but the most sensible outcome would be to replace automation with human ticket agents. Unlikely to happen.
Dead on! This is what should happen, more jobs for people, less error, less money wasted on repeatedly trying to fix tech.
As a bonus, give the jobs to teenagers only, for minimum wage, and maybe they'll cause less mischief. (Not saying all kids cause mischief, but some do, I'm just trying to state a possible side effect)
Somewhat related, just yesterday I booted a friend's vista laptop into safemode, command prompt only, and found it was using 460 Megabytes of ram upon startup, with just the DOS Box running!
In addition, another overlooked feature is the simplified air-conditioning. R-12 refrigerant use was halted because, one a vibrating engine, flexible coolant hoses and joints leak and cause ozone depletion. So instead R-134a is used, which is less harmful, but less efficient. And it still leaks. In an electric vehicle, the AC can be self-contained, like a windows AC. How often do you hear of a refrigerator or window AC unit leaking or needing a re-fill? Thus, more efficient R-12 could be used, reducing energy usage FTW!
In defense, although I largely agree with the sentiment, cars today are drastically more complicated and extremely computer-controlled, requiring expensive and complex equipment to test. Sure, the basics of fuel, compression and spark are there, but there are no more mechanical carbs, chokes and distributors.
Ah, but the point is not to protect you, but the people you inconvenience. You crash and split your head open, now there is one less emergency room available for the guy who got hurt by a freak accident and not by being a dumbass.
How they hell can you ban scientific research? Even just figuring out basic home mysteries, like "why is my toilet running?" or "where is this water coming from?" could be considered scientific research. Where do you draw the line?
Well, my company only uses half a person to manage licenses, the only problem is that once we cut them in half, they can only do their job for like a day before they, um, quit
One factor in the choice to use LED's for taillights is also the reaction time. LED lights come to full brightness (and in THEORY) can cut back the reaction time if several cars in a chain must stop quickly.
actually, more like a much more highly accurate "drive time/distance remaining" indicator, which would be coordinated with your GPS system. Basically, it could tell you if you had enough juice to get to your destination and back, and it could do this calculation based on straight medium-to-heavy use, and ignore the possibility of regen breaking or other efficiency techniques, and factor in stops at every intersection as a large margin of safety. This would make running out far less likely.
In fact, just a semi-accurate gauging of time/distance remaining would help. As it stands, I have little to no idea when I'm going to run out, as my gas gauge is very non-linear in fuel amount.
wait just a second! Is 491.2 kwhrs the potential energy storage, or the amount used by the engine in driving. If you consider that internal combustion is only 15-35% efficient, and then the losses in drive train, braking, etc, electric can actually come very close. 25% of 491 kwhrs is roughly 123 kwhrs, so the necessary power transfer rate would realistically only need to be about 2 megawatts. Add in regen breaking and more frequent charging (I mean, my Neon can go 180 miles on about 8 gallons, highway)
Additionally eliminating the "charging problem" is home recharging, which currently cannot be done, and thus your car can always be topped off each night, and for long trips, you can always charge the night before and take the time while you stop to eat for 30 minutes to charge your car and add another hour of drive time.
Electric Car tank problems are not so bad as it might seem. And when you need to drive for more than 3 hours straight (which i'd wager 80% of people do less than once a year) you could just rent a normal gas-powered car
Kids don't learn Latin anymore but they are learning to 'use' computers at the age of 11, get real. As a tool they are useful but in order to be a tool the user must have some basic skills that becoming computer dependent at that age will seriously retard. I really think there is no call for kids to be using computers as part of the educational experience before high-school.
My (gasp!) girlfriend is learning latin this summer, and the way she describes it gives me an understanding as to why latin is nearly a dead language. TOO DARN COMPLICATED. Language needs to be simple, concise and easy to learn, not full of extraneous rules and details and situational caught-ya's.
Honestly, I think learning how to use and adapt to the latest tools to gather information as efficiently, effectively and rapidly as possible is far more important than learning an overly complex method of communication.
the problem is that Horse Power is not king, torque is. Aerodynamics can help reduce needed HP, but HP is needed in figuring top speed, top speed up a hill, etc, but torque determines acceleration and ability to actually start climbing a hill or reach speed while on a hill.
The problem with low HP engines is that torque typically also decreases. This is where hybrid comes in. Electric motors can drastically broaden the torque curve, and thus allow for weight decreases and drive train efficiency increases by alleviating or eliminating the need for a variable transmission.
While hybrids are not always the best solution, a compact car can gain a lot in decreased (mechanical) complexity.
This is the reason why truckers have a special license. Perhaps more strict licensing or dramatically more expensive licenses with renewal fees for larger cars and suvs?
I don't see what's so wrong with paying for your incoming calls. If I receive an incoming call, I am still using the cell towers, the phone company still has to pay a cost. So when a person on one network makes a call to a person on another, the other network just has to deal with the free call?
when both people have to pay, both companies are compensated for the use of their respective networks.
swapping is often done on a modern system in order to increase performance by increasing cache space. By swapping out applications that are almost never being used, like say, the quicktime tray or something, there is more ram available to cache program data for applications that you are using much more heavily.
If running the system until the battery failed was the measurement, well.. thats just stooopid. Who says the battery's lifespan is identical the second time? Where these tests done one right after the other? Because if the first test was run on a 'cool' battery and the second one run on a battery that was just finished recharging five minutes ago, there could be a large margin of error. Only using the internal power usage meter in watts could be even remotely accurate.
