Even hydro capacity has decreased, as more dams are broken than built because they apparently bother the fishies.
As someone who lives in the west I would love to see windmills on farmland and solar power installed on rooftops replace dams. Free flowing rivers are an incredible asset, it's not just about fish.
When they use energy produced by coal power plants the emissions are roughly equivalent to driving a regular gas powered car. In most places, they range somewhere between an efficient gasoline powered car and a hybrid. There are also emissions involved with the manufacturing and recycling of the car.
Lifecycle analysis shows that electric cars produce 25% less emission than plug-in hybrids that use a drive train similar to the kind you are advocating for.
Environmentalists have always been for more efficient cars but pure gasoline powered cars just aren't necessary. And there are a TON of engineering benefits to an electric car: the center of mass is super low, you double the storage capacity, you get rid of the vast majority of the maintenance cost, and the performance is really phenomenal.
Elon Musk has an infinitely better plan for going to Mars, and best of all, he has the smarts and the resources to do it.
I have as big a nerd-crush on Musk as the next geek, but he doesn't have what it takes to acomplish his "ultimate" goal of setting up a backup for humanity on Mars. Terraforming mars is a few orders of magnitude more difficult than reversing climate change here on Earth.
I was just embroiled in a dispute with someone who is selling security related software that refuses to address key issues with their security model. I think the situation is probably similar here, software engineers that have the best of intentions but simply lack the expertise to properly execute. Most programmers are engineers who are perfectly capable of building out a working system. However, when it comes to security related software, it's not good enough for something to just work, you have to be able to have a deep understanding of how every component interacts with the larger system.
The real problem that needs solving isn't hacking PGP into web-mail, it's making certificate management user-friendly. And that's not even that hard to do!
Lol, users don't understand certificates and I doubt that most geeks are capable of managing them.
There are usable and secure E2E email clients, but they require a separation between the messaging system and the software used to retrieve it. With traditional software distribution, we can rely on reproducible builds and security audits to increase the cost of backdooring software. On the web, each provider can deliver a custom (backdoored) version of their software to the target on demand.
It's based on a decade of research, the 90% figure comes from actual behavioral studies
I doubt it. If you were actually familiar with these "behavioral studies", then you would have provided a citation. Studies have shown that 90% of people that claim "studies" support their opinion, without actually citing them, are just making stuff up.
This has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's aimed at PGP and OTR clients that are bolted onto web interfaces. The problem is that these interfaces can be spoofed.
I suspect this is a made-up/"customized" statistic.
It's based on a decade of research, the 90% figure comes from actual behavioral studies in which researchers asked participants to login to their bank accounts and removed the "site-authentication" image.
Android got smooth by throwing hardware at it. The reason for a while Androiders were bragging that their phones had more cores or higher clock speeds was that Android needed it.
I'm sorry, but this is the same argument that people made against Java in the 90's, when Java was a few orders of magnitude slower. But as time went on, the total percentage that the computational overhead took up dropped to less than 1% because the hardware got faster. Java's success shows that developer convenience is a very powerful thing.
How do you call VP9 royalty-free in the same article as the rest of this info.
There is not currently a patent pool for VP9. That doesn't mean it's in a better position than HEVC, given there could be a "freelance" patent pool for VP9 any day now.
Any standard which becomes successful attracts leeches. VP9 is no exception.
How do you call VP9 royalty-free in the same article as the rest of this info.
There is not currently a patent pool for VP9. That doesn't mean it's in a better position than HEVC, given there could be a "freelance" patent pool for VP9 any day now.
Any standard which becomes successful attracts leeches. VP9 is no exception.
Carefully avoiding all known patents puts them into a better position, even if the position is just a smaller number of patents.
I think there are two distinct worlds, people who handle the distribution of video and content creators. For content creators, they need highly polished GUIs... like those provided by Final Cut Pro and iMovie. There are also batch video conversion tools that are entirely oriented around the GUI.
... these are not single algorithms, nor are they in any way simple. This is very sophisticated software. At least scan through the Wikipedia entry linked in the summary to get a rough idea of the complexity of these monsters.
