Molten salt storage, stors heat. Not electricity. Converting heat into electricity is at an efficiency range of 42%. So if you pump 100Watt into a molten salt storage, you get out 42Watt later, assuming you have no other losses. A Li-ion battery is over 99% efficient... so storing 100Watt of electricity in a battery gives you 99Watts back. That is more than a factor of two.
And I for my part rather have a battery bank in my living room than an molten salt tank...
Bitcoin miners avoid this charge, so it is reasonable for the legislator to make this point. They don't. They pay VAT and other taxes on electric power. And they pay on the full earnings on the coins income or corportate tax.
They are in no way different than a 'true miner', fisher or farmer. None of them pays VAT on buying raw products, they simply 'get them' and 'sell them' and pay VAT on the sales.
There were plans to connect the icelandic grid to the EU via Scottland... however with the BREXIT going on tjose are on hold. They likely get reactivated after the Scotland went independent and rejoins the EU. That would in the long run give Scotland the option to beccome a majour power hub, based on interconnects to Icelands, Faroer and Norway - and their options to upgrade water and wind power significantly.
Are you one of those developers who never write documentation? Or how do you come to the idea that writing documentation (and dealing with questions) requires no man power?
However in east germany the communists managed to give every one: o education he was capable of o housing and clothing o a job, for his entire life o a kindergarden place for every kid o jobs for women, because of above and plenty of other things...
We have not even NOW in west germany a kindergaeden place for every kid, even so that it is demanded by law since a few years and you can sue your town to provide one.
That is incorrect. Everyone used wood, as it is leighter, hence the planes climb faster and use less fuel. Technology to make robust steel planes did not even exist at that time. Aluminium even less so.
If you purchase a database from someone, how you can legally use that database depends entirely on the agreement you made to purchase it. No it does not. The agreement is bound to copyright laws. Any agreement restricting me from what is allowed by the law is void: in sane countries.
Anyway. The directive is not about database schemas. It is about "databases", but unfortunately it is not clear from the text you linked, what actually a data base is.
The debate about such "databases" started from the fact that "pure data" aka "facts" are not under copyright.
This extends to a CD containing the yellow pages of a phone company. E.g. if the text can easy be extracted, you are allowed to reorganize the data, and resell it. The "organization" of that data is a database... even if it is just a single big text file.
Traditionally database schemas (and that was the discussion) are not copyright able. Otherwise it would be impossible to write your own software that accesses that data base via e.g. SQL.
So: we can not copyright schemas and the data can not be copyrighted, too...
Here comes the EU directive, originally only intending to harmonize slightly different ideas about how to handle that topic in different states.
The EU directive now proposes that "schema plus data" together can be under copyright under certain reasons: e.g. huge financial investment, high intellectual effort etc. And this they call "database".
Nevertheless raw data as in facts and the schema alone are not under copyright. So: what would be under copyright? E.g. a street map (raw data that you can retrieve or buy somewhere), with annotations that you contribute your own. A database with images of stone masonry, because you have the copyright on the images. A database with a few hundred thousand microbes and the experimental results you made on them. However one would still be free to extract from that database the names of the microbes and other public available knowledge and redistribute those "facts".
With database in this case we always mean "something" that you can put on your computer and "access" it. It mights get more complicated e.g. if you need a custom retrieval program. That is e.g. usually the case for a yellow pages CD, it most of the time comes with a small program to search and retrieve the data. Decrypting such data then again would fall under DMCS etc.
Or running such a database "online" via a web interface would put ordinary visitors behind the end user license agreement what they can do with he data, e.g. no scrapping.
In your country perhaps. Most likely in no european country. Downsizing, aka moving house, is so expensive it is hardly worth the effort in ordinary cases. It is often extremely complicated/expensive to find a cheaper place that is _significantly_ cheaper and still is close to the comfort you like. Or close to the region you need to live, etc. The whole AirBnN success only happens because changing house is so complicated that people rather rent out a room occasionally than moving. (And this situation was already the same before AirBnB, only renting out was not as simple)
I have a slighly more expensive plan, too. But not because of roaming but because of free unlimited calls and a higher datalimit.
