...and doesn't require specific large-scale geography to implement.
This doesn't have to get a whole lot more efficient before it could become profitable. If you look at the wholesale electricity market in the UK, the peak cost of electricity is more than double the minimum cost over a week. So something that can store electricity at minimum cost and sell it back into the grid at peak cost only needs to be 50% efficient to be making money. Of course, that's ignoring the capital cost, but still, this is not too far off being profitable.
It's a pretty sad indictment of the state of energy storage, really. It only needs to be 50% efficient to be profitable. If it's profitable, people will do it. Therefore conclude that every practical energy storage system is less than 50% efficient (at least where it doesn't require geography).
I doubt this is possible to do very well. Consider [1], where they were able to identify authors from compiled code. Not with close to 100% accuracy, but it's still surprising that your source code style is identifiable with optimization enabled and symbols stripped out.
Not sure if it's just a US thing. In the UK, "click and collect" is available in most supermarkets (and in Australia, for that matter). But then so is web-ordered home delivery.
As I said back when Amazon started trialing this, I think they'll find it hard to compete with the supermarkets. Fresh food can't be stored in a warehouse on one side of the country and posted everywhere; it requires a complex distribution infrastructure, with local stock regularly replenished and without everything passing through a central distribution point to get there. It also requires some well-developed methodology for estimating stock requirements ahead of time. Supermarkets that are regularly out of stock don't do well, nor do ones that significantly over-stock and have to throw goods away.
1. From inside the base of a wind turbine tower in rural Inner Mongolia province, China. Or, alternatively, from a caravan in the middle of a forest in Eastern Finland in the middle of winter - minus 30 C outside.
2. While nearly frozen to death (see 1b).
3. Wrote a program from? Or wrote a program for? The latter is probably a Danish PLC which I will not name here. It has an in-house OS with an in-house executable format which is based on ELF, loosely enough that none of the standard ELF tools work on it. A serial console is the only debugging interface available. An actual debugger is out of the question. All debugging output is truncated to 20 characters. The thing has a 100MHz CPU and all floating-point math is done in software (no FPU). Its reaction to almost any programming error is to hard reboot (and "programming error" here includes calling printf with any but the most basic formatting string). Perhaps most frustratingly, when it hard reboots it claims to write a stack trace of the faulting code; about 4 times in 5, this is truncated to some extent, often to only the first function in the stack.
4. A Windows programme to drive EtherCAT IO modules from a standard Ethernet socket.
Can you feel the self-awareness failure yet? Cook generalises about millions of users, but he's not the one at fault here; the commenter asks a question about one person (Cook) but apparently now he's "generalis[ing] about millions of people."
This is getting nearly incoherent. Is there 'no gold standard measure of "scientific literacy"'? Or do you know how to do it correctly? You make both arguments in the above comment.
No, you don't get to say, "That would seem to be an important factor in scientific literacy," in the face of the data - that's just assuming your conclusion. The point of the article is that this is not borne out - people who don't believe that evolution explains the development of species are nonetheless equally scientifically literate in all the other areas of science.
Um, you've just ignored the data in front of you - the data collected shows no correlation between "someone's inclination to believe religion over science" (ie their position on the evolution v creationism debate) and scientific literacy. There is no value in that measurement - it has no predictive power of the scientific literacy.
I wondered about this. If being untested is a problem for methods of execution, how exactly are you ever going to have a usable method of execution?
I'm sure those opposed to the death penalty like it this way; methods of execution are not usable until they've been tested and they can't be tested because they're unconstitutional. Ergo, we can't execute anyone. But the same legalistic argument presented many times above applies to them, too; the constitution does not forbid capital punishment, only cruel and unusual punishment. If you want to get rid of capital punishment, you need to change the constitution, not try to game the legal system to get what you want without the due process of changing the constitution.
I have no idea what iron phosphate is, whether it is a stable compound or whether it occurs naturally. But yes, redness in stone is usually due to the presence of iron compounds.
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...and doesn't require specific large-scale geography to implement.
This doesn't have to get a whole lot more efficient before it could become profitable. If you look at the wholesale electricity market in the UK, the peak cost of electricity is more than double the minimum cost over a week. So something that can store electricity at minimum cost and sell it back into the grid at peak cost only needs to be 50% efficient to be making money. Of course, that's ignoring the capital cost, but still, this is not too far off being profitable.
It's a pretty sad indictment of the state of energy storage, really. It only needs to be 50% efficient to be profitable. If it's profitable, people will do it. Therefore conclude that every practical energy storage system is less than 50% efficient (at least where it doesn't require geography).
