I hope your measure of how they "don't use pumped storage" is better than the one the other guy used which claimed that 100% of their generation was renewables.
It helps a whole lot to have pumped storage. Not to mention being close to the North Sea's wind resource. Also Scotland doesn't generate 100% of electricity from renewables even. That's plain BS. Last year (2016) they generated an estimate of 54% of electricity from renewables.
It's true that widespread nuclear technologies were bound to happen with widely available not only computational power to design the vehicles and warheads, but also gas centrifuges. It something like SILEX or AVLIS becomes widespread then even more countries will want to have nuclear weapons.
Quoting Wikipedia: "Skype was the first peer-to-peer IP telephony network. The network contains three types of entities: supernodes, ordinary nodes, and the login server. Each client maintains a host cache with the IP address and port numbers of reachable supernodes. The Skype user directory is decentralized and distributed among the supernodes in the network. Previously any client with good bandwidth, no restrictions due to firewall or network address translation (NAT), and adequate processing power could become a supernode. This placed an extra burden on those who connected to the Internet without NAT, as Skype used their computers and Internet connections as third parties for UDP hole punching (to directly connect two clients both behind NAT) or to completely relay other users' calls. In 2012, Microsoft altered the design of the network, and brought all supernodes under their control as hosted servers in data centres. Microsoft at the time defended the move, saying they "believe this approach has immediate performance, scalability and availability benefits for the hundreds of millions of users that make up the Skype community." At the time there was some concern regarding the privacy implications of the change, which appear to have been proven true with the revelation of the PRISM surveillance program in June 2013."
Ever since I heard Microsoft was turning Skype from a peer-to-peer architecture, where the clients directly transferred video/audio to each other, to a client-server model where all the video/audio passes through a server, I knew this was going to happen. Really.
Here are some quotes for you: Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).... Ed Oates graduated with a BA in mathematics from San Jose State University in 1968, and worked at Singer, the US Army Personnel Information Systems Command (PERSINSCOM) (drafted), Ampex, and Memorex before co-founding Oracle.... In-Q-Tel: A Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Venture-Capital Arm... In-Q-Tel has been an early backer of start-ups later acquired by Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM) and Lockheed Martin (LMT).
There are two main reasons why houses are so expensive today: because women don't stay at home anymore, families disposable income nearly doubled, but because you can't easily create more land, house prices nearly doubled from that alone, the rest of the difference in price can be easily be explained by the insanely low interest rates and ease of credit available today. Back when my grandfather bought his house, he couldn't get a bank loan, and had to ask a financier with a lot of cash to give him a loan with a signed and registered contract.
I'll give you an example. My grandfather bought a house with 2.5 years of his income. The same house right now would take me 8 years income to purchase.
The salaries in Beijing and some of the coastal cities in China are as high or higher than in the West. Beijing has higher salaries than the Bay Area and Shanghai has higher salaries than Germany I think. The problem is the salaries are highly asymmetric across the country. I don't mean just 2:1 or 3:1 but much more than that.
Such an exaggeration. The amount of lithium used in batteries is minimal. Plus there are other (better) chemistries than lead batteries for cars. Edison used nickel-iron batteries in his electric car for example. Not to mention NiMH.
It shouldn't be more complex to manage. The problem is Android is braindead stupid about handling removable storage. Especially storing applications on removable storage.
Well, I suppose you can try light therapy. Other than that there isn't much one can do. In those kinds of places a lot of people have sleeping disorders because of that.
Intel typically has a lot of issues entering new chip markets. Just look at all the issues they have with getting a high performance GPU designed. They been at it almost as long as NVIDIA. Remember the i740?
Nice excuse. Military vessels are supposed to have radar you know? What if they had to, shudder, fight an actual war where the enemy doesn't have their GPS transponder on to begin with?
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I hope your measure of how they "don't use pumped storage" is better than the one the other guy used which claimed that 100% of their generation was renewables.
It helps a whole lot to have pumped storage. Not to mention being close to the North Sea's wind resource. Also Scotland doesn't generate 100% of electricity from renewables even. That's plain BS. Last year (2016) they generated an estimate of 54% of electricity from renewables.
