LOL! Blast from the past... Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.
LazerFX
joined 2 years ago
I've never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.
Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.
They've explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn't promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).
They've gone above and beyond to deliver, I'd even hazard a guess that they've over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They're working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They've done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.
I'm not pre-ordering, but I'll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.
That's what the guy said. Money isn't "intrinsically" real - it doesn't have something in-and-of itself. It's extrinsically real - it represents something in the society we live in, a system of arbitrage and barterage that we use to represent an amount of work (Poorly, and with little benefit to a large number of people).
So no - if the extrinsic reality changes, then the barter or arbitrage currency will change - bottle caps, for instance, take over. But for a large society to function, a commonly accepted means of representing "value" has to be agreed upon. I can't just say, "Well, I've got the worth of x hours worth of time spent on projects to provide", instead I'll say "I've got x pounds to provide".
Originally, this was made more explicit, and it still exists on UK currency: "I promise to pay the bearer..." At that point, the notes had a (Bank-enfornced) intrinsic value. The words meant a promise to provide the currencies face-value in Gold. Now, we've done away with gold-backed currency, and the raw value is arbitrary, it has no intrinsic value but that set by extrinsic realities.
Sodium Ion battery cells (From the article):
- Energy Density: 145Wh/kg (How much Weight)
- Energy Desnity: ??? (How much Volume)
- Life cycle: 1,500 charges (Normal temperatures)
- 92% capacity at -20°C
Lithium Polymer (From Harding Energy - https://www.hardingenergy.com/lithium-2/ - assuming this is representative)
- Energy Density: 100 - 158Wh/kg (How much Weight)
- Energy Density: 185 - 220Wh/l (How much Volume/Size)
- Life Cycle: ~500 (No temperature comments)
- Operable Temperature: -20°C - 50°C
That feels to me like the reported characteristics are on-par or better. Whether the real-world characteristics are the same, and if they really last as long is an open question.
I'd love to find out the Wh/l - i.e. how much physical size is needed to store the same weight of battery. It's not such an issue with the likes of an e-bike, or even so much a car, as there's spaces to shove it, but in something like a phone (Especially when people are so fixated on 'super slim devices' to the detriment of all else), if it's 2 or 3 times larger physically, I can see it not catching on in those areas.
Searching on the Wh/l for Sodium batteries, I found nothing that seemed authoritative.
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Don't do this - plugging in an infected drive can infect the secondary computer; you may wish to plug it into a linux or other hardened system to get the data however. The post by @silverdiamond is a better response.