And, you fail to also read well documented fact that German solar capacity factor is less than 10% overall, equivalent of about 2.4 full sun hours.
http://euanmearns.com/german-p...
That source makes a simple but fatal mistake (and probably on purpose): it divides total energy production over the year by the the installed capacity at the end of the year for an energy source with growing installed capacity.
From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: "primordial... In geology, containing the earliest traces of life." IOW pretty much every element or combination thereof that is not biological.
Wrong, if Apple figures out how to make their products at 1/2 the cost, their prices will come down in order to gain new market share and make more money by selling more of their product while taking sales away from the competition.
Errm, so why don't they just do that now? Maybe because they already easily sell all the phones they can make, and making them at half the cost wouldn't allow them to make more?
Workers are paying taxes, so it is OK that their employer is not? WTF?
The alternative is "employers" not paying taxes, and neither the unemployed, because there are no fucking employers.You know, like it was before Ireland started optimizing their taxes.
A small reactor could power a U.S. Navy warship, and eliminate the need for other fuel sources that pose logistical challenges
A navy ship, what about a cruise liner? With cheap energy, you could process the deuterium from sea water for fuel, grow food in artificially lit enclosures below decks and have a self-sustaining artificial ecosystem that could spend years between trips to port.
How about a cargo ship. " In 1972, after four years of operation, her reactor was refuelled. She had covered 250,000 nautical miles (463,000 km) on 22 kilograms of uranium"
That's called 20/20 hindsight, Mr. Armchair Surgeon General. Had you been there, with a patient with the symptoms of some viral infection, I'd have liked to see you saying "of course it's Ebola!", when in reality, there are dozens of alternative diagnoses, many of them much more likely.
Yeah, why should a doctor suspect Ebola in an African patient, when at the same time whole planes went into full panic when somebody coughed.
You haven't been to a hospital recently have you? Doctors aren't like Dr. House. They aren't looking for
zebras when 99.99% of their patients are horses. If you come in with a rare disease it can sometimes
take years to get a proper diagnosis.
And yet they ask anyone but the African guy if they have been to other countries recently.
Not to mention that they hand out antibiotics like candy to people with unspecified symptoms - and then send them home. Understandable, because they can't keep him in emergency for ever, and there are no known problems with the overuse of the new Aspirin (facepalm).
Really have you read the latest from the dumbfuck running the CDC? Would you consider the Washington Post a good source of information?
“We did send some expertise in infection control,” Thomas Frieden said during a news conference Tuesday. “But I think we could, in retrospect, with 20/20 hindsight, have sent a more robust hospital infection control team and been more hands-on with the hospital from day one about exactly how this should be managed.”
Inept and incompetent and I'm sorry but a mia culpa isn't going to cut it.
You do realize that this basically translates to "Yeah, we should have known those Texan hicks couldn't handle a case of the flu, let alone Ebola."
Only if you need to be treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
They've demonstrated themselves to be completely incompetent. Eric Duncan should have been transported to a hospital with the equipment and expertise to deal with quarantining highly infectious disease.
In case anyone doubts this: ratio of "normal" patients vs. infected healthworkers
third world: ~ 10:1
Texas: 1:2
So... a knowledgeable person scripts it, and a regular user runs the script.
A) how does a regular user find a knowledgeable person just to write a script to generate playlists?
B) will that "knowledgeable person" fucking know how to handle " " in filenames?
Can we get through Ebola, first, and then worry about whether coastal military bases might need to be relocated to higher ground decades in the future?
What exactly is your point? That the Pentagon should have made their long-term plan about how to deal with the current Ebola crisis instead of Global Warming? Or that all of government should focus on short term problems only, and never make any plans for the future?
For comparison, it's almost easier to boil water than to melt it from 0C ice to 0C water.
* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it
* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C
Let's re-evaluate your statement with the key information that you omitted in your post:
* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it
* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C
* 2257 J/g is the heat of vaporization of water
You'll notice that the heat of vaporization is an order of magnitude larger than your other metrics. Thus, it is much much harder to boil water than to melt it!
Oh really? Well, isn't it odd that for the first time in history a denier forgets to mention increased water vapor in the atmosphere?
