some people say displayport on these monitors is broken and even with certified cables the computer and monitors don't see each other all the time
A weird thing is I'm getting an occasional displayport detection problem (once every three weeks or so) with MS windows but not on linux so there may be some issues that still have to be sorted out. Annoying but if I reboot I can use the monitor in MS windows.
I got a 28 inch 4k screen because it was the largest I could find that could swivel to portrait mode without an extra stand. MS Windows 7 has problems with the thing around every three weeks and will not work using displayport unless I power off both the computer and the monitor for more than a few seconds. Linux works with the nvidia driver which is a very similar codebase to their MS Windows driver so I don't know what is going on. However, with that size or above being able to swivel doesn't really matter so much.
That's the incredibly weird thing since he says that after used car salesman tricks, blatant lies, deliberately insane fantasies and frequent backflips. That's the deliberate showmanship but for some reason people swallow it as authentic. The even more strange thing is an old money born Republican who used his party contacts to get his balls out of the fire four times, not to mention exploiting it to get deals, is seen as an "outsider". A bit over as couple of hundred years ago he was exactly the sort of person the revolution was supposed to stop from running the place - a full on inherited money aristocrat.
They are a party for their own pockets but are "supposedly a party for farmers". They are currently led by an accountant who had a history of giving water rights to a multinational cotton company by taking it away from local food producers.
The good thing is since it's never got hot it's effectively new for everything out of the weather. The other thing is the "new" nuclear designs like the AP1000 are really 1970s tech anyway.
Readers should note that nuclear decay means you want to use those fuel rods as much as possible so nukes are not something you turn off and use to cover only peak loads.
The above poster should be ashamed of their idealogical driven apples vs oranges comparison. This is supposed to be a tech site and not a political cheerleading site.
We should be selling them the panels and the rest since most of it is American developed technology but ideology driven by donation drove the manufacturing offshore.
After a few years pass, what's the maintenance going to look like
Quite a lot but that discussion has been going on for a couple of decades and the investors know what they are in for. High maintenance costs and short periods between required shutdowns but zero fuel costs. At some point a bit over ten years ago it balanced out and became viable.
In other places they don't have them - the secret is to make bribery illegal instead of just renaming it to "lobbying". Those tax breaks were paid for by some serious kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions, jobs for the boys and a lot of other ways.
Exactly, which is why it was going used back when it was expensive. I've seen old jet engines that consume vast amounts of gas per MWh used in that role before there was much in the way of purpose built generators. Spinning reserves of windmills also fill that role and have a smaller unit size so can better follow demand so gas is no longer the only thing in that niche. It costs almost nothing per hour to have a windmill ready to engage the generator and come on line in under a minute.
It's really bizzare that an extremely blatant liar is seen as "authentic", but that's the way it's going. The way he is tearing into the other Republicans is more vicious than any comedy act - it's far stranger than fiction.
The thing is with thermal power you want to use it ALL while it is running instead of wasting that heat.
With nukes those fuel rods are decaying over time no matter what you do so that's another reason to have them run flat out until it's time to shut down for maintainance or refuelling.
Wind, gas, solar etc with their very small unit sizes and very low cost of keeping in reserve take up the slack. Opponents of those energy types like to pretend that such things are inferior because they are capable of being used that way. So talk about totals in use is often comparing different use cases as if they are identical. In those situations it's either the act of an ignorant fanboy (eg. worshippers of 1970s nuke tech who say we should build dozens of nukes now instead of incremental improvement then dozens of nukes that may be half-decent) or deliberate lies. Stuff like that derails discussions especially when someone like the GP only talks about a single energy source in what is supposed to be a complementary mix.
With the current political masters anything other than selling houses, financial planning, selling luxury imported cars, selling dirt (why bother processing it?) and naturopathy is the work of those greasy Moorlocks and should be stamped out. That includes farming despite their almost powerless coalition partners being supposedly a party for farmers.
I should add - not only arguing about an analogy but about one I've shown is irrelevant. The F-35 has problems due to excessive compromise which is nowhere near the issue here with the supersonic transport design.
