Or in the case of the woman in the court case that allowed this judicial review, because an intern entering the data from an already approved visa application into the system ticks some boxes that were confusingly worded negative questions, and should have been left unticked.
And people say the decline of education in this country, particularly in English, is such a bad thing...
Some high school English teacher somewhere deserves a medal for "socially promoting" the oaf who couldn't understand the words on the screen.
But we usually refuse. Giving-a-fuck is somehow a "nuclear option" these days, not to be exercised lightly. "Whoa there, this might be a crappy situation, but I'm not going to 'throw away' my vote!"
Giving-a-fuck has nothing to do with voting. Think Civil Rights Movement. Now consider the Occupy Wall Street Movement, which was attempting to follow that same precedent. How well did that turn out? Oh yeah, nothing.
The propaganda machine is too far advanced to successfully challenge with peaceful in-person protest any longer. The utter failure of OWS was the definitive demonstration of that fact.
You think slips of paper peacefully stuffed into a ballot box is the natural progression here?
"everyone"? I'm part of that "everyone" and I have absolutely no problem with the no-fly list. I also think there should be universal ID for all citizens in the US. I also believe that, when born, DNA samples should be taken from everyone and added to a centralized database.
Let me guess. And a barcode tatooed to the back of your neck?
What's the advantage of Maglev here? It is just using energy to do something that a wheel would do perfectly well without expending energy. The small frictional advantage doesn't seem to be something worth adding all the extra complexity and energy expenditure for.
There's no extra energy expenditure if your electromagnets only provide motive force and levitation is provided by opposing permanent magnets. In fact there's energy savings, since there's much less friction to deal with and it's just as easy to scavenge braking energy. It is more complex, since controlling magnetic fields for motive force isn't quite as trivial as motor + axle + wheel.
In practice though, the maglev part isn't likely to happen any time soon. It complicates the hell out of material choice for both track and cars, since steel suddenly becomes an issue, and enough permanent magnets powerful enough to do the lifting job required currently costs a small fortune (it's neodymium or bust). The prototype uses wheels and I'd guess the first production installation will too. Unless it got built in Dubai, and quite frankly, I'm astonished that it's not being built in Dubai first. The first buildings on their 100% artificial island just opened...
This doesn't explain why Tel Aviv was chosen as the first build out.
What the other guy said, plus the fact that cities everywhere else are incredibly hidebound. If it hasn't been done before, they're categorically against it. Then you tack on lovely things like the taxi system as it exists today, which means monied interests with a long and storied history of corruption are against it, and it's dead in the water almost everywhere.
Given how many factors were against SkyTran ever getting an installation, and how exceedingly universal those factors are, I never expected to see this. I was fascinated by the concept when I first read about it and saw their dinky little demo track. It will be interesting to see if their simulations of throughput were correct. Their claims have always been a little outrageous (but not necessarily false).
It probably won't replace subways in extremely dense urban areas, because SkyTran can't handle the volume that a packed subway can (think of those Japanese subways where they have people physically pushing everyone into the cars).
If their math is correct, it can even replace those. The system is supposed to be capable of very high throughput. Higher than every other form of transit.
We finally get to see if their simulations are correct.
I guess if there was a crowd waiting for pods they could attack that...
And the second selling point for such a system in Tel-Aviv is the throughput of the system should successfully prevent the formation of a waiting crowd, ever, completely eliminating one of the suicide bomber's favorite targets: a crowded bus stop with a bus just arriving.
It remains to be seen if the system works as well as the simulations. Getting enough of the individual cars routed the right direction at the right times of day is a fascinating software problem.
Yep, a 6-3 ruling means that 1/3 of the court thought Aereo was okay... this one may need to be looked into. At this hour, Aereo is still online in Boston....
They'd better be. They need the revenue. They're about to get handed a whopping bill for licensing.
Care to give a quick summary of what the alternative is?
Forward declarations. Which may be in the latest Effective C++ but I read that two years ago so I'm not sure, but anyway it's been in every advice about C++ (and C) programming book for about twenty years now.
Or possibly the coward was referring specifically to the fact that forward declaring enums is now legal, since C++11, when it wasn't before (though Microsoft's compilers have tolerated it for years).
Civil engineering is centuries old with more than a few huge heaps of rubble created when they pushed outside of their bounds of knowledge at the time.
We're starting to accumulate our own huge heaps of rubble. We call them the Obamacare Website and basically anything produced by PeopleSoft.
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Hello my name is Scott,If i could i would donate more.At this time i'm financially broke but I really believe in what you and your family is Doing.
Inappropriate use of capitalization. Always a sign of a deranged mind.
