Good luck with stopping the car on the motorway.. So you pull off the motorway at a random exit and hope you can pull over somewhere -- often only possible after taking several turns to find a small-enough road. Then you hope that the motorway exit has an entry as well, and that you can find it.
Or you can wait for a service station or a parking area to come up, but that could take an hour.
Just give me a USB port and a cigarette lighter for charging and an AUX plug for sound. Bonus points for microphones, but those are strangely absent on most cars.
A tablet two years younger than an in-dash system will always beat the in-dash system. Controls are still a problem, but voice activation is improving. Either way, you can already by bluetooth devices for the steering wheel with buttons controlling a phone.
What the tablet cannot offer is decent speakers and a good microphone mounted close to the head, so that is what car manufacturers should provide.
Stop pretending the Wii U has anything to do with POWER7. It doesn't. The console would melt instantly if it did, and it would cost 10 times as much.
The Wii U has a PowerPC-based CPU, just like the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3. Later generation than those two admittedly, but apparently a design with comparably few transistors. CPU design has not progressed enough in 6 years to offset a significant loss of transistors.
The Wii was underpowered at the time it launched, but the Wii U appears to be even further behind.
The UK providers don't count as European. In that matter as in so many others, the UK prefers to look at what the European countries do and what the US does, and combine the bad things from each.
AFAIK, the problems are specific to USB 2.0 devices, and probably only in the presence of USB 1.1 devices like keyboards.
Great, specific to USB 2.0, that means I can do USB at 11Mbps.
That particular breakage does not have anything to do with the presence of USB 1.1 devices, although those are broken for other reasons.
The USB host controller is just a piece of junk which needs constant hand holding. Plan A is apparently to run a special high priority IRQ handler which overrides everything else. Plan B is to let the graphics core babysit the USB host controller.
They can blame the latency of the rest of the kernel all they want; a properly implemented USB host controller is NOT particular latency sensitive.
We are waiting for anything involving fluor to stop reacting violently with pretty much everything it gets near. In an LFTR, you cannot just leave the salt well enough alone, you need to continually process it. The salt must never cool down or you have expensive repairs to do. If it touches water, that is even worse.
Correct, thorium reactors are safe from a nuclear point of view. Any disaster they cause will only be chemical, not nuclear, which is certainly nice. The costs and difficulties of working with molten salts are likely to confine LFTR to a small niche for the foreseeable future.
The trust model would have worked a lot better if TLS had allowed multiple certificates of the same key. Major sites would make sure to use several different companies, and browser users could easily dump lousy TLS providers from the trusted roots without losing access to anything important. That would result in actual competition between TLS providers.
If only the slowness was the problem. The Pi may not be quite as fast at kernel compilation as a 486DX40 was back in the day, but that is not a major annoyance in practice.
The complete lack of I/O is the problem. Ok, that is not quite correct, the Output part is pretty decent as long as you stick to HDMI, but the Input part is useless. Everything, even ethernet, is USB connected, and the USB controller is broken.
At least this camera is not using USB, so you can use the Pi as some kind of video transformation device using HDMI for the output.
Feel free to run your own PKI and get the root keys included by the vendors. The option has been seriously considered by some of the larger Linux players, but it is just too expensive to do. Note that getting the root key included was not considered to be the main obstacle, it was the "run your own PKI" bit which killed the idea.
That is also why this is not news. PKI is hard, all of the major SSL signature vendors except one have made really stupid mistakes already. It is no wonder that Microsoft messes up too.
Do you seriously believe that there has been a complete absence of selection in the past several hundred years? I think you vastly underestimate how difficult life was even in the Western world 50 years ago. And 50 years ago, China did the Great Leap Forward. Swapping children so you didn't have to eat your own must surely have provided some kind of selective pressure.
The fight against wind power is mostly fear of falling property values. That fear itself makes the land near wind turbines less valuable, whether the wind turbines cause any actual problems or not. Note: this is all perfectly rational for each individual, even if the effect viewed in total is irrational.
I certainly don't do everything I could do, but I bet I am below a third of his energy consumption. And of course it is my business. Fossil fuel use steals from all of us.
While it's technically a "renewable", it's completely inelastic, and been fully maxed-out since the 50s. no matter how much demand increases, you'll never get any more energy out of that hydro.
