Damn. That should have read: "more of the simple lighting devices". Because of their limited lifespan, you'll quite simply need an increased number. Not to forget that the energy needs to produce LEDs have gone way down.
The energy "consumed" in a typical household for lighting amounts to approximately 10% of total energy usage.
German households consumed 609 billion kWh in 2012. Which means that using LEDs everywhere would reduce lighting usage by 75% - resulting in a total reduction by ~46 billion kWh.
This amount of energy amounts averagely to two(2) 2,6 MW power plants. That's the numbers for Germany. Of course, in 2012 we already had LEDs and stuff, so the real number would be lower. Maybe 50%? But that would stll get rid of one whole power plant. I dare say that is pretty significant.
While we were forced to use DPI in order to catch people torrenting movies (our university threatened to pull the plug otherwise!), we also used it to catch the inevitable Worm infections or Botnets.
Such computers were isolated from the rest of the net and (almost) all HTTP traffic was redirected (save for traffic to know antivirus software providers) to a page which stated that their computed was infected with Zeus, Conficker or whatever else is floating around there. And that they were to clean up their PCs and that we also recommended a complete wipe. They then had to type in "Yes, I understand" and were given a 24 hour grace period. If, after that time period, their PC was still infected they were off the net until they proved a complete reinstall to us.
Since every part of our body is replaced on a regular basis by our own cells, we're always not the "same" person at some point in time. The questio should rather be: "Do we view such nanotech as the equivalent to the already existing biological replacements?"
What kind of stuff are you smoking for regarding "number of pages written" as a valid sign of quality?
When I'm grading my students, I take the number of pages as a very rough indicator on how much time they spent (with all other stuff like text size, paragraphs,... being equal). Doesn't mean, however, that this quantity equals quality.
And even if he did tell them the criteria before - that still doesn't make it a good criteria. And blindly following instructions is never a good idea.
What the fuck! We don't have those laws around here and the judge will beat you around with a clue-by-four if you suggest that you were allowed to escalate the situation by using lethal force needlessly.
Lead-acid batteries are quite easily recycled. Granted, you have to take care due to the lead - then again, the other batteries have similar problems. On the other hand, they're quite simple: Lead, sulfuric acid and that's about it. No exotic materials.
Those are locked-down consoles. Might be a trifle difficult to install a direct competitor on such a device. You're pretty naive if you think that AMD can simply provide such tools against the wishes of the creators of the console.
Not to mention that I'd be wary because even if you got it to run, you as a developer might simply be hit by the banhammer for using an inofficial API.
Right. Cross platform would be important, especially if the API appeared on the next-gen consoles.
However, I can't really see Microsoft implementing this API on their console. And I don't think Sony will do that either.
And then there's the fact that a game developer now needs to implement two APIs - and if "Mantle" is actually closer to the hardware then there won't be much portability between the two. Which makes this somewhat dead in the water.
Of course they could pass those tests. All questions there can be solved by memorizing facts and using simplistic algorithms.
If you're seriously proposing that test as a shining example, then you should be kept as far from a school curriculum as possible. Maybe you should try to find out what problem "teaching to the test" poses and why your precious test is a perfect example for exactly that problem.
Maybe you should read my last sentence again to see that I actually didn't miss it. And he has a "deeper grasp" on the situation for pointing out the basic fact that employers and employees have competing interests? If that is what amounts to a "deeper grasp" around here in your eyes then I've got a castle in Slovania to sell to you.
Ah, yes, the famous "You need to be / have done [insert whatever area of interest here] to be allowed to give a meaningful statement!" argument.
By that yardstick, one must be a thief to be allowed to judge over thieves, be a taxi driver to say anything regarding taxi drivers or be a Christian to be allowed to discuss the Bible.
Or where [i]else[/i] do you want to take this vein of discussion? Because I can't see it going anywhere else. "No judgement", my ass.
Instability in organic molecules does not neccessarily mean that it reacts with gasses in the air (namely oxygen).
It usually means that there's a more stable form it will inevitably convert to. There are countless conversion reactions in organic molecules - exposure to heat, air or light usually only fastens the process. Preventing exposure to these factors does not stop the degradation, however.
Take batteries as an example. LiIon batteries will degrade regardless of outside factors - and those are pretty much isolated systems. It's only the speed of the degradation you can influence. But rule was, whatever you do, after about three years you'd take a massive hit to the capacity of LiIon batteries.
Yes, I forgot to add "supported in all browsers capable of displaying images". I know there are more image formats out there.
However, this is about the image support in browsers. Thus your list makes no sense. Then again, this is slashdot where one has to list any and all qualifiers, just so you don't get jumped on because you didn't cover the use case the article wasn't about.
"Of course, a hardware security system that is too complex to verify seems like a fatal flaw."
Then again, who is telling us that they actually bothered to verify anything? Where exactly does this assumption come from that the system is too complex to implement?
You can write buggy and flawed software in any language, framework and system - regardless of its ease of use.
I wonder if you actually spent two seconds thinking about this our simply spouted off another tangent for your favourite conspiracy theory.
Seriously, if it were nano particles it wouldn't explain why:
- it's a sexually transmitted disease (through exposure to blood)
- it has a variable dormancy period
- why it gets more serious with time passing (nanoparticles would, just like heavy metals, eventually leave the body)
- why it's treatable with antiviral medicine.
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Damn. That should have read: "more of the simple lighting devices". Because of their limited lifespan, you'll quite simply need an increased number. Not to forget that the energy needs to produce LEDs have gone way down.
Right. And you shouldn't neglect the increased energy needed to manufacture more
Erm, an incadescent bulb also isn't a point source of light. I'm also not quite sure why you'd need sharply defined shadows in a household
You do realize that the colour spectrum of LEDs is a solved problem, right? And that there's more than one type of LED?