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but the most sensible outcome would be to replace automation with human ticket agents. Unlikely to happen.
Dead on! This is what should happen, more jobs for people, less error, less money wasted on repeatedly trying to fix tech.
As a bonus, give the jobs to teenagers only, for minimum wage, and maybe they'll cause less mischief. (Not saying all kids cause mischief, but some do, I'm just trying to state a possible side effect)
Somewhat related, just yesterday I booted a friend's vista laptop into safemode, command prompt only, and found it was using 460 Megabytes of ram upon startup, with just the DOS Box running!
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In addition, another overlooked feature is the simplified air-conditioning. R-12 refrigerant use was halted because, one a vibrating engine, flexible coolant hoses and joints leak and cause ozone depletion. So instead R-134a is used, which is less harmful, but less efficient. And it still leaks. In an electric vehicle, the AC can be self-contained, like a windows AC. How often do you hear of a refrigerator or window AC unit leaking or needing a re-fill? Thus, more efficient R-12 could be used, reducing energy usage FTW!
In defense, although I largely agree with the sentiment, cars today are drastically more complicated and extremely computer-controlled, requiring expensive and complex equipment to test. Sure, the basics of fuel, compression and spark are there, but there are no more mechanical carbs, chokes and distributors.
Ah, but the point is not to protect you, but the people you inconvenience. You crash and split your head open, now there is one less emergency room available for the guy who got hurt by a freak accident and not by being a dumbass.
How they hell can you ban scientific research? Even just figuring out basic home mysteries, like "why is my toilet running?" or "where is this water coming from?" could be considered scientific research. Where do you draw the line?
Well, my company only uses half a person to manage licenses, the only problem is that once we cut them in half, they can only do their job for like a day before they, um, quit
He used an overhead projector and talked at us for two and a half hours...Yikes.
Ha, welcome to my three years at a big Pennsylvania university!
and why do industrial control systems need 3d graphics cards again?
One factor in the choice to use LED's for taillights is also the reaction time. LED lights come to full brightness (and in THEORY) can cut back the reaction time if several cars in a chain must stop quickly.
In fact, just a semi-accurate gauging of time/distance remaining would help. As it stands, I have little to no idea when I'm going to run out, as my gas gauge is very non-linear in fuel amount.
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Gives me an idea of how to CRIPPLE the city! buy up all the parking spots!!! Mwuahahahaha!!!
Or just use VLC and use the Video -> Snapshot menu option
wait just a second! Is 491.2 kwhrs the potential energy storage, or the amount used by the engine in driving. If you consider that internal combustion is only 15-35% efficient, and then the losses in drive train, braking, etc, electric can actually come very close. 25% of 491 kwhrs is roughly 123 kwhrs, so the necessary power transfer rate would realistically only need to be about 2 megawatts. Add in regen breaking and more frequent charging (I mean, my Neon can go 180 miles on about 8 gallons, highway)
Additionally eliminating the "charging problem" is home recharging, which currently cannot be done, and thus your car can always be topped off each night, and for long trips, you can always charge the night before and take the time while you stop to eat for 30 minutes to charge your car and add another hour of drive time.
Electric Car tank problems are not so bad as it might seem. And when you need to drive for more than 3 hours straight (which i'd wager 80% of people do less than once a year) you could just rent a normal gas-powered car
Kids don't learn Latin anymore but they are learning to 'use' computers at the age of 11, get real. As a tool they are useful but in order to be a tool the user must have some basic skills that becoming computer dependent at that age will seriously retard. I really think there is no call for kids to be using computers as part of the educational experience before high-school.
My (gasp!) girlfriend is learning latin this summer, and the way she describes it gives me an understanding as to why latin is nearly a dead language. TOO DARN COMPLICATED. Language needs to be simple, concise and easy to learn, not full of extraneous rules and details and situational caught-ya's.
Honestly, I think learning how to use and adapt to the latest tools to gather information as efficiently, effectively and rapidly as possible is far more important than learning an overly complex method of communication.
I don't know about you, but I need meat for survival, life without meat isn't worth living!
the problem is that Horse Power is not king, torque is. Aerodynamics can help reduce needed HP, but HP is needed in figuring top speed, top speed up a hill, etc, but torque determines acceleration and ability to actually start climbing a hill or reach speed while on a hill.
The problem with low HP engines is that torque typically also decreases. This is where hybrid comes in. Electric motors can drastically broaden the torque curve, and thus allow for weight decreases and drive train efficiency increases by alleviating or eliminating the need for a variable transmission.
While hybrids are not always the best solution, a compact car can gain a lot in decreased (mechanical) complexity.
This is the reason why truckers have a special license. Perhaps more strict licensing or dramatically more expensive licenses with renewal fees for larger cars and suvs?
I don't see what's so wrong with paying for your incoming calls. If I receive an incoming call, I am still using the cell towers, the phone company still has to pay a cost. So when a person on one network makes a call to a person on another, the other network just has to deal with the free call?
when both people have to pay, both companies are compensated for the use of their respective networks.
swapping is often done on a modern system in order to increase performance by increasing cache space. By swapping out applications that are almost never being used, like say, the quicktime tray or something, there is more ram available to cache program data for applications that you are using much more heavily.
If running the system until the battery failed was the measurement, well.. thats just stooopid. Who says the battery's lifespan is identical the second time? Where these tests done one right after the other? Because if the first test was run on a 'cool' battery and the second one run on a battery that was just finished recharging five minutes ago, there could be a large margin of error. Only using the internal power usage meter in watts could be even remotely accurate.