As I'm very often outside of germany, I enjoy the internet now, before I had data roaming deactivated and usually did not accept calls from home.
Under the old laws, normal use of phone or data had trippeled my phone bill if I had used roaming more than a few times.
I have no clue about tarrif structures however... I bottom line pay EU50 more per year and have for that free roaming in the EU. I already saved more than those EU50 this year...
The party included the strippers, Bill Clinton and Al Franken.
The party included the strippers, Bill Clinton, and Al Franken.
The first form sounds like Bill and Al are the strippers. No it does not. If you wanted to say that, the first comma would be ommited: "The party included the strippers Bill Clinton and Al Franken." or you would write a colon: "The party included the strippers: Bill Clinton and Al Franken."
The Oxford comma makes this sentence more clear. Use the second form to indicate they party with strippers in this case. For native english speakers who happen to know the rule... for a non native english speaker - I'm german, and we have no 'similar rule' AFAIK - it makes no real sense. The 'Oxford comma' looks like a typing error/grammar error to me. (And even with your examples it is not really easy to memorize)
It has an influence on the hotels that miss a deal, not on the flat renting market. Rents for flats do not magically increase just because I rent out a room in my 4 rooms flat 20 times a year. If at all empty flats would drop in rent...
Self driving cars have no AIs. And their pattern recognition algorithms run on 2 200MHz ARM Cortex'. You don't need a GPU to analyze a 2 Dimensional gray scale picture with 800x600 pixels.
Well, it is an old iPad 2, running iOS 8. I did mot upgrade because the newer iOS versions were for a while plain ugly. E.g. the iBook reading App on this iPad still looks like a book. But Notes and Calendar are already plain ugly. From time to time I check newer iPads... but the iBrooks App still is not back on its old level. The rest does not interest me much. Both google maps and apple maps are close to unusable for what a traveler is doing with a map app...
I have an Lenovo Yoga Book. Does not mount as USB drive... the package description was unclear about the fact that it does not take a phone sim card... the UI is... well 'primitive?'
I simply can not get it that Apple and Android developers create Apps that try to look like a 'Minority Report' future UI and are close to unusable...
E.g. on an iPad you can mot correct an incorrectly typed mail address. You have to delete it and type it again. Or copy paste it into the mail text, edit it there and copy paste it back.
Android has no 'looking glass' to position the cursor if you want to correct some typing. But they have that "use the space bar as a scroll bar' to position the cursor. Some/. poster told me about that. Obviously on my Yoga book it only works with the on screen keyboard, and not with the watcom keyboard.
The watcom keyboard includes a mouse pad. But multi touch to scroll and zoom does not work. Randomly however it scrolls down. Never made it to scroll up.
Then again I read a few month ago that a certain browser (don't remember the brand) 'finally' added one screen down scrolling by pressing 'space'.
A few weeks ago I realized my 'yoga book touch pad is scrolling down' comes from me accidentally hitting space.
I never used in in any browser space bar to scroll a page. So when I read that a few weeks ago I tested it, as I could not believe it. For what actually do we have PgUp and PgDown?
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Molten salt storage, stors heat. Not electricity. ... so storing 100Watt of electricity in a battery gives you 99Watts back.
Converting heat into electricity is at an efficiency range of 42%. So if you pump 100Watt into a molten salt storage, you get out 42Watt later, assuming you have no other losses.
A Li-ion battery is over 99% efficient
That is more than a factor of two.
And I for my part rather have a battery bank in my living room than an molten salt tank ...
Bitcoin miners avoid this charge, so it is reasonable for the legislator to make this point.
They don't.
They pay VAT and other taxes on electric power.
And they pay on the full earnings on the coins income or corportate tax.
They are in no way different than a 'true miner', fisher or farmer. None of them pays VAT on buying raw products, they simply 'get them' and 'sell them' and pay VAT on the sales.
