Battery replacement costs will likely come down significantly in 10 years.
That Toyota is appearantly about to proliferate hybrid drive across their model line, and planning on shipping many more hybrids in the next few years than they have so far seems to suggest that the economics are already changing dramatically.
Toyota is running print ads in select publications (saw one in Technology Review) boasting about their latest generation of hybrid drive. The specifically mention the acceleration performance it can offer in conjunction with a v6, which sounds like they are targeting it at much larger platforms than your average Prius, or even a Camry.
The ad also strongly implies that they will be selling the tech in cars beyond the prius within the next year.
Companies are also taking advantage of the recently establised standards for higher voltage electrics to do hybrid-like things. They are replacing the flywheel, starter & alternator with a motor-generator and a larger battery.
This allows them to capture braking energy in the battery, and use it to enhance acceleration, and to kill the engine at stoplights and quick-start it (like the current hybrids)
AOL's terms of use may well have some condition that could be interepreted to mean, no external linking of images, but
1) that isn't what is happening here. They are blocking all incoming links, not just pictures 2) so what. If they get enough calls, it creates a financial incentive to be more fair to their users. Each call probably costs them at least $5 bucks.
AOL has already launched their own blogging service, so your tinfoil hat theory isn't as wacko as it sounds.
Given that the immune system learns "self" by experiencing "self" durring its development (this same mechanism is exploited with "allergy shots" in adults), I think I'll assign a lower gestational mortality rate to chimera's due to auto-immue issues than you do. Still, it does seem to add to the opportunity for things to go wrong.
On the flip side though, I wonder if a chimera would stand a better chance of normal development in situations where one of the original embryos had a double recessive defect.
If you really think that Microsoft can easily replicate what Google is doing (using thousands of computers to calculate rankings, all organized in a cluster) with Windows, you look like Bill Gates' bootlicker.
Between some kid putting up some website on IIS and running a global search engine, there are some differences.
Why would you think that Microsoft can't do this?
Google's advantage over Microsoft is 1) Focus 2) A head start in both technology and market/mind-share in the Internet search space.
Microsoft has its own cards to play. It will be a lot closer game than you think.
You, on the otherhand, don't seem to have much of a hand at all.
His larger point about the failures of materialism is all well and good, but the notion that we are somehow producing more useless/frivolous inventions & products now than in the past strikes me as bullshit.
Comb through the stacks of patents. Look through old magazines.
Judging the modern age by comparing today's laughable products to yesterday's enduring successes is a biased undertaking.
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regarding the ways in wich having 42v electrics can improve fuel efficiency.
42v electrics makes it practical to throw around enough power to do things like:
1. Electrically operated valves can offer increaced flexibility in valve timing, allowing a broader efficiency band for the engine.
2. Electrically operated accessories mean that things like Airconditioning and power steering don't take more power than they need when operating at high RPMs
3. Starters and Alternators can be replaced by motor-generators which can be used to make hybrid-like features such as instant start (so you can cut the engine at stoplights), regenerative braking, and electrically assisted acceleration available broadly throughout a manufacturers model line.
12V electrics enabled such frivolous accessories as head and tail-lights that could actually be seen from more than 6 feet away.
don't forget about electrical isolation if you go with wired. You don't wan't too much current flowing through that Cat5 (or 3).
If there isn't allready a spare pair running to each unit you can also look at phone-line networking.
Oh, and get more than a T1 if you can. I think if half the units subscribe, that T could seem overfull pretty easily. Consider that most DSL users with, say, a 640kbps connection from a decent provider can see full speed on 2-3MB files. Try and get something burstable.
I think you are still a bit off. Its part of the 100BaseT (100MBit over Cat5 twisted pair) spec. 10BaseT (10MBit over Cat3 twisted pair) had longer length limits.
I'm pretty sure that cat5 doesn't specify anything about cable length, though, because most deployments of cat5 are for 100BT, runs are going to be kept under 100m
If commodity hardware is killing SGI, then they must not be sufficiently innovative anymore, either that, or their innovation was irrelevant to the market they once served.
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon, Barret isn't reacting to Slashdot cover stories, is he?
Isn't he reacting to the trends covered in earlier Slashdot cover stories?
Politics is about compromise. That sickens a lot of people who think they know the best way for everyone, but I think its a good thing.
Bundling is one way compromise is acheived. It provides a mechanism for forcing an issue and ensuring that pols make good on the deals they strike.
Unfortunately, bundling is also used to sneak a lot of shit through.
Battery replacement costs will likely come down significantly in 10 years.
That Toyota is appearantly about to proliferate hybrid drive across their model line, and planning on shipping many more hybrids in the next few years than they have so far seems to suggest that the economics are already changing dramatically.
Toyota is running print ads in select publications (saw one in Technology Review) boasting about their latest generation of hybrid drive. The specifically mention the acceleration performance it can offer in conjunction with a v6, which sounds like they are targeting it at much larger platforms than your average Prius, or even a Camry.
