Energy per unit weight is the limiting factor for electric vehicle batteries. Weight is not a constraint for stationary batteries, so other more cost effective technologies can be used. Of course, one dirty little secret nobody mentions is that lithium ion batteries can be damaged by cold weather, in addition to being much less efficient. So we would like to see a battery technology with a much wider temperature range.
Solar and wind power generation by themselves don't reduce the amount of peak power production capacity by other means necessary, since peak demand can coincide with times with no sun or wind. However, if an energy storage media is available, then all power needs can be met by just enough solar and wind capacity to meet _average_ demand -- which is significantly lower than peak demand. I always imagined pumping water uphill into a reservoir to feed hydroelectric turbines as a way of storing power, but if batteries really become cheap and reliable... I'll take whatever works.
Silly feminist, computers were invented to facilitate downloading ASCII porn! The only thing that has changed is the resolution... er, and now we have sound and motion.
Apparently single men in the 30's that still live with their parents have way to much disposable income... somebody ask each of these guys if their mother still makes their bed for them!
Gee, I wonder what happened "about twenty years ago" that made flying worse? You sure it wasn't about 16 years ago? Like maybe starting on September 11, 2001?
Now what am I going to do with my ride-on luggage! I guess I'll give up my plan to upgrade the motor and batteries to get up to 40mph going through the terminal...
I see why you've obviously named yourself after Aldous Huxley. You have a real knack for writing science fiction! I suspect organized crime isn't quite as organized as you imply it is. Even the Trump crime gang is usually much more like Keystone Cops than James Bond villains.
Doesn't matter -- they are doomed regardless of what they do. They don't have a viable business model, and at this point nobody trusts them enough to do business with them. The best they can do is prolong the inevitable until the smarter ones manage to get out.
The worst part: Mozilla isn't even the most popular browser used to download and install Chrome. Microsoft Explorer and Edge are much more popular for that single task!
Funny, I haven't used either of these dinosaurs in years. In fact, every time I hear that Yahoo or Mozilla are still in business, I'm surprised. Note to Yahoo: suing your business partners is not the best way to attract new business partners. Note to Mozilla: you know Google doesn't need you at all, they've got their own browser that's far superior to your own! They are doing you a favor by offering to share revenue with you!
Sure, they can ask, and any enlightened company will politely tell them, "No way!" And as long as companies are honest and upfront about whether or not they have built in back doors, so that their customers can chose whether or not they want to deal with the risk, I'm fine with it. The problem is, aren't the criminals the most likely to avoid all the tech with back doors? In other words, voluntary weakening of security doesn't really accomplish anything, does it?
"Off the books"?!? In other words, they can spend as much as they want, and congress cannot cut off the funds, even if they are used explicitly for espionage on businesses competing with businesses owned by the Trump mob family?
Sounds like a law custom made to kill the German consumer electronics industry, as everyone buys products from other countries that don't have built in insecurity.
So, this is just like the Second Life real estate bubble? People are planning on making a fortune investing in something with a marginal cost of close to zero for an infinite number of copies? Or to people really get six figures worth of satisfaction from virtual felines?
Pretty sure this problem, like most airline problems, is easily solved by throwing money at it. Offer pilots enough money, they will change their plans and fly the plane for you. Might make a dent in American's quarterly profits, however.
To take advantage of 4k content, you will also have to upgrade your EYES, because human visual perception is incapable of perceiving more than 4000x4000 pixels!
More bandwidth is always good, and dynamic HDR is probably a good thing, but once again I remind you that human visual acuity peaks at around 4000x4000... meaning paying for resolutions greater than that is pointless because no human being is capable of perceiving the difference when the entire picture is in their field of view! Higher resolution for photos makes sense because you can blow up a small part of the photo, and phone screens should be 8000x4000 so they can be used in VR goggles (4000x4000 pixels for each eye stereoscopic vision). But recording and shipping your favorite videos in anything greated than 4K resolution is pointless!
According to my understanding of an economics principle called "the multiplier effect", in a true frictionless economy where all transactions take place instantly with zero time delay, there would be an infinite money supply. Yeah, that's one of the main reasons I think economics is BS.
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Energy per unit weight is the limiting factor for electric vehicle batteries. Weight is not a constraint for stationary batteries, so other more cost effective technologies can be used. Of course, one dirty little secret nobody mentions is that lithium ion batteries can be damaged by cold weather, in addition to being much less efficient. So we would like to see a battery technology with a much wider temperature range.
