Electric motors may be heavy, but they're not as heavy as all the low-grade metal that goes into a SUV.
Or the fat buggers that drive them.
Some European firms are doing research into full-drive control cars that have each wheel capable of independent speed for better handling. So a vehicle with one hydrocarbon engine for electricity generation, and 1 motor per wheel for drive would be a natural fit.
There can be a grain of truth in even the biggest pile of right-wing poo. Although not necessarily.
It is true that the actions of others is a form of teaching - which is why parents should set an example by getting off their arses and out of the house with the kids, rather than parking the kids in front of the XBox while the parents drink alcohol while watching TV football; parents teach by example whether they mean to or not.
So when a kid/intellectually challenged teenager/idiot adult sees violent actions without consequence, or violent actions encouraged by peers, they learn that (1) violence is a worthy genre (2) violence has little or no consequence. Do not forget that many people in the 'developed' (commercialised) world now grow up without any significant threat to their wellbeing, or their quality of life, and have never seen a very ill person or a corpse. They are therefore unable to conceive of the consequences of genuine violence. [this may be why post-traumatic stress is more obvious now; past generations generally developed coping/repressing mechanisms during childhood because of the deaths of relatives and friends due to a variety of unwholesome accidents and ailments no longer prevalent]
The answer is, therefore, not to reduce exposure to the violent genre (as this would emasculate individuals to the detriment of competition or the ability of developed nations to wage war), but to put it in context and to make sure that people understand the difference between reality and fiction. The cop shows that show chases and shootouts then end the segment with the arrest must show the criminal further down the line: in hospital full of holes, or in prison having lost a few years of life: getting arrested is not a significant consequence in isolation, it's just 'getting caught', the consequences are imprisonment and loss of opportunity. Put timers in games; delay a respawn by 10 seconds. Put a timer in to stop play for 5 minutes every 1.5 hours. Make every school class visit an old peoples home when they're 10, a morgue when they're 13, and an abattoir when they're 16.
As a counter-example to the research, many people went to war 1939-1945, but the level of violence in society after the wars' end was no higher than before. So it is not exposure to violence that encourages aggression. Aggression is a product of a culture that encourages aggression - like college football clubs, or Republican party meetings, or the NRA/KKK.
I'm constantly amazed by how poorly U.S. citizens are served by their infrastructure. The free market is unable to provide adequate service for society without a government strong enough to impose common-sense demands and limitations.
Nothing in that article is not obvious. None of the 'solutions' will solve any of the problems; connecting wind farms together to make more use of existing transmission systems requires (you've guessed it) more transmission systems and could well overload the existing systems at peak. Distributing wind farms to gather wind from different parts of the weather system requires putting them further apart, which requires more transmission systems.
The simple point to make is that you need a distributed, highly-connected transmission network, with as much generation as possible as close as possible to consumption, and a variety of sources if those sources are variable. So e.g. each town gets its own wind and solar farm, and methane-from-sewage, and incinerator, and some natural gas micro-turbines. Yes, it'll cost, but you'll make the money back from the savings on transmission lines. And then do some proper investment in R&D e.g. more efficient PV cells, or drilling for geothermal.
How inefficient is the P2P?
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If the P2P overhead is low I'd have thought that P2P would cause fewer whole-network problems [when used to distribute movies] than Google Video because some of the P2P traffic would be confined to local parts of the network whereas the Google Video would be centralised. So Mr Cuban's point is invalid.
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However, if the P2P overhead is high then switching to centralised distribution would decrease total network load. I think.
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I have no idea how you'd determine the break-even point, but I'd love to see the problems that get thrown up by trying to force companies to stop using P2P for distribution.
Trackballs beat mice every time - so long as you can find one with good precision. Kennsington are nice, and Logitech aren't bad either. But Kennsington make them with blue translucent balls lit up with a LED - totally tech.
Trackballs are quite common in UK shops, but seem to be lacking in the US and Australia. One of those cultural things, or just stack-'em-high collateral.
Bloke I knew in 2000/2001 had a little tiny trackball that clipped onto the side of his laptop keyboard; it was precise, had 4 (!) buttons - all usable, and was badged as a Microsoft product. I really want one, but I've never seen another since. Must be one of those products MS buy up then discontinue because it'd wreck their trade in crappy beige sticky jerky mice/OS/Office products.
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Or the fat buggers that drive them.
Some European firms are doing research into full-drive control cars that have each wheel capable of independent speed for better handling. So a vehicle with one hydrocarbon engine for electricity generation, and 1 motor per wheel for drive would be a natural fit.
