Personally I like Elon Musk's idea of swapping batteries better. But this to me looks like little more than marketing. It is something that is feasible now but ONLY now. It won't work going forward without a massive leap in battery performance.
Moore's law is about economics and not performance; the *cost* of each integrated transistor roughly halves every 3 years. Moore's law required this even at the expense of transistor performance.
Batteries do not need more performance but they must become less expensive and Musk must be counting on this and he should be in a position to know. Solar cells will need higher performance where limited area for installation is available but they also must become less expensive.
So tell me AC, the next invention needs to be the storage battery? Seriously my good man, Los Angeles is shutting down a natural gas peaking plant for a Tesla battery system peaking plant. Maybe you should tell them it cannot be done?
They are not doing this by choice. Besides state law mandating installation of energy storage, they had that massive natural gas storage accident not long ago so they will not be able to fuel some of their natural gas peaking plants anyway.
Intel's mania for market segmentation means that 32 bit only x86 processors are still manufactured and sold. And Microsoft's mania for market segmentation means systems intended to operate Windows are still sold with less than 4 megabytes of memory making a 64 bit operating system less useful; not supporting more then 2 gigabytes of physical memory through PAE did not help with this.
Intel's fab costs per product are probably rising at a terrifying speed if they can't get maximum volumes. ARM licensees and other fabless companies are able to spread the load with the rest of the industry.
That is true on the manufacturing side but the various ARM licensees also duplicate development so it is not Intel facing off against the ARM juggernaut; instead it is the Intel ox facing a flock of ARM chickens which duplicates the situation when Intel was facing off against the various RISC workstation and server processors except back then, development costs were lower for RISC developers which is not the case for ARM designs if they want to compete with Intel.
On the manufacturing side itself, Intel has a dedicated high performance logic process while the fabless ARM companies have to compromise with processes intended for low power computing unless they share with GPUs.
The minimum these days is SSE2 and what the Pentium 4 supported. I find many applications and libraries which require SSE2 whether they should need it or not.
The americans who are allowing this to happen (politicians) have to be getting something out of it. The rest of us have little opportunity to avoid it.
The politicians are fishing for more bribes from AT&T.
ARM sells about 14 billion processor a year. Intel sells about 400 million processors a year.
Every device running an ARM processor isn't running an Intel processor.
Tell me again how Intel is going to "wake up". They're fighting AMD for scraps.
ARM doesn't sell any processors. Companies which buy licenses from ARM sell processors but it is not like there is a monolithic ARM processor company; they are individually competing with Intel so they lack the kind of economy of scale implied by the total number of ARM processors produced and most of those are microcontrollers which do not compete with Intel in any way.
The question is, how much modern Windows software is ABI compatible with the 486, and doesn't assume MMX or SSE support?
A lot now requires at least SSE2 whether it uses it or not so the minimum emulation target is the Pentium 4. This has become a major problem with my legacy Pentium 3 systems which have plenty of performance but are no longer supported.
But if prices are negative, why don't they just feather the wind mills? No point in producing energy and paying for it, might as well shut them down if there's too much supply and too little demand.
Usually (always?) there are government subsidies in one form or another. The distribution companies may be required by law to accept all wind energy (and pay for it) in which case they are going to end up paying someone to take it off their hands or risk grid instability.
Or we could elect a different class of politicians instead of following blind tribalism. Sorry, but all this is self inflicted, and every chance they have, the voters only make it worse.
A different class? Like politicians from the *other* party which support the same policies?
I agree this is self inflicted, Notwithstanding the above, we get the government we deserve. Want to know who to blame? Look in the mirror.
The important part is concealed beneath the center wing surfaces; it is unlikely to just be a girded tube subject to failure in buckling. My guess is that there will be some sort of box girder structure connected to a similar structure inside the fuselages and none of the load bearing structures are visible. The heavy cargo attachments will also be connected directly to this structure.
This removes the uncertainty of using a thin walled tube which will fail all at once. A box girder structure can be redundant and easy to inspect.
Yuck. Had that in two places. While the 56k POTS line I have now has 125 ms of latency, microwave was much worse. Typically it was 300 or more ms with peaks of up to over a full 1,000 ms when it rained. Since I live in Seattle, that was pretty often.
The 125 milliseconds of latency with a voice band POTs connection is from the echo cancellation filters; they have to be that long to remove the longest duration echos.
The microwave link should be much better so whatever they were doing was just broken.
Someone with infinite time and resources (because having infinite money doesn't make sense) could break the AES-256, except it might take longer than universe-s lifetime.
So it would still take a finite and limited time. The government just needs to nerd^H^H^H^Hbrute force harder.
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Personally I like Elon Musk's idea of swapping batteries better. But this to me looks like little more than marketing. It is something that is feasible now but ONLY now. It won't work going forward without a massive leap in battery performance.
Moore's law is about economics and not performance; the *cost* of each integrated transistor roughly halves every 3 years. Moore's law required this even at the expense of transistor performance.
Batteries do not need more performance but they must become less expensive and Musk must be counting on this and he should be in a position to know. Solar cells will need higher performance where limited area for installation is available but they also must become less expensive.
So tell me AC, the next invention needs to be the storage battery? Seriously my good man, Los Angeles is shutting down a natural gas peaking plant for a Tesla battery system peaking plant. Maybe you should tell them it cannot be done?
