" Like solar cells, they are decades away from being economical."
Yea... no. They've been economical for several years. Have you been paying attention to China pumping out tons of them at like $0.4/W? $100 for a 250w panel. A few years ago, that was more like $200. And the prices are only dropping faster and further with many more countries starting to realize Solar is indeed a viable energy source. Combine with extremely high-efficiency tech, like LED lighting, and the realization of not needing that much Solar power in the first place makes everything fit economically.
Solar is indeed the energy of choice - what do you think pretty much all life on this planet requires? Think of the food/energy chain. Sunlight>plants>animal, sunlight>algae>plankton>fish.
Even the Oriental Hornet can generate electricity, its exoskeleton containing structures that allow it to do so directly from sunlight.
To say solar is not viable is to ignore millions of life forms that successfully utilize it, AT FAR LOWER EFFICIENCIES, and to discount their entire existence.
No, I did not file a bug report. Why? Because the market's moving towards Chrome at an incredible pace. Firefox barely has 25% market share in the browser area. They fucked off with their FireFox OS and other crap, and lost core focus.
I love your lack of critical thinking. Very unfitting of someone with your UID.
Re-read my statement, think a little harder. There's a key word in there that you're either ignoring or attributing a wrong meaning to. I know which word it is, let's see if you can figure it out.
While Google may suck due to localization of search results, making me do more than I need to is an annoyance, and this finally got to my boss when he read that.
It's only 10 employees. Nobody's really gonna care, but I'm glad. Firefox is slowly but surely moving away from proper standards support. Chrome, Safari, IE11/10/8 even IE6 displays my website properly. Firefox? Bidding buttons are half-in half-out of their auction box with this latest update. They're fucking off.
"why would you want your employees OFF of Firefox. What else would you have them use?"
Something that has some actual STEADY (and not continually dropping like a rock) usage.
Also, Firefox, one tab open, freshly-loaded after reboot. 415MB RAM usage. The bloat they add into the starting of the page, making you wait essentially 2-3 seconds before you can type anything in the URL bar; fuck that too.
they have simply gone AWAY from anything they were. And it absolutely fucking sucks.
We'll use Chromium instead, and ignore Google's own offering.
It's not like 10 employees is going to make a difference, but the same options FireFox has are available for Chromium, at far less bloat, and lower resource usage.
That this change just gave me the leverage I needed to take all of our employees of FireFox. Thanks for pissing my CEO off and making my job easier, Mozilla!
Our landfills likely contain more REEs and metals than we can possibly imagine.
Pretty soon, I'll bet on combo energy-producing/recycling/processing area built right atop landfills as we realize just how much of that stuff can be easily reclaimed and re-purposed or utilized for energy.
"And this stuff is important enough that instead of lining up a list of links, we are giving you one link to Google using the search term "rare earths." "
And said search term brings up totally different results depending upon your geographical area, some of which lead you to nothing worth value.
It's like the editors of this once-venerable tech blog have totally forgotten about tech and stories they've covered in the past.
They could've gone with a 32-bit quad core, saved on costs, and still had pretty much the same performance. The RAM is going to be the major bottleneck, here, in a multi-tasking OS.
And ONLY 2 GB of RAM? What's the fucking point of including a 64-bit processor?
It's idiotic design decisions EXACTLY like this *cough Toshiba Satellite L45 cough* that make me stay away from upgrading hardware.
There's no point to having 64-bit CPU if you don't even give it MINIMUM 4GB RAM. Especially on a QUAD CORE device. Are you trying to memory-starve the damned thing?
"One curious corollary is that if the human brain is a Turing machine, then humans can never decide this issue either, a point that the authors deliberately steer well clear of."
Of course they go away from that, because otherwise their foolishness and hypocrisy would be exposed.
I would sue them and win. They only manage my licenses. I OWN the licenses.
they take my licenses away from me, I file criminal charges on top of the lawsuit, on top of a heavier chargeback for ALL purchases made through that service, and report them for fraud.
I would win here in California, where I would have Jurisdiction.
EA backed down really fast against me. Valve's lawyers don't want to test me, either.
"Money spent on a game that doesn't even exist yet (there is just a hangar and an in-game simulator and the controls are a pain)."
Uhh, I've got much more than that in my current download/install of SC, including five custom ships. Unless you backed it and have a copy, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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" Like solar cells, they are decades away from being economical."
Yea... no. They've been economical for several years. Have you been paying attention to China pumping out tons of them at like $0.4/W? $100 for a 250w panel. A few years ago, that was more like $200. And the prices are only dropping faster and further with many more countries starting to realize Solar is indeed a viable energy source. Combine with extremely high-efficiency tech, like LED lighting, and the realization of not needing that much Solar power in the first place makes everything fit economically.
Solar is indeed the energy of choice - what do you think pretty much all life on this planet requires? Think of the food/energy chain. Sunlight>plants>animal, sunlight>algae>plankton>fish.
Even the Oriental Hornet can generate electricity, its exoskeleton containing structures that allow it to do so directly from sunlight.
To say solar is not viable is to ignore millions of life forms that successfully utilize it, AT FAR LOWER EFFICIENCIES, and to discount their entire existence.
