"Petroleum's share is actually down to a minuscule 1%, and coal is shrinking all the time." That is why it is so annoying when people talk about solar and wind replacing oil. They do not compete. Natural gas does and frankly beats the pants off solar and wind in cost. Of course cheap natural gas actually helps out solar and wind because it is used in peaking plants that can spin up quickly to help when solar and wind drop.
That would be nice but it is not what journalists think they should do. They feel the need to explain things to people. You have no idea how many times I have read a story about the military, aviation, or computers and the facts are just wrong. The other issue is that journalists are human just as you and I are. It is impossible to have no bias because all humans are bias in one way or another. The problem is that we are bad at seeing bias in our favor.
Since the definition of a woman is an adult human female and female has a specific biological definition that does not involve how one identifies you may want to be a little more polite with explaining these new definitions. I looked up trans-man in a dictionary and they had no definition for it. http://www.merriam-webster.com...
I have now decided we should just use male and female and stick with the biological definition since that is without any human bias or interpretation.
Too many choices is just as bad as too few. It is not just news sources but even places like Amazon. Look for something like a bike light and you will get hundreds of hits and you will not know which one is any good. With news sources it is worse. People tend to pick the source that will reinforce your world view aka and runaway feedback loop. That is what we are seeing today all too often. If you support Trump and someone posts something negative you dismiss it if they post something positive you eat it up. Same is true with Sanders and Clinton supporters. It is human nature to want to be right so we often flock to those that will tell us what we want to hear.
As far as news in the US I suggest VOAnews.com Yes Voice of America actually does a really good job of just presenting facts. I also think NPR is pretty good but biased to the left. I like that since I am slightly conservative so I will question their reports. CNN is also not terrible. MSNBC and FOX are both junk and score on average below 50% on accuracy.
Do you mean that a male that identifies as a female should not use this service or that a female that identifies as a male should not use that service? Frankly a female that identifies as a male is probably at a greater risk of violence than a male that identifies as a female.
Tesla is the new Apple. Model S is no longer on Consumer reports recommended because of reliability issues no one cares. Chevy Bolt will ship before the Model 3 will probably be cheaper and has a 200 mile range and no one cares. Tesla Model 3 will not ship for at least a year but people are handing Tesla money long before the car ships.
And many Japanese that did end up as POWs cooperated with the US. The culture of no surrender meant that if you were a POW you are no longer Japanese so no reason to not give information since you were already dead.
The historical documents show that Japan was trying to avoid occupation that was the condition that the Allies would not agree too. The whole emperor is just a face saving revision to history that allows Japan to feel like they where the victim and not the villains. They still have not ever admitted to the comfort women, Rape of Nanking, and the brutal actions in Korea.
On MCUs you often have fuses that you can blow to prevents jtag. BTW that is a bear to test because you end up with at least a few bricked devices. If you are doing large numbers of devices you can often have the MCU maker provide the chips to your manufacture with the bootloader installed and the fuses blown. The downside to locking the bootloader like that is that the device is no longer hackable by the end user.
That is why real companies have a secure boot loader and provide signed and encrypted images. The trick is getting the bootloader on and then having to deal with the end users that want to hack the device and put on custom firmware.
The keep the Emperor story is a myth. Japan was trying to avoid an occupation not keep the Emperor. Had the Japanese responded to any of the calls to surrender with yes we will but we want to protect the dignity of the Emperor the US and the UK would have said, "sure as long as he is just a figurehead like the UK royal family." That old myth keeps being brought up when it is not even logical since that is what the US did after dropping two nuclear weapons.
"The imperial leadership of Japan had convinced its population that Americans were barbarians who would treat them so badly that death was preferable. " Actually the expected the US to treat the Japanese the same way that the Japanese treated those that they conquered. The Germans probably worried just as much about how the US and the UK would treat them but they knew how the Russians would treat them so the US/UK looked really good.
I think they did. 1. The government of the Japan was responsible for defending the citizens of Japan. 2. The government of Japan started the war by invading Manchuria. 3. The government of Japan started the war with the US by attacking the US. 4. The government of Japan started the war with the UK by attacking Singapore and units of the Royal Navy on the open seas. 6. The government of Japan refused to surrender even after the war was lost trying avoid the occupation of Japan. "The wanting to keep the Emperor as a reason was published in a book long after the war." 7. No international law was broken by using nuclear weapons at that time. The members of the Japanese government that started the war and refused to surrender were responsible for the deaths and many if not all were tired.
And 10 years ago people said the same thing. As an old guy I admit this does not affect me I find a lot of the music those artists perform to not match my taste in music. It is like Prince not allowing his music videos on YouTube. I would watch them and he would get ad money. Now he gets nothing. If he offered streaming versions I would probably listen to them but now I just rip my old CDs and put them in the cloud.
"/sigh/ Discrimination with a noble intent is still... discrimination." As a male I fail to see any noble intent. I have never raped anyone in my life and do not intend to so why should I be excluded from this ride sharing service?
