Average power doesn't make much sense for a solar system - they work during the day in a sort of parabolic curve (for a cool graph see the last image here where a partial solar eclipse "eats away" part of that curve). The PV system that produced the graph in that image I linked to, is at my vacation home in Greece and at 10kW nominal power it produces about 15MWh per year, or half the amount of this Porche pylon (which does not look like the Monolith to me). Given that Berlin is not as sunny as Greece, it would mean this pylon is more than twice my 10kW installation, I guess at least 25-30kW nominal would be needed to generate 30MWh per year.
Oh, come on, consumers are furious when they get caught in a small technicality and now you are suggesting that it's Amazon's fault for not thinking "unlimited photos" can also mean "unlimited data posing as photos"? I mean, if somebody was storing many TB of their actual photos Amazon would have no right to say anything based of their promise, but this is not the same thing.
I've seen this before. I have a Kindle Keyboard which came with a nice little perk: it has a browser (experimental, very simple) and with unlimited 3G internet anywhere in the world. It has helped me numerous times in various trips without having to worry about my phone data roaming. So, at one point people started hacking their Kindles to enable tethering in order to have free unlimited worldwide 3G connections. Technically they could do it, but they sure as hell knew it was not what Amazon meant. We were lucky enough that Amazon did not limit the service too severely after that - you have 20MB in 3G per day and then it slows down to 2G (at least last time I checked). It is still fine for me - 20MB not bad for the e-ink display browser, although it is a limit that you might reach on a busy day and it was only put there because people were using a technicality to abuse the "promise".
Why would you post a link to Forbes? It gives me some crap about disabling my ad-blocker (yeah, right) and not letting me see the content unless I do so. As far as I'm concerned it is the same as paywalled. Either find another source or don't post it. Oh, right, it's Timmy.
When I wrote the OP the under-cover prostitutes did come in mind, but the cops themselves don't actually perform the act. And note, performing the act in this case would mean the under-cover cops to do the sex part AND KEEP THE MONEY!
I could understand it when it was a crime to cause harm to underage kids, like assaulting them or taking pictures of them. I can also understand how it would be bad to sell pictures of kids even if you haven't produced them yourself, there should not be a market for that. It starts to go downhill when it is a crime to download or just view (which is pretty much the same thing) an underage pic on your computer (and let's not go into ludicrous things like underage cartoon characters who are also considered verbotten!). Then they tell you the same thing is not a crime if you do it in order to catch other people doing it. So, is it a crime or isn't it? I don't know of another crime that it is OK to "perform" if you're "the good guy"...
But if it was natural cannabinoids we have to "congratulate" the lab for producing something deadly from a relatively benign plant... Also, I am curious how this can happen. Before starting such trials they are supposed to give huge doses of the "new" stuff to some unfortunate non-human mammals. I didn't know there could be a fatal compound that is non-fatal for e.g. rats in larger doses (if it was, it would have raised many flags I assume).
Again with your assumptions. Why do you now assume I am offended? I am asking. So, for example if the Latin name was submitted for Tranquility Base when the English would have been accepted as well, that's one answer for my question. But you don't actually know, do you? You just give random responses because you assume things about people, you can't actually answer my question.
I don't understand the comment. My native language is Greek and I speak at least a couple more quite well, so I know various words for the Moon, however I was talking about the IAU. If they can't accept the English of "Tranquility Base" and have to turn it to Latin, why would they accept any other language apart from Latin? Don't you think that's a valid question?
So, if the IAU accepted "Tranquility Base" in the Latin equivalent, I assume something similar happened with the Moon Palace name, right? There's no such mention in TFA, but I don't see why it would not be so...
No offense, but your post is a WTF galore. Let us start by the fact that you wrote a scientific book on LibreOffice. You say you are willing to learn programming etc to add some "bells and whistles" and yet you did not seem to want to learn a proper tool for the main part of the work, which is writing the actual book. Then, you want to add various things to ebooks, when most people like ebooks exactly because they can't do those things. Sure you could have an interactive website come up on an Android tablet (or the Kindle Fire) and perhaps that is what you are really after, but if you are talking e-books as in media for e-book readers the best of which have nice e-ink displays, there is no interactivity, no fancy graphics and zooming, just a relaxing reading experience similar to a book ( but usually lighter and with nice included night light, dictionary etc;) )
Not only that, but they seem to license a specific random number generator from a 3rd party, with, apparently no oversight, security etc in place. I wonder if they pay good money for the generator to be "really" random, not like the pseudo-random crap you usually get with one-liners...
Just to clarify, John Carter flopped only because it had dismal marketing. It was not a masterpiece, but it was certainly better than many other recent blockbusters and with any sort of semi-competent marketing it would have been a (minor or major I don't know) success. I mean (at least until close to release) they had some boring trailers that didn't even tell you obvious things like "from the author of Tarzan" "from the director of Wall E / Finding Nemo" etc.
They must be using some sort of version control, right? So it should be trivial to find out who inserted the code and find out what exactly is going on (and prosecute those responsible). I mean, they'd like to "clear their name", wouldn't they?
