China built a coal ship that runs on batteries for FIFTY while miles before needing a recharge!
That means it can go a whopping 25 miles away from port unless the destination also has a suitable charging station.
Color me under-whelmed.
Was it cheaper to build? Operate? Staff?
Aside from a puny range of operation, what is the benefit? Oh yeah, it runs on electricity, which, in China is probably from coal-fired plant, so what we have is a "new" coal-fired ship, difference is, the coal is burned elsewhere.
Big whoop.
Oh, and to give it a useful range/carrying capacity all they need to do is fill the cargo hold with batteries! Genius.
It's a fair argument, but rednecks would be one of the last groups I'd expect to stand up for women's rights.
Your ignorance is showing - southerners, AKA "rednecks" are polite to women in the south, put them on a pedestal - it is the northerners that treat women as crappy as they treat men in a quest for "equality".
He, and investors like him, are sheltered from having to pay for the losses of their risk taking.
By spending Other People's Money, he avoided risking his own, and gave his investors the opportunity to profit along with him. If they didn't, it was an unsuccessful investment, nothing more.
Democrats are trying to validate the concept of "resignation after accusation" and denying "innocent until proven guilty" in hopes of finally finding a way to remove Trump from office.
The basic argument is going to be "We kicked out all the democrats without proof, why won't you kick the president out without proof?"
That's not quite the context of Alan Turing's dilemma, he admitted to engaging in what were at the time illegal activities. I know of no case of anyone going to prison because they asked someone to change an entry on a piece of paper - if anyone was going to be punished for such a "crime" it would be the person that changed the gender, not the person asking for the change.
Asking for something isn't a crime, how you ask may be.
the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code to kick out of the processing chain any account of a 'known transsexual.'
Seriously? The system wasn't "specifically designed" to "cause an error code" - it was programmed to process male or female, nothing more than that. The "human" system let the worker take an eraser and change an "F" to an "M" under gender as the person requested.
The system was designed to accommodate an "F" or "M" in the gender position, it's no more nefarious than that. That a computer system is now designed to accommodate any Unicode character for gender doesn't mean it "supports" transgender rights.
This is like arguing that older COBOL programs were designed assuming the world would end before the year 2000, so they didn't allow for "century" in date fields, optiong instead for only a two-digit number to represent year.
I have seen a city of over thirty million that actually works. The trains run on time, up to five subway levels deep plus an elevated level, there's no crime and life is pretty good. Why do cities like that have to be Asian?
Right - how is it Asian people figured out something that we white people couldn't/haven't?
Please define "no crime" and "life is pretty good" - I suspect the former is a lie, and the latter only applies to the folks You personally met, not all 30 Million residents.
It does no such thing, it occupies exactly one hour of their lives, it teaches them to follow a pre-written script and how to follow instructions. What do you imagine the kids say at lunch after they "complete" their Hour of Code? I suspect it is something like "that was stupid - if that's what programming is, I don't want anything to do with that!"
This is a popular argument parents make to squeeze more money out of others.
In the vast majority of America, schools are funded through property taxes, unless the community is poor, then the state will kick in some money (see Abbott Districts in NJ - the poorest communities collect so much aid they are among the highest-funded school districts in the state, and among the lowest performing), yet parents never petition for higher property taxes, they argue that unknown "others" need to pay more to educate their children.
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg gave Newark $100,000,000? Do you know where the money went? Not to fix crumbling buildings, not to put technology in the classrooms, not to hire more teachers? No, it went towards $1.000/day consultants and creating charter schools. The upside? It proved that charter schools, which operate with smaller budgets and less regulation perform better - parent in Newark are clamoring to get their children in the charter schools.
Sure, critics will argue that charter schools are only proven to have, on average, average results educating children - but communities like Newark are suffering with an entire public school system squarely performing below-average.
It was considered a bad idea to have commercial interests set the academic agenda? It seems to me that after failing to convince school boards across the nation to add their pointless "hour of code" activity to their curriculum, Google is now going after individual teachers and overtly offering them cash to do so.
I anticipate we'll see Exxon Mobil funding an "hour of climate studies" and Monsanto funding an "hour of genetics" if this is successful.
