He's right. We need you. Plus, no other sites will have us.
This is not quite true, there are plenty of sites willing and able to charge Slashdot members an arm and a leg for hooking them up with Russian supermodels who like nerdy misfits with no social skills who dwell in the basement of their parents' house.
We analyze 36 years of global, hourly weather data (1980â"2015) to quantify the covariability of solar and wind resources as a function of time and location, over multi-decadal time scales and up to continental length scales. Assuming minimal excess generation, lossless transmission, and no other generation sources, the analysis indicates that wind-heavy or solar-heavy U.S.-scale power generation portfolios could in principle provide â¼80% of recent total annual U.S. electricity demand. However, to reliably meet 100% of total annual electricity demand, seasonal cycles and unpredictable weather events require several weeksâ(TM) worth of energy storage and/or the installation of much more capacity of solar and wind power than is routinely necessary to meet peak demand. To obtain â¼80% reliability, solar-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require sufficient energy storage to overcome the daily solar cycle, whereas wind-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require continental-scale transmission to exploit the geographic diversity of wind. Policy and planning aimed at providing a reliable electricity supply must therefore rigorously consider constraints associated with the geophysical variability of the solar and wind resourceâ"even over continental scales.
Which contradicts what is said in the summary and TFA. In fact it seems like the author of TFA is illiterate and can't understand clear, simple English statements.
I have watched a ton of documentaries and presentations by scientist, grid specialists and people from the energy industry and they all agree that you can replace between 70 and 80% of your energy generation with renewables. A lot of the renewable energy generation will take place in very close proximity to the consumers. This will take the form of wind generator parks, solar generation parks and a considerable amount of renewable energy generation will probably take place on the roof of the consumer's house or in their back yard with a corresponding reduction in the need for grid infrastructure. Throw in some storage, 20 to 30% always-on power generation (nuclear/gas + carbon capture), smart grid technology, maybe even super conductors, cutting edge computer model aided planning of wind/solar park location and a generally modernised grid and you have the future of energy production. The Germans aim for 80% replacement with their 'Energiewende' move to renewables but they also factor in a certain amount of always-on power-plants. This is what the experts say and it is also what that abstract is basically saying as well. Now did anybody expect a bunch of German engineers to decide you can cover the vast majority of your energy needs with renewables without first doing the math on the problem first? The idea of going for 100% renewables is not viable, it never has been, you will always need some always-on power-plants in your mix. Focusing on the 100% renewables case when the one everybody is aiming for is the 70 to 80% case is simply a cheap attempt to find material for some good old fashioned FUD that can double as clickbait.
It's irrational rationality. Running an unsafe nuclear power plant because you don't like paying taxes and don't trust the government is irrational. But if you've already accepted that level of irrationality then the next rational thing to do is not run the plant in the first place.
If I understand what you're saying, you're suggesting that nuclear power plants will be privatized, and therefore unsafe? Maybe you are suggesting this because of what happened with Fukushima?
The thing is, a majority of nuclear power plants in the U.S. are already privatized (but heavily regulated). That exact arrangement has provided the extraordinary safety record that we observe from nuclear energy. Why would you think things would be any different in the future? There's no movement I'm aware of to abandon those proven safety regulations, and so the most reasonable expectation is that nuclear energy will continue to demonstrate the same, exceptional level of safety and reliability that it always has.
Why would we think things would be any different in the future? Because whenever the damn Republicans start handing out deregulation cool-aid it has a tendency to end badly. It just plain scares me to think of what may happen if the Republican deregulation brigade ever ever decides to aggressively deregulate the energy industry with the usual set of dumb ideas like: "you can't pass a new a regulation unless you abolish three old ones", and then decide this should apply to nuclear safety regulations as well because the nuclear safety regulations are a totally unnecessary bureaucratic abomination that only 'stifle the economy and hinder growth'.
No one's disagreeing with you there. But this hardware is being sold like an "appliance" and it isn't failing as an appliance - it's being effectively remotely disabled.
There are DVD players still going strong after 20 years of use. VCRs still kicking after 30. AM/FM Radios still going after 50+ years. There is still no question that the obsolescence was built into the Apple TV by virtue of how it is designed and what it's required to rely on. And in the end, you're still effectively renting the hardware - but it's being treated for most legal purposes like a purchase.
Products get obsoleted, it's a fact of life and I somehow doubt that your Google, Amazon, etc. streaming boxes will still be going strong and getting steady updates in 50+ years so any 1st gen Apple TV owners probably haven't been screwed any worse by Apple than if they had done business with most other streaming box manufacturers 11 years ago. Would I like to wring a few more than 11 years out of my 4th gen Apple TV? Sure, but I somehow suspect the games I like to play will no longer be playable on that thing in 11 years, it will be starting to show all kinds of other signs of age and I will have saved up for a new one by then. Having said that, and assuming you are the kind of person who'd even buy an Apple TV (which I doubt), if you really want to keep using your 1st gen. Apple TV there are plenty of media centre packages available and none of them looks terribly complicated to install. You can even choose from among several smartphone remote apps. This is something I could see myself doing to my 4th gen Apple TV in 10 years if I decide to I go out and buy a dedicated gaming console instead of an Apple TV but we'll see. Ten years is a long time.
