That's been a problem for a while. The Texans assigned responsibility for building and maintaining interstate transmission lines into and out of Texas to the power utilities in the state. Surprisingly enough they didn't bother upgrading capacity and instead used it as a way of artificially decreasing competition and raising the rates for customers.
It wouldn't surprise me if there'd be consequences like that for those sorts of projects. But OTOH it makes it much easier for wind to compete for supplying a portion of the energy needs of Texas.
Around here those sorts of projects have a much harder time competing as they have to compete with hydroelectric, but a bit easier since utilities are required to get a certain amount from renewable sources. I can't recall if they hedged out hydroelectric or not. It is renewable, but I seem to remember some shenanigans with not allowing it to be considered as such for the purposes of compliance with that regulation.
No it isn't, there are costs associated with it. You can't place the wind farms wherever you like, and there needs to be massive investment in distribution. On top of which you still need something for base power production or some method of storing excesses.
Natural gas isn't perfect, but you can get it in carbon neutral ways. Such as by capturing the natural gas that escapes from landfills. It's not likely to be a large source, but you may as well capture and burn it since it's a viable fuel source. But admittedly you'd still want to be cutting way back. Figuring out a way of capturing the stuff that's likely to be released from the sea bed is an excellent way of reducing the effect of global warming.
If you noticed in the summary, AMD is advocating for a similar technology that works on their hardware as well as on nVidia's, seems like developers would prefer that for practical reasons.
But, should they? If a developer doesn't want to use PhysX, they shouldn't. If they're doing it purely for money, then chances are that it's damaging to the industry. Sure physics acceleration is cool for certain types of games, racing games and FPS, but the problem is that developers shouldn't be paid to use technology that isn 't helpful for creating quality games.
Especially if it causes games to be less enjoyable on other hardware platforms. I could see a real problem with this in terms of anti-trust actions.
I purchased a Sennheiser bluetooth headset, and it includes a USB charging cable and a wall adapter to plug it into. Additionally the jack is micro USB so in theory I should be able to use the whole thing to charge other things as well. I waste minimal power if I'm already using the computer and I can just plug it into the wall if I'm not. It's both convenient and well considered.
This is a place where the summary typically gets a tl;dr response, do you think a post that includes a couple hundred distros will be read?
Silliness aside, this probably could've been avoided had Energizer made the device a generic one and just drawn power on that basis. No driver needed only MS to blame.
On second thought, I'm not sure I'd trust Windows to charge a battery correctly, it might end up owing millions.
That's the downside, anytime you acknowledge a mistake you're then looking like you have more than the idiots that have hundreds of mistakes that they don't disclose until caught making.
My parents once lost power for several hours because a crow got fried in one of the transformers down the street. People around here lose power from time to time when a tree falls on a line. Unplanned power outages are going to happen. Even though line reliability is probably higher now than at any time in the past, it still happens and companies like Google that rely upon it being always there should have plans.
This isn't just about keeping the people that use Google services informed, this is an admission that there's something to fix and that they're going to fix what they can. There isn't any particular reason why they need to disclose such plans beyond being a huge player and not wanting to scare away the numerous people that count on them for important work.
Conceivably, but they could still wind up on the losing side of a class action suit by all the people that were unable to play due to the DRM scheme preventing them from doing so. I'd bet that it would only be a couple dollars a person at most, but losing a suit like that might just make companies think a little harder before screwing their customers.
But, who am I kidding, they'll just chock it up to losses to pirates and shake their fists all the harder because they can't directly access people's bank accounts.
Potentially it might be useful on the walls of the tires as well, as getting the water to sheet off as quickly as possible adds a bit to fuel efficiency. If it sheets the dust and dirt off as well that's a bit of a bonus.
I must be missing something, or the somebody modded without noticing a joke. We've had materials that would do a good job of sheeting water for sometime, but they don't breathe and one ends up getting very sweaty. If you don't put it on the inside, you probably would be able to have the moisture evaporate in between the hairs. Mainly because it's unlikely that steam would interact the same way.
Also if you were to team it up with something that was somewhat polarized, you might be able to get an amazing amount of moisture wicked through the material with none coming in.
