HTML5 can currently replace Flash and do a better job of it in every single aspect, except one, DRM. Note that it's entirely possible for someone to write a replacement Flash player entirely in javascript, for anything that doesn't require Flash's DRM aspects.
especially because there is a correlation between MPG and vehicle weight, and vehicle weight has a strong influence on road deterioration.
Actually, there isn't. Fuel consumption increases with vehicle weight at a power less than one, while road deterioration increases at a power around four.
Fuel consumption typically increases something less than linearly with vehicle weight. Rolling friction is linear, but at highway speeds, but bulk of friction is from aerodynamic drag, and assuming constant density, aerodynamic drag increases at roughly the 2/3 power of weight. On the other hand, heavier vehicles damage the roadway on the order of the fourth power of weight. As a result, fuel taxes result in passenger vehicles paying a disproportionately high percentage of the cost needed for roadway maintenance.
Actually, if you are working off the premise that gasoline taxes go towards maintenance of the roads, to offset the damage caused by those vehicles, then there should be no taxes on gasoline. Damage done to roadways is typically estimated in terms of axle weight to the fourth power. Your 1500lb/axle sedan is inconsequential compared to that 15000lb/axle semi-trailer, and they're running diesel. A fair tax would tax shipping, which would in turn trickle down to consumers as higher market prices, and serve to motivate improved efficiency in the shipping industry.
I'm confused. Since when does Siri run on your phone? Every time you ask it something, it sends a sound blurb out to Apple's servers, which process it, make a decision, and send the decoded text and decision back to the phone for it to act upon. Getting a new phone does not wipe the profile tied to your Apple account.
40mb/s Per virtual channel. A single 6mhz physical channel can support several virtual channels via CDMA.
Were that the case, cable companies wouldn't be so constrained for bandwidth as they are, and there would be no reason to ever implement switched video.
Cable is a fixed speed interconnect. It's 38Mbps per channel, and with DOCSIS 3.0, four channels minimum. If the cable company wants to offer 150Mbps service, you will get that, and you will not need to change any hardware to do so. The issue is that it is a shared interconnect, so you're sharing some 6Gbps of throughput between analog cable, digital cable, and a few hundred of your nearest neighbors.
DSL is a dedicated, variable rate interconnect. Your transfer speed is dependent only on your own cable quality and noise level. The issue at that point in the same issue with cable networks, that your throughput is shared at each and every upstream aggregation point. As subscribership increases, the real issue becomes bottlenecks on the backbone.
That's because it's a retarded idea, made by well meaning politicians who have no clue about engineering matters.
Diesel engines need auto-ignition, and thus do not operate well on high octane fuels like gasoline or alcohol.
Gasoline engines cannot have auto-ignition, so the rated octane of their fuel determines their construction. An Otto engine designed for gasoline is going to have too low a compression to run efficiently on alcohol. An Otto engine designed for alcohol is going to have serious knock issues with gasoline, and will either blow itself up, or have to be run very rich.
Gas turbines have no such issues running on multiple fuels, but their continuous operation and high power density leads to overheating issues that demand low compression, and thus inefficient operation. Large turbines can fit complex cooling measures to higher compression, and industrial units can afford the weight of recuperators, both working to bring thermodynamic efficiency up to parity with other internal combustion engines. Neither of these are an option for a small engine for a vehicle.
External combustion engines like a Stirling engine similarly have no issues running on multiple fuels, but their low power density and need for large cooling systems makes them poorly suited for use on a vehicle.
Of course nothing is released during the gasification process. All the wood gas is collected, and subsequently burned to drive the generator and heat the gasifier.
Charcoal is not a fertilizer. It's basically used as a substrate in which to hold other nutrients in place so they don't wash away or leech out of the soil.
Well if you want to get literal, all combustion is a carbon neutral process. Petroleum was originally biomass hundreds of millions of years ago. This is merely carbon negative on a relative short time scale (months to decades, depending on source of the fuel).
They don't want to burn the biomass completely. This thing is dual purpose, producing "biochar" for soil enrichment, and generating some power in the process.
You would be incorrect. It's more of a cost issue. I would cost them more to come after you than they could ever hope to get from licensing you the tech, so there's no point to it.
If someone has the resources to shift the orbit of an asteroid sufficiently to cause an impact, there are tons of other things they could be spending those resources on that would be much more destructive, and much more immediate.
I never said anything about a battery. I said electric. There's no reason you can't toss a decent generator in there.
Turbodiesels get that extra 25-40% power by overfueling. It's basically like lighting an afterburner. You continue to dump fuel into the cylinder well past the power stroke. It keeps the exhaust hot for the turbine, adding extra boost. It also makes your economy and emissions go to shit. They don't come from the factory that way because there's no way the engine would be able to meet EPA regulations.
