The point is that a 100MW nuclear power station is a perfectly good substitute for a 100MW coal power station. When it's mid-winter and the big game is on, and everybody is running heaters, lights and TVs and goodness knows what else, either of those plants will put out 100MW unless it's shut for maintenance. Not a problem.
But a 100MW solar station is useless as a replacement, it will produce only a fraction of the power, because "100MW" is peak, not mean or median output and the solar station produces its peak output for a few hours here and there, not regularly and certainly not on demand.
A 500MW solar station is a replacement, so long as it's coupled to a 100MW medium term energy store, just as pumped storage. But the headline power of that plant is five times as much.
So when "solar surpasses coal" that doesn't mean what it appears to, for example if you had 100 years of building the same capacity of solar as coal, you might think half the power generated would be solar, right? No. More like 10% would be solar. Only when there's 10 times as much solar as coal are you actually producing more power with solar than coal.
Not because solar is "bad", it's just _different_ and that matters.
If my costs for hydro based electricity is $0. 077/kwh cents 7.7/kwh, should I even consider transferring some of the conventional load away with solar? I have a 4 bedroom home. Winter daylight is 7:30 to 16:14 hrs, Summer daylight 4:15am to 21:30pm
That's not the point. The point is that Google(in theory) will allow an app to block ads that display within itself, but not other apps installed on the device. Thus, an adblocking browser is ok because it only affects the browser itself.
You can't just go posting other's source code on the web without permission. There are other, better ways to deal with this asshattery.
When they embed it in your blog... fuck 'em.
They modified his blog with code, which means it's now his code.
Or are we pretending that when corporations do shit like this it's OK?
I read this as "assholes embed code in pages, and then whine when that code gets made public to point out that it's happening".
No sympathy. Not even a little.
I suppose that the only thing the code owner can do is add an appendix that does a realtime crc or md5sum check of the code that is his. If the code is corrupted, the service can take action as appropriate.
The recent release of firefox 38.0.5 on june 2 has been below the radar of many news sites, including Slashdot, because it was only a "patch" release.
However, 38.0.5 included real feature changes, meaning the inclusion of a proprietary web service. I not just hate that firefox added a proprietary web service prominently to its browser, also they smuggled this in in a patch release, avoiding press attention.
Firefox isn't a randy bitch dog that every dog inside the SV startup neighbourhood springs on, its a major web browser which respects its users. At least it was until 38.0.5.
I accepted that they added the social API, I understood their EME changes, I've thought firefox hello was a good addition. But for 38.0.5 pocket integration, I'm heavily disappointed by mozilla.
I tried hard to switch to Googles Chrome and Chromium (Linux), but every page presented by the latter were loaded with trackers. What I learned with using Privacy Badger from the EFF, was a good justification to return to FF. So, it takes a fraction of a second or two to render a page. Can I take the time that I would save using Google's product and extend by life by the few hundred milliseconds per day of time-savings?
No. Vaccination rates are highest in the Bible belt, while they are lowest on the west coast. I think it has less to do with political affiliation and more to do with who reads idiot granola mommy and food blogs.
So, God or Jesus will protect them, when the next measles or pox or polio epidemic returns.
In thinking about a new home, I would look at industry and how wiring and water runs are done. See if you can have a wiring closet.
If a new technology arrives that requires fibre, or requires 12 volt distribution, I would certainly plan that new wiring could be done without having to break ceilings, or walls, other than at outlets.
And I would have a 200amp 220v entrance, (which is what I have in my home), and with today's technology, protection devices for lightning caused voltage surges and the like. I would get a few 1k watt UPS's and some car batteries and build a backup system in case of power loss that could cause freezer or fridge content loss. And I would look at a dual internet system one of which has vpn only access to a second system, Reserve this system for automation. You should be able to vpn from the www to check on the internal system.
And I would not overdo the spending. You still want to be able to live and to enjoy stress free living.
Don't know if parent is trolling or not, but I had a similar thought. I've heard that Canadian carriers are even worse than US carriers when it comes to device freedom (and pricing, and reliability, and just about everything else) and a thought occurred to me that there may be carrier pressure to force the end users to buy a new device.
If so, it wouldn't be a narrative I hadn't heard before. I was on Sprint about 2.5 years ago and they were rather vicious when it came to that kind of thing.
Canadian carriers are concerned about maintenance costs and skills that their telephone support people need to have. Ergo, they want you to use their products that their support staff know and love.
