Google users could always request a connection from you. Its not like this was an attempt to stop outside XMPP use. They would have stopped outbound invites as well.
He's not arguing that 'something' exists because of quantum fluctuations, he's merely asserting that they replace the need for an intelligent design to explain our existence.
And that would make him rather stupid then wouldn't it? Why do the quantum fluctuations exist, what do they exist in, what created them? Now we're right back where we started aren't we? This is one of those examples of people worshiping a scientist like he himself is a god. You've got some sort of ignorant blind faith in him for no logical reason as even his logic... well, isn't.
He doesn't seem to be able to understand the question in the first place judging by his answers. He is too focused on whats at the end of his theories rather than what he can actually observe.
He may be the most intelligent person on the planet, but tunnel vision is clearly holding him back.
Ahhh kids. Its cute when you know nothing of the history of computing.
Contrary to what you think about how computers work. 'plug and play' was not something that was invented with PCI. You can, in fact, probe for devices, or other crazy things like just reading the CPU info, which will give you enough knowledge to figure out which phone it is likely to be, then narrow that down with some simple hardware probes.
'No hardware provided bus auto-probing' is a pretty shitty excuse not to do something we were all doing 20-30 years ago.
How is AT&T buying a phone from Samsung different than when they buy it from Apple other than Apple told them to go fuck themselves, users will get updates when Apple determines its okay?
Google doesn't sell more units, they give them away. Thats the problem. Its a race to the bottom, and at the bottom you find the bloatware.
If it costs the same for one square meter of PVC as it does for one square meter of paint then you just say...
It costs the same as painting a wall.
Area is irrelevant if it costs the same for equal areas. Did you not take basic math in school? You don't throw in terms that have no useful meaning to the equation just for shits and giggles, which is whats being done here.
You might as well be retarded and say shit like:
It costs the same as paint on planet Earth!
With cars, we say 'it gets the better milage' because you aren't actually comparing cost, you're comparing fuel burn rate. Cost only comes into play when you include the variable/floating price for gasoline... which you aren't doing in your car comparison. Its only cheaper if you also buy the same gasoline as me. If I use the cheap pump and you use the expensive pump at a different gas station, a considerable amount of 'milage' is lost at the pump from a cost perspective. This is why GM doesn't put how much it costs per mile to drive the car, they put miles per gallon on the window sticker.
If there are other costs that are different from paint based on area covered, such as the wiring costs that may be fixed regardless of surface area size or something like that, then again, its fucking retarded to compare to a specific size of painted area because you're making a comparison that is meaningless since we have no idea what the ratio is on the high or low side of it.
The one square meter thing makes it clear the person writing the story doesn't understand what they are talking about, and neither do you, which is why you're defending it.
The shareholders are the collective owners of the company.
You, with your 4 shares of stock don't get to tell anyone anything.
However, when you own enough shares that your vote matters to a large enough extent, you don't get to tell them exactly what to do... but you sure as hell can make someones employment at the company difficult to impossible.
The reality of it is however, 99.99999% of the time, a total re-write is a retarded idea. You just get a whole new set of bugs and you've wasted all the time you put into the original system. There is nothing that actually prevents old code from being modernized and cleaned up, it just takes actual effort and attention to detail... and that is why so many people think re-writing it is the solution, they are lazy and/or are not qualified to do the job with the required attention to detail. Instead they rewrite it, and IF it ever gets back to doing all the stuff the original did, its generally ten times more bloated and slower still as now you've just had commitees telling you how to use a new design to build something that was already optimized and well understood by its users.
Anyone suggesting re-writing large systems in their entirity is almost certainly unqualified to be making any such sort of recommendation.
No one with any actual understanding of batteries said Li-Ion does not have memory.
What was said is that: From a practical perspective, Li-Ion memory is not an issue to worry about.
The article is basically someone who just did a study to confirm what probably every battery manufacture on the planet knew about Li-Ion at least 15 years ago. Longer I'm sure, I just have no experience before that.
What they did was took something they interpreted incorrectly, and then did a bunch of research to disprove some statement they misheard.
This is roughly like me telling you the surface of the earth is flat when you're building a small house, and then having a bunch of morons who overheard our conversion from 3 tables over do a study to determine that no, infact the Earth isn't flat. Of course its not flat, but from a practical perspective to the man building his home, its flat.
Thats because you aren't driving it. You're basically treating the batteries in the ideal way judging by time and milage. You'd probably get slightly worse than that if you didn't drive it at all.
First of all of LiFePO4 are not commonly used in any of our portable gadgets.
Lithium Ion != Lithium Iron... i.e. WTF are you bringing up LiFe for? Not part of this conversation.