School happens primarily during the day. Heat is primarily a problem when the sun is shining brightest. The schools already have an electrical connection to the grid.
Explain again why they needed power-wall batteries for each installation instead of just using the solar power directly when it was needed the most (on hot, sunny days, which generate the most solar power) and relying on a little bit of to/from grid action at other times if necessary?
This sounds an awful lot like a publicity stunt, i.e. kids + batteries + renewable science, now everyone sing kumbaya!!!
Silly questions but I'll try to answer it in a factual manner. On the Hawaiian archipelago they generate anywhere from 60-75% of their electrical energy (depending on which island you are on) with oil of all things. That and the fact that Hawaii is located in an area where solar panels should be quite efficient should result in there being a a good chance that the energy from the solar installation is considerably cheaper than the mains energy (In 2016, Hawaii actually had the highest electricity prices in the entire USA) so why not maximise the use of every spark of solar energy you can harvest even during periods of low sunlight?... or should they be maximising the use of oil generated electricity and then sitting around a a big pile of extortionate electrical bills singing jolly songs in praise of the oil companies? If I was a Hawaiian I'd dimension my solar panel installation and battery pack in such a way that I'd never have to tap the grid for a single kilowatt all year round, the next thing I'd do after that would be to buy an electric car.
Net Neutrality did not regulate speech. It stipulated rules that prevented internet providers from regulating it.
That's funny, because I'm pretty sure the social media giants - and even wikipedia - were doing a pretty decent job of regulating speech with these magical rules in place.
If that is true and if that pisses you off you are perfectly free to set up your own platform on a free internet. On an internet where internet providers have total freedom able to throttle the traffic to and from sites for whatever reason they see fit to do so they'd be free to throttle your new alternative platform into oblivion. That is the difference between a world with net neutrality and a world where corporate oligarchs have a carte blanche on muzzling you without having to justify why they chose to do so and apparently the NRA thinks we are better off with this latter option. Net neutrality is not a right/left issue, it should be of paramount concern to everybody across the political spectrum.
Are you feeling unsafe? Do you want some gold fish crackers and apple juice before your nap? You SJW types like to dish it out but you sure cant take it coming back at you.
I suppose that's why you posted AC, to prove how you don't have to hide under a rock like some limp dick alt-right pyjama boy?... because you can take what's being dished out.
What Do People Misunderstand or Underappreciate About Apple?
So is Slashdot trying to boost 1st quarter revenues or something? Chumming the waters with click-bait as potent as that headline is going to attract every sharp toothed Apple conspiracy theorist and Apple hater on the planet. Good thing I am the proud owner of a suit of chain-mail armour. I think I shall wear it over my flame resistant suit as I sit back and observe the feeding frenzy. Now where did I leave the 100 round drum magazine for my spear gun?
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Look, I'm no fan at all of Mike Pence (or anyone else in the Trump administration.) However, I'm not sure on all of your claims.
Right wing? Check. Fundamentalist Christian? Most definitely. But fascist? Citation please.
I'm not a fan of Pence either and I disagree with the GP too. I see the difference between Pence and Trump mostly as being that while Pence is a stuffy conservative Bible thumper at least he is a rational, intelligent and an experienced politician whereas Trump really is just a couple of steps down the skill ladder from an organ grinder's monkey. Pence could, for example, be trusted **not to start a nuclear exchange** with North Korea with a stream of late night rage tweets while sitting on the toilet bowel-moving three Big Macs, he could be trusted to stop the systematic disassembly of the state department since even the Pentagon is on record calling the ongoing state department massacre a huge mistake and he would probably go on a world tour repairing the damage Trump has done to America's network of allies which is pretty much the basis of America's power. For the Chinese the Trump administration is a godsend, I just heard an Asian diplomat describe the situation at various important political and economic events over there. What he said was that while the US downsizes its diplomatic corps and shows up with two guys at various international events in Asia, the Chinese show up with several dozen. Now who do you think is having more influence there? The two guys Rex Tillerson deemed it worth while to send (Starve the beast!! Starve the beast!!!) or the four dozen guys that Beijing sent? The difference between the Pence administration and the Trump administration would be minimal in terms of the odiousness of their policies, the big differences/improvements of a Pence admin. would be that (a) the US would have a stable force governing it, a group of people with something resembling a plan, that commands some kind of respect abroad (b) the systematic disassembly of the US's power base would stop and (c) the USA would cease being the biggest laughing stock on this planet.
In addition to not rotating when pushing or punching things that are more massive than they are; the protagonists also seem to have an infinite amount of friction when it comes to the bottom of their feet.
It really, really takes me out of the moment.
Don't get me started on Wire-Fu.
Hmm... so an extensive knowledge of archaeology and history isn't the only thing that can ruin movies for you, a physics degree will do it too?
One thing I've noticed change at Apple over that period of time is that, since the passing of Steve Jobs, there has been a slow but steady decline in quality and reliability from Apple products. That's not to say that they were immune before he left us, just that there appears, subjectively, to be deterioration in QA over at Apple.
