That sounds so good that we're building the Champlain Hudson Power Express HVDC line from you to us. So you can rip us off too:). Though by adding our demand to your local supply, I wouldn't be surprised if your prices go up. Welcome to New York!
With any luck this 1GW line will help replace the insane Indian Point 2GW nuke plant in NYC's backyard. Thanks, friendly neighbors to the North!
Yes, I'm very excited about the Zynq, but it doesn't embed the RAM onchip, which is what's interesting about this new processor. The dual Cortex A9 is far more complex than the CPU on this new chip, in part to speed execution that's slowed by offchip RAM latency.
But indeed an FPGA and the AMBA bus into a simple chip with onboard RAM is interesting. Though for Xilinx's market for FPGA apps they'd be better with much more than 2GB onchip RAM; more like 128GB or a TB. And onboard optical Gbps ethernet, as long as I'm wishing for Xilinx.
I expect that clause, or just general senatorial privileges, is what Paul invoked to refuse rescreening without actually being detained the way a civilian would have been. Instead he was just allowed to leave the airport. Most people would be interrogated for hours, and locked up indefinitely - actual detention.
Of course, the gasoline and the car that burns it are also taxpayer subsidized. But why not thank each other here? We're the only ones who will.
The cost of the car is based on its cost to manufacture, but there's a lot more to it. Yes batteries are expensive. But the R&D is more expensive per car until quite a bit into the future from now. They're charging what the market will pay, which is the main control of pricing.
Let's say a plugin car costs $37,000 instead of $20,000 for the gasoline version; $17,000 more. Let's say The gasoline car gets 25MPG (a high average), on $3.50 gas gallons; that's $0.14:mi. The plugin gets 5 miles per KWh, on $0.115 KWh'es; that's $0.023:mi. So the plugin saves $0.108 per mile. After 145,300 miles you're saving money on gas.
The typical car is driven about 15,000 miles a year. So that's just about a 10 year payback.
Now, people do finance these cars. A $17,000 loan at 5% for 10 years pays $4637.37 in interest; about another $0.032 per mile. But an additional $0.798 per gallon on the 5812 gallons the gas car would consume for those miles would equal that. I think that $3.50 gas is likely to cost more than $5.10:gal, and increase at least steadily to that amount, in 10 years. In fact I think gas will increase faster than that rate plus the increase in the electric rates. So getting a car loan for the extra plugin expense makes the payback period shorter. And if the plugin lasts longer than 10 years, those $5.10 gallons will mean the savings will make the next years a lot more beneficial by comparison.
True, but that's trivial if you're running a new circuit or two, which is cheap anyway. Though the combining adapter approach isn't trivial if the other incoming leg isn't within reach.
Actually, the National City Lines conspiracy saw General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil, and various other corps competing with streetcars and other rail all get together to kill rail in the US. There were other factors, but there was also the conspiracy ensuring it happened.
The government also didn't subsidize the other HW it was competing with, the way the government does subsidize the petrofuel car industry that plugins must compete with.
Oh wait, the government did subsidize the other HW. And it subsidized the 3D and CPU development, the way it has subsidized all microchip development.
How about that your CPU addiction isn't pumping filth into the environment that the government has to pay more to clean up after? Oh wait, it is, which is why the government subsidizes the energy efficiency improvements in CPUs, too.
You should stop playing games all the time and learn about the real world. This isn't Sim City, and libertarian lies about the government aren't real.
How is a car's higher cost less environmentally responsible? Especially when that higher cost is an investment in burning less petrofuel, which damages the environment less.
In fact making cars more expensive is good for the environment. Because it means less driving per person. Making the expense consume less polluting fuel per driving per person is even better for the environment.
The cheaper car that gets gas mileage competitive with the source fuel mileage of plugin cars, and which you completely recycle, does compete environmentally and wins economically. But the higher cost plugins are an investment, paid voluntarily by early adopters, in scale economies and efficiency inventions that will bring the cost down. By the time a Neon driver has a plugin car they can afford, the motor and battery will last longer than a Neon's drivetrain for the same cost (reduced partially by the longer drivetrain lifetime).
