As Mathew7 mentions, while DNA should be 'digital' with 2 bits per pair, in practice the way we sample it isn't, not really. Especially when you consider doing hereditary searches where you're looking for a 'half match'.
I should have mentioned the non-exact match thing; Searching a DB for something like 'All phone calls from XXX-XXX-XXXX for the past 20 years' is far easier than searching for Person X's DNA 'fingerprint' in the DB. Fingerprint databases are even worse; they spit out 'similar' matches, often leaving the human experts hundreds of semi-matching prints to search through for final ID, and that's only looking through criminal records, not something like 'every adult in the USA'.
DNA samples at birth are surprisingly regular now, though I'm not aware of any truly national databases yet. You still have the problem that we don't have the technology to effectively search a DB that large.
As for fingerprints, it's my understanding that they're not developed well enough at birth for an effective print to be taken, though we might be able today by using special ink and paper to help with definition, or use some sort of electronic scanner. The alternative I've heard is they at least used to take heel prints for newborns/babies for later identification, in case of kidnapping, getting lost, and such.
On the Op - I can't help but think 'Combatants from non-combatants'? That's what the uniforms and weapons usually indicate. We're already using biometrics over there - iris, fingerprint, face recognition, even voice analysis. I fail to see how a chip would help anything, if you're an insurgent desperate enough the chip can simply be dug out. It's a little harder to rip your fingerprints off, much less your face or eyeballs.
enough water to cover 1 acre with 1 foot of water. It's around 326k gallons. It's a more useful measurement when you're dealing with dam levels and watering fields.
In practice it is nothing but a ticking time bomb easily capable of effectively wiping a large cities right off the map with additional affects world wide. And it's the poster child for inefficient.
We're to the point that we've had 2 disasters with major nuclear material contamination. One was a reactor that wouldn't have been certified in the rest of the world and lacked a containment dome, the other was basically one of the oldest operational plants in the world, hit by a huge natural disaster that killed far more people than what the nuclear relases are going to.
If I was Evil Overlord over an area(POTUS doesn't have enough power), I'd be embarking on a campaign of nuclear plant production - Step 1 would be shutting down polluting, CO2 releasing, coal plants. Step 2 would be shutting down the old GenII one-off reactors. I'd be replacing them with GenIII reactors while we finished the designs for the GenIV. It's my understanding that a liquid thorium reactor isn't actually all that far off for viability, and that's a reactor type where a meldown is impossible. Especially given that the core has to be a liquid for it to work...
I think it's probably the Profit motive. You're a hero if you are providing access to media not otherwise available. If you are seeking money for it when you're not the copyright holder then you're just a money grubbing dick. You might be a money grubber even if you hold the copyright; but then you're at least legal.
It's like the story of the vet who sent something like 10k pirated DVDs over to the desert. Yes, he violated copyright, but people have his sympathy. If somebody took those 10k DVDs and tried to sell them for $2 profit each, the view is much different. People view you differently if you're not doing it for profit, especially if you're 'donating' your own resources to the cause without hope of return.
Indeed. He also ignored the core reason for having said bandwidth - you have X amount of data to move in Y time (at under Z cost); what's the best way to do so?
As such, a 'packet' on the freeway system is rather expensive, so you don't want to be putting multiple station wagons on the system if you don't have to. Figure the driver costs $20/hour, the vehicle itself $.50/mile(gas, maintenance, insurance, tolls, etc...), and you're looking at 300 miles in 10 hours. For a single packet you're looking at $350 for that single 'packet'. If a single station wagon doesn't do it, perhaps a cargo van would, which doubles the capacity of the packet while only raising the cost $50, to $400. Still not good enough? Upgrade to a 'package van' like UPS/Fedex trucks. Next step would be a Semi.
In any case, I'd say that you could fit 25TB into a motorcycle today - 3 TB drives are fairly common now, and I can fit 10 into my saddlebags easily. Heck, I can get 1.5TB native tapes, about the same size as a HD. Padding it's dimensions up, it's 11 x 11 x 3 cm = 363 cm^3, or 2,755 per cubic meter.
A 2008-11 Dodge Grand Caravan Cargo van - 143.8 cubic feet = 4.07 cubic meters, giving me room for 11k 1.5TB tapes. 16.5k TB, in 10 hours, if I have a single cargo van. Ouch. Disregarding media cost, that's ~$400.
