When the laptop is closed, I'm either sleeping and not using it, or I'm traveling and it is in my back pack. So, Superkendall is right, a secondary "outside" small screen is completely useless.
Actually, the "ice age" ended about 20k - 16k years ago, depending on which part of the planet you lived. So, no, we are not having global warming because we are coming out of an "ice age".
and then all of a sudden, POP!!! Actually we had two mass extinction events when the last "ice age" ended, when planet wide the sea level rose about 10m - 20m over night. Caused by volcanos below the ice shield in north america. Those are probably the background about the "flood myths" we have in every culture on the planet that survived those floods.
It would seem that the ending of an ice age is something that would take thousands, and perhaps a couple 10 thousands of years to actually complete. This is indeed the case, however that process finished about 10k years ago.
In Germany we are experimenting with "electrified highways". That means trucks can put up gear to connect to a power line, just like an electric railway. We have a test track in construction around the airport in Frankfurt, not very long, only around 15km.
Considering the improvements in wireless charging, I could imagine chargers build directly into the highways for passing cars to pick up extra energy.
Even be safe in situations where a pedestrian pops out just in front and someone has to get injured. Actually pedestrians don't pop up in front just like that. Secondly situations were a pedestrian might "occur from somewhere" can be anticipated. Humans are often to distracted to anticipate that and slow down "just in case", or they can not be bothered to "slow down just in case". And one thing is certain: if a pedestrian "pops up" in front of a car, the self driving car will have the faster reaction and break faster.
GDP is higher, but GDP is a meaningless number. I guess it is mostly higher because of the super rich in the US. E.g. it is quite difficult to find a "basket of goods" to calculate "Purchasing Power Parity". E.g. companies like McDonalds are actively setting their prices to what they think is the "purchasing power" in the target market. Then "economic scientists" take that number to calculate in reverse the "purchasing power"... that makes no sense. Thousands of things can not be compared anyway, cost free schools, health care, gasoline taxes or taxes on CO2, local available food, percentage of house owners, costs for local public transit etc. p.p.
Want to compare a typical german mid range income worker with a Thai, e.g.? Thai are bottom line richer. But their GDP per capita is probably only 1/20th. But you can not really compare buying power. Example: 1 bottle of beer in Germany is close to $1 in a shop (depending on brand, I prefer Jever, others are cheaper). A similar bottle, actually a bit bigger as it is a pint, in Thailand: also about $1 in a shop (slightly cheaper, but close enough, I prefer Chang).
So, now get the same beer, same size, or in some cases "same bottle" in a restaurant. In Germany you pay about $4, in Thailand $1.70 - $2.00.
So: how do you work that into your "purchasing power parity"? Considering what a Thai earns per month, he has to pay lots of money per bottle. Considering that his restaurant prices are much much lower in comparison to german restaurant prices... how does that work out?
Considering that probably 50% of the americans live pretty close to the poverty line (or below) I find arguments around GDP per capita and "Purchasing Power Parity" completely absurd.
Per mile, it will always cost more to rent than to own. No it won't.
It depends greatly on the amount of miles you drive per year. I used to drive about 3000 miles, yes three thousand, not thirty thousand. That means owning a car costed me roughly 1$ per mile. If I rent it when I need it, one of the most expensive offers is $300. If I'm in a car sharing company/pool it is $100.
Car sharing and other renting systems make money because the have the car much better utilized. A car from such a pool probably makes 30,000 miles or 50,000 miles a year. So the cost per mile, for the renter and for the company is extremely low.
For example, insurance companies could very well make it really expensive to get auto insurance without you allowing them to track your every move with an app they install into your car. In Europe? Har Har Har Har. And for what purpose anyway?
You haven't considered what happens when you have kids where I live it is illegal now to let them walk to school unescorted under a certain age Why are people writing _idiotic_ comments like this? Obviously he has no kids. Or has no such idiotic law.
What do you care what is "better for him"? What has that to do with "what is better for you"?
Nothing... waste of time to argue with someone who has a complete different lifestyle.
I will never buy a car again... in Europe I use trains. And if I get "traveling independent" again I buy a motorbike again.
Public transit is uniformally disgusting both in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. If you think that, you have a mental problem.
It's why I work hard to own a car and not have to sit on public transit. Good for us... I for my part can not stand people with mental problems. I have the strong believe they infect the people around them.
I don't think he has a hard time grasping... And you are simply nitpicking about nonsense.
Some people are like this other are like that.
You enjoy having your car, fine for you. He and I enjoy not needing to care and pay for one.
