VB6 is not all that bad, and it was madness for Microsoft to completely abandon it. A VBA programmer will have a project finished before a Java programmer can configure their Enterprise Application Server, or a C programmer can track down their obscure memory corruptions..Net is better than VB6, but not that much better in practice. They could have walked VB6 forward. Added real compilation etc. Things like Set vs Let are historical oddities, but OK, and have an advantage of enabling a default value for objects.
They also want to kill of VBA, but that will kill Excel.
Solar panels are always connected to the grid. And several other companies have offered to install them for free if the householder pays slightly reduced power costs to the company.
The key point is that only about 1/4 of the cost of buying power is the generation. About half is in transmission and distribution. And the other quarter in admin, solar subsidies etc. So we pay about 21c/kwh, but only get paid about 6c/kwh to give power to the grid.
That means the real benefit is to be able to use the power during the day when it is generated.
The kicker is that soon (5 years?) batteries will be cheap enough for people to go off grid altogether. And then who will pay the 75% of costs that are not related to generation?
(There are some people grandfathered in to receive 40c/kwh. They make a point of using no power during the day!)
Because of the nail the shoe was lost because of the shoe the horse was lost because of the horse the rider was lost because of the rider, the message was lost because of the message the battle was lost because of the battle the kingdom was lost
So the king sues the iron monger that provided the iron that made the nail?
With the exception of the grossly mismanaged Chernobyl, none of the other "disasters" actually killed many people. For Fukushima, the Tsunami killed thousands, but zero direct deaths from the plant.
Coal has killed thousands in the period. Solar has killed quite a few too, people falling off roofs mainly.
It is all hype. But the result of that hype is that Nuclear is artificially very expensive.
So what we need is a Committee of Experts, chosen by the government or, more likely, the CEO of some profit oriented company, to decide what is and is not fake news, and what is and is not suitable for us idiots to read.
What could possibly go wrong?
The people that read fake news vote Republican anyway. Would not matter what happens. So the fake news is actually irrelevant to the left.
What is far, far more alarming is the fact that the right, including Trump, has taken up the fake news mantra very effectively. They label any unsupportive news as fake and who is the left to disagree given that they have made such a fuss about fake news generally.
So the left needs to learn to shut up about this issue. It is irrelevant, except in the way that the right is abusing it.
So here in Oz, the government decided to give every on fibre to the home, forgetting the costs. It was hailed as a road to the future. It was praised by the Tech community -- 100 mhz to each house. The internet super highway.
But there was no business plan. No costing of alternatives. And most importantly, no proper analysis of real need which was for people without broadband rather than for higher capacity for those with it.
Then the government changed, and they went to fibre to the node + cable. Many tech people screamed "Fraudband" because this would deliver only 25mhz, not 100mhz.
But here is the kicker. Most people do not need 100hz, and are not willing to pay for it. Most households are not even willing to pay for 25mhz. It only takes 2mhz to watch DVD quality Netflix, and that is all many households need.
The price of mobile data is crashing down. Now about $5/Gig. Soon $1/Gig. (No unlimited but artificially limited plans in Oz.) At that point it starts to become cheaper than the NBN. And many people are choosing to go mobile INSTEAD of the NBN.
If half (say) of the population end up avoiding the NBN, the fixed cost economics are a disaster, and the taxpayer will end up footing even more the bill.
The moral is the way that government could be swayed by the Tech crowd into the stupid policy. Private enterprise, when their own money is on the line, tend to be more pragmatic, for better or worse.
Most people are not actually as good at recognizing faces as they think they are.
In crime situations, witnesses often confidently pick innocent people out of a line up. Particularly when a suspect is in a line up precisely because they look a bit like what witnesses have described, and no one else in the line up does, and they do not have an alibi. A legal aid lawyer and they are going down.
Fills jails.
BTW. I personally have some difficulty recognizing faces. People will forgive you forgetting their names (occasionally) but not forgetting "who they are".
Must have been an odd sort of rape if the Swedes did not press charges once they questioned Assange. Maybe the fact that the women involved did not want to press charges had something to do with it. Or that they socialized with Assange *after* the alleged "Rape", and just wanted Assange to have an STD check, which he belatedly did.
Were the Swedes puppets of the USA? Probably not. The case just got taken on by a belligerent SJW prosecutor, who is now probably very relieved that the case has expired and she does not have to front court. Incidentally, statute of limitations do not apply to people once they have been charged, which is why she would never interview Assange and then have to either charge him or drop the charges, either of which would not have been good for her.