As stupid as irrelevant nitpicking over an analogy? The topic is waaaay back over there Mr "run by the Navy but not part of the Navy". If you let go of the analogy and start running now you may catch up with the topic.
Last I looked the Marines were in the Navy and also the Army were asked what they wanted which added more compromise to the design. Perhaps you should think before jumping on posts to nitpick over trivia and getting it wrong? An addition of information is useful, irrelevant distracting noise just looks like playing some pointless mass debate game.
Now, you'd still need a state level actor here, but which state? Are you going to nuke all of North Korea, Pakistan, Iran etc. in retaliation?
Well Libya did get the crap bombed out of it when a Pan Am jet was blown up with explosives traced back that far even though Iran was actually financing the terrorist that did it. Retaliation is going to happen to whoever is already on the shit list (eg. Iraq after 9/11) instead of whoever actually was responsible.
If you're worried about nations with just a small handful of nukes and non-ICBM capabilities
I hate solar power, not just because it is so limited but because so many tree hugger types flock to it.
Just ignore that and think manly thoughts about the Apollo program like the rest of us. It's an engineering thing and not a "tree hugger" thing.
it requires carbon nano-tubes laced with platinum. Can we think of a material that is even more expensive than that?
Since it's on a tiny scale with potentially a vanishingly thin coating I'd say just about everything else, especially since it's just about as corrosion resistant as it comes so will last.
If they can use this high tech hydrogen production process and marry it to a nuclear reactor then we might have something
Photons are photons so why not?
If we have to set it out in the sun and hope for good weather
Large portions of the globe are well known for not being cold, wet and dismal:)
Nitrogen in a combustion chamber also leads to a lot of nasty pollutants that are difficult and expensive to remove
Not that hard just add water and pipe it away as very weak nitric acid which is pretty well how "scrubbers" work. At a power station where I did some work the new manager decided he wanted nice white smoke coming out of the stack for PR reasons. So somebody played with the settings on the scrubber injecting a lot of water into the exhaust which came out as nice white steam. That night was very still, the water condensed out of the air and the utility had to pay for repainting thousands of cars in the city that had nitric acid damaging the paintwork.
F-35 is really the Space Shuttle replay on steroids. The Navy want a Harrier, the Army want a Warthog and the Air Force want something fast. Just like the Space Shuttle filling the role of two different launch vehicles and needing to be strapped onto the side of another rocket (it must have required the work of multiple geniuses to fly at all) we have a thing meant to be a lot of other things, mostly so one company can own a market. So it's got nothing to do with "designing planes on paper" - that's what engineers and even bicycle mechanics have been doing for as long as there have been planes.
So I mention Win10 IoT and I'm immediately flagged as a Win10 fanboy?
Yes, because the concepts do not got together so it takes a special motive to cram them together with brute force. Hardware requirements and license costs render Win10 and IoT in completely different realms. Your fifty little hardware widgets not doing much individually and requiring very little in terms of cpu now suddenly need a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and software each instead of tens of dollars. Who would consider that at all apart from someone who wants Win10 first and then wants other results second? It's in the territory of handing out multiple expensive chainsaws to open cans instead of $1 can openers.
Notice that I did not actually say anything bad about Win10 or Microsoft, it's just a right tool for the job situation and this is a job that is not remotely on Microsoft's radar - they sell tools for other tasks.
Yes, we heard that about Windows2000 (and all the rest) as well but the developers who write quick and nasty applications riddled the security model full of holes.
The things your parents (or grandparents) had to put up with got them used to working together and prepared them for the situation while now we have a generation so coddled that they didn't even get to wander around unsupervised as children. I think it's roughly analogous to Rome where the legions ended up being full of people from the fringes of the empire because the citizens did not have the will to fight. The "I'm all right - fuck you" attitude had set in, and that attitude is very much at the core of American political society. Sure, there are people who will put their hand up, especially in the more impoverished areas, but teamwork is considered equivalent to being a dirty red commie.
Go ask someone who remembers the 1930s (I don't but I talk to people), they were not raised on some sort of selfish lone hero myth and at the time veterans of the previous war were part of general society instead of some group over there - so that helped set an example.