As for lower current in the winter, of course (it lets the pack get cold because that does no damage; it can be set to be heated, or just heat up on its own) - but on a car that does 0-60 in 4,8 seconds (Motor Trend measurement), I think it can spare some amps (on wintery roads at that).;)
Because diminished battery capacity means performance of electric car is impacted? No. It reduces the range of the vehicle, not the acceleration of the vehicle.
Let's not forget that in most markets electric cars get a free ride on public roadways. Gasoline taxes are collected to pay for the infrastructure combustion engines drive on, electricity has no such taxes so plug-in electrics pay no taxes based on usage, and hybrids only pay minimal taxes, based on the gasoline they use when the charge runs out.
You should watch the documentary "All Things Must Pass", currently on cable - it's a great documentary by Colin Hanks about the meteoric rise, and rapid decline of Tower Records.
Why couldn't downsizing be an option? Surely the magazine now is in much better shape, financially or organizationally, than when it was started out as an enthusiast operation.
You imagine Linux Journal had exactly how many full-time employees when they turned out the lights? I suspect the staff numbered in the several - remember, at the end, it was essentially an advertising-supported website, little more than that...
Interment camps Concentration Camps - just one difference, we kept families together. Another, we didn't send countless Japanese into gas chambers, and stripped their body of hair, gold, glasses, and any other valuable before sending their corpses to incinerators that rained down ashes on nearby cities.
But hey, why am I explaining this to you, in Germany - I'm certain they covered all this in your German History classes.
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What happens when a 2.4 Mw battery pack falls into the ocean?
China built a coal ship that runs on batteries for FIFTY while miles before needing a recharge!
That means it can go a whopping 25 miles away from port unless the destination also has a suitable charging station.
Color me under-whelmed.
Was it cheaper to build? Operate? Staff?
Aside from a puny range of operation, what is the benefit? Oh yeah, it runs on electricity, which, in China is probably from coal-fired plant, so what we have is a "new" coal-fired ship, difference is, the coal is burned elsewhere.
Big whoop.
Oh, and to give it a useful range/carrying capacity all they need to do is fill the cargo hold with batteries! Genius.
So has China, like the rest of the world, stopped building coal-fired power generators?
It's a fair argument, but rednecks would be one of the last groups I'd expect to stand up for women's rights.
Your ignorance is showing - southerners, AKA "rednecks" are polite to women in the south, put them on a pedestal - it is the northerners that treat women as crappy as they treat men in a quest for "equality".
He, and investors like him, are sheltered from having to pay for the losses of their risk taking.
By spending Other People's Money, he avoided risking his own, and gave his investors the opportunity to profit along with him. If they didn't, it was an unsuccessful investment, nothing more.
I'm sure the British computing industry DID hemorrhage talent because of this pervasive bigotry (like against gays, R.I.P. Alan Turing)
Turing admitted to violating british laws, not bigotry against his orientation in the workplace.
Stop trying to bend history to support your modern views.
Holding the door for a woman is declaring them too weak to do it themselves! Harassment!
Democrats are trying to validate the concept of "resignation after accusation" and denying "innocent until proven guilty" in hopes of finally finding a way to remove Trump from office.
The basic argument is going to be "We kicked out all the democrats without proof, why won't you kick the president out without proof?"
That's not quite the context of Alan Turing's dilemma, he admitted to engaging in what were at the time illegal activities. I know of no case of anyone going to prison because they asked someone to change an entry on a piece of paper - if anyone was going to be punished for such a "crime" it would be the person that changed the gender, not the person asking for the change.
Asking for something isn't a crime, how you ask may be.
And yet you stay in that job... Interesting.
the system was "specifically designed to no longer accommodate them, instead, to literally cause an error code to kick out of the processing chain any account of a 'known transsexual.'
Seriously? The system wasn't "specifically designed" to "cause an error code" - it was programmed to process male or female, nothing more than that. The "human" system let the worker take an eraser and change an "F" to an "M" under gender as the person requested.
The system was designed to accommodate an "F" or "M" in the gender position, it's no more nefarious than that. That a computer system is now designed to accommodate any Unicode character for gender doesn't mean it "supports" transgender rights.