Second memory effects we are seeing in our gear are illusions based on memory effects in the electronics that help figure out capacity. Deep cycling lion batteries works to clear these effects as what you are actually doing is resetting the "gas gauge" to synchronize with reality of the battery.
Actually, you have that backwards.
The batteries have degradation. The electronics are wrong because they remember capacity based on the charge/discharge cycle of the battery when it was new. Over time it degrades, this is not memory, its just degradation... wear. When you 'deep cycle' the battery, all you are doing is allowing the device to actually see how the battery is currently performing rather than how it was expected to perform a hundred charges ago.
'Deep cycling' won't fix the issue and make your battery last longer suddenly. It will just cause the gauge to understand that your battery is no longer new and is now rather shitty indeed.
Lead Acid batteries (like you car battery) are pretty fucking hard to kill outside of the environment your car subjects them too (heat is a bitch), even that, how many times have you warranty replaced your car battery?
NiCads are relatively resilient. You can certainly hurt them, but you have to do 'known bad' things that every manual and charger label probably has written on it. Don't drop them below 1.2v per cell, keep them cool during charging (heating means you're doing it wrong). I've had high quality packs for my R/C cars last 5 years. First year as 'race' packs, then the next several as warmup/fun packs. You're talking 250-500 charge cycles of extremely harsh use. That is at least 10% of the nicads expected life under what most would consider some of the harshest possible conditions for the batteries to be in. High current discharge while basically laying on an asphalt road way in the Florida sun, to be immediately thrown back on a charger for the next round without letting it cool or anything. Not even needed to memory cycle the batteries, my usage patterns were so harsh they didn't have the time to build up memory before they were shot anyway.
My previous laptop was an amazing example of excellent battery in my eyes. I retired it in the middle of last year, almost exactly 3 years to the day after purchase and it was used from full charge to nearly depleted extensively during that period as my workstation. I admit, towards the end it was getting short, but certainly well past the 80% at 400 cycles. My wifes laptop on the otherhand won't hold a charge for shit and its only 2 years old! Of course, its been sitting with a charge connected to it for its entire life time, which is a horrible thing to do to a Li-Ion.
And I expect never will. All batteries have various flavors of memory. The only question is, does the memory effect cause enough of a problem to make it worth addressing the issue to extend battery life.
You worry about memory in a NiCad because the process that causes the memory is easily reversible (partially), and the battery itself is still functional.
If the memory effect of Li-Ion only effects... say 1% of the total capacity before the rest of the chemical processes break down and cause the battery to 'wear out' than it has memory, but from a practical perspective the memory is irrelevant.
There are all sorts of batteries that would appear 'memory less' at first glance, but thats only cause they are so shitty in other ways that you don't get to the point of noticing the processes that cause memory to start happening.
Until a battery is 100% energy efficient, its going to have memory, so never.
Science requires testability, and since we can not observe the origin of life on our world, its impossible to finish the rest of the process up.
Now thats not to say that science isn't actually being done. Plenty of science goes on while doing this speculative research, and thats perfectly fine and likely going to be useful to us.
The journey is often more valuable than the destination, especially when life is on the line;)
You mean like how we, over time, produced so many cars and factories and other shit that we started effecting the environment?
Are you seriously arguing that we can just ignore the side effects of using window power? Thats the EXACT kind of thinking that lead to where we are now.
Using wind power... USES the power thats in the wind. That means change, these are laws of physics, its just the way the universe works. You can't wish it away.
The sun will help replenish it, but it is not an unlimited resource and we'd be pretty fucking stupid and short sighted to treat it like one.
So you think wind power is free energy? The original statement is most certainly true. Wind, like any other resource is limited. If you consume 100% of the energy in wind on the planet, you can't build another wind mill and get 100.1%. Wind farms slow and change the flow of wind.
If you use it, you do take it away for others. Ask ANY sailor (as in on a sail boat) what happens when someone takes the wind out of your sail. That saying is literal even if you don't realize its usage.
Average heat pumps produce 4x more heat than they consume
Entirely untrue. Heat pumps MOVE energy from one place to another. They do not produce heat (well, ideally they do not, due to naturally being less that perfectly efficient they do) nor do they absorb it. When you turn on the heat, they just gather up some of the heat outside and provide it to you on the other end. When cooling, they just gather some heat from inside your home and dump it outside.
Exception: Emerancy/backup/secondary heating units exist in most heat pumps to offset extra cold winters or times when the pump has to defrost itself because it froze its outside heat exchanger and still needs to warm the home.
41MW is a rate of flow, not a measurement of volume. This is a 2 dimensional vector. They are made up of volts, amps, without time. It is an instantaneous measurement of flow at a specific instant in time, not over a span of time.