We are facing plenty of threats, yet we get anti-vaxxers, 9/11 deniers and Baby Bush telling us all to go out and spend after 9/11. The utter shambles at every level with hurricane Katrina and people getting upset that the previously homeless from New Orleans were getting treated just as well as the people who lost their home in Katrina. The world has moved on - a lot.
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A weird thing is I'm getting an occasional displayport detection problem (once every three weeks or so) with MS windows but not on linux so there may be some issues that still have to be sorted out. Annoying but if I reboot I can use the monitor in MS windows.
I got a 28 inch 4k screen because it was the largest I could find that could swivel to portrait mode without an extra stand. MS Windows 7 has problems with the thing around every three weeks and will not work using displayport unless I power off both the computer and the monitor for more than a few seconds. Linux works with the nvidia driver which is a very similar codebase to their MS Windows driver so I don't know what is going on.
However, with that size or above being able to swivel doesn't really matter so much.
Yes it most certainly was and the daily flood of refugees into Europe is one of the many symptoms of that.
That's the incredibly weird thing since he says that after used car salesman tricks, blatant lies, deliberately insane fantasies and frequent backflips. That's the deliberate showmanship but for some reason people swallow it as authentic.
The even more strange thing is an old money born Republican who used his party contacts to get his balls out of the fire four times, not to mention exploiting it to get deals, is seen as an "outsider". A bit over as couple of hundred years ago he was exactly the sort of person the revolution was supposed to stop from running the place - a full on inherited money aristocrat.
They are a party for their own pockets but are "supposedly a party for farmers". They are currently led by an accountant who had a history of giving water rights to a multinational cotton company by taking it away from local food producers.
The good thing is since it's never got hot it's effectively new for everything out of the weather.
The other thing is the "new" nuclear designs like the AP1000 are really 1970s tech anyway.
Readers should note that nuclear decay means you want to use those fuel rods as much as possible so nukes are not something you turn off and use to cover only peak loads.
The above poster should be ashamed of their idealogical driven apples vs oranges comparison. This is supposed to be a tech site and not a political cheerleading site.
We should be selling them the panels and the rest since most of it is American developed technology but ideology driven by donation drove the manufacturing offshore.
Quite a lot but that discussion has been going on for a couple of decades and the investors know what they are in for. High maintenance costs and short periods between required shutdowns but zero fuel costs. At some point a bit over ten years ago it balanced out and became viable.
In other places they don't have them - the secret is to make bribery illegal instead of just renaming it to "lobbying". Those tax breaks were paid for by some serious kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions, jobs for the boys and a lot of other ways.
Exactly, which is why it was going used back when it was expensive. I've seen old jet engines that consume vast amounts of gas per MWh used in that role before there was much in the way of purpose built generators. Spinning reserves of windmills also fill that role and have a smaller unit size so can better follow demand so gas is no longer the only thing in that niche. It costs almost nothing per hour to have a windmill ready to engage the generator and come on line in under a minute.
It's really bizzare that an extremely blatant liar is seen as "authentic", but that's the way it's going.
The way he is tearing into the other Republicans is more vicious than any comedy act - it's far stranger than fiction.
The thing is with thermal power you want to use it ALL while it is running instead of wasting that heat.
With nukes those fuel rods are decaying over time no matter what you do so that's another reason to have them run flat out until it's time to shut down for maintainance or refuelling.
Wind, gas, solar etc with their very small unit sizes and very low cost of keeping in reserve take up the slack. Opponents of those energy types like to pretend that such things are inferior because they are capable of being used that way.
So talk about totals in use is often comparing different use cases as if they are identical. In those situations it's either the act of an ignorant fanboy (eg. worshippers of 1970s nuke tech who say we should build dozens of nukes now instead of incremental improvement then dozens of nukes that may be half-decent) or deliberate lies. Stuff like that derails discussions especially when someone like the GP only talks about a single energy source in what is supposed to be a complementary mix.
With the current political masters anything other than selling houses, financial planning, selling luxury imported cars, selling dirt (why bother processing it?) and naturopathy is the work of those greasy Moorlocks and should be stamped out. That includes farming despite their almost powerless coalition partners being supposedly a party for farmers.