The ad also strongly implies that they will be selling the tech in cars beyond the prius within the next year.
Companies are also taking advantage of the recently establised standards for higher voltage electrics to do hybrid-like things. They are replacing the flywheel, starter & alternator with a motor-generator and a larger battery.
This allows them to capture braking energy in the battery, and use it to enhance acceleration, and to kill the engine at stoplights and quick-start it (like the current hybrids)
AOL's terms of use may well have some condition that could be interepreted to mean, no external linking of images, but
1) that isn't what is happening here. They are blocking all incoming links, not just pictures
2) so what. If they get enough calls, it creates a financial incentive to be more fair to their users. Each call probably costs them at least $5 bucks.
AOL has already launched their own blogging service, so your tinfoil hat theory isn't as wacko as it sounds.
Given that the immune system learns "self" by experiencing "self" durring its development (this same mechanism is exploited with "allergy shots" in adults), I think I'll assign a lower gestational mortality rate to chimera's due to auto-immue issues than you do. Still, it does seem to add to the opportunity for things to go wrong.
On the flip side though, I wonder if a chimera would stand a better chance of normal development in situations where one of the original embryos had a double recessive defect.
Why should there be any relationship between the size of his dormroom and the throughput of his wireless net?
I often use my wireless connection sitting just a few yards from my access point. Sure beats dealing with a cable.
Why would you think that Microsoft can't do this?
Google's advantage over Microsoft is 1) Focus 2) A head start in both technology and market/mind-share in the Internet search space.
Microsoft has its own cards to play. It will be a lot closer game than you think.
You, on the otherhand, don't seem to have much of a hand at all.
I'm sure that whoever's name is on the box gets credit. So, Proxim/Lucent/Orrinoco isn't getting credit for the units Apple ships.
His larger point about the failures of materialism is all well and good, but the notion that we are somehow producing more useless/frivolous inventions & products now than in the past strikes me as bullshit.
Comb through the stacks of patents. Look through old magazines.
Judging the modern age by comparing today's laughable products to yesterday's enduring successes is a biased undertaking.
regarding the ways in wich having 42v electrics can improve fuel efficiency.
42v electrics makes it practical to throw around enough power to do things like:
1. Electrically operated valves can offer increaced flexibility in valve timing, allowing a broader efficiency band for the engine.
2. Electrically operated accessories mean that things like Airconditioning and power steering don't take more power than they need when operating at high RPMs
3. Starters and Alternators can be replaced by motor-generators which can be used to make hybrid-like features such as instant start (so you can cut the engine at stoplights), regenerative braking, and electrically assisted acceleration available broadly throughout a manufacturers model line.
12V electrics enabled such frivolous accessories as head and tail-lights that could actually be seen from more than 6 feet away.
yes, they will, because they will be nearly deaf
One of the great things about hybrids is that they can piggyback on improvements in well established automotive technologies.
A vast network of gas stations, ample opportunities to fuel your hybrid
More efficient internal combustion, even more efficient hybrids
More widespread 42V electrics? Cheaper electrical components for hybrids.
force carbinator?
bottle conditioned!!
Well documented, my ass. Nothing like experience. Nothing.
I've been thinking for a while of trying to do organic synthesis using primitive reagents.
Polution an oil dependance are just part of it for me. How much of your life do you really want to spend in your car?
I resent the extra 30-50 minutes a day I spend in my car now that I am working further from home.
A well planned, liveable city, with decent rapid transit would give me options.
don't forget about electrical isolation if you go with wired. You don't wan't too much current flowing through that Cat5 (or 3).
If there isn't allready a spare pair running to each unit you can also look at phone-line networking.
Oh, and get more than a T1 if you can. I think if half the units subscribe, that T could seem overfull pretty easily. Consider that most DSL users with, say, a 640kbps connection from a decent provider can see full speed on 2-3MB files. Try and get something burstable.
I think you are still a bit off. Its part of the 100BaseT (100MBit over Cat5 twisted pair) spec. 10BaseT (10MBit over Cat3 twisted pair) had longer length limits.
I'm pretty sure that cat5 doesn't specify anything about cable length, though, because most deployments of cat5 are for 100BT, runs are going to be kept under 100m
If commodity hardware is killing SGI, then they must not be sufficiently innovative anymore, either that, or their innovation was irrelevant to the market they once served.
of course, you realize that Bungie had already started colonizing the PC before MS bought them?
hows this for a radical idea: Scheduling policy and tuning need not be a compile-time decision.
The notion that the mainstream media is "left" is just a lie conservatives keep telling in order to scare the mainstream media right.
I mean, you don't actually believe what you are spewing?
So, you are saying that salon's former readership is so thin skinned that they can't handle a dissenting view?
I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are right (left?).
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