Germany is indeed very high also. About 15% less than Denmark, but it is even higher than Denmark when you measure it relative to purchasing power. It would be interesting to have the figures relative to median income.
And what is Germany's policy in view of the extremely high price they pay for electricity? Why, to concentrate on pricey renewables of course! Including a particular focus on offshore wind, one of the most horrifically expensive sources of all; second only to solar thermal; much higher than even photovoltaic.
Very inexpensive? Cost of electricity in France is 19 cents/kWh. Russia is 11 cents and the US is 12 cents. China and India are both 8 cents.
I'll grant you it could be a lot worse. Denmark, the top wind power country in the world (wind is 28% of their consumption), is 41 cents.
(the above are all 2011 figures)
It's not that nuclear power is remarkably cheap; it's that wind power is crazy expensive. Offshore wind plants in particular are just about the most absurdly expensive of all sources of electricity - excluding complete pie in the sky stuff like hydrogen fuel cells and so on.
I remember being told in elementary school that we were going to have holes in the ozone layer everywhere and it was going to "let the heat out" lol
Then, either you had some spectacularly ignorant teachers or, more likely IMHO, you sat there stupidly jumping to inane conclusions that had nothing to do with what they were teaching.
1) Ozone depletion was very real. It had only progressed to the vicinity of antarctica, which is why you couldn't see the vidence of it in East Podunk.
2) It had precisely nothing whatever to do with climate and everything to do with ultraviolet penetration to the surface, imperiling plants, and promoting carcinogenic damage to your worthless skin.
Easy there pardner. You can type "sandisk optimus max" into google and up comes an ad selling a Sandisk Optimus Eco 1.6 TB for $3,417.25.
So while it's true AFAIK you can't find pricing info on the Optimus Max, you can make book that it's gonna be on the high side of that figure. IMHO $4000 is a low estimate.
No, the story name is not useless. What a pile of crap. It's how you know they are looking at the same story you are. Without that, you have zero chance of supporting or guiding the user over the phone - no matter if the user is of ordinary intelligence or a moron.
Bullshit. You don't punish normally competent users for being normally competent and encourage illiterate morons to be illiterate morons. There is nothing about an URL that is the least bit confusing or hard to describe. "The part after the first colon and double slash, up to the next slash, is the site. The rest helps you find your place within the site." How hard is that? You would have to be at death's door from dehydration due to uncontrollable drooling not to grasp that.
Stop pretending people are stupider than they are, and stop encouraging them to be stupid. Just stop.
Anyone flying an RC aircraft has to follow precisely the same regulations. You can't violate airspace rules or operate recklessly. It's just that typically RC aircraft hobbyists have much more care and intelligence than random flaming assholes.
So you would let them fly above a busy runway as long as they are at 499 feet or below? I didn't think so. Would you have a weight limit? What if it's only 4 feet long but weighs 50 kg? I thought so. How about flying above a military base or a nuclear power plant to gather intelligence?
I have an idea. Let's leave the FAA alone. They are doing exactly what they were created to do, and they are doing a good job.
Making time_t an int64_t instead of an int32_t has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether the architecture is 32 or 64 bits. An application that does time manipulations NOT using time_t is a stupid, broken application.
Efficiency doesn't matter for an electric car that can be powered for FREE by the sun
Completely naive fail. Apparatus to convert that sunlight to electric power costs money and has to be depreciated. Not only is photovoltaic power not free; its cost ($130 / MWh) is higher than natural gas ($64 to $128 / MWh), coal ($96 / MWh) or advanced nuclear ($96 / MWh). Those estimates for systems coming on line in 2019, so they are not based on obsolete data. Solar thermal is even worse ($243 / nMWh).
You are branded with the shit you inherit, embrace, extend, and stand for. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution, and Obama has solved NOTHING.
C++11 is really the first reasonable version that you don't have to fight with to do anything.