Is Assange's paranoia about the USA wanting to extradite him out of Sweden justifiable? Hard to say. They were certainly angry about the Manning leaks, and Assange almost certainly helped and encouraged Manning to do the leaks. But I would not bet my life on it either way.
The Bail charges are trivial. At worst a very few months jail, probably just a suspended sentence. This is not about bail.
Assange believes that the USA thought it would be easier to extradite him from Sweden then the UK, probably correctly. His move to Equador's embassy was unexpected.
The bail charges are trivial. Unlike the USA, the UK does not hand out long sentences for minor crimes. In Assange's case, a suspended sentence or at worst a few month in what, by USA standards, would be a very comfortable jail.
That is obviously not Assange is worried about. He is worried about the USA, and the sealed (secret) grand jury case against him.
Is Assange correct? Probably not, but I would not bet my life on that.
Mind you, he was accused of "Rape" (whatever that really means these days) and so must be guilty.
Early aviation pioneers learned a lot from studying birds. Like aerodynamic shapes and centers of gravity.
But while aeroplanes have wings, they do not have feathers and do not flap those wings.
Likewise, AI has and will learn a lot from studying biological systems. But I doubt very much if accurately simulating neurons will lead to truly intelligent machines.
You'll be pleased to know that those eucalyptus trees that burn so well in California are actually Australian. Brought over during the gold rush, I believe, when Sydney was actually closer than New York (by ship, before the train). Returning miners started the Australian gold rush.
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VB6 is not all that bad, and it was madness for Microsoft to completely abandon it. A VBA programmer will have a project finished before a Java programmer can configure their Enterprise Application Server, or a C programmer can track down their obscure memory corruptions. .Net is better than VB6, but not that much better in practice. They could have walked VB6 forward. Added real compilation etc. Things like Set vs Let are historical oddities, but OK, and have an advantage of enabling a default value for objects.
They also want to kill of VBA, but that will kill Excel.
Those languages do not count from 0. Nor do they use {}s. So they must be inefficient.
You are right, there must be a different motivator in the sub-orbital range.
Solar panels are always connected to the grid. And several other companies have offered to install them for free if the householder pays slightly reduced power costs to the company.
The key point is that only about 1/4 of the cost of buying power is the generation. About half is in transmission and distribution. And the other quarter in admin, solar subsidies etc. So we pay about 21c/kwh, but only get paid about 6c/kwh to give power to the grid.
That means the real benefit is to be able to use the power during the day when it is generated.
The kicker is that soon (5 years?) batteries will be cheap enough for people to go off grid altogether. And then who will pay the 75% of costs that are not related to generation?
(There are some people grandfathered in to receive 40c/kwh. They make a point of using no power during the day!)
Because of the nail the shoe was lost
because of the shoe the horse was lost
because of the horse the rider was lost
because of the rider, the message was lost
because of the message the battle was lost
because of the battle the kingdom was lost
So the king sues the iron monger that provided the iron that made the nail?
How difficult is it to bring a spare gun to a SWAT. They could have just given it to the dead victim and everyone would be happy.
Nonsense.
If you want the average temperature, you first need to add them up.
(No need to point out the flaw in that.)
On how much the essay aligns with the teacher's views.
Hands.
With the exception of the grossly mismanaged Chernobyl, none of the other "disasters" actually killed many people. For Fukushima, the Tsunami killed thousands, but zero direct deaths from the plant.
Coal has killed thousands in the period. Solar has killed quite a few too, people falling off roofs mainly.
It is all hype. But the result of that hype is that Nuclear is artificially very expensive.
So what we need is a Committee of Experts, chosen by the government or, more likely, the CEO of some profit oriented company, to decide what is and is not fake news, and what is and is not suitable for us idiots to read.
What could possibly go wrong?
The people that read fake news vote Republican anyway. Would not matter what happens. So the fake news is actually irrelevant to the left.
What is far, far more alarming is the fact that the right, including Trump, has taken up the fake news mantra very effectively. They label any unsupportive news as fake and who is the left to disagree given that they have made such a fuss about fake news generally.
So the left needs to learn to shut up about this issue. It is irrelevant, except in the way that the right is abusing it.
So here in Oz, the government decided to give every on fibre to the home, forgetting the costs. It was hailed as a road to the future. It was praised by the Tech community -- 100 mhz to each house. The internet super highway.
But there was no business plan. No costing of alternatives. And most importantly, no proper analysis of real need which was for people without broadband rather than for higher capacity for those with it.
