1. Today I can buy 250w panels in the UK for ~79cents/watt, or a little under $9500 for 12KW at today's exchange. Bearing in mind that the price that you or even I pay is likely to considerably higher than the price of panels in "third world countries" - for the same reasons that power is cheaper. At MW scale the price is even lower.
2. I am not necessarily advocating panels on housing (although Germany is currently experimenting with estate built housing all with solar roofs and also estate battery systems (but not necessarily on the same estate)). If you visit Germany, you see MW sized solar panel systems built on all sorts of otherwise marginal land - all over the country. Here in the UK, it is actually more profitable to farm MW sized solar panels than crops on anything less than grade 2 land and there are many 100s of such installations all over the country, even though the UK has notoriously erm.. variable weather. Imagine what could be done in countries in sunny climates.
But the point is that increasing scale pushes the overall price down and, crucially, balances the majority of the aircon load - reducing the overall emissions for aircon is a happy by product.
3. In India, even dyed in the wool coal fired power plant companies are seeing the writing on the walls and are actively building double (and a few triple) digit solar plants. There must be money to be made here otherwise they would not bother.
Why do hot (and therefore sunny) countries not make a point of powering their air conditioning systems with solar panels? Given a COP of around 4 on modern systems, it should be possible to do this both economically and not using too much real estate. Even if power is required out of daylight hours, the panels should bear the brunt of the load.
For a slightly more modern take, this book is still relevant even today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Maybe someone read it recently - it is still a useful book.
What is this thing called a "record"? What possible use is it? Or could it be a new name for an old concept that might have existed in some ancient cruddy languages.
Cobol anyone?
And neither have Instagram, Messenger and the rest of them. GDPR requires that the data subject gives explicit consent, separately, to each use of their data. This really powerful stuff and, at the same time, totally alien to FB, Google et al. It isn't even as if the words in the regulations are unclear or writing in high faluting legalese:
Article 7.
1.Where processing is based on consent, the controller shall be able to demonstrate that the data subject has
consented to processing of his or her personal data.
2.If the data subject's consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the
request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters, in an
intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. Any part of such a declaration which constitutes
an infringement of this Regulation shall not be binding.
This is likely also to cause quite a bit of erm... inconvenience to the sellers of data. Methinks there will be much merriment amongst the legal profession in the EU over the next couple of years.
The fact that it all seems to be going in the right way - for now - does not mean it will continue. Many e-commerce jobs for humans will be destroyed in the next few years as e-commerce gets more and more automated. Yes there will be jobs, but for far fewer and better qualified/skilled people. If you are a relatively unskilled worker - in my view - your prospects are not going to be good. And, what is worse, it will be people like us that are facilitating this.
Don't even start me on what robotics are going to do to the trucking industry...
Apart from Uber and one or two others? Come to that, will Ford, GM, VW et al still exist as separate car giants in 30 years time? They'll all be sub-contracting to the people who will be hiring out individual transport to take you from place to place in a vehicle that you hire by the hour. Very, very few people will own their own cars. Still less drive them - except for those "quaint" early 2000's models - on special tracks to which they will be transported safely (on specially designed flat beds) by - yep, you've guessed it. Dear old Uber.
I imagine the wrecks will be returned by different flatbeds:-)
Because when you get small children (say 2-4 y.o not yet schooling) that speak different languages playing together - they will invent new terms and language to share concepts between themselves. I know, I was one of those children, whose long suffering parents were getting constant complaints from other parents saying that they could not understand their children. My parents comforted themselves by agreeing with them - because they couldn't understand me either.
This is how language happens. Get over it.
At Galdor we had an ICT-1301 in a purpose built building in the back garden of the house we lived in. It was built in 1961 and given the name "Flossie" by the manufacturers. She still exists and is waiting to be restored to working order, for the fourth time, at the National Computing Museum at Bletchley Park.