Until C++11, all we had for smart pointers was the abomination of auto_ptr, with its completely screwed up design. It's a miracle if you could code correctly using auto_ptr until you gained long experience with its pitfalls. Yet I don't even regard C++ code written without smart pointers to be acceptable, and it certainly misses the whole point of C++. I would fire coders using naked pointers. OK, after boost showed up and got reasonably mature, you could fight with corporate to get permission to use it in order to get shared_ptr. Or you could try to roll your own, and reproduce all the development mistakes yourself.
C++11's shared_ptr and unique_ptr make all the difference.
Other than that, we FINALLY have nullptr rather than the abomination of using literal 0, or a macro which amounts to the same thing, to represent null pointers. We can finally overload functions on int and pointers.
Move-semantics and rvalue references are a big efficiency breakthrough, too. As is uniform brace init, which fixes the classical stab in the eye where a temp which was a default class init was interpreted as an invocation of a function taking no arguments instead.
class C {... }; C x = C();// properly default-constructs a C x = F(C());// interpreted as a call to a function C, fed to the function F
Actually, mammals do thrive there. European bison and rare horses have been introduced there for this reason. It's not completel; rosy; amphibians aren't doing too well; but there are no animals that even have awareness of losing a small fraction of their lifetime, nor do they have nuclear phobia.
With respect, the state can go straight to hell. Spent fuel storage is a national emergency, not a political issue. Yucca Mountain is in Nevada. I don't know if Yucca Mountain is federally owned, but 84.5% of the land area of Nevada is federally owned, so it may well be. If it's not, just take it. It's a desolate mountain, for god's sake.
There is plenty of Federally owned land that states and residents can't dictate use for. 94.5% of Nevada, 69.1% of Alaska are Federally owned. All you really need is a tiny fraction of 1% of one state to solve the problem nationally. Just put through Federal legislation to reserve what you need for stated use. If you have to, declare a state of emergency based on public danger which cannot be ameliorated in any other manner.
I admit I couldn't believe it was so, so I worked out the numbers. Bear with me for a few assumptions. The plant is a tiny 185 MWe. If it runs 8766 h/y for 32 y, it will produce a total of 51.9 billion kWh. Even at only, say 8 cents/kWh (one wouldn't count delivery charges), the revenue over the plant lifetime is $4.15 billion. $0.6 billion does not seem a crushing burden weighed against that revenue, although it is a very significant cost element.
As a check, yankeerowe.com says 44 billion kWh; no doubt the difference is due to downtime for refueling and othe causes, plus periods when it may not have been operating at full capacity. This correlates nicely with wikipedia's statement that the plant had a lifetime capacity factor of 74%.
The math isn't very relevant to current conditions. Generally existing plants are multi-reactor, with multi GW capacity, making for much more favorable scale.
So someone who is drunk behind the wheel should not be prosecuted? They haven't hurt anyone yet.
You got it, sparky. Making actions which do not harm anyone else illegal is as evil as making "bad" thoughts illegal. Take your "probability" and stuff it where the sun don't shine. Either you victimize somebody, or you don't victimize anybody. The outcome makes a difference.
FYI, there are people who are better drivers with a drink or three in them than certain other drivers who are cold sober. The same with talking on a cellphone while driving.
It wasn't necessarily that the quality was so high. The bit and track packing density was ridiculously low.
With the Shugart single sided drives you could always play the trick of manually pushing down on the read/write head when it was reading. That would get you past a lot of marginal data situations. Then you could just write out a new copy on fresh media.
There are quite a few 8" floppy drives that old-timers have kept around. I've got like 3-4 dual floppy cabinets (they weigh over 20 pounds), but they've been stored at 95% humidity in the cellar for at least 30 years and would probably require some internal cleaning and spiffing up to work again. The seek mechanism is a stepping motor with a big honking aluminum screw which will last longer than western civilization. The read/write heads are gigantic and built like a tank; you can clean them with cotton swabs and alcohol.
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Germany is indeed very high also. About 15% less than Denmark, but it is even higher than Denmark when you measure it relative to purchasing power. It would be interesting to have the figures relative to median income.
