Yes, I can do arithmetic too. 15 minutes charging a day * 405,000 vehicles = 101250 hours of charging a day, or 4218 charging stations. Except that number is a complete fantasy: the usage won't be spread neatly over 24 hours. There will be sharp peaks morning, mid-day and afternoon, plus concentrated demand in areas with a lot of rich ecoloons who think electricity is "clean" because the gas, oil and coal plants making it are located out in the sticks.
Even with the best charge rates and distance-per-charge figures, we're looking at needing ten times as many EV charging stations as we currently have fossil fuel stations.
Hell, even if you do know about it, good luck actually using it. After 15 minutes of apt-get fiddling and chanting mantras, I'm still unable to get the damn thing working in GIMP 2.6.7. For a feature whose primary purpose is to save you time, it sure could do with an FONT OF GOD sized install guide that explains how to (actually) get it working.
However, if you publish, then you may inspire people with actual marketable skills - coders, artists, QA people - to get on board and develop a demo of it.
Most likely not, and anyone you do attract isn't going to have any sort of proven track record. Your project is 99% likely to fail, regardless of what you do.
But if you don't publish, if your strategy is "Oooh, we have a great idea, but it's so great that we can't tell you what it is you until you sign an NDA", then you're 100% guaranteed to fail.
So make with the idea, and don't blow another opportunity like the one you just pooched by failing to provide a link to your design in a forum populated by people who could have helped you.
Better luck next time. Really, you're going to need it.
Oh, purleeease. In most cases, what matters is access to the best legal representation. If you're going to believe only what the judge allows on the record, you might as well just have both sides pile their money on the table, and rule on which pile is higher.
A free market is less bad than government regulation, because regulation is a waste of money, and costs the most honest companies (and their customers) the most.
Did you miss the point that it was an incompetently regulated market that brought us Thalidomide, the Ford Pinto, lead paint in children's toys, contaminated pet food and contaminated Chinese dry wall.
Sorry, I interrupted you while you were saying something funny. Please do go on.
Oh, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is unregulated? Sorry, I thought that it happened despite regulation. I guess that totally invalidates my point about regulation being an expensive waste of time. You win two Internets!
Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.
Sorry, there's no room, since I already live within spitting distance of the largest onshore wind farm in Europe. And I love it. There's no noise from the turbines - unless you physically stand under them - and I think they're elegant and quite beautiful. How can you hate something with a "nacelle" on it?
Oh, sorry, did I spoil your tiny pig-ignorant point? Go on, try again.
In Texas, because we don't care about the environment, we're actually able to do things that are good for the environment [..] It's the most ironic, preposterous situation. If you want to build a wind farm, you just build it.
You know, it's easy to mock Texans (from a safe distance) but there's a fully fledged bastard of a good point here. Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.
Given the choice between trusting The People, or trusting that small subset of The People who live by taxing the rest of us and telling us what's good for us, I think I'm going to have to call it for The People.
I know, it physically disgusts me that developers don't limit themselves to writing Space Invaders and Pacman on quad core 4GB machines, but instead chose to actually use all that memory and processing power. Pass me a bucket someone, I'm going to hurl.
Cried the lazy worthless tax-payer funded pencil pushing parasites, as they faked up inflated expenses claims for wear and tear on their "DENIED" rubber stamps.
Piffle. What I recognise is that the difference between kings, barons and priests, or presidents, CEOs and lawyers is purely one of nomenclature.
All institutions tend towards corruption, and the solution is always revolution and rebellion, against whatever the vested interests are calling themselves at the time.
Phylogenetic analyses show that these aphid genes are derived from fungal genes, which have been integrated into the genome and duplicated.
Until you observe the process happening, all you've got is correlation. Even if it is gene transfer, how do you know the transfer wasn't the other direction? I call XKCD on that.
Depends how many "integers" you use. If you need accuracy - and "scientific" computing certainly does - then don't use floats. Decide how much accuracy you need, and implement that with as many bytes of data as it takes.
Floats are for games and 3D rendering, not "science".
Bingo. Lawyers are the new priests; worthless parasites who spout esoteric gibberish, and the cost of their tithe is built right into the economy.
Actually, I doubt there were ever as many priests per populace as we have lawyers now. As with the Reformation, the only real solution is to cut them out of the loop, and just ignore them. Just get on with business, shred any legal demands, and when Men With Guns do finally come to sieze your assets at the behest of their masters, fold the company. Hell, burn it to the ground rather than let them get their pound of flesh. They must be starved into finding real jobs.
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But surely the title should be: Fully Featured MacOS Computer Runs Game That Already Runs on MacOS Computers
No, wait, I have a better one: Expensive Fully Featured MacOS Computer Runs Game That Already Runs on Any Cheap-Ass Commodity Windows Computer
A little verbose, but I think accuracy is important in journalism.
