The last mile monopoly is of the natural monopoly of running utility lines through public rights of way. There's no law against a cable company applying to a city government to lay cable for a second cable TV franchise, but it's rarely done because it tends to be uneconomic, both the cost side of duplicating work and the revenue side of splitting up the customer base.
It's more telling that cable and telecom monopolies lobby so hard against city that want to add competition to the last mile, say through municipal wifi.
Not even your IP. If you don't clear cookies like 99.9% of surfers, any search engine has a complete search history. If you ever logged in to any Google/Yahoo/MSN account it's now correlated to your personal identity. Google's cookie used to expire in the 2030's. Don't know what the default it now since I block them except when I'm logging in to a throwaway gmail account and allow a session cookie.
Probably a couple reasons. Light weight is less of an advantage on the highway than the city unless the highways are hilly or mountainous. I can't find published drag coefficient numbers, but the Fit is both taller and stubbier than the Civic. Civic probably has advantage in aerodynamics.
It's just like software bloat. Car models get bigger over time. A new Honda Fit is a closer match to your 92 Civic. It's probably a little smaller outside, but it matches the old Civic for power, comfort and interior room.
BTW, the EPA adjusted the mileage test for 2008. MPG is down across the board because the old mileage test was unrealistic and didn't match up with real world (read lead-footed) driving.
Thanks for the info. It's really tricky passing emissions standards in the pre-catalytic converter days. Until the late 90's, motorcycles with their smaller engines could still pass EPA using the same technology: lean mixtures from a fixed carburetor.
After that in the early catalytic converter days, high octane unleaded was hard to find which meant low compression ratios which hurt power and efficiency.
For petrol engines, the emissions requirements need a lower temperature burn, which is inefficient. Inefficient, means more petrol.
That may have been true in the early 70's, but not for any engine built in the last 2 decades. In the early days of pollution controls, you could only find low-octane unleaded gasoline (lead was used as an octane booster but fouls up catalytic converters). This meant low compression ratios resulting in low power and low efficiency.
These days we have better combustion chambers, high octane unleaded, electronic ignition with knock sensors, and most recently gasoline direct injection. Compression ratios over 10:1 are common. Even the VW/Audi 2.0T turbo engine has a 10.3:1 compression ratio.
Good point, and the Libertarians are missing another point. The countries in Western Europe that they so despise as "welfare states" have both universal healthcare AND liberalized drug policies.
The concept is called harm reduction. It's cheaper to give addicts free drugs and a safe place to shoot up than to have them commit crimes to pay for expensive black market drugs and then have taxpayers pay to run them through the criminal justice system. Yes, they are in effect bribing addicts to leave them alone. I'm sure law-and-order conservatives and libertarians would both find that morally reprehensible, but using the expensive hammer of law enforcement to fix this problem is a high price to pay for your moral satisfaction.
I know Slashdot just recently went to AJAX for the comments, but check your processor usage sometime on a really heavy Web 2.0 app. I know killing the Flash ads helps, but web surfing on a PIII class CPU ain't what it used to be.
For a microcosm of this problem just look at users with local admin on their computers. Some people do fine. Other are always getting infected with crapware or calling with stupid questions, e.g. when they wanted to install printer drivers, but installed 300MB of printer crapware with 3 tray icons they don't understand.
There's a big difference. Of course psy-ops has a long history going back to WWII, however, it was always directed at foreign media, never at US media.
In this age of Google News, it's easy for a propaganda story planted in a foreign paper to make its way back to US readers. You can call that psy-ops collateral damage. Targeting psy-ops stories specifically at US citizens is 100% illegal. I'm not talking about press conferences and interviews. Those are still ok, regardless of the truthiness of information dispensed.
Consoles run at much lower resolutions than PC monitors. 720p is equivalent to 1280x720. My 2 1/2 year old 7900GT has about the same GPU power as a PS3 or 360, and it can still easily run any game at that res.
Digital age indeed. I saw this coming with digital cable. Analog cable is a one-way broadcast technology. Although it's possible to build a one-way digital tuner that just grabs the bits off the wire, digital cable boxes are purposely built so the cable company always knows when you watch and which channels you watch. I pointed this out to my family, and they just went, "So what? So the cable company knows which channels I like."
Malthus didn't predict that we'd hit the energy lottery. Mechanized agriculture, powered by oil, and chemical fertilizers, made from natural gas, gave us a huge bonus in food output. We're getting very close to the end of cheap oil and cheap natural gas.
You're right about the critical thinking part. It's not like a class you can check off, it's an entire worldview and attitude. Given the research that certain personality traits that influence political views are genetic, I sometimes feel the problem is intractable. In the spectrum of personality types, you'll find people who are rigid in their thinking and see everything in black and white. They defer to authority and feel more comfortable around traditional cultural icons (think the simplicity of John Wayne vs. the complexity of Steve McQueen).
This attitude is more prevalent on the Right, but it's more correct to call this authoritarian rather than conservative. Libertarians are also part of the American Right, and they mostly don't share this personality trait.