And what is Germany's policy in view of the extremely high price they pay for electricity? Why, to concentrate on pricey renewables of course! Including a particular focus on offshore wind, one of the most horrifically expensive sources of all; second only to solar thermal; much higher than even photovoltaic.
Very inexpensive? Cost of electricity in France is 19 cents/kWh. Russia is 11 cents and the US is 12 cents. China and India are both 8 cents.
I'll grant you it could be a lot worse. Denmark, the top wind power country in the world (wind is 28% of their consumption), is 41 cents.
(the above are all 2011 figures)
It's not that nuclear power is remarkably cheap; it's that wind power is crazy expensive. Offshore wind plants in particular are just about the most absurdly expensive of all sources of electricity - excluding complete pie in the sky stuff like hydrogen fuel cells and so on.
Then, either you had some spectacularly ignorant teachers or, more likely IMHO, you sat there stupidly jumping to inane conclusions that had nothing to do with what they were teaching.
1) Ozone depletion was very real. It had only progressed to the vicinity of antarctica, which is why you couldn't see the vidence of it in East Podunk.
2) It had precisely nothing whatever to do with climate and everything to do with ultraviolet penetration to the surface, imperiling plants, and promoting carcinogenic damage to your worthless skin.
No, just no. Nothing hard about it. Takes me about one second to pick the 3 TB hard drive over twelve 250 GB SSDs at 16 times the price.
So what? I picked up a 3 TB hard drive for $110. You're paying 16 times as much per GB for the SSD. They are still pie in the sky for serious storage.
Easy there pardner. You can type "sandisk optimus max" into google and up comes an ad selling a Sandisk Optimus Eco 1.6 TB for $3,417.25.
So while it's true AFAIK you can't find pricing info on the Optimus Max, you can make book that it's gonna be on the high side of that figure. IMHO $4000 is a low estimate.
No, the story name is not useless. What a pile of crap. It's how you know they are looking at the same story you are. Without that, you have zero chance of supporting or guiding the user over the phone - no matter if the user is of ordinary intelligence or a moron.
Sheesh.
Bullshit. You don't punish normally competent users for being normally competent and encourage illiterate morons to be illiterate morons. There is nothing about an URL that is the least bit confusing or hard to describe. "The part after the first colon and double slash, up to the next slash, is the site. The rest helps you find your place within the site." How hard is that? You would have to be at death's door from dehydration due to uncontrollable drooling not to grasp that.
Stop pretending people are stupider than they are, and stop encouraging them to be stupid. Just stop.
Anecdotal data.
Anyone flying an RC aircraft has to follow precisely the same regulations. You can't violate airspace rules or operate recklessly. It's just that typically RC aircraft hobbyists have much more care and intelligence than random flaming assholes.
So you would let them fly above a busy runway as long as they are at 499 feet or below? I didn't think so. Would you have a weight limit? What if it's only 4 feet long but weighs 50 kg? I thought so. How about flying above a military base or a nuclear power plant to gather intelligence?
I have an idea. Let's leave the FAA alone. They are doing exactly what they were created to do, and they are doing a good job.
Get real. That chart comes directly from the Report of the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). But you know more than they do, right? How about the OpenEI Transparent Cost Database? They reach the same qualitative conclusion. How about the UK 2010 estimates? The French 2011 estimates? The Analysis from different sources? They are all right there on my referenced page, complete with citations of the original sources.
Give up the starry-eyed stuff.
Making time_t an int64_t instead of an int32_t has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether the architecture is 32 or 64 bits. An application that does time manipulations NOT using time_t is a stupid, broken application.
Horse shit. It's exactly the same timing as Ubuntu and Fedora and much qicker than Debian and Redhat Enterprise.
Completely naive fail. Apparatus to convert that sunlight to electric power costs money and has to be depreciated. Not only is photovoltaic power not free; its cost ($130 / MWh) is higher than natural gas ($64 to $128 / MWh), coal ($96 / MWh) or advanced nuclear ($96 / MWh). Those estimates for systems coming on line in 2019, so they are not based on obsolete data. Solar thermal is even worse ($243 / nMWh).
You are branded with the shit you inherit, embrace, extend, and stand for. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution, and Obama has solved NOTHING.