I doubt this is possible to do very well. Consider [1], where they were able to identify authors from compiled code. Not with close to 100% accuracy, but it's still surprising that your source code style is identifiable with optimization enabled and symbols stripped out.
[1] ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/...
And what do you call it when you go to your tailor to have a shirt made? Next you'll say you don't have a valet!
Not sure if it's just a US thing. In the UK, "click and collect" is available in most supermarkets (and in Australia, for that matter). But then so is web-ordered home delivery.
As I said back when Amazon started trialing this, I think they'll find it hard to compete with the supermarkets. Fresh food can't be stored in a warehouse on one side of the country and posted everywhere; it requires a complex distribution infrastructure, with local stock regularly replenished and without everything passing through a central distribution point to get there. It also requires some well-developed methodology for estimating stock requirements ahead of time. Supermarkets that are regularly out of stock don't do well, nor do ones that significantly over-stock and have to throw goods away.
English Wikipedia averages nearly 10,000 accounts registered every day. Who thinks 381 accounts blocked is going to make a difference?
So long as by "the rest of the world" you mean North America, Australia and New Zealand, then yes, you are correct.
I guess I'm lucky that Australia and NZ get included. The average American doesn't know that ANY of the rest of the world exists.
The SNP, naive? Who'd have thought!
To give you a nice, big, easy-to-reach key you can remap to Control.
Similarly, I'm currently working on a system that has commits from 1980 (in Fortran, or FORTRAN as it was then, I guess).
Come on, of course 100% detection rate is possible! We don't know about any threats it doesn't detect!
I have this explosives detector I'd like to know if you're interested in. It's used by the Iraqi government...
Such fast. Very speed. Wow.
I can't remember the last time I was in an airport that didn't have free WiFi. But then I don't travel in the USA much.
God, but they look young in that.
Was talking about the AC commenting, not Cook. Fool boy see me after class.
1. From inside the base of a wind turbine tower in rural Inner Mongolia province, China. Or, alternatively, from a caravan in the middle of a forest in Eastern Finland in the middle of winter - minus 30 C outside.
2. While nearly frozen to death (see 1b).
3. Wrote a program from? Or wrote a program for? The latter is probably a Danish PLC which I will not name here. It has an in-house OS with an in-house executable format which is based on ELF, loosely enough that none of the standard ELF tools work on it. A serial console is the only debugging interface available. An actual debugger is out of the question. All debugging output is truncated to 20 characters. The thing has a 100MHz CPU and all floating-point math is done in software (no FPU). Its reaction to almost any programming error is to hard reboot (and "programming error" here includes calling printf with any but the most basic formatting string). Perhaps most frustratingly, when it hard reboots it claims to write a stack trace of the faulting code; about 4 times in 5, this is truncated to some extent, often to only the first function in the stack.
4. A Windows programme to drive EtherCAT IO modules from a standard Ethernet socket.
Do I win?
Can you feel the self-awareness failure yet? Cook generalises about millions of users, but he's not the one at fault here; the commenter asks a question about one person (Cook) but apparently now he's "generalis[ing] about millions of people."
Fool boy, see me after class.
This is getting nearly incoherent. Is there 'no gold standard measure of "scientific literacy"'? Or do you know how to do it correctly? You make both arguments in the above comment.
No, you don't get to say, "That would seem to be an important factor in scientific literacy," in the face of the data - that's just assuming your conclusion. The point of the article is that this is not borne out - people who don't believe that evolution explains the development of species are nonetheless equally scientifically literate in all the other areas of science.
Um, you've just ignored the data in front of you - the data collected shows no correlation between "someone's inclination to believe religion over science" (ie their position on the evolution v creationism debate) and scientific literacy. There is no value in that measurement - it has no predictive power of the scientific literacy.
Typical, isn't it?
Yes, that's right, the science is the story here. /sarc
I wondered about this. If being untested is a problem for methods of execution, how exactly are you ever going to have a usable method of execution?
I'm sure those opposed to the death penalty like it this way; methods of execution are not usable until they've been tested and they can't be tested because they're unconstitutional. Ergo, we can't execute anyone. But the same legalistic argument presented many times above applies to them, too; the constitution does not forbid capital punishment, only cruel and unusual punishment. If you want to get rid of capital punishment, you need to change the constitution, not try to game the legal system to get what you want without the due process of changing the constitution.
I have no idea what iron phosphate is, whether it is a stable compound or whether it occurs naturally. But yes, redness in stone is usually due to the presence of iron compounds.
Yes, Julius Caesar was the end of the Roman empire, I can see that.
Go read some history, then come back and try again.