Seems more practical to recharge bikes (either electric-assisted, or motorcycles), rather than cars.
This would also be ideal for bike-share systems like the successful Bixi in Montreal. You need the power to run the bike dock and pay station. Some of these systems (not Bixi) also rent out pre-charged e-bikes.
A fleet of electrics will easily have "ten times as many" charging stations as an equivalent gas fleet would have gas stations. Of course, most charging stations cost $1k and would be located in the car's overnight parking location (garage, corporate lot, etc.) Gas stations cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and require at least one staff whenever operational. There's no problem replacing one gas station with ten charging stations. Public stations like this would likely be used when an extra charge is needed, not every day (traveling, shopping, etc.).
People also forget about that massive road and highway network connecting every little town and city in their country. They also forget that people used to die regularly from unsanitary drinking water in cities. How about providing schools and education for millions people? Governments don't build anything, bull shit.
It seems that lately, "hackers" and other "computer savvy" Hollywood characters use interfaces full of text (often rapidly scrolling). Perhaps it's the influence of the Matrix, but it's closer to the real thing than flying through a 3D representation of a hard drive.
Most cars have had electronic "throttle by wire" systems for a while. Power-steering systems already have all the mechanical systems for electrical control of steering, and I seem to recall some luxury sedans having some sort of computer "assistance" (power steering gain is adjusted based on speed, etc). Finally, conventional car's brakes are completely independent, but hybrids that use regenerative braking involve the computer. No so far fetched.
I never understood the obsession with majority usage shares. If Firefox maintains ~1/3 of the market, that is great, there is no need to dominate the market unless you plan on manipulating it. I don't wan't to see a browser dominate the market again, even if it is OSS. The internet is growing, and maintaining a 1/3 market share means people are still discovering Firefox, Mozilla's income will continue to grow, and a fresh developers will continue to discover the project. Any project that falls between insignificance and dominance is a success in my opinion.
It's also worth mentioning that the pulp industry generally uses forests on land they *don't own.* At least in North America, they get licenses to forest large regions of government owned land. Any hemp or otherwise farmer has to cover the overhead cost of owning the farm.
It's made from fast growing wood that is grown on farms for the express purpose of making paper, so it's not like they're not chopping down old growth forests.
And that land just magically appeared? You are talking about massive swaths of "plantation" that, if it weren't for our insatiable desire for pulp-products, would either be healthy vibrant old-growth forest, or perhaps, making something useful like food.
I am in the same boat. I'm generally concerned with privacy and am well versed in the issues, but I am actually more outraged when people bend the laws to *prevent* people from taking pictures in public environment (i.e., using copyright to prevent people from taking photographs of buildings from the street).
Broadcasting over the public airwaves is never a local affair. At some point, our neighbors in the next solar system will be able to read your SSID if they like (and have a big enough antenna). If you broadcast information from your house, don't be surprised if someone records it. For some reason consumer radio equipment seems to make people believe they own they little slice of RF they are operating on.
This could have some neat applications. You can encode a large amount of information (like a detailed map of the world) in something the size of a marble and read it without power using an optical microscope. If done well, this could have applications for things from a modern rosetta stone to providing reference material for schools in places without electricity.
Who's to say they don't aim for the middle? They could raise the cost and difficulty of licencing ARM chips just enough to slow the non-apple smartphone/media player/embedded developments but at the same time, not so much as to entice Intel to enter the market.
Something like the challenger ultralight can fly two people for about $10/h at up to nearly 100mph. It costs around the same as a decent car and can take off and land on relatively short strips of tarmac, grass, snow or water. Of course, fabric wrapped over aluminium tubing is going to leave something to be desired when it comes to crash-tests. Cars are heavy because they smash into each other a lot. That problem needs to be solved before cars can take to the air.
Bipeds are more agile than quadrupeds? Are you sure? Bipeds are much slower, tire much easier, and try to catch a cat or dog and you will see that we are at most comparable in agility. Bipedal-ism gives us one advantage, free hands. In the case of birds it allows the fore-limbs to be specialized for flying. If evolution had favored 6-limbed organisms instead of 4 early on, you probably wouldn't see bipedal animals at all as every quadruped would have free limbs.
Beautiful, you can legally use a piece of free software on your computer to create a portable, digital copy from the DVD, or pay more, tie up your internet connection for a while, jump through several annoying hoops and get a crappy DRM copy?? Talk about a tax on the ignorant.
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Seems more practical to recharge bikes (either electric-assisted, or motorcycles), rather than cars.
This would also be ideal for bike-share systems like the successful Bixi in Montreal. You need the power to run the bike dock and pay station. Some of these systems (not Bixi) also rent out pre-charged e-bikes.