My extensive experience as a wearer of glasses is that it is varifocals that are the hardest to live with (I am short sighted, with some astigmatism). Particularly if one is is engaged in things that require some peripheral vision (e.g. ball sport, driving, flying etc). The problem with varifocals is that they only focus straight ahead and anything to the side of that central (up/down) band is not just out of focus, but (especially looking down and sideways) distorted. This means that to look at things to the side of centre (even a little bit) requires one to turn one's whole head to move in the direction that one wants to look. Bifocals are much easier, they don't give the continuous up/down focus of varifocals, but they don't distort when looking outside of the central focused "belt", so a quick flick to the right or left just happens naturally. I am lucky, I don't need a strong prescription and only distance and reading. Middle focus (which I am using for typing this) needs no glasses at all. YMMV.
If such glasses are to become successful then they will need binocular eye tracking (and probably some kind of brain interface as well [for focusing cues]). Then the glasses' centres will also have to track each respective eyeball's focal point as well. Then (and only then) will the "automatic focusing" become useful.
Perhaps this will kick someone into looking at the database, as a whole, on a periodic basis to check other limits. Maybe do the odd test transaction or spot trends in other tables which are unexpected? Maybe run some regression tests? Then use this information to tweak the data model in controlled fashion before it breaks.
The cost to the NHS is ~£26 each. You can buy them from registered UK online pharmacies for ~£45 each. Given that the £ has devalued rather more than somewhat against the US $, this may give you some sense of scale as to just much of a ripoff the price of $300 each is. It also makes rather a nonsense of the 8% profit margin mentioned in the article although - to be fair - it isn't made clear as to whether this is the overall margin for the company or the pens.
Assuming the UK is still the EU after 23rd June: it being being European - and according to EU rules - it too should be able to share that money. Which would be ironic, not just because it would piss off the French and the Germans, but also Newspaper (think Murdock) Big Content (er.. M..) and Cable (ah.. M) companies whom have been been lobbying the UK Government to clip the BBC's wings for the last couple of decades.
Could I gently point out that Dropbear is not, per se, a "trojaned ssh server". It is just a small opensource sshd implementation that is used for embedded applications, including things such as OpenWrt routers.
Forty five years ago, I started with some BASIC. But the thing that really got me hooked was that I had a simple problem, that mattered to me, that needed solving.
The need to solve a problem, being presented with a tool simple enough to understand and some help to get started seems to me to be the true trigger that can start someone off down the programming track.
Or alternatively: if it is not being "made" or acquired (from the Sun, nuclear tests or emissions etc) then, either way, it can be calibrated for. We know, pretty much, how much coal is being dug out of the ground and, indeed, pretty much which and volume of nucleotides that have been released. If we know this all then we can calibrate for this in the future. So what's the problem exactly?
If the returns are greater per unit time by waiting compared to the rate returned by actually spending time building and selling, why bother? Shareholders don't care about how the value of a company increases, just so long as it does.
The answer to your question is that it can probably go a lot further than you think. Where is the incentive to build more houses when, by delaying or targeting more lucrative customers, you get more money for doing no extra work? No property company nor, crucially, any home owner will buck the market by selling cheap. There are no votes for municipalities in building enough houses which could then stabilise prices - made worse (in the US) by the likelihood of them being sued by anyone that thought they would lose out.
Welcome to a small taste of the "housing boom" in South East of England. If our experience is anything to go by, you have a very long way to go yet.
People's memory is remarkably short. There is an (IIRC) official annual survey of the web (and other) servers in the USG's estate. That survey has regularly comes up with many, many poor security ratings. This is just one more example.
Yes, it's been around in server environments for years. Whilst one can see a case for adding this facility to linux servers in properly wrangled environments, my concern is on yer actual PCs, such as the one I am typing this on at the moment.
Is it just me that is rather uncomfortable about the ability to do seamless, run time, patching on (any) operating system? Isn't there a rather large elephant of a precedent out there somewhere for the sorts of things that this facility this feature could be misused for?
Some translation step would be required for an issued binary (e.g an operating system and/or program) to be transformed into locally encrypted "executable" code. Now if there is a mechanism available to a bios and/or
an operating system to do this, then ergo, it could be subverted.
So why bother?