The energy "consumed" in a typical household for lighting amounts to approximately 10% of total energy usage.
German households consumed 609 billion kWh in 2012. Which means that using LEDs everywhere would reduce lighting usage by 75% - resulting in a total reduction by ~46 billion kWh.
This amount of energy amounts averagely to two(2) 2,6 MW power plants. That's the numbers for Germany. Of course, in 2012 we already had LEDs and stuff, so the real number would be lower. Maybe 50%? But that would stll get rid of one whole power plant. I dare say that is pretty significant.
While we were forced to use DPI in order to catch people torrenting movies (our university threatened to pull the plug otherwise!), we also used it to catch the inevitable Worm infections or Botnets.
Such computers were isolated from the rest of the net and (almost) all HTTP traffic was redirected (save for traffic to know antivirus software providers) to a page which stated that their computed was infected with Zeus, Conficker or whatever else is floating around there. And that they were to clean up their PCs and that we also recommended a complete wipe. They then had to type in "Yes, I understand" and were given a 24 hour grace period. If, after that time period, their PC was still infected they were off the net until they proved a complete reinstall to us.
Since every part of our body is replaced on a regular basis by our own cells, we're always not the "same" person at some point in time. The questio should rather be: "Do we view such nanotech as the equivalent to the already existing biological replacements?"
Nonsense. I certainly didn't create cowards!
What kind of stuff are you smoking for regarding "number of pages written" as a valid sign of quality?
When I'm grading my students, I take the number of pages as a very rough indicator on how much time they spent (with all other stuff like text size, paragraphs,... being equal). Doesn't mean, however, that this quantity equals quality.
And even if he did tell them the criteria before - that still doesn't make it a good criteria. And blindly following instructions is never a good idea.
What the fuck! We don't have those laws around here and the judge will beat you around with a clue-by-four if you suggest that you were allowed to escalate the situation by using lethal force needlessly.
Lead-acid batteries are quite easily recycled. Granted, you have to take care due to the lead - then again, the other batteries have similar problems. On the other hand, they're quite simple: Lead, sulfuric acid and that's about it. No exotic materials.
Except for some/i> of the sheep.
Those are locked-down consoles. Might be a trifle difficult to install a direct competitor on such a device. You're pretty naive if you think that AMD can simply provide such tools against the wishes of the creators of the console.
Not to mention that I'd be wary because even if you got it to run, you as a developer might simply be hit by the banhammer for using an inofficial API.
Right. Cross platform would be important, especially if the API appeared on the next-gen consoles.
However, I can't really see Microsoft implementing this API on their console. And I don't think Sony will do that either.
And then there's the fact that a game developer now needs to implement two APIs - and if "Mantle" is actually closer to the hardware then there won't be much portability between the two. Which makes this somewhat dead in the water.
Tapping submarine cables.
I've heard of those drive-by-wire systems! What an ingenuous way to steer a military submarine!
Bah, you sissy. You use a magnet and tip the bits on the platter by hand!
Of course they could pass those tests. All questions there can be solved by memorizing facts and using simplistic algorithms.
If you're seriously proposing that test as a shining example, then you should be kept as far from a school curriculum as possible. Maybe you should try to find out what problem "teaching to the test" poses and why your precious test is a perfect example for exactly that problem.
So, you're against vaccinations then, too, following your particular logic?
Maybe you should read my last sentence again to see that I actually didn't miss it. And he has a "deeper grasp" on the situation for pointing out the basic fact that employers and employees have competing interests? If that is what amounts to a "deeper grasp" around here in your eyes then I've got a castle in Slovania to sell to you.
Ah, yes, the famous "You need to be / have done [insert whatever area of interest here] to be allowed to give a meaningful statement!" argument.
By that yardstick, one must be a thief to be allowed to judge over thieves, be a taxi driver to say anything regarding taxi drivers or be a Christian to be allowed to discuss the Bible.
Or where [i]else[/i] do you want to take this vein of discussion? Because I can't see it going anywhere else. "No judgement", my ass.
Instability in organic molecules does not neccessarily mean that it reacts with gasses in the air (namely oxygen).
It usually means that there's a more stable form it will inevitably convert to. There are countless conversion reactions in organic molecules - exposure to heat, air or light usually only fastens the process. Preventing exposure to these factors does not stop the degradation, however.
Take batteries as an example. LiIon batteries will degrade regardless of outside factors - and those are pretty much isolated systems. It's only the speed of the degradation you can influence. But rule was, whatever you do, after about three years you'd take a massive hit to the capacity of LiIon batteries.
Yes, I forgot to add "supported in all browsers capable of displaying images". I know there are more image formats out there.
However, this is about the image support in browsers. Thus your list makes no sense. Then again, this is slashdot where one has to list any and all qualifiers, just so you don't get jumped on because you didn't cover the use case the article wasn't about.
I don't see another lossless image format with alpha channel support and 8/24bit colour depth around, do you?
"Of course, a hardware security system that is too complex to verify seems like a fatal flaw."
Then again, who is telling us that they actually bothered to verify anything? Where exactly does this assumption come from that the system is too complex to implement?
You can write buggy and flawed software in any language, framework and system - regardless of its ease of use.
I wonder if you actually spent two seconds thinking about this our simply spouted off another tangent for your favourite conspiracy theory.
Seriously, if it were nano particles it wouldn't explain why:
- it's a sexually transmitted disease (through exposure to blood)
- it has a variable dormancy period
- why it gets more serious with time passing (nanoparticles would, just like heavy metals, eventually leave the body)
- why it's treatable with antiviral medicine.