Further, considering the extra costs of living in a city, they far out weigh the "financial responsibility of owning your own car" In your country? Not in mine. Owning a car costs me about two extra monthly rents, probably more. To lazy to check exactly. And this is owning only, the car has not moved a single yard for that costs.
You can have car seats for kids in Europe that can be also strapped into a stroller. Not sure if you would call that "convertible". The chassis you have in the trunk, ofc. There are even strollers like that, that can be attached to a bicycle.
The taxes are on gasoline. Not on km driven. The incentive is to safe gasoline. So why should the government increase/put taxes on EVs when it simply can increase the taxes on gasoline until most/all cars are converted?
As the satellites are by coincident nearly exactly 1/10 of a light second away, the round trip is 2/10 of a second and not 1/4th. But well, that is close enough:D probably 1/4th is actually a tick closer than 2/10th, to lazy to do the correct math.
Well, if you want to nitpick then ofc wave power is intermittent. However then I nitpick too: why did you build a wave plant at a place where you know you sometimes (often?) have no waves? Bottom line there are plenty of places on the wold that always have waves, and hence wave power is not intermittent. E.g. Hawaii. Portugal.
Regarding tidal power it is nitpicking again. Depending how you run it, you have about 4h per day during which you don't produce much or no power. That might be intermittent in the most stricktest sense of the word. From a point of view of a power company it is not. You can perfectly plan for it.
A lower tide has less energy, and a 12 hour cycle time also makes the energy low - such that you want to trap the water behind a temporary dam, then let it all out at the greatest differential in height. But that, of course, creates zero energy for a majority of the time then a big burst of energy when the water is funneled through the turbines. That is not like the most plants are run. They are more run like a flow river water plant.
I did not read your link about tides (I mean: glanced over it, but did not follow any further links) Tides are super easy to calculate, we do that since thousands of years: https://www.admiralty.co.uk/pu...
The raw data is accurate to a single cm. However the actual levels vary by air pressure and wind and to a lesser degree by water temperature. E.g. the special topography of the northern sea often leads to hight low tides and higher high tides. The wind is pressing the water into a confined area. (Which can make meters in difference, but you get radio warnings etc about such cases)
That plant BTW is at a place where you _always_ have waves. Which is basically true all around Ireland, UK, North of France, Netherlands, and to great extend, north of Germany, and Norway.
Why? Because of the damn quick tidal currents (up to 10kn and more), and in case of Norway, the gulf stream; and the fact that we basically always have wind at those coast.
So, are we finished with nitpicking? Considering you would place a tidal planet at every fjord of Norway, then a single plant might be intermittent in your nitpicking pedantic point of view. All plants together would not be. As the tidal wave takes 2 hours to pass from the south tip of Norway to the northern parts. Only an example... In Galicia in north Spain the effect would even be more dramatic (and yes, they have Fjords, too. Oh, and it is probably also an area that _always_ has wind and hence always waves... have not checked yet).
I guess you can google a bit around and find wave forecasts, with historical wave forecasts you can figure which areas are "wave heavy"... I'm to lazy to find you a perfect example.
What is the next intermittent power? River flow water plants? Because in theory a river can fall dry? Nuclear plants, because when the rivers are low on water they have to be shut down (like the last five or six years in France)?
Some people work different, some people think different. What good is my shiny laptop if I can mot open a few hundred tabs?
What good is my dell at my workplace if I can mot have open 100 other tabs there?
Why should I bookmark something, thinking about a good name for its folder (considering that most browsers have no decent bookmark management anyway) when I simply can keep the tab open?
If I need to find something, for that I have some AppleScripts, well on my Mac, not on my Dell, ofc.
The first windows PC I bought, with a 16" EiZO monitor and EISA bus and SCSI drives had 16 MB, 64MHz x486-DX2... the total package costed something like $8k. That was 1992 or 1993.
How would loading 140kB HTML into 160MB RAM make anything faster? Using more RAM makes it slower, as soon as you swap. And algorithms that have to run over 160MB instead of over 140kB are obviously a factor of 1000 slower... (*facepalm*)
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When the laptop is closed, I'm either sleeping and not using it, or I'm traveling and it is in my back pack.
So, Superkendall is right, a secondary "outside" small screen is completely useless.
I simply had put the touch bar on top of the function keys.
A computer without real function keys is useless to me, as I play EVE Online.
In Germany we pay taxes for owning a car, which are supposed to be spent on the infrastructure.
Fuel taxes are only a easy income for the state.
1) People drive motorcycles for fun, not for any other reason.
Or for traveling.
Or for going to work.
I guess you never lived at a place where driving a bike is the norm and driving a car is only the third choice after public transport.
Considering that Toyota is the worlds biggest seller of Hybrid and EV cars, I really wonder abut your "hydrogen" statement.