It's true that widespread nuclear technologies were bound to happen with widely available not only computational power to design the vehicles and warheads, but also gas centrifuges. It something like SILEX or AVLIS becomes widespread then even more countries will want to have nuclear weapons.
So where are the "widespread" fuel cells and microturbines? Whatever "widespread" means. I won't even get into some of the other claims.
Quoting Wikipedia:
"Skype was the first peer-to-peer IP telephony network. The network contains three types of entities: supernodes, ordinary nodes, and the login server. Each client maintains a host cache with the IP address and port numbers of reachable supernodes. The Skype user directory is decentralized and distributed among the supernodes in the network.
Previously any client with good bandwidth, no restrictions due to firewall or network address translation (NAT), and adequate processing power could become a supernode. This placed an extra burden on those who connected to the Internet without NAT, as Skype used their computers and Internet connections as third parties for UDP hole punching (to directly connect two clients both behind NAT) or to completely relay other users' calls. In 2012, Microsoft altered the design of the network, and brought all supernodes under their control as hosted servers in data centres. Microsoft at the time defended the move, saying they "believe this approach has immediate performance, scalability and availability benefits for the hundreds of millions of users that make up the Skype community." At the time there was some concern regarding the privacy implications of the change, which appear to have been proven true with the revelation of the PRISM surveillance program in June 2013."
Ever since I heard Microsoft was turning Skype from a peer-to-peer architecture, where the clients directly transferred video/audio to each other, to a client-server model where all the video/audio passes through a server, I knew this was going to happen. Really.
Yep. But read about the "European Gendarmerie Force"...
In-Q-Tel has also invested in FireEye for example.
Here are some quotes for you: ... ... ...
Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).
Ed Oates graduated with a BA in mathematics from San Jose State University in 1968, and worked at Singer, the US Army Personnel Information Systems Command (PERSINSCOM) (drafted), Ampex, and Memorex before co-founding Oracle.
In-Q-Tel: A Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Venture-Capital Arm
In-Q-Tel has been an early backer of start-ups later acquired by Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM) and Lockheed Martin (LMT).
Right. Nuclear weapons were also developed with a profit motive. Right?
There are two main reasons why houses are so expensive today: because women don't stay at home anymore, families disposable income nearly doubled, but because you can't easily create more land, house prices nearly doubled from that alone, the rest of the difference in price can be easily be explained by the insanely low interest rates and ease of credit available today. Back when my grandfather bought his house, he couldn't get a bank loan, and had to ask a financier with a lot of cash to give him a loan with a signed and registered contract.
Try typing a long piece of text in one. Not amazing at all.
I'll give you an example. My grandfather bought a house with 2.5 years of his income. The same house right now would take me 8 years income to purchase.
BS. I've done the math more than once. The cost per sq area has increased versus the average wage.
No amount of revisionism and misdirection by these people can disprove it.
If it's because of more swapping because of increased memory requirements, unoptimized video drivers, or whatever, it doesn't matter.
This also means you can get a housekeeper for peanuts.
The salaries in Beijing and some of the coastal cities in China are as high or higher than in the West. Beijing has higher salaries than the Bay Area and Shanghai has higher salaries than Germany I think. The problem is the salaries are highly asymmetric across the country. I don't mean just 2:1 or 3:1 but much more than that.
Such an exaggeration. The amount of lithium used in batteries is minimal. Plus there are other (better) chemistries than lead batteries for cars. Edison used nickel-iron batteries in his electric car for example. Not to mention NiMH.
Tesla seldom has any profits, so I think they don't really need it.
It shouldn't be more complex to manage. The problem is Android is braindead stupid about handling removable storage. Especially storing applications on removable storage.
Just buy a OnePlus phone and fuck Google. It's cheaper to boot.
Well, I suppose you can try light therapy.
Other than that there isn't much one can do. In those kinds of places a lot of people have sleeping disorders because of that.
Intel typically has a lot of issues entering new chip markets. Just look at all the issues they have with getting a high performance GPU designed. They been at it almost as long as NVIDIA. Remember the i740?
Try getting outside.
That helps. Unless you live near the Arctic Circle or something like that.
Nice excuse. Military vessels are supposed to have radar you know? What if they had to, shudder, fight an actual war where the enemy doesn't have their GPS transponder on to begin with?