I'll give some of the older FF versions a try but my browsing habits have been pretty much the same for years. I used to run FF, Opera, IE and later Chrome all at once to keep up with my compulsive page opening but dropped Opera a couple years ago and only use IE for corporate stuff.
By the way, only 2600 signatures on your Save IE6 petition?? I would have expected millions.:-)
Hmm, I have lots of disks of various types attached to my main PCs; I do lots of transfers between them but usually when I'm stepping away. I'll have to try some auto-transfers while I'm browsing to see how much impact it has.
What are your system specs?
I've been hearing complaints from various Slashdotters for a while but can't replicate their issues. I usually run the PortableApps FF package with TreeStyleTabs and a few other add-ons but it's only with this latest FF17 that it's been at all crashy - I've had a few in the last week when I get above 10 windows & 70 tabs.
I've routinely exceeded 15-20 windows / 80 - 175 tabs for a couple years with as many as 5 simultaneous http downloads, 3 - 5 YouTube streams, Facebook, Slashdot, etc all at the same time.
It's only under-reported if you frequent just the denialist sites. It has been stated for decades by researchers what are the main sources and sinks of CO2 and how much.
Please don't forget that the oceans are not pure water; you'd have to be sure that the other substances won't have an impact one way or the other.
That's quite a leap you've made there. Are you now going to accuse Conspiracy_of_Doves of misrepresentation? That's a much more serious accusation than hyperbole.
Having spent far too much of my life in long commutes, I tend to agree. But there is a work dynamic that can't easily be done long-distance. At least, I have the option to occasionally work from home.
As far as I can tell and what that blog posts affirms, building supercars was never Tesla's ultimate goal. In the end, it's to expand their popularity while building ever-more affordable and practical EVs with a rich man's toy as a 1st step. I have several reasons for wanting to see EVs ( cars and buses ) as the de facto means of transport instead of ICEs. 1) Irrelevance of fuel type - that becomes a problem for the utility. Just deliver my electrons safely and efficiently. 2) Central point of control for emissions of all types. Even if we can't get rid of coal, oil and gas in a hurry, managing the emissions is better done centrally than for each of hundreds of millions of small vehicles in residential areas. (Note: Even if we switched 100% to methanol and that was derived only from renewable resources, there's still a local emissions problem such as ground-level ozone, which forms smog) 3) Benefits to the grid - since daytime and peak usage is so much larger that nighttime and off-peak, power gets dumped cheaply or generation shut off to cope. This has costs in both revenue losses and equipment wear. Having lots of EVs charging at night partially alleviates both problems and, with V2G, can be tapped for peak-shaving or to reduce the amount of spinning reserve.
Also, EVs can be used in blackouts to power homes - something disaster victims can appreciate. The same can be done with a diesel generator ( or modified auto or truck) but there's that emissions problem again. 4) Greater efficiency - liquid fuels of all types are vastly more power/energy dense than the current battery techs. But, even leaving aside the emissions, the ICEs waste a lot of that power. Batteries (and supercapacitors) will only get better - likely faster than ICEs can become more efficient.
ICEs are not going away anytime soon but there are lots of vehicles that can and should be fully converted to EVs as quickly as we can afford to do - city buses, taxis, company fleets, delivery van, post office vehicles. The rest can come over the course of the next few decades.
You love speed and that's fine but there's a bigger picture here and your methanol / nitrous funny cars are not going solve those problems. We've spent a century building an electrical infrastructure that's truly improved our lives. Let's get on with the next expansion of that.
You can carry on building a bottle-rocket mobile that'll complete the 1/4 in the blink of an eye but that's not the answer for the vast majority, not now, likely not ever.
The vast majority of cars are overkill for daily life. But speed and power are seductive - especially when it's quiet and understated. EVs are very good at that, even if the driving range is yet anywhere near that of ICEs. Yes, I read the summary but I've also read, more than once, what Musk wrote on the Tesla site 7 years ago. Have a look. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me
I've been in favor of high-speed rail for a very long time but 750 mph trains? Might as well construct lot of vacuum tunnels and get them moving at 2000 with the lower air-resistance.
