Yeah, like anyone remembers being born on a particular day anyhow. As far as I know it's just a day my mom made up and had typed on a piece of paper.
Just celebrate your birth-week, and party any day you want. Heck, I'm sick of having a January birthday no matter what day of the week it is. I've decided I'm going with half-birthdays and celebrating in July. Why should a person be cursed their whole life with crappy weather on their b-day.
Something went seriously wrong in your figuring to come up with $500 million per person. It should be under $5000 per person or $34.5 billion total - if your run the numbers like I did below in Python (assuming these panels only produce for 8 hours per day, which is a number I just pulled out of the my hat).
Throw in extra for installation costs. It would be interesting to know what the total area is of NYC rooftops that have good sun exposure.
...live drivers will target them, tailgating or cutting them off in ways the software can't compensate for.
With all the sensors onboard watching in all directions, you'd think it'd be easy to keep the evidence of the other guy's stupidity. In the case of a crash you'd probably have all kinds or proof as to who was at fault. Maybe these cars should have a "report-an-asshole" button that sends data to the cops. Someone who gets pinged by that enough times would maybe get sent back to drivers training school. (someone who hit the button without good cause too many times would also get talked to)
So maybe a live driver would have to be on better behavior around a robot car, knowing there's an unblinking eye recording exactly what's going on.
If a human with a net worth of negative $10^5 to positive $10^5 is behind the wheel when something happens, maybe one or two lawyers will take notice.
But if a machine that was built by corporation X, which is worth $10^9, get out of the way of the lawyer stampede towards the courthouse that will look something like the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Just look at the unintended acceleration claims so far.
This page has a price history graph for the 32GB model (scroll down a bit). The price dropped quite a bit a couple months after the introduction. Hopefully the 64GB model will follow the same pattern (pushing down the 32GB model along with it... $200 range maybe?).
More like $80 for 500gb, which is about 16 cents/gigabyte. The cheapest SSDs, at least listed on that site, are $5.16/gb, so there's still about a factor of 32 difference.
Yeah, but this board seems to come with the CPU - it's really more comparable to one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, not a full blown ATX supply-your-own-processor board.
Yeah, but think how much simpler it would be if the flash memory was directly mapped into the processor's address space, no IDE/SATA/SAS drivers, no logical blocks, just a memory range 0xwhatever to 0xsomething else that was non-volatile. You'd still want a filesystem to manage that memory though.
The harddisk industry does seem particularly cannibalistic, Seagate bought Maxtor, Maxtor had earlier bought Quantum, Quantum had bought a DEC storage division. Conner was a breakaway from Seagate that was aquired later on. I suppose Seagate could claim all of those drives as their own in some sense.
It's a little better than the current Raptors' 0.88 GB/$, but nowhere close to the 6.25 GB/$ for a Samsung Spinpoint F1. You gotta wonder if a RAID array of cheaper drives wouldn't give you overall better performance, and more than 2x the storage for way less money.
I have to give them credit for in this case, really putting their money where their mouth is (or wants to be). I like the Nature Conservancy for this reason too - basically having the attitude that if you care about something enough, pony up some money for it instead of the usual thing of throwing a tantrum and looking for attention.
Eh, right now the biggest you can get for under $600, at least from Newegg, is 32GB, which I wouldn't rally call "large". One of the 32GB Transcend units though is just $175, which might be tempting for some uses.
No, you'd need 8464 (92 * 92) different plants 1 square mile each.
Not all parts of the country are as suitable as the desert areas are, so you'd need even more if some were going to be in the cloudier areas.
Hmm, how about using the variable power sources like solar and wind to drive pumps to fill hydropower or compressed-air reservoirs. Power can then be drawn from them at a predictable rate. You'd lose some efficiency, but you could just throw a few more square miles at the problem.
OK, I did. On the Great Circle Mapper the distance between Reykjavík and
Amsterdam airports is 1270 miles. Anchorage (Ted Stevens International!) to JFK in NY is 3385 miles (2.66x farther).
It would make more sense to say "Iceland is close to Amsterdam in the same way Tulsa is close to New York" (1235 mi).
I love my Mac, and have been happy with OSX, but Apple's secretiveness is really annoying when it comes to patches - generally they don't tell you what was fixed, or do so only in really vague terms. There are frequent reports of Apple deleting threads in their forums talking about bugs they don't seem to want to admit to.
If they really want to be taken more seriously in the enterprise market, they're going to have to step up and treat these things a bit more professionally, instead of just basically saying "trust us and don't ask too many questions".
I think there's are many thousands of people who will pony up big bucks to do something that millions if not billions of people have dreamed of doing for thousands of years.
Taking their money and developing affordable spaceflight with it will benefit everyone more than if they just bought another big house in Aspen or some expensive gas-guzzline supercar.
I'm really looking forwards to a native (non X11) Mac version. NeoOffice works OK but seems a bit slow. I see that about a week ago a new native development shapshot was released.
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It should be: Liberals have a Reality bias.
(seeing as how conservatives nowadays seem to be drawn to paranoid, imaginary, wishful-thinking, invisible-man-in-the-sky type ideas)
It would be good for the rest of us to know which manufacturer is sloppy with handling their refurbs.
Yeah, like anyone remembers being born on a particular day anyhow. As far as I know it's just a day my mom made up and had typed on a piece of paper.
Just celebrate your birth-week, and party any day you want. Heck, I'm sick of having a January birthday no matter what day of the week it is. I've decided I'm going with half-birthdays and celebrating in July. Why should a person be cursed their whole life with crappy weather on their b-day.
Something went seriously wrong in your figuring to come up with $500 million per person. It should be under $5000 per person or $34.5 billion total - if your run the numbers like I did below in Python (assuming these panels only produce for 8 hours per day, which is a number I just pulled out of the my hat).
