Laptops have become so cheap there's no reason for the average user to buy a desktop. Desktops will still be big in large businesses, where chances are taking your computer home is frowned upon. However the home user with a desktop is most likely a gamer, and not buying something off the shelf anyway. They're building their own rig.
There are 1510 CCs currently tracked on Coin Market Cap. Most of them serve no purpose whatsoever, and many will never live up to their purported uses. The ones that survive will do so because they are useful in some way. Some because they are useful stores of monetary value, some because they are great for making global payments nearly instantly (or at least much faster than current methods), and some because their networks provide a novel function (contracts, copyright and copy protection, proof of ownership, etc). Much like DotCom era companies, some of these coins have investors dumping money into them and producing nothing in return.
From a purely financial standpoint, I envision Bitcoin being used for large purchases and savings accounts. Litecoin will be used for everyday purchases. (Stellar) Lumens would be great for vending machines, music downloads, on demand movies and other small purchases. Lightning networks and atomic swaps will eventually make these currencies invisible to the user, much like internet protocols are to us today. Who cares what it is if it just works?
Well at least PPC emulation exists today. Not sure what possessed MS to go with a PPC chip on the X360 in the first place. Seems counter to their original goals to me. But hey, at least I can run AmigaOS 4.1 under UAE now.
It's about time. Scientists have known for a very long time now the Linear No Threshold model is garbage. Not only are there safe amounts of (ionizing) radiation exposure, but there are levels of exposure which have been proven to be beneficial to those exposed. Places on earth with higher levels of radioactivity, where the populace has a much lower than normal incidence of cancers as a result. People need to stop thinking of radiation as "that awful gas that deforms ya", and think of it as sub-atomic bullets. Going after Godzilla with a BB gun isn't going to do him much harm, but, get enough people with enough BB guns and he's dead meat.
It is a stone fact there has been no warming of any kind, man-made or natural, in the past 20 years. And I strongly object to comments being marked as "troll" by Slashdot for stating the truth. The scientific evidence pointed to by climate change proponents is based on data that was altered for the express purpose of showing warming trends that do not exist, when in fact the unaltered data shows precisely the opposite. Abnormal warming trends happening before the industrial revolution well beyond and below any trend that exists today. The fact is, when your budget depends on the results of your findings, your findings will reflect the desired result. Science is not a democracy. If even one scientist can disprove a theory, the theory is dead, no matter how many people believe otherwise. And science based on falsified data isn't science at all.
So, with all of this doom and gloom, where exactly is all of this warming we're being warned about? What do you mean it's not actually happening? Someone must be wrong somewhere...
More like 5 minutes of battery power. Did the author even look at the pack? While this IS where we're headed and how we will get there, the batteries are not yet there to make it a feasible form of transportation. More batteries means more weight, which quickly means no flight. Less batteries means you can maybe fly to the corner store and back, and pray you don't lose power over a neighbor's house.
Slight problem with their theory. The oceans are not currently absorbing CO2. They're releasing it into the atmosphere. As oceans warm, their ability to hold CO2 decreases. So, yeah, if the oceans start trapping too much CO2, we're headed for a mass extinction event... It's called an ICE AGE!
So, I enter a code to open the door, and trust some camera to appropriately charge my credit card for what I take? I think not. At least with a normal vending machine there's control over what I want and what I take. Like in the video, dude grabs a bunch of highlighters. Can this camera really say how many of what I just grabbed? I'd never trust it, so I'd never use it.
"Changing a culture is hard, and it's often uncomfortable."
Have you given any thought to the possibility that people may not want their culture changed? What gives you the right to shove your brand of morality down everyone else's throats? You're pushing people to the breaking point, eventually they will push back. This will not end well.
Like home automation equipment isn't expensive enough already. Now we get to add on government red tape and delays to market while some inept bureaucracy looks over a new device. Your $50 light switch just doubled in price.
So, for the cost of this failed, ridiculous, experiment, we could have nearly completed development of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor technology and done away with hydrocarbon plants altogether. Puke.
Studies like this never account for maintenance and repair costs. Sure, you can pay it off in 20 years and then it's all free, but what happens when a hail storm comes along and wrecks your panels. Or what happens when you over-discharge or over-amp your pack? You get to replace equipment and set back your payoff date. Solar power is still just a novelty folks, and will be for many years to come.
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Laptops have become so cheap there's no reason for the average user to buy a desktop. Desktops will still be big in large businesses, where chances are taking your computer home is frowned upon. However the home user with a desktop is most likely a gamer, and not buying something off the shelf anyway. They're building their own rig.