"There are other advantages to hydrogen as a transport fuel besides the tree-hugger appeal." For subsonic aircraft not really. It has a very low energy density by volume, it is hard to store and transport, and it is expensive. It is good for the upper stages but not so much for aircraft. ". When you burn anything in an internal combustion engine, more than half of the energy from the reaction is lost as exhaust heat" Very few multi-engine commercial aircraft use internal combustion engines any longer they are mostly turbofans and turboprops.
" A fuel cell/electric fan drive train would be far cheaper, require less maintenance, and much lower noise than today's aircraft." Maybe but today they are not. Once you push them to match the performance of a gas turbine I doubt they will be cheap or low maintenance in comparison. A modern turbofan has a TBO in the tens of thousands of hours. Noise is another issue but the truth is that most of the noise from a modern turbofan or turboprop is from the fan/prop. It will not make a lot of difference if they are driven by a gas turbine or by an electric motor.
To me the real place that they need to look at is the brakes. If you could replace the brakes on an airliner with electric motors/generators then you may have something. If they could keep the engines off until they got on the runway you could save a lot of fuel and emissions. Maybe large super caps and an apu to top them up if you have a long delay.
I have read it and I disagree. A properly designed stable binary interface would not cause security issues, it would not cause any compiler issues that do not already exist with the kernel.
It is simply a way to force people to open source drivers and move them into the kernel space. The practical reasons are just a way to justify it. The problem is that even if you open source your driver you are at the mercy of the distros and kernel.org as far as the driver goes. You have a hot new webcam you want to sell and you have even written an open source driver for it. You are ready to ship but none of the distros have put the driver into the Kernel they are shipping yet. Sure you can ship a source based driver but then you have to support people compiling it.
No no no! that is just politics and not a valid reason to not have a stable driver interface. If you need to change the driver interface than you make the version change a major change and not a minor. Any installer should check for the version if not supported give you a warning. All drivers in the Kernel would update just as they do today.
Good or not the idea is useful. You want to write code to run in the browser but not in javascript. Browsers support javascript. Solution?
Is it a compiler? That is up for debate since I have seen programs that translate between pascal and c and they are called a translator. I guess it comes down to how you define javascript is it a language or a vm? In the end it doesn't matter much since this is a tool that does something useful.
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which is .0? percent of the cars? And is 0% of the trucks, aircraft, and ships.
Still does not amount to a hill of beans.
"Petroleum's share is actually down to a minuscule 1%, and coal is shrinking all the time."
That is why it is so annoying when people talk about solar and wind replacing oil. They do not compete. Natural gas does and frankly beats the pants off solar and wind in cost. Of course cheap natural gas actually helps out solar and wind because it is used in peaking plants that can spin up quickly to help when solar and wind drop.
That would be nice but it is not what journalists think they should do. They feel the need to explain things to people. You have no idea how many times I have read a story about the military, aviation, or computers and the facts are just wrong.
The other issue is that journalists are human just as you and I are. It is impossible to have no bias because all humans are bias in one way or another.
The problem is that we are bad at seeing bias in our favor.
Since the definition of a woman is an adult human female and female has a specific biological definition that does not involve how one identifies you may want to be a little more polite with explaining these new definitions. I looked up trans-man in a dictionary and they had no definition for it. http://www.merriam-webster.com...
I have now decided we should just use male and female and stick with the biological definition since that is without any human bias or interpretation.
You are in the US so you are subject to US laws. It would only be a violation of the Canadian Bill of Rights if you are in Canada.
And if the 3 ship date slips or the price goes up....
Too many choices is just as bad as too few. It is not just news sources but even places like Amazon. Look for something like a bike light and you will get hundreds of hits and you will not know which one is any good.
With news sources it is worse. People tend to pick the source that will reinforce your world view aka and runaway feedback loop. That is what we are seeing today all too often. If you support Trump and someone posts something negative you dismiss it if they post something positive you eat it up. Same is true with Sanders and Clinton supporters. It is human nature to want to be right so we often flock to those that will tell us what we want to hear.
As far as news in the US I suggest VOAnews.com Yes Voice of America actually does a really good job of just presenting facts. I also think NPR is pretty good but biased to the left. I like that since I am slightly conservative so I will question their reports. CNN is also not terrible. MSNBC and FOX are both junk and score on average below 50% on accuracy.
Do you mean that a male that identifies as a female should not use this service or that a female that identifies as a male should not use that service?
Frankly a female that identifies as a male is probably at a greater risk of violence than a male that identifies as a female.
Tesla is the new Apple.
Model S is no longer on Consumer reports recommended because of reliability issues no one cares.
Chevy Bolt will ship before the Model 3 will probably be cheaper and has a 200 mile range and no one cares.
Tesla Model 3 will not ship for at least a year but people are handing Tesla money long before the car ships.
And many Japanese that did end up as POWs cooperated with the US. The culture of no surrender meant that if you were a POW you are no longer Japanese so no reason to not give information since you were already dead.
