The power grid experienced widespread outages today after 6pm when many people got home from work and plugged in their cars. Electricity costs continue to rise and coal plant operators say they expect to expand capacity to meet power needs.
What about the fact that a laser travels at the speed of light throughout the cylinder? A spark can't travel anywhere near that fast and is limited to one part of the cylinder. The lightspeed laser could trigger ignition throughout the entire length of the multiple beams in each cylinder and do it simultaneously to boot. This really makes sparkplugs look primitive.
I suppose you are right, there is no place for me on Linux. I am more then a user but not a system/kernel programmer. There is no room for those middle ground people on Linux. Something I would think Linux developers/distros would be very concerned about.
It's just another thing stopping Linux from more a widespread adoption. You have to be willing to submit to idiot prepackaged environments (like grandma does), or you have to make your environment all by yourself through years of personal experience in system level software design/programming. No middle ground, really? That's insane. But that's how it is I guess.
Everytime I try to use Linux I always end up needing to compile the kernel because I want some special feature or software package that requires it. Software that doesn't ship with any distro as a prepackaged... package. Anyways, I hate the kernel compile procedures, what a pain. I really wish there was a better tool than menuconfig/xconfig and the ensuing make and install commands.
For some unexplained reason I always get an obscure weird error. I do know C/C++ but I am not a programmer (especially not a kernel programmer on Linux) so I really don't want to spend days figuring it out. I just want to use it. I am truly amazed it's been 13 years (the first time I compiled a Linux kernel successfully) and there is *STILL* no nice program to manage kernel compiles and translate common errors into plain english or even spanish(which I don't know lol).
Then an exploit comes out or a necessary kernel upgrade happens and I have to go through it all again. Ugh. Comon guys, someone make a utility that makes compiling and installing a kernel impossible to screw up. Easy even when it's giving bizzare errors. Because the damn thing never does what it's supposed to do! Argh!
For that matter this wonderful tool should be able to handle compiling any source for nearly any software. You shouldn't need a stinkin RPM or APT package which I can never seem to find the right flavor of even when they are available. Every distro needs to have the same easy to use tool that compiles directly from source and can deal with common errors itself.
Sorry to break the news to you. We need a vehicle that isn't 80% gastank. Isn't on the perpetual verge of constant failure. Doesn't need a freakin "mission control" just to keep it running in such precarious states. We need artificial gravity. We need to develop matter conversion. We need cheap sublight propulsion that actually allows real system wide navigational sublight speeds and doesn't explode crazy amounts of stuff thereby being extremely breakable. Need to replace NASA R&D with Physics researchers, that is the only way these basic physical problems are going to be solved.
So explode all the stuff you want, you aren't going to get anywhere with it. If rockets are the pinnacle of spaceflight then the human race is doomed. That's an actual fact.
Send up an assload of H bombs and clear out all the stuff in orbit. Nuclear disarmament and housekeeping, 2 birds with one stone. Oh wait, the whole lack of air problem would probably ruin this solution huh? But it would look super cool.
Blowing people up into space is not spaceflight. It's hard to do and it's dangerous yea - that's my point. It is not by any means spaceflight. The vehicles always have some problem, they are incredibly delicate for something that gets mashed around with such vibrations and g forces. What if your car needed to be 80% gastank and you could only drive for a few minutes? The vehicles are so laughable in their usefulness.
Now it's not like we have any alternatives, what I am saying is there needs to be some. Rockets sure as hell are not going to be the answer to a space age. Does any space agency take this fact seriously? Do they try to come up with new stuff? It would be a primary mission I would think. NASA and co should be the ones operating colliders trying to come up with basic research and answers to the physical problems.
You could use an overclocking board and then underclock and undervolt everything permananently as well as use large heatinks on electrical components. This goes a very long way to reducing power and heat as well as ensuring life of the hardware. I live in south florida and we have humidity over 80% quite often. I never use any air conditioning here and it gets pretty hot in the summer. That was my solution and it has worked just fine. I can't speak to the solar aspect of it. It takes alot of solar panel area to eek out even 100W of power, can't say solar power would be very mobile unless its going in a vehicle of some kind and not in a backpack.
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I agree, this is more of a "feature" of AVG then a problem.
The project heads know that Google is only looking to expand their street view to the moon. Don't blame them there is only one dirt trail to visit!
