They might be coasting to the other side of the carpark or leaving it altogether , in which case if this slows them down too much they'll hit the throttle before they brake again.
This wasn't designed by engineers to be green , it was designed as greenwash with the supermarket saving a few quid off their electricity bills in the process.
"Actually, it's position in a place where you're usually slowing down anyway, so what it does is "steal" waste heat from your brakes."
That assumes you wanted to brake in the first place. You may be accelerating to drive away in which case its sucking energy from your car that you wanted to use to move it.
You're wasting your time trying to explain this I'm afraid. Some people are so utterly clueless when it comes to basic physics that it would be funny if it wasn't such a sad reminder of the state of schooling these days.
What do you have against the rich? Are you jealous of people who work hard and so earn more money? Most rich people do not have inherited wealth , they worked damn hard to get where they are so why should they cough up for lazy bastards who can't be bothered?
Also in most countries the more you earn the greater percentage you get taxed so the richer people do pay more than the poorer. I'm not sure what else you want? Perhaps everyone to earn the same as in stalinist russia? Brain surgeon earning the same as a road sweeper , yeah , that made sense. Not.
Since theres now going to be a tax for the underclass and people who are too tight to pay for broadband themselves shall we assume there'll also need to be a tax for these people to be given computers to use on said service?
Why should the rich - or anyone else - pay for your home entertainment? And lets not kid ourselves that broadband is a vital public utility up there with water and electricty , it isnt, despite what some vested interests may proclaim. Apart from a few home workers its mostly used for recreation. Why should we be taxed on that??
The Mac started out on the 68K. Ok it was more advanced than the PC to start but I think its fair to say that the only thing (arguably) slightly more advanced about Macs these days (and certainly not 2 generations ahead) is the OS. The hardware is commodity PC.
As for commodore and atari, well, we know how well using the 68K panned out for them. Just proves that ultimately marketing wins and technological ingenuity comes a poor second.
"When they wise up and replace LCD/plasma with viable technology,"
The screen technology isn't the issue - its all the digital decoding that goes in inside the TV. The days of LCD screens having noticable lag are long gone though I'll admit they're still not as good as the best CRT. However , LED screens will be along in (hopefully) 5 or so years and it will leave LCD and plasma as a footnote in the techno history books as its way better than either picture wise plus it uses less power.
I don't like hack sci-fi , I like good sci-fi , you know, something with a friggin story where interesting things happen? Enders Game is a womans novel dressed up as Sci fi.
I made it halfway and gave up. One of the most tedious sci-fi books i've ever had the misfortune of reading. Hardly anything happens, just a lot of Ender self reflecting. Reminded me of the Thomas Convenant novels by Donaldson - endless verbiage about Coventants inner thoughts and feelings and blah effin blah and very little action. When I buy a fantasy or sci-fi book I want some action - if I want to read a load of girly navel gazing crap I'll go and get a copy of Bridget Jones!
Or at least , its one of the operating systems certified to follow all the unix requirements and hence Sun can use the unix name if they want. In fact many moons ago you'd see "SunOS Unix" at the login prompt.
The current theory is that a lot if not most of the water on earth came from water comets bombarding it after it had solidifed and cooled enough so that the water didn't just boil away out of the atmosphere.
This isn't the first expert system I've come across called Watson and probably won't be the last.
But has anyone pointed out to these guys that Holmes was the smart one? Watson just tagged along with him like a faithful puppy and generally gave little help in solving the crimes.
So come on guys, how about a Holmes or Sherlock v1.0?
Embedding a message in an ICMP (ping) packet is as old as the hills. Sure , you need root privs to send and receive the packet but you'll need the same privs to read the individual TCP control packets in this scenario anyway. Nice idea though but I imagine it could be extended to a number of different protocols.
I've did a 60K C project back in the day using vi, gcc and dbx. Never had any issues. Perhaps you're just not up to being a developer and would be happier doing web design or other pointy clicky type IT roles?
On Windows you don't really get much choice about using an IDE but I'm suspicious of unix coders who use them. If they need to be hand held to that extent while developing perhaps their skills arn't quite up to the job. Vi, gdb/dbx and strace should be all any unix/linux coder needs.
No I'm not trolling, those are just my old fashioned get-orf-my-lawn views. YMMV.
Yes, I'm sure it'll be nice for the fish and a few extreme divers , but wouldn't it have been more use (and possibly be even more envirometally friendly than a new reef) to recycle all that steel? I wonder how much energy it takes to mine and extract 17000 tons of iron from its ore....
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They might be coasting to the other side of the carpark or leaving it altogether , in which case if this slows them down too much they'll hit the throttle before they brake again.
This wasn't designed by engineers to be green , it was designed as greenwash with the supermarket saving a few quid off their electricity bills in the process.
"Actually, it's position in a place where you're usually slowing down anyway, so what it does is "steal" waste heat from your brakes."
That assumes you wanted to brake in the first place. You may be accelerating to drive away in which case its sucking energy from your car that you wanted to use to move it.
You're wasting your time trying to explain this I'm afraid. Some people are so utterly clueless when it comes to basic physics that it would be funny if it wasn't such a sad reminder of the state of schooling these days.