This is incredibly simplistic, like all kinds of analyses like this.
Anything that really requires a mind rather than a simple result of calculation or mechanical action will likely not be replaced without some big advance. More likely, we will just have better tools for certain jobs making them more higher level — it can let them get stuff done easier - so they can do more.
Will robots understand mood? Will they read body language, understand that dialated pupils to show happiness, or pin sized pupils to show "shutting out". Will robot tell mood in a voice that speaks fast, or sadness in a voice that has tones of sorrow? And will it tell hiccoughs from sobs. There are things that only a human can do, because that human has empathy. Can you give empathy or kindness to a robot? Are you sure?
The problem with all these conjecture is that "When there is a will, there is a way". Russia or China, or ISIS or even American criminals can get their hands on this thermal imaging stuff. Just visit an ally and do some snooping and stealing from them.
Medicare - before the new drug benefit that was explicitly barred from seeking good deals. Seems socialism's better than its reputation - except when crafted by Republicans who want it to look bad...
I live in Montreal, and I have medicare. My province pays for it if I travel to other provinces, as long as I return to Quebec within 180days or I have residency in Quebec. I sleep at night, my wife sleeps at night and we do not worry about losing a home if we need hospitalization or any prescribed medication. Yes there is a tax, but I am under a single payer system. My daughter has $30,000 per year injections for MS. Now tell me what advantages I would have in moving to a oligopoly (A country run by the ultimate rich -- Kochs, Walmarts, etc.). With today's war-ing Republican vs Democratic government, Abraham Lincoln corps is surely turning in his grave. There are two words you have to know in English "Gelt and Schmuck". If you don't have the first, you are the second.
It's all about the term of copyright versus the term of patent. Patent lasts only twenty years at present, while copyright is effectively perpetual (whenever Pooh and Mickey might enter the public domain, the legislators fix it). If copyright governs interfaces, that part of the law will keep the government from stealing IP away from its rightful owners after twenty years.
Is it time to produce a new language that is not like Java syntax. Surely some variant of python or APL could do the job. APL was used in the 1980's and cloaked in a modern garb could replace Python and Java both.
The possibility of a good paying job in software development when they graduate college. Maybe even with the company paying off their student loans for them.
Instead of the chance to compete against low-balling H1B applicants...
The possibility of a good paying job in software development when they graduate college. Maybe even with the company paying off their student loans for them.
Kids don't need computer science. Just as Cell phones dumb down students (because students become conditioned to not being able to concentrate), cell phones should be kept from children until the child is 20. Ditto for computers. Far to easy to google an answer than to learn to research or think out the answer on your own.
But that does not mean that word processors or spread sheets should be disallowed, they basic office software is the only software that should be on the curriculum.
For non-ducks, the most important things to know about C++ aren't list in the summery: RAII and shared_ptr<T>
C++ is not C. C++ written like C tends to be crap code - just an overly complex and distracting language for that coding style. If C++ is the right tool for the job, you need to be using a coding style very similar to C# and Java: throwing exception when errors are encountered, writing exception-safe code all the time, returning from functions in the middle, and never, ever, worrying about cleaning up at the bottom of a function what you allocate at the top.
If all of that sounds wrong to you, congrats, you're a C coder, and there's nothing wrong with that. Good C code is good code. But C++ is designed to be used with "scoped objects", that is, every object cleans itself up when you exit scope, so you really have to internalize the tools for that, and that mindset.
Good C++ code is code that reads well, and is easily maintained. How much C++ code is needed for a beginner?
Syntax/grammar, classes, templates, inheritance and polymorphism and ability to debug. Anything else is a plus
Why does everything related to education have a price tag on it? What is wrong with education in a field simply for the joy of becoming a guru in that field?
I follow coursera.org courses, and I do it for the joy of learning and putting to practice what I learned.
In light of the fact that Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are not even remotely experts in A.I. your opinion is fairly odd.
Question: What role do people who think that AI research is dangerous hold in the field of AI research?
Answer: None...because regardless of their qualifications, they wouldn't further the progress of something they think is a very, very bad idea.
Asking AI experts whether or not they think AI research is a bad idea subjects your responses to a massive selection bias. And discounting the views of others because they don't specialize in creating the thing they think should not be created does the same. You do realize that at your core, that's your only point...not that Hawking is an idiot, or that Gates doesn't know anything about technology. It's just that they don't work in the field of AI, so therefore they must not have any inkling whatsoever as to what they're talking about.