I know that Intel stomped AMD in number of fabs but I also thought that they were getting much better yields when the manufacturing process got below 65nm and particularly so at 32nm.
Fabrication has always been their Achilles heel. If their fab capabilities were only twice as efficient ( yes I know that's a lot but Intel is WAAAY above that), they would have little to fear from Chipzilla.
There will always be outliers and that's not a bad thing. I once went over 5 yrs without driving because I moved to a major city where work and shopping were within a 7 mile radius.
So there are probably as many people who won't buy an EV simply because they don't need any kind of car - if necessary, they can rent or car-share. And then there are folks like you for whom an affordable EV is not practical, especially not as the lone or primary vehicle.
In-between, there are probably 30+ million for whom something like a Leaf is enough, or an acceptable 2nd auto. That's a sizable niche market.
But there are also fleets and taxis who could replace almost their entire stock of ICEs without impacting service and would be able to recoup the extra cost within a few years. No more oil changes and less maintenance adds up quickly for a busy commercial fleet.
I've always been of the opinion that EV adoption should start on the commercial front and work outwards to the average Joe. Commercial entities are in a much better position to see the benefits of rapid EV adoption and delivery vans and post trucks don't stray too far from home base so range anxiety is not a major concern and they would likely be easy to outfit with a high-amp quick-charger.
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I'll give some of the older FF versions a try but my browsing habits have been pretty much the same for years. I used to run FF, Opera, IE and later Chrome all at once to keep up with my compulsive page opening but dropped Opera a couple years ago and only use IE for corporate stuff.
By the way, only 2600 signatures on your Save IE6 petition?? I would have expected millions. :-)
Hmm, I have lots of disks of various types attached to my main PCs; I do lots of transfers between them but usually when I'm stepping away.
I'll have to try some auto-transfers while I'm browsing to see how much impact it has.
What are your system specs?
I've been hearing complaints from various Slashdotters for a while but can't replicate their issues.
I usually run the PortableApps FF package with TreeStyleTabs and a few other add-ons but it's only with this latest FF17 that it's been at all crashy - I've had a few in the last week when I get above 10 windows & 70 tabs.
I've routinely exceeded 15-20 windows / 80 - 175 tabs for a couple years with as many as 5 simultaneous http downloads, 3 - 5 YouTube streams, Facebook, Slashdot, etc all at the same time.
I've done this to about 25% of the PCs I've built over the last 15 yrs.
You probably don't want to know where some crosses and rosary beads have been. :-)
They don't cry out "Oh, God" for no reason.
It's only under-reported if you frequent just the denialist sites. It has been stated for decades by researchers what are the main sources and sinks of CO2 and how much.
Please don't forget that the oceans are not pure water; you'd have to be sure that the other substances won't have an impact one way or the other.
That's not a simple problem.
A seaman has virgin boys? I thought they would be strictly captain's privilege.
That's quite a leap you've made there. Are you now going to accuse Conspiracy_of_Doves of misrepresentation? That's a much more serious accusation than hyperbole.
Alberta will go willingly so yes, they'll definitely be worth the trouble.
People like that were not going to agree with him (her?) anyway.
Really? A gay faggot? Is that anything like a straight heterosexual or just a very ecstatic bundle of twigs?
Having spent far too much of my life in long commutes, I tend to agree. But there is a work dynamic that can't easily be done long-distance.
At least, I have the option to occasionally work from home.
Because you can patent it, sell it and use the profits to buy off, er, make generous campaign contributions.
As far as I can tell and what that blog posts affirms, building supercars was never Tesla's ultimate goal. In the end, it's to expand their popularity while building ever-more affordable and practical EVs with a rich man's toy as a 1st step.
I have several reasons for wanting to see EVs ( cars and buses ) as the de facto means of transport instead of ICEs.
1) Irrelevance of fuel type - that becomes a problem for the utility. Just deliver my electrons safely and efficiently.