The historical documents show that Japan was trying to avoid occupation that was the condition that the Allies would not agree too. The whole emperor is just a face saving revision to history that allows Japan to feel like they where the victim and not the villains. They still have not ever admitted to the comfort women, Rape of Nanking, and the brutal actions in Korea.
Chrome could talk to HID devices for a while. That is how Fido USB keys worked.
I hate Javascript....
On MCUs you often have fuses that you can blow to prevents jtag. BTW that is a bear to test because you end up with at least a few bricked devices. If you are doing large numbers of devices you can often have the MCU maker provide the chips to your manufacture with the bootloader installed and the fuses blown.
The downside to locking the bootloader like that is that the device is no longer hackable by the end user.
That is why real companies have a secure boot loader and provide signed and encrypted images.
The trick is getting the bootloader on and then having to deal with the end users that want to hack the device and put on custom firmware.
The keep the Emperor story is a myth. Japan was trying to avoid an occupation not keep the Emperor. Had the Japanese responded to any of the calls to surrender with yes we will but we want to protect the dignity of the Emperor the US and the UK would have said, "sure as long as he is just a figurehead like the UK royal family." That old myth keeps being brought up when it is not even logical since that is what the US did after dropping two nuclear weapons.
"The imperial leadership of Japan had convinced its population that Americans were barbarians who would treat them so badly that death was preferable. "
Actually the expected the US to treat the Japanese the same way that the Japanese treated those that they conquered. The Germans probably worried just as much about how the US and the UK would treat them but they knew how the Russians would treat them so the US/UK looked really good.
I think they did.
1. The government of the Japan was responsible for defending the citizens of Japan.
2. The government of Japan started the war by invading Manchuria.
3. The government of Japan started the war with the US by attacking the US.
4. The government of Japan started the war with the UK by attacking Singapore and units of the Royal Navy on the open seas.
6. The government of Japan refused to surrender even after the war was lost trying avoid the occupation of Japan. "The wanting to keep the Emperor as a reason was published in a book long after the war."
7. No international law was broken by using nuclear weapons at that time.
The members of the Japanese government that started the war and refused to surrender were responsible for the deaths and many if not all were tired.
And... crickets....
And 10 years ago people said the same thing.
As an old guy I admit this does not affect me I find a lot of the music those artists perform to not match my taste in music.
It is like Prince not allowing his music videos on YouTube. I would watch them and he would get ad money. Now he gets nothing. If he offered streaming versions I would probably listen to them but now I just rip my old CDs and put them in the cloud.
So should a women that identifies as a male be excluded?
"/sigh/ Discrimination with a noble intent is still... discrimination."
As a male I fail to see any noble intent. I have never raped anyone in my life and do not intend to so why should I be excluded from this ride sharing service?
"There are other advantages to hydrogen as a transport fuel besides the tree-hugger appeal."
For subsonic aircraft not really. It has a very low energy density by volume, it is hard to store and transport, and it is expensive. It is good for the upper stages but not so much for aircraft.
". When you burn anything in an internal combustion engine, more than half of the energy from the reaction is lost as exhaust heat"
Very few multi-engine commercial aircraft use internal combustion engines any longer they are mostly turbofans and turboprops.
" A fuel cell/electric fan drive train would be far cheaper, require less maintenance, and much lower noise than today's aircraft."
Maybe but today they are not. Once you push them to match the performance of a gas turbine I doubt they will be cheap or low maintenance in comparison. A modern turbofan has a TBO in the tens of thousands of hours. Noise is another issue but the truth is that most of the noise from a modern turbofan or turboprop is from the fan/prop. It will not make a lot of difference if they are driven by a gas turbine or by an electric motor.
To me the real place that they need to look at is the brakes. If you could replace the brakes on an airliner with electric motors/generators then you may have something. If they could keep the engines off until they got on the runway you could save a lot of fuel and emissions. Maybe large super caps and an apu to top them up if you have a long delay.
AI == "That which we can not do well on a computer yet."
I have read it and I disagree.
A properly designed stable binary interface would not cause security issues, it would not cause any compiler issues that do not already exist with the kernel.
It is simply a way to force people to open source drivers and move them into the kernel space. The practical reasons are just a way to justify it.
The problem is that even if you open source your driver you are at the mercy of the distros and kernel.org as far as the driver goes.
You have a hot new webcam you want to sell and you have even written an open source driver for it. You are ready to ship but none of the distros have put the driver into the Kernel they are shipping yet.
Sure you can ship a source based driver but then you have to support people compiling it.
No no no! that is just politics and not a valid reason to not have a stable driver interface.
If you need to change the driver interface than you make the version change a major change and not a minor. Any installer should check for the version if not supported give you a warning. All drivers in the Kernel would update just as they do today.
Good or not the idea is useful.
You want to write code to run in the browser but not in javascript.
Browsers support javascript.
Solution?
Is it a compiler? That is up for debate since I have seen programs that translate between pascal and c and they are called a translator.
I guess it comes down to how you define javascript is it a language or a vm? In the end it doesn't matter much since this is a tool that does something useful.