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And the other way round: If the grid was large enough we would not need storage. It seems reasonable to try to improve both the grid and storage.
It's not uncommon for people in the energy business to say "gigawatts" as short hand for "gigawatt hours". In that context this sort of makes sense. At their peak (likely when the sun was just right and the clouds were parted over most of Germany), it produced 22 gigawatt hours in a one hour time period. Without the implied "gigawatt hour", saying it just hit "22 gigawatts" isn't really that impressive, because that could just be a momentary spike. Being able to sustain it, even for an hour, is impressive.
Well, this is awkward

It's apparently relying on the 'dynamic Casmir effect' but what exactly is doing is not clear

I assume photons created by accelerating a plate have zero angular momentum (the sum of all them) unless maybe if you have a plate near it then it isn't? (and by 'near' I mean 'Casmir near')
Cheap alternative: cover the walls with thin chicken wire.
How much do you spend on the cloud?
Critics also complain growing levels of solar power make the national grid more less stable due to fluctuations in output.

DaniFong, I hope your company Light Sail Energy has some deals with Germany in the works for your energy storage product.
What gives 4chan a sense of community? I agree, just wondering.
Sure, I remember reading about purple stuff found in a swamp being studied and a few years later OLED is in my hand as the screen on my phone.
Yep, been hooked ever since this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyUjnPgOPGE
If you want a time sink, learn a new language, start a website, do something productive. Don't play in someone else's sandbox; create your own.

The UI is purposely opaque so that automating things is very difficult, and of course in-game automated activity (scripting the UI) is banned by the EULA. That's the opposite of what any hacker naturally wants to do, because it's simply not productive.

The interesting aspects of EVE are human aspects: running corporations and alliances, and spying. However, the sheer amount of work to get into a position of authority in a corp or alliance worth being in, and the amount of tedious logistics involved when you are in the leadership, make the exercise overall not worth it.
Same thinking here. Good overall article, but instead of losing all "price discriminators", and nothing in return, Ron is hoping to transform JCP into a retailer that caters to a different class of consumers I believe.
Haskell Solution ::

Prelude> take 100 $ cycle "Hello World"
This could be used with the poster's IP address. https://robohash.org/
TLDR: It's like a solar sail, but instead of being pushed by energy from a star, it manipulates local quantum particles to create a small force that propels the vessel.

Eg, not warp or hyperdrive, but still very clever.
I like the short, one focus per video format. Consumption is quick and effective.
AlphaServers were not exactly as inexpensive as the Intel systems in those examples. The Alpha had a huge disadvantage in that low cost motherboards were hard to come by, and those that were available actually did tend to kill its performance.

There were certain kinds of benchmarks (including some in SPECcpu) that really favoured CPU's with 64-bit fixed point arithmetic, but if you left those out, it wasn't even a contest. Even when you left them in, the Alpha systems had a hard time justifying themselves for people who weren't doing floating point work.
Working for me in Chrome/Mac (not disagreeing, just adding this if the author is trying to debug it. Or maybe he already has :) ).
In addition to portability for when you do need/want it, like others mentioned, just plain saving space. If I didn't still want to play the occasional game of Civ V with high graphics settings, I'd love to ditch the tower that sits next to my desk at home.
In the US, utilities are switching over from coal to natural gas for electricity, on account of advances in fracking which make gas dirt cheap. (Some trucking firms are also trying to switch to LNG fuel, as diesel remains expensive). Combined with this anti-nuclear sentiment in Europe, this places the US in the hilariously ironic position of reducing carbon dioxide emissions more than Europe even though they never bothered to make that an explicit priority.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/05/americas-f...
Either do it or don't.
It’s not about the tasks. It’s about focus.
It's relatively easy to produce 22GWh for a couple hours each year. Try doing it 8,760 hours straight.

According to Reuters, solar provided 18TWh in 2011 (up 60% from 2010) which was 3% of total power output.
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He wants you to justify your claim. Obviously you can't so I guess loud noises are in order.
"as well as those who, for health reasons, simply want to shield themselves from as many electromagnetic waves as possible"

Is anyone really still concerned that electromagnetic waves in the cell-phone range are harmful?
No, more like "Thrusters" in Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe. It's still fantastical because it doesn't need to expend reaction mass, hence it's not subject to the rocket equation.

http://www.larryniven.net/kzin/worlds.shtml
Those fuckers even create more radioactive waste (which won't get collected) when they work as intended, than nuclear plants when they break down.

