demand response
description: techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
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Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd · 15 Jan 2013 · 160pp · 53,435 words
from time to time that there is something that justifies thinking in Orwell’s terms—that there is something about one’s own time that demands response. But what response, and how to make it? One can only say it is possible that writers live most fully when their work moves beyond
Programming Android
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike and Masumi Nakamura · 15 Jul 2011
has come a long way since those days. Dalvik emphatically does not have these problems. Creating new objects has essentially no overhead. Only the most demandingly responsive of UIs—perhaps some games—will ever need to worry about garbage collection pauses. Scope Scope determines where variables, methods, and other symbols are visible
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff · 23 May 2011 · 344pp · 96,690 words
Airlines (@SouthwestAir, one million followers) that tweet deals and news but also respond to others. Southwest has recognized that, like McDonald’s, its presence will demand responses to service questions, not just tweeting news. On the day we looked, Southwest was tweeting “Ready to celebrate ‘12 Days of LUV?’ We’re giving
Confronting Gun Violence in America
by Thomas Gabor · 12 Sep 2016
about 40 % of gun industry revenues and the federal government alone accounts for 25 % of these revenues. He argues that taxpayers have a right to demand responsibility from an industry that obtains so much of our money. As one of the main customers of the industry, he recommends that the federal government
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane · 1 May 2019 · 489pp · 136,195 words
execution it conjures, the curse it threatens as protection against its own erasure. The poem at once challenges and charges its reader, both forbidding and demanding response. Above all, it is a poem about compassion – about feeling as another feels. To the poem’s author, the darkness of the ‘bottomless pit’ represents
Elixir in Action
by Saša Jurić · 30 Jan 2019
the means to scale horizontally — you can address load increase by adding more machines to the system, thus adding work units to support the higher demand. Responsiveness—It goes without saying that a system should always be reasonably fast and responsive. Request handling shouldn’t be drastically prolonged, even if the load
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
by Adam Greenfield · 14 Sep 2006 · 229pp · 68,426 words
beneficial. So I see a real hope in the idea that a constituency of enlightened developers and empowered users will attend the rise of everyware, demanding responsible and compassionate design of ubiquitous technology. I further hope that the principles I've offered here are a meaningful contribution to the discussion, that they
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
by Bandy X. Lee · 2 Oct 2017 · 369pp · 105,819 words
of the supercomputers that drive it. As Brown University digital media scholar Wendy Chun (2016) observes, “[T]here is an unrelenting stream of updates that demand response, from ever-updating Twitter.com feeds to exploding inboxes. The lack of time to respond, brought about by the inhumanly clocked time of our computers
Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?
by Chris Rojek · 15 Feb 2008 · 219pp · 61,334 words
. It submits that the British offer equal opportunity for everyone to fulfil their talents irrespective of class, colour or creed. In return, they expect and demand responsibility and an acceptance of common standards, rules of behaviour and mutual tolerance. Many of the aspiring citizens will have come from disadvantaged sections of the
Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
by Julia Watkins · 6 Apr 2020
recipes and tips in this book reflect those values every bit as much as they offer ways for individuals to reduce their personal waste while demanding responsibility from businesses and governments. My first encounter with zero-waste was in Africa, nearly twenty years ago. I was serving in the Peace Corps and
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
by Jacob Soll · 28 Apr 2014 · 382pp · 105,166 words
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro and Vestal Mcintyre · 12 May 2018 · 517pp · 147,591 words
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business
by John Newhouse · 16 Jan 2007 · 278pp · 83,504 words
The Centrist Manifesto
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2013 · 104pp · 30,990 words
Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories From the Frontline
by Steven K. Kapp · 19 Nov 2019
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World
by Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner and Rupert Stadler · 25 Mar 2018
Lonely Planet Scotland's Highlands & Islands
by Lonely Planet
Climate Change
by Joseph Romm · 3 Dec 2015 · 358pp · 93,969 words
A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
by Yuval Levin · 21 Jan 2020 · 224pp · 71,060 words
The Facebook Effect
by David Kirkpatrick · 19 Nov 2010 · 455pp · 133,322 words
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman · 24 Oct 2011 · 654pp · 191,864 words
A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s
by Alwyn W. Turner · 4 Sep 2013 · 1,013pp · 302,015 words
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
by Mj Demarco · 8 Nov 2010 · 386pp · 116,233 words
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least
by Antti Ilmanen · 24 Feb 2022
Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
by Rose Hackman · 27 Mar 2023
Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
by Meredith. Angwin · 18 Oct 2020 · 376pp · 101,759 words
Scotland Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Virtual Competition
by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke · 30 Nov 2016
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes · 4 Jun 2018 · 470pp · 148,444 words
Smart Grid Standards
by Takuro Sato · 17 Nov 2015
In the Age of the Smart Machine
by Shoshana Zuboff · 14 Apr 1988
Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets
by David J. Leinweber · 31 Dec 2008 · 402pp · 110,972 words
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman · 22 Nov 2016 · 602pp · 177,874 words
The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1989
Lonely Planet Scotland
by Lonely Planet
The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow
by Gil Troy · 14 Apr 2018 · 649pp · 185,618 words
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm · 2 Sep 2020 · 304pp · 90,084 words
Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy
by Daniel Gross · 7 May 2012 · 391pp · 97,018 words
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
by Varun Sivaram · 2 Mar 2018 · 469pp · 132,438 words
Piracy : The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
by Adrian Johns · 5 Jan 2010 · 636pp · 202,284 words
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
by Francis Fukuyama · 7 Apr 2004
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke · 25 Jul 2016 · 433pp · 127,171 words
The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
by Levi Tillemann · 20 Jan 2015 · 431pp · 107,868 words
Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank
by Chris Skinner · 27 Aug 2013 · 329pp · 95,309 words
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
by Andrew Sayer · 6 Nov 2014 · 504pp · 143,303 words
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by Antti Ilmanen · 4 Apr 2011 · 1,088pp · 228,743 words
Laziness Does Not Exist
by Devon Price · 5 Jan 2021 · 362pp · 87,462 words
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
Lonely Planet Scotland
by Lonely Planet
Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life
by Scott. Branson · 14 Jun 2022 · 198pp · 63,612 words
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
by Mariana Mazzucato · 1 Jan 2011 · 382pp · 92,138 words
A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf · 27 Sep 2006
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland · 15 Jan 2021 · 342pp · 72,927 words
The Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All
by Chris Goodall · 6 Jul 2016 · 271pp · 79,367 words
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
by Jarrett Walker · 22 Dec 2011
Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by John E. Kelly Iii · 23 Sep 2013 · 118pp · 35,663 words
The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
by Brett Christophers · 12 Mar 2024 · 557pp · 154,324 words
Industrial Internet
by Jon Bruner · 27 Mar 2013 · 49pp · 12,968 words