Maybe you should have spent two hours reading the article - you might summarize it correctly then.
The article states that current silicon photocells sell for around $3-$4 per watt.
The new CdS/CdTe cells cost $1.14/W to produce and sell for $2.45/W.
To reach "grid parity" they need to reduce the manufacturing costs to $0.60-$0.75/W and increase efficiency from "over 10 percent" to over 12 percent. The maximum theoretical efficiency for CdTe cells is over 20% and cells with an efficiency of 16.5% have already been made.
Well since I was making Hurricane forecasts by July of 2006 that said the season was essentially over for the USA... (Not bragging just I did) The forecasting of events really isn't a hard or difficult thing. In the case of prisoners, you would do better to give a small reward system for accuracy and do a survey system similar to Iowa Prediction Markets. (do your own lookup) It is often a reality that we can predict who is going to steal the most or who is going to kill and quite accurately.
Sure, making predictions is easy. Making accurate ones less so.
The end users who buy from these middlemen are *every bit* as guilty as Sony or the middlemen. If it weren't for these buyers, there would be no market for the middlemen.
That'll be not guilty at all, then?
What has anyone actually done WRONG in this story? Sony sold a console, a bum got paid some money to stand in line, another guy bought a console. This guy may or may not go on to sell them all for a profit......So?
I'd recommend the installation of the software because unlike other direct marketing approaches, this one is very much more precise.
What? Why do I need to accept any direct marketing approaches?
They're all offensive, none more so than one that leaks my personal data to a company just because I bought a VIDEO GAME they wrote? Why should I accept that!?
I was expecting a bit more substance to the article than something that sounds like it came from a (bad) marking department (what's a "deep breathe" anyway?), and a link to some sourceforge project.
Just because audio cassette was a magentic medium doesn't make them digital. The signal is still stored in an analog form (continuously varying signal). Hard Disks (and Digital Audio Tapes) store the data in a digital form, with discrete values. The point being that (sufficiently small amounts of) noise can be tolerated without any degredation, since the signal can be reconstructed exactly as there are only a small number of valid signals.
The "correct" signal on an analog tape can have any value, so any noise is indistinguishable from the desired signal.
Whilst Red Hat surely want all open source developers to concentrate on Linux, lets not kid ourselves. Windows is more "mainstream" than Linux, so shouldn't all open source development be concentrating on Windows?
Of course, you could recognise this for the load of crap that it is, and continue porting software to whatever OS you wish to use it in....
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Since pointer is, well, a pointer, the compiler can tell implicitly that it needs to compare ptr with a pointer with 0 value, which is defined by the C standard to be NULL.
However, NULL can be represented physically as non-zero bits, but C programmers should never care -- NULL is defined as (void *)0, so comparisons with 0 in a pointer context are equivalent to comparisons with NULL (whatever the physical representation of NULL is).
I'm a software patent attorney, and I truly believe that allowing patents for truly useful novel algorithms is a boon for the industry....
As long as Microsoft's choices of technologies to patent remain befuddled, it won't be able to tap the true, strong, monopoly-cementing power of software patents.
So wait. You think that the "monopoly-cementing power of software patents" is "a boon for the [software] industry"?
Or did you mean they were a boon for the software-patent-attourney industry?
The 'server load is too high' stuff on repeated/lusers (amongst other commands) is a configurable option in ircd-hybrid, to prevent people flooding the server with resource intensive commands. I don't beleive/lusers uses many resources, but *shrug*.
dancer is a heavily bastardised version of hybrid that I submitted a small amount of work for before deciding I, uh, disagreed with their (mainly lilo's) policies.
I just noticed something even more odd about the copyright date -- it says "Copyright 2003 BetaMax Corporation", yet on the "About Us" page it states:
Founded in January 2004 in USA, BatMax Corporation was formed to identify, develop, manufacture and market innovative high quality wireless communications and computer products.
So, it's Copyright 2003 to a corporation founded in 2004. They've obviously invented time-travelling (copyright) stickers too.
Interact with the battery's internal electrolyte and ions.
Unlikely, batteries have air-and watertight cases. How would the thingy act through that barrier? No explanation is given.
Obviously it uses the generated flow of negative ions to interact through the batteries magnetic waves... so basically, it's bulls**t.
Condorcet allows you to 'approve' candidates by voting them all equally. If, however, other people happen to know enough to rank the candidates in order, they can also do so.
Condorcet is used by the uk.* usenet hierarchy, and despite the fact it is full of more trolls than slashdot, it seems to work well. I'd certainly prefer it to IRV, after reading the electionmethods.org website.
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Why, no one has ever thought of that before..
Exactly. The GP said "You know what they say", not "You know what William Congreve said"..
In any case, I can see why it is misquoted...
I don't need to read yet more crap on slashdot. Especially when it isn't even funny.
would a Beowulf cluster of thousands of voting machines be?
