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  1. Re:Nuclear Power is the way to go for clean baselo on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Neither the first nor second law has anything to do with electricity (none of them has)
    The laws of thermodynamics are about stream engines (I simplified it a bit for you), or in other words: idealized gases under heat an pressure.

    Or if you need more:
    https://courses.lumenlearning....
    The Wikipedia article unfortunately regularly gets rewritten in an incomprehensible state and then fixed again :D

    http://batteryuniversity.com/l...
    Efficiency of lithium ion batteries is about 99%.
    Probably some idiot edited the your wikipedia article?
    On the other hand some other idiot could have edited the thermodynamics article to my favour :P

    Your pick ....

    This means when you charge the thing, there is entropy gain, as you convert energy from one form to another
    Wow, another stupid argument.
    There is no entropy gain when you charge a battery. You reduce entropy.
    Uncharged battery: everything is chaotic distributed.
    Charged battery: everything is fine sorted, all charged particles on one side.

    Imagine a class of water, drop a sugar cube into it. Low entropy: everything sorted. The cube is in one corner. The rest is clean water. When the cube is gone: high entropy. It is distributed all over the place. With a "gradient" of sugar concentration which is high at the spot the cube was, and the lowest at the most far away spots in the glass. Recharging the cube to its old position: removing the entropy.

    Good luck with your half knowledge of Physics (and physics is probably the most simple natural science, until you hit Quantum Mechanics, Relativity Theory and/or String Theory)

    I hope for you, that you are never in a life threatening situation were some basic understanding of physics would save your life, and you fail.

    Regarding that wikipedia article, it seems that specific battery they used as an example has 80% - 90% efficiency. However that sounds not plausible to me.
    The Li-ion batteries in a car have close to 99% efficience. With charging equipment etc. that drops to 95% - 957% ... google is your friend.

  2. You could.
    Now you need an appointment and fill out a paper why you come so late with changing them.

    The period where you simply could go to any bank to exchange DM for Euro, is over since over ten years.

  3. Re:more than one moron on Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes that makes sense.
    Fixed enough wifis, where no one really knew why did not work and what the password is. Luckily they never changed the "build in" password, printed on the bottom.

  4. Re:A poor carpenter... on Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think input into the top layer on a stack is the only way to attack a system then you're just further highlighting that you don't have the foggiest about IT security.

    And I would say you have no clue abut software development :D

    How the heck will you attack a system without input? changing its rom? Then it is no longer the same "system".

    Come back with that argument when you've told us what this magical 100% secure hardware set and OS is.
    That is not the question.

    Your attitude that there are always bugs is the question.
    We know since decades how to prevent bugs. And a security flaw is just the same, a bug in the area of security.

  5. Re:Like other commissions on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    The wages for employees will be similar, and the wages for people who get tips will be lower compared to people who don't get tips.
    Sorry, I doubt that.
    Who would work under such circumstances?

    In the EU you would only get illegal workers to take such jobs.

    I'm a citizen and resident of the USA; you'll have to decide for yourself whether that qualifies as being an idiot.
    Well, no an literal idiot, but idiots that you accept such "laws".

    In Germany tips are even tax free, no idea about the rest of Europe, though.

  6. Re:Why does a language need an "Enterprise Edition on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    And what would be the alternative to power Amazon, Zalando, Google, Twitter?
    Just to name a few?

    C? Assembly?

    Please go back under your rock, troll.

  7. Re:Like other commissions on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to tell me, if the restaurant owner knows people give tips, because they like the nice face/ass of the waitress he starts to reduce the wage?
    And how should that work? Hu? He writes in a newspaper: seeking service people, paying only 5$ instead of the usual 9$ because instead of the usually 10$ tips per hour you get 20$ here, because of your nice face and you are working your ass off?

    Sorry, your economics 101 is not working, In comparable establishments the prices for meals are the same and the wages for employees are the same.

    Tips have nothing to do with that.

    If you do tip, that's money you paid for that meal that wasn't included in the price on the menu.
    No, it is a gratitude for a service well done.
    If I have to wait for attendance, for the bill for what ever, if he/she is un polite: no tips.
    That has nothing to do with the price on the menu. You Sir, are an idiot.

    But, fetch me a job where I'm not 'allowed' to receive tips, and get fired because of receiving them. I will sue the owner of the establishment into oblivion, just for the fun of it.

  8. Re: Electricity bill? on French Company Plans To Heat Homes, Offices With AMD Ryzen Pro Processors · · Score: 1

    No they don't.
    Last time I gave about 20 examples.
    Now I give you only one: photo electric effect. Photon hits electron. Electron gets into higher 'orbit'. Electron drops down again, emitting the exact same photon.
    No thermodynamics involved.
    You americans have a complete retarded idea what thermodynamics is about.
    Hint: google it. Amoung the first hits is the relevant wikipedia article. Facepalm.

  9. Re:more than one moron on Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does equipment even have a default user/password?
    It simply should not function until you have changed/set it.

