One little tidbit: at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, Jack Valenti personally asked Bill Clinton to become the next president of the MPAA. Consider accordingly.
IMHO, feminists reject that choice for good reasons (and I'm not one who normally agrees with most feminist rhetoric). There have been attempts to invent a new pronoun, like "thir", but it's unlikely that they'll take hold for speakers at large (how long have feminists tried to get "Ms" to work?). The path of least resistance is to accept "they" for this use and be done with it.
Other slashdotters know there is a severe lack of a gender-neutral singular pronoun in the English language, and "they" works fine for the task. All that needs to be done is make people stop thinking it's wrong.
He still gets on Fox News/CNN/60 Minutes/etc. People around here have heard of him, sure, but to the world at large, he's just another guy being quoted as an expert on TV. Ignoring him won't discredit his semi-regular TV appearances.
OTOH, Kiefer Sutherland might do well in the role, but I'd prefer to just bring RDA back. Strictly speaking, the plot doesn't require a lot of fast-moving action. Stargate was probably more stunt-intensive than MacGyver ever was.
It's very expensive to move a datacenter. It's not just the building and server hardware, but local infrastructure, too. The biggest datacenters are in California for a reason.
Therefore, the carbon tax need only be enough that taking the premium on greener energy tech is cheeper than taking the tax + moving and rebuilding infrastructure.
There are a lot of places where you want a halfway solution, though. For instance, languages embedded in web servers that normally do automatic memory management (like mod_perl), it's difficult to predict memory usage when COW kicks in for a fork model. At the same time, you want separate processes to maintain encapsulation.
Solutions are to not use garbage collected languages (except we usually have plenty of other reasons to use them), throw on a whole lot of RAM (which can get expensive for a whole cluster), or tightly monitor the processes (annoying, but works pretty well most of the time).
One of my personal dream projects is to run Power over Ethernet or some other DC-based power grid in the house. There are tons of AC-DC converters in most houses (computers, cell phone chargers, etc.), and it'd be a lot more efficient if we could run just one AC-DC converter with DC-DC converts on the specific devices as needed.
This should go hand in hand with any home generator, since most such projects use large lead-acid batteries to store excess power, so you won't need an inverter at all for most applications.
I've never been able to track down the link, but Microsoft Research did a study during Longhorn development showing that Win2000 used over 1000 cycles to start a process, while Linux used less than 100.
The bad news for Linux is that its always had a brain damaged threading model. In other words, Windows has great threads because its process model sucks, and Linux has great processes because its threading model sucks.
Regenerative braking when accelerating? Thats a new one.
What do you think regenerative braking is? You gain energy back when you brake. Energy that can then be put back into an electric motor. This isn't generally possible with a gas or diesel alone (though it is possible with a mechanical flywheel connected to a CVT).
Who told you that?? Acceleration is putting kinetic energy into a mass (the vehicle). This requires more fuel than just cruising which is simply overcoming friction and air resistance - the kinetic energy remaining unchanged. Also anyone who has driven behind a labouring diesel vehicle can see its dumping huge quantities of fuel into the cylinders by the black soot coming out of the exhaust.
And anyone who drives one can tell you that you get far better milage on a diesel when accelerating. You can go ask Audi, who recently won Le Mans using a diesel because tire wear was the major limitation on making pit stops instead of fuel.
Who cares? How many people who buy a hybrid give a damn whether they can beat a GTi off the lights?
Acceleration is the only place where a hybrid can make up gas milage, mostly due to regenerative braking. Performance is more than just speed.
Yeah right, you better tell that to the F1/Nascar/Indy/dragster guys, they obviously havent noticed yet.
"Pigs" as in gas milage, not speed. Of course gas engines can accelerate perfectly well if they're sucking down 2 mpg. A diesel helps because it uses about the same amount of fuel accelerating as it does when cruising.
We can verify your story if we have a patent number. There's a lot of people who have a story like this, who say the technology was patented and bought up by some big oil company. Yet somehow, a specific, easily accessible, and easily verifiable patent number never materializes.