It is true that the actions of others is a form of teaching - which is why parents should set an example by getting off their arses and out of the house with the kids, rather than parking the kids in front of the XBox while the parents drink alcohol while watching TV football; parents teach by example whether they mean to or not.
So when a kid/intellectually challenged teenager/idiot adult sees violent actions without consequence, or violent actions encouraged by peers, they learn that (1) violence is a worthy genre (2) violence has little or no consequence. Do not forget that many people in the 'developed' (commercialised) world now grow up without any significant threat to their wellbeing, or their quality of life, and have never seen a very ill person or a corpse. They are therefore unable to conceive of the consequences of genuine violence. [this may be why post-traumatic stress is more obvious now; past generations generally developed coping/repressing mechanisms during childhood because of the deaths of relatives and friends due to a variety of unwholesome accidents and ailments no longer prevalent]
The answer is, therefore, not to reduce exposure to the violent genre (as this would emasculate individuals to the detriment of competition or the ability of developed nations to wage war), but to put it in context and to make sure that people understand the difference between reality and fiction. The cop shows that show chases and shootouts then end the segment with the arrest must show the criminal further down the line: in hospital full of holes, or in prison having lost a few years of life: getting arrested is not a significant consequence in isolation, it's just 'getting caught', the consequences are imprisonment and loss of opportunity. Put timers in games; delay a respawn by 10 seconds. Put a timer in to stop play for 5 minutes every 1.5 hours. Make every school class visit an old peoples home when they're 10, a morgue when they're 13, and an abattoir when they're 16.
As a counter-example to the research, many people went to war 1939-1945, but the level of violence in society after the wars' end was no higher than before. So it is not exposure to violence that encourages aggression. Aggression is a product of a culture that encourages aggression - like college football clubs, or Republican party meetings, or the NRA/KKK.
Nothing in that article is not obvious. None of the 'solutions' will solve any of the problems; connecting wind farms together to make more use of existing transmission systems requires (you've guessed it) more transmission systems and could well overload the existing systems at peak. Distributing wind farms to gather wind from different parts of the weather system requires putting them further apart, which requires more transmission systems.
The simple point to make is that you need a distributed, highly-connected transmission network, with as much generation as possible as close as possible to consumption, and a variety of sources if those sources are variable. So e.g. each town gets its own wind and solar farm, and methane-from-sewage, and incinerator, and some natural gas micro-turbines. Yes, it'll cost, but you'll make the money back from the savings on transmission lines. And then do some proper investment in R&D e.g. more efficient PV cells, or drilling for geothermal.
How inefficient is the P2P? . If the P2P overhead is low I'd have thought that P2P would cause fewer whole-network problems [when used to distribute movies] than Google Video because some of the P2P traffic would be confined to local parts of the network whereas the Google Video would be centralised. So Mr Cuban's point is invalid. . However, if the P2P overhead is high then switching to centralised distribution would decrease total network load. I think. . I have no idea how you'd determine the break-even point, but I'd love to see the problems that get thrown up by trying to force companies to stop using P2P for distribution.
Not really unique - there are three prior arts in top-level postings on this topic.
The $300 version claims Vista as 'more efficient, more secure and more fun'. Time to polish up those false advertising claims.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754613
Also, what's so 'Additional' about the RAM in
Wonder if it'll make it to Oz. I know plenty of people who'd love a cheap computer for their kids.
Nicely put.
Time to start using the Adblock extension in FireFox.
Trackballs beat mice every time - so long as you can find one with good precision. Kennsington are nice, and Logitech aren't bad either. But Kennsington make them with blue translucent balls lit up with a LED - totally tech. Trackballs are quite common in UK shops, but seem to be lacking in the US and Australia. One of those cultural things, or just stack-'em-high collateral. Bloke I knew in 2000/2001 had a little tiny trackball that clipped onto the side of his laptop keyboard; it was precise, had 4 (!) buttons - all usable, and was badged as a Microsoft product. I really want one, but I've never seen another since. Must be one of those products MS buy up then discontinue because it'd wreck their trade in crappy beige sticky jerky mice/OS/Office products.
It's simple to defend against. Don't be a wimp; read the original paper at http://www.fortifysoftware.com/servlet/downloads/p ublic/JavaScript_Hijacking.pdf, follow the advice, and all will be well.
If nothing else, look at the Conclusion and Recommendations section at the end.