Do this daily, we're looking at 1.5 terrabits per second. Don't know of any connections that fast. Monthly, we're down to ~50 gigabit (rounding down). I can guarantee that a 50 gigabit connection will cost more than $400. Annually, it's 'only' 4 gigabit, and I pay more than $100/month for my megabit class connection, which ISN'T utilized 100%, unlike my calc.
You don't normally need to figure out the bandwidth of the freeway because: 1. Generally 1 vehicle 'packet' is sufficient, and due to the high marginal cost per said vehicle, you normally only want to send one. 2. The roads are used for more than data shipment, which would be like trying to figure out how much bandwidth you have available for VOIP by looking at total circuit bandwidth.
Don't need to ship that much? You should be able to ship about 30 of them for $60, second day air. That's 45TB, or about 140 Mbit of 100% saturated traffic for a month. BTW, during my calcs for paying fedex to ship them, I think that weight might actually be enough of an issue to increase gasoline consumption - but I think I've established that even $800 would be cheap if you need to ship that ridiculous of an amount of data.
It's mostly in the difference of how diesel engines are regulatied, but here. USA:.07 grams of nitrogen oxide per mile. 'Eastern Europe' is.29
As a result of such regulatory differences, including diesel taxes, there's far more diesel vehicles on the roads in Europe, which increases average MPG. Gasoline vehicles are normally pretty much the same on either side - as long as you test them to the same standard. European mileage testing regimes tend to be 'nicer' than US ones.
Only way I can see spending $30M on non-advertising stuff is if they need a staff to answer questions and such on facebook - customer support more than advertising, basically. I know I occasionally have questions about my vehicle, some of it quite technical. When you live as far north as Alaska is, sometimes you have different concerns about fluids. In my case the clutch would get very stiff in the coldest weather, so I wanted to ask what they'd recommend.
Only good thing about this is that they 'only' spent $240. You need to constantly innovate to stay in business, and not all innovations will be successes.
I was shocked at the 'quarter of that into paid advertising'. That means that $30M/year is being spent elsewhere. Now, I could see a fraction of that - a couple dozen people to keep the page maintained, answer questions and what not. A few million a year producing apps, videos and other equivalents of real life 'freebies' like free pens, flashlights, and cups.
The $10M worth of paid advertising; on a per click basis isn't that bad when you remember that Car companies still aren't likely to sell anything by the 'click', and traditional media normally doesn't have a 'click' at all. They advertise on TV so that when I go to buy a new car, I remember to visit the GM lot.
If anything, GM's facebook page should be less part of the advertising budget and more of the customer service budget - answering questions, arranging recalls, pointing out the nearest service station/dealership, etc...
I remember arguing with an NRA type who used that slogan "an armed society is a polite society." I said, "Look at the wild west. Was that what you'd call a polite society?"
And did he respond with the standard response: "Lower crime rates than the cities back east during the time". The 'wild west' wasn't actually that wild, at least when it came to crime. It was more 'wild' in the sense that it was undeveloped.
One additional thing to point out - shooting an unarmed crowd is target practice. In target practice, people often have hit rates in the 90% range. The moment somebody in the crowd pulls a gun, it becomes combat, and accuracy rates in combat are often below 30%.
Heck, I recently had to qualify with my rifle. During the range portion with a real rifle I was close to 90%. During the practice period in the simulator, I had an 11% hit ratio. The trick? I went through 5 magazines. Now, this was with iron sites and a lousy shooting angle, but you probably get the idea.
Basically, until the CCW, security guard, or police officer who pulled the weapon is down, the spree killer is likely to 'waste' time and bullets trying to deal with him. Every second is more time for the other people to get away and for officers/SWAT to respond.
I guess what I need to state better is that Cars, unlike houses, aren't (significantly) insulated. My house has over a foot of insulation excepting windows and doors. It also gets the short end of the stick when it comes to wind chill - 55mph winds are pretty much guaranteed.
As a result, I can turn the heat off in the house much sooner than I stop heating my car.
Alaska is far enough north that even if I bought an EV I'd probably be retrofitting a liquid fuel heater into it. It wouldn't need that much fuel to keep the cabin/battery warm, and 90% efficient burners are well known knowledge. That way you enjoy the energy density of hydrocarbons for heating, and the efficiency of electric for moving.