I am wondering what the elders of the internet think about all this. First of all what do the Chinese have to do with the internet, when they are so far from the Big Ben?
Interesting. I have read over 15 Heinlein novels, and yet I did not know what you were talking about! I had to look it up and, indeed, "The Number of the Beast" is one of the few I have not read (and one of the lowest rated apparently). Starship Troopers is also not one of my favorites, still good, but I enjoy others more. So, perhaps you should give "The Moon is a harsh mistress" a try, it is the Heinlein book most people prefer (unless you are specifically into time travel / paradoxes etc in which case you could also try "The Door Into Summer"). As for Childhood's End, that is one book that greatly disappointed me compared to what I had heard about it. The politico-religious aspects of the story were very simplistic, the characters were not really developed, overall it seemed to me like some interesting ideas made into a relatively flawed book.
Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress" instead of waiting for a new book that might or might not be good. The crazy thing is that while it seems that after all these years they will finally adapt the aforementioned Heinlein book to the big screen (Bryan Singer to direct), they are apparently changing what is probably the best sci-fi title ever, to "Uprising"...
For me, the most disturbing thing is that there are (many apparently) teachers out there who call the cops on young children. Racism has always been there, but as far as I remember for anything less than knife-wielding 17 year old gangster students, it would be a school affair, dealt between teachers, parents, principle. Nowadays, they just call the cops on kids...
Yeah, about lambasting things that its competitors are doing, there was a pretty crazy instance. It was during the switch to Intel CPUs. They were selling for a while both their older Power PC based line and their new Intel inside line, so they had, at the same time on their website for several months, both pages dedicated to proving how much faster the Power PCs were compared to the Pentium, and another set of pages at a different part of the site showing how much FASTER the Pentium was compared to the Power PC. They were even using the same benchmarks sometimes (with some fudging about of course, like enabling/disabling AltiVec to suit the desired result etc). It was so ridiculous, but it was even more ridiculous that nobody was really calling them on it. They claimed both sides of the coin with a straight face and it seems that most were drinking the kool-aid. To top it off, at that time (before the Intel Core 2), it is most likely that AMD had the fastest CPU, so both campaigns were BS...
See Via Rail limiting the GET requests in 3... 2... 1... Well, OK, there's the weekend ahead, perhaps Monday?:) In any case it does look like commuter rail is a 2nd class citizen in Canada.
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Average power doesn't make much sense for a solar system - they work during the day in a sort of parabolic curve (for a cool graph see the last image here where a partial solar eclipse "eats away" part of that curve). The PV system that produced the graph in that image I linked to, is at my vacation home in Greece and at 10kW nominal power it produces about 15MWh per year, or half the amount of this Porche pylon (which does not look like the Monolith to me). Given that Berlin is not as sunny as Greece, it would mean this pylon is more than twice my 10kW installation, I guess at least 25-30kW nominal would be needed to generate 30MWh per year.
Oh, come on, consumers are furious when they get caught in a small technicality and now you are suggesting that it's Amazon's fault for not thinking "unlimited photos" can also mean "unlimited data posing as photos"? I mean, if somebody was storing many TB of their actual photos Amazon would have no right to say anything based of their promise, but this is not the same thing.
I've seen this before. I have a Kindle Keyboard which came with a nice little perk: it has a browser (experimental, very simple) and with unlimited 3G internet anywhere in the world. It has helped me numerous times in various trips without having to worry about my phone data roaming. So, at one point people started hacking their Kindles to enable tethering in order to have free unlimited worldwide 3G connections. Technically they could do it, but they sure as hell knew it was not what Amazon meant. We were lucky enough that Amazon did not limit the service too severely after that - you have 20MB in 3G per day and then it slows down to 2G (at least last time I checked). It is still fine for me - 20MB not bad for the e-ink display browser, although it is a limit that you might reach on a busy day and it was only put there because people were using a technicality to abuse the "promise".
And greek letters, we can't even write like "micro-" properly.
Why would you post a link to Forbes? It gives me some crap about disabling my ad-blocker (yeah, right) and not letting me see the content unless I do so. As far as I'm concerned it is the same as paywalled. Either find another source or don't post it. Oh, right, it's Timmy.
When I wrote the OP the under-cover prostitutes did come in mind, but the cops themselves don't actually perform the act. And note, performing the act in this case would mean the under-cover cops to do the sex part AND KEEP THE MONEY!
I could understand it when it was a crime to cause harm to underage kids, like assaulting them or taking pictures of them. I can also understand how it would be bad to sell pictures of kids even if you haven't produced them yourself, there should not be a market for that.
It starts to go downhill when it is a crime to download or just view (which is pretty much the same thing) an underage pic on your computer (and let's not go into ludicrous things like underage cartoon characters who are also considered verbotten!). Then they tell you the same thing is not a crime if you do it in order to catch other people doing it. So, is it a crime or isn't it? I don't know of another crime that it is OK to "perform" if you're "the good guy"...
As long as he promises he won't try to make us his bitch, he can do what he wants...
I thought it went "Blame Canada".
But if it was natural cannabinoids we have to "congratulate" the lab for producing something deadly from a relatively benign plant...