That's what the next OS release is supposed to be about, stability rather than new features. That said, you are not the only one who'd prefer them to decrease the interval between 'stability releases'. As for iTunes, it sucks, it has always sucked and god knows if they'll ever fix it but it does not suck even half as much as iBooks. You spend a large amount of time organising the PDFs you added, every other update seems to mess them up and there is no easy way to export the library.
Go ahead, mine something on my box. If the code is sandboxed - as should be the case with JS - and it doesn't slow to a grinding halt, I'm actually ok with that. But don't show me you annoying ads!
In fact, make it the default! And give me the option to choose ads over mining. That would actually be a huge improvement IMHO. No joke.
I’d have to agree with that and if people don’t want ads and they won’t pay for a subscription I’m OK with mining as long as they don’t use too many resources and don’t do anything malicious. It costs money to run a paper and no amount of hysterical shrieking from people who feel entitled to get everything for free is going to change that.
While you're worried about Russia, what about all the people who aren't US citizens who were marching to change our immigration laws? You know, the "illegal and proud" type people at rallies and marches.
Or is it only a problem when Russians dare to express their opinions?
Nice Conway there Trumpkin, but all I was really trying to do was point out how utterly useless this effort by Facebook is. I have no interest in watching you and your buddies circle jerk over immigration law.
Ivan will simply find a sucker to take out the ad for him, for a small fee. This is feel good fake news security theatre.
Precisely, if it doesn't already, the Russian embassy will soon have an attaché for shell company management, political action committee administration and political advertisement design, sucker recruitment will be outsourced to the fisheries attache (aka. the FSB operations guy).
That's what they said about Japan: they make shitty copies, no, they make good copies, wait, Japanese products are putting ours to shame.
In actual tech (not these web and app based services TFA calls "tech"), innovation, industrial design and quality control, the Chinese are getting there. I've worked with some first rate original Chinese software, and just this weekend got my hand on an upcoming product designed in China (not a knockoff of a Western device). First class stuff that competes with the top brands here and is actually better in some ways. Their English language manuals are actually useful now, and they are finally waking up to the fact that Times New Roman is a poor choice of font to use on buttons and equipment, and looks especially shitty when printed in gold. The coming years will will continue to see a flood of cheap rubbish coming from China... but the amount of quality Chinese original goods is set to increase. Western designers take note. And you can be sure that China will pay more attention to IP laws when that trend continues.
Hysterical doomsayers also predicted during the 1980s that Japan threatened the very foundations of Judeo-Christian, Capitalist American civilisation, that Japan was outcompeting the US on every level and that the US was essentially doomed. None of that hysteria panned out. China will grow as an economic, political, military and technological powerhouse and with that growth will come all the same problems Europe and the US currently have. What China will not do is become the end of Judeo-Christian, Capitalist American civilisation as we know it so everybody should just calm down and untwist their panties. The only threat to Judeo-Christian, Capitalist American civilisation stems from Americans themselves and the greed, stupidity, shortsightedness and corruption of the people they elect into office.
This could be a pretty big change for LinkedIn. I forsee more people using it. I also think it could make corporations be wary and start using other services.
You ask me this feature would be a big relief. It is such enormous fun to be made to jump through all the flaming interview hoops only to find out that you are expected to work for a totally unacceptable salary. However, there are other tricks that employers use like offering a flat salary while they retain the option to make you work over time and weekends whenever they want to. At this one place I applied for a job they asked me how well I worked under pressure, I told them I'd finished a Comp Sci degree in the top ten percent of my year, what did they think? Then I asked the HR type: Why do you ask? Will I be spending a lot of time working under pressure? He was not amused. So just some hints for those of you who are just starting out:
1) If they want you to work for a flat salary with no ceiling on working time and promise it will only be the occasional evening and weekend work only in emergencies that is HR speak for: "We are planning to put you on permanent 24/7 standby without paying you extra for it."
2) If anybody ever asks you during a job interview if you work well under pressure that is HR speak for: "We are running our company's operations with a skeleton crew to maximise profits, we are always on the verge of missing deadlines and you can expect to be worked to death"
Also watch out for clauses in the contract that prohibit you from working for anybody else in the industry for N years after quitting at their company. Some employers even add clauses forbidding you to work on any FOSS projects at all. That is bad because FOSS projects are a good way to satisfy the kind of employer that wants you to provide code samples. I'm fine with code samples but I usually don't waste my time on perspective employers who send me math puzzles since I have yet to be offered a job solving math puzzles. One outfit I worked for even tried to get me to sign a new contract that contained a clause so broadly worded that they could have claimed ownership of *any* code I wrote, even on my own time outside of working hours and even if it was unrelated to their business. I'm not going to attribute malice to this, that contract was probably just written by a really incompetent lawyer whose chief qualification was being related to one of the managers but I still refused to sign the damn thing. Now if Linked-in would add a feature that allows me to see shit like this it would make my life even easier than knowing in advance what they are planning to pay me.
You both got fucked by idiotic paper pushers. You by your 'recruiter' he by his HR drone.
He hadn't seen your resume until the interview started. HR had assured him, they had prefiltered for qualified applicants (read: 'filtered _out_ all qualified applicants').
HR is useless, recruiters are useless, but you know that. _All_ qualified applicants and good jobs are matched via the side door end runs around HR.
