Why is 1. a good thing, and why is 2. not a good thing?
No snark, i would like to see your reasoning.
I assume you mean that you believe that the exercise of judgment and skill in driving should be taken out of the hands of human drivers, in which case i disagree strongly, and that you believe adolescent joy is shameful, in which case i disagree strongly. Both have their place in this world.
Avgas perhaps. My Moto guzzi runs about 10.2:1 and it needs premium 98.
Still, it goes to show what can be achieved with engineering and quality manufacture. This is a petrol-engined pushrod-cam 2-valve motor originally designed in the 1960s. It's air-cooled and carburetted, yet it can run a 10.2:1 compression ratio. No electronics - well, originally it was points-and-coil, these days it sports an electronic ignition for convenience.
Also, just because an EV is fun to drive, doesn't mean that IC cars *aren't* fun to drive.
Hop in a Ford Focus Sport or a Golf GTi and tell me it isn't fun.
Even better, jump in an Audi Quattro and tell me what you think.
Or find yourself a Group B rally car and take it for a spin on a dirt track.
EVs aren't an evolution of fun, they're not the next generation of fun, they're more of a new branch of the family tree. They're going to replace whole classes of IC cars, e.g commuting, but they're not going to replace them all.
Yes, Australia - land of wide, sun-drenched PV-friendly plains - has a horrible dependence on coal-fired power. But I'm encouraged by the Tesla battery recently installed in South Australia. Baby steps are better then no steps.
Also - my bike wouldn't run on ethanol. Well, maybe 5 or 10% blend, but that stuff has proved unpopular here. My local garage stopped selling it some time ago. The Guzzi needs 98 octane, so it's premium 98 for me!
I'm sure it's fun to drive, I don't doubt that at all (and I haven't driven one), but I was referring more to the exercise of judgement and skill for manual gear-changing, anticipating what gear to be in for a corner, executing the turn in the right gear for a clean and speedy exit, etc. Not to mention the adolescent joy of drifting the back wheel/s through a turn. My kids enjoy it when I do a handbrake turn into the driveway. Not generally possible in a modern EV or IC car unless you're able to turn off the traction control.
All the other aspects are present in an EV - correct judgement about the right speed to enter and exit a corner, and so on. There's just some things that aren't there in an EV. IC engines will IMHO always have a market.
Well, short of making them illegal, there'll always be a market for piston-engined/internal combustion-engined vehicles. They're so much fun to drive.
Daily driver for commuting/work/shopping? EVs for sure, but let's try to charge them off wind/solar please? Otherwise you're shifting the efficiency problem from your engine bay to the grid. I hate smug EV drivers boasting about "clean" driving. They get all flustered when I point out that grid-charging has all sorts of issues from coal-fired electricity.
Also, going out for a spin on the weekend? I prefer my motorbike, thanks. Perhaps I'll have to have it modified to run on bio-fuels.
On whether the germans or the japanese get there first - at least to a production vehicle, the article states that Merc-AMG have already made it with F1, but the japanese are persistent.
Isn't it a question of kinetic energy? Two objects that happen to collide and disintegrate. The kinetic energy doesn't go away - some of it turns to heat, some of it is transferred to other objects, and they might achieve a higher energy level (i.e. velocity) than before.
Roll a soccer ball along the ground, then kick another soccer ball at it. What happens to the first ball?
It reminds me of a sci-fi short story about astronauts on the moon, conducting their experiments, one of which was a kind of roman candle, ejecting a cloud of glowing {something} into the moon's atmosphere, for observation by earth scientists. It was supposed to glow and provide information when hit by un-filtered solar radiation, or some such.
One of the astronauts had accepted a sizable payment from a soft-drink company to fit a stencil over the candle's business end, resulting in an unprecedented giant advertisment for coca-cola in a glowing vapour cloud in lunar atmosphere, handily also visible from earth.
The astronaut concerned had no further career, but he never had to work again.
I thought it was a nice trick, as it didn't affect the experiment itself.
the one that purports to come from l33t haxorz in.ru or.ro, claiming to have downloaded malware to your computer when you visited a porn site, harvesting your address book and social media contacts, and turning on your webcam and microphone to record you masturbating. "Pay us bitcoin or we'll send the footage to everyone in your contact lists. Your police can't do anything as we're not in your country."
The spelling from the threat above is just a guess, my interpretation of what was actually received. The real message is atrocious, I've seen 419 scams with better spelling.
I should create a social media "presence" one day - it could be fun, poisoning that well.
Yep. It's noscript for me - and I won't turn it off or whitelist your website/s until the adverstising industry implements some security to validate what it's sending to pester me.
