Yeah, a gallon of gas is close enough to call it 6-6.3 lbs (largely depending on it's temperature), kerosene is a bit more about 6.7 lbs/gallon IIRC, and diesel fuel about 7 lbs/gal.
If they make a battery that's capable of holding about 30 kilowatt hours/lb (about the content of low grade gasoline), we'll see lots and lot of electric cars, real fast. Heck, even 5-15 KWh/lb would be pretty incredible!
I think the best batteries can do right now is at most 2KWh for a typical car-sized battery, and it's still a heavy beast--nowhere close to the energy density of gas.
Indeed, back aroud 1998-2000 we kept hearing about this magical thing from Starbridge systems...
The Hypercomputer--They basically claimed it would be a little cray sitting on your desk that would have the potential to run a bazillon instances of a meta-operating system that would act as a low-level interface for any common operating system, turning a thousand or so FPGAs into a single image system that would be able to dynamically reconfigure it's hardware for the task at hand... And it thoery it would be able to run any binary compiled for any system, if the meta-operating system knew how to translate it.
Of course, that was during the dot-com era, but it did sound facinating, and even promising. Their site is up, and they even claim that NASA and the AirForce are using their hardware/software.
Has anyone out there actually heard of their products being used?
That's if you wanted the latest and greatest cards. You can get some decent PCI-e cards relatively cheaply. If you need the screen space, this is the best option that's come along since quad head cards on the Mac, as far as I can see.
A couple dual-dvi cards and some nice LCDs would be killer, and not un-affordable... Probably under 3 grand with 4 fairly priced 19" LCDs.
Right now, George Bush and his redneck moron followers are the poster boys for this kind of thinking.
I'd agree with your observation, GWB appears to be about as sharp as a marble.. However, I think he's "dumb like a fox" i.e. feigning stupidity.
Nothing else can explain how he got into the office, with the support of the voters, other than the above, and the notion that he's a damn good actor--which shouldn't come as much of a suprise, because, one of the other presidents that crowd revered was also an actor.
In regard to his voters, well, you're right, of course. Was there ever any question?!:D
Indeed... People don't realize how cheap it's become.
I'm regretting being an early adopter of a CRT rear projection HDTV, because a setup like this is a hundred times more versatile, and just about the same price. It's all too easy to hook up a HTPC, where you can do pretty much anything one could imagine.
The ONLY drawback, as far as I'm concerned is that you've got to replace the projector bulb every couple thousand hours (depending on the projector), and even then it isn't that big of a deal. If you only watch movies on it, it'll last a long, long time.
Personally, I was invisioning some scholarly type kicking the poor guy in the nuts, and then threatening for every day that he hangs around they'll increment the number of kicks he's to receive... Surely, that's pressurising some of his internals!
I know I'd be gone (or at least I'd stay up all night fashioning a spiked titanium/carbon fiber composite codpiece):P
Yeah, I know voting isn't a human right, but with all of the pro-democracy stuff the US is slinging around, and how democracy is the best thing since gyros (the sandwich), it would seem to be the next logical step, in line with those other things.
But the anti-Black aspect makes sense, as stupid as it is.. Too bad nobody's willing to change it. I say that if they're fit to rejoin society, they're fit to vote.
And that's part of what I've never really understood either, so they're not allowed to purchase firearms, and can't have signifigant security clearances... That makes sense--they're supposedly rehabilitated, and still not especially trustable. I have no problem with that.
But what's with the no-voting? That seems like a basic human right sort of thing to me. In US law, you're a felon if you may be imprisoned for more than a year, at least that's what I understand. So, if you could be sentenced for more than a year by violating copyright, you could be a felon.
If you were wrongly convicted/were deemed a felon by a stupid law, you effectively have no means to influence the system, that seems kinda' stupid to me.... Especially considering I'd probably be more inclined to trust a newly released felon more than your average politician.
Right, they're killing it... Sure. Whatever you say.
It might be a pain on the wallet if any titles actually required anything that expensive. But they don't and never will, because, well, a game wouldn't sell if most people couldn't afford the hardware to run it.
No, what they're doing is capitalizing on the people that for one reason or another just absolutely must have the latest, greatest, and most (expensive), despite all sensibility.
This is the same type that buys Rolexes, when a Timex would do just about as well... Do you accuse Rolex, Ferrari, and other luxury manufactuers of killing their respective markets? No, that would be stupid. If anything, the advancements made by high end stuff will eventually trickle down to regular bums.
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That's like saying that it dosen't make sense to drive cars when busses are more efficient.
case in point:
a)busses don't arrive when you want them to.
b)busses don't always go where you want to go.