Watch out for recruiters that want to use 'the back door', unless you're into that kind of thing... Some of those bastards will edit your resume (lying for you) before sending them out.
I disagree, I've had several Job interviews like this and I have two major issues with what happened. Firstly an interviewer should not interview anybody until he has read the CV. It does not take **that** long to read a damn CV. I was quite annoyed at these people for wasting my time by being too lazy to read my CV. Secondly the specification for an exact Bob replacement was so insanely specific it could only have been met if they'd had a backup tape of Bob's brain and then uploaded it into a Bob clone they commissioned from some underground cloning facility in North Korea. The lesson I drew from these experiences is that most employment agencies, head hunters and HR people (with a few notable exceptions) are largely useless in this capacity. I've been interviewed by exactly one HR person who I thought did a really competent job. Other than that the only truly useful job interviews I have had were with the department heads and people I would be working for/with.
LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them
That's nice but what pisses me off the most about job interviews is not that, its being asked to a job interview and having a conversation something akin to the following:
Interviewer: We are looking to replace Bob who left us recently. We are looking for a somebody who know <long list of APIs> and has recently worked on <insanely specific project description>, we really need a close fit on this.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: So, do you know Microsoft.NET
Me: No, if I did it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: Do you have any Microsoft programming experience.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV, in fact it says in my CV I have 10 years of Linux system programming experienece in C/C++.
Interviewer: Well I must say I'm rather disappointed, why did you even apply here?
Me: I was sent here by the person at the recruiting office who told me you wanted to interview me for a job because my CV matched what you were looking for.
Interviewer: Well,... it seems your skill profile is incompatible with our requirements.
Me: No shit stupid, **which my the common sense processor in my brain modifies to: This is true**.
Interviewer: Looks at his laptop screen and types something.
Me: Can I ask you something?
Interviewer: Sure, shoot?
Me: Did you even read my CV?
Interviewer: Scowls and does not answer.
Then, when they are done shrieking, they go back to handing out 'thoughts and prayers' which in their mind is the only real fix for the problem of mass shootings.
What's wrong with that? It's worked so well in the past! Think of all the shootings that didn't happen because of their thoughts and prayers. And here you are, blaming them when they miss one.
Doesn't stop the leftist types from shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anyone not so leftist demurs from their politicizing in favor of their solution of banning all guns.
Seems to me it's the right wing that starts shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anybody suggests that allowing complete nutcases to own firearms might not be a good idea. Then, when they are done shrieking, they go back to handing out 'thoughts and prayers' which in their mind is the only real fix for the problem of mass shootings.
If you look at the features Apple is postponing, they're apparently re-writes of core systems. Which means that even if they iron out all the bugs in the next iOS, the iOS after that will then get all the bugs for the new systems anyway.
Apple's problem is that they don't ever let things mature and become stable. iOS's UI and APIs keep on changing. This is why they keep on introducing bugs: they keep on changing everything.
It doesn't matter how many bugs you fix if you keep on throwing away code and working UIs and replacing them with the new shiny every other release.
Letting things 'mature is not their business model. Most Apple users like the rapid feature development and don't mind a certain degree of instability. Apple usually does these 'stability releases' when they have pushed the instability level to the point where even their most loyal core customer base is starting to get annoyed. The people that don't like macOS or iOS or certain Linux distributions usually complain the loudest about the rapid feature development and end up being happiest on more stable OS'es where things change at a glacial pace. I like to use Fedora which is somewhat unstable, my collage prefers more stable Centos releases and is conservative in his update policy. His system is more stable and mature but I was able to run the Evolution and connect to the latest Microsoft Exchange servers when our Microsoft gang decided to retire MAPI in favour of Exchange Web Services weeks before those patches finally showed up on the Centos update server. Different people like different things and that does not mean one is more 'right' than the other in their preferences.
Roads receive "investment", public transport (including rail) receives "subsidy". As if a layer of tarmac is somehow going to earn money on its own if only enough were spent on it.
Politicians love to play these verbal sleights of hand to fool the stupid and unfortunately it works a lot of the time.
Actually it's more like: if roads & railways are re owned by the state they are 'anti-competitive', 'inefficient', 'socialist dinosaurs' that get 'subsidies', money stolen by violent means from the pockets of the taxpayer (especially the rich ones). If roads & railways are privately owned they are models of efficiency that receive 'investment', spur competition even if they are monopolies and never ever charge their captive customer base unreasonable usage fees because the companies that run them are benevolent, honest and very moral entities that would never abuse a monopoly.
Make fun of it, but this is the future of manufacturing. When 3D printing reaches the point where you can churn out the parts for whatever it is you need parts for locally, or just the make whole product at your local 3D printing shop from plans downloaded from the internet, it will upend the world of manufacturing as we know it in a big way. Never mind if we ever get to a point where you can 3D print your own AK-47 that can fire 30k rounds without the receiver breaking or the barrel exploding in your face like the original can or... hand grenades?... RPG's?
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He's right. We need you. Plus, no other sites will have us.
This is not quite true, there are plenty of sites willing and able to charge Slashdot members an arm and a leg for hooking them up with Russian supermodels who like nerdy misfits with no social skills who dwell in the basement of their parents' house.
