Anyway, shoplifting is going to be a big issue. Maybe a scale will help fixing this problem; the ones used in the bagging section of the self-check-out area are incredibly sensitive and the system continuously matches the estimated weight of the scanned object with the bag's weight increase. If you don't have that built in the shopping cart, the system has no way to know what exactly is in the cart.
The damage done to the roads is largely a function of weight AND distance the vehicle travels on public roads [...]. Of course, there are other factors including speed and type of road they are driven on.
All of these tend to correlate very well with gas consumption. That's why the direct gas tax is such a fair approach. Plus it's so simple to implement!
Hmmm, I'm now reading a nice book named "1491" (see http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8). It has quite a few interesting bits of information about the Clovis precedence being challenged more and more, with some sites that seem to be older being located in the South America; if only one of these recent findings will become generally accepted, it will be enough to discard the Northern Passage theory of Siberia migration during the last ice age (which anyway sounds incredibly well timed to ring true).
That theory has been long ago discredited. It's amazing that it still decorates US history books - is it because almost no one teaching this subject and the kids learning about it don't care at all?
Anyway, this finding helps debunking the mantra...
Talking about points of view, the issue can be settled by sampling the opinion of people who lived for extended periods in both the US and other developed countries. You would be amazed how consistent kaffiene's p.o.v. can be found among these. Unless you step outside US, you won't be capable of really understanding what he's talking about.
The real split here in the US is bigger government versus smaller government.
Only at the empty rhetoric level.
In practice, the government keeps growing regardless of who's in charge (D or R). I still remember Reagan talking about making the government smaller, while during his two-term presidency the US government expanded at the highest rate in recent history.
A VR consumes a lot of both (relative to a microprocessor). You can easily see >5" square of space and >10W of power dissipation next to the processor (and everyone cries about it because of its location)
Totally wrong. You see, the VR's job is to transfer the power from a high(er)-voltage supply to whatever the CPU/GPU/blahblahblah needs. The switching VR's of today boast efficiencies in excess of 90%, while their load is a 0% efficient converter (everything the CPU eats gets transformed in heat). Which means that if the CPU dissipates 10W, the VR puts out no more than an additional 1.1W - peanuts. You have to design the cooler for the bigger pig, what the VR puts out is not significant.
As for the FA, the guy is talking about switchers, not linear regulators. The inductors are on-chip, the capacitors are not so obvious, they may be off-chip. Other people did it before, but the efficiency of switching at 50 or 100MHz (so that a puny 10nH on-chip inductor matters) is abysmal, barely better than a linear regulator. Reading the more detailed article a fellow/.-er above had the courtesy of pointing to, it looks like everything in his work is just playing with numbers and simulators; the guy obviously has no idea what are the practical issues associated with switching regulators and efficiency.
You could simply tax the incandescents more to make the CFLs competitive and let the market decide, or you can just ban the incandescents outright. Both solve the same problem. Another avenue would be to just massively increase the cost of electricity which is effectively the same as a tax on bulb purchase but broader.
They don't solve the same problem. Taxing more the incandescents is fine, if people still decide that for their particular case these are better than CFLs they can still have the option.
Banning the incandescents is just highlighting the tyranny of the idiotic majority of Americans who use night lights only to look for the remote and the popcorn basket. No sane person who actually uses his/her eyes for reading printed material will be happy with the crappy, crappy light even the better CFLs and LEDs put out. Even a gas lamp is better there.
I can't believe that the shuttle has components with such a low FoS that a 35% reduction in material strength will put them at risk. If they are, then engineering was very sloppy, if they are not, then the 65% figure is bogus.
What's up with the inane mention of Pirates of the Carribean? The writer even got it wrong, as the first one to utter the words was Geoffrey Rush's character (Ctp. Barbossa). It's probably a FauxNews specialty...
You're right, I was thinking about the high-power class and APCP regulation. I'm glad that that dumb attempt at over-regulation was struck down in court.
Still, the threat of some in-power stupid move regarding tech-oriented-hobbies-with-a-potential-for-destructive-acts remains as actual as ever.
I don't mind them doing it, but this is insane, especially when doing it in an area highly sensitized to flying missiles/planes.
It only takes a few assholes in the government or the legislative to imagine such a plane flying with a dangerous payload (explosives, dirty rad material etc) to ban R/C flying planes, forcing me and so many others who enjoy this hobby to simply stop.
Think it can't happen? They did it already once with a whole class of model rockets...
