The ads smelt so badly of deception that I just blocked them all (and there were a lot of variants) in my AdSense account to protect my visitors and my sites' reputation.
And I'll keep doing it to any ad that offers clearly deceptive generic 'download now' ads/buttons that are intended to confuse visitors into thinking that they are downloading from the host site.
You already can to that to some extent. When I look at streets in London I can often choose to go back and look at previous Street View images over several years:
I am a self-'trained' programmer, other than what my mum taught me before I had an actual computer to run things on.
I self-taught asm, C, C++, and Java amongst other things, and earned pretty good rates around that work. (The only languages I was taught formally that I recall were Prolog, Pascal, Smalltalk and Lisp, and I have never written a significant amount of (or any) production code in any of them, thankfully.)
You're old enough to understand by now that/. is not the place to be if you want complete certainty. Maybe go browse the NTSB 'completely unambiguously solved cases' PDF stack if you want that. Oh, wait...
Hostility towards knee-jerk nasty responses which clearly have not involved even reading and comprehending TFA is not that astonishing.
While laws can be stupid it may be worth not *assuming* that they were created blindly by drunken morons.
And indeed 5 minutes' reading shows that there are all sorts of caveats, but in particular all this law seems to do is require fitting solar on the area that a state law already mandates being 'solar ready'. So not *that* dramatic.
I'm saying that demanding power when it isn't easily available is maybe something *all* users, not just domestic, should be doing less of.
Many many utilities and suppliers already shape demand towards availability and efficiency/cost with, for example, ToU charging.
Dynamic demand side response, and some societal changes to move/spread demand, such as less rigid working hours, will quite likely help.
Transport for London already gives me quite a complex set of discounts for avoiding their peak demand times, including on their electrified tubes and surface trains, for example. And not travelling standing with my nose jammed in someone's armpit is good for many reasons beyond cost and shifted electrical demand.
To make a radically-changed energy system work will require thinking about completely-contingent habits of demand as well as supply, not sitting in the dark and crying.
We only have the patterns of use that we do now because it fitted the generators' convenience, eg domestic use was introduced to fill in a lack of other demand out of work hours, and the UK's Economy 7 (and 10) that account for something like 33% of domestic demand still were introduced to soak up the 'baseload' output of nukes IIRC.
So, having painted ourselves into this corner we should realise that it doesn't have to be this way...
(Just as a radical thought, as humans are diurnal I'd suggest that at least some of us go back to matching our work hours to daylight hours, rather than working a rigid arbitrary set of hours as now...)
Depending on other factors you may regard generation from (a) biomass combustion/AD (b) municipal solid waste combustion/AD (c) sewage combustion/AD (d) non-pumped hydro (e) geographically-dispersed tidal stream (f) tidal ponds as carbon free and demand-callable and/or with storage.
So nukes are not the only non-intermittent CO2-free generation.
Also note that the last big nationwide power cut and load shedding (500k users) in the UK was from a nuke plant tripping out, ie nukes are not perfectly demand-callable either.
And in any case I regard 'baseload' as purely an artefact of how we have become used to running electricity systems...
Actually, something from ~1uW upwards would be just fine for some IoT/sensor applications. Our current (OpenTRV V0p2) base board takes ~3uA (~1.5uA, ~1.8V+) to run the basics including software RTC, and then some for sensors and radio, but you can choose who often you sense and send to fit an energy budget. And there are newer MCUs then ours.
Yours is one of the most remarkably silly frothing rude pointless rants that I've seen in a long time. If I were unkind I could say I'd hope that your meds would be released as generics so that you could actually afford to take them.
I came back after several days to add this news item that may add some light to the flying spittle:
Using wrong units to describe things does not make anything clearer, and yes we can estimate total energy use and routinely do, if imperfectly, including such things as 'daylight lighting services from the sun'. Look at for example DUKES (Digest of UK Energy Statistics) published yearly.
It's not pedantry to ask people to use art terms correctly and pay attention to the laws of physics even if it bored them at school since the laws are still there.
We (OpenTRV) are building IoT devices that are decentralised and will work (well) without an Internet connection, smartphone or hideously complex instruction manual.
Some of our target users don't have Internet connections or smartphones, for a start.
Our devices can be connected up beyond a local hub (eg to control your heating better) if you wish, but making it possible to do without makes them inherently safer and more reliable IMHO.
Yes, we're keen on OpenHAB integration, but Open Energy Monitor and MQTT and a few other things are on their way first.
There are problems with IoT security but none of them come from having XX chromosomes: if anything it's the driven XY engineers that say "we'll do security on the next release" that are the issue.
Part of a recent project has been to make an IoT-friendly really robust secure link from device to hub or Internet server, all liberally licensed and open:
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly so; cf 5% in distribution and 2% in transmission for the UK typically, so far from a deal breaker.
Indeed it might be worth a transmission link across the Atlantic IMHO:
http://www.earth.org.uk/note-o...
But obviously it's better to shout things down while admitting never even trying to find the facts...
Rgds
Damon
Have you looked at the actual losses of modern HVDC transmission?
Rgds
Damon
The ads smelt so badly of deception that I just blocked them all (and there were a lot of variants) in my AdSense account to protect my visitors and my sites' reputation.
And I'll keep doing it to any ad that offers clearly deceptive generic 'download now' ads/buttons that are intended to confuse visitors into thinking that they are downloading from the host site.
Rgds
Damon
You already can to that to some extent. When I look at streets in London I can often choose to go back and look at previous Street View images over several years:
Eg looking at the end of Ely Place here in 2009:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...
Rgds
Damon
The little matter of whether they have legal standing to get involved...
Rgds
Damon
Or there is more than one problem, of which he may have been one, which seems most likely.
Rgds
Damon
I am a self-'trained' programmer, other than what my mum taught me before I had an actual computer to run things on.