TFA is nonsense anyway. The actual paper appears to be this one: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content...
The abstract says:
We analyze 36 years of global, hourly weather data (1980â"2015) to quantify the covariability of solar and wind resources as a function of time and location, over multi-decadal time scales and up to continental length scales. Assuming minimal excess generation, lossless transmission, and no other generation sources, the analysis indicates that wind-heavy or solar-heavy U.S.-scale power generation portfolios could in principle provide â¼80% of recent total annual U.S. electricity demand. However, to reliably meet 100% of total annual electricity demand, seasonal cycles and unpredictable weather events require several weeksâ(TM) worth of energy storage and/or the installation of much more capacity of solar and wind power than is routinely necessary to meet peak demand. To obtain â¼80% reliability, solar-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require sufficient energy storage to overcome the daily solar cycle, whereas wind-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require continental-scale transmission to exploit the geographic diversity of wind. Policy and planning aimed at providing a reliable electricity supply must therefore rigorously consider constraints associated with the geophysical variability of the solar and wind resourceâ"even over continental scales.
Which contradicts what is said in the summary and TFA. In fact it seems like the author of TFA is illiterate and can't understand clear, simple English statements.
I have watched a ton of documentaries and presentations by scientist, grid specialists and people from the energy industry and they all agree that you can replace between 70 and 80% of your energy generation with renewables. A lot of the renewable energy generation will take place in very close proximity to the consumers. This will take the form of wind generator parks, solar generation parks and a considerable amount of renewable energy generation will probably take place on the roof of the consumer's house or in their back yard with a corresponding reduction in the need for grid infrastructure. Throw in some storage, 20 to 30% always-on power generation (nuclear/gas + carbon capture), smart grid technology, maybe even super conductors, cutting edge computer model aided planning of wind/solar park location and a generally modernised grid and you have the future of energy production. The Germans aim for 80% replacement with their 'Energiewende' move to renewables but they also factor in a certain amount of always-on power-plants. This is what the experts say and it is also what that abstract is basically saying as well. Now did anybody expect a bunch of German engineers to decide you can cover the vast majority of your energy needs with renewables without first doing the math on the problem first? The idea of going for 100% renewables is not viable, it never has been, you will always need some always-on power-plants in your mix. Focusing on the 100% renewables case when the one everybody is aiming for is the 70 to 80% case is simply a cheap attempt to find material for some good old fashioned FUD that can double as clickbait.
It's irrational rationality. Running an unsafe nuclear power plant because you don't like paying taxes and don't trust the government is irrational. But if you've already accepted that level of irrationality then the next rational thing to do is not run the plant in the first place.
If I understand what you're saying, you're suggesting that nuclear power plants will be privatized, and therefore unsafe? Maybe you are suggesting this because of what happened with Fukushima?
The thing is, a majority of nuclear power plants in the U.S. are already privatized (but heavily regulated). That exact arrangement has provided the extraordinary safety record that we observe from nuclear energy. Why would you think things would be any different in the future? There's no movement I'm aware of to abandon those proven safety regulations, and so the most reasonable expectation is that nuclear energy will continue to demonstrate the same, exceptional level of safety and reliability that it always has.
Why would we think things would be any different in the future? Because whenever the damn Republicans start handing out deregulation cool-aid it has a tendency to end badly. It just plain scares me to think of what may happen if the Republican deregulation brigade ever ever decides to aggressively deregulate the energy industry with the usual set of dumb ideas like: "you can't pass a new a regulation unless you abolish three old ones", and then decide this should apply to nuclear safety regulations as well because the nuclear safety regulations are a totally unnecessary bureaucratic abomination that only 'stifle the economy and hinder growth'.
No one's disagreeing with you there. But this hardware is being sold like an "appliance" and it isn't failing as an appliance - it's being effectively remotely disabled.
There are DVD players still going strong after 20 years of use. VCRs still kicking after 30. AM/FM Radios still going after 50+ years. There is still no question that the obsolescence was built into the Apple TV by virtue of how it is designed and what it's required to rely on. And in the end, you're still effectively renting the hardware - but it's being treated for most legal purposes like a purchase.
Products get obsoleted, it's a fact of life and I somehow doubt that your Google, Amazon, etc. streaming boxes will still be going strong and getting steady updates in 50+ years so any 1st gen Apple TV owners probably haven't been screwed any worse by Apple than if they had done business with most other streaming box manufacturers 11 years ago. Would I like to wring a few more than 11 years out of my 4th gen Apple TV? Sure, but I somehow suspect the games I like to play will no longer be playable on that thing in 11 years, it will be starting to show all kinds of other signs of age and I will have saved up for a new one by then. Having said that, and assuming you are the kind of person who'd even buy an Apple TV (which I doubt), if you really want to keep using your 1st gen. Apple TV there are plenty of media centre packages available and none of them looks terribly complicated to install. You can even choose from among several smartphone remote apps. This is something I could see myself doing to my 4th gen Apple TV in 10 years if I decide to I go out and buy a dedicated gaming console instead of an Apple TV but we'll see. Ten years is a long time.
School happens primarily during the day. Heat is primarily a problem when the sun is shining brightest. The schools already have an electrical connection to the grid.
