Try reading about Ithacus. Basically you use rocket power to be able to insert troops and cargo anywhere on Earth in a matter of minutes. The idea is hardly new. It dates from the 1960s.
Personally I hate the Qt APi. It has its uses. The cross platform capabilities are a lot better and it has a lot of functionality built-in that you can only get as separate external libraries with GTK+. But I disagree that it is better to program for. GObject may be verbose but to me the object model, class hierarchies, etc make a lot more sense.
Those seem fine. Some of the other titles mentioned here are more stale than piss.
This is the XXIst century. People do not have a lot of time to invest in console games a lot of the time. So a shoot'em'up or boxing game sounds like a pretty good idea.
Yeah. If a country merged with some other country, or was temporaly invaded by another, then for these guys its as if this country did not exist beforehand. I mean just look at the Iberian Peninsula or France. The borders have been mostly stable for yonks and look at the claimed age. Just pathetic.
So dear US readers... Please explain to me why the UK is as old as the Act of Union while you did not measure the age of your country starting with the annexation of Texas or some other quaint date like that.
It may not fit your little world view properly but Hitler did not restrict himself to killing Jews during the Holocaust. Of course none of the other groups targeted by him have quite the same degree of control of the media as the Jewish people does. Who cares about Roma or Slavs dying?
You don't know what you are talking about. It was in the best financial interests of the EU to keep buying cheap Iranian oil. That we went with the US in their little charade in which we get more expensive oil while Iran still manages to offload theirs to China is proof enough that the EU is abiding by the sanctions. So you whine about alumina exports like this is a huge weapons deal with Iran or something. Alumina is neither rare nor directly applicable to make modern weapons.
Had France never sold you the nuclear reactors and expertise you used to make your atomic program there probably wouldn't even be an Israel today.
As for Germany they gave you a couple of submarines you use to keep that arm of your nuclear triad going.
The US gives you a continuous stream of dollars each year to buy military equipment to defend your country.
A bunch of whiners and ingrates that is what you are.
Actually Genghis was Animist. The Mongols eventually adopted Buddhism because it did not conflict with their Animist beliefs. For example one of the laws in the Great Yasa is that people who piss on a water stream are sentenced to death because they are polluting the spirits of the water. The Mongols aren't Taoists. They are probably Tengrists much like Japanese aren't Taoists either since they have Shinto occupying the same position.
Actually a lot of lost Roman and Greek tech was recovered during the Crusades. This is also where the Templars came to fame and made their wealth. Templar money was a major source of funding for the Portuguese and Spanish travels during the Age of Discovery for example the Order of Christ in Portugal which was largely composed of former Templars. Many of the advances in optics during the Rennaissance were actually applications of work done by Muslim researchers of the era.
In the 90s I had an Amiga computer which had nearly zero internal expansion. The only thing you could expand internally was the RAM. Everything else had to be done by external slots. People had hardware devices and cords littered all over their desks. Hard disks, CPU upgrades, MIDI, genlocks, the works. Then NCR came up with the tower format and that rat's nest of external expansion devices/power supply bricks, etc ceased to be. And you think I'm stuck in the 90s? That is rich.
Nah. That is not the main problem. The main problem is Apple would have the same problem than with Samsung only even worse. They would be stuck with the manufacturer for a competing product. Namely Atom.
The correct choices are actually Global Foundries or IBM. Either of those companies is part of an alliance with Samsung so the manufacturing processes are similar. Global Foundries has a lot of mostly unused fabs so they would be best. IBM is too expensive but they would do the job fine as well.
TSMC would be fine if it wasn't for the case that they are currently experiencing problems transitioning to better process nodes and that the process is like totally different from the one Apple used at Samsung.
Yeah. I mean dear god please no. When you crash a GPU program you usually hose the entire operating system and need to do a hard reset. GPU programs run in a kernel mode driver. Blech.
The fun thing is I remember back during the Cold War people finding refuge in embassies to defect all the time. Yet I do not remember the defectors not being able to be flown back. At best the embassy was closed for an indefinite amount of time afterwards.
The 80% is cogeneration using combined heat and power or something like that for sure. i.e. you reuse the low grade heat to heat homes in the winter or something. This mostly applies for the northern parts of the USA or Canada, etc.
For electric cars, the pollution comes from producing the electricity. In most countries, this is 90% or more from burning fossil fuels.
Wrong. There is a lot of hydroelectric and nuclear power generation around the world. Particularly in developed first-world nations.