Perhaps a, oh what would you call it? A "certificate"?
Premiere Pro (perpetual or subscription) doesn't use a proprietary video format of its own - it's pretty much MPEG, so that's editable by lots of other software.
PPro will also export an EDL (editing decision list) - a file containing all the cuts, transitions, etc for use in another program. EDLs are supposed to be a universal import/export format for video editing.
Casual users can still buy Photoshop elements - which looks like Photoshop, and will do what nearly all casual users require. If and when they move on from casual to serious/professional use, they'll be familiar with it, and the monthly payment won't break the bank.
Photoshop has many output formats that are freely readable, even editable, by other products - JPG, TIFF, PNG, etc. Ditto Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Audition.
InDesign can export to Acrobat - but it's really a program to produce printed content, and your eyes are the "reader".
I can see the benefits in subscription software however I'm happy with my CS6, the last perpetual licenced version. When that stops working because of a Windows update, I'll evaluate my options at that time, but I'll probably run it in a Win 7 VM.
Lodge a warrant with the local MS subsidiary for some data stored on MS USA server/s, and see what happens. Put the shoe on the other foor and see how the USA DoJ reacts.
and yet bacteria can evolve to resist the most powerful drugs we've managed to develop, and go on to overwhelm our systems and kill us. Those bacteria aren't an advanced species, just evolved.
that I don't get targeted by a short-sighted wedge-tailed eagle.
That's a *hell* of a fear to overcome - and a hell of leap for a hunter to make. It's not like they'd accidentally pick up a burning stick and remember that dropping it in just the right area results in lots of dinner running about in the open.
Solar energy farms aren't the best way to go about it. There's a lot of space available on domestic roofs - in areas where sunlight is plentiful, you can generate a substantial amount of energy from your roof.
Now, getting the grid to cope with that kind of input is another matter.
But you're absolutely right about diversity. I wonder about the kind of mindset that thinks an all-electric dwelling is the way to go.
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Why is 1. a good thing, and why is 2. not a good thing?
No snark, i would like to see your reasoning.
I assume you mean that you believe that the exercise of judgment and skill in driving should be taken out of the hands of human drivers, in which case i disagree strongly, and that you believe adolescent joy is shameful, in which case i disagree strongly. Both have their place in this world.
Avgas perhaps. My Moto guzzi runs about 10.2:1 and it needs premium 98.
Still, it goes to show what can be achieved with engineering and quality manufacture. This is a petrol-engined pushrod-cam 2-valve motor originally designed in the 1960s. It's air-cooled and carburetted, yet it can run a 10.2:1 compression ratio. No electronics - well, originally it was points-and-coil, these days it sports an electronic ignition for convenience.
Also, just because an EV is fun to drive, doesn't mean that IC cars *aren't* fun to drive.
Hop in a Ford Focus Sport or a Golf GTi and tell me it isn't fun.
Even better, jump in an Audi Quattro and tell me what you think.
Or find yourself a Group B rally car and take it for a spin on a dirt track.
EVs aren't an evolution of fun, they're not the next generation of fun, they're more of a new branch of the family tree. They're going to replace whole classes of IC cars, e.g commuting, but they're not going to replace them all.
Yes, Australia - land of wide, sun-drenched PV-friendly plains - has a horrible dependence on coal-fired power. But I'm encouraged by the Tesla battery recently installed in South Australia. Baby steps are better then no steps.
Also - my bike wouldn't run on ethanol. Well, maybe 5 or 10% blend, but that stuff has proved unpopular here. My local garage stopped selling it some time ago. The Guzzi needs 98 octane, so it's premium 98 for me!
I'm sure it's fun to drive, I don't doubt that at all (and I haven't driven one), but I was referring more to the exercise of judgement and skill for manual gear-changing, anticipating what gear to be in for a corner, executing the turn in the right gear for a clean and speedy exit, etc. Not to mention the adolescent joy of drifting the back wheel/s through a turn. My kids enjoy it when I do a handbrake turn into the driveway. Not generally possible in a modern EV or IC car unless you're able to turn off the traction control.
All the other aspects are present in an EV - correct judgement about the right speed to enter and exit a corner, and so on. There's just some things that aren't there in an EV. IC engines will IMHO always have a market.
Well, short of making them illegal, there'll always be a market for piston-engined/internal combustion-engined vehicles. They're so much fun to drive.