I actually read through some of the patents Nokia was threatening VP8/9 with and they really are not sophisticated at all, they are just written in the most confusing possible way. For example, the following paragraph is from a Nokia patent that basically describes the selection of neighboring pixels:
selecting a first reference video pixel in the first video block and a second reference video pixel in the second video block, the first reference video pixel and the second reference video pixel being other than the first boundary video pixel and the second boundary video pixel and the first reference video pixel and the second reference video pixel being placed closer to a central portion of each of said video blocks than the respective boundary video pixel, in such a way that the reference video pixels and the boundary video pixels are situated on a straight line, the straight line being transverse to the boundary, drawn from the first reference video pixel to the second reference video pixel, wherein the first and the second boundary video pixels are located between the first and the second reference video pixels on the straight line,
I was planning on busting all of the Nokia patents myself, but then I got busy:p
After seeing the blatant and pointless censorship pushed by the movie industry's version of the ESRB, all I can say is that I hope he does as much damaage as possible.
It would be nice to hear from an archivist about how they plan to go about archiving the projects. How well does Archive.org's time machine cover Google Code? It would be cool if Google would post a link to a zip export of every project so you can just pul upl the last (and latest) result up on Archive.org and download the project.
Foreign language graduation requirements are a scam to employ PhD and masters students in the linguistics department. I know a lot of about educational psych and language learning and there was little about the intensive foreign language course I had to take at the UW that could be mistaken as for prepping us for actual fluency. These classes are designed to allow students to pass a test, not speak a foreign language. It actually got easier as the summer went on because each grad student got more desperate for high reviews and thus more forgiving of mistakes.
Whatever you stance on learning foreign languages, computer languages give a window into a different way of logic. This is at least as educational as rote memorization of vocabulary and verb forms.
Agreed, there are hundreds of programming languages, discussion about their merits is overshadowed by the need to get shit done. Evolutionary theory posits that organisms fill niches, but it doesn't assign importance to niches.
... 'It's a kind of delightful revelation given the fact that the Germans have been on their high horse.' Christian Whiton, a former... State Department senior advisor
Yup, Germany stepped off their high-horse and dived right into our cesspool. But just because everyone is violating our fundamental civil liberties en-mass doesn't make it any less evil.
The only thing this tells us is what our threat model should have been from the start.
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Can California's electric grid hold up if VW really did replace all those vehicles with electric cars?
You generally charge them at night, not during peak usage hours. Of course, Californians could also install a solar panel, SolarCity is offering them at no money down.
Even hydro capacity has decreased, as more dams are broken than built because they apparently bother the fishies.
As someone who lives in the west I would love to see windmills on farmland and solar power installed on rooftops replace dams. Free flowing rivers are an incredible asset, it's not just about fish.
Isn't the basic story that they trade performance for reliability?
When they use energy produced by coal power plants the emissions are roughly equivalent to driving a regular gas powered car. In most places, they range somewhere between an efficient gasoline powered car and a hybrid. There are also emissions involved with the manufacturing and recycling of the car.
Lifecycle analysis shows that electric cars produce 25% less emission than plug-in hybrids that use a drive train similar to the kind you are advocating for.
Environmentalists have always been for more efficient cars but pure gasoline powered cars just aren't necessary. And there are a TON of engineering benefits to an electric car: the center of mass is super low, you double the storage capacity, you get rid of the vast majority of the maintenance cost, and the performance is really phenomenal.
I have as big a nerd-crush on Musk as the next geek, but he doesn't have what it takes to acomplish his "ultimate" goal of setting up a backup for humanity on Mars. Terraforming mars is a few orders of magnitude more difficult than reversing climate change here on Earth.
he/she died of:______ is usually left out.
Der, they killed him:
Wikipedia notes that Iwata was the first of the company's presidents to be unrelated to the Yamauchi family through blood or marriage.
I guess I shouldn't expect the typical /. commenter to read between the lines.
I was just embroiled in a dispute with someone who is selling security related software that refuses to address key issues with their security model. I think the situation is probably similar here, software engineers that have the best of intentions but simply lack the expertise to properly execute. Most programmers are engineers who are perfectly capable of building out a working system. However, when it comes to security related software, it's not good enough for something to just work, you have to be able to have a deep understanding of how every component interacts with the larger system.
The real problem that needs solving isn't hacking PGP into web-mail, it's making certificate management user-friendly. And that's not even that hard to do!
Lol, users don't understand certificates and I doubt that most geeks are capable of managing them.
This has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's the ability for the service provider to spoof the UI of the Javascript PGP client.
There are usable and secure E2E email clients, but they require a separation between the messaging system and the software used to retrieve it. With traditional software distribution, we can rely on reproducible builds and security audits to increase the cost of backdooring software. On the web, each provider can deliver a custom (backdoored) version of their software to the target on demand.
