I know one person who grew up next to one of your clean power generators and got respiratory problems as a result. You are the one who needs to get informed about brown coal. Even with scrubbers installed in the plant the air quality is still going to be low. The fact is even when you are burning decent quality coal, like in the US, so called clean coal technologies are more expensive than nuclear. Brown coal does not even qualify for that.
You mean like the old tales about Hyperborea or Atlantis? As far as we know Atlantis was actually a tale about the decline of the Minoan civilization after the explosion of the volcano in Crete. However I never heard any good explanation for the tales about Hyperborea. Then there are the tales of flying chariots in ancient Hindu literature, and others, which seem to indicate the existence for spacecraft in ancient times. I think it is not far fetched to conceive that alternative civilizations of higher technological level, or even alien visits to Earth occurred in ancient times considering the timespan of written records (4000 years) is a lot shorter than the existence of Homo Sapiens (20000 years) or the existence of life on Earth itself (millions of years).
You may call it whatever you want it is still a tax. Germany is facing a "bright" future burning low quality brown coal. I would rather have nuclear and improved air quality thank you. If they had the same criteria of zero emissions for coal power plants they wouldn't be competitive either.
Those countries have had as a result increased electricity costs. Energy intensive businesses leaving. In the case of Germany they put a tax on the nuclear reactors to fund the windmills and then they claim nuclear isn't competitive. Hah.
Westinghouse could show you the subscale prototype they build in the US the AP600. But if you want to see the larger models yeah you will probably have to go to China since the US reactors are taking forever to get approved in order to get built. The problem is not necessarily the Federal government. Usually it is local politics which get in the way.
China so far does not have a whole lot of natural gas capacity. Most of it is dirty coal. This is getting to be a problem in the major cities, with people using masks in order to breathe the air, so they are using nuclear generation to improve air quality there. With the move to Generation III reactors they are having trouble ramping up capacity and teaching personnel to use the reactors. This was already expected. So I do not understand those trying to spin this as China backpedaling on nuclear. It is anything but. Those living inland will just have to keep using coal and have a reduced quality of life and lifetime as a result. Why? Because coal is cheap and who care about inland peasants anyway.
You really need to examine historical house prices vs net income. Sure there are more paid services now but much of this is a misnomer. While people did not have cars they did have horses and donkeys and those were not particularly cheap to purchase and maintain either. At least the car doesn't need to eat when you aren't using it. A large part of the reason why people can afford higher houses is that less of the land is in use for farming thanks to improved agricultural techniques.
What a load of bull. This was the case for most of the history of western civilization. Only during WWII and after the 1960s having both husband and wife working on a salaried job were the norm. The fact is with the larger amount of people in the job market salaries basically got slashed by half (supply and demand) leading to the same net household income with both people working when previously only one person working provided the same income.
With increased automation you would expect the average wage to increase in relative terms but that has not been the case. The wealth is only getting more concentrated. Part of the reason is due to higher energy prices but that does not explain the entire scenario.
From what I understand F2FS is meant as a replacement for EXT4 on flash devices. Not on memory cards and other devices which need to be shared. Those still use FAT. Why the heck didn't the industry band around an open standard like UDF instead of FAT for removable media is something which still eludes me to this day.
Xcode is an IDE. If you do not know the difference between an IDE and a compiler you need to get yourself educated. Xcode uses clang or gcc to actually compile code AFAIK.
That 'opencl' stuff does not include full support for actually compiling working opencl code in the general sense. Otherwise there wouldn't be people in academia replicating what closed source llvm users such as NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple are distributing out there. Nor would I need to use nvcc to compile my OpenCL code as I do now.
It is a problem today. NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Intel are shipping closed source CUDA and OpenCL compilers based on LLVM which basically do the same thing for different architectures. But sure keep dreaming in BSD fantasy land.
Sure. But if you can launch three Falcon Heavies for under the price of a Saturn V then which rocket is better?
It is still over twice the payload of a Russian Proton. So it can launch whole station modules in a single launch. It can send astronauts around the Moon and back. With a dual launch it can put people in the Moon and get them back. It has the same payload as the Saturn C-3 which supposedly was capable of a lunar mission using EOR.
Clang is based on LLVM which was developed in an academic environment. WebKit is based on KHTML. Sure Apple could close source their code further but then they would have to keep updating their branch to match the open fork. That takes a non-insignificant amount of time and effort.
Over time people will realize why a compiler shouldn't be BSD licensed. There is a reason why other BSD licensed compilers died on the vine. Every hardware vendor will want a closed fork for their own architecture which never gets updated properly. This is less evident today when most of the world is only running x86 or ARM, which is licensed rather than manufactured by ARM Holdings, but in the embedded world it will be pretty much obvious.
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It is perfectly possible and it is being done now. You use metal powder sintering. The machines are still a helluva expensive though.
I know one person who grew up next to one of your clean power generators and got respiratory problems as a result. You are the one who needs to get informed about brown coal. Even with scrubbers installed in the plant the air quality is still going to be low. The fact is even when you are burning decent quality coal, like in the US, so called clean coal technologies are more expensive than nuclear. Brown coal does not even qualify for that.
What's wrong with PDF? Oh yeah he's an ex-Microsoft employee.