Daily driver for commuting/work/shopping? EVs for sure, but let's try to charge them off wind/solar please? Otherwise you're shifting the efficiency problem from your engine bay to the grid. I hate smug EV drivers boasting about "clean" driving. They get all flustered when I point out that grid-charging has all sorts of issues from coal-fired electricity.
Also, going out for a spin on the weekend? I prefer my motorbike, thanks. Perhaps I'll have to have it modified to run on bio-fuels.
On whether the germans or the japanese get there first - at least to a production vehicle, the article states that Merc-AMG have already made it with F1, but the japanese are persistent.
This will be an interesting contest to watch.
have a hook to make people read my comment.
That's for vampires. Zombies require a headshot.
Isn't it a question of kinetic energy? Two objects that happen to collide and disintegrate. The kinetic energy doesn't go away - some of it turns to heat, some of it is transferred to other objects, and they might achieve a higher energy level (i.e. velocity) than before.
Roll a soccer ball along the ground, then kick another soccer ball at it. What happens to the first ball?
It reminds me of a sci-fi short story about astronauts on the moon, conducting their experiments, one of which was a kind of roman candle, ejecting a cloud of glowing {something} into the moon's atmosphere, for observation by earth scientists. It was supposed to glow and provide information when hit by un-filtered solar radiation, or some such.
One of the astronauts had accepted a sizable payment from a soft-drink company to fit a stencil over the candle's business end, resulting in an unprecedented giant advertisment for coca-cola in a glowing vapour cloud in lunar atmosphere, handily also visible from earth.
The astronaut concerned had no further career, but he never had to work again.
I thought it was a nice trick, as it didn't affect the experiment itself.
the one that purports to come from l33t haxorz in .ru or .ro, claiming to have downloaded malware to your computer when you visited a porn site, harvesting your address book and social media contacts, and turning on your webcam and microphone to record you masturbating. "Pay us bitcoin or we'll send the footage to everyone in your contact lists. Your police can't do anything as we're not in your country."
The spelling from the threat above is just a guess, my interpretation of what was actually received. The real message is atrocious, I've seen 419 scams with better spelling.
I should create a social media "presence" one day - it could be fun, poisoning that well.
Yep. It's noscript for me - and I won't turn it off or whitelist your website/s until the adverstising industry implements some security to validate what it's sending to pester me.
Perhaps a, oh what would you call it? A "certificate"?
Premiere Pro (perpetual or subscription) doesn't use a proprietary video format of its own - it's pretty much MPEG, so that's editable by lots of other software.
PPro will also export an EDL (editing decision list) - a file containing all the cuts, transitions, etc for use in another program. EDLs are supposed to be a universal import/export format for video editing.
There are viable alternatives to SAP.
Casual users can still buy Photoshop elements - which looks like Photoshop, and will do what nearly all casual users require. If and when they move on from casual to serious/professional use, they'll be familiar with it, and the monthly payment won't break the bank.
Photoshop has many output formats that are freely readable, even editable, by other products - JPG, TIFF, PNG, etc. Ditto Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Audition.
InDesign can export to Acrobat - but it's really a program to produce printed content, and your eyes are the "reader".
I can see the benefits in subscription software however I'm happy with my CS6, the last perpetual licenced version. When that stops working because of a Windows update, I'll evaluate my options at that time, but I'll probably run it in a Win 7 VM.
It must have something going for it - it's used to compress video frames for conversion to Digital Cinema Packages.
And you can't just substitute {your favourite alternative compression standard} into a DCP - it's *got* to be JPEG2000.
Lodge a warrant with the local MS subsidiary for some data stored on MS USA server/s, and see what happens. Put the shoe on the other foor and see how the USA DoJ reacts.
and yet bacteria can evolve to resist the most powerful drugs we've managed to develop, and go on to overwhelm our systems and kill us. Those bacteria aren't an advanced species, just evolved.
So that's where they got the idea!
And maybe that's why I thought of a short-sighted wedge-tailed eagle - they've spent too much time reading science fiction.
that I don't get targeted by a short-sighted wedge-tailed eagle.
That's a *hell* of a fear to overcome - and a hell of leap for a hunter to make. It's not like they'd accidentally pick up a burning stick and remember that dropping it in just the right area results in lots of dinner running about in the open.
Solar energy farms aren't the best way to go about it. There's a lot of space available on domestic roofs - in areas where sunlight is plentiful, you can generate a substantial amount of energy from your roof.
Now, getting the grid to cope with that kind of input is another matter.
But you're absolutely right about diversity. I wonder about the kind of mindset that thinks an all-electric dwelling is the way to go.
But it's INTEL ONLY!
Didn't know that about AVG - I've been avoiding it as much as possible.