Reserve is always carried because even nuke and coal and gas plants go off line unexpectedly: I think our (near) biggest nuke in the UK may be running at a capacity factor of ~60% over the last couple of years having tripped out again very recently; only twice as much as wind for example. We don't cover every nuke plant with 100% gas backup.
We have to learn to cut our suit to fit our cloth better: learn to use energy when it's abundant and trim our usage when energy is scarce. It's called conservation and demand control.
There's a lot of room for fat trimming in Europe and much more so in the US. Then that 30%-capacity factor wind is looking more like 60%.
I've been using long URLs since before Google existed, to help SEs, and to help humans looking at their address bar decide if they might be in the right territory. Indeed, I remember the as-yet-unheard-of Google flattening my leased line while spidering my site with long URLs and me having to send them a polite email asking them to tune their bot and not just open another connection when they didn't get 1Mbps throughput (over my 64kbps line).
Just tried an unquoted search for suchi and did indeed get a "Search instead for suchi" link having been offered as sushi search instead, but the "search instead" link did what you and I would want it to.
Generally providing that the answers to what I actually typed as the query are only one click away I'm pleased to have have G unmangle some of my typos and speeeeling erors and save much frustration.
Pinging one of my servers in co-lo on the other side of London and traversing my moderate-speed (~4Mbps/1Mbps) ASDL only takes just over 14ms round-trip.
Pinging my server in the US gives ~110ms.
Singapore: ~270ms.
Sydney, Australia: ~310ms.
So I can get right round the globe and back in about 300ms, *starting* the trip over ADSL.
Ask the people lynched for fun just for being in an oppressed minority. If the majority thinks casual abuse to people who are different is OK just because the target is different, then maybe the law has to be there to correct that idiotic smug thoughtlessness?
Everyone's different to their peers one way or another: you might think differently if suddenly you were on the wrong end of constant harassment for some random (and entirely legal) aspect of your life.
No, being gay is no more a "choice" than being black or female or having legs.
The problem is the widespread tolerance for various forms of smug in-group bigotry, and that making someone's like is unpleasant is just fine and dandy because they are in a minority, *just because* they are in a minority.
People are driven to despair because of the in-group's relentless nasty attitude to them being a geek or having the wrong accent or living on the wrong side of the tracks or being foreign or female or poor or adopted or so many things....
Hate crimes are about attempting to stop bigotry and prejudice whether malicious, or unthinking and generally stupid as this looks to me have been. It can be intolerable to be the butt of everyone's disapproval and the reason for others behaving towards you as they do is not necessarily apparent or important.
If you've always gone with the flow and been a fashionable well-off white middle-class male, and possibly supine and unoriginal, then you may never have been on the wrong side of "punished for being different". But that doesn't make your ignorance or smugness right, IMHO. Nor does it give you any legal rights to set out to intimidate and hurt others.
In fact, starting from the good US meme of "not truly succeeding until you've failed at least once" I'll suggest that you're not a real rounded human until you have found yourself on the wrong side of one of these idiocies for being different somehow, and overcome it.
Too bad one student seems to have been driven to his death rather than overcome it.
"As the chart on the left from the EEX power exchange shows, solar power production has been peaking at around 10 ***giga***watts at noon over the past few days..."
But then I can't use it for any other transactions since no one is going to accept the card without the chip working. That was the nub of my complaint to Barclaycard: the whole device is unsafe and I cannot take it out of my house. Maybe I can use it for telephone transactions, the handful I do each year. I already refuse to do Internet-based transactions because of the complete ineffectual crapness of VbV/3DS which makes it very hard for me (even inspecting page source) to see if I'm being phished and doesn't work for me anyway.
I haven't been able to get Barclaycard to issue me a personal credit card without NFC/Paywave/contactless (even after going a long way in their complaints escalation) and thus instead got a card from a different issuer that *doesn't* issue such cards, at least not without asking.
I also find this a ReallyBadIdea(TM), at least not being able to have it turned off, as I frequently travel in crowded areas rips for the sort of proximity attacks described.
Nope. I was transferring some cultured E.coli ready to extract the plasmid DNA and run on a gel (IIRC: this was 25y ago!) and we'd run out of Gilson pipette tips (not very good mol-biol lab management) and so in defiance of one set of lab rules I was using a normal glass pipette by mouth and in defiance of another set of lab rules some clown came and slapped me on the back while I was doing it.
I suppose that I should feel grateful not to have had the pipette jammed up through my brain or something...
