The MDI aircar proposes 400 atmospheres. They don't have a production model with tanks to hold that though. Energy density is similar to recent (but not cutting edge) batteries.
The problem with compressed air is that it is basically still a heat engine whereas electric motors are not. Electric motors are 90%+ efficient and compressed air motors, well, 40% maybe.
"making it the fastest supercomputer in the world"
Or rather the fastest supercomputer with published LINPACK results. There are a number of reasons that agencies with supercomputers might not want to publish results.
1: Chinese Li-Ion batteries have slashed the cost massively. e.g. http://www.thunder-sky.com/en/index.htm They still cost in the thousands, but no longer the tens of thousands.
2: (In the UK) 90% of journeys are less than 10 miles.
3: The number of cycles quoted for a battery is usually full discharge/charge cycles which is bad for them anyway. The number of cycles quoted is also to a degradation of (usually) 80% of new capacity. Frequent top ups increas life quite a bit. To the point that we're talking a life of somewhere around a hundred thousand miles. This is a vehicle which would require almost no servicing in the meantime and the energy is dirt cheap domestic electricity at a fraction of the cost of petrol. Overall, substantial savings can be made over a petrol powered vehicle.
4: Heat kills them, but it's a simple thing to fix in something the size of a car.
ACP Tzero: 300+ mile range (better than my petrol car). 0-60 in 3.6 seconds (waaaaay better than my petrol car). Top speed of only 90mph though. http://www.acpropulsion.com/
The result is that the perceived deficiency of battery technologies is just that, perception. They've been practical for vehicle use for a very large number of people for the last 5 years or so.
It's titanium dioxide. Titanium is not the same thing as titanium dioxide. Next you'll be telling us of the horrible dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. My GOD, it contains hydrogen *AND* oxygen!!!!!!!
If someone's fucked up the software on their machine, zap it all and install from scratch. It literally isn't worth the extra time reqruired to try to diagnose and sort out the crap that gets installed. Course MS license bollocks can make this slightly more complex.
Interesting way to try to make sure Java gets installed on lots of PCs. We're in the middle of a marketing war it seems. What is it about Java ? MS desperately don't want it installed to the point of creating a clone and Sun are desperate to get it installed.
Anyway. If you have objections to OO, what are the alternatives?
Something you can plug into a computer and which can hold a decently random key. It would of course also need a "fry me" button, or maybe a "don't fry me for the next 12 hours" button.
Security is a process, you can make it as secure as you like but you also make it a severe pain in the arse.
"You must satisfy one of the qualifications below:
Bachelor's Degree (in any subject area); or
Equivalent Level of Education; or
Two years full-time employment in the IT field."
Not massively stringent, I agree, but better than nothing and it at least shows an inclination towards a professional approach to IT. The IEEE Computer Society is closer to what I'd consider a professional IT body in the US.
IEEE:
Qualifications for IEEE Membership (one of the following):
* Electrical engineer or computer scientist graduated from a recognized educational degree program.
* A related degree plus three years applicable professional experience.
* Six year applicable professional experience.
* Interest in the technical fields of the IEEE (Associate Member level, no voting rights)
I didn't miss the Cromwell thing, or the Magna Carta etc. They are examples of the progression from absolute power over life and death towards individual freedoms.
"Once established, every government tends to increase its power over the lives of its subjects until it too is overthrown."
I keep hearing this statement but I haven't heard *any* evidence to back it up. Again... And I'm going to shout it this time... *EVIDENCE*?
I can cite you many examples of countries which began as absolute monarchies with the absolute power of life and death in the hands of an individual over their subjects now as democracies with the power residing in the people.
"Historical evidence as far as I can see shows that the people revolt against subjugation when the government becomes onerous. Just a matter of time.
This directly contradicts your earlier demand for proof that governments become onerous"
No, it doesn't. My statement applies to dictatorship, absolute monarchies etc. Democracy is revolution enshrined in law. You don't like the government, too onerous? Vote them out and get another lot in. Revolution.
You want to get paid well, get some professional qualifications and sorry... MCSE doesn't exactly cut the mustard.
You want someone who knows what they're doing? Get someone with professional qualifications.
It is however a solved problem, lawyers, accountants, doctors etc all have to belong to professional bodies in order to practice. You want to be taken seriously in IT? The BCS in the UK, IEEE Computer Society and/or ACM in the US (and internationally), the ACS in Australia.
You want someone who takes what they do seriously? Or maybe a fly by night cowboy will do.
"and then starts showing signs of becoming a dictatorship again, in fact if not in name"
Again, evidence?
"Historical evidence also shows that most of these revolts are forcibly suppressed."
At which point, real military hardware is imported and used against the oppressive regime. Often supplied by external sympathisers. The IRA is a good example of this. Guns are illegal in Northern Ireland yet the IRA have significant caches of heavy weapons.
e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/148242 6.stm
There's no evidence that small arms such as pistols or rifles would be of any significant use against a competent, trained military force.