If I'm understanding the idea correctly, a fuel injector should be able to atomize the fuel just as well. Yet somehow, while we've seen big efficiency gains with injectors, they're not that big, even if we cut off the cat.
diesel is a denser fuel which takes more crude to produce
Diesel is also easier to make synthetically from carbon-neutral sources.
already, there is trouble with the refiners trying to keep up with demand
That will pop up in time. In Europe, diesel is typically cheaper than normal gas because companies have already invested in the infrastructure to support it. If demand continues to rise in the US, there's no reason the same thing won't happen in time.
designed to ride up and over in an accident, extending deceleration time
At which point you'll decapitate the other driver. But hey, the same underlieing logic worked for SUVs.
. . . not delta (which tends to produce oversteer).
As a rule, oversteer is good fun. The problem with a delta tri-wheel is the whole "death" bit. Just ask anyone who's still manufacturing three-wheeled ATVs.
The Aptera is a magnificent achievement, especially for high school kids. But it's not designed to meet the same requirements the big automakers have to deal with, and it's silly to make the comparison.
A biodiesel hybrid makes zero sense. The extra weight of the hybrid system generally doesn't make up for gains in acceleration. The only reasons they ever make sense is because gas engines are such pigs when accelerating. Even there, I'd prefer to see it done through a flywheel rather than electric motors.
On that note, I might add a Washington Post story on Adam Chodikoff, the guy behind the Daily Show who apparently manages to track down all those clips of politicians saying contradictory things. IMHO, the Daily Show would be scathing but ultimately harmless satire (like the Onion) without this factor. With it, it becomes something politicians actually have to be afraid of.
Yup, in 8 years, they couldn't come up with a 100-line Perl script. But if you did that, then a bunch of interns would be out of a job. Won't somebody think of the interns' children?
If ARIN doesn't control IP addresses assigned before it started, then it basically means a return to classful routing. And then everyone would be pretty much forced to use IPv6.
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One little tidbit: at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, Jack Valenti personally asked Bill Clinton to become the next president of the MPAA. Consider accordingly.
This may be the only Slashdot thread ever that where a goatse link becomes on-topic.
That doesn't sound right to me. Most onboard IDE controllers are hooked to the PCI bus, even if they're not in a physical slot.
IMHO, feminists reject that choice for good reasons (and I'm not one who normally agrees with most feminist rhetoric). There have been attempts to invent a new pronoun, like "thir", but it's unlikely that they'll take hold for speakers at large (how long have feminists tried to get "Ms" to work?). The path of least resistance is to accept "they" for this use and be done with it.
Other slashdotters know there is a severe lack of a gender-neutral singular pronoun in the English language, and "they" works fine for the task. All that needs to be done is make people stop thinking it's wrong.
He still gets on Fox News/CNN/60 Minutes/etc. People around here have heard of him, sure, but to the world at large, he's just another guy being quoted as an expert on TV. Ignoring him won't discredit his semi-regular TV appearances.
Because it's not 24?
OTOH, Kiefer Sutherland might do well in the role, but I'd prefer to just bring RDA back. Strictly speaking, the plot doesn't require a lot of fast-moving action. Stargate was probably more stunt-intensive than MacGyver ever was.
Carbon trading is potentially brilliant. The carbon market just needs rules to keep out the dumber methods, like planting forests.
It's very expensive to move a datacenter. It's not just the building and server hardware, but local infrastructure, too. The biggest datacenters are in California for a reason.
Therefore, the carbon tax need only be enough that taking the premium on greener energy tech is cheeper than taking the tax + moving and rebuilding infrastructure.
There are a lot of places where you want a halfway solution, though. For instance, languages embedded in web servers that normally do automatic memory management (like mod_perl), it's difficult to predict memory usage when COW kicks in for a fork model. At the same time, you want separate processes to maintain encapsulation.
Solutions are to not use garbage collected languages (except we usually have plenty of other reasons to use them), throw on a whole lot of RAM (which can get expensive for a whole cluster), or tightly monitor the processes (annoying, but works pretty well most of the time).
One of my personal dream projects is to run Power over Ethernet or some other DC-based power grid in the house. There are tons of AC-DC converters in most houses (computers, cell phone chargers, etc.), and it'd be a lot more efficient if we could run just one AC-DC converter with DC-DC converts on the specific devices as needed.