Can we build an AI machine that has a soul. A soul is the socially created concept that allows us to distinguish good from bad, happy from sad, right from wrong, life from death and animate from inanimate.
Souls in living things are inherited. it would be nice to have that proof that it is inherent in the dna that is transferred from creator to createe .
Pizza always have oil from the cheese or the Pepperoni. If you bit into the toppings, you will leave your signature, I mean lip-prints and teeth profile
I have the 1.44meg and the large 5½inch meg soft floppies, and my msdos 3.1 system just flies. Everything is written in 8086 assembly. I have a small btree application. If it is not broken, why change it. I have accumulated a lifetime supply of spares.
First get rid of the Patriot act, and use that money for roads. Then look at other waste. GWB was hysteric, and reacted out of fear. Fear, because he could not understand what was going on. He used Cheney as the brains, and it was Cheney who was the president behind the president.
Your mirror would cease to be a mirror in very short order by either sheer ablation or the formation of oxides, reducing its ability to reflect, causing the absorption of more energy, at which point your mirror ablates. HTH.
Until a different mirror material is produced. And it is not one with a silver coating. It will be one tuned to the laser wavelength
You're either very young or very naive, or a combination of both. If you're an adult, tough, I'd seek help because you're delusional. We're moving towards less freedom, more and more surveillance and a general understanding that we're better off censoring ourselves. Think how many things you can say today that would not only be perceived as "wrong" but actually cause you very serious trouble. One wrong word uttered and you can find yourself unemployable if not the target of the State's rough attention. We're not getting more access, we're getting more surveillance. It's going to get a lot worse.
Mainly in the USA. It started with GWB. Can you even take a domestic plane trip without being fingerprinted?
This pay per mile has to work on an honor system, or with a gps that determines location, and odometer reading. If there is no tax, think of all the nearby out-of-state drivers who will pop over to fill up a tank.
Slashdot Mirror
The point is that a 100MW nuclear power station is a perfectly good substitute for a 100MW coal power station. When it's mid-winter and the big game is on, and everybody is running heaters, lights and TVs and goodness knows what else, either of those plants will put out 100MW unless it's shut for maintenance. Not a problem.
But a 100MW solar station is useless as a replacement, it will produce only a fraction of the power, because "100MW" is peak, not mean or median output and the solar station produces its peak output for a few hours here and there, not regularly and certainly not on demand.
A 500MW solar station is a replacement, so long as it's coupled to a 100MW medium term energy store, just as pumped storage. But the headline power of that plant is five times as much.
So when "solar surpasses coal" that doesn't mean what it appears to, for example if you had 100 years of building the same capacity of solar as coal, you might think half the power generated would be solar, right? No. More like 10% would be solar. Only when there's 10 times as much solar as coal are you actually producing more power with solar than coal.
Not because solar is "bad", it's just _different_ and that matters.
If my costs for hydro based electricity is $0. 077/kwh cents 7.7/kwh, should I even consider transferring some of the conventional load away with solar? I have a 4 bedroom home. Winter daylight is 7:30 to 16:14 hrs, Summer daylight 4:15am to 21:30pm
That's not the point. The point is that Google(in theory) will allow an app to block ads that display within itself, but not other apps installed on the device. Thus, an adblocking browser is ok because it only affects the browser itself.
Privacy Badger does a good job
When they embed it in your blog ... fuck 'em.
They modified his blog with code, which means it's now his code.
Or are we pretending that when corporations do shit like this it's OK?
I read this as "assholes embed code in pages, and then whine when that code gets made public to point out that it's happening".
No sympathy. Not even a little.
I suppose that the only thing the code owner can do is add an appendix that does a realtime crc or md5sum check of the code that is his. If the code is corrupted, the service can take action as appropriate.
The recent release of firefox 38.0.5 on june 2 has been below the radar of many news sites, including Slashdot, because it was only a "patch" release.
However, 38.0.5 included real feature changes, meaning the inclusion of a proprietary web service. I not just hate that firefox added a proprietary web service prominently to its browser, also they smuggled this in in a patch release, avoiding press attention.
Firefox isn't a randy bitch dog that every dog inside the SV startup neighbourhood springs on, its a major web browser which respects its users. At least it was until 38.0.5.
I accepted that they added the social API, I understood their EME changes, I've thought firefox hello was a good addition. But for 38.0.5 pocket integration, I'm heavily disappointed by mozilla.