In fact, the evidence is that civilian police forces (never mind military forces) are quite capable of dealing with small arms wielding civilians. The right to bear arms section in the US constitution is really just enshrined paranoia and doesn't even serve the purpose for which it was intended. The right to bear arms would have to include tanks, helicopters, military aircraft, nuclear weapons etc to be of much use these days.
"That government will tend towards the subjugation of its people is not a historical oddity; it's an eternal principle of politics."
Your evidence?
The UK? An absolute monarchy becomes a constitutional democracy.
Repeated all across Europe.
Russia? An absolute monarchy becomes an absolute dictatorship becomes a fledgling democracy.
Historical evidence as far as I can see shows that the people revolt against subjugation when the government becomes onerous. Just a matter of time.
I don't think actually owning a gun will make that much of a difference, especially when there are external forces who are only too happy to supply assault weapons, training and logisitical support. i.e. the CIA, KGB, MI6 etc.
Look, I know that most Americans are incredibly parochial. That's fine, you have a big country after all. It is however only around 5% of the world's population, the other 95% are outwith your borders.
The Internet is an international network making web sites international by their very nature, so when you say "Bloggers Avoid Federal Crackdown on Speech" what you really mean is "American Bloggers Avoid Federal Crackdown on Speech".
A very minor effect on the amount of energy getting to approx ground level at the equator vs the poles. Angle of incidence is the dominant factor by a huge margin.
Under most legal systems, something is deemed to be legal unless there is a law prohibiting it. Their position is a bizarre one.
Peer to Peer is after all, nothing more than a roadway; a way of getting information from here to there. I strongly suspect that the person making this decree is highly confused.
The sun is just about as strong in Scotland as at the equator. It's just that the angle of incidence to the ground is larger. sin 90 vs sin 30.
This is why domestic solar can work in the UK. Put the panels on the roof at the angle which'll maximise the energy collection. Hell if you can plumb, you can make a solar panel for peanuts, e.g. http://www.bigginhill.co.uk/solar.htm
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HTH
Depends on the pressure.
e.g.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l10.html
The MDI aircar proposes 400 atmospheres. They don't have a production model with tanks to hold that though. Energy density is similar to recent (but not cutting edge) batteries.
The problem with compressed air is that it is basically still a heat engine whereas electric motors are not. Electric motors are 90%+ efficient and compressed air motors, well, 40% maybe.
"making it the fastest supercomputer in the world"
Or rather the fastest supercomputer with published LINPACK results. There are a number of reasons that agencies with supercomputers might not want to publish results.
Usually April 1 is just about bearable, but they seem to have gone out of their way to overdo it this time.
In the meantime, have a look at the new Triumph Speed Triple. You may need a bib:
http://www.triumph.co.uk/uk/788.aspx
Peak torque at *5100* rpm. Mwhahahahahaha!!! Not 8,000 or 9,000 like some other hunks of junk.
1: Chinese Li-Ion batteries have slashed the cost massively.
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e.g.
http://www.thunder-sky.com/en/index.htm
They still cost in the thousands, but no longer the tens of thousands.
2: (In the UK) 90% of journeys are less than 10 miles.
3: The number of cycles quoted for a battery is usually full discharge/charge cycles which is bad for them anyway. The number of cycles quoted is also to a degradation of (usually) 80% of new capacity. Frequent top ups increas life quite a bit. To the point that we're talking a life of somewhere around a hundred thousand miles. This is a vehicle which would require almost no servicing in the meantime and the energy is dirt cheap domestic electricity at a fraction of the cost of petrol. Overall, substantial savings can be made over a petrol powered vehicle.
4: Heat kills them, but it's a simple thing to fix in something the size of a car.
ACP Tzero: 300+ mile range (better than my petrol car). 0-60 in 3.6 seconds (waaaaay better than my petrol car). Top speed of only 90mph though.
http://www.acpropulsion.com/
The Solectria Sunrise did 370 miles at motorway speeds on the US highways using nimh batteries in 1997.
e.g.http://www.solectria.com/about/milesto
The result is that the perceived deficiency of battery technologies is just that, perception. They've been practical for vehicle use for a very large number of people for the last 5 years or so.
In a car I'd expect some sort of heat management system to keep the batteries at approx ideal temperature.
It's titanium dioxide. Titanium is not the same thing as titanium dioxide. Next you'll be telling us of the horrible dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. My GOD, it contains hydrogen *AND* oxygen!!!!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
Are any of those free? Any of them Free? Any of them Open Source?
Works well.
If someone's fucked up the software on their machine, zap it all and install from scratch. It literally isn't worth the extra time reqruired to try to diagnose and sort out the crap that gets installed. Course MS license bollocks can make this slightly more complex.
Interesting way to try to make sure Java gets installed on lots of PCs. We're in the middle of a marketing war it seems. What is it about Java ? MS desperately don't want it installed to the point of creating a clone and Sun are desperate to get it installed.
Anyway. If you have objections to OO, what are the alternatives?
KDE: Koffice
Gnome: Gnome Office
Windows: ??????????
Something you can plug into a computer and which can hold a decently random key. It would of course also need a "fry me" button, or maybe a "don't fry me for the next 12 hours" button.