Pretty much. With the F-22, the actual costs are all up in the air; I don't have access to the real data. But I would not be surprised if ordering 10X as many planes as we ended up ordering only cost 1/2 as much per plane. I was just working off of memory that bigger orders of F-22s would have seen significant savings per plane, and I'd consider ~25% significant.
I don't know about $50M, but I remember somewhere that the marginal cost for another F-22 was something like $60M. That's discounting the R&D and operational costs.
Excepting the RAM coatings, the F-22 was actually designed to be cheaper and easier to maintain than a F-15. The hypoxia is a serious design flaw, yes, but it's actually a pretty tiny portion of the plane.
If you want a $50M plane, we're going to have to build them by the thousand to justify the R&D and tooling to automate manufacture to the point that they're that cheap.
IE want 10 F-22s? $75M a piece, discounting R&D. Want 100? $60M because they end up automating more.
1. You don't put it in the trunk. For roll resistance it's best to mount the weight as low as possible. Best spot is actually right in the middle at the bottom, under the passengers. You adjust the shocks to the appropriate weight. 2. Seriously? You run the appropriate cable harness wires to some sensors mounted on/in the battery. 3. Cooling can be handled by some fins underneath. If that's not enough, induction fans, water cooling, etc... Might as well ask how the heck we're going to manage to cool an internal combustion engine, the loads there are insane compared to what the battery pack needs. 4. It is an interesting question, but it's an engineering one, not one of science. We already hook up high voltage lines that are at 60kv, 500-600V is certainly doable, you just need the appropriate safety systems so that average joes with minimal training can use it safely. Basically, for 80 Amps you're looking at #2 wire for the lead up to the station, and depending on how they decide, they could go as low as #7 for the cable from the station to the car, though I think that keeping it #2 is a definite possibility. 5. Collision sensors trip relays in the critical spots, like in the battery pack and perhaps at the motor. Quite likely redundant relays at that.
So, you're suggesting, that every time someone changes a job, they pick up, sell their homes and move to be closer to the new job. Hmm...what about people with kids, you want them to uproot them from schools every time jobs change? If a married couple...who's job take priority....likely as not one of them will have to drive further than the other one, rarely do couples work at the same fucking place you know...
My suggestion would be to increase overall density. Encourage Arcology-light type buildings. I'd say that cities in the USA don't encourage housing within themselves anywhere near enough. They offer the top end and subsidize the bottom end, but they don't encourage the middle class with things like good public schools, decent sized apartments that are financially competitive with the suburbs, etc... You also have to contend with the 'american dream'.
by 'Arcology-light' I mean that you don't bother trying to make a single building handle 99% of people's needs - just 90%. Something like the first 3-5 floors are retail, the next 5-10 are office/light commercial, and the rest of the building, somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3rds, is apartment/condo space. Build GOOD apartments/condos.
Then have pedestrian skyways between the buildings and good walking paths. Preferably allow micro-electric vehicles, a bit bigger than Segways, but smaller than the open people-movers that many bigger airports have, that are optimized for light delivery of things like groceries, and deliveries like pizza. If the city gets big enough, go with slideways. The ideal is that the paths are developed enough that a walker can cover a mile quicker than a car. Maybe 2 with the slideways.
Does Alaska count? About 6 months of the year the heat is permanently set to 'high defrost'.
The problem up north with heat is that cars tend to have NO real insulation, they're not even as air tight as homes. Also, do you have electric heat? I use a lot more than 6.2kW/H of heating in the winter.
I took 'doing' as in 'away from the home'. Otherwise, well, we could just be 'resting nervously'. Dogs can and will just lay there for hours on end if there's nothing all that necessary to do.
Why wouldn't my grocery store have a charging station? It has a gas station now.
As otherwise mentioned, the cables lock into place, which would make such a theft difficult to begin with.
At best with a non-locking plug if you unplug my car you end the charge cycle much like how putting a gas pump back into it's slot ends that fueling period, and you end up with a plug demanding payment. Assuming that they put enough charging stations in, why bother? Heck, you're going to have to be parked right next to me in order to use the charger, which means that when I return it's trivial for me to both unplug and key your car/spike your tires/spray paint 'cheater' on the windshield. Looking at the video provided, you'd have a hard time stretching the cord long enough to reach the charge point from a different spot, even one just on the other side. Bring a longer cord? If they're that unsecured, I'm stealing it then, and you're out $100 of special extra-long charge cord for less than $1 of electricity.
