But in the next-gen grids, AC might suck even more so we may still end up going down the DC route in the future.

Maybe for long, point to point links. Unlikely for regional and district scale distribution. The other problem with HVDC is it's hard to have multidrop, harder to add power in and even harder to have a drop that can either add or remove power.

Synchronus machines make that very easy on AC.

Wide scale grid synchronisation is very hard due to the speed of light, and AC is less efficient over ery long links, so distant, disparate grids are best linked with HVDC.

Ah yes the dictionary anyone can edit.

Still means "I the user of the word freetard do hereby declare I'm an idiot".

Actually, HVDC has been in use for over a century. They generally used a mercury arc rectifier to make DC, then used that to run a motor driving a synchronus generator.

AC fails sufficiently badly on underground or underwater links that HVDC despite the major faff has been in use for a long time.

That said, AC is still the best means for district, regional and even country wide (well not as large as the US or Europe, but within a state of either) distribution for a variety of very good reasons.

Edison was flat our wrong and DC sucks for the most part as a transmission mechanism. And he was a massive dick about it with his electric chair demos.

Yes, I think that truly is Edison's greatest invention and one that really seems to have sprung from him.

freetards

What's a freetard? To me it translates to roughly:

I'm the user of the word "freetard" do hereby declare that I am a fool.

Almost everything I do with my $2,500 big machine could be done within ChromeOS too, but for some things you want a 22 inch screen.

Why do you have an expensive big machine then? Why not a cheap one with an external screen?

I'm unusual, but most of what I do can't be done well on ChromeOS. For me, a netboo kcan do most of what I do anyway, just more slowly and on a smaller screen.

Let me requote the grandparent post to you so you can read it again:

If the NSA's job is to sabotage allies, then they've a wrong job. Period.

Sorry, but that looks like 1980's level graphics to me, maybe at the level of the early Amiga games. Not impressed.

Out of interest, have you ever complained about "games these days" being "all fancy graphics and no gameplay"?

nor people wear pants in London

My god man, do you think everyone in London goes commando?

I wear pants, but like every true Englishman[*], I wear them under my *trousers*.

[*]No true Scotsman wears pants under his kilt.

We are pentium of borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.

From what I remember it was the first revision of the Pentium 1 aka the Pentium 0.999998163849

Just like every other choice in life, the decision th have kids negative and positive aspects. If you want kids then you need to accept the fact that it will also impact your career/earning potential. People need to get over it.

I don't get your point. Currently the system is biased so that if a couple wants to make that life choice it's the woman who usually has to take time off. If there was opportunity for men to take time off, more would. My guess is it probably wouldn't reach 50%, but it would better than the current ratios.

hee hee I *knew* you couldn't leave it alone.

If you want to disagree, you must first deal with my point.

Your point is that women work less, so being paid less is not a sexist system. Right?

My point is that the system causes them to work less so you can't just consider hours worked. Ignoring that is ignoring the whole problem.

Hmm? I haven't watched the video because I'm not fond of them: I was commenting on your "sexist women" remark. The other link you sent me because it doesn't render without lots of javascript, or I need to sign up or something.

I've read about the gamergate subject a bit. As far as I can tell, the Cracked article has it about right.

Did you listen to those totally sexist women discussing the issue?

What's that go to do with the price of fish?

It could be a bunch of sexist women, Barak Obama, the pope, or the Chief Zorblaxian in that video. It would still not change the underlying truths about gaters.

The truth is that regardless of any actual corruption in the video game journalism scene, the gaters are still a bunch of raging sexist assholes.

You missed the part where I said we were done.

Apparently so did you.

You seem to believe I haven't read your posts. That's a nice fiction and it's also false. I have read your posts and I disagree. Perhaps my disagreement was unclear.

You are claiming that the reason for fewer days worked is immaterial. I am claiming it is not. I have provided a reason that I believe it matters. You have done nothing but continued to assert your belief that it doesn't matter without attempting to refute my point. It's as if you believe shouting louder and using more caps will make me forget that I actually had a point.

I do now believe you are as you claim done. It's simple really: you cannot refute my argument so you ragequit. Makse sense, really.