I self-taught asm, C, C++, and Java amongst other things, and earned pretty good rates around that work. (The only languages I was taught formally that I recall were Prolog, Pascal, Smalltalk and Lisp, and I have never written a significant amount of (or any) production code in any of them, thankfully.)
So now you do know someone different.
Rgds
Damon
You're old enough to understand by now that /. is not the place to be if you want complete certainty. Maybe go browse the NTSB 'completely unambiguously solved cases' PDF stack if you want that. Oh, wait...
Rgds
Damon
Bitter, angry rants, with spittle flying, is what you're meant to be doing. Although "Offtopic" does seem to be important, I'll grant you.
Didn't you get the memo?
Rgds
Damon
PS. I have a Mac with SSD! B^>
Did the GP say that he did? There are friends and there are coworkers and there is usually some overlap, but not necessarily.
Rgds
Damon
Hostility towards knee-jerk nasty responses which clearly have not involved even reading and comprehending TFA is not that astonishing.
While laws can be stupid it may be worth not *assuming* that they were created blindly by drunken morons.
And indeed 5 minutes' reading shows that there are all sorts of caveats, but in particular all this law seems to do is require fitting solar on the area that a state law already mandates being 'solar ready'. So not *that* dramatic.
Rgds
Damon
I'm saying that demanding power when it isn't easily available is maybe something *all* users, not just domestic, should be doing less of.
Many many utilities and suppliers already shape demand towards availability and efficiency/cost with, for example, ToU charging.
Dynamic demand side response, and some societal changes to move/spread demand, such as less rigid working hours, will quite likely help.
Transport for London already gives me quite a complex set of discounts for avoiding their peak demand times, including on their electrified tubes and surface trains, for example. And not travelling standing with my nose jammed in someone's armpit is good for many reasons beyond cost and shifted electrical demand.
To make a radically-changed energy system work will require thinking about completely-contingent habits of demand as well as supply, not sitting in the dark and crying.
Rgds
Damon
We only have the patterns of use that we do now because it fitted the generators' convenience, eg domestic use was introduced to fill in a lack of other demand out of work hours, and the UK's Economy 7 (and 10) that account for something like 33% of domestic demand still were introduced to soak up the 'baseload' output of nukes IIRC.
So, having painted ourselves into this corner we should realise that it doesn't have to be this way...
(Just as a radical thought, as humans are diurnal I'd suggest that at least some of us go back to matching our work hours to daylight hours, rather than working a rigid arbitrary set of hours as now...)
Rgds
Damon
Depending on other factors you may regard generation from (a) biomass combustion/AD (b) municipal solid waste combustion/AD (c) sewage combustion/AD (d) non-pumped hydro (e) geographically-dispersed tidal stream (f) tidal ponds as carbon free and demand-callable and/or with storage.
So nukes are not the only non-intermittent CO2-free generation.
Also note that the last big nationwide power cut and load shedding (500k users) in the UK was from a nuke plant tripping out, ie nukes are not perfectly demand-callable either.
And in any case I regard 'baseload' as purely an artefact of how we have become used to running electricity systems...
Rgds
Damon
Also, thank you for all the slugs.
We have more: would you like a barge-full from our tiny London garden? Please?
Rgds
Damon
Actually, something from ~1uW upwards would be just fine for some IoT/sensor applications. Our current (OpenTRV V0p2) base board takes ~3uA (~1.5uA, ~1.8V+) to run the basics including software RTC, and then some for sensors and radio, but you can choose who often you sense and send to fit an energy budget. And there are newer MCUs then ours.
Rgds
Damon
Yours is one of the most remarkably silly frothing rude pointless rants that I've seen in a long time. If I were unkind I could say I'd hope that your meds would be released as generics so that you could actually afford to take them.
I came back after several days to add this news item that may add some light to the flying spittle:
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
which suggests that there isn't much ulterior motive in GSK's actions.
GSK certainly isn't perfect, but it is not horrible (and I own a little stock, and its HQ is just down the road from me as it happens).
Rgds
Damon
Especially if you are at home and haven't gotten dressed and the call starts in video/holo mode without being asked!
Rgds
Damon
Have a nice day!
Here's something I wrote on the topic:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Rgds
Damon
Using wrong units to describe things does not make anything clearer, and yes we can estimate total energy use and routinely do, if imperfectly, including such things as 'daylight lighting services from the sun'. Look at for example DUKES (Digest of UK Energy Statistics) published yearly.
It's not pedantry to ask people to use art terms correctly and pay attention to the laws of physics even if it bored them at school since the laws are still there.
Rgds
Damon
TW is power, not energy.
We (OpenTRV) are building IoT devices that are decentralised and will work (well) without an Internet connection, smartphone or hideously complex instruction manual.
Some of our target users don't have Internet connections or smartphones, for a start.
Our devices can be connected up beyond a local hub (eg to control your heating better) if you wish, but making it possible to do without makes them inherently safer and more reliable IMHO.
Yes, we're keen on OpenHAB integration, but Open Energy Monitor and MQTT and a few other things are on their way first.
Rgds
Damon
My mother taught me how to program.
There are problems with IoT security but none of them come from having XX chromosomes: if anything it's the driven XY engineers that say "we'll do security on the next release" that are the issue.
Rgds
Damon
Part of a recent project has been to make an IoT-friendly really robust secure link from device to hub or Internet server, all liberally licensed and open:
https://github.com/DamonHD/Ope...
This runs happily on Arduino-UNO (and slower) class hardware purely in software, eg including an AES-GCM implementation:
https://github.com/opentrv/OTA...
So yes, is the answer.
We (OpenTRV) aim to get it on 400 million energy saving smart thermostatic radiator valves across Europe.
Rgds
Damon