I should add - not only arguing about an analogy but about one I've shown is irrelevant.
The F-35 has problems due to excessive compromise which is nowhere near the issue here with the supersonic transport design.
As stupid as irrelevant nitpicking over an analogy? The topic is waaaay back over there Mr "run by the Navy but not part of the Navy". If you let go of the analogy and start running now you may catch up with the topic.
It was after 9/11 :(
The people with their fingers on the button shoot whoever has annoyed them the most in the past.
Last I looked the Marines were in the Navy and also the Army were asked what they wanted which added more compromise to the design.
Perhaps you should think before jumping on posts to nitpick over trivia and getting it wrong? An addition of information is useful, irrelevant distracting noise just looks like playing some pointless mass debate game.
Well Libya did get the crap bombed out of it when a Pan Am jet was blown up with explosives traced back that far even though Iran was actually financing the terrorist that did it. Retaliation is going to happen to whoever is already on the shit list (eg. Iraq after 9/11) instead of whoever actually was responsible.
It needs to get very high so an ICBM is required.
Just ignore that and think manly thoughts about the Apollo program like the rest of us. It's an engineering thing and not a "tree hugger" thing.
Since it's on a tiny scale with potentially a vanishingly thin coating I'd say just about everything else, especially since it's just about as corrosion resistant as it comes so will last.
Photons are photons so why not?
Large portions of the globe are well known for not being cold, wet and dismal :)
Not that hard just add water and pipe it away as very weak nitric acid which is pretty well how "scrubbers" work.
At a power station where I did some work the new manager decided he wanted nice white smoke coming out of the stack for PR reasons. So somebody played with the settings on the scrubber injecting a lot of water into the exhaust which came out as nice white steam. That night was very still, the water condensed out of the air and the utility had to pay for repainting thousands of cars in the city that had nitric acid damaging the paintwork.
F-35 is really the Space Shuttle replay on steroids. The Navy want a Harrier, the Army want a Warthog and the Air Force want something fast. Just like the Space Shuttle filling the role of two different launch vehicles and needing to be strapped onto the side of another rocket (it must have required the work of multiple geniuses to fly at all) we have a thing meant to be a lot of other things, mostly so one company can own a market.
So it's got nothing to do with "designing planes on paper" - that's what engineers and even bicycle mechanics have been doing for as long as there have been planes.
Yes, because the concepts do not got together so it takes a special motive to cram them together with brute force.
Hardware requirements and license costs render Win10 and IoT in completely different realms. Your fifty little hardware widgets not doing much individually and requiring very little in terms of cpu now suddenly need a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and software each instead of tens of dollars.
Who would consider that at all apart from someone who wants Win10 first and then wants other results second? It's in the territory of handing out multiple expensive chainsaws to open cans instead of $1 can openers.
Notice that I did not actually say anything bad about Win10 or Microsoft, it's just a right tool for the job situation and this is a job that is not remotely on Microsoft's radar - they sell tools for other tasks.
Yes, we heard that about Windows2000 (and all the rest) as well but the developers who write quick and nasty applications riddled the security model full of holes.
The things your parents (or grandparents) had to put up with got them used to working together and prepared them for the situation while now we have a generation so coddled that they didn't even get to wander around unsupervised as children. I think it's roughly analogous to Rome where the legions ended up being full of people from the fringes of the empire because the citizens did not have the will to fight. The "I'm all right - fuck you" attitude had set in, and that attitude is very much at the core of American political society.
Sure, there are people who will put their hand up, especially in the more impoverished areas, but teamwork is considered equivalent to being a dirty red commie.
Go ask someone who remembers the 1930s (I don't but I talk to people), they were not raised on some sort of selfish lone hero myth and at the time veterans of the previous war were part of general society instead of some group over there - so that helped set an example.
We are facing plenty of threats, yet we get anti-vaxxers, 9/11 deniers and Baby Bush telling us all to go out and spend after 9/11. The utter shambles at every level with hurricane Katrina and people getting upset that the previously homeless from New Orleans were getting treated just as well as the people who lost their home in Katrina. The world has moved on - a lot.