It is often said that this is much more efficient that ICE's, but he difference is quite marginal: modern cars operate at up to 35% or even 40% (diesel)
Wrong again. Even a diesel engine alone does not manage to get that much efficiency. I will explain more in a second.
while power stations operate in the low 40% efficiency and the electric engine is around 90% efficient
Wrong. You would know this if you had ever learned college level thermodynamics. The efficiency of a heat engine such as an ICE is dependent on the temperature differential between the heat source and the cold sink. The larger the delta the more efficient the engine can be. For a fixed power station the cold sink can be a river or some other large water body rather than air. You can also use much heavier and more heat resistant engine construction than on a car. This means the heat source will be hotter and the cold sink can handle more heat. Some combined cycle natural gas fired power stations are over 60% efficient for example. And that is without cogeneration. With cogeneration the efficiency goes higher still. Combined heat and power cogeneration can be 80% efficient. In the case of hydroelectric there are no such losses and efficiency is typically over 90%. Electric engines are typically also over 90% efficient. Plus they could be made even more efficient using superconductors. Not that it matters for such small efficient engines.
You have heard wrong. People doing those claims typically use specious reasoning like doing their math for a place like Hawaii where most electricity is generated by burning oil in small generators. Gasoline cars also have mechanical transmission losses, gasoline boil-off losses, and you need to spend energy to transport gasoline by truck to the gas station.
Nickel is used for a lot of things including stainless steel. Which also gets used in regular cars. It would be interesting to quantify how much nickel an electric uses vs an ICE car.
AFAIK electric cars themselves are more than 60% efficient. It's like 90% for the engine, 90% for the battery, and 90% for the electric power system.
ICE cars have less than 35% efficiency. That efficiency is just for the engine. When you add mechanical transmission losses and gasoline boil-off to the equation it is even less than that.
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Try reading about Ithacus. Basically you use rocket power to be able to insert troops and cargo anywhere on Earth in a matter of minutes. The idea is hardly new. It dates from the 1960s.
Personally I hate the Qt APi. It has its uses. The cross platform capabilities are a lot better and it has a lot of functionality built-in that you can only get as separate external libraries with GTK+. But I disagree that it is better to program for. GObject may be verbose but to me the object model, class hierarchies, etc make a lot more sense.
Those seem fine. Some of the other titles mentioned here are more stale than piss.
This is the XXIst century. People do not have a lot of time to invest in console games a lot of the time. So a shoot'em'up or boxing game sounds like a pretty good idea.
Yeah. If a country merged with some other country, or was temporaly invaded by another, then for these guys its as if this country did not exist beforehand. I mean just look at the Iberian Peninsula or France. The borders have been mostly stable for yonks and look at the claimed age. Just pathetic.
So dear US readers... Please explain to me why the UK is as old as the Act of Union while you did not measure the age of your country starting with the annexation of Texas or some other quaint date like that.
It may not fit your little world view properly but Hitler did not restrict himself to killing Jews during the Holocaust. Of course none of the other groups targeted by him have quite the same degree of control of the media as the Jewish people does. Who cares about Roma or Slavs dying?
You don't know what you are talking about. It was in the best financial interests of the EU to keep buying cheap Iranian oil. That we went with the US in their little charade in which we get more expensive oil while Iran still manages to offload theirs to China is proof enough that the EU is abiding by the sanctions. So you whine about alumina exports like this is a huge weapons deal with Iran or something. Alumina is neither rare nor directly applicable to make modern weapons.
Had France never sold you the nuclear reactors and expertise you used to make your atomic program there probably wouldn't even be an Israel today.
As for Germany they gave you a couple of submarines you use to keep that arm of your nuclear triad going.
The US gives you a continuous stream of dollars each year to buy military equipment to defend your country.
A bunch of whiners and ingrates that is what you are.
Attila was probably animist much like Genghis since they came from more or less the same area.
Actually Genghis was Animist. The Mongols eventually adopted Buddhism because it did not conflict with their Animist beliefs. For example one of the laws in the Great Yasa is that people who piss on a water stream are sentenced to death because they are polluting the spirits of the water. The Mongols aren't Taoists. They are probably Tengrists much like Japanese aren't Taoists either since they have Shinto occupying the same position.
Actually a lot of lost Roman and Greek tech was recovered during the Crusades. This is also where the Templars came to fame and made their wealth. Templar money was a major source of funding for the Portuguese and Spanish travels during the Age of Discovery for example the Order of Christ in Portugal which was largely composed of former Templars. Many of the advances in optics during the Rennaissance were actually applications of work done by Muslim researchers of the era.