Having inadvertently swallowed a couple of cc of my saturated GM E.coli culture I can tell you it was at the very least very salty by taste. So likely looking at getting the runs whichever orifice it went in.
And no, even with my own GMO I did not get super powers. Not even a 1st or cum laude or a hot date... %-P
With respect you don't know the details of either app (both lovingly crafted by me, and both with a heavy visual/multimedia component) and indeed one small part of the Java app is indeed using Java3D.
The point is that the Netscape 2.0 era code runs happily alongside that stuff in the same VM/app. And there is a *lot* of threading going on handled with rather finer control than.Net currently seems capable of out of the box, and the ARM box is a single thread/CPU, the SPARC 24 thread, and the x86/x64 boxes 1, 2 or 4. Didn't need changing the oldest code though one very small part of it didn't enjoy non-green threads.
My main Java app is right now running distributed across at least 3 major *nix variants (and Windows should I want to again) and indeed CPU families (x86/x64, ARM and SPARC) with no extra dev or debugging pain, and contains components dating back to about Netscape 2.0 time running without problem. Say what you like but WORA works very well indeed for me with Java.
A.Net app that I have been working on in a team for well over a year runs very well across exactly one release of Windows and.Net and Direct X, just about. And debugging pain: don't get me started.
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Wind is good for 10%--15% baseload IIRC.
So at most you need to cover about 90%; there's demand management, etc, too.
Rgds
Damon
The necessity you imply just ain't so.
Reserve is always carried because even nuke and coal and gas plants go off line unexpectedly: I think our (near) biggest nuke in the UK may be running at a capacity factor of ~60% over the last couple of years having tripped out again very recently; only twice as much as wind for example. We don't cover every nuke plant with 100% gas backup.
We have to learn to cut our suit to fit our cloth better: learn to use energy when it's abundant and trim our usage when energy is scarce. It's called conservation and demand control.
There's a lot of room for fat trimming in Europe and much more so in the US. Then that 30%-capacity factor wind is looking more like 60%.
Rgds
Damon
In the UK at least the issuer still has to know who the customer is to a reasonably approximation, of course.
And there's a few percent charge typically to load or spend from such cards, so is your privacy worth that few %?
Rgds
Damon
I've been using long URLs since before Google existed, to help SEs, and to help humans looking at their address bar decide if they might be in the right territory. Indeed, I remember the as-yet-unheard-of Google flattening my leased line while spidering my site with long URLs and me having to send them a polite email asking them to tune their bot and not just open another connection when they didn't get 1Mbps throughput (over my 64kbps line).
Rgds
Damon
Just tried an unquoted search for suchi and did indeed get a "Search instead for suchi" link having been offered as sushi search instead, but the "search instead" link did what you and I would want it to.
Generally providing that the answers to what I actually typed as the query are only one click away I'm pleased to have have G unmangle some of my typos and speeeeling erors and save much frustration.
Rgds
Damon
Then I think you have a case that the service sold to you "is not fit for purpose".
Rgds
Damon
Generally 1ms or less.
Pinging one of my servers in co-lo on the other side of London and traversing my moderate-speed (~4Mbps/1Mbps) ASDL only takes just over 14ms round-trip.
Pinging my server in the US gives ~110ms.
Singapore: ~270ms.
Sydney, Australia: ~310ms.
So I can get right round the globe and back in about 300ms, *starting* the trip over ADSL.
Rgds
Damon
Rgds
Damon
Meta-whoosh?
So, go on, is that a "whoosh" or not? B^>
Rgds
Damon
According to my dictionary:
a brief or trivial item of news or information.
an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.
So, no, not necessarily wrong though it *may* be.
And anyhow, Humpty Dumpty would like a word with you about what a word means...
Rgds
Damon
To the best of my knowledge, Java's System.currentTimeMillis() has always been UTC milliseconds since the UNIX epoch.
Don't stop someone messing up and having the computer set up badly, eg correct apparent local time but wrong timezone, causing "UTC" time to wrong.
Rgds
Damon
Ask the people lynched for fun just for being in an oppressed minority. If the majority thinks casual abuse to people who are different is OK just because the target is different, then maybe the law has to be there to correct that idiotic smug thoughtlessness?
Everyone's different to their peers one way or another: you might think differently if suddenly you were on the wrong end of constant harassment for some random (and entirely legal) aspect of your life.
Rgds
Damon
No, being gay is no more a "choice" than being black or female or having legs.
The problem is the widespread tolerance for various forms of smug in-group bigotry, and that making someone's like is unpleasant is just fine and dandy because they are in a minority, *just because* they are in a minority.