Explain again why they needed power-wall batteries for each installation instead of just using the solar power directly when it was needed the most (on hot, sunny days, which generate the most solar power) and relying on a little bit of to/from grid action at other times if necessary?
This sounds an awful lot like a publicity stunt, i.e. kids + batteries + renewable science, now everyone sing kumbaya!!!
Silly questions but I'll try to answer it in a factual manner. On the Hawaiian archipelago they generate anywhere from 60-75% of their electrical energy (depending on which island you are on) with oil of all things. That and the fact that Hawaii is located in an area where solar panels should be quite efficient should result in there being a a good chance that the energy from the solar installation is considerably cheaper than the mains energy (In 2016, Hawaii actually had the highest electricity prices in the entire USA) so why not maximise the use of every spark of solar energy you can harvest even during periods of low sunlight? ... or should they be maximising the use of oil generated electricity and then sitting around a a big pile of extortionate electrical bills singing jolly songs in praise of the oil companies? If I was a Hawaiian I'd dimension my solar panel installation and battery pack in such a way that I'd never have to tap the grid for a single kilowatt all year round, the next thing I'd do after that would be to buy an electric car.
Net Neutrality did not regulate speech. It stipulated rules that prevented internet providers from regulating it.
That's funny, because I'm pretty sure the social media giants - and even wikipedia - were doing a pretty decent job of regulating speech with these magical rules in place.
If that is true and if that pisses you off you are perfectly free to set up your own platform on a free internet. On an internet where internet providers have total freedom able to throttle the traffic to and from sites for whatever reason they see fit to do so they'd be free to throttle your new alternative platform into oblivion. That is the difference between a world with net neutrality and a world where corporate oligarchs have a carte blanche on muzzling you without having to justify why they chose to do so and apparently the NRA thinks we are better off with this latter option. Net neutrality is not a right/left issue, it should be of paramount concern to everybody across the political spectrum.
To be fair, you aren't a man. You're a troll.
Are you feeling unsafe? Do you want some gold fish crackers and apple juice before your nap? You SJW types like to dish it out but you sure cant take it coming back at you.
I suppose that's why you posted AC, to prove how you don't have to hide under a rock like some limp dick alt-right pyjama boy? ... because you can take what's being dished out.
What Do People Misunderstand or Underappreciate About Apple?
So is Slashdot trying to boost 1st quarter revenues or something? Chumming the waters with click-bait as potent as that headline is going to attract every sharp toothed Apple conspiracy theorist and Apple hater on the planet. Good thing I am the proud owner of a suit of chain-mail armour. I think I shall wear it over my flame resistant suit as I sit back and observe the feeding frenzy. Now where did I leave the 100 round drum magazine for my spear gun?
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Look, I'm no fan at all of Mike Pence (or anyone else in the Trump administration.) However, I'm not sure on all of your claims.
Right wing? Check. Fundamentalist Christian? Most definitely. But fascist? Citation please.
I'm not a fan of Pence either and I disagree with the GP too. I see the difference between Pence and Trump mostly as being that while Pence is a stuffy conservative Bible thumper at least he is a rational, intelligent and an experienced politician whereas Trump really is just a couple of steps down the skill ladder from an organ grinder's monkey. Pence could, for example, be trusted **not to start a nuclear exchange** with North Korea with a stream of late night rage tweets while sitting on the toilet bowel-moving three Big Macs, he could be trusted to stop the systematic disassembly of the state department since even the Pentagon is on record calling the ongoing state department massacre a huge mistake and he would probably go on a world tour repairing the damage Trump has done to America's network of allies which is pretty much the basis of America's power. For the Chinese the Trump administration is a godsend, I just heard an Asian diplomat describe the situation at various important political and economic events over there. What he said was that while the US downsizes its diplomatic corps and shows up with two guys at various international events in Asia, the Chinese show up with several dozen. Now who do you think is having more influence there? The two guys Rex Tillerson deemed it worth while to send (Starve the beast!! Starve the beast!!!) or the four dozen guys that Beijing sent? The difference between the Pence administration and the Trump administration would be minimal in terms of the odiousness of their policies, the big differences/improvements of a Pence admin. would be that (a) the US would have a stable force governing it, a group of people with something resembling a plan, that commands some kind of respect abroad (b) the systematic disassembly of the US's power base would stop and (c) the USA would cease being the biggest laughing stock on this planet.
In addition to not rotating when pushing or punching things that are more massive than they are; the protagonists also seem to have an infinite amount of friction when it comes to the bottom of their feet.
It really, really takes me out of the moment.
Don't get me started on Wire-Fu.
Hmm... so an extensive knowledge of archaeology and history isn't the only thing that can ruin movies for you, a physics degree will do it too?
One thing I've noticed change at Apple over that period of time is that, since the passing of Steve Jobs, there has been a slow but steady decline in quality and reliability from Apple products. That's not to say that they were immune before he left us, just that there appears, subjectively, to be deterioration in QA over at Apple.
That's what the next OS release is supposed to be about, stability rather than new features. That said, you are not the only one who'd prefer them to decrease the interval between 'stability releases'. As for iTunes, it sucks, it has always sucked and god knows if they'll ever fix it but it does not suck even half as much as iBooks. You spend a large amount of time organising the PDFs you added, every other update seems to mess them up and there is no easy way to export the library.