American Indians, Jim Crow, need I go on?
In the 90s I had an Amiga computer which had nearly zero internal expansion. The only thing you could expand internally was the RAM. Everything else had to be done by external slots. People had hardware devices and cords littered all over their desks. Hard disks, CPU upgrades, MIDI, genlocks, the works. Then NCR came up with the tower format and that rat's nest of external expansion devices/power supply bricks, etc ceased to be. And you think I'm stuck in the 90s? That is rich.
Nah. That is not the main problem. The main problem is Apple would have the same problem than with Samsung only even worse. They would be stuck with the manufacturer for a competing product. Namely Atom.
The correct choices are actually Global Foundries or IBM. Either of those companies is part of an alliance with Samsung so the manufacturing processes are similar. Global Foundries has a lot of mostly unused fabs so they would be best. IBM is too expensive but they would do the job fine as well.
TSMC would be fine if it wasn't for the case that they are currently experiencing problems transitioning to better process nodes and that the process is like totally different from the one Apple used at Samsung.
Yet somehow MacOS X now has a command line shell. A lot of people also used to complain about their one button mice. But they fixed that too.
Anybody who does any type of serious work wouldn't use in-machine storage anyway, so why bother putting it in the machine?
I guess you are one of those people who doesn't care about latency. Not to mention that you have a lot of space to waste with computer boxes.
Yeah. I mean dear god please no. When you crash a GPU program you usually hose the entire operating system and need to do a hard reset. GPU programs run in a kernel mode driver. Blech.
Probably because they have known this is happening at least ever since word of ECHELON came out. After that a lot has happened.
The fun thing is I remember back during the Cold War people finding refuge in embassies to defect all the time. Yet I do not remember the defectors not being able to be flown back. At best the embassy was closed for an indefinite amount of time afterwards.
The 80% is cogeneration using combined heat and power or something like that for sure. i.e. you reuse the low grade heat to heat homes in the winter or something. This mostly applies for the northern parts of the USA or Canada, etc.
Algae biodiesel has not taken off because it is not easy to:
- grow the algae at high enough density to reduce land use costs.
- grow algae at high enough density without it dying to disease.
- collect the oil cheaply.
You forgot that oil needs to go by truck to the gas station and that gasoline boils off. It is volatile.
No. Combined cycle natural gas is 60% efficient and combined heat and power cogeneration is 80% efficient.
For electric cars, the pollution comes from producing the electricity. In most countries, this is 90% or more from burning fossil fuels.
Wrong. There is a lot of hydroelectric and nuclear power generation around the world. Particularly in developed first-world nations.
It is often said that this is much more efficient that ICE's, but he difference is quite marginal: modern cars operate at up to 35% or even 40% (diesel)
Wrong again. Even a diesel engine alone does not manage to get that much efficiency. I will explain more in a second.
while power stations operate in the low 40% efficiency and the electric engine is around 90% efficient
Wrong. You would know this if you had ever learned college level thermodynamics. The efficiency of a heat engine such as an ICE is dependent on the temperature differential between the heat source and the cold sink. The larger the delta the more efficient the engine can be. For a fixed power station the cold sink can be a river or some other large water body rather than air. You can also use much heavier and more heat resistant engine construction than on a car. This means the heat source will be hotter and the cold sink can handle more heat. Some combined cycle natural gas fired power stations are over 60% efficient for example. And that is without cogeneration. With cogeneration the efficiency goes higher still. Combined heat and power cogeneration can be 80% efficient. In the case of hydroelectric there are no such losses and efficiency is typically over 90%. Electric engines are typically also over 90% efficient. Plus they could be made even more efficient using superconductors. Not that it matters for such small efficient engines.
I guess you don't know how a flywheel works. It basically stores kinetic energy. All you need is to connect it to the main shaft.
You have heard wrong. People doing those claims typically use specious reasoning like doing their math for a place like Hawaii where most electricity is generated by burning oil in small generators. Gasoline cars also have mechanical transmission losses, gasoline boil-off losses, and you need to spend energy to transport gasoline by truck to the gas station.
Nickel is used for a lot of things including stainless steel. Which also gets used in regular cars. It would be interesting to quantify how much nickel an electric uses vs an ICE car.
AFAIK electric cars themselves are more than 60% efficient. It's like 90% for the engine, 90% for the battery, and 90% for the electric power system.
ICE cars have less than 35% efficiency. That efficiency is just for the engine. When you add mechanical transmission losses and gasoline boil-off to the equation it is even less than that.