The price/performance of nuclear is great. Similar to coal in countries without coal deposits and slightly over coal elsewhere. Coal is the cheapest power generation method but also the dirtiest by far.
The nuclear power plant construction costs have similar economics to hydropower. A large fraction of the cost is with large concrete and steel structure construction. The cost of the reactor itself actually pales in comparison. This is due to a large degree to very strict radiation control measures to prevent radiation leaks in case of meltdown. If someone ever designed a meltdown proof nuclear reactor the cost of building a nuclear reactor in terms of materials like concrete would go down a lot.
Not really. If you knew the debt a lot of countries have because of wind power (e.g. Spain, Germany) to generate a lot less energy than what France generates with nuclear we wouldn't be having this discussion. France also has the cheapest electricity in Europe and that is one big reason why they still have a manufacturing industry in there.
Areva probably is overdimensioned. France has a lot of installed nuclear power capacity. Areva is scaled for maintaining that capacity. But France is reducing the amount of nuclear reactors they have. Also, like the summary said, they have had a lot of issues with EPR construction in Finland and France. As any new project it was bound to have delays and EPR is among the most complex LWR designs in the market.
Most of the cost in nuclear power plants is the loans to build large structures in concrete and steel. The more delayed a project is the more the loan interest starts piling up. Once generation starts the power plant quickly pays for itself.
The 'much more readable C++' also hides the fact that you might be doing an expensive function call in that '+' operation. It obfuscates code. Java also does not have operator overloading and I never felt that it hindered me in any way. In the past I did write a lot of thick OO C++ code but now I always avoid it like the plague. The closest to C the code is the more readable (as in understandable) and maintainable it is.
Yeah. The conclusions are nonsense piled on more nonsense. Plus it is plain bullshit. Imagine I only refactor by removing duplicated code across functions or different compilation units. Will the compiled code size become smaller? Yep. Will be easier to read (less LOC to read)? Yep. Will it be more maintainable? Of course you have less code to bother with.
If he had ran to the US and was being shielded by the US government? Sure. Of course if he ever bothered going on a vacation to somewhere else or stopped being escorted he would quite likely end like Leon Trotsky or Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.
They will rewrite everything from Java to C#. The game release will be endlessly delayed and when it does arrive it will be slow and bloated and not have half of the feature of the old Minecraft. You would better start stay on Minecraft 1 until Minecraft 3 comes out and they solve that.
Well writing a software DVD player that runs on a $999 PC and designing a standalone hardware DVD player for $99 are totally different things. When you have something that works on an Arduino you have a prototype, sure, but the prototype does not solve a lot of the hard problems which need to be solved in order to meet the actual design criteria, which are not only functional criteria, but cost criteria as well.
Yeah that is basically it. It skips the source code parsing stage. It also allows software developers to ship the shaders as harder to disassemble binaries instead of source code. This is probably the main reason why they added it in the first place. NVIDIA Cg has always been like this.
There have also been problems in the past with parsers on different GPU drivers behaving in a different ways but that is less of a problem.
They still need an optimizing compiler to translate those LLVM platform independent binaries to the GPU architecture binaries. So you still need a virtual machine in the GPU driver.
If we are talking about hardware kickstarters, or book kickstarters, or anything which involves manufacturing, if they do not have a working prototype yet it is always a risk to invest in it. If they have a working prototype and the money is only to pay for low rate initial production then the risk is low.
From what I read these guys did not do much of anything. The manufacturing was off-shored to China and the software was outsourced. So they probably had quite a poor grasp on the actual time and cost to do the product. They had an high-level concept of what they wanted but that is not enough to allow you to estimate development costs.
As for the software kickstarters, given the nature of software, the cost of replication i.e. copying is basically irrelevant so when they ask money it is always to do product development. As with any project like this you have to ask yourself how much prior experience do these people have, do they have any functional prototypes, story or art designs, etc.
The delays and cost overruns are something that happens. But this kind of cost overrun makes me suspect either feature creep or foul play.
Both languages suck. I would pick C++ as it is more future proof and less niche than Objective-C.
I mostly program in Python or C though. Sometimes Java. I hate C++. C++ is the Swiss Army knife of compiled languages. It does a bit of everything but nothing well. You can always find another language that is better at it on every single aspect you look at. Jack of all trades master of none.
That post on Nim a couple of days back on Slashdot was interesting but I haven't tried the language yet.
How about the tremendous economic damage caused by the tectonic plate, that contains the Indian subcontinent, smashing into Eurasia? The usable land in the Indian subcontinent keeps decreasing and the Himalayas keep getting higher. You know what? No one cares. It happens so slowly that people adjust.
That fact that they need to put a multi page FAQ on their website to explain how to create a login account without a credit card number is telling enough.
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The price/performance of nuclear is great. Similar to coal in countries without coal deposits and slightly over coal elsewhere. Coal is the cheapest power generation method but also the dirtiest by far.
The nuclear power plant construction costs have similar economics to hydropower. A large fraction of the cost is with large concrete and steel structure construction. The cost of the reactor itself actually pales in comparison. This is due to a large degree to very strict radiation control measures to prevent radiation leaks in case of meltdown. If someone ever designed a meltdown proof nuclear reactor the cost of building a nuclear reactor in terms of materials like concrete would go down a lot.
