The problem is most people produce a rather pathetic amount of energy. If you've been to a gym lately you will notice the people who actually spend a lot of time on a machine are working at a rather slow rate ( 100w) so you need 20-30 of them just to light the place. Compare the cost of that setup to buying electricity at $.12/KWh, it takes a LONG LONG time to pay off.
Homer: (taunting Mr. Burns) What are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?
I know this thread is old but I will add this in hopes that someone gains some insight.
"March 28, 2002
Mercedes-Benz U.S.A will pay a Florida couple $2.25 million after a Federal jury ruled the automaker was responsible for injuries the man and wife sustained in a 1998 accident. Elwood and Norma Kaplan were driving outside of Naples when a Dodge Durango driven by Delwin J. Wohlgemuth crashed into the driver side door of the couple's Mercedes S420. The car's side airbag failed to inflate and Mr. Kaplan's arm was ripped off below the shoulder. Attorneys representing the plaintiffs successfully argued the airbag was defective and that it would have prevented Kaplan's injuries if it had deployed. The verdict is believed to be the first against Mercedes involving a defective side airbag. The Kaplans settled with Wohlgemuth's insurance company before the trial began."
Read that one more time. They got sued for NOT doing something. This wasn't even as clear a case as an airbag discharge causing additional injuries, it was a simple manufacturing defect that resulted in NO action from the SUPPLEMENTAL restraint system and Mercedes-Benz takes a $2.25M penalty. That's the absurdity of our legal system. "IF IT HAD DEPLOYED." I think I am going to argue that I would be a billionaire IF all that internet porn hadn't distracted me from starting a search engine in 1996 (read: google). Smut Lords, open your wallets!
What, the part where they killed babies? Passenger air bags (the only real risk) took several years to gain acceptance. It's pretty easy to prove operator error when there is a baby seat strapped in and a big blatant sticker that says not to put one there.
The risk I am referring to is when an adaptive cruise control system paces a car going too fast and (for whatever reason) loses control, or follows a car too close and bumps into it, causing it to lose control and cause an accident. Its quite hard to prove that the operator was at fault when they were allowing the system to do what it was designed to do, even if they are inadvertently breaking traffic laws in the process. No one wants to be the first to stick their neck out, and with good reason.
Hi I'm Progress, and I'm going to guess that we haven't met. I will be forever pushing forward with faster speeds. Thought you were happy with Gigabit over copper? LUDDITE! 10Gbit is enough for all your communication needs since you can xfer the library of congress 5 times a minute? THINK AGAIN! 100G Ethernet is the natural progression and before long you WILL want it. Trust me, I have been working this way for thousands of years. Glad we could get acquainted, now excuse me I need to get back to hiding from politicians.
The problem is those 3000 lives are YOUR fault, and thats the way they like it. If the car is as driver-centric as possible there is no chance for litigation claiming that a design flaw caused the car to operate the way it did. Addition of automation systems that have not seen EXTREMELY long trial periods are unacceptable risks for the motor companies. The sad state of litigation in America ensures that if a car company implemented a system that saved 2999 lives but was directly responsible for 1 death, it would be scrapped immediately and the producing company would be severely penalized.
Did you read 'super mario bros' instead of 'super smash bros'? SSB is a frighteningly competitive game, fun; sure, but there were numerous sessions that ended in me storming off in defeat, having lost DK to a guy playing as Ness...
Even in China they can't get cheap lasers?
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"The cost of a new Blu-ray disc player combined with international shipping, and import taxes raises the cost of obtaining a 405nm diode in China to approximately $1,500."
I smell a lie... why don't they go down the street to the Chinese factory churning out these diodes for $5/unit and leave the marketing BS to Sony?
On your comment about data center size: Consolidation is the buzzword of the decade. 'Big boy' data centers start at 2MW and get BIGGER. It's not uncommon for a main site facility to be closer to 4MW. These are usually fed from the grid at the 14kV level, often from dual substations. Yes it's a lot of CPUs and supporting equipment, but thats the way we like em!
Your question on two generators vs. one: Redundancy does NOT come from two half sized units doing a single job, it comes from two FULL sized units each doing half the job. Having two half sized generator units means losing one will cause failure. With a 10,000HR MTBF per unit (rough number used for demonstration) you get a system MTBF of 5,000HR, NOT what I would call redundant! You would need at least 3/2 redundancy (3 generators doing the work of 2) to have a reasonably reliable replacement for a single large unit.
Solution looking for a problem? Even if the only use is to launch 10KG pods of food/water into space to support the ISS and other manned activities, it could save the space community huge amounts of money compared to conventional equipment launching. I see this as a way to streamline space exploration, even if it never launches a single piece of electronic hardware.
No kidding! For that price in Ohio I could get a *huge* garage (w/ attached house), and still have money left over for cable internet (and like 15 digital pr0n channels, er I mean cinemax). $1700/mo 'help with the mortgage' makes me choke.