Maybe you should have spent two hours reading the article - you might summarize it correctly then.
The article states that current silicon photocells sell for around $3-$4 per watt.
The new CdS/CdTe cells cost $1.14/W to produce and sell for $2.45/W.
To reach "grid parity" they need to reduce the manufacturing costs to $0.60-$0.75/W and increase efficiency from "over 10 percent" to over 12 percent. The maximum theoretical efficiency for CdTe cells is over 20% and cells with an efficiency of 16.5% have already been made.
What idiot modded the parent a troll? Check wikipedia if you don't believe water injection can help car performance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_injection_(engines)
I think you'll find they were trying to be funny. And they succeeded.
Sure, making predictions is easy. Making accurate ones less so.
A wonderful series of suggestions. But to what end?
What are you trying to achieve by binding warranty service to the first owner (I'm not sure that's entirely legal here anyway)?
What are you trying to achieve by "nailing" people who resell consoles (I'm not sure "advertising" counts as "nailing", but anyway)?
But they aren't being treated unfairly. They had the opportunity to hire their own homeless person to get them a console, and they didn't.
Yes, and if you ran the logs through uuencode a million times each prior to storage, they'd be absurdly huge.
Who the hell would do that?
They're all offensive, none more so than one that leaks my personal data to a company just because I bought a VIDEO GAME they wrote? Why should I accept that!?
I was expecting a bit more substance to the article than something that sounds like it came from a (bad) marking department (what's a "deep breathe" anyway?), and a link to some sourceforge project.
What's going on?
Just because audio cassette was a magentic medium doesn't make them digital. The signal is still stored in an analog form (continuously varying signal). Hard Disks (and Digital Audio Tapes) store the data in a digital form, with discrete values. The point being that (sufficiently small amounts of) noise can be tolerated without any degredation, since the signal can be reconstructed exactly as there are only a small number of valid signals.
The "correct" signal on an analog tape can have any value, so any noise is indistinguishable from the desired signal.
Whilst Red Hat surely want all open source developers to concentrate on Linux, lets
not kid ourselves. Windows is more "mainstream" than Linux, so shouldn't all open source development be concentrating on Windows?
Of course, you could recognise this for the load of crap that it is, and continue porting software to whatever OS you wish to use it in....
Uhm?
It's The Register, ® means registered (trademark). Think about it.
Or: IT'S A JOKE!
See: comp.lang.c FAQ.
NULL is defined to be (void *)0.
can be expaded to .
Since pointer is, well, a pointer, the compiler can tell implicitly that it needs to compare ptr with a pointer with 0 value, which is defined by the C standard to be NULL.
However, NULL can be represented physically as non-zero bits, but C programmers should never care -- NULL is defined as (void *)0, so comparisons with 0 in a pointer context are equivalent to comparisons with NULL (whatever the physical representation of NULL is).
I'm a software patent attorney, and I truly believe that allowing patents for truly useful novel algorithms is a boon for the industry. ...
As long as Microsoft's choices of technologies to patent remain befuddled, it won't be able to tap the true, strong, monopoly-cementing power of software patents.
So wait. You think that the "monopoly-cementing power of software patents" is "a boon for the [software] industry"?
Or did you mean they were a boon for the software-patent-attourney industry?
The 'server load is too high' stuff on repeated /lusers (amongst other commands) is a configurable option in ircd-hybrid, to prevent people flooding the server with resource intensive commands. I don't beleive /lusers uses many resources, but *shrug*.
dancer is a heavily bastardised version of hybrid that I submitted a small amount of work for before deciding I, uh, disagreed with their (mainly lilo's) policies.
Hmm..
I just noticed something even more odd about the copyright date -- it says "Copyright 2003 BetaMax Corporation", yet on the "About Us" page it states:
Founded in January 2004 in USA, BatMax Corporation was formed to identify, develop, manufacture and market innovative high quality wireless communications and computer products.
So, it's Copyright 2003 to a corporation founded in 2004. They've obviously invented time-travelling (copyright) stickers too.
Interact with the battery's internal electrolyte and ions.
Unlikely, batteries have air-and watertight cases. How would the thingy act through that barrier? No explanation is given. Obviously it uses the generated flow of negative ions to interact through the batteries magnetic waves... so basically, it's bulls**t.
...when are they coming up with the Flux capacitor?
Condorcet allows you to 'approve' candidates by voting them all equally. If, however, other people happen to know enough to rank the candidates in order, they can also do so.
Condorcet is used by the uk.* usenet hierarchy, and despite the fact it is full of more trolls than slashdot, it seems to work well. I'd certainly prefer it to IRV, after reading the electionmethods.org website.
It's almost a legit word. At least, it is if you spell it properly.
It's a loudh<b>a</b>iler