A fleet of electrics will easily have "ten times as many" charging stations as an equivalent gas fleet would have gas stations. Of course, most charging stations cost $1k and would be located in the car's overnight parking location (garage, corporate lot, etc.) Gas stations cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and require at least one staff whenever operational. There's no problem replacing one gas station with ten charging stations. Public stations like this would likely be used when an extra charge is needed, not every day (traveling, shopping, etc.).
brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
People also forget about that massive road and highway network connecting every little town and city in their country. They also forget that people used to die regularly from unsanitary drinking water in cities. How about providing schools and education for millions people? Governments don't build anything, bull shit.
Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.
Sure, why not? It needs to go somewhere. Where do I sign up?
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if they'd let me put a TV or Ham antenna up there??
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Recycle is a last resort, but the first two hurt "the Economy," so they are not encouraged.
It seems that lately, "hackers" and other "computer savvy" Hollywood characters use interfaces full of text (often rapidly scrolling). Perhaps it's the influence of the Matrix, but it's closer to the real thing than flying through a 3D representation of a hard drive.
mv is just a convenience program that copies and then deletes in the first place.
The bandwidth of ten fingers and 104 keys is far greater than a two-dimensional vector and a couple buttons.
Most cars have had electronic "throttle by wire" systems for a while. Power-steering systems already have all the mechanical systems for electrical control of steering, and I seem to recall some luxury sedans having some sort of computer "assistance" (power steering gain is adjusted based on speed, etc). Finally, conventional car's brakes are completely independent, but hybrids that use regenerative braking involve the computer. No so far fetched.
I never understood the obsession with majority usage shares. If Firefox maintains ~1/3 of the market, that is great, there is no need to dominate the market unless you plan on manipulating it. I don't wan't to see a browser dominate the market again, even if it is OSS. The internet is growing, and maintaining a 1/3 market share means people are still discovering Firefox, Mozilla's income will continue to grow, and a fresh developers will continue to discover the project. Any project that falls between insignificance and dominance is a success in my opinion.
It *is* uniform if you pick one of the available GUI's and standardize on it.
Do you have the blu-ray rip??
It's also worth mentioning that the pulp industry generally uses forests on land they *don't own.* At least in North America, they get licenses to forest large regions of government owned land. Any hemp or otherwise farmer has to cover the overhead cost of owning the farm.
It's made from fast growing wood that is grown on farms for the express purpose of making paper, so it's not like they're not chopping down old growth forests.
And that land just magically appeared? You are talking about massive swaths of "plantation" that, if it weren't for our insatiable desire for pulp-products, would either be healthy vibrant old-growth forest, or perhaps, making something useful like food.
Characters and story lines can be borrowed and shared. How many times do Shakespeare's characters show up in modern film?
I am in the same boat. I'm generally concerned with privacy and am well versed in the issues, but I am actually more outraged when people bend the laws to *prevent* people from taking pictures in public environment (i.e., using copyright to prevent people from taking photographs of buildings from the street).
Broadcasting over the public airwaves is never a local affair. At some point, our neighbors in the next solar system will be able to read your SSID if they like (and have a big enough antenna). If you broadcast information from your house, don't be surprised if someone records it. For some reason consumer radio equipment seems to make people believe they own they little slice of RF they are operating on.
This could have some neat applications. You can encode a large amount of information (like a detailed map of the world) in something the size of a marble and read it without power using an optical microscope. If done well, this could have applications for things from a modern rosetta stone to providing reference material for schools in places without electricity.
Who's to say they don't aim for the middle? They could raise the cost and difficulty of licencing ARM chips just enough to slow the non-apple smartphone/media player/embedded developments but at the same time, not so much as to entice Intel to enter the market.
Something like the challenger ultralight can fly two people for about $10/h at up to nearly 100mph. It costs around the same as a decent car and can take off and land on relatively short strips of tarmac, grass, snow or water. Of course, fabric wrapped over aluminium tubing is going to leave something to be desired when it comes to crash-tests. Cars are heavy because they smash into each other a lot. That problem needs to be solved before cars can take to the air.
Actually, God created light on the first day
But light wasn't really of any practical use until the fourth day when he created the sun and moon and stars.
Bipeds are more agile than quadrupeds? Are you sure? Bipeds are much slower, tire much easier, and try to catch a cat or dog and you will see that we are at most comparable in agility. Bipedal-ism gives us one advantage, free hands. In the case of birds it allows the fore-limbs to be specialized for flying. If evolution had favored 6-limbed organisms instead of 4 early on, you probably wouldn't see bipedal animals at all as every quadruped would have free limbs.
That is fine with me. Bring back the small movies. Where can I sign up to hasten that process?
They are still being made, you just won't find them in the same places as the big Hollywood factory movies.
Beautiful, you can legally use a piece of free software on your computer to create a portable, digital copy from the DVD, or pay more, tie up your internet connection for a while, jump through several annoying hoops and get a crappy DRM copy?? Talk about a tax on the ignorant.