How about reading your own linked article before making a fool of yourself with claims like that? It says coal plants create more radioactive waste than a nuclear plant that has not broken down.
Cool concept. Domains seem to be a major time sink for startup teams. I'd be interested in jumping in on the beta test with my side project.
Actually this is what happened to me in Safari on Lion: most models showed up, but a few were not, only their engine plumes as you described.
Is NFC killing Google Wallet?
You could've just submitted a link instead of a text post with the text of the link. That'd've made it clickable.

FWIW, the article lists a bunch of ways in which people grow & mature during their 20s. That pretty much directly contradicts the headline, because these were all ways that people used to grow & mature in adolescence. So really, 30 is the new 20, and that just means that teenagers are held in limbo.
Absolute agony on the iPhone. But that's attributable to limited phone input (not to impugn the developer)
Cost vs impact of ballistic missiles shapes current military strategy. A good example is how China's demonstration of a high maneuverability re-entry vehicle has shifted the navy back into building more destroyers to raise the odds of interception.

From this perspective, technology that reduces the cost to lob a warhead reliably is still advanced weapons technology.

But I also don't think fear should hold back progress.
Post it please :)
TV networks sue DishTV over ad hopping technology. Dish sues back.
You're right, I don't know. oak.io is indeed starting to look like 4chan a little...
Took a course of his at Berkeley. A fantastic and generous man.
I don't understand, when choosing "update all" doesn't it ask you each of your apple ID's password in a flurry of separate dialogs labelled with each account's name, and then update the whole bunch of apps in one round?
(Honestly, photos from 60 years ago ought to be in the public domain.)
"Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

--Homer Simpson

Plus, "space drives" violate the conservation of momentum.
I got a better one. Use an ethernet cable.
I think Flask is a bit better known and tested these days.

One man's opinion (based on experience).
"Except that would entail prices non-text services go down proportionately as texting gets more popular"

Things like this sometimes only work in one direction in businesses which have locked in customers and depending on their competition and what they do. Now a bank that all the sudden loses income in one area will try and make it up in other areas (as was shown recently) by increasing costs. But a bank which makes extra money in an area won't (unless they have to for competitive reasons) lower the costs of their other services. They will keep that money and report more profit! Because it's not that easy to switch your banking arrangement. It's not like buying a Western digital hard drive instead of a Seagate.

So this has to do with competition as well as the ease of someone switching their provider or vendor. And exactly how much competition they have or what their competitors are doing and what they are charging. Every situation is of course different.
He does have linodes and s3.

i have his very same setup. Just replace the s3 with a desktop, xmonad with ion3 (i know), and the mac book with a T40.

Also I thankfully do not use latex too much.
Prologue to Nassim Taleb's new book
It's not like a solar sail. You don't need energy to use the sail, you need energy here. This idea is not going to change space propulsion.
Speculation on the next Mac Pro
College grads, 30 isn't the new 20
"If there was a simple algorithm like "one Apple ID per human being" and an ability to link family accounts together, that would be great."

Honestly that wouldn't really fix most of these problems which have grown out of big content licensing rules. For example country specific stores clearly grew out of the music licensing arrangements and their many legacy contracts that sold extranational rights to other groups.
True

I don't deny the learning importance of the PD. But it would be more interesting if other types of games were explained as well.

Otherwise it's just PD and it gets boring.

About the Iterated PD yes, it's very interesting! Especially evolving competing strategies in it.
I think the rectangle illusion is created by the text that is vertically justified but not horizontally justified.
Not true at all. See:

http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/

http://www.webgl.com/category/webgl-games/

http://playwebgl.com/

The main obstacle to wider adoption is the lack of support in IE. IE10 will hopefully fix that, and meanwhile it's losing share.
> If you want a time sink, learn a new language, start a website, do something productive. Don't play in someone else's sandbox; create your own.

Awesome. How have I ever not thought about and done any of that.
Hey there mate. I'm the one who was linking to the Underscore.js annotated escape function:

http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/docs/underscore.h...

If you use something like this when displaying messages, it should not allow any XSS.
Sorry, but I find it really unprofessional when you comment on people's choice beforehand - people that you expect to help you.

And by this I mean stuff like 'azure LOL'. Grow up. Azure IS a good choice for a lot of people.
>It's absurd. Coal is guaranteed to have costly negative health and environmental impacts on surrounding areas, while nuclear merely has the risk.

Yes, but it has a much larger risk: the risk of tens or hundred of thousands of people getting radiation poisoning, and the region becoming inhabitable for years.