I tried hard to switch to Googles Chrome and Chromium (Linux), but every page presented by the latter were loaded with trackers. What I learned with using Privacy Badger from the EFF, was a good justification to return to FF. So, it takes a fraction of a second or two to render a page. Can I take the time that I would save using Google's product and extend by life by the few hundred milliseconds per day of time-savings?
Oxfam is no better, There redistribution is around 1%, one cent of every dollar collected. High salaries and benefits consume the rest.
Salvation army has only 3% overhead. 97 cents of every dollar collected go for aid.
No. Vaccination rates are highest in the Bible belt, while they are lowest on the west coast. I think it has less to do with political affiliation and more to do with who reads idiot granola mommy and food blogs.
So, God or Jesus will protect them, when the next measles or pox or polio epidemic returns.
In thinking about a new home, I would look at industry and how wiring and water runs are done. See if you can have a wiring closet.
If a new technology arrives that requires fibre, or requires 12 volt distribution, I would certainly plan that new wiring could be done without having to break ceilings, or walls, other than at outlets.
And I would have a 200amp 220v entrance, (which is what I have in my home), and with today's technology, protection devices for lightning caused voltage surges and the like. I would get a few 1k watt UPS's and some car batteries and build a backup system in case of power loss that could cause freezer or fridge content loss. And I would look at a dual internet system one of which has vpn only access to a second system, Reserve this system for automation. You should be able to vpn from the www to check on the internal system.
And I would not overdo the spending. You still want to be able to live and to enjoy stress free living.
Don't know if parent is trolling or not, but I had a similar thought. I've heard that Canadian carriers are even worse than US carriers when it comes to device freedom (and pricing, and reliability, and just about everything else) and a thought occurred to me that there may be carrier pressure to force the end users to buy a new device.
If so, it wouldn't be a narrative I hadn't heard before. I was on Sprint about 2.5 years ago and they were rather vicious when it came to that kind of thing.
Canadian carriers are concerned about maintenance costs and skills that their telephone support people need to have. Ergo, they want you to use their products that their support staff know and love.
This is incredibly simplistic, like all kinds of analyses like this.
Anything that really requires a mind rather than a simple result of calculation or mechanical action will likely not be replaced without some big advance. More likely, we will just have better tools for certain jobs making them more higher level — it can let them get stuff done easier - so they can do more.
Will robots understand mood? Will they read body language, understand that dialated pupils to show happiness, or pin sized pupils to show "shutting out". Will robot tell mood in a voice that speaks fast, or sadness in a voice that has tones of sorrow? And will it tell hiccoughs from sobs.
There are things that only a human can do, because that human has empathy. Can you give empathy or kindness to a robot?
Are you sure?
Is the open toilet next?
The problem with all these conjecture is that "When there is a will, there is a way". Russia or China, or ISIS or even American criminals can get their hands on this thermal imaging stuff. Just visit an ally and do some snooping and stealing from them.
Medicare - before the new drug benefit that was explicitly barred from seeking good deals. Seems socialism's better than its reputation - except when crafted by Republicans who want it to look bad...
I live in Montreal, and I have medicare. My province pays for it if I travel to other provinces, as long as I return to Quebec within 180days or I have residency in Quebec. I sleep at night, my wife sleeps at night and we do not worry about losing a home if we need hospitalization or any prescribed medication. Yes there is a tax, but I am under a single payer system. My daughter has $30,000 per year injections for MS. Now tell me what advantages I would have in moving to a oligopoly (A country run by the ultimate rich -- Kochs, Walmarts, etc.). With today's war-ing Republican vs Democratic government, Abraham Lincoln corps is surely turning in his grave. There are two words you have to know in English "Gelt and Schmuck". If you don't have the first, you are the second.
Yes. Exactly.
It's all about the term of copyright versus the term of patent. Patent lasts only twenty years at present, while copyright is effectively perpetual (whenever Pooh and Mickey might enter the public domain, the legislators fix it). If copyright governs interfaces, that part of the law will keep the government from stealing IP away from its rightful owners after twenty years.
Is it time to produce a new language that is not like Java syntax. Surely some variant of python or APL could do the job. APL was used in the 1980's and cloaked in a modern garb could replace Python and Java both.
The possibility of a good paying job in software development when they graduate college. Maybe even with the company paying off their student loans for them.
Instead of the chance to compete against low-balling H1B applicants...
The possibility of a good paying job in software development when they graduate college. Maybe even with the company paying off their student loans for them.