There are reasons some people shouldn't buy plugin cars yet, just as there are reasons others should. Your high electricity price and high efficiency gas car make you one of those who should wait. And indeed maybe never switch. Until gas costs $20 a gallon.
Do you think that the Federal expenses were spent on just buying chargers?
Or don't you realize that the money is an investment in inventing and producing the chargers, and the batteries, and the rest of the infrastructure, for the next years and decades of plugin vehicles?
Your Alberta oil corps are making electricity far more expensive so it doesn't compete with their gas and diesel products.
If you keep living under the tyranny of these oil corps everything is going to suck. That's no yardstick for anywhere else, except other oil tyrannies.
All a 240V plug is, is two 120V plugs that share a ground, on two separate circuits from the panel. Adapters that combine them at the outlets cost $50 each retail or less. An electrician will charge something like $100 to run a new pair of 120V circuits from your panel if necessary. At 6.6KW, 240V means 27.5A, so each 120V line needs only 30A. Which means the whole thing is exactly like installing an electric oven, which is a pretty common little project.
Once there's more than one or two plugin cars in a parking lot the owners will install the 240V outlets. Because they'll attach a meter that charges more than they pay the grid. A grid that doesn't charge $0.33:KWh; the NYC Con Ed rate is highest in the country at $0.21:KWh. And that's if you don't have Time Of Use (TOU) rates, which charge under $0.15:KWh at night and through the Winter, which is when you'd charge your car at home.
So in fact the economics of plugin cars makes a lot of sense. Which is why many thousands have already been sold. Of course as that number turns to millions the grid needs upgrades for the switch in power distribution from gas to electric, even though at greater efficiency (fewer source joules per mile travelled). But that problem isn't here yet, and the solutions are already in the works (including decentralized generation, like onsite where the charging happens).
I don't know where you're getting your numbers from. Is there some oil corp chain email going around?
left a few things out--like an FPU, branch prediction, pipelining, or any form of speculative execution [...] it's an ultra-specialized, ultra-lightweight core that trades 25 years of flexibility and performance for scads of memory bandwidth.
Embed a fat FPGA in this chip well-interconnected to DRAM and CPU, and you get all those things. You might even replace the current chip's buses with FPGA for both data distribution and inline logic. Or make a discrete (but well-interconnected) onchip FPGA able to power down when not in use, and keep the low power consumption except when it's necessary. Turn on the FPGA for speed, or when the FPGA logic is so efficient that it's lower power than doing it in the CPU.
For somewhat lower power consumption, and better performance in many tasks, but less flexibility, embed a DSP in the chip instead of the FPGA.
Or both: DSP as ALU, FPGA as CLU (and flexible ALU, and beyond), on the chip with a simple processor to run the OS and main app threads. Bringing all the ports and buses to RAM all on the chip makes it all wicked fast. De/selecting these modules for power on demand (or in thread init) saves energy.
Reducing the size of the government to "zero" is anarchy. The way Teabaggers want is a vacuum for corporate takeover. They love corporate takeover. They're corporate anarchists.
The Teabaggers are nominating Newt Gingrich. The ex-Speaker of the House forced out for corruption. Teabaggers installed the Republican House majority that's made our problems even worse, and have just expanded government while grinding down the parts that protect people/
Teabaggers are extreme and must be stopped. This is not some theoretical argument anymore. Teabaggers have demonstrated they're suicide bombers.
No candidate should be allowed to take any money or thing of value from anyone. That is obviously bribery.
Anyone who wants to should be able to donate any amount to a single account, that's drawn on equally by everyone registered to run in a single race. All donors public. That is all.
The removal of favoritism in who gets the donations means the money doesn't buy advantage. It means less money will be donated, because the advantage isn't bought. It means less money will be spent, so the campaigns will be based on the free media coverage of news and just showing up places to campaign. It means the message instead of the medium will be the main product of the campaign.