At worst you end up on CCTV with your car's plates noted, and criminal/civil charges awaiting you. Is it really worth it to steal $1 of electricity?
Besides, if you're providing the option for 120V 'cripple' charge, you're going to be using a standard, if heavy duty, extension cord, not some fancy high speed charge port.
Not to mention that at 20 minutes, I'm not going to a 'gas' station. I'm going to the grocery store to pick up my food for the week along with the charge. Heck, I fill up there anyway, it'd be even faster for me. No 5 minutes at the pump waiting for the tank to fill, instead it's 30 seconds plugging my car in before I head inside, then 30 seconds disconnecting when I get out.
That or a restaurant, mall, movie theater, etc....
Of course, most the time it'd simply be charged at home, maybe work. Charging outside of there would be when I'm traveling, and 300 mile range EVs like the Tesla would be running dry about the time I need to stop for a break & food anyways.
Besides, you've seen how long it took them to agree on a standard for a charging plug. Just think how long it would take them to agree on standards for whole battery packs. By the time they finish, we'll have 400-mile Litihium-Air batteries and hydrogen fuel cell backups, and no one will care anymore.
What I find hilarious about this is that I've started seeing a number of proposals to switch to parking spot mounted inductive chargers. They're agreeing on a standard plug when the plug might end up going away anyways. In which case you wouldn't even need to spend a minute plugging your car in - just park and accept the charge for the electricity while inside your car(assuming that it's not a subscription and therefore fully automatic).
It looks like l'm going to have to read up on this stuff again.
Given the spread of drive ages I'd definitely want redundancy, and given the variety of capacities, a traditional RAID system isn't going to cut it. I'm actually thinking of cloud computing technology, with it's attendent abilities to duplicate data(and services!) across sites of uneven capability, even optimize resources across different locations to optimize resources.
Basically, you'd be looking a 'cloud' of HDs, with an underlying system that's aware of the different drives and a directive to, say, keep all data on at least 3 different drives. How it does that depends on the alogorithms, but it isn't structured so rigidly like traditional RAID.
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As Mathew7 mentions, while DNA should be 'digital' with 2 bits per pair, in practice the way we sample it isn't, not really. Especially when you consider doing hereditary searches where you're looking for a 'half match'.
I should have mentioned the non-exact match thing; Searching a DB for something like 'All phone calls from XXX-XXX-XXXX for the past 20 years' is far easier than searching for Person X's DNA 'fingerprint' in the DB. Fingerprint databases are even worse; they spit out 'similar' matches, often leaving the human experts hundreds of semi-matching prints to search through for final ID, and that's only looking through criminal records, not something like 'every adult in the USA'.
DNA samples at birth are surprisingly regular now, though I'm not aware of any truly national databases yet. You still have the problem that we don't have the technology to effectively search a DB that large.
As for fingerprints, it's my understanding that they're not developed well enough at birth for an effective print to be taken, though we might be able today by using special ink and paper to help with definition, or use some sort of electronic scanner. The alternative I've heard is they at least used to take heel prints for newborns/babies for later identification, in case of kidnapping, getting lost, and such.
On the Op - I can't help but think 'Combatants from non-combatants'? That's what the uniforms and weapons usually indicate. We're already using biometrics over there - iris, fingerprint, face recognition, even voice analysis. I fail to see how a chip would help anything, if you're an insurgent desperate enough the chip can simply be dug out. It's a little harder to rip your fingerprints off, much less your face or eyeballs.
enough water to cover 1 acre with 1 foot of water. It's around 326k gallons. It's a more useful measurement when you're dealing with dam levels and watering fields.
In practice it is nothing but a ticking time bomb easily capable of effectively wiping a large cities right off the map with additional affects world wide. And it's the poster child for inefficient.
We're to the point that we've had 2 disasters with major nuclear material contamination. One was a reactor that wouldn't have been certified in the rest of the world and lacked a containment dome, the other was basically one of the oldest operational plants in the world, hit by a huge natural disaster that killed far more people than what the nuclear relases are going to.
If I was Evil Overlord over an area(POTUS doesn't have enough power), I'd be embarking on a campaign of nuclear plant production - Step 1 would be shutting down polluting, CO2 releasing, coal plants. Step 2 would be shutting down the old GenII one-off reactors. I'd be replacing them with GenIII reactors while we finished the designs for the GenIV. It's my understanding that a liquid thorium reactor isn't actually all that far off for viability, and that's a reactor type where a meldown is impossible. Especially given that the core has to be a liquid for it to work...