Then the government changed, and they went to fibre to the node + cable. Many tech people screamed "Fraudband" because this would deliver only 25mhz, not 100mhz.
But here is the kicker. Most people do not need 100hz, and are not willing to pay for it. Most households are not even willing to pay for 25mhz. It only takes 2mhz to watch DVD quality Netflix, and that is all many households need.
The price of mobile data is crashing down. Now about $5/Gig. Soon $1/Gig. (No unlimited but artificially limited plans in Oz.) At that point it starts to become cheaper than the NBN. And many people are choosing to go mobile INSTEAD of the NBN.
If half (say) of the population end up avoiding the NBN, the fixed cost economics are a disaster, and the taxpayer will end up footing even more the bill.
The moral is the way that government could be swayed by the Tech crowd into the stupid policy. Private enterprise, when their own money is on the line, tend to be more pragmatic, for better or worse.
Is that the same Diebold that makes the voting machines?
Ah! But the voting machines are designed to be hackable.
Most people are not actually as good at recognizing faces as they think they are.
In crime situations, witnesses often confidently pick innocent people out of a line up. Particularly when a suspect is in a line up precisely because they look a bit like what witnesses have described, and no one else in the line up does, and they do not have an alibi. A legal aid lawyer and they are going down.
Fills jails.
BTW. I personally have some difficulty recognizing faces. People will forgive you forgetting their names (occasionally) but not forgetting "who they are".
Must have been an odd sort of rape if the Swedes did not press charges once they questioned Assange. Maybe the fact that the women involved did not want to press charges had something to do with it. Or that they socialized with Assange *after* the alleged "Rape", and just wanted Assange to have an STD check, which he belatedly did.
Were the Swedes puppets of the USA? Probably not. The case just got taken on by a belligerent SJW prosecutor, who is now probably very relieved that the case has expired and she does not have to front court. Incidentally, statute of limitations do not apply to people once they have been charged, which is why she would never interview Assange and then have to either charge him or drop the charges, either of which would not have been good for her.
Is Assange's paranoia about the USA wanting to extradite him out of Sweden justifiable? Hard to say. They were certainly angry about the Manning leaks, and Assange almost certainly helped and encouraged Manning to do the leaks. But I would not bet my life on it either way.
The Bail charges are trivial. At worst a very few months jail, probably just a suspended sentence. This is not about bail.
Assange believes that the USA thought it would be easier to extradite him from Sweden then the UK, probably correctly. His move to Equador's embassy was unexpected.
The bail charges are trivial. Unlike the USA, the UK does not hand out long sentences for minor crimes. In Assange's case, a suspended sentence or at worst a few month in what, by USA standards, would be a very comfortable jail.
That is obviously not Assange is worried about. He is worried about the USA, and the sealed (secret) grand jury case against him.
Is Assange correct? Probably not, but I would not bet my life on that.
Mind you, he was accused of "Rape" (whatever that really means these days) and so must be guilty.
Hydro reacts within seconds. All they need to do is open the tap. Fine for grid stabilization.
Yes, most spikes are much smaller. Moreover, the storage capacity of the batteries is relatively small.
My understanding is that the batteries are mainly for frequency stabilization, on quite small time scales.
And yet did it realize that truly intelligent computers will be built in the next 100 years or so.
The future aint what it used to be. Going to Mars is not just a repeat of colonizing countries.
will control Mars. Paid for by Westeners
We already live in a computer controlled age.
And BTW. We already know what colonies are like on Mars because there are already a couple of them there.
Robots.
Don't worry about it. The computers will solve the problem.
When, eventually, computers can program themselves, why would they want parasitic humans around?
They have your face ID, your phone, your car, your fingerprints, your Iris scan, your very DNA. Papers is such a twentieth century idea.
And note that the query that they can ask is "Who has been near these people", or even, "which groups of people have been near each other".
And it is all being gathered by private companies that are not accountable.
Early aviation pioneers learned a lot from studying birds. Like aerodynamic shapes and centers of gravity.
But while aeroplanes have wings, they do not have feathers and do not flap those wings.
Likewise, AI has and will learn a lot from studying biological systems. But I doubt very much if accurately simulating neurons will lead to truly intelligent machines.
You'll be pleased to know that those eucalyptus trees that burn so well in California are actually Australian. Brought over during the gold rush, I believe, when Sydney was actually closer than New York (by ship, before the train). Returning miners started the Australian gold rush.