41MWh is a volume of energy usage. 41MW per hour is the same as above. These are 3 dimensional vectors. They are made up of volts, amps, and time.
41MW hours per hour would be a rate of accelerating power consumption, this is like 9.8 meters per second per second for gravity.
Its nice of you to rant about how someone else is wrong, but next time, calm down and actually get it right yourself. In your huff and puff, you turned volume into acceleration, probably in a typo. But it left me a pedantic place to respond;)
Wrong. They've just increased the right of mining, the power requirements will not go down. It just doesn't work that way in the real world.
If you could previously stick 10 units into a rack due to power and cooling, and now you can stuff 20... you put in 20, when you pull those 10 out. Those 20 are going to be more economical or you wouldn't be swapping them out in the first place.
The only restriction on mining bitcoins is your CPU power. Its not like mining Gold where a vain is only so large and then you have to go find a new one. BitCoin miners are all part of the same big pool and when it runs out, no amount of searching will find more, they'll be done.
As such, due to greed, efficiency and profit go out the window as everyone races to find all the hashes as fast as possible. If you don't replace your 10 CPUs with 20 ASICs, the other guy will, and then you're really screwed.
Its a race to the bottom, only the early adopters had a chance to make anything out of it. This is how scams work.
Our current food supplies are unsustainable already. They are entirely dependant on oil to exist. Not because they need fuel to power equipment or electricity, but simply because there aren't enough other sources of required fertilizers on the surface in useful quantities to continually sustain what we take out of it in farming.
We have to replace the nutrients in the ground with those we get from oil. When the oil runs out, we're in trouble. We being the whole damn world.
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Google users could always request a connection from you. Its not like this was an attempt to stop outside XMPP use. They would have stopped outbound invites as well.
No, MegaUpload was intentionally marketed for piracy. Theres a difference. You're just too stupid to realize the difference.
Of course they don't want YOU putting random ads in stuff. THEY are going to put the ads in stuff. If you do it, they don't get any money.
Are you guys seriously stupid enough to think they WOULDN'T do the one thing they exist to do?
He's not arguing that 'something' exists because of quantum fluctuations, he's merely asserting that they replace the need for an intelligent design to explain our existence.
And that would make him rather stupid then wouldn't it? Why do the quantum fluctuations exist, what do they exist in, what created them? Now we're right back where we started aren't we? This is one of those examples of people worshiping a scientist like he himself is a god. You've got some sort of ignorant blind faith in him for no logical reason as even his logic ... well, isn't.
He doesn't seem to be able to understand the question in the first place judging by his answers. He is too focused on whats at the end of his theories rather than what he can actually observe.
He may be the most intelligent person on the planet, but tunnel vision is clearly holding him back.
Ahhh kids. Its cute when you know nothing of the history of computing.
Contrary to what you think about how computers work. 'plug and play' was not something that was invented with PCI. You can, in fact, probe for devices, or other crazy things like just reading the CPU info, which will give you enough knowledge to figure out which phone it is likely to be, then narrow that down with some simple hardware probes.
'No hardware provided bus auto-probing' is a pretty shitty excuse not to do something we were all doing 20-30 years ago.
How is AT&T buying a phone from Samsung different than when they buy it from Apple other than Apple told them to go fuck themselves, users will get updates when Apple determines its okay?
Google doesn't sell more units, they give them away. Thats the problem. Its a race to the bottom, and at the bottom you find the bloatware.
All security patches, which is the entire point of this discussion. So what do you want to pull out of your ass now fanboy?
Because before Apple and the iPhone carriers never provided ANY updates. Ever.
Because it was part of the contract requirements that everyone was made aware of so long ago that stated clearly that Apple is in control of updates.
Apple is the reason anyone gets updates. They changed the game and took the power away from the carriers. Deal with it fanboy.
Yes, prescription medication information is covered under HIPAA in various ways.
No its not a sensible way to express it.
If it costs the same for one square meter of PVC as it does for one square meter of paint then you just say ...
It costs the same as painting a wall.
Area is irrelevant if it costs the same for equal areas. Did you not take basic math in school? You don't throw in terms that have no useful meaning to the equation just for shits and giggles, which is whats being done here.
You might as well be retarded and say shit like:
It costs the same as paint on planet Earth!
With cars, we say 'it gets the better milage' because you aren't actually comparing cost, you're comparing fuel burn rate. Cost only comes into play when you include the variable/floating price for gasoline ... which you aren't doing in your car comparison. Its only cheaper if you also buy the same gasoline as me. If I use the cheap pump and you use the expensive pump at a different gas station, a considerable amount of 'milage' is lost at the pump from a cost perspective. This is why GM doesn't put how much it costs per mile to drive the car, they put miles per gallon on the window sticker.
