A major point for it is independance or partial independance from price gouging utilities. So for some people it's an obvious win but for others where the utilities are less predatory it is not so obvious.
Really? Where id you get that from? Are gas prices that low now? Will they stay low? It used to be an expensive way to cover peaks but far quicker to bring online than coal.
One thing readers should pay attention to and one trick the unscrupulous should stop pulling is talking about the capacity factor of units that are mainly used to cover a peak. Of course it's going to be low. It's low because demand is not constant and you only being things on line when you need them.
Comparing windmills and large thermal units (coal, nuclear, some others) is like comparing a bicycle to a locomotive - while they both move they are intended for different roles.
I'm not accusing the above poster of pulling the trick but since it seems to come up every time this topic comes up I thought it was worth mentioning before the slimy salesfolk slithered out.
Your point that you had nothing to back up your assertion in the first place other than misdirection and a couple of outright lies? WTF is it with you people?
So you your "science" is a guy in politics and your reference is a newspaper? How about we at least try to get the discussion out of the sandpit and up to grade school level. Would that be too hard?
Here's a clue - every 20,000 years or so the earth gets cold due to orbital positioning but it's not likely to be something that anyone has to worry about for a few thousand years. Using that to argue against climate change is an act of treating the reader as being ignorant and treating them with utter contempt.
Yes. It's about using solid physics to develop a model, experimenting with inputs and comparing models with real data until the models improve. Funny how people will believe economists making a guesses with the help of MS Excel instead of people using applied physics and multiple server farms.
True but it's an announcement of a new release of software that people on this site are interested in and so it would have fit in on Slashdot at any time since this site started. The rest can be put down to nothing more malicious than poor editing and may even end up being fixed.
Yes - impressive isn't it - escpecially since the cells can be grown outside of a human body and then "printed" into a structure that could be implanted. It has the potential to be used to make items for transplant that will not be rejected by the body so the recipient would not have to be on drugs that compromise their immune system for the rest of their lives.
I do wonder how all the plastics in the room will hold up with the extra UV light.
In 1986 I knew a few chemists that were working on making sure that they would. Is this supposed to be news for nerds or for people decades out of touch?
There are polymers that conduct these days as well as 3D printing of cells, even a nerve cell recently.
A lot of what you've written does have a good point but is very well known even at an introductory level - eg. metal implants in bone grind the utter crap out of surrounding bone and the immune systems drills holes in the bone as well due to collatoral damage to cleaning up the little bits ground off.
Far simpler to engineer the symbiote
If you can go that far why not grow organic bits that match the missing ones?
than well, what else would you expect from the US military industrial complex.
Something they would find useful? Cardboard cutout evil geniuses from fiction still need to use the phone at times:)
Some good points there. For me however I use X to put output from a couple of dozen different machines on my screen and to display that needs more resources than you can get in a desktop box. VNC doesn't do the first without being very clunky (full desktops instead of just applications) and while it works with the latter a desktop on a desktop seems to annoy and confuse people a lot more than X. Wayland with or without vnc has a long way to go with the latter and they just laugh at people who want the former - so not for me just yet. I've got a few people on X11vnc so they can use their *nix machines from home and that as well as turbovnc (shares some code for compression etc) work very well as far as exporting whole desktops goes.
Isn't it funny how the "cutting edge" is still something from 1999?
There is a utility for changing MAC address, hostid etc on those old sparcs for the purpose of such things as running legacy software locked to such details and those things are already running it so they are already pretending to be something other than what is on the chip.
You are reminding me of Daniel Stone's "truth about Wayland" presentation where he "forgot" his video cables and never redid the presentation properly for web consumption.
While you and I would expect the situation due to the experience of dealing with many computers it's a bit much to expect end users to anticipate such a situation.
True - I've got a couple of Sparcstation 5 machines in storage in case some problems show up in some legacy software in a far newer machine running Solaris10. They may never be needed but one of them was fired up three years ago to check if the legacy software was behaving differently to the way it should.
So everyone has to be a sysadmin now and it's their fault if they are not? Just because it's a mistake you would not have made does not mean that it is fine to blame the user and not a flaw of the product.
What is screwed up is Windows 7 during 2009 actually was a competitor for Linux
I thought it funny that with it's snapshot windows for applications it looked a bit like the Enlightenment Window Manager from just before Slashdot started:)
However all it needs is multiple desktops and better multi-monitor support and I'd give it a gold star. A single Win10 machine is giving me far more trouble than 25 Win7 machines that rarely have a problem that persists over a reboot. It seems about 95% of the Win7 problems I've seen over the last two years are update related.
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A major point for it is independance or partial independance from price gouging utilities. So for some people it's an obvious win but for others where the utilities are less predatory it is not so obvious.
Really? Where id you get that from? Are gas prices that low now? Will they stay low?
It used to be an expensive way to cover peaks but far quicker to bring online than coal.
