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?
Publishing meaningful written content doesn't use any meaningful upstream bandwidth. Try again!
No it isn't.
The web has video that works these days, yes. This is progress. It also has platforms like Twitter and Facebook that encourage ordinary people to publish and hyperlink to things, even if those people are not wordsmiths and would never have had a regular blog.
Despite all these wonderful new things, I have not noticed people suddenly ceasing to write long form articles. It's been purely additive.
In fairness, many AV engines are total crap and are notorious for interfering and breaking all kinds of software.
I didn't actually see any evidence of Facebook censoring content because it's insulting to Ataturk on the linked page. The "evidence" appears to be a document that doesn't mention Facebook anywhere, but, let's take it as read that this really is a list of Facebook content abuse standards.
Even with that assumption, things related to Turkey are not listed as always banned. They are under a section labelled "escalate", meaning, if it gets hot, send it to management.
It may well be that Facebook has decided to enforce Turkish laws about this in order to get themselves unbanned there. But it may also be that upper management just wants more precise control over this hot potato. Once I see a clear message from Facebook saying a group was suspended for violating Turkish censorship laws, then I'll agree.
"The only appropriate sexual dialogue between tech workers" IS none at all, as long as there's just a slim chance someone might be offended, and it's stupidly immature not to get that in one's head, and as long a such immature offenders constitute a significant portion of tech workers, organizations like the Ada Institute are totally needed.
Or..they could actually grow a bit thicker skin, and ignore people and their words that don't mean a damned thing, and be professional and get their job done.....like most people do.
Quit crying and deal with the real world that isn't all sunshine, rainbows, unicorns and people at are at all concerned about your self esteem.
This is the real world, deal with it....I'm talking to BOTH men and women.
And don't forget, the rich assholes who refuse to spend money to fix social problems
Seriously?
Spending money does not and CAN not fix social problems. We've seen the beautifully exemplified by the non-success of the War on Poverty we've been waging for decades.
You can't buy your way out of immoral, uneducated, violent social problems that many of our US sub-cultures embrace. It has to come FROM the community itself.
If nothing else, the throwing of $$ at it and many programs meant to give help, have become ways of life for many that became generational cultures of dependence, and anger....and the loss of family and family values being passed onto the kids.
It has to come from within the people of the community themselves, you can buy it or legislate it.
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
