'll have to use a filling glue in the joints. Polyurethane worked perfectly with the old fiber boards, dunno about the new (polyurethane doesn't work on MDF).
The next time you take it apart you'll need a hammer.
Now my old oak furniture is a bit different. You just can't take that apart. That 4 m long cabinet is going to take at least a 4 m long trailer. Granted, it'll survive that transport a lot more times than the fiber board ones.
You mean something like this:
the Bio lite stove?
That doesn't help you find your way in the cold dark when all batteries die because it's -20C outside. Her project would help.
Not as much as would be used by a car and fertilizers can be quite easily replaced by dung, if really required that dung can probably be reprocessed to fertilizers, along with human waste. If, and that's a big if, a large part of the population would not eat meat but a replacement 5 times a week (still 2 times a week eating meat) the CO2 production for the extra food would probably be nullified.
Not a big problem at my office. If it's available to me then it's available to most in the company. If and when the situation arises that I can't leave the computer during booting I will be damn sure to kick the financial administration into giving me a project number to write those minutes on.
By the way, I also walk away during the booting itself (pre-logon). I just come back to logon and walk away again.
It's not that I am bored, I just want to divide my time neatly between fun and work. Waiting falls in neither so I try to minimize it.
Although I do get bored easily, I can and do Wait For It. I just try not to wait for IT.
Why would you sit and wait for that? I usually grab a cup of coffee, go to the toilet, read some stuff that's on the todo pile or look at one of the projects for the coming day (we still have a lot of paper at my office).
For security reasons I would like a feature "download profile and lock computer" because I am often not at my desk when the login is complete.
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To be honest there is a lot of paper it isn't printed on. The annual turnover for the paper industry is in the millions, probably more but I can't be arsed to find a number for a joke.
They didn't betray their country. They betrayed their jobs, betrayed their bosses and breached contract. Exposing government idiocy and corruption is not betraying the country.
While water electrolysis may be easy to do on a small scale in high school, that does not mean it's feasible in a large scale.
In large scale there are massive problems with corrosion of the electrodes. The high school electrodes corrode to, but it doesn't last long enough to make this noticeable.
Running electricity from an electrode into water means it corrodes fast. Even if it's the best stainless steel you can afford.
And for hydrogen there is a safety and storage problem. Hydrogen burns in air in any mixture between 4% and 75%. That's a large range, thus safety is difficult.
Hydrogen has a low density. It may offer a lot of power per kg, it does need a lot of m3 to make a kg of hydrogen. Thus you need to store it in high pressure tanks or exotic solutions.
#1 isn't really true. It's a trade-off between durability and capacity. This trade-off is made by the manufacturer.
Sadly a high battery capacity looks nicer in the specs. The durability suffers from that.
The charger got smarter and they use more data that's just not available to the user.
If a manufacturer wants to prevent customer dissatisfaction over these sort of things he can't rely on the customer to do the correct thing. Once upon a time it wasn't possible to do this with a decent charge controller. Nowadays a decent charge controller isn't all that expensive anymore.
A decent one will know the max capacity and measure the energy supplied. That gives it the rest capacity.
Probably the battery manufacturer loaded the charge controller with a decent algorithm to predict the degradation, because if the battery never reaches 100 % then its difficult to check the max.
The short peaks of power usage that new processors do should be pulled from a few electrolytic capacitors and a few tantalum capacitors (for those pesky ns power drains).
A Pentium 4 pulled about 70-90 amps peak. No way that came directly from the powersupply. There was a large array of capacitors on each motherboard to buffer for those power draws. Inside the socket was an open space. Usually there were a few high speed capacitors there to buffer for the fast pulses.
Newer processors will have a similar power requirement.
If the MBA would draw pulses like that directly from the battery then it wouldn't last a week. Probably not even first boot.
If they choose to keep the capacitance low (never zero) due to space requirements then that would cost battery durability. With details and testing this can be optimized to 1.5 times the warranty.
Note: I have no information on the capacitance on the powerlines in an MBA. I have no information on durability of MBA batteries or the projections and calculations done for it by Apple.
As for the older battery: it is true that there is a balance between rechargabilty and capacity of any battery. A company with custom batteries can set the slide anywhere between "will last 10.000 charges with 80% left but the initial capacity is crap" to "Has a freakishly large capacity but will be at 50% after a hundred charges". The advancement in battery technology is both to make batteries that don't have that trade off as much and to increase either maximum.
The 2009 battery will have that balance set to more charges. Coupled with the advances in battery technology that means the capacity (per cubic cm of battery) is a lot lower. Probably less than half.
You are allowed to generate RF at 2.4 GHz, but at a limited power. In the Netherlands you are allowed to put 20 mA into an antenna, more would require a license. In the USA this is a lot higher.