Go ahead, mine something on my box. If the code is sandboxed - as should be the case with JS - and it doesn't slow to a grinding halt, I'm actually ok with that. But don't show me you annoying ads!
In fact, make it the default! And give me the option to choose ads over mining. That would actually be a huge improvement IMHO. No joke.
I’d have to agree with that and if people don’t want ads and they won’t pay for a subscription I’m OK with mining as long as they don’t use too many resources and don’t do anything malicious. It costs money to run a paper and no amount of hysterical shrieking from people who feel entitled to get everything for free is going to change that.
While you're worried about Russia, what about all the people who aren't US citizens who were marching to change our immigration laws? You know, the "illegal and proud" type people at rallies and marches.
Or is it only a problem when Russians dare to express their opinions?
Nice Conway there Trumpkin, but all I was really trying to do was point out how utterly useless this effort by Facebook is. I have no interest in watching you and your buddies circle jerk over immigration law.
Ivan will simply find a sucker to take out the ad for him, for a small fee. This is feel good fake news security theatre.
Precisely, if it doesn't already, the Russian embassy will soon have an attaché for shell company management, political action committee administration and political advertisement design, sucker recruitment will be outsourced to the fisheries attache (aka. the FSB operations guy).
That's what they said about Japan: they make shitty copies, no, they make good copies, wait, Japanese products are putting ours to shame. In actual tech (not these web and app based services TFA calls "tech"), innovation, industrial design and quality control, the Chinese are getting there. I've worked with some first rate original Chinese software, and just this weekend got my hand on an upcoming product designed in China (not a knockoff of a Western device). First class stuff that competes with the top brands here and is actually better in some ways. Their English language manuals are actually useful now, and they are finally waking up to the fact that Times New Roman is a poor choice of font to use on buttons and equipment, and looks especially shitty when printed in gold. The coming years will will continue to see a flood of cheap rubbish coming from China... but the amount of quality Chinese original goods is set to increase. Western designers take note. And you can be sure that China will pay more attention to IP laws when that trend continues.
Hysterical doomsayers also predicted during the 1980s that Japan threatened the very foundations of Judeo-Christian, Capitalist American civilisation, that Japan was outcompeting the US on every level and that the US was essentially doomed. None of that hysteria panned out. China will grow as an economic, political, military and technological powerhouse and with that growth will come all the same problems Europe and the US currently have. What China will not do is become the end of Judeo-Christian, Capitalist American civilisation as we know it so everybody should just calm down and untwist their panties. The only threat to Judeo-Christian, Capitalist American civilisation stems from Americans themselves and the greed, stupidity, shortsightedness and corruption of the people they elect into office.
This could be a pretty big change for LinkedIn. I forsee more people using it. I also think it could make corporations be wary and start using other services.
You ask me this feature would be a big relief. It is such enormous fun to be made to jump through all the flaming interview hoops only to find out that you are expected to work for a totally unacceptable salary. However, there are other tricks that employers use like offering a flat salary while they retain the option to make you work over time and weekends whenever they want to. At this one place I applied for a job they asked me how well I worked under pressure, I told them I'd finished a Comp Sci degree in the top ten percent of my year, what did they think? Then I asked the HR type: Why do you ask? Will I be spending a lot of time working under pressure? He was not amused. So just some hints for those of you who are just starting out:
1) If they want you to work for a flat salary with no ceiling on working time and promise it will only be the occasional evening and weekend work only in emergencies that is HR speak for: "We are planning to put you on permanent 24/7 standby without paying you extra for it."
2) If anybody ever asks you during a job interview if you work well under pressure that is HR speak for: "We are running our company's operations with a skeleton crew to maximise profits, we are always on the verge of missing deadlines and you can expect to be worked to death"
Also watch out for clauses in the contract that prohibit you from working for anybody else in the industry for N years after quitting at their company. Some employers even add clauses forbidding you to work on any FOSS projects at all. That is bad because FOSS projects are a good way to satisfy the kind of employer that wants you to provide code samples. I'm fine with code samples but I usually don't waste my time on perspective employers who send me math puzzles since I have yet to be offered a job solving math puzzles. One outfit I worked for even tried to get me to sign a new contract that contained a clause so broadly worded that they could have claimed ownership of *any* code I wrote, even on my own time outside of working hours and even if it was unrelated to their business. I'm not going to attribute malice to this, that contract was probably just written by a really incompetent lawyer whose chief qualification was being related to one of the managers but I still refused to sign the damn thing. Now if Linked-in would add a feature that allows me to see shit like this it would make my life even easier than knowing in advance what they are planning to pay me.
You both got fucked by idiotic paper pushers. You by your 'recruiter' he by his HR drone.
He hadn't seen your resume until the interview started. HR had assured him, they had prefiltered for qualified applicants (read: 'filtered _out_ all qualified applicants').
HR is useless, recruiters are useless, but you know that. _All_ qualified applicants and good jobs are matched via the side door end runs around HR.
Watch out for recruiters that want to use 'the back door', unless you're into that kind of thing... Some of those bastards will edit your resume (lying for you) before sending them out.