Once the bribery is stopped that way, the resulting campaigns and elected officials will be a lot easier to get to reform the rest of the system. That's why it'll be hard to get it started with the "unified campaign account". But it's why that one reform is the most important of any.
The president and a majority of Congress aren't required. What's asked is an investigation, which requires just the president. 25,000+ signatures require the president to take a position. That would be a change, though a small one. But small changes are the only way that big changes start.
Even a "neutral" position will have a reaction. It will show the president is aligned with the corruption. Which is a change from the president hiding that they're aligned with the corruption.
Or the president could start an investigation, or just say he thinks one is warranted. Which would add to the momentum for investigation or new legislation. Another small change necessary to big change.
Or the president could say that an investigation isn't warranted under current legislation. That gives people pushing for new legislation something new to use to push harder. Another small change necessary to big change.
We just slapped down SOPA/PIPA with mostly online activism. A month ago nobody thought that was possible, but we won. Dodd is now forced out into the open bringing his business as usual corruption with him. The momentum against SOPA/PIPA can continue, aggressively pushing not just copyright reform, not just investigating Dodd, but attaching this kind of revolving door politician/lobbyist corruption.
In fact the change already began by halting SOPA/PIPA. New small changes can do even more. The hope is real, as the SOPA/PIPA win shows.
So what are you doing to elect the new blood, untainted politicians?
The system that elects politicians, especially Federal ones, is so dependent on bribe money ("campaign contributions") that it is the hardest place to force change. That is by design.
This petition system is new. It allows 25,000 people to force a president to take a public position on an issue, without depending on anything except a person posting a statement and then people signing it. That is a very weak link in the corruption chain. It isn't very powerful, but it does have some power.
It's better than nothing. What are you doing instead that's even better than that? What?
Slashdot Mirror
Can the majority of people be wrong? Of course they can, even if the majority doesn't think so.
Wow, remote executions at sea. Sounds like an Italian vacation!
In the future electric boats are going to have to be wireless, too, or their extension cords are going to have to multiplex a lot of tin cans.
That sounds so good that we're building the Champlain Hudson Power Express HVDC line from you to us. So you can rip us off too :). Though by adding our demand to your local supply, I wouldn't be surprised if your prices go up. Welcome to New York!
With any luck this 1GW line will help replace the insane Indian Point 2GW nuke plant in NYC's backyard. Thanks, friendly neighbors to the North!
Yes, I'm very excited about the Zynq, but it doesn't embed the RAM onchip, which is what's interesting about this new processor. The dual Cortex A9 is far more complex than the CPU on this new chip, in part to speed execution that's slowed by offchip RAM latency.
But indeed an FPGA and the AMBA bus into a simple chip with onboard RAM is interesting. Though for Xilinx's market for FPGA apps they'd be better with much more than 2GB onchip RAM; more like 128GB or a TB. And onboard optical Gbps ethernet, as long as I'm wishing for Xilinx.
I was thinking about old radio operators called "Sparky". I guess I'll have to wait for wireless electric cars.
I expect that clause, or just general senatorial privileges, is what Paul invoked to refuse rescreening without actually being detained the way a civilian would have been. Instead he was just allowed to leave the airport. Most people would be interrogated for hours, and locked up indefinitely - actual detention.
Of course, the gasoline and the car that burns it are also taxpayer subsidized. But why not thank each other here? We're the only ones who will.
The cost of the car is based on its cost to manufacture, but there's a lot more to it. Yes batteries are expensive. But the R&D is more expensive per car until quite a bit into the future from now. They're charging what the market will pay, which is the main control of pricing.
Let's say a plugin car costs $37,000 instead of $20,000 for the gasoline version; $17,000 more. Let's say The gasoline car gets 25MPG (a high average), on $3.50 gas gallons; that's $0.14:mi. The plugin gets 5 miles per KWh, on $0.115 KWh'es; that's $0.023:mi. So the plugin saves $0.108 per mile. After 145,300 miles you're saving money on gas.
The typical car is driven about 15,000 miles a year. So that's just about a 10 year payback.