Actually, the "ice age" ended about 20k - 16k years ago, depending on which part of the planet you lived.
So, no, we are not having global warming because we are coming out of an "ice age".
and then all of a sudden, POP!!!
Actually we had two mass extinction events when the last "ice age" ended, when planet wide the sea level rose about 10m - 20m over night. Caused by volcanos below the ice shield in north america.
Those are probably the background about the "flood myths" we have in every culture on the planet that survived those floods.
It would seem that the ending of an ice age is something that would take thousands, and perhaps a couple 10 thousands of years to actually complete.
This is indeed the case, however that process finished about 10k years ago.
In Germany we are experimenting with "electrified highways".
That means trucks can put up gear to connect to a power line, just like an electric railway.
We have a test track in construction around the airport in Frankfurt, not very long, only around 15km.
Considering the improvements in wireless charging, I could imagine chargers build directly into the highways for passing cars to pick up extra energy.
Even be safe in situations where a pedestrian pops out just in front and someone has to get injured.
Actually pedestrians don't pop up in front just like that. Secondly situations were a pedestrian might "occur from somewhere" can be anticipated. Humans are often to distracted to anticipate that and slow down "just in case", or they can not be bothered to "slow down just in case".
And one thing is certain: if a pedestrian "pops up" in front of a car, the self driving car will have the faster reaction and break faster.
Countries like France or Italy will never ban "motor cycles".
However they might demand that they become electric.
That depends on message resolution, or the meta object protocol.
However regardless, you put your parenthesizes wrong. I took the liberty to fix it for you:
(new (car buyers)) or ((new car) buyers)?
Actually I think you want to send the message "new" then perhaps we better write it like:
((car buyers) new) or ((car new) buyers)?
And removing the misleading "or" we could write:
((car new) ((car-buyers) new))
Hope that helped you with your confusion.
GDP is higher, but GDP is a meaningless number. I guess it is mostly higher because of the super rich in the US. E.g. it is quite difficult to find a "basket of goods" to calculate "Purchasing Power Parity". ... that makes no sense.
E.g. companies like McDonalds are actively setting their prices to what they think is the "purchasing power" in the target market. Then "economic scientists" take that number to calculate in reverse the "purchasing power"
Thousands of things can not be compared anyway, cost free schools, health care, gasoline taxes or taxes on CO2, local available food, percentage of house owners, costs for local public transit etc. p.p.
Want to compare a typical german mid range income worker with a Thai, e.g.? Thai are bottom line richer. But their GDP per capita is probably only 1/20th. But you can not really compare buying power. Example: 1 bottle of beer in Germany is close to $1 in a shop (depending on brand, I prefer Jever, others are cheaper). A similar bottle, actually a bit bigger as it is a pint, in Thailand: also about $1 in a shop (slightly cheaper, but close enough, I prefer Chang).
So, now get the same beer, same size, or in some cases "same bottle" in a restaurant. In Germany you pay about $4, in Thailand $1.70 - $2.00.
So: how do you work that into your "purchasing power parity"? Considering what a Thai earns per month, he has to pay lots of money per bottle. Considering that his restaurant prices are much much lower in comparison to german restaurant prices ... how does that work out?
Considering that probably 50% of the americans live pretty close to the poverty line (or below) I find arguments around GDP per capita and "Purchasing Power Parity" completely absurd.
Per mile, it will always cost more to rent than to own.
No it won't.
It depends greatly on the amount of miles you drive per year. I used to drive about 3000 miles, yes three thousand, not thirty thousand. That means owning a car costed me roughly 1$ per mile. If I rent it when I need it, one of the most expensive offers is $300. If I'm in a car sharing company/pool it is $100.
Car sharing and other renting systems make money because the have the car much better utilized. A car from such a pool probably makes 30,000 miles or 50,000 miles a year. So the cost per mile, for the renter and for the company is extremely low.
For example, insurance companies could very well make it really expensive to get auto insurance without you allowing them to track your every move with an app they install into your car.
In Europe? Har Har Har Har.
And for what purpose anyway?
You haven't considered what happens when you have kids where I live it is illegal now to let them walk to school unescorted under a certain age
Why are people writing _idiotic_ comments like this?
Obviously he has no kids. Or has no such idiotic law.
What do you care what is "better for him"? What has that to do with "what is better for you"?
Nothing ... waste of time to argue with someone who has a complete different lifestyle.
I will never buy a car again ... in Europe I use trains. And if I get "traveling independent" again I buy a motorbike again.
Public transit is uniformally disgusting both in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
If you think that, you have a mental problem.
It's why I work hard to own a car and not have to sit on public transit. ...