There are 1510 CCs currently tracked on Coin Market Cap. Most of them serve no purpose whatsoever, and many will never live up to their purported uses. The ones that survive will do so because they are useful in some way. Some because they are useful stores of monetary value, some because they are great for making global payments nearly instantly (or at least much faster than current methods), and some because their networks provide a novel function (contracts, copyright and copy protection, proof of ownership, etc). Much like DotCom era companies, some of these coins have investors dumping money into them and producing nothing in return. From a purely financial standpoint, I envision Bitcoin being used for large purchases and savings accounts. Litecoin will be used for everyday purchases. (Stellar) Lumens would be great for vending machines, music downloads, on demand movies and other small purchases. Lightning networks and atomic swaps will eventually make these currencies invisible to the user, much like internet protocols are to us today. Who cares what it is if it just works?
You have 1300 altcoins to choose from.
Well the speed boost works. For a while I've been experiencing a 3-5 second lag when scrolling down social media pages. That's gone now.
And the UN has already stated it won't do a lick of good anyway, even if everyone played ball.
Well at least PPC emulation exists today. Not sure what possessed MS to go with a PPC chip on the X360 in the first place. Seems counter to their original goals to me. But hey, at least I can run AmigaOS 4.1 under UAE now.
It's about time. Scientists have known for a very long time now the Linear No Threshold model is garbage. Not only are there safe amounts of (ionizing) radiation exposure, but there are levels of exposure which have been proven to be beneficial to those exposed. Places on earth with higher levels of radioactivity, where the populace has a much lower than normal incidence of cancers as a result. People need to stop thinking of radiation as "that awful gas that deforms ya", and think of it as sub-atomic bullets. Going after Godzilla with a BB gun isn't going to do him much harm, but, get enough people with enough BB guns and he's dead meat.
Guessing you missed the IPCC report that no warming has occurred lately.
It is a stone fact there has been no warming of any kind, man-made or natural, in the past 20 years. And I strongly object to comments being marked as "troll" by Slashdot for stating the truth. The scientific evidence pointed to by climate change proponents is based on data that was altered for the express purpose of showing warming trends that do not exist, when in fact the unaltered data shows precisely the opposite. Abnormal warming trends happening before the industrial revolution well beyond and below any trend that exists today. The fact is, when your budget depends on the results of your findings, your findings will reflect the desired result. Science is not a democracy. If even one scientist can disprove a theory, the theory is dead, no matter how many people believe otherwise. And science based on falsified data isn't science at all.
So, with all of this doom and gloom, where exactly is all of this warming we're being warned about? What do you mean it's not actually happening? Someone must be wrong somewhere...
More like 5 minutes of battery power. Did the author even look at the pack? While this IS where we're headed and how we will get there, the batteries are not yet there to make it a feasible form of transportation. More batteries means more weight, which quickly means no flight. Less batteries means you can maybe fly to the corner store and back, and pray you don't lose power over a neighbor's house.
Slight problem with their theory. The oceans are not currently absorbing CO2. They're releasing it into the atmosphere. As oceans warm, their ability to hold CO2 decreases. So, yeah, if the oceans start trapping too much CO2, we're headed for a mass extinction event... It's called an ICE AGE!
So, I enter a code to open the door, and trust some camera to appropriately charge my credit card for what I take? I think not. At least with a normal vending machine there's control over what I want and what I take. Like in the video, dude grabs a bunch of highlighters. Can this camera really say how many of what I just grabbed? I'd never trust it, so I'd never use it.
"Changing a culture is hard, and it's often uncomfortable." Have you given any thought to the possibility that people may not want their culture changed? What gives you the right to shove your brand of morality down everyone else's throats? You're pushing people to the breaking point, eventually they will push back. This will not end well.
Like home automation equipment isn't expensive enough already. Now we get to add on government red tape and delays to market while some inept bureaucracy looks over a new device. Your $50 light switch just doubled in price.
So, for the cost of this failed, ridiculous, experiment, we could have nearly completed development of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor technology and done away with hydrocarbon plants altogether. Puke.
Studies like this never account for maintenance and repair costs. Sure, you can pay it off in 20 years and then it's all free, but what happens when a hail storm comes along and wrecks your panels. Or what happens when you over-discharge or over-amp your pack? You get to replace equipment and set back your payoff date. Solar power is still just a novelty folks, and will be for many years to come.