To take the pedantry to its logical conlusion: Propulsion itself will be by wind power, but the power adjust the sail(s?) and for the computer will come from the solar panels.
Well, in a university, "scientific calculations" could mean actually running simulations/models/whatever, that is, things for which you would normally use some super computer. So it is not necessarily a question of "getting away with this", it might make perfect operational sense and boost the uni's available computational power and thus productivity. Depending on what industry you work in, you could do a similar thing in a company, for example a nightly distributed build-and-extensive-regression-test in a software shop, and save on purchasing and operating dedicated computers. There are lots of quite productive uses for distributed computing. You just need to think about what your company might do with it.
Of course, if there is no productive thing the computers could be doing, they are better turned off.
Yes. That was precisely what the parent to my post said, and he said that he would expect safeguards built into the switch for that. I simply described how it may play out in that case.
I probably should have included the post I replied to in my answer.
Trams switches are usually controlled via some kind of remote command from the tram, not centrally. So, the tram driver can - at least at switches - indeed steer the tram.
Speculation: An alternative explanation would be that the two curves were of different diameter, and the driver intended to take the larger-diameter one, traveling at a speed too high for the sharper curve the tram ended up taking. Tram lines sometimes take pretty sharp turns.
As a comment on the original site points out, the article confuses two concepts: Energetic efficiency and cost efficiency. Energetic efficiency may be theroretically double that of a convenitional solar plant, 60% in this case. Cost efficiency is measured in money/energy, however, so it will only effectively make solar power cheaper if it doubles energetic efficiency while at the same time not doubling the price. You could theroetically get a very energetically inefficient solar cell - say 10% - to still be cost efficient if it only is dirt cheap to produce and lasts long enough. Conversely, this highly engetically efficient concept will only be cost efficient if it is cheap and durable enough. Energetic efficiency alone does not make you win against coal.
An alternative explanation is that the supermassive black hole might have formed directly. On formation, so much mass accumulated so quickly that it directly collapsed into a black hole, bypassing the star stage entirely.
or is it going to be 100% interactive?
If, as I hope it to be, it is 100% interactive, will you be able to kill your own character by tilting the wiimote towards you?
While it is true that a rainbow table is no big feat, the fact that it is possible surprises me. Doesn't Windows use salt when hashing the passwords? Or what am I missing?
Moreover, there are no videos of the thing actually rising out of ground effect and flying any distance in vertical flight. So, unless I see more, I think that is all of what this thing is capable: Hovering in ground effect.
we have Schäuble now here, who will do anything to stop "terrorists"
Schäuble is one paranoid minister of the interior. I still question the wisdom of placing somebody who has only barely survived a terrorist attack in charge of national security. His judgement might well be affected by that. I don't hold that against him, but I don't think his appointment was wise.
troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season
I'm sure the migrant workeers are glad they won't have to do that tedious and labor-intensive task any more.
(rant) Does anyone actually remember when "turbo" had a technical definition beyond "turbocharger"? Does anyone realize that, in the engineering world, all that "turbo" means is "involving turbines" (go ahead, demonstrate me how you pressurize the incoming steam mix using the turbogenerator exhaust pressure)? Or has the the influx of market-roids dropping the "charger" on any turbocharged piston engine made this term utterly useless? (/rant)
AFAIK, plasma transports only limited amounts of oxygen and thus cannot completely replace blood. It can make up for some lost mass, but if all you have in your veins is plamsa, you're dead.
Well, yes. I understood the intended meaning, but was trying to draw attention to the inaccurate wording by using sarcasm. Now, it could be that you understood what I was trying to say and are being sarcastic yourself, and I just didn't get that. In that case, I apologize.
A meteor will one day hit the earth and you will find your dog dead, your car destroyed, you house burned, your family suffocated, your job gone, your money useless, your government pointless, and life as you knew it forever and completely changed. You may survive but we doubt it.
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the JavaScript engine wars.
To take the pedantry to its logical conlusion: Propulsion itself will be by wind power, but the power adjust the sail(s?) and for the computer will come from the solar panels.
... please do not feed the troll?