With this revelation will the government allow phone use now?
Here's another way of asking that question:
With this revelation will the government support me putting a 17-year old idiot behind bars for killing a loved one of mine with distracted driving?
With the prevalence of cell phones today (for those counting, that would be ALL drivers on the road) and the average persons ignorance (it'll never happen to me), a deadly accident isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Funny how many of the hacked celebs had Android devices, eh? Prove that Google is easily hackable. Funny how most of the hijacked iCloud accounts had the same credentials as their Google accounts - easy passwords even a moron like you could come up with. Not to mention that even mentions that the accounts where likely hacked by password recovery to an already hacked email account - most certainly Gmail. And coincidently, you do sound like a crazed, teenaged Miley Cyrus fan, so why don't you tell us how you did it, instead of just pretending you have a clue?
Yeah, finding a way that doesn't require the user to turn on Automatic App Download and you having full access to the Apple-ID account (not to mention the user not noticing the new icon with a blue dot before the name) sure would be better than this one.
Can't innovate man. The tech is covered by patents.
You're not allowed to build your own Siri from scratch.
Give me a break, "they do what they do in India Russia and China because it's the right thing to do."
They follow the law over there while trying to make a buck, same as we do here.
Don't blame our people for obeying the law.
So your only examples of "can't innovate" you could think off was doing something already existing "from scratch"? Something that others have done, supposedly better, as we are constantly told here?
April 28, 2003 12:16 PM PDT
Apple unveils music store ... The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee, and include the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. Jobs has been an outspoken opponent of so-called digital rights management (DRM) in the past, arguing that limitations on digital music will undermine the market for legitimate content.
Apple finally had to support non DRM industry compatability to stay alive.
Apple supported DRM free music before any of the other stores sold DRM free music from the major labels.
Steve Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Music" where he publicly asked the labels to let Apple and all of the other companies sell DRM free music instead of licensing FairPlay (what the industry wanted) months before music stores start selling DRM free music.
I'm not sure if this is true...IIRC I started buying music from Amazon because it's music did not carry DRM while Apple's still did.
D'uh. Amazon paid the music industry major studios so Amazon (and not Apple or anybody else) could sell DRM free music exclusively for a couple of months. Apart from EMI of course, which allowed Apple to sell their music DRM free before Amazon Music even started as a beta.
Anybody claiming Apple didn't want DRM free music is thus proven wrong. Period. The fact that the Majors delayed Apple's sale of their music DRM free was actually to spite them because they forced the change.
That was my point. It made sense back in 2001, but not any more. In fact they need a fast ARM chip just to decrypt the iTunes database now, and the encryption serves no purpose other than blocking interoperability.
Translation: Booh-Hooh, Apple keeps backwards compatibility instead of throwing everything over board!
Why don't you stick to that the next time discussing anything regarding Apple , okay?
I have a PMP that you load music onto like an external hard drive. It also has an internal database that it keeps updated, so that it's used in the same manner as the ipod. (Philips GoGear Vibe, so it's not a pricey one by any stretch).
When you've finished changing the files you just unplug from the PC, the device automatically takes about 15 seconds to scan the files on it and rebuild its database, and that's it.
It also supports MTP.
I had an older Sandisk model that ran of a AAA cell about 9 years ago that operated in the same way. You never had to navigate the filesystem to play media - it was just there to make syncs easier.
Wow, just 7 years after the iPod came out, MPs are able to run a SQLite database - I guess if Apple would just have waited 6 years, they could have done that instead of wasting their time with the iPod.
Playlists don't, and never have, copied files or required sole access to them. All of the common playlist formats are basically just text files with a list of filenames - you can open & edit them in Notepad!
So they break when somebody moves or renames the files. Wasn't the whole point being able to "manage your files" - which then breaks things?
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And, you fail to also read well documented fact that German solar capacity factor is less than 10% overall, equivalent of about 2.4 full sun hours. http://euanmearns.com/german-p...
That source makes a simple but fatal mistake (and probably on purpose): it divides total energy production over the year by the the installed capacity at the end of the year for an energy source with growing installed capacity.