Bingo. I deal with warranty issues (not for hard drives but other sensitive electronics) every day. Its rare for a defective unit to make it to the field. Its even rarer for a defective unit to be sent out to replace a defective unit. If you get a third such defective unit... stop what you're doing and go to 'Vegas. The fact is, defects are very rare and if you keep seeing failures, ITS YOU!!!
Trapped in the past, Intel finds themselves leaping from technology to technology, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that their next leap will be the leap home.
It's just that if we are sufficiently advanced to build such a monstrous air conditioner, global warming will probably be well within our control. Also, I would bet that since its cold in space and hot down on earth, you could build a structure like that and have it simply work on the force of convection and not need any forced relocation of heat. I'm sorry but it just sounds like something from a Futurama episode (which i happen to find perfectly entertaining, however impractical).
Good news everyone! You no longer have to make the pudding and mello yello delivery to the high school dorks planet, they finally got their fusion reactor to work and it consumed the entire solar system...
It's not a white hole energy source, its an energy derived from atoms that fuse together (much like our sun). So no, its not limitless, you need to keep it fed with fuel. And that was the least absurd part of your question; please explain how you plan to build an air conditioner outside earth's atmosphere, where theres *NO AIR*...
I don't care who plays the MC, as long as he doesn't take his helmet off to have a intimate 'plot building' scene with Cortana. Oh god anything but that!!! If its going to be true to the game's theme, the actual on screen presence will be nothing but a stunt man in an impressive looking space suit, and they will get the original voiceover guy to do what (few) words are necessary.
No offense intended to you or the subjects of this article, but the author should have stuck with 50! After reading the list a little more carefully I am hard pressed to find even a dozen who have more than a typical career in the video game industry. When they say influential I expect them to *mean it*. I stand by my original statement that this article is mostly a favor piece that does nothing more than circulate names.
+1. Project managers? Consultants? It sounds like they struggled just to find 100 women with careers related to video games. Influential, to me, means that the person has a broad impact on the industry in general and not just on the project they work on. I doubt many these people could be named by anyone outside their company. The pics are suspect too, how many do you think came off of their MySpace page? It's not that I'm harsh on women in gaming, but the author probably just did this as a favor piece so that she can make 100 friends in the business.
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The problem is most people produce a rather pathetic amount of energy. If you've been to a gym lately you will notice the people who actually spend a lot of time on a machine are working at a rather slow rate ( 100w) so you need 20-30 of them just to light the place. Compare the cost of that setup to buying electricity at $.12/KWh, it takes a LONG LONG time to pay off.
-1 inaccurate...
Homer: (taunting Mr. Burns) What are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?
I know this thread is old but I will add this in hopes that someone gains some insight.
"March 28, 2002
Mercedes-Benz U.S.A will pay a Florida couple $2.25 million after a Federal jury ruled the automaker was responsible for injuries the man and wife sustained in a 1998 accident. Elwood and Norma Kaplan were driving outside of Naples when a Dodge Durango driven by Delwin J. Wohlgemuth crashed into the driver side door of the couple's Mercedes S420. The car's side airbag failed to inflate and Mr. Kaplan's arm was ripped off below the shoulder. Attorneys representing the plaintiffs successfully argued the airbag was defective and that it would have prevented Kaplan's injuries if it had deployed. The verdict is believed to be the first against Mercedes involving a defective side airbag. The Kaplans settled with Wohlgemuth's insurance company before the trial began."
Read that one more time. They got sued for NOT doing something. This wasn't even as clear a case as an airbag discharge causing additional injuries, it was a simple manufacturing defect that resulted in NO action from the SUPPLEMENTAL restraint system and Mercedes-Benz takes a $2.25M penalty. That's the absurdity of our legal system. "IF IT HAD DEPLOYED." I think I am going to argue that I would be a billionaire IF all that internet porn hadn't distracted me from starting a search engine in 1996 (read: google). Smut Lords, open your wallets!
What, the part where they killed babies? Passenger air bags (the only real risk) took several years to gain acceptance. It's pretty easy to prove operator error when there is a baby seat strapped in and a big blatant sticker that says not to put one there.
The risk I am referring to is when an adaptive cruise control system paces a car going too fast and (for whatever reason) loses control, or follows a car too close and bumps into it, causing it to lose control and cause an accident. Its quite hard to prove that the operator was at fault when they were allowing the system to do what it was designed to do, even if they are inadvertently breaking traffic laws in the process. No one wants to be the first to stick their neck out, and with good reason.
Hi I'm Progress, and I'm going to guess that we haven't met. I will be forever pushing forward with faster speeds. Thought you were happy with Gigabit over copper? LUDDITE! 10Gbit is enough for all your communication needs since you can xfer the library of congress 5 times a minute? THINK AGAIN! 100G Ethernet is the natural progression and before long you WILL want it. Trust me, I have been working this way for thousands of years. Glad we could get acquainted, now excuse me I need to get back to hiding from politicians.