Throw in extra for installation costs. It would be interesting to know what the total area is of NYC rooftops that have good sun exposure.
ny_area_sqmi = 302.6
ny_population = 8175133.0
ny_demand_watt_hours_per_year = 64500 * 10**9
panel_watt_hours_per_year = 230 * 8 * 365
panels_needed = ny_demand_watt_hours_per_year / panel_watt_hours_per_year
panel_cost = 360.0
panel_area_sqft = 17.6
total_cost = panels_needed * panel_cost
total_area_sqmi = (panels_needed * panel_area_sqft) / (5280**2)
print 'panels needed', panels_needed
print 'total cost $ %.2f' % total_cost
print 'cost per person $ %.2f' % (total_cost / ny_population)
print 'square miles %.2f' % total_area_sqmi
print 'percent area of nyc %.2f%%' % ((total_area_sqmi / ny_area_sqmi) * 100)
------
panels needed 96039309
total cost $ 34574151240.00
cost per person $ 4229.19
square miles 60.63
percent area of nyc 20.04%
...live drivers will target them, tailgating or cutting them off in ways the software can't compensate for.
With all the sensors onboard watching in all directions, you'd think it'd be easy to keep the evidence of the other guy's stupidity. In the case of a crash you'd probably have all kinds or proof as to who was at fault. Maybe these cars should have a "report-an-asshole" button that sends data to the cops. Someone who gets pinged by that enough times would maybe get sent back to drivers training school. (someone who hit the button without good cause too many times would also get talked to)
So maybe a live driver would have to be on better behavior around a robot car, knowing there's an unblinking eye recording exactly what's going on.
If a human with a net worth of negative $10^5 to positive $10^5 is behind the wheel when something happens, maybe one or two lawyers will take notice. But if a machine that was built by corporation X, which is worth $10^9, get out of the way of the lawyer stampede towards the courthouse that will look something like the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Just look at the unintended acceleration claims so far.
PC Perspective & Tom's Hardware also have their takes on this now. There's also an ongoing DiskCompare.com review roundup
There's a partial roundup of 5670 Reviews here, generally they seem pretty positive.
This page has a price history graph for the 32GB model (scroll down a bit). The price dropped quite a bit a couple months after the introduction. Hopefully the 64GB model will follow the same pattern (pushing down the 32GB model along with it ... $200 range maybe?).
Both the Seagate 7200.11 and Western Digital Caviar Black families have a 5-year warranty (see comparison).
More like $80 for 500gb, which is about 16 cents/gigabyte. The cheapest SSDs, at least listed on that site, are $5.16/gb, so there's still about a factor of 32 difference.
Yeah, but this board seems to come with the CPU - it's really more comparable to one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, not a full blown ATX supply-your-own-processor board.
Really? it went supersonic during drop tests? I'm skeptical, but if someone knows more, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Yeah, but think how much simpler it would be if the flash memory was directly mapped into the processor's address space, no IDE/SATA/SAS drivers, no logical blocks, just a memory range 0xwhatever to 0xsomething else that was non-volatile. You'd still want a filesystem to manage that memory though.
The harddisk industry does seem particularly cannibalistic, Seagate bought Maxtor, Maxtor had earlier bought Quantum, Quantum had bought a DEC storage division. Conner was a breakaway from Seagate that was aquired later on. I suppose Seagate could claim all of those drives as their own in some sense.
It's a little better than the current Raptors' 0.88 GB/$, but nowhere close to the 6.25 GB/$ for a Samsung Spinpoint F1. You gotta wonder if a RAID array of cheaper drives wouldn't give you overall better performance, and more than 2x the storage for way less money.
I have to give them credit for in this case, really putting their money where their mouth is (or wants to be). I like the Nature Conservancy for this reason too - basically having the attitude that if you care about something enough, pony up some money for it instead of the usual thing of throwing a tantrum and looking for attention.
Eh, right now the biggest you can get for under $600, at least from Newegg, is 32GB, which I wouldn't rally call "large". One of the 32GB Transcend units though is just $175, which might be tempting for some uses.
No, you'd need 8464 (92 * 92) different plants 1 square mile each. Not all parts of the country are as suitable as the desert areas are, so you'd need even more if some were going to be in the cloudier areas.
Hmm, how about using the variable power sources like solar and wind to drive pumps to fill hydropower or compressed-air reservoirs. Power can then be drawn from them at a predictable rate. You'd lose some efficiency, but you could just throw a few more square miles at the problem.
OK, I did. On the Great Circle Mapper the distance between Reykjavík and Amsterdam airports is 1270 miles. Anchorage (Ted Stevens International!) to JFK in NY is 3385 miles (2.66x farther). It would make more sense to say "Iceland is close to Amsterdam in the same way Tulsa is close to New York" (1235 mi).
I love my Mac, and have been happy with OSX, but Apple's secretiveness is really annoying when it comes to patches - generally they don't tell you what was fixed, or do so only in really vague terms. There are frequent reports of Apple deleting threads in their forums talking about bugs they don't seem to want to admit to.
If they really want to be taken more seriously in the enterprise market, they're going to have to step up and treat these things a bit more professionally, instead of just basically saying "trust us and don't ask too many questions".
I think there's are many thousands of people who will pony up big bucks to do something that millions if not billions of people have dreamed of doing for thousands of years. Taking their money and developing affordable spaceflight with it will benefit everyone more than if they just bought another big house in Aspen or some expensive gas-guzzline supercar.
I'm really looking forwards to a native (non X11) Mac version. NeoOffice works OK but seems a bit slow. I see that about a week ago a new native development shapshot was released.
Nice, don't suppose there's any chance of IPv6 support - give each instance, running or not, a unique address.