Plus it creates nuclear waste, that is not mere pollution, but extremely toxic for thousands or years. Not to mention the consequences to be had with a nuclear plant in the hands of the wrong people (terrorists and such). With a coal plant, not that many...
s/the art/my ability to make money off the art/

If you want Art, you can go put up a gallery, and whine there about how the little people who aren't paying you money don't properly appreciate your vision.

If you want business.... Economics 150, friend: In an efficient market, the marginal cost of a new unit of something is the same as its price. If that's less than what you think is "fair", perhaps that's a signal that (a) there are too many people in this market, don't bother, use your skills and/or equipment elsewhere, or (b) someone else can get snazzy photos to people-who-buy-snazzy-photos more efficiently than you.

The price of photographic equipment, the price of introduction to stock-photo companies, the price of accepting-stock-photo-company-terms-and-conditions, and the price of browsing-stock-photo-catalogs have all fallen dramatically thanks to technology and the Internet. That run-of-the-mill stock photos are now much cheaper ought to be expected.
Before clicking the link I thought it was a malformed computer desktop wallpaper exploiting some kind flaw in the operating system and using it to block the computer from connecting via Wi-Fi.

Would have been very much cooler, would it not?
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It would be more interesting to read why Peter Theil is All Wrong. He had absolutely no data to back his assertion that, except for computing, technological progress has stalled. He referred to data in his National Review piece, "The End of the Future", but, gosh, he didn't have any and didn't have any idea how to get it. So he decided to use economic growth as a surrogate for technological progress, based on the theory that progress implies growth.

There is no proof that progress in technology inevitably results in economic growth. That's a belief system arising from the post-war glory years that were the last half of the 20th century, when advertising campaigns by the likes of GE and Dow Chemical tried to convince us that our well-being was due to their efforts. "Better living through chemistry." "Progress is our most important product."

It might as easily be that economic growth results in technological progress. The more profitable companies are more they have to spend on research that isn't aimed at next year's bottom line. It might even be that both growth and progress are caused by wars, and the problem is we haven't had a big one lately.

In order to buy Theil's inverted implication, we first have to buy the premise. Progress implies growth. Where's the evidence for that? What we saw was a correlation, not a causal relationship.

Even if it were true, progress in one place, say China, doesn't necessarily mean growth in another, say the US. There is a reason why virtually all consumer electronic products are made in China, and it isn't cheap labor, but superior technology. It's not that we don't want to make the stuff here. We no longer can.

Likewise, progress in robotics does not imply economic growth in places where robots displace workers, especially if those places don't make the robots (and probably even if they do). Western economies are built on consumerism. To the extent that technologies reinforce consumerism, by giving us jobs making things to buy, they grow the economy. When technology moves to another place or "increases productivity" by building the same amount with fewer workers, we lose our jobs and can't buy anything.

Rather than thumping technological progress - there's been plenty of it - Theil might have taken a peek at the balance of trade.
Very clever implementation. One thing I would comment though is, it's rather irritating to have the figure constantly moving left or right. It think it would be better if the figure stopped once hands were released from the keyboard.

Not sure if that's the intended functionality, but that's what happens in Chrome for Mac Version 20.0.1132.17 beta.
Women in Combat. US Military.
It was nice to read the article. My dad died last year. He was an infantryman in 1944 & 1945 in the 3rd army. He lost a lot of friends and my uncles told me that the war fucked him up. He became an alcoholic and never could fully shake the demons. He could never watch a war movie or anything depicting war. He also never could talk about what he experienced. I've realized that the ones who talk usually didn't see any combat. My dad hated war and hated patriotic fervor.
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You can always install from source and pass --prefix and --exec-prefix options to ./configure. Virtualenv is not strictly necessary to run in an isolated environment.

And as for whether virtualenv should have been part of the OS... it already is in some cases, to the extent that any userland tool is part of the OS.

$ uname -o
GNU/Linux
$ which virtualenv
/usr/bin/virtualenv

Does it really matter whether it was the python developers who got there first?
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Huh? It's "only" a >reaction-less< drive. That's only a science-fiction conceit to allow compact little spacecraft to zip all over a solar system with mass fractions that are actually sane.

If the guy has invented a science fiction conceit in real life, I think he deserves some praise.
I think it's been shown that it's infeasible. You'd lose too much power in the beaming process, or you'd have a death ray beam that destroys anything that flies between it... you could increase the area, but then you'd need a collector dish the size of montana.