I think it's probably the Profit motive. You're a hero if you are providing access to media not otherwise available. If you are seeking money for it when you're not the copyright holder then you're just a money grubbing dick. You might be a money grubber even if you hold the copyright; but then you're at least legal.
It's like the story of the vet who sent something like 10k pirated DVDs over to the desert. Yes, he violated copyright, but people have his sympathy. If somebody took those 10k DVDs and tried to sell them for $2 profit each, the view is much different. People view you differently if you're not doing it for profit, especially if you're 'donating' your own resources to the cause without hope of return.
Indeed. He also ignored the core reason for having said bandwidth - you have X amount of data to move in Y time (at under Z cost); what's the best way to do so?
As such, a 'packet' on the freeway system is rather expensive, so you don't want to be putting multiple station wagons on the system if you don't have to. Figure the driver costs $20/hour, the vehicle itself $.50/mile(gas, maintenance, insurance, tolls, etc...), and you're looking at 300 miles in 10 hours. For a single packet you're looking at $350 for that single 'packet'. If a single station wagon doesn't do it, perhaps a cargo van would, which doubles the capacity of the packet while only raising the cost $50, to $400. Still not good enough? Upgrade to a 'package van' like UPS/Fedex trucks. Next step would be a Semi.
In any case, I'd say that you could fit 25TB into a motorcycle today - 3 TB drives are fairly common now, and I can fit 10 into my saddlebags easily. Heck, I can get 1.5TB native tapes, about the same size as a HD. Padding it's dimensions up, it's 11 x 11 x 3 cm = 363 cm^3, or 2,755 per cubic meter.
A 2008-11 Dodge Grand Caravan Cargo van - 143.8 cubic feet = 4.07 cubic meters, giving me room for 11k 1.5TB tapes. 16.5k TB, in 10 hours, if I have a single cargo van. Ouch. Disregarding media cost, that's ~$400.
Do this daily, we're looking at 1.5 terrabits per second. Don't know of any connections that fast.
Monthly, we're down to ~50 gigabit (rounding down). I can guarantee that a 50 gigabit connection will cost more than $400.
Annually, it's 'only' 4 gigabit, and I pay more than $100/month for my megabit class connection, which ISN'T utilized 100%, unlike my calc.
You don't normally need to figure out the bandwidth of the freeway because:
1. Generally 1 vehicle 'packet' is sufficient, and due to the high marginal cost per said vehicle, you normally only want to send one.
2. The roads are used for more than data shipment, which would be like trying to figure out how much bandwidth you have available for VOIP by looking at total circuit bandwidth.
Don't need to ship that much? You should be able to ship about 30 of them for $60, second day air. That's 45TB, or about 140 Mbit of 100% saturated traffic for a month. BTW, during my calcs for paying fedex to ship them, I think that weight might actually be enough of an issue to increase gasoline consumption - but I think I've established that even $800 would be cheap if you need to ship that ridiculous of an amount of data.
It's mostly in the difference of how diesel engines are regulatied, but here. .07 grams of nitrogen oxide per mile. 'Eastern Europe' is .29
USA:
As a result of such regulatory differences, including diesel taxes, there's far more diesel vehicles on the roads in Europe, which increases average MPG. Gasoline vehicles are normally pretty much the same on either side - as long as you test them to the same standard. European mileage testing regimes tend to be 'nicer' than US ones.
Only way I can see spending $30M on non-advertising stuff is if they need a staff to answer questions and such on facebook - customer support more than advertising, basically. I know I occasionally have questions about my vehicle, some of it quite technical. When you live as far north as Alaska is, sometimes you have different concerns about fluids. In my case the clutch would get very stiff in the coldest weather, so I wanted to ask what they'd recommend.
Only good thing about this is that they 'only' spent $240. You need to constantly innovate to stay in business, and not all innovations will be successes.
I was shocked at the 'quarter of that into paid advertising'. That means that $30M/year is being spent elsewhere. Now, I could see a fraction of that - a couple dozen people to keep the page maintained, answer questions and what not. A few million a year producing apps, videos and other equivalents of real life 'freebies' like free pens, flashlights, and cups.