Now, people do finance these cars. A $17,000 loan at 5% for 10 years pays $4637.37 in interest; about another $0.032 per mile. But an additional $0.798 per gallon on the 5812 gallons the gas car would consume for those miles would equal that. I think that $3.50 gas is likely to cost more than $5.10:gal, and increase at least steadily to that amount, in 10 years. In fact I think gas will increase faster than that rate plus the increase in the electric rates. So getting a car loan for the extra plugin expense makes the payback period shorter. And if the plugin lasts longer than 10 years, those $5.10 gallons will mean the savings will make the next years a lot more beneficial by comparison.
True, but that's trivial if you're running a new circuit or two, which is cheap anyway. Though the combining adapter approach isn't trivial if the other incoming leg isn't within reach.
So what's an electric vehicle called? A "sparker"? Will "sparky" be the new "greaser"?
Actually, the National City Lines conspiracy saw General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil, and various other corps competing with streetcars and other rail all get together to kill rail in the US. There were other factors, but there was also the conspiracy ensuring it happened.
The government also didn't subsidize the other HW it was competing with, the way the government does subsidize the petrofuel car industry that plugins must compete with.
Oh wait, the government did subsidize the other HW. And it subsidized the 3D and CPU development, the way it has subsidized all microchip development.
How about that your CPU addiction isn't pumping filth into the environment that the government has to pay more to clean up after? Oh wait, it is, which is why the government subsidizes the energy efficiency improvements in CPUs, too.
You should stop playing games all the time and learn about the real world. This isn't Sim City, and libertarian lies about the government aren't real.
How is a car's higher cost less environmentally responsible? Especially when that higher cost is an investment in burning less petrofuel, which damages the environment less.
In fact making cars more expensive is good for the environment. Because it means less driving per person. Making the expense consume less polluting fuel per driving per person is even better for the environment.
The cheaper car that gets gas mileage competitive with the source fuel mileage of plugin cars, and which you completely recycle, does compete environmentally and wins economically. But the higher cost plugins are an investment, paid voluntarily by early adopters, in scale economies and efficiency inventions that will bring the cost down. By the time a Neon driver has a plugin car they can afford, the motor and battery will last longer than a Neon's drivetrain for the same cost (reduced partially by the longer drivetrain lifetime).
There are reasons some people shouldn't buy plugin cars yet, just as there are reasons others should. Your high electricity price and high efficiency gas car make you one of those who should wait. And indeed maybe never switch. Until gas costs $20 a gallon.
Do you think that the Federal expenses were spent on just buying chargers?
Or don't you realize that the money is an investment in inventing and producing the chargers, and the batteries, and the rest of the infrastructure, for the next years and decades of plugin vehicles?
Gotta love how in the EU, 120V is something special.
What are you talking about?
Your Alberta oil corps are making electricity far more expensive so it doesn't compete with their gas and diesel products.
If you keep living under the tyranny of these oil corps everything is going to suck. That's no yardstick for anywhere else, except other oil tyrannies.
All a 240V plug is, is two 120V plugs that share a ground, on two separate circuits from the panel. Adapters that combine them at the outlets cost $50 each retail or less. An electrician will charge something like $100 to run a new pair of 120V circuits from your panel if necessary. At 6.6KW, 240V means 27.5A, so each 120V line needs only 30A. Which means the whole thing is exactly like installing an electric oven, which is a pretty common little project.
Once there's more than one or two plugin cars in a parking lot the owners will install the 240V outlets. Because they'll attach a meter that charges more than they pay the grid. A grid that doesn't charge $0.33:KWh; the NYC Con Ed rate is highest in the country at $0.21:KWh. And that's if you don't have Time Of Use (TOU) rates, which charge under $0.15:KWh at night and through the Winter, which is when you'd charge your car at home.
So in fact the economics of plugin cars makes a lot of sense. Which is why many thousands have already been sold. Of course as that number turns to millions the grid needs upgrades for the switch in power distribution from gas to electric, even though at greater efficiency (fewer source joules per mile travelled). But that problem isn't here yet, and the solutions are already in the works (including decentralized generation, like onsite where the charging happens).