The power grid experienced widespread outages today after 6pm when many people got home from work and plugged in their cars. Electricity costs continue to rise and coal plant operators say they expect to expand capacity to meet power needs.
What about the fact that a laser travels at the speed of light throughout the cylinder? A spark can't travel anywhere near that fast and is limited to one part of the cylinder. The lightspeed laser could trigger ignition throughout the entire length of the multiple beams in each cylinder and do it simultaneously to boot. This really makes sparkplugs look primitive.
They are so last century.
I suppose you are right, there is no place for me on Linux. I am more then a user but not a system/kernel programmer. There is no room for those middle ground people on Linux. Something I would think Linux developers/distros would be very concerned about. It's just another thing stopping Linux from more a widespread adoption. You have to be willing to submit to idiot prepackaged environments (like grandma does), or you have to make your environment all by yourself through years of personal experience in system level software design/programming. No middle ground, really? That's insane. But that's how it is I guess.
Everytime I try to use Linux I always end up needing to compile the kernel because I want some special feature or software package that requires it. Software that doesn't ship with any distro as a prepackaged ... package. Anyways, I hate the kernel compile procedures, what a pain. I really wish there was a better tool than menuconfig/xconfig and the ensuing make and install commands.
For some unexplained reason I always get an obscure weird error. I do know C/C++ but I am not a programmer (especially not a kernel programmer on Linux) so I really don't want to spend days figuring it out. I just want to use it. I am truly amazed it's been 13 years (the first time I compiled a Linux kernel successfully) and there is *STILL* no nice program to manage kernel compiles and translate common errors into plain english or even spanish(which I don't know lol).
Then an exploit comes out or a necessary kernel upgrade happens and I have to go through it all again. Ugh. Comon guys, someone make a utility that makes compiling and installing a kernel impossible to screw up. Easy even when it's giving bizzare errors. Because the damn thing never does what it's supposed to do! Argh!
For that matter this wonderful tool should be able to handle compiling any source for nearly any software. You shouldn't need a stinkin RPM or APT package which I can never seem to find the right flavor of even when they are available. Every distro needs to have the same easy to use tool that compiles directly from source and can deal with common errors itself.
13 years, and I'm still waiting.
Sorry to break the news to you. We need a vehicle that isn't 80% gastank. Isn't on the perpetual verge of constant failure. Doesn't need a freakin "mission control" just to keep it running in such precarious states. We need artificial gravity. We need to develop matter conversion. We need cheap sublight propulsion that actually allows real system wide navigational sublight speeds and doesn't explode crazy amounts of stuff thereby being extremely breakable. Need to replace NASA R&D with Physics researchers, that is the only way these basic physical problems are going to be solved.
So explode all the stuff you want, you aren't going to get anywhere with it. If rockets are the pinnacle of spaceflight then the human race is doomed. That's an actual fact.
Send up an assload of H bombs and clear out all the stuff in orbit. Nuclear disarmament and housekeeping, 2 birds with one stone. Oh wait, the whole lack of air problem would probably ruin this solution huh? But it would look super cool.
Blowing people up into space is not spaceflight. It's hard to do and it's dangerous yea - that's my point. It is not by any means spaceflight. The vehicles always have some problem, they are incredibly delicate for something that gets mashed around with such vibrations and g forces. What if your car needed to be 80% gastank and you could only drive for a few minutes? The vehicles are so laughable in their usefulness. Now it's not like we have any alternatives, what I am saying is there needs to be some. Rockets sure as hell are not going to be the answer to a space age. Does any space agency take this fact seriously? Do they try to come up with new stuff? It would be a primary mission I would think. NASA and co should be the ones operating colliders trying to come up with basic research and answers to the physical problems.
Because it only takes 30min to go 30 miles, instead of 2 days?
You could use an overclocking board and then underclock and undervolt everything permananently as well as use large heatinks on electrical components. This goes a very long way to reducing power and heat as well as ensuring life of the hardware. I live in south florida and we have humidity over 80% quite often. I never use any air conditioning here and it gets pretty hot in the summer. That was my solution and it has worked just fine. I can't speak to the solar aspect of it. It takes alot of solar panel area to eek out even 100W of power, can't say solar power would be very mobile unless its going in a vehicle of some kind and not in a backpack.