There were plans to connect the icelandic grid to the EU via Scottland ... however with the BREXIT going on tjose are on hold. They likely get reactivated after the Scotland went independent and rejoins the EU. That would in the long run give Scotland the option to beccome a majour power hub, based on interconnects to Icelands, Faroer and Norway - and their options to upgrade water and wind power significantly.
Graphics in games are completely overrated.
Ever played Eve Online, WoW or god forbid: Minecraft?
All great games with appropriated (low hrade) graphics, they all would run on a pentium 2 perhaps.
Are you one of those developers who never write documentation?
Or how do you come to the idea that writing documentation (and dealing with questions) requires no man power?
However in east germany the communists managed to give every one: ...
o education he was capable of
o housing and clothing
o a job, for his entire life
o a kindergarden place for every kid
o jobs for women, because of above
and plenty of other things
We have not even NOW in west germany a kindergaeden place for every kid, even so that it is demanded by law since a few years and you can sue your town to provide one.
That is incorrect.
Everyone used wood, as it is leighter, hence the planes climb faster and use less fuel.
Technology to make robust steel planes did not even exist at that time. Aluminium even less so.
A writer of SF stories who does not know from what our planet is composed ...
Uh, oh!
You are an idiot.
Both aluminium and steel are probably the most easist and simplest stuffs to recycle.
Read a book .... it helps sometimes.
If you purchase a database from someone, how you can legally use that database depends entirely on the agreement you made to purchase it.
No it does not.
The agreement is bound to copyright laws. Any agreement restricting me from what is allowed by the law is void: in sane countries.
Anyway. The directive is not about database schemas. It is about "databases", but unfortunately it is not clear from the text you linked, what actually a data base is.
The debate about such "databases" started from the fact that "pure data" aka "facts" are not under copyright.
This extends to a CD containing the yellow pages of a phone company. E.g. if the text can easy be extracted, you are allowed to reorganize the data, and resell it. The "organization" of that data is a database ... even if it is just a single big text file.
Traditionally database schemas (and that was the discussion) are not copyright able. Otherwise it would be impossible to write your own software that accesses that data base via e.g. SQL.
So: we can not copyright schemas and the data can not be copyrighted, too ...
Here comes the EU directive, originally only intending to harmonize slightly different ideas about how to handle that topic in different states.
The EU directive now proposes that "schema plus data" together can be under copyright under certain reasons: e.g. huge financial investment, high intellectual effort etc. And this they call "database".
Nevertheless raw data as in facts and the schema alone are not under copyright. So: what would be under copyright? E.g. a street map (raw data that you can retrieve or buy somewhere), with annotations that you contribute your own. A database with images of stone masonry, because you have the copyright on the images. A database with a few hundred thousand microbes and the experimental results you made on them. However one would still be free to extract from that database the names of the microbes and other public available knowledge and redistribute those "facts".
With database in this case we always mean "something" that you can put on your computer and "access" it. It mights get more complicated e.g. if you need a custom retrieval program. That is e.g. usually the case for a yellow pages CD, it most of the time comes with a small program to search and retrieve the data. Decrypting such data then again would fall under DMCS etc.
Or running such a database "online" via a web interface would put ordinary visitors behind the end user license agreement what they can do with he data, e.g. no scrapping.
In your country perhaps.
Most likely in no european country.
Downsizing, aka moving house, is so expensive it is hardly worth the effort in ordinary cases.
It is often extremely complicated/expensive to find a cheaper place that is _significantly_ cheaper and still is close to the comfort you like. Or close to the region you need to live, etc.
The whole AirBnN success only happens because changing house is so complicated that people rather rent out a room occasionally than moving. (And this situation was already the same before AirBnB, only renting out was not as simple)
That other reply refers to the USA ... most places are outside of the USA ...
Perhaps you can export your shopping lists to a calendar?
That can be helped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.openvms.org/
https://www.vmssoftware.com/
I have a slighly more expensive plan, too.
But not because of roaming but because of free unlimited calls and a higher datalimit.