Kids don't need computer science. Just as Cell phones dumb down students (because students become conditioned to not being able to concentrate), cell phones should be kept from children until the child is 20. Ditto for computers. Far to easy to google an answer than to learn to research or think out the answer on your own.
But that does not mean that word processors or spread sheets should be disallowed, they basic office software is the only software that should be on the curriculum.
NONE! Find a real language! *ducks*
For non-ducks, the most important things to know about C++ aren't list in the summery: RAII and shared_ptr<T>
C++ is not C. C++ written like C tends to be crap code - just an overly complex and distracting language for that coding style. If C++ is the right tool for the job, you need to be using a coding style very similar to C# and Java: throwing exception when errors are encountered, writing exception-safe code all the time, returning from functions in the middle, and never, ever, worrying about cleaning up at the bottom of a function what you allocate at the top.
If all of that sounds wrong to you, congrats, you're a C coder, and there's nothing wrong with that. Good C code is good code. But C++ is designed to be used with "scoped objects", that is, every object cleans itself up when you exit scope, so you really have to internalize the tools for that, and that mindset.
Good C++ code is code that reads well, and is easily maintained. How much C++ code is needed for a beginner?
Syntax/grammar, classes, templates, inheritance and polymorphism and ability to debug. Anything else is a plus
Why does everything related to education have a price tag on it? What is wrong with education in a field simply for the joy of becoming a guru in that field?
I follow coursera.org courses, and I do it for the joy of learning and putting to practice what I learned.
That's a great red herring you made there, but it's irrelevant. Taxes are on profits, not sales.
Not so in many many places. In Canada we have a Provincial Sales tax and a Federal sales tax, and it is on most non-food items that we buy.
In other countries, it is a VAT.
In light of the fact that Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are not even remotely experts in A.I. your opinion is fairly odd.
Question: What role do people who think that AI research is dangerous hold in the field of AI research?
Answer: None...because regardless of their qualifications, they wouldn't further the progress of something they think is a very, very bad idea.
Asking AI experts whether or not they think AI research is a bad idea subjects your responses to a massive selection bias. And discounting the views of others because they don't specialize in creating the thing they think should not be created does the same. You do realize that at your core, that's your only point...not that Hawking is an idiot, or that Gates doesn't know anything about technology. It's just that they don't work in the field of AI, so therefore they must not have any inkling whatsoever as to what they're talking about.
Can we build an AI machine that has a soul. A soul is the socially created concept that allows us to distinguish good from bad, happy from sad, right from wrong, life from death and animate from inanimate.
Souls in living things are inherited. it would be nice to have that proof that it is inherent in the dna that is transferred from creator to createe .
Pizza always have oil from the cheese or the Pepperoni. If you bit into the toppings, you will leave your signature, I mean lip-prints and teeth profile
Google does it, the new explorer will do it, your ISP will swap out the adverts for his own. The sad part is, more ads occurring then contents.
I'll stick with Windows Vista, thanks.
I have the 1.44meg and the large 5½inch meg soft floppies, and my msdos 3.1 system just flies. Everything is written in 8086 assembly. I have a small btree application. If it is not broken, why change it. I have accumulated a lifetime supply of spares.
First get rid of the Patriot act, and use that money for roads. Then look at other waste. GWB was hysteric, and reacted out of fear. Fear, because he could not understand what was going on. He used Cheney as the brains, and it was Cheney who was the president behind the president.
Your mirror would cease to be a mirror in very short order by either sheer ablation or the formation of oxides, reducing its ability to reflect, causing the absorption of more energy, at which point your mirror ablates. HTH.
Until a different mirror material is produced. And it is not one with a silver coating. It will be one tuned to the laser wavelength
You're either very young or very naive, or a combination of both. If you're an adult, tough, I'd seek help because you're delusional. We're moving towards less freedom, more and more surveillance and a general understanding that we're better off censoring ourselves. Think how many things you can say today that would not only be perceived as "wrong" but actually cause you very serious trouble. One wrong word uttered and you can find yourself unemployable if not the target of the State's rough attention. We're not getting more access, we're getting more surveillance. It's going to get a lot worse.
Mainly in the USA. It started with GWB. Can you even take a domestic plane trip without being fingerprinted?
This pay per mile has to work on an honor system, or with a gps that determines location, and odometer reading. If there is no tax, think of all the nearby out-of-state drivers who will pop over to fill up a tank.