Come on! is this innovative enough (not obvious to a person skilled in the art etc) to merit a patent? I think not. Just because a patent lawyer thought it's neat to have his kid's name on a shiny plate there is no reason to actually do it.
The USPTO has a severe case of diarrhea, approving so many useless and, very often, frivolous patents (there are 200,000 granted each year). There is no need to further inflate the statistics with this crap.
What's depressing is not that an AC makes a snarky comment on a post that is factually correct, but that there hare at least 3 idiotic slashdotters with mod points who marked the comment "Informative". What are the odds of this happening?
""It's rare that Dell breaks new ground in terms of design [...]"
Really? Despite Apple's noise around its hardware, the only truly innovative design happening in the mobile computing in the last couple of years was the Dell's Adamo. Too bad it didn't take off; I guess that everybody was holding their breath for the overrated ipad so they missed Adamo's launch.
on the Sprint network (CDMA). They have nothing comparable; when I tried to upgrade my ancient Nokia, the Sanyo clamshell I thought will do (in the past, Sanyo has produced very high quality mobile phones) ended up being returned - very bad radio chipset, dropping calls like hot potatoes.
Why oh why do so many people think that if you want just a phone means you're retarded and / or a luddite? Given the way consumer products have been evolving for the past 10-15 years, a new phone with many features at a lower price point usually means a crappy phone, where the main function (voice calls) has been sacrificed in quality to make room for all the sh*t touted as features (yes, I definitely want a shoddy 3megapixels camera with a pinpoint sensor and pea-sized lens - NOT!)
One of the big advantages Silicon Valley has enjoyed is it's proximity to Asia. And likely it's one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is where it is.
Sounds nice but it's probably not true. When SV emerged as the center of innovation in all things electronics and computing, there was nothing interesting in Japan and China was still hurting through its "cultural revolution"...
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use the computer keyboard and a world of possibilities (sans accents, that's it) will open up...
Do they have a built-in scale?
Anyway, shoplifting is going to be a big issue. Maybe a scale will help fixing this problem; the ones used in the bagging section of the self-check-out area are incredibly sensitive and the system continuously matches the estimated weight of the scanned object with the bag's weight increase. If you don't have that built in the shopping cart, the system has no way to know what exactly is in the cart.
It cannot do conferencing and I'm not sure if it's capable of video.
The damage done to the roads is largely a function of weight AND distance the vehicle travels on public roads [...]. Of course, there are other factors including speed and type of road they are driven on.
All of these tend to correlate very well with gas consumption. That's why the direct gas tax is such a fair approach. Plus it's so simple to implement!
yes, but they have to agree to the mastectomy too...
will the fireworks be visible from the other side of the Pacific?
Hmmm, I'm now reading a nice book named "1491" (see http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8). It has quite a few interesting bits of information about the Clovis precedence being challenged more and more, with some sites that seem to be older being located in the South America; if only one of these recent findings will become generally accepted, it will be enough to discard the Northern Passage theory of Siberia migration during the last ice age (which anyway sounds incredibly well timed to ring true).
That theory has been long ago discredited. It's amazing that it still decorates US history books - is it because almost no one teaching this subject and the kids learning about it don't care at all?
Anyway, this finding helps debunking the mantra...
I bow in your general direction :-)
Talking about points of view, the issue can be settled by sampling the opinion of people who lived for extended periods in both the US and other developed countries. You would be amazed how consistent kaffiene's p.o.v. can be found among these. Unless you step outside US, you won't be capable of really understanding what he's talking about.
The real split here in the US is bigger government versus smaller government.
Only at the empty rhetoric level.
In practice, the government keeps growing regardless of who's in charge (D or R). I still remember Reagan talking about making the government smaller, while during his two-term presidency the US government expanded at the highest rate in recent history.
A VR consumes a lot of both (relative to a microprocessor). You can easily see >5" square of space and >10W of power dissipation next to the processor (and everyone cries about it because of its location)
Totally wrong. You see, the VR's job is to transfer the power from a high(er)-voltage supply to whatever the CPU/GPU/blahblahblah needs. The switching VR's of today boast efficiencies in excess of 90%, while their load is a 0% efficient converter (everything the CPU eats gets transformed in heat). Which means that if the CPU dissipates 10W, the VR puts out no more than an additional 1.1W - peanuts. You have to design the cooler for the bigger pig, what the VR puts out is not significant.