From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: "primordial ... In geology, containing the earliest traces of life." IOW pretty much every element or combination thereof that is not biological.
Wrong, if Apple figures out how to make their products at 1/2 the cost, their prices will come down in order to gain new market share and make more money by selling more of their product while taking sales away from the competition.
Errm, so why don't they just do that now? Maybe because they already easily sell all the phones they can make, and making them at half the cost wouldn't allow them to make more?
Workers are paying taxes, so it is OK that their employer is not? WTF?
The alternative is "employers" not paying taxes, and neither the unemployed, because there are no fucking employers.You know, like it was before Ireland started optimizing their taxes.
A small reactor could power a U.S. Navy warship, and eliminate the need for other fuel sources that pose logistical challenges
A navy ship, what about a cruise liner? With cheap energy, you could process the deuterium from sea water for fuel, grow food in artificially lit enclosures below decks and have a self-sustaining artificial ecosystem that could spend years between trips to port.
How about a cargo ship. " In 1972, after four years of operation, her reactor was refuelled. She had covered 250,000 nautical miles (463,000 km) on 22 kilograms of uranium"
That's called 20/20 hindsight, Mr. Armchair Surgeon General. Had you been there, with a patient with the symptoms of some viral infection, I'd have liked to see you saying "of course it's Ebola!", when in reality, there are dozens of alternative diagnoses, many of them much more likely.
Yeah, why should a doctor suspect Ebola in an African patient, when at the same time whole planes went into full panic when somebody coughed.
You haven't been to a hospital recently have you? Doctors aren't like Dr. House. They aren't looking for zebras when 99.99% of their patients are horses. If you come in with a rare disease it can sometimes take years to get a proper diagnosis.
And yet they ask anyone but the African guy if they have been to other countries recently.
Not to mention that they hand out antibiotics like candy to people with unspecified symptoms - and then send them home. Understandable, because they can't keep him in emergency for ever, and there are no known problems with the overuse of the new Aspirin (facepalm).
Really have you read the latest from the dumbfuck running the CDC? Would you consider the Washington Post a good source of information?
“We did send some expertise in infection control,” Thomas Frieden said during a news conference Tuesday. “But I think we could, in retrospect, with 20/20 hindsight, have sent a more robust hospital infection control team and been more hands-on with the hospital from day one about exactly how this should be managed.”
Inept and incompetent and I'm sorry but a mia culpa isn't going to cut it.
You do realize that this basically translates to "Yeah, we should have known those Texan hicks couldn't handle a case of the flu, let alone Ebola."
Only if you need to be treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
They've demonstrated themselves to be completely incompetent. Eric Duncan should have been transported to a hospital with the equipment and expertise to deal with quarantining highly infectious disease.
In case anyone doubts this: ratio of "normal" patients vs. infected healthworkers
third world: ~ 10:1
Texas: 1:2
So... a knowledgeable person scripts it, and a regular user runs the script.
A) how does a regular user find a knowledgeable person just to write a script to generate playlists?
B) will that "knowledgeable person" fucking know how to handle " " in filenames?
This particular problem has a far simpler solution that actually works: Use soap and hand sanitizer, and don't touch dead people.
Tell that to the nurse in Dallas who used full biohazard protective gear and still got Ebola.
Well, if the virus can just go through full biohazard protective gear, it can also go through the air over the ocean.
Nothing works well when you rely on the government to do it. Too slow, too inefficient, too pc.
So who do you offer as an alternative here? Free Market? A military coup?
Can we get through Ebola, first, and then worry about whether coastal military bases might need to be relocated to higher ground decades in the future?
What exactly is your point? That the Pentagon should have made their long-term plan about how to deal with the current Ebola crisis instead of Global Warming? Or that all of government should focus on short term problems only, and never make any plans for the future?
For comparison, it's almost easier to boil water than to melt it from 0C ice to 0C water.
* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it
* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C
Let's re-evaluate your statement with the key information that you omitted in your post: * 334kJ/kg for water to melt it * 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C * 2257 J/g is the heat of vaporization of water
You'll notice that the heat of vaporization is an order of magnitude larger than your other metrics. Thus, it is much much harder to boil water than to melt it!