If there are other costs that are different from paint based on area covered, such as the wiring costs that may be fixed regardless of surface area size or something like that, then again, its fucking retarded to compare to a specific size of painted area because you're making a comparison that is meaningless since we have no idea what the ratio is on the high or low side of it.
The one square meter thing makes it clear the person writing the story doesn't understand what they are talking about, and neither do you, which is why you're defending it.
The shareholders are the collective owners of the company.
You, with your 4 shares of stock don't get to tell anyone anything.
However, when you own enough shares that your vote matters to a large enough extent, you don't get to tell them exactly what to do ... but you sure as hell can make someones employment at the company difficult to impossible.
The reality of it is however, 99.99999% of the time, a total re-write is a retarded idea. You just get a whole new set of bugs and you've wasted all the time you put into the original system. There is nothing that actually prevents old code from being modernized and cleaned up, it just takes actual effort and attention to detail ... and that is why so many people think re-writing it is the solution, they are lazy and/or are not qualified to do the job with the required attention to detail. Instead they rewrite it, and IF it ever gets back to doing all the stuff the original did, its generally ten times more bloated and slower still as now you've just had commitees telling you how to use a new design to build something that was already optimized and well understood by its users.
Anyone suggesting re-writing large systems in their entirity is almost certainly unqualified to be making any such sort of recommendation.
No one with any actual understanding of batteries said Li-Ion does not have memory.
What was said is that: From a practical perspective, Li-Ion memory is not an issue to worry about.
The article is basically someone who just did a study to confirm what probably every battery manufacture on the planet knew about Li-Ion at least 15 years ago. Longer I'm sure, I just have no experience before that.
What they did was took something they interpreted incorrectly, and then did a bunch of research to disprove some statement they misheard.
This is roughly like me telling you the surface of the earth is flat when you're building a small house, and then having a bunch of morons who overheard our conversion from 3 tables over do a study to determine that no, infact the Earth isn't flat. Of course its not flat, but from a practical perspective to the man building his home, its flat.
Thats because you aren't driving it. You're basically treating the batteries in the ideal way judging by time and milage. You'd probably get slightly worse than that if you didn't drive it at all.
First of all of LiFePO4 are not commonly used in any of our portable gadgets.
Lithium Ion != Lithium Iron ... i.e. WTF are you bringing up LiFe for? Not part of this conversation.
Second memory effects we are seeing in our gear are illusions based on memory effects in the electronics that help figure out capacity. Deep cycling lion batteries works to clear these effects as what you are actually doing is resetting the "gas gauge" to synchronize with reality of the battery.
Actually, you have that backwards.
The batteries have degradation. The electronics are wrong because they remember capacity based on the charge/discharge cycle of the battery when it was new. Over time it degrades, this is not memory, its just degradation ... wear. When you 'deep cycle' the battery, all you are doing is allowing the device to actually see how the battery is currently performing rather than how it was expected to perform a hundred charges ago.
'Deep cycling' won't fix the issue and make your battery last longer suddenly. It will just cause the gauge to understand that your battery is no longer new and is now rather shitty indeed.
Because you're treating your batteries like shit.
Lead Acid batteries (like you car battery) are pretty fucking hard to kill outside of the environment your car subjects them too (heat is a bitch), even that, how many times have you warranty replaced your car battery?
NiCads are relatively resilient. You can certainly hurt them, but you have to do 'known bad' things that every manual and charger label probably has written on it. Don't drop them below 1.2v per cell, keep them cool during charging (heating means you're doing it wrong). I've had high quality packs for my R/C cars last 5 years. First year as 'race' packs, then the next several as warmup/fun packs. You're talking 250-500 charge cycles of extremely harsh use. That is at least 10% of the nicads expected life under what most would consider some of the harshest possible conditions for the batteries to be in. High current discharge while basically laying on an asphalt road way in the Florida sun, to be immediately thrown back on a charger for the next round without letting it cool or anything. Not even needed to memory cycle the batteries, my usage patterns were so harsh they didn't have the time to build up memory before they were shot anyway.
My previous laptop was an amazing example of excellent battery in my eyes. I retired it in the middle of last year, almost exactly 3 years to the day after purchase and it was used from full charge to nearly depleted extensively during that period as my workstation. I admit, towards the end it was getting short, but certainly well past the 80% at 400 cycles. My wifes laptop on the otherhand won't hold a charge for shit and its only 2 years old! Of course, its been sitting with a charge connected to it for its entire life time, which is a horrible thing to do to a Li-Ion.