"Most of them don't actually create an awful lot, they're just parasites. "
Yeah right, like all those people who started companies that now employ millions around the world. I'm sure you can think of a few dozen.
Fucking idiot. But don't worry, you'll grow out of your teenage Socialism 101 and get a clue one day.
What do you have against the rich? Are you jealous of people who work hard and so earn more money? Most rich people do not have inherited wealth , they worked damn hard to get where they are so why should they cough up for lazy bastards who can't be bothered?
Also in most countries the more you earn the greater percentage you get taxed so the richer people do pay more than the poorer. I'm not sure what else you want? Perhaps everyone to earn the same as in stalinist russia? Brain surgeon earning the same as a road sweeper , yeah , that made sense. Not.
Since theres now going to be a tax for the underclass and people who are too tight to pay for broadband themselves shall we assume there'll also need to be a tax for these people to be given computers to use on said service?
Why should the rich - or anyone else - pay for your home entertainment? And lets not kid ourselves that broadband is a vital public utility up there with water and electricty , it isnt, despite what some vested interests may proclaim. Apart from a few home workers its mostly used for recreation. Why should we be taxed on that??
"how can we trust these idiots to actually spend the money on what they're levying the tax for?"
You can't and they won't. Just like road tax goes into the general pot so will this. Its just another way for our failed government to raise taxes.
The Mac started out on the 68K. Ok it was more advanced than the PC to start but I think its fair to say that the only thing (arguably) slightly more advanced about Macs these days (and certainly not 2 generations ahead) is the OS. The hardware is commodity PC.
As for commodore and atari, well, we know how well using the 68K panned out for them. Just proves that ultimately marketing wins and technological ingenuity comes a poor second.
"When they wise up and replace LCD/plasma with viable technology,"
The screen technology isn't the issue - its all the digital decoding that goes in inside the TV. The days of LCD screens having noticable lag are long gone though I'll admit they're still not as good as the best CRT. However , LED screens will be along in (hopefully) 5 or so years and it will leave LCD and plasma as a footnote in the techno history books as its way better than either picture wise plus it uses less power.
I don't like hack sci-fi , I like good sci-fi , you know, something with a friggin story where interesting things happen? Enders Game is a womans novel dressed up as Sci fi.
I made it halfway and gave up. One of the most tedious sci-fi books i've ever had the misfortune of reading. Hardly anything happens, just a lot of Ender self reflecting. Reminded me of the Thomas Convenant novels by Donaldson - endless verbiage about Coventants inner thoughts and feelings and blah effin blah and very little action. When I buy a fantasy or sci-fi book I want some action - if I want to read a load of girly navel gazing crap I'll go and get a copy of Bridget Jones!
Or at least , its one of the operating systems certified to follow all the unix requirements and hence Sun can use the unix name if they want. In fact many moons ago you'd see "SunOS Unix" at the login prompt.
Thats one of the best funnies I've read for months on here. Thanks for cheering me up this morning :)
The current theory is that a lot if not most of the water on earth came from water comets bombarding it after it had solidifed and cooled enough so that the water didn't just boil away out of the atmosphere.
This isn't the first expert system I've come across called Watson and probably won't be the last.
But has anyone pointed out to these guys that Holmes was the smart one? Watson just tagged along with him like a faithful puppy and generally gave little help in solving the crimes.
So come on guys, how about a Holmes or Sherlock v1.0?
Embedding a message in an ICMP (ping) packet is as old as the hills. Sure , you need root privs to send and receive the packet but you'll need the same privs to read the individual TCP control packets in this scenario anyway. Nice idea though but I imagine it could be extended to a number of different protocols.
"Microsoft is the devil --and they make programming so easy,"
If you think an IDE makes writing the code any easier then I doubt you progressed much beyond "hello world"
"those who understand modern IDEs are writing functional software in a few hours that could take you weeks."
Not from what i've seen. They just spend more time pointing and clicking but don't solve problems or find bugs any faster.
"Even for a 1 million lines of code large scale C++ project? With a complex and deep class hierarchy?"
Yes, why? You not heard of grep?
I've did a 60K C project back in the day using vi, gcc and dbx. Never had any issues. Perhaps you're just not up to being a developer and would be happier doing web design or other pointy clicky type IT roles?
On Windows you don't really get much choice about using an IDE but I'm suspicious of unix coders who use them. If they need to be hand held to that extent while developing perhaps their skills arn't quite up to the job. Vi, gdb/dbx and strace should be all any unix/linux coder needs.
No I'm not trolling, those are just my old fashioned get-orf-my-lawn views. YMMV.
Keep telling yourself that if it'll make you feel better.
Reefs arn't exactly well known for their CO2 sucking up abilities unlike rainforests.
"So why didn't you buy it and recycle it?"
What kind of stupid response is that? Go back under your bridge idiot troll.
Yes, I'm sure it'll be nice for the fish and a few extreme divers , but wouldn't it have been more use (and possibly be even more envirometally friendly than a new reef) to recycle all that steel? I wonder how much energy it takes to mine and extract 17000 tons of iron from its ore....