Oh really? Well, isn't it odd that for the first time in history a denier forgets to mention increased water vapor in the atmosphere?
With this revelation will the government allow phone use now?
Here's another way of asking that question:
With this revelation will the government support me putting a 17-year old idiot behind bars for killing a loved one of mine with distracted driving?
With the prevalence of cell phones today (for those counting, that would be ALL drivers on the road) and the average persons ignorance (it'll never happen to me), a deadly accident isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Isn't it a question of "How many more?" already?
Yes, you do every time you look into the mirror.
Funny how many of the hacked celebs had Android devices, eh? Prove that Google is easily hackable. Funny how most of the hijacked iCloud accounts had the same credentials as their Google accounts - easy passwords even a moron like you could come up with. Not to mention that even mentions that the accounts where likely hacked by password recovery to an already hacked email account - most certainly Gmail. And coincidently, you do sound like a crazed, teenaged Miley Cyrus fan, so why don't you tell us how you did it, instead of just pretending you have a clue?
Sure you can. I can access all Google accounts, not just "most". And you still haven't gotten around the user of the phone not noticing the new app.
Here's how I do it: http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/16...
Timtowtdi of course
Yeah, finding a way that doesn't require the user to turn on Automatic App Download and you having full access to the Apple-ID account (not to mention the user not noticing the new icon with a blue dot before the name) sure would be better than this one.
Can't innovate man. The tech is covered by patents.
You're not allowed to build your own Siri from scratch.
Give me a break, "they do what they do in India Russia and China because it's the right thing to do."
They follow the law over there while trying to make a buck, same as we do here.
Don't blame our people for obeying the law.
So your only examples of "can't innovate" you could think off was doing something already existing "from scratch"? Something that others have done, supposedly better, as we are constantly told here?
April 28, 2003 12:16 PM PDT
Apple unveils music store
...
The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee, and include the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. Jobs has been an outspoken opponent of so-called digital rights management (DRM) in the past, arguing that limitations on digital music will undermine the market for legitimate content.
Apple supported DRM free music before any of the other stores sold DRM free music from the major labels.
Steve Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Music" where he publicly asked the labels to let Apple and all of the other companies sell DRM free music instead of licensing FairPlay (what the industry wanted) months before music stores start selling DRM free music.
I'm not sure if this is true...IIRC I started buying music from Amazon because it's music did not carry DRM while Apple's still did.
D'uh. Amazon paid the music industry major studios so Amazon (and not Apple or anybody else) could sell DRM free music exclusively for a couple of months. Apart from EMI of course, which allowed Apple to sell their music DRM free before Amazon Music even started as a beta.
Anybody claiming Apple didn't want DRM free music is thus proven wrong. Period. The fact that the Majors delayed Apple's sale of their music DRM free was actually to spite them because they forced the change.
That was my point. It made sense back in 2001, but not any more. In fact they need a fast ARM chip just to decrypt the iTunes database now, and the encryption serves no purpose other than blocking interoperability.
Translation: Booh-Hooh, Apple keeps backwards compatibility instead of throwing everything over board!
Why don't you stick to that the next time discussing anything regarding Apple , okay?
I have a PMP that you load music onto like an external hard drive. It also has an internal database that it keeps updated, so that it's used in the same manner as the ipod. (Philips GoGear Vibe, so it's not a pricey one by any stretch).
When you've finished changing the files you just unplug from the PC, the device automatically takes about 15 seconds to scan the files on it and rebuild its database, and that's it.
It also supports MTP.
I had an older Sandisk model that ran of a AAA cell about 9 years ago that operated in the same way. You never had to navigate the filesystem to play media - it was just there to make syncs easier.
Wow, just 7 years after the iPod came out, MPs are able to run a SQLite database - I guess if Apple would just have waited 6 years, they could have done that instead of wasting their time with the iPod.
Playlists don't, and never have, copied files or required sole access to them. All of the common playlist formats are basically just text files with a list of filenames - you can open & edit them in Notepad!
So they break when somebody moves or renames the files. Wasn't the whole point being able to "manage your files" - which then breaks things?