The $10M worth of paid advertising; on a per click basis isn't that bad when you remember that Car companies still aren't likely to sell anything by the 'click', and traditional media normally doesn't have a 'click' at all. They advertise on TV so that when I go to buy a new car, I remember to visit the GM lot.
If anything, GM's facebook page should be less part of the advertising budget and more of the customer service budget - answering questions, arranging recalls, pointing out the nearest service station/dealership, etc...
I remember arguing with an NRA type who used that slogan "an armed society is a polite society." I said, "Look at the wild west. Was that what you'd call a polite society?"
And did he respond with the standard response: "Lower crime rates than the cities back east during the time". The 'wild west' wasn't actually that wild, at least when it came to crime. It was more 'wild' in the sense that it was undeveloped.
One additional thing to point out - shooting an unarmed crowd is target practice. In target practice, people often have hit rates in the 90% range. The moment somebody in the crowd pulls a gun, it becomes combat, and accuracy rates in combat are often below 30%.
Heck, I recently had to qualify with my rifle. During the range portion with a real rifle I was close to 90%. During the practice period in the simulator, I had an 11% hit ratio. The trick? I went through 5 magazines. Now, this was with iron sites and a lousy shooting angle, but you probably get the idea.
Basically, until the CCW, security guard, or police officer who pulled the weapon is down, the spree killer is likely to 'waste' time and bullets trying to deal with him. Every second is more time for the other people to get away and for officers/SWAT to respond.
I guess what I need to state better is that Cars, unlike houses, aren't (significantly) insulated. My house has over a foot of insulation excepting windows and doors. It also gets the short end of the stick when it comes to wind chill - 55mph winds are pretty much guaranteed.
As a result, I can turn the heat off in the house much sooner than I stop heating my car.
Alaska is far enough north that even if I bought an EV I'd probably be retrofitting a liquid fuel heater into it. It wouldn't need that much fuel to keep the cabin/battery warm, and 90% efficient burners are well known knowledge. That way you enjoy the energy density of hydrocarbons for heating, and the efficiency of electric for moving.
Pretty much. With the F-22, the actual costs are all up in the air; I don't have access to the real data. But I would not be surprised if ordering 10X as many planes as we ended up ordering only cost 1/2 as much per plane. I was just working off of memory that bigger orders of F-22s would have seen significant savings per plane, and I'd consider ~25% significant.
I don't know about $50M, but I remember somewhere that the marginal cost for another F-22 was something like $60M. That's discounting the R&D and operational costs.
Excepting the RAM coatings, the F-22 was actually designed to be cheaper and easier to maintain than a F-15. The hypoxia is a serious design flaw, yes, but it's actually a pretty tiny portion of the plane.
If you want a $50M plane, we're going to have to build them by the thousand to justify the R&D and tooling to automate manufacture to the point that they're that cheap.
IE want 10 F-22s? $75M a piece, discounting R&D. Want 100? $60M because they end up automating more.
1. You don't put it in the trunk. For roll resistance it's best to mount the weight as low as possible. Best spot is actually right in the middle at the bottom, under the passengers. You adjust the shocks to the appropriate weight.
2. Seriously? You run the appropriate cable harness wires to some sensors mounted on/in the battery.
3. Cooling can be handled by some fins underneath. If that's not enough, induction fans, water cooling, etc... Might as well ask how the heck we're going to manage to cool an internal combustion engine, the loads there are insane compared to what the battery pack needs.
4. It is an interesting question, but it's an engineering one, not one of science. We already hook up high voltage lines that are at 60kv, 500-600V is certainly doable, you just need the appropriate safety systems so that average joes with minimal training can use it safely. Basically, for 80 Amps you're looking at #2 wire for the lead up to the station, and depending on how they decide, they could go as low as #7 for the cable from the station to the car, though I think that keeping it #2 is a definite possibility.
5. Collision sensors trip relays in the critical spots, like in the battery pack and perhaps at the motor. Quite likely redundant relays at that.
So, you're suggesting, that every time someone changes a job, they pick up, sell their homes and move to be closer to the new job. Hmm...what about people with kids, you want them to uproot them from schools every time jobs change? If a married couple...who's job take priority....likely as not one of them will have to drive further than the other one, rarely do couples work at the same fucking place you know...
