Their advantage, and sales, are going to come from their power to weight ratio, so that is what they highlight. They quote a 15% efficiency, which seems to imply an areal power density about half that of high cost silicon cells, or equal to moderate cost cells.
I don't know how fat your ass is, but an average ass has around 10^26 atoms. So it would take around a trillion asses worth of atoms to have IPv6 fail to be able to address each of them.
Helium-3 is harder to fuse than the D-T reactions we are currently trying to achieve. He-3 is a much clearer reactions (few neutrons) if you can get it to work, and it's easier to extract power from charged particles than neutrons.
There is actually very little He-3 on the moon, it is just that there is even less most other places. Extracting enough to run power stations on would be very difficult.
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This probably can't happen. Usually companies are only asked to stop the violation, meaning the penalty is only having to go back and redo the development the way it should have been done in the first place.
Damages are also a slight possibility, but the amount is hard to establish for GPL violations unless they are one of those few dual license cases, where the software is also offered for sale under a commercial license.
I suppose some court in the future COULD impose punitive damages that include loss of a company's copyright, but it seems unlikely, and would probably be reversed on appeal.
Similarly, I want our politicians to feel the complexity of our tax code more personally. I propose that each Congress critter have to fill out his personal federal tax forms with no help.
"...source code available for inspection upon request to any citizen"
This sounds like it is going to give the appearance of voter verification of the software, without doing so in substance. I can just see me sitting down to a hundred thousand line listing of a voting machine program, and trying to look for backdoors or subtle miscounting tricks. The code needs to be available in machine readable form so we can add internal checks and logs and then run it in a test environment.
The machine vendors would be protected from code theft because any rival would have to make his code public too, so the copying would be easy to see. I am sure protestations would be made that some of the source is shared with non-open source things like ATMs, but being able to fully verify the voting programs should take precedence.
I have not looked at the text of any of the bills, so I don't know if any or all of them actually have provisions for adequate access to the source code. Since I would expect a lot of vendor resistance, I would be surprised if all of them did.
Earnings per share is not a valid measure of whether the profit is excessive; the market sets the share price based mostly on the earnings and the growth rate. For comparison, we would need to know what the return on invested capital is.
I installed 1.0.1, then reinstalled 1.0 because I like the Textzoom extension. This hasn't been officially updated to 1.0, but extensionsmirror has a link to a version patched for 1.0 installs.
Since it's not being maintained, I'll probably eventually have to give it up, but I won't for such a minor Firefox update.
This is the sort of thing that makes me roll my eyes when I read that the rules of go are so simple. The issues discussed in your link seem much more difficult than equivalent chess arcana, such as ep pawn capture and the fifty move rule.
I make no claim of being a go expert; I haven't played in many years. I was implicitly asking a not very important question: Why is the optimal result for the 5x5 board given as a 25 point win and not a 24 point win? I guess your response is that a rule change in 1958 requires the game to be played out to the end. The books I learned from (Lasker, for one) were published before that date, but I never fully understood such subtleties anyway.
Speaking of the difficulty of telling if a group is alive or dead, there seems to be an obvious (possible) mistake in the 5x5 result.
If black is able to control the entire board, white shouldn't move after black makes his first move in the center. This leads to a black win by 24, instead of the 25 stated in the paper.
I believe there is a rule though about black not having to move to prove that a position is dead, so perhaps the true result is that black declares he has won before making any moves, and getting the entire 25 points on the board!
Switching from coal to nuclear would be roughly costless, and would go a long ways toward reducing the threat of possible climate change.
There are interesting ideas out there for replacing petroleum in cars, but it's too soon to start a massive change. Slowly switching more of the tax burden in the USA to the gas tax might help things along.
To remove the opening of PDF documents in Firefox, that would be Tools/Options.../Downloads/Plug-Ins.../ then remove the check mark for PDF. At least I think so, the PDF entry isn't even there anymore on my system.
Being asked if you want to download or open a PDF document when you click on it might be nice, but I don't know if there is a way to do that.
I never notice such things, sometimes to my loss I guess, because rather that put up with the hard to read sites I have my bowser override the text and background colors on web pages.
The EPA is in the news today for saying that the perchlorate limts on drinking water should be raised twenty times, rather than lowered. That is, they are saying it is not as dangerous as previously thought.
I actually responded that way to tsunami for about the first two days. It's not that I thought it was funny, or didn't regret the loss of life, but each new report on the increasing disaster caused me to smile, or even give a slight chuckle. I don't really understand why.
You know, I thought we were doing France a favor by renaming French fries. I can't imagine a country with such pride in their cuisine would want those soggy and greasy potato things named after them.
It is thought that the tsunami will be caused by a volcanic eruption. We usually get a lot of warning of those, so people could be put on high alert during an eruption. There would probably be additional warning before the landslide starts.
I think the odds are very close to zero. If further analysis show the asteroid striking Earth, I think by 2029 we'll be able to change its orbit to miss.
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Their advantage, and sales, are going to come from their power to weight ratio, so that is what they highlight. They quote a 15% efficiency, which seems to imply an areal power density about half that of high cost silicon cells, or equal to moderate cost cells.
I don't know how fat your ass is, but an average ass has around 10^26 atoms. So it would take around a trillion asses worth of atoms to have IPv6 fail to be able to address each of them.
