Even though the new Star Trek movies depart from the original canon, they still feed the last official bastion thereof, the MMO. And the same developer does the D&D MMO (Neverwinter), in the same engine in fact. One drives demand for the other, and the same group with disposable income is the primary target for both. Expect some pretty horrible movies aimed at the lowest common denominator amongst the 14-35 set.
AC has one significant advantage in that it generates much less heat on the wire, and the higher voltages, within reason, allow for smaller wires to do the same work, as wire size need is a function of amps.
Except now that it's cost-effective to regulate DC to relatively arbitrary voltages, we can use HVDC... or just relatively high voltages. For example, some automobiles are beginning to move to 48V because they can use much smaller wiring, saving weight.
The prohibitive cost and lack of efficiency in DC to DC conversion really was the sole reason AC won. It was practical. Today, we are using more and more DC in our long-haul links. But the same technology that makes it feasible to use DC also makes AC cheaper.
Lets not kid ourselves, the hate for anything non-progressive, left leaning gets a hammer on facebook.
Bullshit. The hate for anything non-centrist is what you mean. I've posted truly left-of-left stuff on fb and had it disappear, or the URL content (and preview) get stripped but the post remains so it looks like I'm just ranting and frothing about nothing, so before I stopped sharing important things on fb I started putting the URLs into my text every time. And I'd go look and the website would still be there, and there would be no notices from fb about canning my content, just stripped. Stuff I'd posted before and after would still be fine.
If you imagine that facebook is a liberal bastion, think again. It's centrist-statist.
Yes sir, and what about those darned motorcars? Always roaring about belching smoke and steam, and dripping oil... why, last week my prize mare almost threw a shoe after slipping on a patch of that foul petroleum distillate.
I've yet to see a color laser that can print photos as well as even the cheapest color ink jets.
Laser is still expensive, but it can do something inkjet can't: it can print heavy blocks on cheap paper without ruining it. Inkjet makes expensive paper mandatory if you want good results. My laser printer will print on any crappy (or just weird) paper and it always looks sharp and the black blocks always look black.
I solved the photo problem by not printing them. I have a couple of digital photo frames, but I don't really use them. If I want to look at photos, I just sit in front of my 120% gamut IPS display.
The only thing my printer at home gets used for is to occasionally scan or copy something, or as a place to set something down.
PSC? Ugh. Segregate into a laser printer on the network, located someplace you don't have to huff the exhaust, and a real scanner. When one dies, you get to recycle it and replace it without having to replace the other one. Since you're not printing photos, a laser is better in every way but smell.
the biggest issue was there was no electricity for the well pump and water had to be trucked in so we passed on the house.
You can get a solar well pump too, meaning DC and either 12 or 24V. But presumably, you'd have needed to expand the solar system for that purpose. It also works best when you have a water storage tank sufficiently elevated above the point of use to produce useful pressure, because then you can make hay (or pump water, anyway) while the sun shines, and you don't need a bunch of battery — or, potentially, any.
this experiment is fine if you're doing little LED lights and laptops, but if you're running something like air conditioning or a washing machine you're building a fire hazard and a mortality risk
AC and DC are both dangerous. We chose AC because it was cheaper at the time. These days you can do low-current MPPT for a song, so you can convert between DC voltages relatively efficiently. But just generating AC from DC was expensive at the time when we had to choose between them.
for our modern world where some people only care about their laptop and smartphone, it does indeed seem silly and wasteful to convert to AC then back to DC, especially if you've ever tried charging electronics in a car.
Well, they do make converters specifically for that purpose, and they are not so inefficient as using the cheapest possible inverter which fits in your soda can hole coupled with your laptop's normal power supply. Also, cars really ought to go 48V already, what year is it anyway?
Compatibility with smartphone hardware, for one. Which X11/Linux distribution were you thinking of?
Full-blown Ubuntu runs on a number of devices already, and the theory is that we'll be able to use Android video drivers with Wayland, right? Or is that not the idea any more?
"In order to be successful, a new product has to be cheaper and better"
No it doesn't. It just needs to meet a need.
No, if it's not cheaper and better than the competition, then there needs to be no competition: it needs to fill an unmet need.
This product does not fill a significant unmet need, so it needs to be cheaper and better than the competition, which does already fill this need. Remember, there's lots of meal replacements out there.
Yes, there are a small handful of people who want this product. It's clearly not enough to make a profit on volume, because they're raising their prices.
I don't normally name and shame.
That's too bad, because that's the only thing that would help us, the slashdotting public. And, you know, the general public, as well.
I guess it would be more awkward for them if I informed them of this...
More than being awkward for them, it's useful for us if you inform us. I care more about moving forward than looking back, but a glance at your notes now and again can be useful. Forgive, yes. Forget, no.
I've gone over this several times, it's the standard app package that's important.
I haven't seen you go over it. I haven't seen a compelling argument for FirefoxOS at all.
IIRC, this is similar to what Linus said about systemd. He said that as a user he liked it and didn't have problems with it but he did run into problems when interacting with the systemd developers.
What he said is that he didn't personally care about it, that he understands that some people have use cases where it makes sense... and that he understands that the developers are a bit of a problem. Not that he liked it... or doesn't like it. It's unlikely to have affected him substantially yet, except for rejecting bad patches
Literally everything you said is the moral standards of the ruling class except for 'drugs' read 'pharmaceuticals', for 'robbery' read 'arbitrage', and well, I guess nothing else need be changed.
Now, now, that's not true at all! The rich don't usually do their own dirty work. They drive other people into poverty, and then have them do it in order to try to survive. That way, they can keep the blood off of their own suit.
Fixing it or not fixing it has no effect on its value as a piece of artwork, or as a cultural icon. If it doesn't get a new head, that is a statement of a sort. If it does get a new head, it's a different statement, but it's no more or less valid. It's just what happened.
There's no particular reason to follow or not follow the wishes of the creators, either. They put it out in the world and left it to its own devices. It belongs to all of us now.
I say fix it, slap it on the ass, and send it on its way
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