My suggestion would be to increase overall density. Encourage Arcology-light type buildings. I'd say that cities in the USA don't encourage housing within themselves anywhere near enough. They offer the top end and subsidize the bottom end, but they don't encourage the middle class with things like good public schools, decent sized apartments that are financially competitive with the suburbs, etc... You also have to contend with the 'american dream'.
by 'Arcology-light' I mean that you don't bother trying to make a single building handle 99% of people's needs - just 90%. Something like the first 3-5 floors are retail, the next 5-10 are office/light commercial, and the rest of the building, somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3rds, is apartment/condo space. Build GOOD apartments/condos.
Then have pedestrian skyways between the buildings and good walking paths. Preferably allow micro-electric vehicles, a bit bigger than Segways, but smaller than the open people-movers that many bigger airports have, that are optimized for light delivery of things like groceries, and deliveries like pizza. If the city gets big enough, go with slideways. The ideal is that the paths are developed enough that a walker can cover a mile quicker than a car. Maybe 2 with the slideways.
Does Alaska count? About 6 months of the year the heat is permanently set to 'high defrost'.
The problem up north with heat is that cars tend to have NO real insulation, they're not even as air tight as homes. Also, do you have electric heat? I use a lot more than 6.2kW/H of heating in the winter.
I took 'doing' as in 'away from the home'. Otherwise, well, we could just be 'resting nervously'. Dogs can and will just lay there for hours on end if there's nothing all that necessary to do.
Out hunting, probably. We seem to bring back food often enough.
Why wouldn't my grocery store have a charging station? It has a gas station now.
As otherwise mentioned, the cables lock into place, which would make such a theft difficult to begin with.
At best with a non-locking plug if you unplug my car you end the charge cycle much like how putting a gas pump back into it's slot ends that fueling period, and you end up with a plug demanding payment. Assuming that they put enough charging stations in, why bother? Heck, you're going to have to be parked right next to me in order to use the charger, which means that when I return it's trivial for me to both unplug and key your car/spike your tires/spray paint 'cheater' on the windshield. Looking at the video provided, you'd have a hard time stretching the cord long enough to reach the charge point from a different spot, even one just on the other side. Bring a longer cord? If they're that unsecured, I'm stealing it then, and you're out $100 of special extra-long charge cord for less than $1 of electricity.
At worst you end up on CCTV with your car's plates noted, and criminal/civil charges awaiting you. Is it really worth it to steal $1 of electricity?
The comments I saw said that the inductive charging is as efficient as a corded.
Besides, if you're providing the option for 120V 'cripple' charge, you're going to be using a standard, if heavy duty, extension cord, not some fancy high speed charge port.
Not to mention that at 20 minutes, I'm not going to a 'gas' station. I'm going to the grocery store to pick up my food for the week along with the charge. Heck, I fill up there anyway, it'd be even faster for me. No 5 minutes at the pump waiting for the tank to fill, instead it's 30 seconds plugging my car in before I head inside, then 30 seconds disconnecting when I get out.
That or a restaurant, mall, movie theater, etc....
Of course, most the time it'd simply be charged at home, maybe work. Charging outside of there would be when I'm traveling, and 300 mile range EVs like the Tesla would be running dry about the time I need to stop for a break & food anyways.
Besides, you've seen how long it took them to agree on a standard for a charging plug. Just think how long it would take them to agree on standards for whole battery packs. By the time they finish, we'll have 400-mile Litihium-Air batteries and hydrogen fuel cell backups, and no one will care anymore.
What I find hilarious about this is that I've started seeing a number of proposals to switch to parking spot mounted inductive chargers. They're agreeing on a standard plug when the plug might end up going away anyways. In which case you wouldn't even need to spend a minute plugging your car in - just park and accept the charge for the electricity while inside your car(assuming that it's not a subscription and therefore fully automatic).
It looks like l'm going to have to read up on this stuff again.
Given the spread of drive ages I'd definitely want redundancy, and given the variety of capacities, a traditional RAID system isn't going to cut it. I'm actually thinking of cloud computing technology, with it's attendent abilities to duplicate data(and services!) across sites of uneven capability, even optimize resources across different locations to optimize resources.
Basically, you'd be looking a 'cloud' of HDs, with an underlying system that's aware of the different drives and a directive to, say, keep all data on at least 3 different drives. How it does that depends on the alogorithms, but it isn't structured so rigidly like traditional RAID.