They can give you another 5-10% efficiency on top of Diesel, are much quieter and require far less servicing due to the external combustion. They're not ideal for automotive applications normally because they can't respond instantly, but make good generators. The down side is the development cost, you can go out and just buy a Diesel generator of X size, that isn't quite true of Stirlings.
It's a wheel, you can just take it off, put on a new one and send the old one off to a factory for servicing and reconditioning. That suggests potentially lower costs than having the whole bus off the road and out of service for servicing the engine.
You have the option of putting a tarmac covering over the top of the road surface, it isn't going to be dug up regularly. The only bits which might would be at intersections and it's easy to design for that.
The key is to build support for the amenity cabling, piping and ducting (All stuff that seems to be an afterthought at the moment) into the pavement in a standard, easy to access manner. Want to fix or lay a cable, lift the top off of the pavement with a crane.
With covered troughs built into the pavements for the amenities; power, telephone, cable, whatever. Want to build a new road, prepare the foundation and then drop a concrete road block into place.
It would reduce the amount of digging up of roads and therfore traffic chaos in cities like London as well.
Celebrating the winter solstice (today BTW), as is the new year. It's only seen as christian because centuries ago the people insisted on continuing to celebrate the solstice even after they were assimilated.
The first christians didn't celebrate christmas, or easter for that matter either. In fact surprisingly few of the "christian" celebrations have anything at all to do with christianity itself but appear to be legerdemain on the part of the christian church.
We're talking about network queueing systems here.
General purpose queueing systems have been around a loong loong looooonngg time; 20, 30, 40 years. Distributed.net and SETI simply expanded the concept to include other people's computers. Hell, NASA produced a freely available and popular one in the 80s called NQS which is still available.
I have to laugh at the thought that all this "Grid" and distributed stuff is new.
It's a pointless exercise. People use RAM because it's fast. NUMA RAM is *not* fast, in fact, unless you are using a high performance, low latency proprietary network it's slower than paging to local disk. It's just like running an NFS paging space and that's just horrible.
For dedicated servers with high performance interconnects it sucks pretty badly compared to local RAM, for general purpose desktops and servers over ethernet and oh my god TCP/IP on top it's just taking the piss.
NUMA is great for dedicated machines, but general purpose machines lending out RAM to other systems? Get real, you'd be better off with a BFO page space.
Remote RAM has to be instantly available and it can't go away. Shitty isn't the word for it when we're talking about using general purpose networking kit like gigabit for NUMA. Utterly unusable and waste of time are the best words to describe it. You need SCI, Myrinet or similar to get shitty performance.
What got me was all the parents bringing 5 year olds and younger to see the film despite it being a 12.
We're *not* talking Harry Potter or Peter Pan here, there's massive amounts of blood and guts but they seemed to think fantasy equals gentle fairy story. About half of them were led out in tears.
This thing is going to be sucking vast amounts of money for the forseeable future.
Remember they can do fusion, that isn't the problem. The problem is that they currently have no way to get more energy out of the fusion reactors than they have to put in to run the process.
5 years? 10 years? 20 years? 40 years more research? I'm betting somewhere between 20 and 40 years. In which case, who cares where it is located.
What we need to do is write *more* message systems. In fact, lets *everyone* do one.
The real problem is standardisation. The situation is a bit like networking protocols before TCP/IP became all pervasive. Each vendor has their own system and are happy to charge you an arm and a leg to connect it up to everything. You then have the same problem with information definitions and formatting but XML and things schemes rosettanet are gradually solving that one.
Package managers have made it trivial to install an application, assuming the user has administrator access all you have to do these days is double click on the rpm/deb file. De-installation is equally trivial.
I can run hundreds of full Gnome sessions in 4Gb of RAM. Course I'd do it on 4 single CPU boxes with 1Gb of RAM each cos it's lots cheaper with higher performance and higher availability. I suppose each to their own.
Aeroplanes have taken the high value long distance routes, buses the short hops and cars everything else. The only viable role left for rail is freight. The only thing which rail has successfuly competed against for passenger transport is the horse and cart.
Britain is learning to it's cost that the car, bus, plane (frankly anything but rail) is simply faster, cheaper, more relable, more convenient. Despite this, the current government want to spend 22 billion pounds (Yes, that's around 30 billion dollars) on the rail system, this figure is almost certain to double, they always do.
My advice; Rip up the rails put in roads, add tolls and require freight and public transport to use them.
No, you're just plain wrong. As a motorcyclist, I've been over the official statistics several times, you are just showing your ignorance.