Not really. If you knew the debt a lot of countries have because of wind power (e.g. Spain, Germany) to generate a lot less energy than what France generates with nuclear we wouldn't be having this discussion. France also has the cheapest electricity in Europe and that is one big reason why they still have a manufacturing industry in there.
Areva probably is overdimensioned. France has a lot of installed nuclear power capacity. Areva is scaled for maintaining that capacity. But France is reducing the amount of nuclear reactors they have. Also, like the summary said, they have had a lot of issues with EPR construction in Finland and France. As any new project it was bound to have delays and EPR is among the most complex LWR designs in the market.
Most of the cost in nuclear power plants is the loans to build large structures in concrete and steel. The more delayed a project is the more the loan interest starts piling up. Once generation starts the power plant quickly pays for itself.
higher costs of distributing the game themselves
Depends on the game and the game revenue model.
UAE? Isn't that where they take your passport while you work there?
e.g. Astro Fighter Sunred jokes with Super Sentai shows just fine.
Power Rangers itself is a ripoff of Japanese Super Sentai shows anyway. A licensed ripoff but a ripoff nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They should have just used slightly altered character designs and names and people would have got the joke anyway.
Even inside Iraq. I doubt there are less people dying now with the civil war going on than when he was in power.
This is hardly a new occurrence. He's been doing it since like forever.
The 'much more readable C++' also hides the fact that you might be doing an expensive function call in that '+' operation. It obfuscates code. Java also does not have operator overloading and I never felt that it hindered me in any way. In the past I did write a lot of thick OO C++ code but now I always avoid it like the plague. The closest to C the code is the more readable (as in understandable) and maintainable it is.
Yeah. The conclusions are nonsense piled on more nonsense. Plus it is plain bullshit. Imagine I only refactor by removing duplicated code across functions or different compilation units. Will the compiled code size become smaller? Yep. Will be easier to read (less LOC to read)? Yep. Will it be more maintainable? Of course you have less code to bother with.
If he had ran to the US and was being shielded by the US government? Sure. Of course if he ever bothered going on a vacation to somewhere else or stopped being escorted he would quite likely end like Leon Trotsky or Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.
Really bad idea. If he was going to do this he should have never bothered leaving in the first place.
They already have a flight simulator inside Excel. So it would be neat to put Excel inside Minecraft.
They will rewrite everything from Java to C#. The game release will be endlessly delayed and when it does arrive it will be slow and bloated and not have half of the feature of the old Minecraft. You would better start stay on Minecraft 1 until Minecraft 3 comes out and they solve that.
Icons change. Text doesn't.
Well writing a software DVD player that runs on a $999 PC and designing a standalone hardware DVD player for $99 are totally different things. When you have something that works on an Arduino you have a prototype, sure, but the prototype does not solve a lot of the hard problems which need to be solved in order to meet the actual design criteria, which are not only functional criteria, but cost criteria as well.
Yeah that is basically it. It skips the source code parsing stage. It also allows software developers to ship the shaders as harder to disassemble binaries instead of source code. This is probably the main reason why they added it in the first place. NVIDIA Cg has always been like this.
There have also been problems in the past with parsers on different GPU drivers behaving in a different ways but that is less of a problem.
They still need an optimizing compiler to translate those LLVM platform independent binaries to the GPU architecture binaries. So you still need a virtual machine in the GPU driver.
If we are talking about hardware kickstarters, or book kickstarters, or anything which involves manufacturing, if they do not have a working prototype yet it is always a risk to invest in it. If they have a working prototype and the money is only to pay for low rate initial production then the risk is low.
From what I read these guys did not do much of anything. The manufacturing was off-shored to China and the software was outsourced. So they probably had quite a poor grasp on the actual time and cost to do the product. They had an high-level concept of what they wanted but that is not enough to allow you to estimate development costs.
As for the software kickstarters, given the nature of software, the cost of replication i.e. copying is basically irrelevant so when they ask money it is always to do product development. As with any project like this you have to ask yourself how much prior experience do these people have, do they have any functional prototypes, story or art designs, etc.
The delays and cost overruns are something that happens. But this kind of cost overrun makes me suspect either feature creep or foul play.
Both languages suck. I would pick C++ as it is more future proof and less niche than Objective-C.
I mostly program in Python or C though. Sometimes Java. I hate C++. C++ is the Swiss Army knife of compiled languages. It does a bit of everything but nothing well. You can always find another language that is better at it on every single aspect you look at. Jack of all trades master of none.
That post on Nim a couple of days back on Slashdot was interesting but I haven't tried the language yet.
So they rise slower than the Himalayas then. Lame.
How about the tremendous economic damage caused by the tectonic plate, that contains the Indian subcontinent, smashing into Eurasia? The usable land in the Indian subcontinent keeps decreasing and the Himalayas keep getting higher. You know what? No one cares. It happens so slowly that people adjust.
The Chinese are supposedly going to build a nuclear power plant for EDF in the UK so that day may be a lot closer than you think.
That fact that they need to put a multi page FAQ on their website to explain how to create a login account without a credit card number is telling enough.
In their defense SAP's software is even worse bloatware than the crap McAfee puts out.
So how many times did iTunes ask you for your credit card number?