Electric vehicles convert about 59–62% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels—conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17–21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels.
So you may not lose anything on filling up, but it sounds like plenty of it gets wasted for nothing in other ways.
Of course I was being mildly facetious. But the point is that the source is available, and while a single person may not be able to reasonably read and audit the entire code, it should be safe to assume that the thousands of eyes on it (even if only on small parts of it at a time) can contribute to make it a safer bet when it comes to deliberate (or non-deliberate, for that matter) shenanigans than closed-source. Not that most people won't just use Oracle's binaries, of course.
You spew someone else's words with a venom such that you appear, for all intent and purpose, to be a little more than a cartoon of a person.
I don't know; is it still nitpicking if it's wrong? c can be expressed in m/s, but it can also be expressed in feet per minute or rods per fortnight. A metre is defined in terms of the speed of light (and the length of a second), not the other way around. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second, but it is not defined as such. As a physical - as far as we can tell - constant, it can't be defined - it can only be measured.
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The article says 85% efficiency, which may be raised to 90%. 15% is a lot to give away.
And how efficient is a petrol engine?
Spoiler alert: not very.
10% shit. I heard 85%.
Anecdote annihilation!
My grandfather, now 92 years old, has been screaming at his condo building for two decades now.
Mine used to yell at clouds.
I don't spill much gas when I fill my tank.
From http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml:
Electric vehicles convert about 59–62% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels—conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17–21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels.
So you may not lose anything on filling up, but it sounds like plenty of it gets wasted for nothing in other ways.
it is hard to imagine
So is relativity of simultaneity, but that doesn't automatically make it not true.
And you just started a sentence with a conjunction. For shame!
You don't have to buy anything. Use Classic Shell instead.
That is all.
A girl in slashdot, is that possible? ;-P
You're dreaming.
an anthropomorphic rabbit
Was he called Frank? This doesn't bode well.
I can't bear this much longer. We all need to take a big paws and think about what we're doing.
come and see, smell, and feel the vibrations
Sure, when it's a computer it's okay, but try that with the exercise bikes in the women's gym and suddenly you're branded a pervert.
If you can't tell by the number alone, get out.
Right in the Urals.
Microsoft can remotely target your computer
When additional data is requested, you can review the data and choose whether or not to send it.
Interesting use of "target."
You spew someone else's words with a venom such that you appear, for all intent and purpose, to be a little more than a cartoon of a person.
Oh no you di-n't!
You can get the source and compile it yourself if you're that worried.
Does it even need to be said anymore when it applies to commercial products?
Even the open source ones?
Hah! Yeah, that one never gets old or patronising.
Any review which doesn't declare 8.1 to be worse than 8.0 counts as a positive review. Don't you know anything about marketing?
3. Still not immune from viruses and worms
You say that like it should be easy to fix.
Hmm. Can one definitively determine any velocity relative to a rotating reference frame, except for 0?
I don't know; is it still nitpicking if it's wrong? c can be expressed in m/s, but it can also be expressed in feet per minute or rods per fortnight. A metre is defined in terms of the speed of light (and the length of a second), not the other way around. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second, but it is not defined as such. As a physical - as far as we can tell - constant, it can't be defined - it can only be measured.
that fills every conceivable need of mine.
FTFY. Some people's computing needs may be fulfillable with DOS. People are different from each other.
Thats 5.0 * 10 ^-9 c for those of you who like non arbitrary units.
Relative to what?