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Well... there's always the Unreal tech demo...
http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/
Can we at least poison them?
That's Latin. Greek has completely different characters.
HTML5 can currently replace Flash and do a better job of it in every single aspect, except one, DRM. Note that it's entirely possible for someone to write a replacement Flash player entirely in javascript, for anything that doesn't require Flash's DRM aspects.
especially because there is a correlation between MPG and vehicle weight, and vehicle weight has a strong influence on road deterioration.
Actually, there isn't. Fuel consumption increases with vehicle weight at a power less than one, while road deterioration increases at a power around four.
Fuel consumption typically increases something less than linearly with vehicle weight. Rolling friction is linear, but at highway speeds, but bulk of friction is from aerodynamic drag, and assuming constant density, aerodynamic drag increases at roughly the 2/3 power of weight. On the other hand, heavier vehicles damage the roadway on the order of the fourth power of weight. As a result, fuel taxes result in passenger vehicles paying a disproportionately high percentage of the cost needed for roadway maintenance.
Actually, if you are working off the premise that gasoline taxes go towards maintenance of the roads, to offset the damage caused by those vehicles, then there should be no taxes on gasoline. Damage done to roadways is typically estimated in terms of axle weight to the fourth power. Your 1500lb/axle sedan is inconsequential compared to that 15000lb/axle semi-trailer, and they're running diesel. A fair tax would tax shipping, which would in turn trickle down to consumers as higher market prices, and serve to motivate improved efficiency in the shipping industry.
I was referring to the time it took for the fuel source to pull the carbon out of the atmosphere.
I'm confused. Since when does Siri run on your phone? Every time you ask it something, it sends a sound blurb out to Apple's servers, which process it, make a decision, and send the decoded text and decision back to the phone for it to act upon. Getting a new phone does not wipe the profile tied to your Apple account.
40mb/s Per virtual channel. A single 6mhz physical channel can support several virtual channels via CDMA.
Were that the case, cable companies wouldn't be so constrained for bandwidth as they are, and there would be no reason to ever implement switched video.
Cable is a fixed speed interconnect. It's 38Mbps per channel, and with DOCSIS 3.0, four channels minimum. If the cable company wants to offer 150Mbps service, you will get that, and you will not need to change any hardware to do so. The issue is that it is a shared interconnect, so you're sharing some 6Gbps of throughput between analog cable, digital cable, and a few hundred of your nearest neighbors.
DSL is a dedicated, variable rate interconnect. Your transfer speed is dependent only on your own cable quality and noise level. The issue at that point in the same issue with cable networks, that your throughput is shared at each and every upstream aggregation point. As subscribership increases, the real issue becomes bottlenecks on the backbone.
That's because it's a retarded idea, made by well meaning politicians who have no clue about engineering matters.
Of course nothing is released during the gasification process. All the wood gas is collected, and subsequently burned to drive the generator and heat the gasifier.
Charcoal is not a fertilizer. It's basically used as a substrate in which to hold other nutrients in place so they don't wash away or leech out of the soil.
Well if you want to get literal, all combustion is a carbon neutral process. Petroleum was originally biomass hundreds of millions of years ago. This is merely carbon negative on a relative short time scale (months to decades, depending on source of the fuel).
Nothing is preventing the production of an ever thickening layer of charcoal in which to store excess carbon. It just means it's an ongoing solution.
They don't want to burn the biomass completely. This thing is dual purpose, producing "biochar" for soil enrichment, and generating some power in the process.
You would be incorrect. It's more of a cost issue. I would cost them more to come after you than they could ever hope to get from licensing you the tech, so there's no point to it.
Apparently the porous charcoal helps promote bacterial growth in the soil, improving overall soil health rather than simply fertilizing it.
They they should fucking say kWh, and not kW.
If someone has the resources to shift the orbit of an asteroid sufficiently to cause an impact, there are tons of other things they could be spending those resources on that would be much more destructive, and much more immediate.
You don't think you'll be able to turn it around in 20 years?
Think of it like a statement in computer language.
try && restructure
If the try is successful, the restructure will occur. If the try fails, the restructure will never happen.
And if the leadership is nothing but frauds and criminals, and there are no "true believers" in control?
I never said anything about a battery. I said electric. There's no reason you can't toss a decent generator in there.
Turbodiesels get that extra 25-40% power by overfueling. It's basically like lighting an afterburner. You continue to dump fuel into the cylinder well past the power stroke. It keeps the exhaust hot for the turbine, adding extra boost. It also makes your economy and emissions go to shit. They don't come from the factory that way because there's no way the engine would be able to meet EPA regulations.