  10. Re: What do they do during the summer? on French Company Plans To Heat Homes, Offices With AMD Ryzen Pro Processors · · Score: 1

    water heaters (which need to direct heat to a relatively small vessel) are separate from central heating systems and space heaters
    Separated circuits, same heater. Same gas connection, same flame.
    Everything lese would be plain stupid.

  11. Re: Electricity bill? on French Company Plans To Heat Homes, Offices With AMD Ryzen Pro Processors · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately pumping electricity trough a electric device has absolutely nothing to do with the laws of thermodynamics.

    Next time try better.

  12. Re:Electricity bill? on French Company Plans To Heat Homes, Offices With AMD Ryzen Pro Processors · · Score: 1

    but that doesn't change the fact that 100% of the energy it uses is converted into heat.
    Thats wrong.
    If you would convert 100% of the energy consumed into heat, it would not do a single computation.

  13. Re:Just finished Hyperion on Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    A perfect summary of Hyperion.
    I have all the books.
    They are probably the only books I own, that I only have read once and probably never read again.

  14. Re:The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome on Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    If I would follow your advice, it would bring me into serious trouble with my fiancee.
    But I note your suggestions for the time when my silver back bonus is wearing off :)

  15. Re:Currently reading on Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    The books of 'Alastair Reynolds' are worth it.
    Don't give up!
    Till roughly 2010, I have all of them.

  16. Re:Nuclear Power is the way to go for clean baselo on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, still bullshit posts like this?
    Still not able to google 'efficiency of lithium ion batteries'?

    Wow, go back into your cave, troll.

    NOTHING is 100% efficient in converting energy from one form to another
    Wow, that is probably the stupids thing I ever heard.

    First law of physics ... you might like to google for that too.

  17. My favourite admin user/password is:
    User: 'Ruth'
    Passwd: 'geh heim' :P

  18. It does not? include a warp drive?
    I'm disappointed.

    What did the Apollo program cost in 'modern dollars'?

  19. There are no drugs that are addictive.
    There is addictive behaviour. That is a kind of mental illness.

    In other words, the circumstances during which you take drugs, for what ever reason, determine your drug usage.
    Change the circumstances and everything falls back to normal.

    Yes, in case of alcohol etc, there is a physical addiction, but that is overcome in a few days.

    So bottom line: most drugs are ok. If consumed and not abused.

    Good luck with your medication, you will understand what I say when you get 'addicted' to your daily dose of vitamins, or Aspirin.

  20. That is nonsense,
    It was/is actually a very good idea. And Germany was leading in research about those topics.
    You have 4 wheels drive, slip control, non blocking braking, all for free, without any other hardware.
    Of course for tesla it was difficult, given in the posts above already. They wanted:need to use off the shelf components for slip control and non blocking breaking.

    Bottom line 4 linear engines would be much more efficient.

  21. Re:Like other commissions on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany, and we don't have 10% rule.
    That is an american thing.

    I round up to the next or second next Euro, only in case we are plenty of people and I pay for all, I give an about 5% tip, sometimes more.

    Anyway, interfering with tipping is illegal. If a customer pays tips to the "host" that is his own decision and it is a privilege of the "host" to accept it.

    Contracts about tips would be void, getting fired for accepting tips would be a slaughter for the employer in court.

    No idea why you live in a fucked up country with fucked up laws and even think that your way of doing it is 'normal' or 'natural' way of doing it.

    If one here would be so stupid to say loud: I fired her/him, because she/he accepted tips, he basically can close his business.

  22. Re:Like other commissions on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    I never heard about such nonsense.
    I give tips everywhere.

    Why would you fire one who got tips? It is obviously one of the better workers, otherwise he would not get the tips, sounds plain stupid.

    Considering that the USA not so long ago did not pay waitresses but they had to rely on tips as 'income' I really wonder where that attitude/impression is coming from.

  23. Re:Like other commissions on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, don't get your words.
    What has tipping to do with wages?
    And prices?
    The price is on the menu, either it includes VAT, or it goes extra. Either it includes service or not.
    Tips have nothing to do with that.

  24. Re:Nuclear Power is the way to go for clean baselo on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lithium ion batteries and charging systems top out at 97% efficiency.
    Sorry to slap it into your face. You are just a stupid american dumb idiot.
    What the fuck would have the laws of thermodynamics to do with batteries? Hu?
    Before you try to seek for an answer: nothing at all.

    All your numbers are completely made up, you are even to dumb to google.
    So assume 90% AC-DC conversion,
    Yeah, and why do you assume that instead of for funk sake googeling the efficiency? Hae?

    Idiot.

  25. Re:Why does a language need an "Enterprise Edition on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and a CD is the same as a DVD is the same as a Blue Ray Disk ...

    There are about 5 editions of Java:
    Standard Edition
    Enterprise Edition
    Micro/mobile Editon
    Inoffical real time Edition
    Inofficial (several) embedded Edition

    Deal with it.

    No idea what you want to rant about.

    So it includes a whole lot of functions. So what.
    If you want to break it down to this level of ignorance: yes, Java EE has more functions than Java SE. Facepalm.