Care to try again?
Maybe 2% of our 'customers' use FireFox. 89% Chrome, 4% Safari, 5% IE of some flavor.
"It will not allow you to modify"
Yea, which is why I can change my injector fuel/air ratio on the fly through the ODBII port using an ODBII-USB cable and my laptop.
And have been since street racing in the 90s/early 2000s.
soylent news.
And yea, it sucks dicks. I feel ashamed for having even contributed to that site in the tiniest bit.
It worked fine all the way back to FireFox 3.
No, I did not file a bug report. Why? Because the market's moving towards Chrome at an incredible pace. Firefox barely has 25% market share in the browser area. They fucked off with their FireFox OS and other crap, and lost core focus.
I love your lack of critical thinking. Very unfitting of someone with your UID.
Re-read my statement, think a little harder. There's a key word in there that you're either ignoring or attributing a wrong meaning to. I know which word it is, let's see if you can figure it out.
You must really suck at reading comprehension.
'Finally gave me leverage'. That implies there's also a WHOLE OTHER SLEW OF BULLSHIT BEFOREHAND.
But AC's aren't very bright, so I'll forgive your ignorance. Not.
While Google may suck due to localization of search results, making me do more than I need to is an annoyance, and this finally got to my boss when he read that.
It's only 10 employees. Nobody's really gonna care, but I'm glad. Firefox is slowly but surely moving away from proper standards support. Chrome, Safari, IE11/10/8 even IE6 displays my website properly. Firefox? Bidding buttons are half-in half-out of their auction box with this latest update. They're fucking off.
"why would you want your employees OFF of Firefox. What else would you have them use?"
Something that has some actual STEADY (and not continually dropping like a rock) usage.
Also, Firefox, one tab open, freshly-loaded after reboot. 415MB RAM usage. The bloat they add into the starting of the page, making you wait essentially 2-3 seconds before you can type anything in the URL bar; fuck that too.
they have simply gone AWAY from anything they were. And it absolutely fucking sucks.
We'll use Chromium instead, and ignore Google's own offering.
It's not like 10 employees is going to make a difference, but the same options FireFox has are available for Chromium, at far less bloat, and lower resource usage.
I hope you're not that blind to miss the obvious answer, here.
Make shitty scareware to get you to download the REAL spyware.
That this change just gave me the leverage I needed to take all of our employees of FireFox. Thanks for pissing my CEO off and making my job easier, Mozilla!
Our landfills likely contain more REEs and metals than we can possibly imagine.
Pretty soon, I'll bet on combo energy-producing/recycling/processing area built right atop landfills as we realize just how much of that stuff can be easily reclaimed and re-purposed or utilized for energy.
"And this stuff is important enough that instead of lining up a list of links, we are giving you one link to Google using the search term "rare earths." "
And said search term brings up totally different results depending upon your geographical area, some of which lead you to nothing worth value.
It's like the editors of this once-venerable tech blog have totally forgotten about tech and stories they've covered in the past.
It shows the general poor state of current software development tools, languages, and capabilities of the programmers themselves.
They could've gone with a 32-bit quad core, saved on costs, and still had pretty much the same performance. The RAM is going to be the major bottleneck, here, in a multi-tasking OS.
Multitasking? On a memory-starved 64-bit quad core processor?
Yea, you have fun with that!
And ONLY 2 GB of RAM? What's the fucking point of including a 64-bit processor?
It's idiotic design decisions EXACTLY like this *cough Toshiba Satellite L45 cough* that make me stay away from upgrading hardware.
There's no point to having 64-bit CPU if you don't even give it MINIMUM 4GB RAM. Especially on a QUAD CORE device. Are you trying to memory-starve the damned thing?
"One curious corollary is that if the human brain is a Turing machine, then humans can never decide this issue either, a point that the authors deliberately steer well clear of."
Of course they go away from that, because otherwise their foolishness and hypocrisy would be exposed.
I would sue them and win. They only manage my licenses. I OWN the licenses.
they take my licenses away from me, I file criminal charges on top of the lawsuit, on top of a heavier chargeback for ALL purchases made through that service, and report them for fraud.
I would win here in California, where I would have Jurisdiction.
EA backed down really fast against me. Valve's lawyers don't want to test me, either.
" a power source that's only producing cheap power during periods where demand is lowest?"
Yep, I can tell you don't live anywhere in the southern United States. Especially the southwestern areas.
" In fact, a good inverter can act as the charge controller for your batteries"
Charging a battery off of AC? Surely you mean RECTIFIER.
That's because their solar design SUCKS.
And they vastly over-stated possible power production.
"Money spent on a game that doesn't even exist yet (there is just a hangar and an in-game simulator and the controls are a pain)."
Uhh, I've got much more than that in my current download/install of SC, including five custom ships. Unless you backed it and have a copy, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Early Access, as in on Steam?
Uh, yes, you do have recourse. Contact Steam and get to it. Demand a refund for the reason the game is no longer what was advertised.
Or you call your credit card company and chargeback.
"on-line games are far less susceptible to piracy"
PGFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Are you fucking serious?