Really? So, the folks in say Nome, Alaska don't costs that much more than say a small town in upstate New York. Or am I misunderstanding you? Population density is surprisingly useful, but not when you do it generically across the whole country. Technically you have to be careful about countries like say, China, where nearly everybody lives on 1% of the land and the others are hard to get connected up to things like broadband.
The US is roughly, 178th on the list of highest population density, is roughly 3rd or 4th on the list of total area and is 3rd on the list of highest world populations. By no method I can think of is it going to be as easy as in countries like Sweden, Japan or even China for us to get super fast broadband rates. To make matters worse, we seem to have higher demands for a lot of this stuff than other regions do making it even harder.
But yeah, population density isn't particularly useful, after all nobody lives in the middle of nowhere and they certainly aren't counted towards broadband utilization rates.
Hmm, so I'm a troll for pointing out what people with an actual intellect all realize. Making cannon fodder of the young to prolong the lives of the elderly by what might be as much as a few months is stupid. Perhaps we can turn the youth of the world into a soylent green paste so that the elderly don't have to chew while we're at it.
No, I'm not, it's not hearing, you can't hear radiowaves. If you can cite please do so, but it's not hearing. It's interference with the nerves. If tinnitus really were just a matter of hearing it would be a much different matter to deal with. But it tends to be either coming from the nerves in the ear or the portions of the brain which process sounds.
And the justification for that when those that still have decades of productive life left, were they to be able to access affordable healthcare, is? If it's your own money that's your business, but as soon as it robs those with a better chance of survival and producing the resources necessary to provide help for others you'd have to be a pretty bad person to even consider the proposition seriously.
I disagree, while a lot of the claims are absurd, those of us that are hypersensitive still have real issues. I couldn't go to a large electronics store to buy a TV since even the smaller shops with a mere half dozen TVs on display had too many of me to stand. It's a relatively common problem for a subset of people with tinnitus. Likewise, I can't go into certain stores because the loss prevention devices they use up front to detect those tags cause similar pain.
Scoff all you like, but it's definitely a real problem for a subset of the population. Sure there aren't, to my knowledge, people that genuinely have to be kept in a completely radio frequency free environment, but many of us do have to deal with the consequences of stupidly designed electronics causing us problems.
Considering he's asking this question to begin with, what makes you think he hasn't gone insane already? This isn't something that most people technically inclined enough to program would be silly enough to even consider asking.
I know you're joking, but it could go either way. Trying to manage, secure, track and backup the huge number of servers that the various agencies and departments use costs a pretty considerable amount of money to do right. Of course they haven't been doing it right up until now. Consolidating into a smaller number of server farms that are somewhat spread through the US has definite potential in terms of dealing with those factors more efficiently. That being said, we won't know until it happens, there's still plenty of ways for pork and waste to creep into the equation.
That's really the problem. You have to make some intelligent decisions about what's worthy of bugging the user about and what isn't. Obnoxious behaviors like MS' loud beep whenever it fails to do something just make users hate you for bothering them all the more. Worse it reinforces the sense that the programmers and engineers don't know what they're doing and that the software is crap.
Unless there's something that the user can do about it, there's no reason why the pop ups should annoy or harass them, simply make them show up until say 5 seconds after they show any signs of life at all via keyboard or mouse. Additionally there should be a convenient place to look for logs of such information like on *Nix often times you don't know that you should've read the message until after you've reflexively clicked it out of existence or sometimes a few days later.
There may not be, however depending upon the jurisdiction Activision may still be responsible for following through on Vivendi's promises. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know how likely that is, but just because it's not in a contract doesn't necessarily mean that it can't/won't be enforced.
Note, I'm not sure how things were set up in this case.
That's a dumb argument to make. In the case of photos, a photo of a photo would be essentially a photocopy. However a painting of a painting would be a completely different matter as would a sculpture of a sculpture. In all those cases the copy would be a derivative work, however in the first there would be little meaningful difference between the two.
O really? That's not entirely correct. Anti-biotics are largely on the way out for most use. In the future we'll see bacteriophages used for the vast majority of infections that previously we had used anti-biotics.