You forgot "Black Mamba" (SCNR)
Well, in a university, "scientific calculations" could mean actually running simulations/models/whatever, that is, things for which you would normally use some super computer. So it is not necessarily a question of "getting away with this", it might make perfect operational sense and boost the uni's available computational power and thus productivity. Depending on what industry you work in, you could do a similar thing in a company, for example a nightly distributed build-and-extensive-regression-test in a software shop, and save on purchasing and operating dedicated computers. There are lots of quite productive uses for distributed computing. You just need to think about what your company might do with it. Of course, if there is no productive thing the computers could be doing, they are better turned off.
Yes. That was precisely what the parent to my post said, and he said that he would expect safeguards built into the switch for that. I simply described how it may play out in that case.
I probably should have included the post I replied to in my answer.
Trams switches are usually controlled via some kind of remote command from the tram, not centrally. So, the tram driver can - at least at switches - indeed steer the tram.
Speculation: An alternative explanation would be that the two curves were of different diameter, and the driver intended to take the larger-diameter one, traveling at a speed too high for the sharper curve the tram ended up taking. Tram lines sometimes take pretty sharp turns.
As a comment on the original site points out, the article confuses two concepts: Energetic efficiency and cost efficiency. Energetic efficiency may be theroretically double that of a convenitional solar plant, 60% in this case. Cost efficiency is measured in money/energy, however, so it will only effectively make solar power cheaper if it doubles energetic efficiency while at the same time not doubling the price. You could theroetically get a very energetically inefficient solar cell - say 10% - to still be cost efficient if it only is dirt cheap to produce and lasts long enough. Conversely, this highly engetically efficient concept will only be cost efficient if it is cheap and durable enough. Energetic efficiency alone does not make you win against coal.
An alternative explanation is that the supermassive black hole might have formed directly. On formation, so much mass accumulated so quickly that it directly collapsed into a black hole, bypassing the star stage entirely.
or is it going to be 100% interactive?
If, as I hope it to be, it is 100% interactive, will you be able to kill your own character by tilting the wiimote towards you?
While it is true that a rainbow table is no big feat, the fact that it is possible surprises me. Doesn't Windows use salt when hashing the passwords? Or what am I missing?
Moreover, there are no videos of the thing actually rising out of ground effect and flying any distance in vertical flight. So, unless I see more, I think that is all of what this thing is capable: Hovering in ground effect.
No need for "nodiratime", "noatime" includes that.
we have Schäuble now here, who will do anything to stop "terrorists"
Schäuble is one paranoid minister of the interior. I still question the wisdom of placing somebody who has only barely survived a terrorist attack in charge of national security. His judgement might well be affected by that. I don't hold that against him, but I don't think his appointment was wise.troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season
I'm sure the migrant workeers are glad they won't have to do that tedious and labor-intensive task any more.(rant)
Does anyone actually remember when "turbo" had a technical definition beyond "turbocharger"? Does anyone realize that, in the engineering world, all that "turbo" means is "involving turbines" (go ahead, demonstrate me how you pressurize the incoming steam mix using the turbogenerator exhaust pressure)? Or has the the influx of market-roids dropping the "charger" on any turbocharged piston engine made this term utterly useless?
(/rant)
SCNR.
I think I made a pretty decent job of explaining what "frequency space" is, and why it can be used to improve compression
Yeah, I think you did. Thank you for that article series.
I got one for my girlfriend for her birthday this year and I've been seeing less of her ever since
The question is: Is that what you intended by giving her this present?
PE? PP? PVC? Or are they using it to say "designer organic polymer"?
AFAIK, plasma transports only limited amounts of oxygen and thus cannot completely replace blood. It can make up for some lost mass, but if all you have in your veins is plamsa, you're dead.
"hasse", not "haße"
Well, yes. I understood the intended meaning, but was trying to draw attention to the inaccurate wording by using sarcasm. Now, it could be that you understood what I was trying to say and are being sarcastic yourself, and I just didn't get that. In that case, I apologize.
A story just released by the Inquirer shows that 80% of incoming search requests from Microsoft's domain arrived via Google's search engine.
So, Google's search engine is just forwarding search requests? To where? Who is the real search king, then?A meteor will one day hit the earth and you will find your dog dead, your car destroyed, you house burned, your family suffocated, your job gone, your money useless, your government pointless, and life as you knew it forever and completely changed. You may survive but we doubt it.
How likely is that, exactly?