The neat thing about most hydro is that you can easily "gear" it 3 times and often more. Almost all hydro has reservoirs, so it is perfect for adding wind power or solar. You get a specific amount of power out of each hydro plant each year, but you have a lot of freedom in choosing when exactly you want that power. If you only use it when no other clean power is available, you stretch the supply a lot.
Obviously that means installing larger turbines than if you just had a steady energy flow, but turbines are cheap compared to reservoirs.
Sonstige is "others", photovoltaik and biomasse are self-explanatory, wasserkraft is hydro, mineralölprodukte is oil products, erdgas is natural gas, steinkohle is black coal, kernenergie is nuclear, braunkohle is lignite.
Kernenergie is nuclear. Sonstige is "others", photovoltaik and biomasse are self-explanatory, wasserkraft is hydro, mineralölprodukte is oil products, erdgas is natural gas, steinkohle is black coal, braunkohle is lignite.
I don't know about Germany, but Denmark had the wind turbines produce 28% of the domestic electricity consumption in 2011, which obviously resulted in a lot of exports and imports. Yet Denmark made more per kWh exporting than what was paid per kWh importing.
This is because wind power is produced mainly during winter months where the hydro power stations in Sweden and Norway are running out of water. The power imported in summer is cheap, because the lakes cannot contain the amount of water coming in as the snow melts. Northern Germany can get almost the same deal, but the southern parts likely can't because Germany is still a bit lacking in north-south transmission lines. Given that it is Germany that we are talking about, the transmission problem will be fixed.
Also note that the "raw" electricity prices in Denmark are extremely competitive, especially when considering that Denmark has no natural energy resources (except oil, but no one sane uses that in power plants). Taxes on energy are high, but taxing things that do harm makes more sense than taxing things which are beneficial (like work).
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Good luck with stopping the car on the motorway.. So you pull off the motorway at a random exit and hope you can pull over somewhere -- often only possible after taking several turns to find a small-enough road. Then you hope that the motorway exit has an entry as well, and that you can find it.
Or you can wait for a service station or a parking area to come up, but that could take an hour.
The current law as written (though not totally enforced) makes using any electronic device while driving illegal unless it is a part of the car.
Wow! I wonder how expensive that law was to get lobbied through. I guess the car makers are better off than I imagined.
Just give me a USB port and a cigarette lighter for charging and an AUX plug for sound. Bonus points for microphones, but those are strangely absent on most cars.
A tablet two years younger than an in-dash system will always beat the in-dash system. Controls are still a problem, but voice activation is improving. Either way, you can already by bluetooth devices for the steering wheel with buttons controlling a phone.
What the tablet cannot offer is decent speakers and a good microphone mounted close to the head, so that is what car manufacturers should provide.
Talk about kicking a dead horse.
So far the questions are either trolls or completely redundant. Hopefully they will improve.
Not everywhere. Lake Vostok so far appears to be dead.
Stop pretending the Wii U has anything to do with POWER7. It doesn't. The console would melt instantly if it did, and it would cost 10 times as much.
The Wii U has a PowerPC-based CPU, just like the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3. Later generation than those two admittedly, but apparently a design with comparably few transistors. CPU design has not progressed enough in 6 years to offset a significant loss of transistors.
The Wii was underpowered at the time it launched, but the Wii U appears to be even further behind.
The UK providers don't count as European. In that matter as in so many others, the UK prefers to look at what the European countries do and what the US does, and combine the bad things from each.
AFAIK, the problems are specific to USB 2.0 devices, and probably only in the presence of USB 1.1 devices like keyboards.
Great, specific to USB 2.0, that means I can do USB at 11Mbps.
That particular breakage does not have anything to do with the presence of USB 1.1 devices, although those are broken for other reasons.
The USB host controller is just a piece of junk which needs constant hand holding. Plan A is apparently to run a special high priority IRQ handler which overrides everything else. Plan B is to let the graphics core babysit the USB host controller.
They can blame the latency of the rest of the kernel all they want; a properly implemented USB host controller is NOT particular latency sensitive.
We are waiting for anything involving fluor to stop reacting violently with pretty much everything it gets near. In an LFTR, you cannot just leave the salt well enough alone, you need to continually process it. The salt must never cool down or you have expensive repairs to do. If it touches water, that is even worse.
Correct, thorium reactors are safe from a nuclear point of view. Any disaster they cause will only be chemical, not nuclear, which is certainly nice. The costs and difficulties of working with molten salts are likely to confine LFTR to a small niche for the foreseeable future.
What I *am* surprised of is that they aren't just serving ads from the servers as the "content" to avoid detection in the first place.
