Energy companies don't have a choice in how their electricity is used.
If quick charging becomes the norm(big if), it'll happen at dealerships first. And yeah, it'll be cheap because they want to sell the cars, not the juice.
Other places will then pop up and likely focus on selling you other crap during your 10-15 min wait. Starbucks would be a natural client for this.
Your comparison of computer languages to human languages isn't a very good one. Human languages tend to have simple rules and concepts, but large vocabularies to memorize. Computer languages have very small vocabularies, but deep rules and concepts.
Those concepts are very portable from language to language. How a variable works, classes, pointers(or references), databases, networking, lists, switches, OO models, etc don't really change. C has pointers, Java has references. Java has hibernate and rails has active record.
Take a good programmer with a long history of work and they can learn new languages pretty much on the fly. Though big shifts(switching to OO or designing things The Rails Way) can take a bit of learning.
> Why did they not do a full on media blitz at launch?
It hasn't launched yet. As a biz account user, I wasn't even able to create a plus account until last week.
Shoving hours and hours of homework on your students doesn't make you a good teacher.
I live on my boat and I'm not required to have running water or electricity on it. Clothing.. I can live at a nude ranch if I want. Education, I can home school if I want. Social Security is true though.
Dude, dude. I ONLY have a camera and microphone on my phone, laptop, 10 inch tablet, actual camera and video camera. How the hell am I supposed to create anything if my e-book reader doesn't have them as well?
No, infact I didn't miss it at all - but you seem to have missed mine.
If MySQL is GPLed, and can be forked, then why the interest in what Oracle does to the trunk?
The interest is that it looks like the trunk is a dead end. This gives more press to MariaDB and could eventually mean distros drop MySQL going forward in favor of it.
This is completely bullshit. I've designed MySQL clusters that, in the initial rollout, needed to be able to handle 200k inserts per second and then be able to scale up from there. And we did it on EC2 for 1k a month worth of systems.
MySQL is an extremely powerful tool.
>Books with good quality content and good production values will then become a thing of the past, because quality costs a lot to produce, readers can't examine the books before they've paid for it the way they can in a bricks 'n' mortar book store, and not enough people will exercise any legal right of return they may have to make a difference to the policy.
This is completely false. Customer reviews are superior to publisher gateways for determining quality and you can already download samples of every book on Amazon's Kindle to see if you'll like it or not.
Xen has a 2% overhead. It's hardly expensive.
I'd also agree. Xfce is great. What I like about it is it provides all the core tools you need and then doesn't get in your way.
It's not flashy or anything, just solid.
I keep getting this image of RMS standing in front of a podium, tears streaming down his facing and sobbing out "I have sinned!!"
Playgrounds shouldn't be risk free, but to be honest, jungle gyms were death machines. Those things probably broke more bones in the 70's and 80's than the Japanese and Italian mafia combined did.
Quantum internet, really? Will I be eating Quantum pop tarts while I surf Quantum porn?
Not really. I use one of these on my 32ft boat I liveaboard: http://www.natureshead.net/
My bathroom on that boat is smaller than most apartment closets.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