How about four times the rate of inflation in this situation:
https://ipa.org.au/publications/1828/electricity-prices-skyrocket-around-australia
The site has political bias and nothing resembling academic rigor but they can do simple sums and get them right.
Out of date - a lot of the US production has shut down due to the Saudi price war.
Turns out that Bush's special friends are not so friendly.
One thing readers should pay attention to and one trick the unscrupulous should stop pulling is talking about the capacity factor of units that are mainly used to cover a peak. Of course it's going to be low. It's low because demand is not constant and you only being things on line when you need them.
Comparing windmills and large thermal units (coal, nuclear, some others) is like comparing a bicycle to a locomotive - while they both move they are intended for different roles.
I'm not accusing the above poster of pulling the trick but since it seems to come up every time this topic comes up I thought it was worth mentioning before the slimy salesfolk slithered out.
Your point that you had nothing to back up your assertion in the first place other than misdirection and a couple of outright lies?
WTF is it with you people?
So you your "science" is a guy in politics and your reference is a newspaper?
How about we at least try to get the discussion out of the sandpit and up to grade school level. Would that be too hard?
Proven wrong by who? The economist who's never published a paper on economics, the bug eyed sudoko guy or the lay preacher?
Your "small fact" is so small that it does not seem to be there at all.
I'm planning to do a quick and nasty sync thing to android devices from an orange pi so thanks for pointing out an alternative.
Here's a clue - every 20,000 years or so the earth gets cold due to orbital positioning but it's not likely to be something that anyone has to worry about for a few thousand years.
Using that to argue against climate change is an act of treating the reader as being ignorant and treating them with utter contempt.
Yes. It's about using solid physics to develop a model, experimenting with inputs and comparing models with real data until the models improve.
Funny how people will believe economists making a guesses with the help of MS Excel instead of people using applied physics and multiple server farms.
True but it's an announcement of a new release of software that people on this site are interested in and so it would have fit in on Slashdot at any time since this site started. The rest can be put down to nothing more malicious than poor editing and may even end up being fixed.
Yes - impressive isn't it - escpecially since the cells can be grown outside of a human body and then "printed" into a structure that could be implanted. It has the potential to be used to make items for transplant that will not be rejected by the body so the recipient would not have to be on drugs that compromise their immune system for the rest of their lives.
In 1986 I knew a few chemists that were working on making sure that they would.
Is this supposed to be news for nerds or for people decades out of touch?
There are polymers that conduct these days as well as 3D printing of cells, even a nerve cell recently.
A lot of what you've written does have a good point but is very well known even at an introductory level - eg. metal implants in bone grind the utter crap out of surrounding bone and the immune systems drills holes in the bone as well due to collatoral damage to cleaning up the little bits ground off.
If you can go that far why not grow organic bits that match the missing ones?
Something they would find useful? Cardboard cutout evil geniuses from fiction still need to use the phone at times :)
You are not the customer.
Advertisers are the customer.
You are the product.
It actually creeps me out a bit that Facebook even ask.
Some good points there.
For me however I use X to put output from a couple of dozen different machines on my screen and to display that needs more resources than you can get in a desktop box. VNC doesn't do the first without being very clunky (full desktops instead of just applications) and while it works with the latter a desktop on a desktop seems to annoy and confuse people a lot more than X. Wayland with or without vnc has a long way to go with the latter and they just laugh at people who want the former - so not for me just yet.
I've got a few people on X11vnc so they can use their *nix machines from home and that as well as turbovnc (shares some code for compression etc) work very well as far as exporting whole desktops goes.
Isn't it funny how the "cutting edge" is still something from 1999?
There is a utility for changing MAC address, hostid etc on those old sparcs for the purpose of such things as running legacy software locked to such details and those things are already running it so they are already pretending to be something other than what is on the chip.
The UI is so far from primitive that a Wayland developer mocked it for having far too many features :(
You are reminding me of Daniel Stone's "truth about Wayland" presentation where he "forgot" his video cables and never redid the presentation properly for web consumption.
While you and I would expect the situation due to the experience of dealing with many computers it's a bit much to expect end users to anticipate such a situation.
Good point but there's text files on them with their MAC address if all else fails and if I need them again.
True - I've got a couple of Sparcstation 5 machines in storage in case some problems show up in some legacy software in a far newer machine running Solaris10. They may never be needed but one of them was fired up three years ago to check if the legacy software was behaving differently to the way it should.
So everyone has to be a sysadmin now and it's their fault if they are not?
Just because it's a mistake you would not have made does not mean that it is fine to blame the user and not a flaw of the product.
I thought it funny that with it's snapshot windows for applications it looked a bit like the Enlightenment Window Manager from just before Slashdot started :)
However all it needs is multiple desktops and better multi-monitor support and I'd give it a gold star. A single Win10 machine is giving me far more trouble than 25 Win7 machines that rarely have a problem that persists over a reboot. It seems about 95% of the Win7 problems I've seen over the last two years are update related.