I don't know where you're getting your numbers from. Is there some oil corp chain email going around?
Embed a fat FPGA in this chip well-interconnected to DRAM and CPU, and you get all those things. You might even replace the current chip's buses with FPGA for both data distribution and inline logic. Or make a discrete (but well-interconnected) onchip FPGA able to power down when not in use, and keep the low power consumption except when it's necessary. Turn on the FPGA for speed, or when the FPGA logic is so efficient that it's lower power than doing it in the CPU.
For somewhat lower power consumption, and better performance in many tasks, but less flexibility, embed a DSP in the chip instead of the FPGA.
Or both: DSP as ALU, FPGA as CLU (and flexible ALU, and beyond), on the chip with a simple processor to run the OS and main app threads. Bringing all the ports and buses to RAM all on the chip makes it all wicked fast. De/selecting these modules for power on demand (or in thread init) saves energy.
These West Coast scum are big business, or they wouldn't be able to buy ex-Senators and current congressmembers.
They are the same. The 1% is not just rich, it's the political master class. Because they are the same.
Reducing the size of the government to "zero" is anarchy. The way Teabaggers want is a vacuum for corporate takeover. They love corporate takeover. They're corporate anarchists.
The Teabaggers are nominating Newt Gingrich. The ex-Speaker of the House forced out for corruption. Teabaggers installed the Republican House majority that's made our problems even worse, and have just expanded government while grinding down the parts that protect people/
Teabaggers are extreme and must be stopped. This is not some theoretical argument anymore. Teabaggers have demonstrated they're suicide bombers.
How do you draw the district lines?
No candidate should be allowed to take any money or thing of value from anyone. That is obviously bribery.
Anyone who wants to should be able to donate any amount to a single account, that's drawn on equally by everyone registered to run in a single race. All donors public. That is all.
The removal of favoritism in who gets the donations means the money doesn't buy advantage. It means less money will be donated, because the advantage isn't bought. It means less money will be spent, so the campaigns will be based on the free media coverage of news and just showing up places to campaign. It means the message instead of the medium will be the main product of the campaign.
Once the bribery is stopped that way, the resulting campaigns and elected officials will be a lot easier to get to reform the rest of the system. That's why it'll be hard to get it started with the "unified campaign account". But it's why that one reform is the most important of any.
The president and a majority of Congress aren't required. What's asked is an investigation, which requires just the president. 25,000+ signatures require the president to take a position. That would be a change, though a small one. But small changes are the only way that big changes start.
Even a "neutral" position will have a reaction. It will show the president is aligned with the corruption. Which is a change from the president hiding that they're aligned with the corruption.
Or the president could start an investigation, or just say he thinks one is warranted. Which would add to the momentum for investigation or new legislation. Another small change necessary to big change.
Or the president could say that an investigation isn't warranted under current legislation. That gives people pushing for new legislation something new to use to push harder. Another small change necessary to big change.
We just slapped down SOPA/PIPA with mostly online activism. A month ago nobody thought that was possible, but we won. Dodd is now forced out into the open bringing his business as usual corruption with him. The momentum against SOPA/PIPA can continue, aggressively pushing not just copyright reform, not just investigating Dodd, but attaching this kind of revolving door politician/lobbyist corruption.
In fact the change already began by halting SOPA/PIPA. New small changes can do even more. The hope is real, as the SOPA/PIPA win shows.
Others took seconds to do it, not days.
The meaningful response isn't the response letter. It's the presidential response required when 25,000+ people sign it.
He's being extradited under UK law.
So what are you doing to elect the new blood, untainted politicians?
The system that elects politicians, especially Federal ones, is so dependent on bribe money ("campaign contributions") that it is the hardest place to force change. That is by design.
This petition system is new. It allows 25,000 people to force a president to take a public position on an issue, without depending on anything except a person posting a statement and then people signing it. That is a very weak link in the corruption chain. It isn't very powerful, but it does have some power.
It's better than nothing. What are you doing instead that's even better than that? What?