And I expect never will. All batteries have various flavors of memory. The only question is, does the memory effect cause enough of a problem to make it worth addressing the issue to extend battery life.
You worry about memory in a NiCad because the process that causes the memory is easily reversible (partially), and the battery itself is still functional.
If the memory effect of Li-Ion only effects ... say 1% of the total capacity before the rest of the chemical processes break down and cause the battery to 'wear out' than it has memory, but from a practical perspective the memory is irrelevant.
There are all sorts of batteries that would appear 'memory less' at first glance, but thats only cause they are so shitty in other ways that you don't get to the point of noticing the processes that cause memory to start happening.
Until a battery is 100% energy efficient, its going to have memory, so never.
Testability.
Science requires testability, and since we can not observe the origin of life on our world, its impossible to finish the rest of the process up.
Now thats not to say that science isn't actually being done. Plenty of science goes on while doing this speculative research, and thats perfectly fine and likely going to be useful to us.
The journey is often more valuable than the destination, especially when life is on the line ;)
You mean like how we, over time, produced so many cars and factories and other shit that we started effecting the environment?
Are you seriously arguing that we can just ignore the side effects of using window power? Thats the EXACT kind of thinking that lead to where we are now.
Using wind power ... USES the power thats in the wind. That means change, these are laws of physics, its just the way the universe works. You can't wish it away.
The sun will help replenish it, but it is not an unlimited resource and we'd be pretty fucking stupid and short sighted to treat it like one.
So you think wind power is free energy? The original statement is most certainly true. Wind, like any other resource is limited. If you consume 100% of the energy in wind on the planet, you can't build another wind mill and get 100.1%. Wind farms slow and change the flow of wind.
If you use it, you do take it away for others. Ask ANY sailor (as in on a sail boat) what happens when someone takes the wind out of your sail. That saying is literal even if you don't realize its usage.
I'm going to be pedantic.
Average heat pumps produce 4x more heat than they consume
Entirely untrue. Heat pumps MOVE energy from one place to another. They do not produce heat (well, ideally they do not, due to naturally being less that perfectly efficient they do) nor do they absorb it. When you turn on the heat, they just gather up some of the heat outside and provide it to you on the other end. When cooling, they just gather some heat from inside your home and dump it outside.
Exception: Emerancy/backup/secondary heating units exist in most heat pumps to offset extra cold winters or times when the pump has to defrost itself because it froze its outside heat exchanger and still needs to warm the home.
No.
41MW is a rate of flow, not a measurement of volume. This is a 2 dimensional vector. They are made up of volts, amps, without time. It is an instantaneous measurement of flow at a specific instant in time, not over a span of time.
41MWh is a volume of energy usage.
41MW per hour is the same as above. These are 3 dimensional vectors. They are made up of volts, amps, and time.
41MW hours per hour would be a rate of accelerating power consumption, this is like 9.8 meters per second per second for gravity.
Its nice of you to rant about how someone else is wrong, but next time, calm down and actually get it right yourself. In your huff and puff, you turned volume into acceleration, probably in a typo. But it left me a pedantic place to respond ;)
Wrong. They've just increased the right of mining, the power requirements will not go down. It just doesn't work that way in the real world.
If you could previously stick 10 units into a rack due to power and cooling, and now you can stuff 20 ... you put in 20, when you pull those 10 out. Those 20 are going to be more economical or you wouldn't be swapping them out in the first place.
The only restriction on mining bitcoins is your CPU power. Its not like mining Gold where a vain is only so large and then you have to go find a new one. BitCoin miners are all part of the same big pool and when it runs out, no amount of searching will find more, they'll be done.
As such, due to greed, efficiency and profit go out the window as everyone races to find all the hashes as fast as possible. If you don't replace your 10 CPUs with 20 ASICs, the other guy will, and then you're really screwed.
Its a race to the bottom, only the early adopters had a chance to make anything out of it. This is how scams work.
Our current food supplies are unsustainable already. They are entirely dependant on oil to exist. Not because they need fuel to power equipment or electricity, but simply because there aren't enough other sources of required fertilizers on the surface in useful quantities to continually sustain what we take out of it in farming.
We have to replace the nutrients in the ground with those we get from oil. When the oil runs out, we're in trouble. We being the whole damn world.
Can we please just try to avoid the most blatant, egregious errors of fact in submissions here?
As soon as you do, by no longer pretending BitCoin is a viable currency.
The difference is that no one designed the system to intentionally waste power. Its a side effect of doing the work.
BitCoin, by design, makes itself a power waster until it runs out of coins to 'mine'. It was intentional, and stupid.