Yes, I can do arithmetic too. 15 minutes charging a day * 405,000 vehicles = 101250 hours of charging a day, or 4218 charging stations. Except that number is a complete fantasy: the usage won't be spread neatly over 24 hours. There will be sharp peaks morning, mid-day and afternoon, plus concentrated demand in areas with a lot of rich ecoloons who think electricity is "clean" because the gas, oil and coal plants making it are located out in the sticks.
Even with the best charge rates and distance-per-charge figures, we're looking at needing ten times as many EV charging stations as we currently have fossil fuel stations.
No. The problem is that it is a knife.
I'm not being funny, I'm being technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Bingo, we're into Drake Equation territory here.
Hell, even if you do know about it, good luck actually using it. After 15 minutes of apt-get fiddling and chanting mantras, I'm still unable to get the damn thing working in GIMP 2.6.7. For a feature whose primary purpose is to save you time, it sure could do with an FONT OF GOD sized install guide that explains how to (actually) get it working.
However, if you publish, then you may inspire people with actual marketable skills - coders, artists, QA people - to get on board and develop a demo of it.
Most likely not, and anyone you do attract isn't going to have any sort of proven track record. Your project is 99% likely to fail, regardless of what you do.
But if you don't publish, if your strategy is "Oooh, we have a great idea, but it's so great that we can't tell you what it is you until you sign an NDA", then you're 100% guaranteed to fail.
So make with the idea, and don't blow another opportunity like the one you just pooched by failing to provide a link to your design in a forum populated by people who could have helped you.
Better luck next time. Really, you're going to need it.
That makes as much sense as threatening me with a pile of dirty dishes that the supermodel I just scored with can wash up.
Oh, purleeease. In most cases, what matters is access to the best legal representation. If you're going to believe only what the judge allows on the record, you might as well just have both sides pile their money on the table, and rule on which pile is higher.
THIS! IS! SLASHDOT!
A free market is less bad than government regulation, because regulation is a waste of money, and costs the most honest companies (and their customers) the most.
Did you miss the point that it was an incompetently regulated market that brought us Thalidomide, the Ford Pinto, lead paint in children's toys, contaminated pet food and contaminated Chinese dry wall.
Sorry, I interrupted you while you were saying something funny. Please do go on.
Oh, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is unregulated? Sorry, I thought that it happened despite regulation. I guess that totally invalidates my point about regulation being an expensive waste of time. You win two Internets!
Sorry, there's no room, since I already live within spitting distance of the largest onshore wind farm in Europe. And I love it. There's no noise from the turbines - unless you physically stand under them - and I think they're elegant and quite beautiful. How can you hate something with a "nacelle" on it?
Oh, sorry, did I spoil your tiny pig-ignorant point? Go on, try again.
You know, it's easy to mock Texans (from a safe distance) but there's a fully fledged bastard of a good point here. Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.
Given the choice between trusting The People, or trusting that small subset of The People who live by taxing the rest of us and telling us what's good for us, I think I'm going to have to call it for The People.
Calm down, dear. It's TNG we're talking about - a fictional show. Now if he'd misquoted the Documentary Series, we'd have a problem.
Treat me like a thief, and I might as well act like one.
I know, it physically disgusts me that developers don't limit themselves to writing Space Invaders and Pacman on quad core 4GB machines, but instead chose to actually use all that memory and processing power. Pass me a bucket someone, I'm going to hurl.
Good news, everyone! All you priests who want to marry women are free to do so!
[Shuffling of feet]
Er... anybody? Is anybody at all here attracted to adult women?
[Embarrassed coughs]
True, plus IIRC they get a bonus spell from either the Necromancy or Divination realm at level 5.
ORLY?
31.32% is "most people"? MATHS DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Cried the lazy worthless tax-payer funded pencil pushing parasites, as they faked up inflated expenses claims for wear and tear on their "DENIED" rubber stamps.
Piffle. What I recognise is that the difference between kings, barons and priests, or presidents, CEOs and lawyers is purely one of nomenclature.
All institutions tend towards corruption, and the solution is always revolution and rebellion, against whatever the vested interests are calling themselves at the time.
It's OK, this stuff is tricky, don't feel bad that you can't answer the question without waving your hands and saying "'Cause."
I'm pretty sure that one of us has never done any actual scientific computing.
From the source paper:
Until you observe the process happening, all you've got is correlation. Even if it is gene transfer, how do you know the transfer wasn't the other direction? I call XKCD on that.
Depends how many "integers" you use. If you need accuracy - and "scientific" computing certainly does - then don't use floats. Decide how much accuracy you need, and implement that with as many bytes of data as it takes.
Floats are for games and 3D rendering, not "science".
Bingo. Lawyers are the new priests; worthless parasites who spout esoteric gibberish, and the cost of their tithe is built right into the economy.
Actually, I doubt there were ever as many priests per populace as we have lawyers now. As with the Reformation, the only real solution is to cut them out of the loop, and just ignore them. Just get on with business, shred any legal demands, and when Men With Guns do finally come to sieze your assets at the behest of their masters, fold the company. Hell, burn it to the ground rather than let them get their pound of flesh. They must be starved into finding real jobs.