One downside of doing that is that the browser believes the ad to be a true part of the web page, with full access to site-specific cookies and so on.
Isochronous transfers are terminally broken, and non-isochronous transfers work only by luck and retransmissions.
The trust model would have worked a lot better if TLS had allowed multiple certificates of the same key. Major sites would make sure to use several different companies, and browser users could easily dump lousy TLS providers from the trusted roots without losing access to anything important. That would result in actual competition between TLS providers.
If only the slowness was the problem. The Pi may not be quite as fast at kernel compilation as a 486DX40 was back in the day, but that is not a major annoyance in practice.
The complete lack of I/O is the problem. Ok, that is not quite correct, the Output part is pretty decent as long as you stick to HDMI, but the Input part is useless. Everything, even ethernet, is USB connected, and the USB controller is broken.
At least this camera is not using USB, so you can use the Pi as some kind of video transformation device using HDMI for the output.
To stay current, you need to pay Apple once a year. Windows on the other hand gets upgrades every 3 years, and you can easily skip a version.
To get a legitimate license for Mac OS, you need to pay for an expensive hardware dongle.
Feel free to run your own PKI and get the root keys included by the vendors. The option has been seriously considered by some of the larger Linux players, but it is just too expensive to do. Note that getting the root key included was not considered to be the main obstacle, it was the "run your own PKI" bit which killed the idea.
That is also why this is not news. PKI is hard, all of the major SSL signature vendors except one have made really stupid mistakes already. It is no wonder that Microsoft messes up too.
Do you seriously believe that there has been a complete absence of selection in the past several hundred years? I think you vastly underestimate how difficult life was even in the Western world 50 years ago. And 50 years ago, China did the Great Leap Forward. Swapping children so you didn't have to eat your own must surely have provided some kind of selective pressure.
Has there been any attempts at doing this? Adding the whole Android app ecosystem to more traditional Linux would be fantastic.
You can run the SDK Android emulator, but that is not really a solution.
The fight against wind power is mostly fear of falling property values. That fear itself makes the land near wind turbines less valuable, whether the wind turbines cause any actual problems or not. Note: this is all perfectly rational for each individual, even if the effect viewed in total is irrational.
I certainly don't do everything I could do, but I bet I am below a third of his energy consumption. And of course it is my business. Fossil fuel use steals from all of us.
While it's technically a "renewable", it's completely inelastic, and been fully maxed-out since the 50s. no matter how much demand increases, you'll never get any more energy out of that hydro.
The neat thing about most hydro is that you can easily "gear" it 3 times and often more. Almost all hydro has reservoirs, so it is perfect for adding wind power or solar. You get a specific amount of power out of each hydro plant each year, but you have a lot of freedom in choosing when exactly you want that power. If you only use it when no other clean power is available, you stretch the supply a lot.
Obviously that means installing larger turbines than if you just had a steady energy flow, but turbines are cheap compared to reservoirs.
Energiemix_Deutschland probably answers your questions.
Sonstige is "others", photovoltaik and biomasse are self-explanatory, wasserkraft is hydro, mineralölprodukte is oil products, erdgas is natural gas, steinkohle is black coal, kernenergie is nuclear, braunkohle is lignite.
Kernenergie is nuclear. Sonstige is "others", photovoltaik and biomasse are self-explanatory, wasserkraft is hydro, mineralölprodukte is oil products, erdgas is natural gas, steinkohle is black coal, braunkohle is lignite.
I don't know about Germany, but Denmark had the wind turbines produce 28% of the domestic electricity consumption in 2011, which obviously resulted in a lot of exports and imports. Yet Denmark made more per kWh exporting than what was paid per kWh importing.
This is because wind power is produced mainly during winter months where the hydro power stations in Sweden and Norway are running out of water. The power imported in summer is cheap, because the lakes cannot contain the amount of water coming in as the snow melts. Northern Germany can get almost the same deal, but the southern parts likely can't because Germany is still a bit lacking in north-south transmission lines. Given that it is Germany that we are talking about, the transmission problem will be fixed.
Also note that the "raw" electricity prices in Denmark are extremely competitive, especially when considering that Denmark has no natural energy resources (except oil, but no one sane uses that in power plants). Taxes on energy are high, but taxing things that do harm makes more sense than taxing things which are beneficial (like work).
In most of Europe, grid power is more reliable than most datacenter UPS/generator solutions. Way beyond five nines.