This should go hand in hand with any home generator, since most such projects use large lead-acid batteries to store excess power, so you won't need an inverter at all for most applications.
I've never been able to track down the link, but Microsoft Research did a study during Longhorn development showing that Win2000 used over 1000 cycles to start a process, while Linux used less than 100.
The bad news for Linux is that its always had a brain damaged threading model. In other words, Windows has great threads because its process model sucks, and Linux has great processes because its threading model sucks.
Regenerative braking when accelerating? Thats a new one.
What do you think regenerative braking is? You gain energy back when you brake. Energy that can then be put back into an electric motor. This isn't generally possible with a gas or diesel alone (though it is possible with a mechanical flywheel connected to a CVT).
Who told you that?? Acceleration is putting kinetic energy into a mass (the vehicle). This requires more fuel than just cruising which is simply overcoming friction and air resistance - the kinetic energy remaining unchanged. Also anyone who has driven behind a labouring diesel vehicle can see its dumping huge quantities of fuel into the cylinders by the black soot coming out of the exhaust.
And anyone who drives one can tell you that you get far better milage on a diesel when accelerating. You can go ask Audi, who recently won Le Mans using a diesel because tire wear was the major limitation on making pit stops instead of fuel.
Who cares? How many people who buy a hybrid give a damn whether they can beat a GTi off the lights?
Acceleration is the only place where a hybrid can make up gas milage, mostly due to regenerative braking. Performance is more than just speed.
Yeah right, you better tell that to the F1/Nascar/Indy /dragster guys, they obviously havent noticed yet.
"Pigs" as in gas milage, not speed. Of course gas engines can accelerate perfectly well if they're sucking down 2 mpg. A diesel helps because it uses about the same amount of fuel accelerating as it does when cruising.
We can verify your story if we have a patent number. There's a lot of people who have a story like this, who say the technology was patented and bought up by some big oil company. Yet somehow, a specific, easily accessible, and easily verifiable patent number never materializes.
If I'm understanding the idea correctly, a fuel injector should be able to atomize the fuel just as well. Yet somehow, while we've seen big efficiency gains with injectors, they're not that big, even if we cut off the cat.
What's the patent number?
There are two categories. The first one has more stringent practicality requirements, and the second is more free-form.
diesel is a denser fuel which takes more crude to produce
Diesel is also easier to make synthetically from carbon-neutral sources.
already, there is trouble with the refiners trying to keep up with demand
That will pop up in time. In Europe, diesel is typically cheaper than normal gas because companies have already invested in the infrastructure to support it. If demand continues to rise in the US, there's no reason the same thing won't happen in time.
designed to ride up and over in an accident, extending deceleration time
At which point you'll decapitate the other driver. But hey, the same underlieing logic worked for SUVs.
. . . not delta (which tends to produce oversteer).
As a rule, oversteer is good fun. The problem with a delta tri-wheel is the whole "death" bit. Just ask anyone who's still manufacturing three-wheeled ATVs.
The Aptera is a magnificent achievement, especially for high school kids. But it's not designed to meet the same requirements the big automakers have to deal with, and it's silly to make the comparison.
A biodiesel hybrid makes zero sense. The extra weight of the hybrid system generally doesn't make up for gains in acceleration. The only reasons they ever make sense is because gas engines are such pigs when accelerating. Even there, I'd prefer to see it done through a flywheel rather than electric motors.
On that note, I might add a Washington Post story on Adam Chodikoff, the guy behind the Daily Show who apparently manages to track down all those clips of politicians saying contradictory things. IMHO, the Daily Show would be scathing but ultimately harmless satire (like the Onion) without this factor. With it, it becomes something politicians actually have to be afraid of.
Which jerk am I supposed to be rooting for in this story? Card had one good book decades ago and has been riding its success ever since.
And stop using that bloody "Shirley" joke. It hasn't been funny for decades.
Yup, in 8 years, they couldn't come up with a 100-line Perl script. But if you did that, then a bunch of interns would be out of a job. Won't somebody think of the interns' children?
If ARIN doesn't control IP addresses assigned before it started, then it basically means a return to classful routing. And then everyone would be pretty much forced to use IPv6.
I say go for it.