I disagree, I've had several Job interviews like this and I have two major issues with what happened. Firstly an interviewer should not interview anybody until he has read the CV. It does not take **that** long to read a damn CV. I was quite annoyed at these people for wasting my time by being too lazy to read my CV. Secondly the specification for an exact Bob replacement was so insanely specific it could only have been met if they'd had a backup tape of Bob's brain and then uploaded it into a Bob clone they commissioned from some underground cloning facility in North Korea. The lesson I drew from these experiences is that most employment agencies, head hunters and HR people (with a few notable exceptions) are largely useless in this capacity. I've been interviewed by exactly one HR person who I thought did a really competent job. Other than that the only truly useful job interviews I have had were with the department heads and people I would be working for/with.
LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them
That's nice but what pisses me off the most about job interviews is not that, its being asked to a job interview and having a conversation something akin to the following:
.NET ... it seems your skill profile is incompatible with our requirements.
Interviewer: We are looking to replace Bob who left us recently. We are looking for a somebody who know <long list of APIs> and has recently worked on <insanely specific project description>, we really need a close fit on this.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: So, do you know Microsoft
Me: No, if I did it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: Do you have any Microsoft programming experience.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV, in fact it says in my CV I have 10 years of Linux system programming experienece in C/C++.
Interviewer: Well I must say I'm rather disappointed, why did you even apply here?
Me: I was sent here by the person at the recruiting office who told me you wanted to interview me for a job because my CV matched what you were looking for.
Interviewer: Well,
Me: No shit stupid, **which my the common sense processor in my brain modifies to: This is true**.
Interviewer: Looks at his laptop screen and types something.
Me: Can I ask you something?
Interviewer: Sure, shoot?
Me: Did you even read my CV?
Interviewer: Scowls and does not answer.
Then, when they are done shrieking, they go back to handing out 'thoughts and prayers' which in their mind is the only real fix for the problem of mass shootings.
What's wrong with that? It's worked so well in the past! Think of all the shootings that didn't happen because of their thoughts and prayers. And here you are, blaming them when they miss one.
Nobody is perfect.
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Doesn't stop the leftist types from shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anyone not so leftist demurs from their politicizing in favor of their solution of banning all guns.
Seems to me it's the right wing that starts shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anybody suggests that allowing complete nutcases to own firearms might not be a good idea. Then, when they are done shrieking, they go back to handing out 'thoughts and prayers' which in their mind is the only real fix for the problem of mass shootings.
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Well, that's one way to start a, cough, cough *debate* ... now where did I leave my flame resistant suit?
If you look at the features Apple is postponing, they're apparently re-writes of core systems. Which means that even if they iron out all the bugs in the next iOS, the iOS after that will then get all the bugs for the new systems anyway.
Apple's problem is that they don't ever let things mature and become stable. iOS's UI and APIs keep on changing. This is why they keep on introducing bugs: they keep on changing everything.
It doesn't matter how many bugs you fix if you keep on throwing away code and working UIs and replacing them with the new shiny every other release.
Letting things 'mature is not their business model. Most Apple users like the rapid feature development and don't mind a certain degree of instability. Apple usually does these 'stability releases' when they have pushed the instability level to the point where even their most loyal core customer base is starting to get annoyed. The people that don't like macOS or iOS or certain Linux distributions usually complain the loudest about the rapid feature development and end up being happiest on more stable OS'es where things change at a glacial pace. I like to use Fedora which is somewhat unstable, my collage prefers more stable Centos releases and is conservative in his update policy. His system is more stable and mature but I was able to run the Evolution and connect to the latest Microsoft Exchange servers when our Microsoft gang decided to retire MAPI in favour of Exchange Web Services weeks before those patches finally showed up on the Centos update server. Different people like different things and that does not mean one is more 'right' than the other in their preferences.
Roads receive "investment", public transport (including rail) receives "subsidy". As if a layer of tarmac is somehow going to earn money on its own if only enough were spent on it.
Politicians love to play these verbal sleights of hand to fool the stupid and unfortunately it works a lot of the time.
Actually it's more like: if roads & railways are re owned by the state they are 'anti-competitive', 'inefficient', 'socialist dinosaurs' that get 'subsidies', money stolen by violent means from the pockets of the taxpayer (especially the rich ones). If roads & railways are privately owned they are models of efficiency that receive 'investment', spur competition even if they are monopolies and never ever charge their captive customer base unreasonable usage fees because the companies that run them are benevolent, honest and very moral entities that would never abuse a monopoly.
That works right up to the point where Gandhi gets nukes.
Yeah, Ghandi has been pretty pissed since he made his comeback in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You wouldn't download a car. But you will.
Cue Chairman Mao: A steel furnace in every home!
Make fun of it, but this is the future of manufacturing. When 3D printing reaches the point where you can churn out the parts for whatever it is you need parts for locally, or just the make whole product at your local 3D printing shop from plans downloaded from the internet, it will upend the world of manufacturing as we know it in a big way. Never mind if we ever get to a point where you can 3D print your own AK-47 that can fire 30k rounds without the receiver breaking or the barrel exploding in your face like the original can or ... hand grenades? ... RPG's?