D-He3 requires higher temperatures than D-T, and produces very few neutrons.
Helium-3 is harder to fuse than the D-T reactions we are currently trying to achieve. He-3 is a much clearer reactions (few neutrons) if you can get it to work, and it's easier to extract power from charged particles than neutrons.
There is actually very little He-3 on the moon, it is just that there is even less most other places. Extracting enough to run power stations on would be very difficult.
This probably can't happen. Usually companies are only asked to stop the violation, meaning the penalty is only having to go back and redo the development the way it should have been done in the first place.
Damages are also a slight possibility, but the amount is hard to establish for GPL violations unless they are one of those few dual license cases, where the software is also offered for sale under a commercial license.
I suppose some court in the future COULD impose punitive damages that include loss of a company's copyright, but it seems unlikely, and would probably be reversed on appeal.
IANAL
Similarly, I want our politicians to feel the complexity of our tax code more personally. I propose that each Congress critter have to fill out his personal federal tax forms with no help.
It didn't load in Firefox for me either. I think my adblock filters got it.
My guess is it should be nitrogen oxides.
"...source code available for inspection upon request to any citizen"
This sounds like it is going to give the appearance of voter verification of the software, without doing so in substance. I can just see me sitting down to a hundred thousand line listing of a voting machine program, and trying to look for backdoors or subtle miscounting tricks. The code needs to be available in machine readable form so we can add internal checks and logs and then run it in a test environment.
The machine vendors would be protected from code theft because any rival would have to make his code public too, so the copying would be easy to see. I am sure protestations would be made that some of the source is shared with non-open source things like ATMs, but being able to fully verify the voting programs should take precedence.
I have not looked at the text of any of the bills, so I don't know if any or all of them actually have provisions for adequate access to the source code. Since I would expect a lot of vendor resistance, I would be surprised if all of them did.
Earnings per share is not a valid measure of whether the profit is excessive; the market sets the share price based mostly on the earnings and the growth rate. For comparison, we would need to know what the return on invested capital is.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that procedure described before.
Textzoom is working fine now with the new Firefox version.
I installed 1.0.1, then reinstalled 1.0 because I like the Textzoom extension. This hasn't been officially updated to 1.0, but extensionsmirror has a link to a version patched for 1.0 installs.
Since it's not being maintained, I'll probably eventually have to give it up, but I won't for such a minor Firefox update.
This is the sort of thing that makes me roll my eyes when I read that the rules of go are so simple. The issues discussed in your link seem much more difficult than equivalent chess arcana, such as ep pawn capture and the fifty move rule.
I make no claim of being a go expert; I haven't played in many years. I was implicitly asking a not very important question: Why is the optimal result for the 5x5 board given as a 25 point win and not a 24 point win? I guess your response is that a rule change in 1958 requires the game to be played out to the end. The books I learned from (Lasker, for one) were published before that date, but I never fully understood such subtleties anyway.
Speaking of the difficulty of telling if a group is alive or dead, there seems to be an obvious (possible) mistake in the 5x5 result.
If black is able to control the entire board, white shouldn't move after black makes his first move in the center. This leads to a black win by 24, instead of the 25 stated in the paper.
I believe there is a rule though about black not having to move to prove that a position is dead, so perhaps the true result is that black declares he has won before making any moves, and getting the entire 25 points on the board!
Switching from coal to nuclear would be roughly costless, and would go a long ways toward reducing the threat of possible climate change.
There are interesting ideas out there for replacing petroleum in cars, but it's too soon to start a massive change. Slowly switching more of the tax burden in the USA to the gas tax might help things along.
To remove the opening of PDF documents in Firefox, that would be Tools/Options.../Downloads/Plug-Ins.../ then remove the check mark for PDF. At least I think so, the PDF entry isn't even there anymore on my system.
Being asked if you want to download or open a PDF document when you click on it might be nice, but I don't know if there is a way to do that.
"For all I know, the single cell bacteria that spawned us came from Mars..."
Perfectly possible, but we would still want to see how it had evolved independently from Earth before we contaminated it.
I never notice such things, sometimes to my loss I guess, because rather that put up with the hard to read sites I have my bowser override the text and background colors on web pages.
It's at least an option to consider.
The EPA is in the news today for saying that the perchlorate limts on drinking water should be raised twenty times, rather than lowered. That is, they are saying it is not as dangerous as previously thought.
I actually responded that way to tsunami for about the first two days. It's not that I thought it was funny, or didn't regret the loss of life, but each new report on the increasing disaster caused me to smile, or even give a slight chuckle. I don't really understand why.
You know, I thought we were doing France a favor by renaming French fries. I can't imagine a country with such pride in their cuisine would want those soggy and greasy potato things named after them.
It is thought that the tsunami will be caused by a volcanic eruption. We usually get a lot of warning of those, so people could be put on high alert during an eruption. There would probably be additional warning before the landslide starts.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Slashdot doesn't let you put in long string without spaces, because some idiots were messing up the page formatting with long strings for fun.
I think the odds are very close to zero. If further analysis show the asteroid striking Earth, I think by 2029 we'll be able to change its orbit to miss.
It's a minor difference, but you can't correctly add these drops, they compound. I make the total as 16.3%.