It's based on a decade of research, the 90% figure comes from actual behavioral studies
I doubt it. If you were actually familiar with these "behavioral studies", then you would have provided a citation. Studies have shown that 90% of people that claim "studies" support their opinion, without actually citing them, are just making stuff up.
It's in TFA.
This has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's aimed at PGP and OTR clients that are bolted onto web interfaces. The problem is that these interfaces can be spoofed.
I suspect this is a made-up/"customized" statistic.
It's based on a decade of research, the 90% figure comes from actual behavioral studies in which researchers asked participants to login to their bank accounts and removed the "site-authentication" image.
Eventually the METAL Linux kernel module (C -> JS + asm.js) will boost overall processing speeds by ~4%.
Android got smooth by throwing hardware at it. The reason for a while Androiders were bragging that their phones had more cores or higher clock speeds was that Android needed it.
I'm sorry, but this is the same argument that people made against Java in the 90's, when Java was a few orders of magnitude slower. But as time went on, the total percentage that the computational overhead took up dropped to less than 1% because the hardware got faster. Java's success shows that developer convenience is a very powerful thing.
How do you call VP9 royalty-free in the same article as the rest of this info.
There is not currently a patent pool for VP9. That doesn't mean it's in a better position than HEVC, given there could be a "freelance" patent pool for VP9 any day now.
Any standard which becomes successful attracts leeches. VP9 is no exception.
How do you call VP9 royalty-free in the same article as the rest of this info.
There is not currently a patent pool for VP9. That doesn't mean it's in a better position than HEVC, given there could be a "freelance" patent pool for VP9 any day now.
Any standard which becomes successful attracts leeches. VP9 is no exception.
Carefully avoiding all known patents puts them into a better position, even if the position is just a smaller number of patents.
I think there are two distinct worlds, people who handle the distribution of video and content creators. For content creators, they need highly polished GUIs ... like those provided by Final Cut Pro and iMovie. There are also batch video conversion tools that are entirely oriented around the GUI.
I actually read through some of the patents Nokia was threatening VP8/9 with and they really are not sophisticated at all, they are just written in the most confusing possible way. For example, the following paragraph is from a Nokia patent that basically describes the selection of neighboring pixels:
selecting a first reference video pixel in the first video block and a second reference video pixel in the second video block, the first reference video pixel and the second reference video pixel being other than the first boundary video pixel and the second boundary video pixel and the first reference video pixel and the second reference video pixel being placed closer to a central portion of each of said video blocks than the respective boundary video pixel, in such a way that the reference video pixels and the boundary video pixels are situated on a straight line, the straight line being transverse to the boundary, drawn from the first reference video pixel to the second reference video pixel, wherein the first and the second boundary video pixels are located between the first and the second reference video pixels on the straight line,
I was planning on busting all of the Nokia patents myself, but then I got busy :p
Bonus: This Film is Not Yet Rated is on YouTube.
After seeing the blatant and pointless censorship pushed by the movie industry's version of the ESRB, all I can say is that I hope he does as much damaage as possible.
It would be nice to hear from an archivist about how they plan to go about archiving the projects. How well does Archive.org's time machine cover Google Code? It would be cool if Google would post a link to a zip export of every project so you can just pul upl the last (and latest) result up on Archive.org and download the project.
Foreign language graduation requirements are a scam to employ PhD and masters students in the linguistics department. I know a lot of about educational psych and language learning and there was little about the intensive foreign language course I had to take at the UW that could be mistaken as for prepping us for actual fluency. These classes are designed to allow students to pass a test, not speak a foreign language. It actually got easier as the summer went on because each grad student got more desperate for high reviews and thus more forgiving of mistakes.
Whatever you stance on learning foreign languages, computer languages give a window into a different way of logic. This is at least as educational as rote memorization of vocabulary and verb forms.
Agreed, there are hundreds of programming languages, discussion about their merits is overshadowed by the need to get shit done. Evolutionary theory posits that organisms fill niches, but it doesn't assign importance to niches.
So, does this suggest a reasonable upper temperature for superconductivity?
... 'It's a kind of delightful revelation given the fact that the Germans have been on their high horse.' Christian Whiton, a former ... State Department senior advisor
Yup, Germany stepped off their high-horse and dived right into our cesspool. But just because everyone is violating our fundamental civil liberties en-mass doesn't make it any less evil.
The only thing this tells us is what our threat model should have been from the start.