This is like arguing that older COBOL programs were designed assuming the world would end before the year 2000, so they didn't allow for "century" in date fields, optiong instead for only a two-digit number to represent year.
I have seen a city of over thirty million that actually works. The trains run on time, up to five subway levels deep plus an elevated level, there's no crime and life is pretty good. Why do cities like that have to be Asian?
Right - how is it Asian people figured out something that we white people couldn't/haven't?
Please define "no crime" and "life is pretty good" - I suspect the former is a lie, and the latter only applies to the folks You personally met, not all 30 Million residents.
So Chinese coal furnace pollution sneaks across the pacific and helps explain the smog in Los Angeles?
You understand that as pollution travels, it dissipates, right?
Yeah, because a Democrat would NEVER DREAM of such a thing. /sarcasm
ASKING doesn't require a court order, and compliance is OPTIONAL .
It's pushing kids to code one way.
It does no such thing, it occupies exactly one hour of their lives, it teaches them to follow a pre-written script and how to follow instructions. What do you imagine the kids say at lunch after they "complete" their Hour of Code? I suspect it is something like "that was stupid - if that's what programming is, I don't want anything to do with that!"
They have to bribe people to get them interested in what they're offering?
Apparently offering it (Hour of Code) for free wasn't working, even after they got President Obama to promote the project.
This is a popular argument parents make to squeeze more money out of others.
In the vast majority of America, schools are funded through property taxes, unless the community is poor, then the state will kick in some money (see Abbott Districts in NJ - the poorest communities collect so much aid they are among the highest-funded school districts in the state, and among the lowest performing), yet parents never petition for higher property taxes, they argue that unknown "others" need to pay more to educate their children.
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg gave Newark $100,000,000? Do you know where the money went? Not to fix crumbling buildings, not to put technology in the classrooms, not to hire more teachers? No, it went towards $1.000/day consultants and creating charter schools. The upside? It proved that charter schools, which operate with smaller budgets and less regulation perform better - parent in Newark are clamoring to get their children in the charter schools.
Sure, critics will argue that charter schools are only proven to have, on average, average results educating children - but communities like Newark are suffering with an entire public school system squarely performing below-average.
It was considered a bad idea to have commercial interests set the academic agenda? It seems to me that after failing to convince school boards across the nation to add their pointless "hour of code" activity to their curriculum, Google is now going after individual teachers and overtly offering them cash to do so.
I anticipate we'll see Exxon Mobil funding an "hour of climate studies" and Monsanto funding an "hour of genetics" if this is successful.
As for lower current in the winter, of course (it lets the pack get cold because that does no damage; it can be set to be heated, or just heat up on its own) - but on a car that does 0-60 in 4,8 seconds (Motor Trend measurement), I think it can spare some amps (on wintery roads at that). ;)
Because diminished battery capacity means performance of electric car is impacted? No. It reduces the range of the vehicle, not the acceleration of the vehicle.
Wow, that seems totally do-able, I can't think of a better way to move electricity than in battery packs in electric cars...
Let's not forget that in most markets electric cars get a free ride on public roadways. Gasoline taxes are collected to pay for the infrastructure combustion engines drive on, electricity has no such taxes so plug-in electrics pay no taxes based on usage, and hybrids only pay minimal taxes, based on the gasoline they use when the charge runs out.
You should watch the documentary "All Things Must Pass", currently on cable - it's a great documentary by Colin Hanks about the meteoric rise, and rapid decline of Tower Records.
Why couldn't downsizing be an option? Surely the magazine now is in much better shape, financially or organizationally, than when it was started out as an enthusiast operation.
You imagine Linux Journal had exactly how many full-time employees when they turned out the lights? I suspect the staff numbered in the several - remember, at the end, it was essentially an advertising-supported website, little more than that...
you treated Japanese like Nazis treated Jews
Interment camps Concentration Camps - just one difference, we kept families together. Another, we didn't send countless Japanese into gas chambers, and stripped their body of hair, gold, glasses, and any other valuable before sending their corpses to incinerators that rained down ashes on nearby cities.
But hey, why am I explaining this to you, in Germany - I'm certain they covered all this in your German History classes.