Good for us
I for my part can not stand people with mental problems. I have the strong believe they infect the people around them.
I don't think he has a hard time grasping ...
And you are simply nitpicking about nonsense.
Some people are like this other are like that.
You enjoy having your car, fine for you.
He and I enjoy not needing to care and pay for one.
Further, considering the extra costs of living in a city, they far out weigh the "financial responsibility of owning your own car"
In your country? Not in mine. Owning a car costs me about two extra monthly rents, probably more. To lazy to check exactly. And this is owning only, the car has not moved a single yard for that costs.
You can have car seats for kids in Europe that can be also strapped into a stroller.
Not sure if you would call that "convertible". The chassis you have in the trunk, ofc.
There are even strollers like that, that can be attached to a bicycle.
The taxes are on gasoline. Not on km driven. The incentive is to safe gasoline.
So why should the government increase/put taxes on EVs when it simply can increase the taxes on gasoline until most/all cars are converted?
As the satellites are by coincident nearly exactly 1/10 of a light second away, the round trip is 2/10 of a second and not 1/4th. But well, that is close enough :D probably 1/4th is actually a tick closer than 2/10th, to lazy to do the correct math.
How will he be able to "connect" with hot chicks on tinder or tagged?
The question your GGP asked was useless, too.
On a Mac you say "print" and then "save as PDF" ... nothing to edit.
Well, if you want to nitpick then ofc wave power is intermittent.
However then I nitpick too: why did you build a wave plant at a place where you know you sometimes (often?) have no waves?
Bottom line there are plenty of places on the wold that always have waves, and hence wave power is not intermittent. E.g. Hawaii. Portugal.
Regarding tidal power it is nitpicking again. Depending how you run it, you have about 4h per day during which you don't produce much or no power. That might be intermittent in the most stricktest sense of the word. From a point of view of a power company it is not. You can perfectly plan for it.
A lower tide has less energy, and a 12 hour cycle time also makes the energy low - such that you want to trap the water behind a temporary dam, then let it all out at the greatest differential in height. But that, of course, creates zero energy for a majority of the time then a big burst of energy when the water is funneled through the turbines.
That is not like the most plants are run. They are more run like a flow river water plant.
I did not read your link about tides (I mean: glanced over it, but did not follow any further links)
Tides are super easy to calculate, we do that since thousands of years: https://www.admiralty.co.uk/pu...
The raw data is accurate to a single cm. However the actual levels vary by air pressure and wind and to a lesser degree by water temperature. E.g. the special topography of the northern sea often leads to hight low tides and higher high tides. The wind is pressing the water into a confined area. (Which can make meters in difference, but you get radio warnings etc about such cases)
For running a tidal plant that is however irrelevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That plant BTW is at a place where you _always_ have waves. Which is basically true all around Ireland, UK, North of France, Netherlands, and to great extend, north of Germany, and Norway.
Why? Because of the damn quick tidal currents (up to 10kn and more), and in case of Norway, the gulf stream; and the fact that we basically always have wind at those coast.
So, are we finished with nitpicking? Considering you would place a tidal planet at every fjord of Norway, then a single plant might be intermittent in your nitpicking pedantic point of view. All plants together would not be. As the tidal wave takes 2 hours to pass from the south tip of Norway to the northern parts. Only an example ... In Galicia in north Spain the effect would even be more dramatic (and yes, they have Fjords, too. Oh, and it is probably also an area that _always_ has wind and hence always waves ... have not checked yet).
I guess you can google a bit around and find wave forecasts, with historical wave forecasts you can figure which areas are "wave heavy" ... I'm to lazy to find you a perfect example.
What is the next intermittent power? River flow water plants? Because in theory a river can fall dry? Nuclear plants, because when the rivers are low on water they have to be shut down (like the last five or six years in France)?
Some people work different, some people think different.
What good is my shiny laptop if I can mot open a few hundred tabs?
What good is my dell at my workplace if I can mot have open 100 other tabs there?
Why should I bookmark something, thinking about a good name for its folder (considering that most browsers have no decent bookmark management anyway) when I simply can keep the tab open?
If I need to find something, for that I have some AppleScripts, well on my Mac, not on my Dell, ofc.
The first windows PC I bought, with a 16" EiZO monitor and EISA bus and SCSI drives had 16 MB, 64MHz x486-DX2 ... the total package costed something like $8k. That was 1992 or 1993.
How would loading 140kB HTML into 160MB RAM make anything faster? ... (*facepalm*)
Using more RAM makes it slower, as soon as you swap. And algorithms that have to run over 160MB instead of over 140kB are obviously a factor of 1000 slower