As for the FA, the guy is talking about switchers, not linear regulators. The inductors are on-chip, the capacitors are not so obvious, they may be off-chip. Other people did it before, but the efficiency of switching at 50 or 100MHz (so that a puny 10nH on-chip inductor matters) is abysmal, barely better than a linear regulator. Reading the more detailed article a fellow /.-er above had the courtesy of pointing to, it looks like everything in his work is just playing with numbers and simulators; the guy obviously has no idea what are the practical issues associated with switching regulators and efficiency.
You could simply tax the incandescents more to make the CFLs competitive and let the market decide, or you can just ban the incandescents outright. Both solve the same problem. Another avenue would be to just massively increase the cost of electricity which is effectively the same as a tax on bulb purchase but broader.
They don't solve the same problem. Taxing more the incandescents is fine, if people still decide that for their particular case these are better than CFLs they can still have the option.
Banning the incandescents is just highlighting the tyranny of the idiotic majority of Americans who use night lights only to look for the remote and the popcorn basket. No sane person who actually uses his/her eyes for reading printed material will be happy with the crappy, crappy light even the better CFLs and LEDs put out. Even a gas lamp is better there.
Yeah, I'm stocking on halogen bulbs.
Bullshit! Compressed air as an energy recovery method makes much more sense for larger vehicles than batteries. And they're already on the road, so that's not just a theory: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/12/29/100-million-milestone-for-eaton-hybrids/
idiotic engineering or bad reporting.
I can't believe that the shuttle has components with such a low FoS that a 35% reduction in material strength will put them at risk. If they are, then engineering was very sloppy, if they are not, then the 65% figure is bogus.
What's up with the inane mention of Pirates of the Carribean? The writer even got it wrong, as the first one to utter the words was Geoffrey Rush's character (Ctp. Barbossa). It's probably a FauxNews specialty...
What is Apple up to with this huge facility?
King's Tutankhajobs' tomb, of course...
You're right, I was thinking about the high-power class and APCP regulation. I'm glad that that dumb attempt at over-regulation was struck down in court.
Still, the threat of some in-power stupid move regarding tech-oriented-hobbies-with-a-potential-for-destructive-acts remains as actual as ever.
I don't mind them doing it, but this is insane, especially when doing it in an area highly sensitized to flying missiles/planes.
It only takes a few assholes in the government or the legislative to imagine such a plane flying with a dangerous payload (explosives, dirty rad material etc) to ban R/C flying planes, forcing me and so many others who enjoy this hobby to simply stop.
Think it can't happen? They did it already once with a whole class of model rockets...
Pretty good for an 8-year old if you ask me...
Come on! is this innovative enough (not obvious to a person skilled in the art etc) to merit a patent? I think not. Just because a patent lawyer thought it's neat to have his kid's name on a shiny plate there is no reason to actually do it.
The USPTO has a severe case of diarrhea, approving so many useless and, very often, frivolous patents (there are 200,000 granted each year). There is no need to further inflate the statistics with this crap.
What's depressing is not that an AC makes a snarky comment on a post that is factually correct, but that there hare at least 3 idiotic slashdotters with mod points who marked the comment "Informative". What are the odds of this happening?
""It's rare that Dell breaks new ground in terms of design [...]"
Really? Despite Apple's noise around its hardware, the only truly innovative design happening in the mobile computing in the last couple of years was the Dell's Adamo. Too bad it didn't take off; I guess that everybody was holding their breath for the overrated ipad so they missed Adamo's launch.
on the Sprint network (CDMA). They have nothing comparable; when I tried to upgrade my ancient Nokia, the Sanyo clamshell I thought will do (in the past, Sanyo has produced very high quality mobile phones) ended up being returned - very bad radio chipset, dropping calls like hot potatoes.
Why oh why do so many people think that if you want just a phone means you're retarded and / or a luddite? Given the way consumer products have been evolving for the past 10-15 years, a new phone with many features at a lower price point usually means a crappy phone, where the main function (voice calls) has been sacrificed in quality to make room for all the sh*t touted as features (yes, I definitely want a shoddy 3megapixels camera with a pinpoint sensor and pea-sized lens - NOT!)
One of the big advantages Silicon Valley has enjoyed is it's proximity to Asia. And likely it's one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is where it is.
Sounds nice but it's probably not true. When SV emerged as the center of innovation in all things electronics and computing, there was nothing interesting in Japan and China was still hurting through its "cultural revolution"...
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Germs-Bad-Survival-Bacterial/dp/0809016427/ref=sr_1_1