Even the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is now running off of solar power, which deserves some kind of award for irony!
Solar and wind power generation by themselves don't reduce the amount of peak power production capacity by other means necessary, since peak demand can coincide with times with no sun or wind. However, if an energy storage media is available, then all power needs can be met by just enough solar and wind capacity to meet _average_ demand -- which is significantly lower than peak demand. I always imagined pumping water uphill into a reservoir to feed hydroelectric turbines as a way of storing power, but if batteries really become cheap and reliable... I'll take whatever works.
I don't blame the men; I blame the men's mothers for not raising them right!
Silly feminist, computers were invented to facilitate downloading ASCII porn! The only thing that has changed is the resolution... er, and now we have sound and motion.
... if they can screw in the back of a lambo!
Apparently single men in the 30's that still live with their parents have way to much disposable income... somebody ask each of these guys if their mother still makes their bed for them!
Gee, I wonder what happened "about twenty years ago" that made flying worse? You sure it wasn't about 16 years ago? Like maybe starting on September 11, 2001?
Now what am I going to do with my ride-on luggage! I guess I'll give up my plan to upgrade the motor and batteries to get up to 40mph going through the terminal...
I see why you've obviously named yourself after Aldous Huxley. You have a real knack for writing science fiction! I suspect organized crime isn't quite as organized as you imply it is. Even the Trump crime gang is usually much more like Keystone Cops than James Bond villains.
Doesn't matter -- they are doomed regardless of what they do. They don't have a viable business model, and at this point nobody trusts them enough to do business with them. The best they can do is prolong the inevitable until the smarter ones manage to get out.
The worst part: Mozilla isn't even the most popular browser used to download and install Chrome. Microsoft Explorer and Edge are much more popular for that single task!
Funny, I haven't used either of these dinosaurs in years. In fact, every time I hear that Yahoo or Mozilla are still in business, I'm surprised. Note to Yahoo: suing your business partners is not the best way to attract new business partners. Note to Mozilla: you know Google doesn't need you at all, they've got their own browser that's far superior to your own! They are doing you a favor by offering to share revenue with you!
Sure, they can ask, and any enlightened company will politely tell them, "No way!" And as long as companies are honest and upfront about whether or not they have built in back doors, so that their customers can chose whether or not they want to deal with the risk, I'm fine with it. The problem is, aren't the criminals the most likely to avoid all the tech with back doors? In other words, voluntary weakening of security doesn't really accomplish anything, does it?
"Off the books"?!? In other words, they can spend as much as they want, and congress cannot cut off the funds, even if they are used explicitly for espionage on businesses competing with businesses owned by the Trump mob family?
Hold my beer!
Sounds like a law custom made to kill the German consumer electronics industry, as everyone buys products from other countries that don't have built in insecurity.
So, this is just like the Second Life real estate bubble? People are planning on making a fortune investing in something with a marginal cost of close to zero for an infinite number of copies? Or to people really get six figures worth of satisfaction from virtual felines?
Pretty sure this problem, like most airline problems, is easily solved by throwing money at it. Offer pilots enough money, they will change their plans and fly the plane for you. Might make a dent in American's quarterly profits, however.
To take advantage of 4k content, you will also have to upgrade your EYES, because human visual perception is incapable of perceiving more than 4000x4000 pixels!
More bandwidth is always good, and dynamic HDR is probably a good thing, but once again I remind you that human visual acuity peaks at around 4000x4000... meaning paying for resolutions greater than that is pointless because no human being is capable of perceiving the difference when the entire picture is in their field of view! Higher resolution for photos makes sense because you can blow up a small part of the photo, and phone screens should be 8000x4000 so they can be used in VR goggles (4000x4000 pixels for each eye stereoscopic vision). But recording and shipping your favorite videos in anything greated than 4K resolution is pointless!
Isn't the task bar already functionally equivalent to a tabbed view of apps?
Do they have a picture of Ivanka Trump to illustrate the dictionary definition of "complicit"?
According to my understanding of an economics principle called "the multiplier effect", in a true frictionless economy where all transactions take place instantly with zero time delay, there would be an infinite money supply. Yeah, that's one of the main reasons I think economics is BS.
A SIMS 4 character is the only one that could use bitcoin for toilet paper...