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Three things:
1. Today I can buy 250w panels in the UK for ~79cents/watt, or a little under $9500 for 12KW at today's exchange. Bearing in mind that the price that you or even I pay is likely to considerably higher than the price of panels in "third world countries" - for the same reasons that power is cheaper. At MW scale the price is even lower.
2. I am not necessarily advocating panels on housing (although Germany is currently experimenting with estate built housing all with solar roofs and also estate battery systems (but not necessarily on the same estate)). If you visit Germany, you see MW sized solar panel systems built on all sorts of otherwise marginal land - all over the country. Here in the UK, it is actually more profitable to farm MW sized solar panels than crops on anything less than grade 2 land and there are many 100s of such installations all over the country, even though the UK has notoriously erm.. variable weather. Imagine what could be done in countries in sunny climates.
But the point is that increasing scale pushes the overall price down and, crucially, balances the majority of the aircon load - reducing the overall emissions for aircon is a happy by product.
3. In India, even dyed in the wool coal fired power plant companies are seeing the writing on the walls and are actively building double (and a few triple) digit solar plants. There must be money to be made here otherwise they would not bother.
Why do hot (and therefore sunny) countries not make a point of powering their air conditioning systems with solar panels? Given a COP of around 4 on modern systems, it should be possible to do this both economically and not using too much real estate. Even if power is required out of daylight hours, the panels should bear the brunt of the load.
For a slightly more modern take, this book is still relevant even today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Maybe someone read it recently - it is still a useful book.
What is this thing called a "record"? What possible use is it? Or could it be a new name for an old concept that might have existed in some ancient cruddy languages. Cobol anyone?
And neither have Instagram, Messenger and the rest of them. GDPR requires that the data subject gives explicit consent, separately, to each use of their data. This really powerful stuff and, at the same time, totally alien to FB, Google et al. It isn't even as if the words in the regulations are unclear or writing in high faluting legalese:
Article 7.
1.Where processing is based on consent, the controller shall be able to demonstrate that the data subject has consented to processing of his or her personal data.
2.If the data subject's consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters, in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. Any part of such a declaration which constitutes an infringement of this Regulation shall not be binding.
This is likely also to cause quite a bit of erm... inconvenience to the sellers of data. Methinks there will be much merriment amongst the legal profession in the EU over the next couple of years.
The fact that it all seems to be going in the right way - for now - does not mean it will continue. Many e-commerce jobs for humans will be destroyed in the next few years as e-commerce gets more and more automated. Yes there will be jobs, but for far fewer and better qualified/skilled people. If you are a relatively unskilled worker - in my view - your prospects are not going to be good. And, what is worse, it will be people like us that are facilitating this.
Don't even start me on what robotics are going to do to the trucking industry...
Apart from Uber and one or two others? Come to that, will Ford, GM, VW et al still exist as separate car giants in 30 years time? They'll all be sub-contracting to the people who will be hiring out individual transport to take you from place to place in a vehicle that you hire by the hour. Very, very few people will own their own cars. Still less drive them - except for those "quaint" early 2000's models - on special tracks to which they will be transported safely (on specially designed flat beds) by - yep, you've guessed it. Dear old Uber. I imagine the wrecks will be returned by different flatbeds :-)
Because when you get small children (say 2-4 y.o not yet schooling) that speak different languages playing together - they will invent new terms and language to share concepts between themselves. I know, I was one of those children, whose long suffering parents were getting constant complaints from other parents saying that they could not understand their children. My parents comforted themselves by agreeing with them - because they couldn't understand me either. This is how language happens. Get over it.
At Galdor we had an ICT-1301 in a purpose built building in the back garden of the house we lived in. It was built in 1961 and given the name "Flossie" by the manufacturers. She still exists and is waiting to be restored to working order, for the fourth time, at the National Computing Museum at Bletchley Park.