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That's been a problem for a while. The Texans assigned responsibility for building and maintaining interstate transmission lines into and out of Texas to the power utilities in the state. Surprisingly enough they didn't bother upgrading capacity and instead used it as a way of artificially decreasing competition and raising the rates for customers.
It wouldn't surprise me if there'd be consequences like that for those sorts of projects. But OTOH it makes it much easier for wind to compete for supplying a portion of the energy needs of Texas.
Around here those sorts of projects have a much harder time competing as they have to compete with hydroelectric, but a bit easier since utilities are required to get a certain amount from renewable sources. I can't recall if they hedged out hydroelectric or not. It is renewable, but I seem to remember some shenanigans with not allowing it to be considered as such for the purposes of compliance with that regulation.
No it isn't, there are costs associated with it. You can't place the wind farms wherever you like, and there needs to be massive investment in distribution. On top of which you still need something for base power production or some method of storing excesses.
Natural gas isn't perfect, but you can get it in carbon neutral ways. Such as by capturing the natural gas that escapes from landfills. It's not likely to be a large source, but you may as well capture and burn it since it's a viable fuel source. But admittedly you'd still want to be cutting way back. Figuring out a way of capturing the stuff that's likely to be released from the sea bed is an excellent way of reducing the effect of global warming.
If you noticed in the summary, AMD is advocating for a similar technology that works on their hardware as well as on nVidia's, seems like developers would prefer that for practical reasons.
But, should they? If a developer doesn't want to use PhysX, they shouldn't. If they're doing it purely for money, then chances are that it's damaging to the industry. Sure physics acceleration is cool for certain types of games, racing games and FPS, but the problem is that developers shouldn't be paid to use technology that isn 't helpful for creating quality games.
Especially if it causes games to be less enjoyable on other hardware platforms. I could see a real problem with this in terms of anti-trust actions.
I purchased a Sennheiser bluetooth headset, and it includes a USB charging cable and a wall adapter to plug it into. Additionally the jack is micro USB so in theory I should be able to use the whole thing to charge other things as well. I waste minimal power if I'm already using the computer and I can just plug it into the wall if I'm not. It's both convenient and well considered.
This is a place where the summary typically gets a tl;dr response, do you think a post that includes a couple hundred distros will be read?
Silliness aside, this probably could've been avoided had Energizer made the device a generic one and just drawn power on that basis. No driver needed only MS to blame.
On second thought, I'm not sure I'd trust Windows to charge a battery correctly, it might end up owing millions.
That's the downside, anytime you acknowledge a mistake you're then looking like you have more than the idiots that have hundreds of mistakes that they don't disclose until caught making.
My parents once lost power for several hours because a crow got fried in one of the transformers down the street. People around here lose power from time to time when a tree falls on a line. Unplanned power outages are going to happen. Even though line reliability is probably higher now than at any time in the past, it still happens and companies like Google that rely upon it being always there should have plans.
This isn't just about keeping the people that use Google services informed, this is an admission that there's something to fix and that they're going to fix what they can. There isn't any particular reason why they need to disclose such plans beyond being a huge player and not wanting to scare away the numerous people that count on them for important work.
Conceivably, but they could still wind up on the losing side of a class action suit by all the people that were unable to play due to the DRM scheme preventing them from doing so. I'd bet that it would only be a couple dollars a person at most, but losing a suit like that might just make companies think a little harder before screwing their customers.
But, who am I kidding, they'll just chock it up to losses to pirates and shake their fists all the harder because they can't directly access people's bank accounts.
I've always wondered about that. How can a site be slashdotted when nobody here ever RTFA?
Potentially it might be useful on the walls of the tires as well, as getting the water to sheet off as quickly as possible adds a bit to fuel efficiency. If it sheets the dust and dirt off as well that's a bit of a bonus.
I must be missing something, or the somebody modded without noticing a joke. We've had materials that would do a good job of sheeting water for sometime, but they don't breathe and one ends up getting very sweaty. If you don't put it on the inside, you probably would be able to have the moisture evaporate in between the hairs. Mainly because it's unlikely that steam would interact the same way.
Also if you were to team it up with something that was somewhat polarized, you might be able to get an amazing amount of moisture wicked through the material with none coming in.