As I'm very often outside of germany, I enjoy the internet now, before I had data roaming deactivated and usually did not accept calls from home.
Under the old laws, normal use of phone or data had trippeled my phone bill if I had used roaming more than a few times.
I have no clue about tarrif structures however ... I bottom line pay EU50 more per year and have for that free roaming in the EU. I already saved more than those EU50 this year ...
The party included the strippers, Bill Clinton and Al Franken.
The party included the strippers, Bill Clinton, and Al Franken.
The first form sounds like Bill and Al are the strippers.
No it does not. If you wanted to say that, the first comma would be ommited: "The party included the strippers Bill Clinton and Al Franken." or you would write a colon: "The party included the strippers: Bill Clinton and Al Franken."
The Oxford comma makes this sentence more clear. Use the second form to indicate they party with strippers in this case. ... for a non native english speaker - I'm german, and we have no 'similar rule' AFAIK - it makes no real sense. The 'Oxford comma' looks like a typing error/grammar error to me. (And even with your examples it is not really easy to memorize)
For native english speakers who happen to know the rule
You don't need extra SiMs anymore, a singe SIM is enough. Roaming fees got abolished mid last year.
It has an influence on the hotels that miss a deal, not on the flat renting market. ...
Rents for flats do not magically increase just because I rent out a room in my 4 rooms flat 20 times a year. If at all empty flats would drop in rent
Then you don't buy there and they are not your creditor.
Or in other words: they have to point out that they don't accept cash before serving you.
Refusing big bills is in most cases illegal, it is only 'acceptable' at places where there is a good reason, e.g. on flea market or to bus driver etc.
YMMV, depending on country.
Self driving cars have no AIs.
And their pattern recognition algorithms run on 2 200MHz ARM Cortex'.
You don't need a GPU to analyze a 2 Dimensional gray scale picture with 800x600 pixels.
The typical AirBnB is a person in a to big flat renting out a spare room on occasion.
That has no influence on the market at all.
AirBnB is collecting the hotel tax and transfering it to the city on behalf of the renter ... at least that is how it is dobe in europe.
While a creditor is _required_ to accept _legal tender_.
He is free to accept any other payment to settle the bill.
Ah, I misunderstood, I assumed you would add up in your mind.
I actually was only kidding.
Obviously if you get invited to a conference or a talk they pay for your accommodation.
Well, it is an old iPad 2, running iOS 8. ... but the iBrooks App still is not back on its old level. The rest does not interest me much. ...
I did mot upgrade because the newer iOS versions were for a while plain ugly.
E.g. the iBook reading App on this iPad still looks like a book. But Notes and Calendar are already plain ugly.
From time to time I check newer iPads
Both google maps and apple maps are close to unusable for what a traveler is doing with a map app
I have an Lenovo Yoga Book. Does not mount as USB drive ... the package description was unclear about the fact that it does not take a phone sim card ... the UI is ... well 'primitive?'
I simply can not get it that Apple and Android developers create Apps that try to look like a 'Minority Report' future UI and are close to unusable ...
E.g. on an iPad you can mot correct an incorrectly typed mail address. You have to delete it and type it again. Or copy paste it into the mail text, edit it there and copy paste it back.
Android has no 'looking glass' to position the cursor if you want to correct some typing. But they have that "use the space bar as a scroll bar' to position the cursor. Some /. poster told me about that. Obviously on my Yoga book it only works with the on screen keyboard, and not with the watcom keyboard.
The watcom keyboard includes a mouse pad. But multi touch to scroll and zoom does not work. Randomly however it scrolls down. Never made it to scroll up.
Then again I read a few month ago that a certain browser (don't remember the brand) 'finally' added one screen down scrolling by pressing 'space'.
A few weeks ago I realized my 'yoga book touch pad is scrolling down' comes from me accidentally hitting space.
I never used in in any browser space bar to scroll a page. So when I read that a few weeks ago I tested it, as I could not believe it. For what actually do we have PgUp and PgDown?
Anyway, so much to modern user interfaces ...