Motorcyclists are overall 20-30 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured on the roads than a car driver in the UK. They are 50-60 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured *in the event of an accident* but this is where your ignorance and limited reading comprehension kicks in. They are half as likely to be involved in an accident in the first place.
So, you can go fuck yourself as well. Moron.
I'll point you to the government stats where you can start to educate yourself.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transs ta ts/documents/page/dft_transstats_024329.pdf
"I'll bet some horrifying data could be gathered on the speed with which riders' heads impact the pavement after an accident."
CowboyNeal, you are a fuckwit of the highest order.
Motorcyclists are half as likely to be involved in an accident as other road users. You want to know why? Because we're fucking careful on the roads, we actually *observe* what's going on around us despite the fact that when you look up from doing the crossword, driking your latte and putting your fucking contacts in you think we're going too fast when we pass.
So go on, you sit stationary in your cage in that traffic jam for 3 hours of your life every day.
Dedicated PC + TV card + hours of shit fucking about with half written software to get something which almost but doesn't quite work in a very basic way but isn't anything like as sophisticated.
OR
A Tivo + lifetime subscription which "Just fucking works"...
The key to Linux on the desktop is to be cheaper and good enough. It's already there and economics will drive it through businesses and then the home, that is already happening. The only thing which can stop it now is the law.
It also happens to be more open, standards compliant, scalable, flexible, powerful with a host of other important beneficial properties which doesn't include games.
And which nitwits moderated the parent to this "Interesting"? I guess small minds also think alike.
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They can give you another 5-10% efficiency on top of Diesel, are much quieter and require far less servicing due to the external combustion. They're not ideal for automotive applications normally because they can't respond instantly, but make good generators. The down side is the development cost, you can go out and just buy a Diesel generator of X size, that isn't quite true of Stirlings.
It's a wheel, you can just take it off, put on a new one and send the old one off to a factory for servicing and reconditioning. That suggests potentially lower costs than having the whole bus off the road and out of service for servicing the engine.
Java bytecode - Tick
Java Grande - Tick
XML - Tick, ooh ooh just one more...
ubiquitous grid computing - Tick BINGO!!!
It's a no news day today.
Just get a map and look at the road signs. It's only a problem for women.
They'll be sure to swaddle it in cotton wool as they put it in the plane's hold.
You have the option of putting a tarmac covering over the top of the road surface, it isn't going to be dug up regularly. The only bits which might would be at intersections and it's easy to design for that.
The key is to build support for the amenity cabling, piping and ducting (All stuff that seems to be an afterthought at the moment) into the pavement in a standard, easy to access manner. Want to fix or lay a cable, lift the top off of the pavement with a crane.
Damn, I should have patented this.
With covered troughs built into the pavements for the amenities; power, telephone, cable, whatever. Want to build a new road, prepare the foundation and then drop a concrete road block into place.
It would reduce the amount of digging up of roads and therfore traffic chaos in cities like London as well.
Celebrating the winter solstice (today BTW), as is the new year. It's only seen as christian because centuries ago the people insisted on continuing to celebrate the solstice even after they were assimilated.
The first christians didn't celebrate christmas, or easter for that matter either. In fact surprisingly few of the "christian" celebrations have anything at all to do with christianity itself but appear to be legerdemain on the part of the christian church.
We're talking about network queueing systems here.
General purpose queueing systems have been around a loong loong looooonngg time; 20, 30, 40 years. Distributed.net and SETI simply expanded the concept to include other people's computers. Hell, NASA produced a freely available and popular one in the 80s called NQS which is still available.
I have to laugh at the thought that all this "Grid" and distributed stuff is new.
It's a pointless exercise. People use RAM because it's fast. NUMA RAM is *not* fast, in fact, unless you are using a high performance, low latency proprietary network it's slower than paging to local disk. It's just like running an NFS paging space and that's just horrible.
For dedicated servers with high performance interconnects it sucks pretty badly compared to local RAM, for general purpose desktops and servers over ethernet and oh my god TCP/IP on top it's just taking the piss.
NUMA is great for dedicated machines, but general purpose machines lending out RAM to other systems? Get real, you'd be better off with a BFO page space.
Remote RAM has to be instantly available and it can't go away. Shitty isn't the word for it when we're talking about using general purpose networking kit like gigabit for NUMA. Utterly unusable and waste of time are the best words to describe it. You need SCI, Myrinet or similar to get shitty performance.