They closed the mental institutions a little prematurely. They should have waited a little longer, until the Internet was available. It's the perfect mechanism for keeping people who have trouble with reality out of circulation.
It's not the simple fact that space is expanding that might cause a big rip, but the fact that the expansion is accelerating, and will - one day - be so fast that it will outpace light, at which point no forces will be able to act over even a Planck distance (because by the time they've propogated, that Planck distance will have expanded too much).
And what happens when that happens? I'm going to guess the result is universal and cataclysmic. We could even give it a name. Let's call it The Big Bang.
Do you really think a country the size of Russia doesn't have thousands of people with the intelligence and skill to crack Microsoft validation on their own? Where do you think precracked OS torrents come from?
I think we're better off building a lunar colony first, since it can be saved from disaster more easily, and can serve as a launchpad for low-gravity spaceship engineering/refueling.
I agree. The gravity is even lower, but otherwise conditions are effectively similar, since the Mars atmosphere is so thin. Ping times are a helluva lot lower too.
But we don't have as much money as Elon Musk, so no one listens to us.
Solar cells? Forget it. This is Mars, sunlight is much fainter and the atmosphere is very dusty. The only possible source of energy is a nuclear power plant, and Musk isn't going to launch one of those
I wouldn't bet money on that.
Especially considering there is already a nuclear power plant tooling around on Mars right now. It's not a reactor, but it's most definitely a power plant. Of course he would prefer to have a reactor. He might not even have to found yet another company to get it going. He might be able to buy a LFTR from China before his quoted timeframe runs out.
I was thinking more of a half of the screen from one cable, half of the screen from the other to effectively use the whole screen from one machine.
That's effectively how some versions of UltraHD monitors have worked. It's called tiling, though it generally uses only one cable. Your proposed method with two cables has been done, but it's pretty rare. Timing becomes an issue.
A 4K TV on the other hand would be pretty cool and I think that Netflix has some programming 4K ready so I would probably make that leap long before a monitor.
You have that pretty backwards. UltraHD is immediately useful for a monitor, if you actually do work with a computer and aren't one of these people who think work can only be done in a maximized window. There's not much video in that resolution yet and at any distance it's not immediately obvious what resolution a TV is, but you can put all the text you want on screen at that resolution and you sit within arm's length of your monitor.
Computers can handle multiple monitors at 60Hz, so why not 4K with duel inputs? Is that feasible, and are there some models on the horizon that have multiple HDMI, dual-dvi, or dual-display port (pre-thunderbolt-2 display port - I don't know the version numbers)?
The Asus PB287Q has two HDMI and one DisplayPort and supports dual simultaneous input from any two of them. They call it Picture-by-Picture mode. They put two HD displays side by side, with black bars above and below, from two different machines. It's slightly silly, since it's not exactly convenient to switch to that mode, but it's available. It will also do Picture-In-Picture mode, displaying one input across the full screen and the other in a window up in the corner, all rescaled in software transparently to the machines outputting the signals.
Also, there's the issue of economics. A high power fast charger, say, 400kW, costs on the order of $100k and is the size of 1-2 soda machines. If you're only servicing 1-2 EVs a month, you're never going to pay for it. If we assume a 25 year lifetime and, after factoring in the time value to money assume that it needs to pay for itself plus, oh, let's say $50k of maintenance, during 15 years, then it needs to average $10k a year, or $28 per day, or $1.14 per hour.
Such an exhaustive analysis of a topic Elon Musk doesn't particularly care about. The high power fast chargers aren't there to be economical. They're there to combat range anxiety. That's all. Even though literally 99% of all trips are under 70 miles. 98% are under 50 miles. Average trip length is 5.95 miles. Average daily mileage is less than 100 miles for 93% of vehicles in the US. High power fast chargers are unnecessary for 99% of the 4.2 trillion passenger miles Americans travel every year. They're only useful for the road trip edge case.
Given the massive disparity in long vs short distance road travel, it's very likely superchargers will never be economical, ever. It's more likely that battery technology will advance faster than the BEV adoption rate, despite all of Mr. Musk's efforts to address range anxiety. In the end, a BEV will be capable of making a 16 hour trip on a single charge, and recharge overnight, no supercharger required.
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Sounds like a job for a jury! :)
Yes well, even knowing what the words "jury nullification" mean guarantees a free pass from jury duty for life.
Or in the case of the woman in the court case that allowed this judicial review, because an intern entering the data from an already approved visa application into the system ticks some boxes that were confusingly worded negative questions, and should have been left unticked.
And people say the decline of education in this country, particularly in English, is such a bad thing...
Some high school English teacher somewhere deserves a medal for "socially promoting" the oaf who couldn't understand the words on the screen.