2) Central point of control for emissions of all types. Even if we can't get rid of coal, oil and gas in a hurry, managing the emissions is better done centrally than for each of hundreds of millions of small vehicles in residential areas.
(Note: Even if we switched 100% to methanol and that was derived only from renewable resources, there's still a local emissions problem such as ground-level ozone, which forms smog)
3) Benefits to the grid - since daytime and peak usage is so much larger that nighttime and off-peak, power gets dumped cheaply or generation shut off to cope. This has costs in both revenue losses and equipment wear. Having lots of EVs charging at night partially alleviates both problems and, with V2G, can be tapped for peak-shaving or to reduce the amount of spinning reserve.
Also, EVs can be used in blackouts to power homes - something disaster victims can appreciate. The same can be done with a diesel generator ( or modified auto or truck) but there's that emissions problem again.
4) Greater efficiency - liquid fuels of all types are vastly more power/energy dense than the current battery techs. But, even leaving aside the emissions, the ICEs waste a lot of that power. Batteries (and supercapacitors) will only get better - likely faster than ICEs can become more efficient.
ICEs are not going away anytime soon but there are lots of vehicles that can and should be fully converted to EVs as quickly as we can afford to do - city buses, taxis, company fleets, delivery van, post office vehicles. The rest can come over the course of the next few decades.
You love speed and that's fine but there's a bigger picture here and your methanol / nitrous funny cars are not going solve those problems. We've spent a century building an electrical infrastructure that's truly improved our lives. Let's get on with the next expansion of that.
You can carry on building a bottle-rocket mobile that'll complete the 1/4 in the blink of an eye but that's not the answer for the vast majority, not now, likely not ever.
Louisiana is flyover country? I think you meant to say "and all that bluegrass" or "all that country music".
The vast majority of cars are overkill for daily life. But speed and power are seductive - especially when it's quiet and understated. EVs are very good at that, even if the driving range is yet anywhere near that of ICEs.
Yes, I read the summary but I've also read, more than once, what Musk wrote on the Tesla site 7 years ago. Have a look.
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me
You use your dragster to get to work? Or for grocery shopping? How many nitromethane filling stations are on the way to the post office?
I've been in favor of high-speed rail for a very long time but 750 mph trains? Might as well construct lot of vacuum tunnels and get them moving at 2000 with the lower air-resistance.
I know that Intel stomped AMD in number of fabs but I also thought that they were getting much better yields when the manufacturing process got below 65nm and particularly so at 32nm.
Altavista was doing this way back. When the typical Windows desktop was 16 - 32 MB RAM, they have a RAM cache of up to 64GB.
Move to the USA. You'll be able to bitch twice as much about healthcare on a per-dollar, per-capita basis.
Fabrication has always been their Achilles heel. If their fab capabilities were only twice as efficient ( yes I know that's a lot but Intel is WAAAY above that), they would have little to fear from Chipzilla.
Yes, it was. I believe that's what Clueless Craig would term an "executional misstep".
Why didn't you have your kidneys microchipped?
There will always be outliers and that's not a bad thing. I once went over 5 yrs without driving because I moved to a major city where work and shopping were within a 7 mile radius.
So there are probably as many people who won't buy an EV simply because they don't need any kind of car - if necessary, they can rent or car-share.
And then there are folks like you for whom an affordable EV is not practical, especially not as the lone or primary vehicle.
In-between, there are probably 30+ million for whom something like a Leaf is enough, or an acceptable 2nd auto. That's a sizable niche market.
But there are also fleets and taxis who could replace almost their entire stock of ICEs without impacting service and would be able to recoup the extra cost within a few years. No more oil changes and less maintenance adds up quickly for a busy commercial fleet.
I've always been of the opinion that EV adoption should start on the commercial front and work outwards to the average Joe. Commercial entities are in a much better position to see the benefits of rapid EV adoption and delivery vans and post trucks don't stray too far from home base so range anxiety is not a major concern and they would likely be easy to outfit with a high-amp quick-charger.