Here's the thing: Gates must absolutely spend his own money to develop this without any government subsidies or grants whatsoever. He must create a solution that costs less than current forms of energy in both the short term and the long term. None of this cheap now but costs a crap-ton to replace later bait-and-switch b.s. The production solution needs to compete in the marketplace without any government assistance. The solution must be manufactured in-country. Using cheap third-world labor is out. The solution needs to work everywhere and work 24 hours a day. The solution needs to scale easily because human energy consumption isn't going down.
It's pretty simple. The employer holds all the cards here. If they ask and you say that it's none of their business, they have less motivation to hire you because you come off as hiding something and what else are you going to hide if they hire you. Plus, there are people out there who will tell them. If they ask and you lie about it, they can find out and then you either won't get hired or you will be a marked person who started out their time at the company as a known liar. Human resources doesn't work for you. They work for your boss. At best, you can say, "Respectfully, I'm not going to negotiate against myself. You have a salary range in mind for this position. Make me an offer and hopefully we can come to an agreement." A good employer should respect that.
Robots could keep them clean 24/7/365. As to your second point, of course, which makes them seem to fit nicely with the world sinking deeper and deeper into a rental economy.
Once a system is up and running, shouldn't it be nearly maintenance-free other than keeping the panels clean? If it's mainly construction, then these aren't going to be permanent jobs.
I remember reading about some sci-fi author who wanted a huge interstellar space ship millions of miles long but the control system would take hours to affect a course correction so some physicist postulated a cable made of a material with a 4th dimensional component thus cutting communication time way down.
E-mails? Really? THAT's Apple's problem? And spouting off about HTML in e-mails? HTML is total inconsistent crap. What looks fine to one user on one platform and one browser looks totally different to another. That said, this post reminds me of the time that Steve Jobs came into a meeting as asked what some particular software product was supposed to do. After receiving an answer he said, "Can anyone tell me why the f*ck it doesn't do that?" Apple has indeed lost its way. They have all but abandoned the power users and power developers (there are plenty of things that Android developers have access to that iOS developers don't). Why the hell did Apple buy Beats? Seems like they're focusing on trying to make the next big thing and that's sucking all the resources away from other product lines.
A few years ago, I was set up with a girl who a mutual friend described as being "into computers." 30 years ago, that would be something special. Today, it just means that they surf the web a whole lot.
Welfare reform from the Clinton administration was supposed to be bulletproof but Obama managed to find a way to kill it. If Trump wants to reopen these areas, he will find a way.
For many years, I had a paltry 12 megabit DSL service. One day it went out and the company said it would take FIVE days before a tech could come out to look at it. I told them that that was unacceptable and I switched over to cable modem on the grounds that a) I would be getting 100 megabit and b) it would be slightly cheaper. What I didn't realize is that I was only given 300 gig per month of data which I burned through in about 2-3 weeks. I quickly figured out that this is how they are screwing over their customers. Internet-based TV would be pretty much impossible. But even so, I discovered that my DSL provider has a data cap too. It's 600 gig per month though. I live in a fairly rural city and none of my urban-dwelling friends have data caps at all. Having high bandwidth with a low data cap is like owning a Ferrari when you live in Manhattan. You might be able to go really fast for a couple of blocks but that's it.
And then there are the unintended consequences. ITAR has been around for decades but only in the last few years has it gotten so out of hand that even a standard commercial off-the-shelf screw that you can buy in Home Depot can be considered a controlled item simply because it's part of a complete product that is controlled. What's worse, the powers-that-be want to restrict online discussions of firearms on the grounds that such behavior can be considered technology transfer never mine the fact that that kind of information has been freely available for as long as ITAR has existed.
Amusing, yes. But consider that the "research" transferred to external storage and the current storage will be wiped so that nobody will be able to see the phony data and models i.e. covering their tracks.
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Here's the thing: Gates must absolutely spend his own money to develop this without any government subsidies or grants whatsoever. He must create a solution that costs less than current forms of energy in both the short term and the long term. None of this cheap now but costs a crap-ton to replace later bait-and-switch b.s. The production solution needs to compete in the marketplace without any government assistance. The solution must be manufactured in-country. Using cheap third-world labor is out. The solution needs to work everywhere and work 24 hours a day. The solution needs to scale easily because human energy consumption isn't going down.