C++11 is really the first reasonable version that you don't have to fight with to do anything.
Until C++11, all we had for smart pointers was the abomination of auto_ptr, with its completely screwed up design. It's a miracle if you could code correctly using auto_ptr until you gained long experience with its pitfalls. Yet I don't even regard C++ code written without smart pointers to be acceptable, and it certainly misses the whole point of C++. I would fire coders using naked pointers. OK, after boost showed up and got reasonably mature, you could fight with corporate to get permission to use it in order to get shared_ptr. Or you could try to roll your own, and reproduce all the development mistakes yourself.
C++11's shared_ptr and unique_ptr make all the difference.
Other than that, we FINALLY have nullptr rather than the abomination of using literal 0, or a macro which amounts to the same thing, to represent null pointers. We can finally overload functions on int and pointers.
Move-semantics and rvalue references are a big efficiency breakthrough, too. As is uniform brace init, which fixes the classical stab in the eye where a temp which was a default class init was interpreted as an invocation of a function taking no arguments instead.
class C { ... }; // properly default-constructs a C // interpreted as a call to a function C, fed to the function F
C x = C();
x = F(C());
Now you can just do x = F(C{});
Actually, mammals do thrive there. European bison and rare horses have been introduced there for this reason. It's not completel; rosy; amphibians aren't doing too well; but there are no animals that even have awareness of losing a small fraction of their lifetime, nor do they have nuclear phobia.
And nothing of value would be lost.
With respect, the state can go straight to hell. Spent fuel storage is a national emergency, not a political issue. Yucca Mountain is in Nevada. I don't know if Yucca Mountain is federally owned, but 84.5% of the land area of Nevada is federally owned, so it may well be. If it's not, just take it. It's a desolate mountain, for god's sake.
There is plenty of Federally owned land that states and residents can't dictate use for. 94.5% of Nevada, 69.1% of Alaska are Federally owned. All you really need is a tiny fraction of 1% of one state to solve the problem nationally. Just put through Federal legislation to reserve what you need for stated use. If you have to, declare a state of emergency based on public danger which cannot be ameliorated in any other manner.
I admit I couldn't believe it was so, so I worked out the numbers. Bear with me for a few assumptions. The plant is a tiny 185 MWe. If it runs 8766 h/y for 32 y, it will produce a total of 51.9 billion kWh. Even at only, say 8 cents/kWh (one wouldn't count delivery charges), the revenue over the plant lifetime is $4.15 billion. $0.6 billion does not seem a crushing burden weighed against that revenue, although it is a very significant cost element.
As a check, yankeerowe.com says 44 billion kWh; no doubt the difference is due to downtime for refueling and othe causes, plus periods when it may not have been operating at full capacity. This correlates nicely with wikipedia's statement that the plant had a lifetime capacity factor of 74%.
The math isn't very relevant to current conditions. Generally existing plants are multi-reactor, with multi GW capacity, making for much more favorable scale.
You got it, sparky. Making actions which do not harm anyone else illegal is as evil as making "bad" thoughts illegal. Take your "probability" and stuff it where the sun don't shine. Either you victimize somebody, or you don't victimize anybody. The outcome makes a difference.
FYI, there are people who are better drivers with a drink or three in them than certain other drivers who are cold sober. The same with talking on a cellphone while driving.
It wasn't necessarily that the quality was so high. The bit and track packing density was ridiculously low.
With the Shugart single sided drives you could always play the trick of manually pushing down on the read/write head when it was reading. That would get you past a lot of marginal data situations. Then you could just write out a new copy on fresh media.
There are quite a few 8" floppy drives that old-timers have kept around. I've got like 3-4 dual floppy cabinets (they weigh over 20 pounds), but they've been stored at 95% humidity in the cellar for at least 30 years and would probably require some internal cleaning and spiffing up to work again. The seek mechanism is a stepping motor with a big honking aluminum screw which will last longer than western civilization. The read/write heads are gigantic and built like a tank; you can clean them with cotton swabs and alcohol.