If bittorrent is a 4x4 and it gets you to the mountians but sucks down more gas in the process, it still does it's purpose. If your purpose is to distribute a small file from a slow connection, with an outside higher bandwidth tracker, IT WILL WORK. Heck, once it's seeded the rest of the peers will probably take over for a good long time, and it didn't use your bandwidth except for a minute or two.
It's like having a team of someone eles's horses pull your jeep uphill when you run out of gas! How can you argue against that? Humans do plenty of things that don't make sense (energy wise and monetarily, amongst others), but we still do it, and here we are! Jeepers!
Maybe it would be more efficient if we all up and died! It'd probably make more sense too, for those chalenged of sensibility!
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Sure it does, if one user alone couldn't handle the demand. A POTS modem user could, for instance, with the help of BT, disseminate a 100KB file to thousands more people (even to other regular modem users) than his little pipe could do alone. Even for high demand files as small as 1MB BT makes lots of sense.
The protocol is what? 20% of the size of the payload (probably mostly checksums for chunks)? I really don't know, but that's my guess. More than that would not make sense. It could potentially be useful for pretty small files--admittedly for lower and lower values of usefulness.
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It makes just as much sense for smaller files--indeed files of any size. The download for all of the files is 3.7MB. If you had to host that and pay for it all by your lonesome when 500,000 people suddenly descend on your site, you'd be screaming! The tracker I'm connected to is indicating about 50MB/minute. That's quite alot of bandwidth if you had to pay for it. I've uploaded 45MB myself, and I'll keep it open till demand slows down.
The more you can offload your bandwidth needs onto other people, especially if you're giving the content away for free, the better. It's also better from the standpoint of the people wanting to download--you're all but guranteed to get it, whatever the size and number of people requesting it are--at the cost of a tiny bit of your upstream bandwidth.
Hah, that's pretty cool. Those are some pretty quick hydraulics. If you notice when he crashes, the whole machine moves itself several inches--pretty violent.
That's true I suppose, but I think (hope?) that most people with a pulse and an IQ over 80 would realize that excuse is a farce...
Point taken, though. I'll be the first to admit that I don't have all the answers--and that there's no simple solution. Those weasels will try to sneak something through no matter what. But I think this is an important issue. It's been out of control for a long time.
Bills are supposed to be DAMN hard to pass. If you can attach some random stuff to a bill that's expected to pass, then the system isn't working. The fact that this got 100-0 is the sickeningly sweet icing on the cake-of-evidence towards this.
Honestly, the one thing at the moment that I wish for in our government is accountability. Legislation that would only allow one fundamental idea per bill would do exactly that... It would make things like this bill pretty hard to pass, and that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
It'll never happen though, because of the accountability aspect, and because the bureaucrats like it the way it is--easy to pass bullshit when people are desperate.
Yech... They could at least fill the tree out a bit in the middle--it looks like a pack of bears or something stripped all but the top! I mean, if they took a lesson from fake christmas tree makers, it would look much better. It still would look like a pink elephant, but at least it would be a decent rendition of a pink elephant.
The clock tower I don't find to be too bad... Unless it were in a stupid spot for a clock tower that is.
Quote some unimportant rube not unlike yourself at some point in not too recent history:
"Dickens's existence (along with other new-fangled writers') is the decline of society. The fact that people pine over Books called "Robinson Crusoe" instead of cave paintings is the decline of society! You have it all wrong!"
But hey, perhaps it might be a good helium generation technology, depending on how efficient it can be made... For those who don't know, the world is facing a shortage on helium. Most of the world's supply is found in Kansas, Texas and Wyoming mixed in with natural gas or oil. It's necessary for various industries and sciences, such as calibrating instruments and welding aluminium.
I'd guess that lowering the temperature of Natural gas to -300F so that everything but He is liquified is pretty darn inefficient. Maybe it'll be a good source for pure He3 too--if indeed that's what it created--and by the fact that it gave off a neutron that's my guess.
The sad thing is that as much as I wanted to watch the show when it was airing, what with it being Friday nights, PLUS the out of sequence, and moving it around--I caught about 3 episodes, and enjoyed every moment.
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Yeah, a gallon of gas is close enough to call it 6-6.3 lbs (largely depending on it's temperature), kerosene is a bit more about 6.7 lbs/gallon IIRC, and diesel fuel about 7 lbs/gal.
If they make a battery that's capable of holding about 30 kilowatt hours/lb (about the content of low grade gasoline), we'll see lots and lot of electric cars, real fast. Heck, even 5-15 KWh/lb would be pretty incredible!