They are not doing this by choice. Besides state law mandating installation of energy storage, they had that massive natural gas storage accident not long ago so they will not be able to fuel some of their natural gas peaking plants anyway.
So what would be:
--You swerve to hit them because they are about to set fire to an inhabited building.
Intel's mania for market segmentation means that 32 bit only x86 processors are still manufactured and sold. And Microsoft's mania for market segmentation means systems intended to operate Windows are still sold with less than 4 megabytes of memory making a 64 bit operating system less useful; not supporting more then 2 gigabytes of physical memory through PAE did not help with this.
Intel's fab costs per product are probably rising at a terrifying speed if they can't get maximum volumes. ARM licensees and other fabless companies are able to spread the load with the rest of the industry.
That is true on the manufacturing side but the various ARM licensees also duplicate development so it is not Intel facing off against the ARM juggernaut; instead it is the Intel ox facing a flock of ARM chickens which duplicates the situation when Intel was facing off against the various RISC workstation and server processors except back then, development costs were lower for RISC developers which is not the case for ARM designs if they want to compete with Intel.
On the manufacturing side itself, Intel has a dedicated high performance logic process while the fabless ARM companies have to compromise with processes intended for low power computing unless they share with GPUs.
The minimum these days is SSE2 and what the Pentium 4 supported. I find many applications and libraries which require SSE2 whether they should need it or not.
There has been some activity on the front in the past with MIPS and the patents they used to prevent clones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China cared in the past. Why would this be any different?
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MIPS used patents to discourage clones of its processors.
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The americans who are allowing this to happen (politicians) have to be getting something out of it. The rest of us have little opportunity to avoid it.
The politicians are fishing for more bribes from AT&T.
ARM sells about 14 billion processor a year. Intel sells about 400 million processors a year.
Every device running an ARM processor isn't running an Intel processor.
Tell me again how Intel is going to "wake up". They're fighting AMD for scraps.
ARM doesn't sell any processors. Companies which buy licenses from ARM sell processors but it is not like there is a monolithic ARM processor company; they are individually competing with Intel so they lack the kind of economy of scale implied by the total number of ARM processors produced and most of those are microcontrollers which do not compete with Intel in any way.
The question is, how much modern Windows software is ABI compatible with the 486, and doesn't assume MMX or SSE support?
A lot now requires at least SSE2 whether it uses it or not so the minimum emulation target is the Pentium 4. This has become a major problem with my legacy Pentium 3 systems which have plenty of performance but are no longer supported.
Or divide the cap by the time period. When AT&T implemented caps prompting me to switch to Charter, it came out to about 768 kbits/s total.
Your utility made out like bandits because Enron came up with a scheme to banksterize the power grid, not because there was an actual problem.
And the government pass laws to make it happen.
You are required by law to screw the nuke operators at every opportunity. it's not a subsidy.
If the distribution companies are required to buy wind power at the expense of nuclear power, then it *is* a subsidy.
One of the arguments used to advocate for wind and solar power is that they will make nuclear power less economical by reducing its capacity factor.
But if prices are negative, why don't they just feather the wind mills? No point in producing energy and paying for it, might as well shut them down if there's too much supply and too little demand.
Usually (always?) there are government subsidies in one form or another. The distribution companies may be required by law to accept all wind energy (and pay for it) in which case they are going to end up paying someone to take it off their hands or risk grid instability.
How about a Volt? It's pretty understated, it works well, is emissions free ...
... and is made by GMC. Having owned a GMC, hell no.
AMD64 was introduced back in 2000
And Intel still sells Core and other processors with AMD64 disabled for reasons of market segmentation.
Or we could elect a different class of politicians instead of following blind tribalism. Sorry, but all this is self inflicted, and every chance they have, the voters only make it worse.
A different class? Like politicians from the *other* party which support the same policies?
I agree this is self inflicted, Notwithstanding the above, we get the government we deserve. Want to know who to blame? Look in the mirror.
I thought I remembered reading about a plan for a 1/3rd larger X-15 that could have made an orbital flight.
That is where the payload goes.
The important part is concealed beneath the center wing surfaces; it is unlikely to just be a girded tube subject to failure in buckling. My guess is that there will be some sort of box girder structure connected to a similar structure inside the fuselages and none of the load bearing structures are visible. The heavy cargo attachments will also be connected directly to this structure.
This removes the uncertainty of using a thin walled tube which will fail all at once. A box girder structure can be redundant and easy to inspect.
> microwave antenna on the roof
Yuck. Had that in two places. While the 56k POTS line I have now has 125 ms of latency, microwave was much worse. Typically it was 300 or more ms with peaks of up to over a full 1,000 ms when it rained. Since I live in Seattle, that was pretty often.
The 125 milliseconds of latency with a voice band POTs connection is from the echo cancellation filters; they have to be that long to remove the longest duration echos.
The microwave link should be much better so whatever they were doing was just broken.
Take two owns rockstar and grand theft auto.
So ... Kerbal Hot Chocolate?
Someone with infinite time and resources (because having infinite money doesn't make sense) could break the AES-256, except it might take longer than universe-s lifetime.
So it would still take a finite and limited time. The government just needs to nerd^H^H^H^Hbrute force harder.