If you choose to dismantle a microwave oven and turn the magnetron radio emitter on without shielding there will probably be consequences, aside from the severe burns if you leave it on to long. And a microwave is in the 2.4 GHz band, so according to you "You're perfectly allowed to generate RF in these band."
I have no idea what intensity of noise these devices need to send their signals, but if it is above the max you can send then the power device may be illegal.
Even with a space elevator orbital speed is a lot. A space elevator will help you with getting the material up there, true, but it also imparts orbital speed on the elevator cart.
"For each action an equal and opposite reaction" means that the counterweight is going to lose it's orbit a bit for each object accelerated to that speed. Unless you compensate for that loss the elevator is going down and you are going to have a lot of very angry people. And a lot of very dead people.
Ob. XKCD: Swimming in a spent fuel pool"
They can take my doomsday machine when they pry my cold dead hands from the detonator button!
You choose to give your work away for free. Good choice.
But it is your choice, since it's your work. Not everyone feels like that. Some choose to ask money directly for their work, some choose to display advertising to pay for their work. That's also the choice of the creator.
If you don't want to pay for the work with advertising then you can simply not use it. There are plenty of websites that I don't use because I dislike the amount of adds they display. Their loss, because that does limit the income from adds.
But blocking the adds and using the work anyway is dodgy at best IMHO. We don't have to agree on that, you can feel different. I won't hate you for it.
Blanked disabling Javascript means large portions of the internet become useless, so NoScript is a better solution IMHO anyway.
They pay for the use you have of the sites. Do you really think Google's servers run on unicorn farts?
Do you pay Google for the electricity for their servers? And their bandwith?
Separate from that crappy scrips are not required to display an ad. Noscript is necessary and sufficient to prevent what the article is talking about.
Adblock isn't required and could be considered theft. If you don't want the site owner to be paid for the service he provides you then you can always choose not to use that site. Using the site but preventing them from getting paid is dodgy at best IMHO.
Because search engines still have trouble identifying who is in a picture. If, however, that picture is tagged with "Bob" and "Sarah" then the search engine can easily find that "Bob" is in the picture. Thus if you search for "Bob" then the search engine can find all pictures tagged with "Bob".
Right now this has to be done by hand. Humans are not good at these things, because we are often to lazy to tag and such. That's why companies like Google and Facebook are busy to auto-generate the tags based on the image. This is computer intensive work and I do not know how far they have advanced yet.
My intestinal bacteria have a sitcom. It has been very popular since they installed cable, although it's not very funny IMHO.
Didn't he start with light?
The error is smaller if you consider that he started with creating the universe.
That he took so long is also a sign of incompetence. The Great Spaghetti Monster does it millions of times per second!
My experience:
You can place IKEA furniture (or other brand cheap fiberwood) and use it for years without problems.
You can take it apart and reassemble it. There may be some additional play on the connections, but nothing major. If you are a klutz and bump into your furniture all the time this little bit of play will become a large bit of play and the furniture is destroyed.
If you do not bump into your furniture all the time, you can disassemble it again and reassemble it. But you'll have to use a filling glue in the joints. Polyurethane worked perfectly with the old fiber boards, dunno about the new (polyurethane doesn't work on MDF).
The next time you take it apart you'll need a hammer.
Now my old oak furniture is a bit different. You just can't take that apart. That 4 m long cabinet is going to take at least a 4 m long trailer. Granted, it'll survive that transport a lot more times than the fiber board ones.
You mean something like this: the Bio lite stove? That doesn't help you find your way in the cold dark when all batteries die because it's -20C outside. Her project would help.
Not as much as would be used by a car and fertilizers can be quite easily replaced by dung, if really required that dung can probably be reprocessed to fertilizers, along with human waste.
If, and that's a big if, a large part of the population would not eat meat but a replacement 5 times a week (still 2 times a week eating meat) the CO2 production for the extra food would probably be nullified.
Don't you walk in a random until you meet a wall or object at your work? I must be doing something wrong.
Not a big problem at my office. If it's available to me then it's available to most in the company.
If and when the situation arises that I can't leave the computer during booting I will be damn sure to kick the financial administration into giving me a project number to write those minutes on.
By the way, I also walk away during the booting itself (pre-logon). I just come back to logon and walk away again.
It's not that I am bored, I just want to divide my time neatly between fun and work. Waiting falls in neither so I try to minimize it.
Although I do get bored easily, I can and do Wait For It. I just try not to wait for IT.
- No. It's a heart-lung machine that's currently in use. I did not turn it off. - No. I run Fedora. - No. I can't find the switch.
Why would you sit and wait for that? I usually grab a cup of coffee, go to the toilet, read some stuff that's on the todo pile or look at one of the projects for the coming day (we still have a lot of paper at my office).
For security reasons I would like a feature "download profile and lock computer" because I am often not at my desk when the login is complete.
It's an advantage for the bank if it cooperates. The banks that are not cooperating have quite a big disadvantage.