If you want to talk about the American Left, the urban hipsters who love Obama are the very antithesis of this personality type. The blue collar, Rust Belt Democrats show more signs of authoritarian personalities. If you want to talk about political bosses, I'd say many Democratic politicians aren't liberals at all, but Authoritarians who adopt positions on social issues (say abortion) that appeal to the Left while guaranteeing themselves a place in the political machine.
Sure, a P166 with Netscape 4 worked fine for surfing back in the day. I could even play mp3s in the background. How's that for multitasking? However, web pages were also much simpler back then. Forget about it now that we have AJAX and embedded flash everywhere.
7 years ago would put us in the P-III Coppermine era. That's actually fast enough to handle a modern AJAX or Flash webpage, but if you put it side by side with a modern computer it would be severely lacking, even if you loaded the P-III with 2001-era software to go light on RAM usage. We often look back on the past with rose colored glasses.
Retail OEM PCs have notoriously weak power supplies and case cooling. You might run a $150 midrange video card on one, but a $250+ high end card is questionable. The power supply in a Dell Core2Duo tower has 18A on the 12V. An 8800GT requires 24A on the 12V.
That's pretty much it. I always used to keep a low profile online, being careful with my real name. I actually joined Facebook a while ago with an alumni email address, but never used it because I didn't find any friends on it. Then a friend asked me about it and added me. I logged in and a whole bunch of my friends were on it now. I figured what the hell; I can't be a hermit forever. It's great for socializing and keeping up with friends, but you're really putting your whole life online. Don't post incriminating photos or activities, and you'll be fine.
The Democrats have a bare majority in the Senate which passed the bill *with* immunity. Many Democratic Senators offered amendments to strip immunity or add oversight, but they were all voted down.
The Democrats have a bigger majority in the House which already passed the bill *without* immunity.
It's easy enough to measure total power consumption of the system with an AC power meter. The original 90nm PS3 used 200W. The 65nm PS3 cut that down to 135W. We'll see how it goes with the 45nm.
I doubt you'd want to leave it on. When the XBox360 went from 90nm to 65nm, power consumption dropped 50W, from 170W to 120W peak, but 120W is still a whole lot of watts. The PS3 is in the same ballpark for power consumption. The PS2 and Wii use much less. My PS2 slim uses 25-30W.
Yeah, supercomputer my ass. It's more like a specialized parallel DSP on a chip, just like the very first NeXT cube had a DSP. It's very good at certain calculations, but falls down on general purpose code.
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The last mile monopoly is of the natural monopoly of running utility lines through public rights of way. There's no law against a cable company applying to a city government to lay cable for a second cable TV franchise, but it's rarely done because it tends to be uneconomic, both the cost side of duplicating work and the revenue side of splitting up the customer base.
It's more telling that cable and telecom monopolies lobby so hard against city that want to add competition to the last mile, say through municipal wifi.
Very interesting considering the throughput of the fastest bus on desktop PCs (PCI Express x16) is 80 Mbps.
Not even your IP. If you don't clear cookies like 99.9% of surfers, any search engine has a complete search history. If you ever logged in to any Google/Yahoo/MSN account it's now correlated to your personal identity. Google's cookie used to expire in the 2030's. Don't know what the default it now since I block them except when I'm logging in to a throwaway gmail account and allow a session cookie.
Probably a couple reasons. Light weight is less of an advantage on the highway than the city unless the highways are hilly or mountainous. I can't find published drag coefficient numbers, but the Fit is both taller and stubbier than the Civic. Civic probably has advantage in aerodynamics.
It's just like software bloat. Car models get bigger over time. A new Honda Fit is a closer match to your 92 Civic. It's probably a little smaller outside, but it matches the old Civic for power, comfort and interior room.
BTW, the EPA adjusted the mileage test for 2008. MPG is down across the board because the old mileage test was unrealistic and didn't match up with real world (read lead-footed) driving.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/ratings2008.shtml
Honda Fit got 38 mpg highway under the old test, 34 mpg highway under the new test. If you drive it like a granny, you'd still get 38 mpg.
Thanks for the info. It's really tricky passing emissions standards in the pre-catalytic converter days. Until the late 90's, motorcycles with their smaller engines could still pass EPA using the same technology: lean mixtures from a fixed carburetor.
After that in the early catalytic converter days, high octane unleaded was hard to find which meant low compression ratios which hurt power and efficiency.
That may have been true in the early 70's, but not for any engine built in the last 2 decades. In the early days of pollution controls, you could only find low-octane unleaded gasoline (lead was used as an octane booster but fouls up catalytic converters). This meant low compression ratios resulting in low power and low efficiency.
These days we have better combustion chambers, high octane unleaded, electronic ignition with knock sensors, and most recently gasoline direct injection. Compression ratios over 10:1 are common. Even the VW/Audi 2.0T turbo engine has a 10.3:1 compression ratio.
Good point, and the Libertarians are missing another point. The countries in Western Europe that they so despise as "welfare states" have both universal healthcare AND liberalized drug policies.
The concept is called harm reduction. It's cheaper to give addicts free drugs and a safe place to shoot up than to have them commit crimes to pay for expensive black market drugs and then have taxpayers pay to run them through the criminal justice system. Yes, they are in effect bribing addicts to leave them alone. I'm sure law-and-order conservatives and libertarians would both find that morally reprehensible, but using the expensive hammer of law enforcement to fix this problem is a high price to pay for your moral satisfaction.