I think the best batteries can do right now is at most 2KWh for a typical car-sized battery, and it's still a heavy beast--nowhere close to the energy density of gas.
Indeed, back aroud 1998-2000 we kept hearing about this magical thing from Starbridge systems...
The Hypercomputer--They basically claimed it would be a little cray sitting on your desk that would have the potential to run a bazillon instances of a meta-operating system that would act as a low-level interface for any common operating system, turning a thousand or so FPGAs into a single image system that would be able to dynamically reconfigure it's hardware for the task at hand... And it thoery it would be able to run any binary compiled for any system, if the meta-operating system knew how to translate it.
Of course, that was during the dot-com era, but it did sound facinating, and even promising. Their site is up, and they even claim that NASA and the AirForce are using their hardware/software.
Has anyone out there actually heard of their products being used?
Heh, it's sounding quite alot like the big SGIs of yore.... And that would be neat.
Oh, noes! Projectile diarrhea!
Most unfortunate for the computer.
I was thinking the exact same thing, then I scan back up to see what weirdo submitted this, ahh, good 'ol Roland Piquepaille.
*slaps forehead*
No, they pirate it, as to create another chink in the Great Wall of Capitalism, so that one day it will crumble under it's own weight...
Isn't it obvious?
--I'm sure this is what our legislators will hear when industry lobbyists come knocking. Anything to put a size 13 boot to our balls.
That's if you wanted the latest and greatest cards. You can get some decent PCI-e cards relatively cheaply. If you need the screen space, this is the best option that's come along since quad head cards on the Mac, as far as I can see.
A couple dual-dvi cards and some nice LCDs would be killer, and not un-affordable... Probably under 3 grand with 4 fairly priced 19" LCDs.
Right now, George Bush and his redneck moron followers are the poster boys for this kind of thinking.
:D
I'd agree with your observation, GWB appears to be about as sharp as a marble.. However, I think he's "dumb like a fox" i.e. feigning stupidity.
Nothing else can explain how he got into the office, with the support of the voters, other than the above, and the notion that he's a damn good actor--which shouldn't come as much of a suprise, because, one of the other presidents that crowd revered was also an actor.
In regard to his voters, well, you're right, of course. Was there ever any question?!
Indeed... People don't realize how cheap it's become.
I'm regretting being an early adopter of a CRT rear projection HDTV, because a setup like this is a hundred times more versatile, and just about the same price. It's all too easy to hook up a HTPC, where you can do pretty much anything one could imagine.
The ONLY drawback, as far as I'm concerned is that you've got to replace the projector bulb every couple thousand hours (depending on the projector), and even then it isn't that big of a deal. If you only watch movies on it, it'll last a long, long time.
Personally, I was invisioning some scholarly type kicking the poor guy in the nuts, and then threatening for every day that he hangs around they'll increment the number of kicks he's to receive... Surely, that's pressurising some of his internals!
:P
I know I'd be gone (or at least I'd stay up all night fashioning a spiked titanium/carbon fiber composite codpiece)
Yeah, I know voting isn't a human right, but with all of the pro-democracy stuff the US is slinging around, and how democracy is the best thing since gyros (the sandwich), it would seem to be the next logical step, in line with those other things.
But the anti-Black aspect makes sense, as stupid as it is.. Too bad nobody's willing to change it. I say that if they're fit to rejoin society, they're fit to vote.
And that's part of what I've never really understood either, so they're not allowed to purchase firearms, and can't have signifigant security clearances... That makes sense--they're supposedly rehabilitated, and still not especially trustable. I have no problem with that.
But what's with the no-voting? That seems like a basic human right sort of thing to me. In US law, you're a felon if you may be imprisoned for more than a year, at least that's what I understand. So, if you could be sentenced for more than a year by violating copyright, you could be a felon.
If you were wrongly convicted/were deemed a felon by a stupid law, you effectively have no means to influence the system, that seems kinda' stupid to me.... Especially considering I'd probably be more inclined to trust a newly released felon more than your average politician.
Right, they're killing it... Sure. Whatever you say.
It might be a pain on the wallet if any titles actually required anything that expensive. But they don't and never will, because, well, a game wouldn't sell if most people couldn't afford the hardware to run it.
No, what they're doing is capitalizing on the people that for one reason or another just absolutely must have the latest, greatest, and most (expensive), despite all sensibility.
This is the same type that buys Rolexes, when a Timex would do just about as well... Do you accuse Rolex, Ferrari, and other luxury manufactuers of killing their respective markets? No, that would be stupid. If anything, the advancements made by high end stuff will eventually trickle down to regular bums.