You mean like the old tales about Hyperborea or Atlantis? As far as we know Atlantis was actually a tale about the decline of the Minoan civilization after the explosion of the volcano in Crete. However I never heard any good explanation for the tales about Hyperborea. Then there are the tales of flying chariots in ancient Hindu literature, and others, which seem to indicate the existence for spacecraft in ancient times. I think it is not far fetched to conceive that alternative civilizations of higher technological level, or even alien visits to Earth occurred in ancient times considering the timespan of written records (4000 years) is a lot shorter than the existence of Homo Sapiens (20000 years) or the existence of life on Earth itself (millions of years).
You may call it whatever you want it is still a tax. Germany is facing a "bright" future burning low quality brown coal. I would rather have nuclear and improved air quality thank you. If they had the same criteria of zero emissions for coal power plants they wouldn't be competitive either.
Nor from a fertilizer plant using ammonia right? Or from a natural gas pipeline blowing up for that matter.
Those countries have had as a result increased electricity costs. Energy intensive businesses leaving. In the case of Germany they put a tax on the nuclear reactors to fund the windmills and then they claim nuclear isn't competitive. Hah.
Westinghouse could show you the subscale prototype they build in the US the AP600. But if you want to see the larger models yeah you will probably have to go to China since the US reactors are taking forever to get approved in order to get built. The problem is not necessarily the Federal government. Usually it is local politics which get in the way.
China so far does not have a whole lot of natural gas capacity. Most of it is dirty coal. This is getting to be a problem in the major cities, with people using masks in order to breathe the air, so they are using nuclear generation to improve air quality there. With the move to Generation III reactors they are having trouble ramping up capacity and teaching personnel to use the reactors. This was already expected. So I do not understand those trying to spin this as China backpedaling on nuclear. It is anything but. Those living inland will just have to keep using coal and have a reduced quality of life and lifetime as a result. Why? Because coal is cheap and who care about inland peasants anyway.
You really need to examine historical house prices vs net income. Sure there are more paid services now but much of this is a misnomer. While people did not have cars they did have horses and donkeys and those were not particularly cheap to purchase and maintain either. At least the car doesn't need to eat when you aren't using it. A large part of the reason why people can afford higher houses is that less of the land is in use for farming thanks to improved agricultural techniques.
What a load of bull. This was the case for most of the history of western civilization. Only during WWII and after the 1960s having both husband and wife working on a salaried job were the norm. The fact is with the larger amount of people in the job market salaries basically got slashed by half (supply and demand) leading to the same net household income with both people working when previously only one person working provided the same income.
With increased automation you would expect the average wage to increase in relative terms but that has not been the case. The wealth is only getting more concentrated. Part of the reason is due to higher energy prices but that does not explain the entire scenario.
I might actually do it. But I would fork LLVM under the LGPL.
There is still exFAT. Which is increasingly going to be a problem as removable storage is getting too large for FAT32.
I guess you never heard of exFAT.
From what I understand F2FS is meant as a replacement for EXT4 on flash devices. Not on memory cards and other devices which need to be shared. Those still use FAT. Why the heck didn't the industry band around an open standard like UDF instead of FAT for removable media is something which still eludes me to this day.
Oh please. Windows Phone is a lame duck. There is no comparison against Android. Android wins all the way.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3580222/is-apples-opencl-implementation-using-clang-and-llvm-open-source
So no Apple's OpenCL compiler is not open source.
Xcode is an IDE. If you do not know the difference between an IDE and a compiler you need to get yourself educated. Xcode uses clang or gcc to actually compile code AFAIK.
That 'opencl' stuff does not include full support for actually compiling working opencl code in the general sense. Otherwise there wouldn't be people in academia replicating what closed source llvm users such as NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple are distributing out there. Nor would I need to use nvcc to compile my OpenCL code as I do now.
It is a problem today. NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Intel are shipping closed source CUDA and OpenCL compilers based on LLVM which basically do the same thing for different architectures. But sure keep dreaming in BSD fantasy land.
Sure. But if you can launch three Falcon Heavies for under the price of a Saturn V then which rocket is better?
It is still over twice the payload of a Russian Proton. So it can launch whole station modules in a single launch. It can send astronauts around the Moon and back. With a dual launch it can put people in the Moon and get them back. It has the same payload as the Saturn C-3 which supposedly was capable of a lunar mission using EOR.
Even better "gcc -std=gnu99". I use that one.
Man that code is god awful. The most special cased POS I have seen in a long time.
Even if Clang was immensely successful it does not mean GCC would go away. Not anymore than having Chromium stopped people from using Firefox.
There are countless existing examples showing it does work: BSD UNIX itself
You are joking right?
Webkit
Which is based on LGPLed KHTML.
Clang
Which remains to be seen in the long run. Plus it still produced slower x86 code than GCC last time I tried.
CodeSourcery would be another such company until it was bought by Mentor Graphics.
Clang is based on LLVM which was developed in an academic environment. WebKit is based on KHTML. Sure Apple could close source their code further but then they would have to keep updating their branch to match the open fork. That takes a non-insignificant amount of time and effort.
Over time people will realize why a compiler shouldn't be BSD licensed. There is a reason why other BSD licensed compilers died on the vine. Every hardware vendor will want a closed fork for their own architecture which never gets updated properly. This is less evident today when most of the world is only running x86 or ARM, which is licensed rather than manufactured by ARM Holdings, but in the embedded world it will be pretty much obvious.