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  1. Re:Electric cars are as clean as the electricity u on India Aims To Make Every Car Electric By 2030 In Bid To Tackle Pollution (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Electric engines are around 99% efficient.
    Same for charging batteries, that is why I wrote 'close to'.

    The losses are ofc in the transmission and tires etc. But those are the same regardless of engine type.

  2. Re:That won't prove commercially viable power on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly makes a fission plant safer than a fusion plant?

  3. Re:Range is not the concern there, cost is. on India Aims To Make Every Car Electric By 2030 In Bid To Tackle Pollution (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In Europe people are driving long distances in a car once a year. For vacations ... when we have to take kids, surfing gear and other stuff with us.

    Otherwise you use a train or a plane. Driving more then lets say 300km is just plain stupid.

  4. Re:Electric cars are as clean as the electricity u on India Aims To Make Every Car Electric By 2030 In Bid To Tackle Pollution (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, it does not.
    Car engines have an efficiency of 20% or less.
    A coal power plant is at 45%.
    Charging electric cars is close to 100%
    So: using coal plants to charge electric cars basically reduces emissions by 50%.

  5. Re:What will happen to all those spent batteries? on India Aims To Make Every Car Electric By 2030 In Bid To Tackle Pollution (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Any kind of battery is easily recycled.

  6. Actually the people there already have cars.
    Converting them to electric makes sense.
    No idea bout 'running water' ... if you can not drink water from the tap it sounds kind of pointless to me.

  7. A good deal of 'Integer Basic' was implemented in Sweet16.
    An interpreted 16Bit assembly language.

  8. This belongs into the 'biggest nonsense' collection of posts I ever have seen on /.

    Forth is extremely close to assembly, and has absolutely nothing to do with FORTRAN.

  9. Re:isn't this pretty straightforward? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    My business card says: 'software generalist'
    And my customers take me seriously, otherwise they would not pay my bills or hire me at the first place.

  10. Re:I pulled all that shit out ... on Modern 'Hackintoshes' Show That Apple Should Probably Just Build a Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is a 'potential' answer, but I saw no difference in speed at that time.
    Considering that I/O speed is basically based only on the hardware, you could perhaps run an emulator running 6502 code in an 68k emulator running on a PowerPC and would not notice any difference to native PowerPC code, probably not even in CPU usage.

  11. That is why I'm 'nibbling' on my thumb when I'm thinking, what to type with my other hand :)

  12. This particular poem looks more polish or Serbian to me (I'm german).

  13. Re:Bullying? on Humans Are Already Harassing Security Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    With cameras?

  14. Re:I pulled all that shit out ... on Modern 'Hackintoshes' Show That Apple Should Probably Just Build a Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I don't know anything about The architecture of Mac OS.

    My first programs I wrote on it where done in Modula 2, which had its own windowing and event library (to be portable), which was 100 times easier to use than the Pascal version of Mac OS.

    Later I programmed in Think C, a subset of C++. No templates (don't think they were invented that time already), and no multiple inheritance. But a nice and clean programming environment.

  15. Re:isn't this pretty straightforward? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    Not my problem :)

    And I have no problems with drop outs either, most of them simply were smart enough to no longer follow 'the system'.

  16. http://christian-morgenstern.d...:

    But that is just a translation of a german Poem, 'Der Kranke'.

  17. By using a modern programming language you no longer need to think or plan.
    Care to point out such a language?

    Even in SQL or Prolog I have to think and plan, but might just be me ...

  18. Of course you can write poetry in Esperanto.
    Despite the fact that it borrowed words from most european languages it sounds very similar to italian/latin/spain.
    For some reason the inventor thought plural words should sound greek, though :)
    However when I realized that only about 2million people spoke it fluently I stopped learning it ... but I guess I can still read it somewhat, as it is simply a conglomerate of the most common european words.

  19. Smart, but wrong.
    That way of programming is called 'object based', not 'object oriented'.
    Most notably, because you have no objects, but only structs and functions.

  20. Historicaly preprocessing and compiling were two steps, done by two different programs.
    And there is a lint for a reason. Machines at that time had very low amounts of memory, so a C compiler e.g. would simly compile everything down to register sized ints and pointers, often completely ignoring the actual types. To type check your programs you would use lint.

  21. C was designed to be a portable assembler.
    And obviously every compiler can 'map' high level code to assembly.

  22. Actually most Prolog systems are 'smarter' than to use 'brute force'.

  23. Re:I pulled all that shit out ... on Modern 'Hackintoshes' Show That Apple Should Probably Just Build a Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess he had a broken Mac and did nit realize it.
    At that time I owned Macs and an 486/66 PC.

    The PC was fastest on Linux, Slackware (0.9 or something close). There was no noticeable difference between Macs and PCs regarding file operations (why would there?) the PC run Windows 3.1 and later 3.11 and in the end Win95.

    Needless to say that I never used anything else than the IDE under Win 3.1/3.11. The whole system was basically unuseable.

  24. Re:isn't this pretty straightforward? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    Hu?
    I basically studied and worked at the university for ten years. No idea how you come to 20.
    The thesis took me about 5 month, the limit on thesises is 6 month I think ... but you can probably extend the timeframe once.
    The topic I studied is 'computer science' so if I had finished my complete degree I would be a 'computer scientist' ... no idea about what you want to argue ... more precisley a 'Diplom Informatiker' which translates into english as 'computer scientist'.

  25. Strictly speaking C has neither Objects nor Modules ... just saying.