That's like saying that it dosen't make sense to drive cars when busses are more efficient.
case in point:
a)busses don't arrive when you want them to.
b)busses don't always go where you want to go.
If bittorrent is a 4x4 and it gets you to the mountians but sucks down more gas in the process, it still does it's purpose. If your purpose is to distribute a small file from a slow connection, with an outside higher bandwidth tracker, IT WILL WORK. Heck, once it's seeded the rest of the peers will probably take over for a good long time, and it didn't use your bandwidth except for a minute or two.
It's like having a team of someone eles's horses pull your jeep uphill when you run out of gas! How can you argue against that? Humans do plenty of things that don't make sense (energy wise and monetarily, amongst others), but we still do it, and here we are! Jeepers!
Maybe it would be more efficient if we all up and died! It'd probably make more sense too, for those chalenged of sensibility!
Sure it does, if one user alone couldn't handle the demand. A POTS modem user could, for instance, with the help of BT, disseminate a 100KB file to thousands more people (even to other regular modem users) than his little pipe could do alone. Even for high demand files as small as 1MB BT makes lots of sense.
The protocol is what? 20% of the size of the payload (probably mostly checksums for chunks)? I really don't know, but that's my guess. More than that would not make sense. It could potentially be useful for pretty small files--admittedly for lower and lower values of usefulness.
It makes just as much sense for smaller files--indeed files of any size. The download for all of the files is 3.7MB. If you had to host that and pay for it all by your lonesome when 500,000 people suddenly descend on your site, you'd be screaming! The tracker I'm connected to is indicating about 50MB/minute. That's quite alot of bandwidth if you had to pay for it. I've uploaded 45MB myself, and I'll keep it open till demand slows down.
The more you can offload your bandwidth needs onto other people, especially if you're giving the content away for free, the better. It's also better from the standpoint of the people wanting to download--you're all but guranteed to get it, whatever the size and number of people requesting it are--at the cost of a tiny bit of your upstream bandwidth.
Win win, as they say.
Hah, that's pretty cool. Those are some pretty quick hydraulics. If you notice when he crashes, the whole machine moves itself several inches--pretty violent.
I want one!
That's true I suppose, but I think (hope?) that most people with a pulse and an IQ over 80 would realize that excuse is a farce...
Point taken, though. I'll be the first to admit that I don't have all the answers--and that there's no simple solution. Those weasels will try to sneak something through no matter what. But I think this is an important issue. It's been out of control for a long time.
I couldn't agree more.
Bills are supposed to be DAMN hard to pass. If you can attach some random stuff to a bill that's expected to pass, then the system isn't working. The fact that this got 100-0 is the sickeningly sweet icing on the cake-of-evidence towards this.
Honestly, the one thing at the moment that I wish for in our government is accountability. Legislation that would only allow one fundamental idea per bill would do exactly that... It would make things like this bill pretty hard to pass, and that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
It'll never happen though, because of the accountability aspect, and because the bureaucrats like it the way it is--easy to pass bullshit when people are desperate.
Yech... They could at least fill the tree out a bit in the middle--it looks like a pack of bears or something stripped all but the top! I mean, if they took a lesson from fake christmas tree makers, it would look much better. It still would look like a pink elephant, but at least it would be a decent rendition of a pink elephant.
The clock tower I don't find to be too bad... Unless it were in a stupid spot for a clock tower that is.
Quote some unimportant rube not unlike yourself at some point in not too recent history:
"Dickens's existence (along with other new-fangled writers') is the decline of society. The fact that people pine over Books called "Robinson Crusoe" instead of cave paintings is the decline of society! You have it all wrong!"
I thought the Vogon's suits looked more akin to something out of a fetish video, but I wouldn't know anything about that!
They probably can't find their way back to their pod, so they think the safest bet is just to wait it out. At least that's my thoery.
But hey, perhaps it might be a good helium generation technology, depending on how efficient it can be made... For those who don't know, the world is facing a shortage on helium. Most of the world's supply is found in Kansas, Texas and Wyoming mixed in with natural gas or oil. It's necessary for various industries and sciences, such as calibrating instruments and welding aluminium.
I'd guess that lowering the temperature of Natural gas to -300F so that everything but He is liquified is pretty darn inefficient. Maybe it'll be a good source for pure He3 too--if indeed that's what it created--and by the fact that it gave off a neutron that's my guess.
The sad thing is that as much as I wanted to watch the show when it was airing, what with it being Friday nights, PLUS the out of sequence, and moving it around--I caught about 3 episodes, and enjoyed every moment.
Guess I'll have to get the DVD one of these days.