Security is a process, you can make it as secure as you like but you also make it a severe pain in the arse.
ACM:
"You must satisfy one of the qualifications below:
Bachelor's Degree (in any subject area); or
Equivalent Level of Education; or
Two years full-time employment in the IT field."
Not massively stringent, I agree, but better than nothing and it at least shows an inclination towards a professional approach to IT. The IEEE Computer Society is closer to what I'd consider a professional IT body in the US.
IEEE:
Qualifications for IEEE Membership
(one of the following):
* Electrical engineer or computer scientist graduated from a recognized educational degree program.
* A related degree plus three years applicable professional experience.
* Six year applicable professional experience.
* Interest in the technical fields of the IEEE (Associate Member level, no voting rights)
I didn't miss the Cromwell thing, or the Magna Carta etc. They are examples of the progression from absolute power over life and death towards individual freedoms.
"Once established, every government tends to increase its power over the lives of its subjects until it too is overthrown."
I keep hearing this statement but I haven't heard *any* evidence to back it up. Again... And I'm going to shout it this time... *EVIDENCE*?
I can cite you many examples of countries which began as absolute monarchies with the absolute power of life and death in the hands of an individual over their subjects now as democracies with the power residing in the people.
"Historical evidence as far as I can see shows that the people revolt against subjugation when the government becomes onerous. Just a matter of time.
This directly contradicts your earlier demand for proof that governments become onerous"
No, it doesn't. My statement applies to dictatorship, absolute monarchies etc. Democracy is revolution enshrined in law. You don't like the government, too onerous? Vote them out and get another lot in. Revolution.
You want to get paid well, get some professional qualifications and sorry... MCSE doesn't exactly cut the mustard.
You want someone who knows what they're doing? Get someone with professional qualifications.
It is however a solved problem, lawyers, accountants, doctors etc all have to belong to professional bodies in order to practice. You want to be taken seriously in IT? The BCS in the UK, IEEE Computer Society and/or ACM in the US (and internationally), the ACS in Australia.
You want someone who takes what they do seriously? Or maybe a fly by night cowboy will do.
"and then starts showing signs of becoming a dictatorship again, in fact if not in name"
2 6.stm
Again, evidence?
"Historical evidence also shows that most of these revolts are forcibly suppressed."
At which point, real military hardware is imported and used against the oppressive regime. Often supplied by external sympathisers. The IRA is a good example of this. Guns are illegal in Northern Ireland yet the IRA have significant caches of heavy weapons.
e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/14824
There's no evidence that small arms such as pistols or rifles would be of any significant use against a competent, trained military force.
In fact, the evidence is that civilian police forces (never mind military forces) are quite capable of dealing with small arms wielding civilians. The right to bear arms section in the US constitution is really just enshrined paranoia and doesn't even serve the purpose for which it was intended. The right to bear arms would have to include tanks, helicopters, military aircraft, nuclear weapons etc to be of much use these days.
"That government will tend towards the subjugation of its people is not a historical oddity; it's an eternal principle of politics."
Your evidence?
The UK? An absolute monarchy becomes a constitutional democracy.
Repeated all across Europe.
Russia? An absolute monarchy becomes an absolute dictatorship becomes a fledgling democracy.
Historical evidence as far as I can see shows that the people revolt against subjugation when the government becomes onerous. Just a matter of time.
I don't think actually owning a gun will make that much of a difference, especially when there are external forces who are only too happy to supply assault weapons, training and logisitical support. i.e. the CIA, KGB, MI6 etc.
Look, I know that most Americans are incredibly parochial. That's fine, you have a big country after all. It is however only around 5% of the world's population, the other 95% are outwith your borders.
The Internet is an international network making web sites international by their very nature, so when you say "Bloggers Avoid Federal Crackdown on Speech" what you really mean is "American Bloggers Avoid Federal Crackdown on Speech".
How much coke do you think one of these things could carry?
e.g.
i e= UTF-8&q=oracle+IBM+linux&btnG=Search+News
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&
Or these days, typing pretty much any big name and linux into Google will turn up a load of press releases and other info.
Storm in a teacup.
These would be the beaches which can be angled towards the sun would they?
A very minor effect on the amount of energy getting to approx ground level at the equator vs the poles. Angle of incidence is the dominant factor by a huge margin.
Under most legal systems, something is deemed to be legal unless there is a law prohibiting it. Their position is a bizarre one.
Peer to Peer is after all, nothing more than a roadway; a way of getting information from here to there. I strongly suspect that the person making this decree is highly confused.
Yes...
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http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/dish-stirl
Tip it up at a higher angle.
The sun is just about as strong in Scotland as at the equator. It's just that the angle of incidence to the ground is larger. sin 90 vs sin 30.
This is why domestic solar can work in the UK. Put the panels on the roof at the angle which'll maximise the energy collection. Hell if you can plumb, you can make a solar panel for peanuts, e.g. http://www.bigginhill.co.uk/solar.htm
Better patent that idea before someone else makes use of it.