What got me was all the parents bringing 5 year olds and younger to see the film despite it being a 12.
We're *not* talking Harry Potter or Peter Pan here, there's massive amounts of blood and guts but they seemed to think fantasy equals gentle fairy story. About half of them were led out in tears.
Doesn't sound all that crappy to me. There are many (less glamorous) ways of generating energy which are less like burning money than fusion is.
This thing is going to be sucking vast amounts of money for the forseeable future.
Remember they can do fusion, that isn't the problem. The problem is that they currently have no way to get more energy out of the fusion reactors than they have to put in to run the process.
5 years? 10 years? 20 years? 40 years more research? I'm betting somewhere between 20 and 40 years. In which case, who cares where it is located.
You turn some matter into energy. How do you think fission reactors work?
Choose your poison:
Email, nntp,IM, xmlblaster, Jabber, MQSseries, SonicMQ, SwiftMQ, Softwired iBus, Jiiva RapidMQ, ICM etc etc etc etc...
What we need to do is write *more* message systems. In fact, lets *everyone* do one.
The real problem is standardisation. The situation is a bit like networking protocols before TCP/IP became all pervasive. Each vendor has their own system and are happy to charge you an arm and a leg to connect it up to everything. You then have the same problem with information definitions and formatting but XML and things schemes rosettanet are gradually solving that one.
Package managers have made it trivial to install an application, assuming the user has administrator access all you have to do these days is double click on the rpm/deb file. De-installation is equally trivial.
WinFS is a red herring. Irrelevant.
He had his personality surgically removed as an adolescent.
Rather inefficient.
I can run hundreds of full Gnome sessions in 4Gb of RAM. Course I'd do it on 4 single CPU boxes with 1Gb of RAM each cos it's lots cheaper with higher performance and higher availability. I suppose each to their own.
Aeroplanes have taken the high value long distance routes, buses the short hops and cars everything else. The only viable role left for rail is freight. The only thing which rail has successfuly competed against for passenger transport is the horse and cart.
Britain is learning to it's cost that the car, bus, plane (frankly anything but rail) is simply faster, cheaper, more relable, more convenient. Despite this, the current government want to spend 22 billion pounds (Yes, that's around 30 billion dollars) on the rail system, this figure is almost certain to double, they always do.
My advice; Rip up the rails put in roads, add tolls and require freight and public transport to use them.
Any way you look at it, CowboyNeal is a fuckwit.
Supposedly an editor either:
1: Saw the comment, realised it was a troll and didn't care: A high order Fuckwit.
2: Saw the comment and didn't realise it was a troll: Moronic Fuckwit (like you BTW).
3: Saw the comment and didn't realise that one of the jobs of an editor is to edit such crap: Incompetent moronic fuckwit.
You choose which.
Millions of morons sit in traffic for 1 -> 1.5 hours while commuting each way every single day. I bet you're one of them.
No, you're just plain wrong. As a motorcyclist, I've been over the official statistics several times, you are just showing your ignorance.
s ta ts/documents/page/dft_transstats_024329.pdf
Motorcyclists are overall 20-30 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured on the roads than a car driver in the UK. They are 50-60 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured *in the event of an accident* but this is where your ignorance and limited reading comprehension kicks in. They are half as likely to be involved in an accident in the first place.
So, you can go fuck yourself as well. Moron.
I'll point you to the government stats where you can start to educate yourself.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_trans
"I'll bet some horrifying data could be gathered on the speed with which riders' heads impact the pavement after an accident."
CowboyNeal, you are a fuckwit of the highest order.
Motorcyclists are half as likely to be involved in an accident as other road users. You want to know why? Because we're fucking careful on the roads, we actually *observe* what's going on around us despite the fact that when you look up from doing the crossword, driking your latte and putting your fucking contacts in you think we're going too fast when we pass.
So go on, you sit stationary in your cage in that traffic jam for 3 hours of your life every day.
Dedicated PC + TV card + hours of shit fucking about with half written software to get something which almost but doesn't quite work in a very basic way but isn't anything like as sophisticated.
OR
A Tivo + lifetime subscription which "Just fucking works"...
Hmmmm...
The key to Linux on the desktop is to be cheaper and good enough. It's already there and economics will drive it through businesses and then the home, that is already happening. The only thing which can stop it now is the law.
It also happens to be more open, standards compliant, scalable, flexible, powerful with a host of other important beneficial properties which doesn't include games.
And which nitwits moderated the parent to this "Interesting"? I guess small minds also think alike.