I know Slashdot just recently went to AJAX for the comments, but check your processor usage sometime on a really heavy Web 2.0 app. I know killing the Flash ads helps, but web surfing on a PIII class CPU ain't what it used to be.
For a microcosm of this problem just look at users with local admin on their computers. Some people do fine. Other are always getting infected with crapware or calling with stupid questions, e.g. when they wanted to install printer drivers, but installed 300MB of printer crapware with 3 tray icons they don't understand.
There's a big difference. Of course psy-ops has a long history going back to WWII, however, it was always directed at foreign media, never at US media.
In this age of Google News, it's easy for a propaganda story planted in a foreign paper to make its way back to US readers. You can call that psy-ops collateral damage. Targeting psy-ops stories specifically at US citizens is 100% illegal. I'm not talking about press conferences and interviews. Those are still ok, regardless of the truthiness of information dispensed.
Consoles run at much lower resolutions than PC monitors. 720p is equivalent to 1280x720. My 2 1/2 year old 7900GT has about the same GPU power as a PS3 or 360, and it can still easily run any game at that res.
Digital age indeed. I saw this coming with digital cable. Analog cable is a one-way broadcast technology. Although it's possible to build a one-way digital tuner that just grabs the bits off the wire, digital cable boxes are purposely built so the cable company always knows when you watch and which channels you watch. I pointed this out to my family, and they just went, "So what? So the cable company knows which channels I like."
Nah, I'd say the electric starter. Ever kick started a motorcycle?
Malthus didn't predict that we'd hit the energy lottery. Mechanized agriculture, powered by oil, and chemical fertilizers, made from natural gas, gave us a huge bonus in food output. We're getting very close to the end of cheap oil and cheap natural gas.
You're right about the critical thinking part. It's not like a class you can check off, it's an entire worldview and attitude. Given the research that certain personality traits that influence political views are genetic, I sometimes feel the problem is intractable. In the spectrum of personality types, you'll find people who are rigid in their thinking and see everything in black and white. They defer to authority and feel more comfortable around traditional cultural icons (think the simplicity of John Wayne vs. the complexity of Steve McQueen).
This attitude is more prevalent on the Right, but it's more correct to call this authoritarian rather than conservative. Libertarians are also part of the American Right, and they mostly don't share this personality trait.
If you want to talk about the American Left, the urban hipsters who love Obama are the very antithesis of this personality type. The blue collar, Rust Belt Democrats show more signs of authoritarian personalities. If you want to talk about political bosses, I'd say many Democratic politicians aren't liberals at all, but Authoritarians who adopt positions on social issues (say abortion) that appeal to the Left while guaranteeing themselves a place in the political machine.
Sure, a P166 with Netscape 4 worked fine for surfing back in the day. I could even play mp3s in the background. How's that for multitasking? However, web pages were also much simpler back then. Forget about it now that we have AJAX and embedded flash everywhere.
7 years ago would put us in the P-III Coppermine era. That's actually fast enough to handle a modern AJAX or Flash webpage, but if you put it side by side with a modern computer it would be severely lacking, even if you loaded the P-III with 2001-era software to go light on RAM usage. We often look back on the past with rose colored glasses.
Retail OEM PCs have notoriously weak power supplies and case cooling. You might run a $150 midrange video card on one, but a $250+ high end card is questionable. The power supply in a Dell Core2Duo tower has 18A on the 12V. An 8800GT requires 24A on the 12V.
That's pretty much it. I always used to keep a low profile online, being careful with my real name. I actually joined Facebook a while ago with an alumni email address, but never used it because I didn't find any friends on it. Then a friend asked me about it and added me. I logged in and a whole bunch of my friends were on it now. I figured what the hell; I can't be a hermit forever. It's great for socializing and keeping up with friends, but you're really putting your whole life online. Don't post incriminating photos or activities, and you'll be fine.
The Democrats have a bare majority in the Senate which passed the bill *with* immunity. Many Democratic Senators offered amendments to strip immunity or add oversight, but they were all voted down.
The Democrats have a bigger majority in the House which already passed the bill *without* immunity.
The 360 just moved from 90nm to 65nm late last year.
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3152
Hey! Is /dev/sda1 your flash drive or your SATA hard drive?
It's easy enough to measure total power consumption of the system with an AC power meter. The original 90nm PS3 used 200W. The 65nm PS3 cut that down to 135W. We'll see how it goes with the 45nm.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/30/40gb-ps3-features-65nm-chips-lower-power-consumption/
I doubt you'd want to leave it on. When the XBox360 went from 90nm to 65nm, power consumption dropped 50W, from 170W to 120W peak, but 120W is still a whole lot of watts. The PS3 is in the same ballpark for power consumption. The PS2 and Wii use much less. My PS2 slim uses 25-30W.
Yeah, supercomputer my ass. It's more like a specialized parallel DSP on a chip, just like the very first NeXT cube had a DSP. It's very good at certain calculations, but falls down on general purpose code.