The best idea might be something like in the movie Moon where the power is stored chemically, then shipped back to earth.
This came up at a meeting at EPIC a while back. Someone indicated it was one of various contradictory regulations by different agencies in India that aren't actually enforced.
Still troubling, but more in the category of those weird laws that slip on the books and never get removed than an all out war on privacy there.
That is a very tall claim :) Thanks though, I'll read the code!
The sun burned fuel for billions of years well there was no one around whatsoever.
ESR is an embarrasment.
While external monitors with twinview work pretty well, it is a huge pain to configure. You have to open up the nvidia configuration application and set it up, not autodetection or panel applet.
For a hundred thousand years.
This might be an effective solution to the "no cellphones in class" rule.

Probably the most important factor is still letting emergency bands through. Does anyone know if 911 calls go through normal cellphone channels, or if that's a dedicated channel that can be 'whitelisted' on a device like this?
Yes there are, but you won't find them here or on my websites.
Well between SAS and SPSS they have had the market under lock and key. Yes R is widely used in industry these days. Yes, unless you've got serious statistical work to do it is a fairly horrible language to work with.
How many nuclear power plants are their in the world?

436 plus 63 in construction (as of 2010).

It is sufficient to simply add up the costs needed to cover the disaster

The total cost for the Chernobyl incident was estimated at $235 billion[1] in 2006 and the figure only keeps growing.

Since 2007 they're building a new sarcophagus (because the old one is falling apart). The costs were estimated at another $1.4 billion for that alone. But they're late already, and well, you know how it goes.

In contrast Hurricane Katrina was a bargain at $150 billion dollars [2].

The Fukushima incident is estimated to cost $257 billion dollars [3] and that's probably a little optimistic.

and then look at the premiums paid for covering similar sized disasters with similar rates of occurrence

See, here is your problem. At these scales there is no coverage and no reference; these are disasters of national scale. For Katrina the insurance industry paid $41 billion dollars [2], guess who carried the rest.

And the real question is: What happens when some confused individuals somehow manage to smuggle nail-clippers onto passenger planes and then fly them into multiple reactors, in densely populated areas, at the same time?

What is the insurance premium on that?

[1] http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/l-3/5-social-economic...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_of_Hurricane_K...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/06/japan-nuclear-cost...
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(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/)

> To date, research does not suggest any consistent evidence of adverse health effects from exposure to radiofrequency fields at levels below those that cause tissue heating. Further, research has not been able to provide support for a causal relationship between exposure to electromagnetic fields and self-reported symptoms, or “electromagnetic hypersensitivity”.

> The researchers concluded that biases and errors limit the strength of these conclusions and prevent a causal interpretation. Based largely on these data, IARC has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), a category used when a causal association is considered credible, but when chance, bias or confounding cannot be ruled out with reasonable confidence.
It's used all the time in production to produce the arrow effect on tooltips and similar elements.
"Insufferable nitwit interviewers at New Scientist, not so much."

Think that's a bit strong. I didn't take "you claim to be" as anything close to framing Musk as potentially lying.

"It is designed to impeach the credibility of the subject in the reader's view"

If that is the case there would have been more wording like this in the interview. I'm not seeing that in any of the other questions, at least nothing that is worthy of calling the writers at "Insufferable nitwit interviewers". Which in itself has made me think there is some general disrespect for New Scientist which I wasn't aware of. New Scientist seems to have fairly good demographics we're not talking about People Magazine here.
> It's a pretty common opinion nowadays...

Apple is not the worst of the bunch. You have nothing to qualify that statement other than a hand-waving gesture.

The undisputed #1 king of patent trolls is former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's company Intellectual Ventures and its various holding companies that sue anyone and everyone with patents that contain no technology but do contain lots of language that's very lawsuit friendly as the claims are sweepingly broad. Recently they tried to sue a large number of small developers that were using "in app purchasing" technology.

Number two is Microsoft who is extorting upwards of $15 per Android phone sold from a number of vendors as part of their "fair licensing" program even though zero Microsoft code is used in those phones.

Number three would be Oracle if only they could get better lawyers and a more agreeable jury.

Apple has been fighting to push back at the tide of design violations put forward by companies like Samsung and others. If you can name even one instance of where Apple has directly sued a small company over a technology patent I would be surprised.

You seem to have absolutely no idea what Microsoft was up to "even back in the day" because it was far worse than anything Apple has ever done. Remember the bait-and-switch with OS/2? The pricing scheme where DOS was $60 and the very same DOS + Windows was $30? Where companies like Dell had to pay a license fee on every machine sold regardless of if it was sold with Windows or not? The way they would switch up Windows to "break" other competing applications like WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3?

You seem to have forgotten that it was an arms-length Microsoft deal that enabled SCO to turn zombie and threatening hundreds if not thousands of companies that were simply using Linux, not even developing their own software.

The reason you're completely mystified is because you haven't done any research.