But we usually refuse. Giving-a-fuck is somehow a "nuclear option" these days, not to be exercised lightly. "Whoa there, this might be a crappy situation, but I'm not going to 'throw away' my vote!"
Giving-a-fuck has nothing to do with voting. Think Civil Rights Movement. Now consider the Occupy Wall Street Movement, which was attempting to follow that same precedent. How well did that turn out? Oh yeah, nothing.
The propaganda machine is too far advanced to successfully challenge with peaceful in-person protest any longer. The utter failure of OWS was the definitive demonstration of that fact.
You think slips of paper peacefully stuffed into a ballot box is the natural progression here?
I'm afraid not.
"everyone"? I'm part of that "everyone" and I have absolutely no problem with the no-fly list. I also think there should be universal ID for all citizens in the US. I also believe that, when born, DNA samples should be taken from everyone and added to a centralized database.
Let me guess. And a barcode tatooed to the back of your neck?
Back under your bridge, troll.
What's the advantage of Maglev here? It is just using energy to do something that a wheel would do perfectly well without expending energy. The small frictional advantage doesn't seem to be something worth adding all the extra complexity and energy expenditure for.
There's no extra energy expenditure if your electromagnets only provide motive force and levitation is provided by opposing permanent magnets. In fact there's energy savings, since there's much less friction to deal with and it's just as easy to scavenge braking energy. It is more complex, since controlling magnetic fields for motive force isn't quite as trivial as motor + axle + wheel.
In practice though, the maglev part isn't likely to happen any time soon. It complicates the hell out of material choice for both track and cars, since steel suddenly becomes an issue, and enough permanent magnets powerful enough to do the lifting job required currently costs a small fortune (it's neodymium or bust). The prototype uses wheels and I'd guess the first production installation will too. Unless it got built in Dubai, and quite frankly, I'm astonished that it's not being built in Dubai first. The first buildings on their 100% artificial island just opened...
This doesn't explain why Tel Aviv was chosen as the first build out.
What the other guy said, plus the fact that cities everywhere else are incredibly hidebound. If it hasn't been done before, they're categorically against it. Then you tack on lovely things like the taxi system as it exists today, which means monied interests with a long and storied history of corruption are against it, and it's dead in the water almost everywhere.
Given how many factors were against SkyTran ever getting an installation, and how exceedingly universal those factors are, I never expected to see this. I was fascinated by the concept when I first read about it and saw their dinky little demo track. It will be interesting to see if their simulations of throughput were correct. Their claims have always been a little outrageous (but not necessarily false).
It probably won't replace subways in extremely dense urban areas, because SkyTran can't handle the volume that a packed subway can (think of those Japanese subways where they have people physically pushing everyone into the cars).
If their math is correct, it can even replace those. The system is supposed to be capable of very high throughput. Higher than every other form of transit.
We finally get to see if their simulations are correct.
I guess if there was a crowd waiting for pods they could attack that...
And the second selling point for such a system in Tel-Aviv is the throughput of the system should successfully prevent the formation of a waiting crowd, ever, completely eliminating one of the suicide bomber's favorite targets: a crowded bus stop with a bus just arriving.
It remains to be seen if the system works as well as the simulations. Getting enough of the individual cars routed the right direction at the right times of day is a fascinating software problem.
Yep, a 6-3 ruling means that 1/3 of the court thought Aereo was okay... this one may need to be looked into. At this hour, Aereo is still online in Boston....
They'd better be. They need the revenue. They're about to get handed a whopping bill for licensing.
Care to give a quick summary of what the alternative is?
Forward declarations. Which may be in the latest Effective C++ but I read that two years ago so I'm not sure, but anyway it's been in every advice about C++ (and C) programming book for about twenty years now.
Or possibly the coward was referring specifically to the fact that forward declaring enums is now legal, since C++11, when it wasn't before (though Microsoft's compilers have tolerated it for years).
Civil engineering is centuries old with more than a few huge heaps of rubble created when they pushed outside of their bounds of knowledge at the time.
We're starting to accumulate our own huge heaps of rubble. We call them the Obamacare Website and basically anything produced by PeopleSoft.
<ba-dum-bum>
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Tip the fish and try your waitress.
Hello my name is Scott,If i could i would donate more.At this time i'm financially broke but I really believe in what you and your family is Doing.
Inappropriate use of capitalization. Always a sign of a deranged mind.
They closed the mental institutions a little prematurely. They should have waited a little longer, until the Internet was available. It's the perfect mechanism for keeping people who have trouble with reality out of circulation.
Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland.
So, one stop in a bar in Reykjavík?
It's not the simple fact that space is expanding that might cause a big rip, but the fact that the expansion is accelerating, and will - one day - be so fast that it will outpace light, at which point no forces will be able to act over even a Planck distance (because by the time they've propogated, that Planck distance will have expanded too much).