The problem is those 3000 lives are YOUR fault, and thats the way they like it. If the car is as driver-centric as possible there is no chance for litigation claiming that a design flaw caused the car to operate the way it did. Addition of automation systems that have not seen EXTREMELY long trial periods are unacceptable risks for the motor companies. The sad state of litigation in America ensures that if a car company implemented a system that saved 2999 lives but was directly responsible for 1 death, it would be scrapped immediately and the producing company would be severely penalized.
Of course, there are some technical details that he likely did not get right
Technical details? It's Steven F'ing Hawking, he left the details blank as an exercise for the reader...
Did you read 'super mario bros' instead of 'super smash bros'? SSB is a frighteningly competitive game, fun; sure, but there were numerous sessions that ended in me storming off in defeat, having lost DK to a guy playing as Ness...
"The cost of a new Blu-ray disc player combined with international shipping, and import taxes raises the cost of obtaining a 405nm diode in China to approximately $1,500." I smell a lie... why don't they go down the street to the Chinese factory churning out these diodes for $5/unit and leave the marketing BS to Sony?
You're thinking of [[Negrodamus]]... erm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrodamus. John Negroponte is a rather notable figure in American politics. Try to keep up, eh?
On your comment about data center size: Consolidation is the buzzword of the decade. 'Big boy' data centers start at 2MW and get BIGGER. It's not uncommon for a main site facility to be closer to 4MW. These are usually fed from the grid at the 14kV level, often from dual substations. Yes it's a lot of CPUs and supporting equipment, but thats the way we like em!
Your question on two generators vs. one: Redundancy does NOT come from two half sized units doing a single job, it comes from two FULL sized units each doing half the job. Having two half sized generator units means losing one will cause failure. With a 10,000HR MTBF per unit (rough number used for demonstration) you get a system MTBF of 5,000HR, NOT what I would call redundant! You would need at least 3/2 redundancy (3 generators doing the work of 2) to have a reasonably reliable replacement for a single large unit.
Slashdot only has one day left to dupe this another 98 times if they hope to claim the prize...
TFA? Whats that?
Never the twain shall meet.
Uh huh
Tell that to my first VGA monitor, it loved interlaced video so much I had to get glasses...
Solution looking for a problem? Even if the only use is to launch 10KG pods of food/water into space to support the ISS and other manned activities, it could save the space community huge amounts of money compared to conventional equipment launching. I see this as a way to streamline space exploration, even if it never launches a single piece of electronic hardware.
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I have a feeling the house is about to get a makeover...
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No kidding! For that price in Ohio I could get a *huge* garage (w/ attached house), and still have money left over for cable internet (and like 15 digital pr0n channels, er I mean cinemax). $1700/mo 'help with the mortgage' makes me choke.
Bingo. I deal with warranty issues (not for hard drives but other sensitive electronics) every day. Its rare for a defective unit to make it to the field. Its even rarer for a defective unit to be sent out to replace a defective unit. If you get a third such defective unit... stop what you're doing and go to 'Vegas. The fact is, defects are very rare and if you keep seeing failures, ITS YOU!!!
You are thinking of 'Sliders', the tv show with that straight up fox Sabrina Lloyd, and some other people I guess...
Trapped in the past, Intel finds themselves leaping from technology to technology, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that their next leap will be the leap home.
that kind of leap...
It's just that if we are sufficiently advanced to build such a monstrous air conditioner, global warming will probably be well within our control. Also, I would bet that since its cold in space and hot down on earth, you could build a structure like that and have it simply work on the force of convection and not need any forced relocation of heat. I'm sorry but it just sounds like something from a Futurama episode (which i happen to find perfectly entertaining, however impractical).
Good news everyone! You no longer have to make the pudding and mello yello delivery to the high school dorks planet, they finally got their fusion reactor to work and it consumed the entire solar system...
How is that good news?
They paid us in advance!!!
It's not a white hole energy source, its an energy derived from atoms that fuse together (much like our sun). So no, its not limitless, you need to keep it fed with fuel. And that was the least absurd part of your question; please explain how you plan to build an air conditioner outside earth's atmosphere, where theres *NO AIR*...
I don't care who plays the MC, as long as he doesn't take his helmet off to have a intimate 'plot building' scene with Cortana. Oh god anything but that!!! If its going to be true to the game's theme, the actual on screen presence will be nothing but a stunt man in an impressive looking space suit, and they will get the original voiceover guy to do what (few) words are necessary.
No offense intended to you or the subjects of this article, but the author should have stuck with 50! After reading the list a little more carefully I am hard pressed to find even a dozen who have more than a typical career in the video game industry. When they say influential I expect them to *mean it*. I stand by my original statement that this article is mostly a favor piece that does nothing more than circulate names.
+1. Project managers? Consultants? It sounds like they struggled just to find 100 women with careers related to video games. Influential, to me, means that the person has a broad impact on the industry in general and not just on the project they work on. I doubt many these people could be named by anyone outside their company. The pics are suspect too, how many do you think came off of their MySpace page? It's not that I'm harsh on women in gaming, but the author probably just did this as a favor piece so that she can make 100 friends in the business.