Also, I am curious how this can happen. Before starting such trials they are supposed to give huge doses of the "new" stuff to some unfortunate non-human mammals. I didn't know there could be a fatal compound that is non-fatal for e.g. rats in larger doses (if it was, it would have raised many flags I assume).
Again with your assumptions. Why do you now assume I am offended? I am asking. So, for example if the Latin name was submitted for Tranquility Base when the English would have been accepted as well, that's one answer for my question. But you don't actually know, do you? You just give random responses because you assume things about people, you can't actually answer my question.
I don't understand the comment. My native language is Greek and I speak at least a couple more quite well, so I know various words for the Moon, however I was talking about the IAU. If they can't accept the English of "Tranquility Base" and have to turn it to Latin, why would they accept any other language apart from Latin? Don't you think that's a valid question?
So, if the IAU accepted "Tranquility Base" in the Latin equivalent, I assume something similar happened with the Moon Palace name, right? There's no such mention in TFA, but I don't see why it would not be so...
Yeah, but how about adding an office into it? Complete with swivel chair!
No offense, but your post is a WTF galore. Let us start by the fact that you wrote a scientific book on LibreOffice. You say you are willing to learn programming etc to add some "bells and whistles" and yet you did not seem to want to learn a proper tool for the main part of the work, which is writing the actual book. ;) )
Then, you want to add various things to ebooks, when most people like ebooks exactly because they can't do those things. Sure you could have an interactive website come up on an Android tablet (or the Kindle Fire) and perhaps that is what you are really after, but if you are talking e-books as in media for e-book readers the best of which have nice e-ink displays, there is no interactivity, no fancy graphics and zooming, just a relaxing reading experience similar to a book ( but usually lighter and with nice included night light, dictionary etc
First time that "Is this planet earth" is a legitimate question and it is answered incorrectly.
Well, I guess if it hasn't done anything since 2013 it is certainly a machine capable of boring even a behemoth!
Not only that, but they seem to license a specific random number generator from a 3rd party, with, apparently no oversight, security etc in place.
I wonder if they pay good money for the generator to be "really" random, not like the pseudo-random crap you usually get with one-liners...
Just to clarify, John Carter flopped only because it had dismal marketing. It was not a masterpiece, but it was certainly better than many other recent blockbusters and with any sort of semi-competent marketing it would have been a (minor or major I don't know) success. I mean (at least until close to release) they had some boring trailers that didn't even tell you obvious things like "from the author of Tarzan" "from the director of Wall E / Finding Nemo" etc.
They must be using some sort of version control, right? So it should be trivial to find out who inserted the code and find out what exactly is going on (and prosecute those responsible). I mean, they'd like to "clear their name", wouldn't they?
I am wondering what the elders of the internet think about all this. First of all what do the Chinese have to do with the internet, when they are so far from the Big Ben?
Interesting. I have read over 15 Heinlein novels, and yet I did not know what you were talking about! I had to look it up and, indeed, "The Number of the Beast" is one of the few I have not read (and one of the lowest rated apparently). Starship Troopers is also not one of my favorites, still good, but I enjoy others more. So, perhaps you should give "The Moon is a harsh mistress" a try, it is the Heinlein book most people prefer (unless you are specifically into time travel / paradoxes etc in which case you could also try "The Door Into Summer").
As for Childhood's End, that is one book that greatly disappointed me compared to what I had heard about it. The politico-religious aspects of the story were very simplistic, the characters were not really developed, overall it seemed to me like some interesting ideas made into a relatively flawed book.
Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress" instead of waiting for a new book that might or might not be good.
The crazy thing is that while it seems that after all these years they will finally adapt the aforementioned Heinlein book to the big screen (Bryan Singer to direct), they are apparently changing what is probably the best sci-fi title ever, to "Uprising"...
For me, the most disturbing thing is that there are (many apparently) teachers out there who call the cops on young children. Racism has always been there, but as far as I remember for anything less than knife-wielding 17 year old gangster students, it would be a school affair, dealt between teachers, parents, principle. Nowadays, they just call the cops on kids...
Yeah, about lambasting things that its competitors are doing, there was a pretty crazy instance.
It was during the switch to Intel CPUs. They were selling for a while both their older Power PC based line and their new Intel inside line, so they had, at the same time on their website for several months, both pages dedicated to proving how much faster the Power PCs were compared to the Pentium, and another set of pages at a different part of the site showing how much FASTER the Pentium was compared to the Power PC. They were even using the same benchmarks sometimes (with some fudging about of course, like enabling/disabling AltiVec to suit the desired result etc).
It was so ridiculous, but it was even more ridiculous that nobody was really calling them on it. They claimed both sides of the coin with a straight face and it seems that most were drinking the kool-aid.
To top it off, at that time (before the Intel Core 2), it is most likely that AMD had the fastest CPU, so both campaigns were BS...
This allows Perl to do things like automatic allocation and garbage collection, and be unicode compliant.
Exactly! That's exactly why slashdot was written in Perl!
See Via Rail limiting the GET requests in 3... 2... 1... :)
Well, OK, there's the weekend ahead, perhaps Monday?
In any case it does look like commuter rail is a 2nd class citizen in Canada.