My extensive experience as a wearer of glasses is that it is varifocals that are the hardest to live with (I am short sighted, with some astigmatism). Particularly if one is is engaged in things that require some peripheral vision (e.g. ball sport, driving, flying etc). The problem with varifocals is that they only focus straight ahead and anything to the side of that central (up/down) band is not just out of focus, but (especially looking down and sideways) distorted. This means that to look at things to the side of centre (even a little bit) requires one to turn one's whole head to move in the direction that one wants to look. Bifocals are much easier, they don't give the continuous up/down focus of varifocals, but they don't distort when looking outside of the central focused "belt", so a quick flick to the right or left just happens naturally. I am lucky, I don't need a strong prescription and only distance and reading. Middle focus (which I am using for typing this) needs no glasses at all. YMMV.
If such glasses are to become successful then they will need binocular eye tracking (and probably some kind of brain interface as well [for focusing cues]). Then the glasses' centres will also have to track each respective eyeball's focal point as well. Then (and only then) will the "automatic focusing" become useful.
Perhaps this will kick someone into looking at the database, as a whole, on a periodic basis to check other limits. Maybe do the odd test transaction or spot trends in other tables which are unexpected? Maybe run some regression tests? Then use this information to tweak the data model in controlled fashion before it breaks.
You know, like grown ups do...
You may find this manufacturer's comparison page useful.
The cost to the NHS is ~£26 each. You can buy them from registered UK online pharmacies for ~£45 each. Given that the £ has devalued rather more than somewhat against the US $, this may give you some sense of scale as to just much of a ripoff the price of $300 each is. It also makes rather a nonsense of the 8% profit margin mentioned in the article although - to be fair - it isn't made clear as to whether this is the overall margin for the company or the pens.
Assuming the UK is still the EU after 23rd June: it being being European - and according to EU rules - it too should be able to share that money. Which would be ironic, not just because it would piss off the French and the Germans, but also Newspaper (think Murdock) Big Content (er.. M..) and Cable (ah.. M) companies whom have been been lobbying the UK Government to clip the BBC's wings for the last couple of decades.
Could I gently point out that Dropbear is not, per se, a "trojaned ssh server". It is just a small opensource sshd implementation that is used for embedded applications, including things such as OpenWrt routers.
The need to solve a problem, being presented with a tool simple enough to understand and some help to get started seems to me to be the true trigger that can start someone off down the programming track.
Or alternatively: if it is not being "made" or acquired (from the Sun, nuclear tests or emissions etc) then, either way, it can be calibrated for. We know, pretty much, how much coal is being dug out of the ground and, indeed, pretty much which and volume of nucleotides that have been released. If we know this all then we can calibrate for this in the future. So what's the problem exactly?
If the returns are greater per unit time by waiting compared to the rate returned by actually spending time building and selling, why bother? Shareholders don't care about how the value of a company increases, just so long as it does.
The answer to your question is that it can probably go a lot further than you think. Where is the incentive to build more houses when, by delaying or targeting more lucrative customers, you get more money for doing no extra work? No property company nor, crucially, any home owner will buck the market by selling cheap. There are no votes for municipalities in building enough houses which could then stabilise prices - made worse (in the US) by the likelihood of them being sued by anyone that thought they would lose out.
Welcome to a small taste of the "housing boom" in South East of England. If our experience is anything to go by, you have a very long way to go yet.
People's memory is remarkably short. There is an (IIRC) official annual survey of the web (and other) servers in the USG's estate. That survey has regularly comes up with many, many poor security ratings. This is just one more example.
Yes, it's been around in server environments for years. Whilst one can see a case for adding this facility to linux servers in properly wrangled environments, my concern is on yer actual PCs, such as the one I am typing this on at the moment.
Is it just me that is rather uncomfortable about the ability to do seamless, run time, patching on (any) operating system? Isn't there a rather large elephant of a precedent out there somewhere for the sorts of things that this facility this feature could be misused for?
Some translation step would be required for an issued binary (e.g an operating system and/or program) to be transformed into locally encrypted "executable" code. Now if there is a mechanism available to a bios and/or an operating system to do this, then ergo, it could be subverted. So why bother?
would be even huger. Getting the neutrons will be the easy part :-)
Which is code for "extremely cold all the time".