People are driven to despair because of the in-group's relentless nasty attitude to them being a geek or having the wrong accent or living on the wrong side of the tracks or being foreign or female or poor or adopted or so many things....
Hate crimes are about attempting to stop bigotry and prejudice whether malicious, or unthinking and generally stupid as this looks to me have been. It can be intolerable to be the butt of everyone's disapproval and the reason for others behaving towards you as they do is not necessarily apparent or important.
If you've always gone with the flow and been a fashionable well-off white middle-class male, and possibly supine and unoriginal, then you may never have been on the wrong side of "punished for being different". But that doesn't make your ignorance or smugness right, IMHO. Nor does it give you any legal rights to set out to intimidate and hurt others.
In fact, starting from the good US meme of "not truly succeeding until you've failed at least once" I'll suggest that you're not a real rounded human until you have found yourself on the wrong side of one of these idiocies for being different somehow, and overcome it.
Too bad one student seems to have been driven to his death rather than overcome it.
Rgds
Damon
Trolling.
Or you have never thought about what's it's like to be in an out-group over any topic at all, however trivial or important.
But at least neither of them was *black* because that would be a "generally deplorable" life choice, yes?
Rgds
Damon
"As the chart on the left from the EEX power exchange shows, solar power production has been peaking at around 10 ***giga***watts at noon over the past few days..."
Rgds
Damon
http://www.renewablesinternational.net/german-power-exports-to-france-increasing/150/537/33036/
But then I can't use it for any other transactions since no one is going to accept the card without the chip working. That was the nub of my complaint to Barclaycard: the whole device is unsafe and I cannot take it out of my house. Maybe I can use it for telephone transactions, the handful I do each year. I already refuse to do Internet-based transactions because of the complete ineffectual crapness of VbV/3DS which makes it very hard for me (even inspecting page source) to see if I'm being phished and doesn't work for me anyway.
Rgds
Damon
I haven't been able to get Barclaycard to issue me a personal credit card without NFC/Paywave/contactless (even after going a long way in their complaints escalation) and thus instead got a card from a different issuer that *doesn't* issue such cards, at least not without asking.
I also find this a ReallyBadIdea(TM), at least not being able to have it turned off, as I frequently travel in crowded areas rips for the sort of proximity attacks described.
Rgds
Damon
Nope. I was transferring some cultured E.coli ready to extract the plasmid DNA and run on a gel (IIRC: this was 25y ago!) and we'd run out of Gilson pipette tips (not very good mol-biol lab management) and so in defiance of one set of lab rules I was using a normal glass pipette by mouth and in defiance of another set of lab rules some clown came and slapped me on the back while I was doing it.
I suppose that I should feel grateful not to have had the pipette jammed up through my brain or something...
Instead I took a reflex gasp and ... tasty ...
Rgds
Damon
Having inadvertently swallowed a couple of cc of my saturated GM E.coli culture I can tell you it was at the very least very salty by taste. So likely looking at getting the runs whichever orifice it went in.
And no, even with my own GMO I did not get super powers. Not even a 1st or cum laude or a hot date... %-P
Rgds
Damon
With respect you don't know the details of either app (both lovingly crafted by me, and both with a heavy visual/multimedia component) and indeed one small part of the Java app is indeed using Java3D.
The point is that the Netscape 2.0 era code runs happily alongside that stuff in the same VM/app. And there is a *lot* of threading going on handled with rather finer control than .Net currently seems capable of out of the box, and the ARM box is a single thread/CPU, the SPARC 24 thread, and the x86/x64 boxes 1, 2 or 4. Didn't need changing the oldest code though one very small part of it didn't enjoy non-green threads.
Rgds
Damon
My main Java app is right now running distributed across at least 3 major *nix variants (and Windows should I want to again) and indeed CPU families (x86/x64, ARM and SPARC) with no extra dev or debugging pain, and contains components dating back to about Netscape 2.0 time running without problem. Say what you like but WORA works very well indeed for me with Java.
A .Net app that I have been working on in a team for well over a year runs very well across exactly one release of Windows and .Net and Direct X, just about. And debugging pain: don't get me started.
Rgds
Damon
This rather assumes that every MTA will have the same threshold. It is not necessary (or helpful) to have a security monoculture.
A very simple first defence against such rate tuning is to randomly vary thresholds substantially between systems and from time to time.
Rgds
Damon
That's what licences with a public service element are for.
Works nicely here in London.
Rgds
Damon
I care: wasn't that clear from my last answer?
Rgds
Damon