Really? So, the folks in say Nome, Alaska don't costs that much more than say a small town in upstate New York. Or am I misunderstanding you? Population density is surprisingly useful, but not when you do it generically across the whole country. Technically you have to be careful about countries like say, China, where nearly everybody lives on 1% of the land and the others are hard to get connected up to things like broadband.
The US is roughly, 178th on the list of highest population density, is roughly 3rd or 4th on the list of total area and is 3rd on the list of highest world populations. By no method I can think of is it going to be as easy as in countries like Sweden, Japan or even China for us to get super fast broadband rates. To make matters worse, we seem to have higher demands for a lot of this stuff than other regions do making it even harder.
But yeah, population density isn't particularly useful, after all nobody lives in the middle of nowhere and they certainly aren't counted towards broadband utilization rates.
Hmm, so I'm a troll for pointing out what people with an actual intellect all realize. Making cannon fodder of the young to prolong the lives of the elderly by what might be as much as a few months is stupid. Perhaps we can turn the youth of the world into a soylent green paste so that the elderly don't have to chew while we're at it.
No, I'm not, it's not hearing, you can't hear radiowaves. If you can cite please do so, but it's not hearing. It's interference with the nerves. If tinnitus really were just a matter of hearing it would be a much different matter to deal with. But it tends to be either coming from the nerves in the ear or the portions of the brain which process sounds.
And the justification for that when those that still have decades of productive life left, were they to be able to access affordable healthcare, is? If it's your own money that's your business, but as soon as it robs those with a better chance of survival and producing the resources necessary to provide help for others you'd have to be a pretty bad person to even consider the proposition seriously.
I disagree, while a lot of the claims are absurd, those of us that are hypersensitive still have real issues. I couldn't go to a large electronics store to buy a TV since even the smaller shops with a mere half dozen TVs on display had too many of me to stand. It's a relatively common problem for a subset of people with tinnitus. Likewise, I can't go into certain stores because the loss prevention devices they use up front to detect those tags cause similar pain.
Scoff all you like, but it's definitely a real problem for a subset of the population. Sure there aren't, to my knowledge, people that genuinely have to be kept in a completely radio frequency free environment, but many of us do have to deal with the consequences of stupidly designed electronics causing us problems.
I hear that if a million iPhone users join there'll be a million iPhone users in the club.
Because they clutter your device with useful features, duh.
Considering he's asking this question to begin with, what makes you think he hasn't gone insane already? This isn't something that most people technically inclined enough to program would be silly enough to even consider asking.
I know you're joking, but it could go either way. Trying to manage, secure, track and backup the huge number of servers that the various agencies and departments use costs a pretty considerable amount of money to do right. Of course they haven't been doing it right up until now. Consolidating into a smaller number of server farms that are somewhat spread through the US has definite potential in terms of dealing with those factors more efficiently. That being said, we won't know until it happens, there's still plenty of ways for pork and waste to creep into the equation.
That's really the problem. You have to make some intelligent decisions about what's worthy of bugging the user about and what isn't. Obnoxious behaviors like MS' loud beep whenever it fails to do something just make users hate you for bothering them all the more. Worse it reinforces the sense that the programmers and engineers don't know what they're doing and that the software is crap.
Unless there's something that the user can do about it, there's no reason why the pop ups should annoy or harass them, simply make them show up until say 5 seconds after they show any signs of life at all via keyboard or mouse. Additionally there should be a convenient place to look for logs of such information like on *Nix often times you don't know that you should've read the message until after you've reflexively clicked it out of existence or sometimes a few days later.
There may not be, however depending upon the jurisdiction Activision may still be responsible for following through on Vivendi's promises. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know how likely that is, but just because it's not in a contract doesn't necessarily mean that it can't/won't be enforced.
Note, I'm not sure how things were set up in this case.
That's a dumb argument to make. In the case of photos, a photo of a photo would be essentially a photocopy. However a painting of a painting would be a completely different matter as would a sculpture of a sculpture. In all those cases the copy would be a derivative work, however in the first there would be little meaningful difference between the two.
O really? That's not entirely correct. Anti-biotics are largely on the way out for most use. In the future we'll see bacteriophages used for the vast majority of infections that previously we had used anti-biotics. Bacteriophage Therapy