It's pretty simple. The employer holds all the cards here. If they ask and you say that it's none of their business, they have less motivation to hire you because you come off as hiding something and what else are you going to hide if they hire you. Plus, there are people out there who will tell them. If they ask and you lie about it, they can find out and then you either won't get hired or you will be a marked person who started out their time at the company as a known liar. Human resources doesn't work for you. They work for your boss.
At best, you can say, "Respectfully, I'm not going to negotiate against myself. You have a salary range in mind for this position. Make me an offer and hopefully we can come to an agreement." A good employer should respect that.
Robots could keep them clean 24/7/365. As to your second point, of course, which makes them seem to fit nicely with the world sinking deeper and deeper into a rental economy.
This discussion predated quantum coupling by about a decade or so. The news took that long to reach us. ;-)
Once a system is up and running, shouldn't it be nearly maintenance-free other than keeping the panels clean? If it's mainly construction, then these aren't going to be permanent jobs.
I remember reading about some sci-fi author who wanted a huge interstellar space ship millions of miles long but the control system would take hours to affect a course correction so some physicist postulated a cable made of a material with a 4th dimensional component thus cutting communication time way down.
Of the leftist persuasion. Can you say "cognitive dissonance"?
What a bunch of B.S.! Insurance? Seriously? The UK made the correct choice in telling the E.U> to go pound sand.
The more ISPs will slip through your fingers.
*rimshot*
E-mails? Really? THAT's Apple's problem? And spouting off about HTML in e-mails? HTML is total inconsistent crap. What looks fine to one user on one platform and one browser looks totally different to another. That said, this post reminds me of the time that Steve Jobs came into a meeting as asked what some particular software product was supposed to do. After receiving an answer he said, "Can anyone tell me why the f*ck it doesn't do that?" Apple has indeed lost its way. They have all but abandoned the power users and power developers (there are plenty of things that Android developers have access to that iOS developers don't). Why the hell did Apple buy Beats? Seems like they're focusing on trying to make the next big thing and that's sucking all the resources away from other product lines.
How about if I patent personal responsibility and sue the parents for not implementing it in their kids?
Medallions cost around $1 million each. Do you really think a ten billion dollar asset is just going to roll over and play dead?
He was able to keep an earpiece in his ear for five whole seasons without losing it or needing to recharge it for that matter.
A few years ago, I was set up with a girl who a mutual friend described as being "into computers." 30 years ago, that would be something special. Today, it just means that they surf the web a whole lot.
Without the uber power supply, this is nothing more than a marketing stunt.
Welfare reform from the Clinton administration was supposed to be bulletproof but Obama managed to find a way to kill it. If Trump wants to reopen these areas, he will find a way.
For many years, I had a paltry 12 megabit DSL service. One day it went out and the company said it would take FIVE days before a tech could come out to look at it. I told them that that was unacceptable and I switched over to cable modem on the grounds that a) I would be getting 100 megabit and b) it would be slightly cheaper. What I didn't realize is that I was only given 300 gig per month of data which I burned through in about 2-3 weeks. I quickly figured out that this is how they are screwing over their customers. Internet-based TV would be pretty much impossible. But even so, I discovered that my DSL provider has a data cap too. It's 600 gig per month though. I live in a fairly rural city and none of my urban-dwelling friends have data caps at all. Having high bandwidth with a low data cap is like owning a Ferrari when you live in Manhattan. You might be able to go really fast for a couple of blocks but that's it.
And then there are the unintended consequences. ITAR has been around for decades but only in the last few years has it gotten so out of hand that even a standard commercial off-the-shelf screw that you can buy in Home Depot can be considered a controlled item simply because it's part of a complete product that is controlled. What's worse, the powers-that-be want to restrict online discussions of firearms on the grounds that such behavior can be considered technology transfer never mine the fact that that kind of information has been freely available for as long as ITAR has existed.
Clearly, the UN doesn't understand the laws of thermodynamics and power source design.
Amusing, yes. But consider that the "research" transferred to external storage and the current storage will be wiped so that nobody will be able to see the phony data and models i.e. covering their tracks.
For the facts, see this comment:
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Came here to write this. From personal experience in search & rescue ops in BFE.
Or made-in-china.com for 1/3 the price of the US version.
Aren't emerging market needs by definition significantly less than highly-developed industrialized market needs?