And what happens when that happens? I'm going to guess the result is universal and cataclysmic. We could even give it a name. Let's call it The Big Bang.
Do you really think a country the size of Russia doesn't have thousands of people with the intelligence and skill to crack Microsoft validation on their own? Where do you think precracked OS torrents come from?
Ukraine?
I think we're better off building a lunar colony first, since it can be saved from disaster more easily, and can serve as a launchpad for low-gravity spaceship engineering/refueling.
I agree. The gravity is even lower, but otherwise conditions are effectively similar, since the Mars atmosphere is so thin. Ping times are a helluva lot lower too.
But we don't have as much money as Elon Musk, so no one listens to us.
"...dead or alive"
So we send a lawyer first. No big deal.
Well, except for the second group arriving, only to discover the lawyer has claimed all the land and filed his claim...
Even sending robotic missions ahead, it would be possibly the single most expensive project in the history of mankind.
Measured as a percentage of GGDP (Global Gross Domestic Product), I'd be willing to bet the pyramids cost more than establishing a Mars colony.
Solar cells? Forget it. This is Mars, sunlight is much fainter and the atmosphere is very dusty. The only possible source of energy is a nuclear power plant, and Musk isn't going to launch one of those
I wouldn't bet money on that.
Especially considering there is already a nuclear power plant tooling around on Mars right now. It's not a reactor, but it's most definitely a power plant. Of course he would prefer to have a reactor. He might not even have to found yet another company to get it going. He might be able to buy a LFTR from China before his quoted timeframe runs out.
Fine. Just don't stand in the way of the people who do.
"The meek shall inherit the Earth..."
"Two feet wide and six feet long." --Lazarus Long
I was thinking more of a half of the screen from one cable, half of the screen from the other to effectively use the whole screen from one machine.
That's effectively how some versions of UltraHD monitors have worked. It's called tiling, though it generally uses only one cable. Your proposed method with two cables has been done, but it's pretty rare. Timing becomes an issue.
Having a full color gamut is important too. And a really good contrast ratio.
Check out the reviews of the Asus PB287Q. Very nearly full color gamut. These ain't your daddy's TN panels.
Yeah OLED would be nice, but I'd be surprised if an UltraHD or 4K OLED display is affordable this decade.
A 4K TV on the other hand would be pretty cool and I think that Netflix has some programming 4K ready so I would probably make that leap long before a monitor.
You have that pretty backwards. UltraHD is immediately useful for a monitor, if you actually do work with a computer and aren't one of these people who think work can only be done in a maximized window. There's not much video in that resolution yet and at any distance it's not immediately obvious what resolution a TV is, but you can put all the text you want on screen at that resolution and you sit within arm's length of your monitor.
Computers can handle multiple monitors at 60Hz, so why not 4K with duel inputs? Is that feasible, and are there some models on the horizon that have multiple HDMI, dual-dvi, or dual-display port (pre-thunderbolt-2 display port - I don't know the version numbers)?
The Asus PB287Q has two HDMI and one DisplayPort and supports dual simultaneous input from any two of them. They call it Picture-by-Picture mode. They put two HD displays side by side, with black bars above and below, from two different machines. It's slightly silly, since it's not exactly convenient to switch to that mode, but it's available. It will also do Picture-In-Picture mode, displaying one input across the full screen and the other in a window up in the corner, all rescaled in software transparently to the machines outputting the signals.
Also, there's the issue of economics. A high power fast charger, say, 400kW, costs on the order of $100k and is the size of 1-2 soda machines. If you're only servicing 1-2 EVs a month, you're never going to pay for it. If we assume a 25 year lifetime and, after factoring in the time value to money assume that it needs to pay for itself plus, oh, let's say $50k of maintenance, during 15 years, then it needs to average $10k a year, or $28 per day, or $1.14 per hour.
Such an exhaustive analysis of a topic Elon Musk doesn't particularly care about. The high power fast chargers aren't there to be economical. They're there to combat range anxiety. That's all. Even though literally 99% of all trips are under 70 miles. 98% are under 50 miles. Average trip length is 5.95 miles. Average daily mileage is less than 100 miles for 93% of vehicles in the US. High power fast chargers are unnecessary for 99% of the 4.2 trillion passenger miles Americans travel every year. They're only useful for the road trip edge case.
Given the massive disparity in long vs short distance road travel, it's very likely superchargers will never be economical, ever. It's more likely that battery technology will advance faster than the BEV adoption rate, despite all of Mr. Musk's efforts to address range anxiety. In the end, a BEV will be capable of making a 16 hour trip on a single charge, and recharge overnight, no supercharger required.