Most asked for feature? What kind of crack are you smoking. I read Slashdot regularly and I have never seen the term "MHT" before this story. I'm also a web developer and I've never heard of it before.
I agree that sometimes the other side is wrong or lying. Sometimes the other side might take a correlation, and somehow transmute that into a causation. You must be vigilant in watching for such junk science, especially if the other side claims that there's no point in even evaluating the criticism against their claims.
So how about another often debated Libertarian idea, one that I agree with?
Public schools. This is a much simpler case, as it's as simple as supply and demand for a product that people want. There's no externalities like pollution or catching someone else's house on fire.
Don't bring up welfare systems, because those wouldn't exist anyway.
The regulations encourage bare-minimum compliance. The public has no recourse to say "Hey, why aren't you disclosing this?", because the company can claim the compliance and not incur any damage to thier reputation.
You can't draw conclusions about a free market while you are looking at a distorted and regulated market. I support free markets in almost every case, but I don't have any delusions that companies will suddenly start doing things out of the goodness of their heart.
I believe that market forces (the same ones the companies are insulated from under the system of overregulation we have now), and the tort system, will force companies to act in a way that ultimately provides what the consumer wants.
I haven't done the calculations on how much energy could be stored at reasonable PSI's yet, but that is one road I want to go down mentally before I discard it.
One concern I had off the top of my head was the ideal gas law. The tank might get hot... really hot.:)
Capacitors in series are not like batteries in series. Even neglecting resistance, capacitors in series are 1/Ctotal = 1/C1 + 1/C2, etc.
So two 50 farad caps in series are 25 farad. Three 50 farad caps in series are 16.6F.
So, when you talk about a 200F supercap that is only rated for 2.5 volts.... putting 6 of those in series to get you enough to handle a 12 volt system... That only nets you 33.3Farad.
And that ignoring internal resistance, which adds linearly.
I actually did look into this. No one seems to be mass producing a coffee can sized flywheel. All the commercial energy storage flywheels I found seem to be aimed at putting them underground to use as a sort of UPS.
I have limited manufacturing facilities available to me, as this is a hobby project. I know I definitely couldn't make a composite resin maglev flywheel that wouldn't explode.:)
I can give a supporting argument. I work for a company that prints labels, mostly food labels. (Never thought I'd much use this area of expertise in a comment!)
Right now, companies are delaying as long as possible before putting trans-fat contents into their nutritional facts. A few companies are making the change early, but a lot are waiting until the deadline gets very close. This is obviously hard on my company, as all these customers will be requesting changes to their labelling at the same time. It'll make us money, but we'll be so swamped, it won't be efficient money (possible overtime, etc).
They do the bare minimum that is required of them by the regulations. The consumers that were basing nutritional decisions on these labels obviously put faith that the label is some indication of nutritional value, but in a case like trans-fats, something might not look as bad as it is, and consumers might eat more of it not knowing about trans-fats.
In the absence of nutritional facts required by law, it's more likely the consumer would base their consumption on 3rd party information that would most likely be more accurate in terms of total nutritional value, not just what some law says has to be on the label.
Of course, this ignores the most likely real reason for the labelling requirements, an excuse in court once more of these "fat law suits" hit the courts. It's the same way Philip Morris wants FDA regulation. Regulation means the companies can do whatever they want within the letter of the law and not worry about liability. It shifts responsibility from the producer and the consumer, to the government, and ultimately, the taxpayer.
The taxpayer gets a double hit as they must fund the administration and enforcement of the regulation, and then they must fund the cost of the labelling itself as it gets factored into every food product they buy. With the money they spent, they could have easily purchased a diet book with all the nutritional information already compiled in it, with most likely more detail and more up to date science.
I'd sell a body part to be able to get a "battery" that was somwhere between a capacitor and battery in features. Supercapacitors are getting closer, but even 10F is no where near a small battery in capacity.
I'm working on a hybrid vehicle, and finding a way to make good use of the regenerative braking power is a real challenge. Lead acids can only take a charge so fast, usually less than 0.1 of the power available during braking, unless you completely oversize the battery banks.
I want something with a very low charge impedance that can basically lock the shaft of the motor/generator, if need be.. completely eliminating friction brakes.
This would have bigger applications... Imagine charging your laptop in 10 minutes, then running for 6 hours.
So these advances in power density and discharge impedance are good, but tangential to what I think will be the real killer app, a super low charging impedance battery.
I remember some time in the past I could go to a web site and it would tell me what my MAC address was. Don't know if this was a browser specific bug or what. It was several years ago.
While we do have some areas of agreement, I think the free market can solve these problems. If a significant number of people would like to eat/drink at nonsmoking only places, then there is already a financial motivation to open up such a place.
Nonsmokers who have a problem with it already seek out nonsmoking areas, just as smokers seek out places where you can smoke.
I know I generally will eat less at a place that doesn't allow smoking, and I would never in a million years go to a non-smoking bar, as long as I am a smoker.
I don't see how a smoking ban would really change people's views. You make it sound like non-smokers are oppressed, weak, and unable to choose for themselves, without a smoking ban in place. The fact that non-smoking areas exist at all is good evidence to the contrary.
Heh, back when I was in school, that was a major source of junk hardware. Schools *don't* want your old junk. They would "break the rules" and let me haul it away for them because they had no use for it all.
That's the thing, I am thoughtful. I don't sit next to people and blow smoke all over them unless we are in a smoking area.
The idea of using the force of law to legislate politeness really grates me the wrong way though. Even if I wasn't a smoker, public smoking bans would still be something I would be strongly against. Even indoors. Who is the government to tell me I can't allow smoking in my own damn bar/restaurant?? It's a huge erosion of property rights.
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You are looking at the heat pump wrong.
But it can't be more than 100% efficient so that is another 150 Watts (at least)
In theory the heat pump might be more than 100% efficient, the way you are looking at it.
I might create a heat pump that only uses 5 watts for every 10 watts of heat it moves. Think of something like water cooling, which in effect is a sort of heat pump. You might spend 10 watts moving water around which is carrying 70 watts of heat from the CPU to the radiator... etc.
Anyway, your point is correct, you just have to be careful talking about percentage efficiencies with heat pumps.
SIDS is not unexplained, people just don't want to accept the explanation. It's just an early form of Darwinism. If you are too stupid to figure out how to roll over if you start suffocating, you are taken out of the system.
I fear a world when they "cure" SIDS, it'll be a much stupider place.
In 50 years, the Cola companies will be sued by the fucking lawyers and liberals for the "lies" about the addictiveness of caffiene, just like they did with the tobacco companies.
Of course everyone knows caffiene and nicotine are drugs! They always did! It's only revisionist history to say that the tobacco companies actions really made one bit of difference to anything, just as Coke's posting of that "FAQ" isn't going to convince anyone that caffiene isn't a drug.
Of course, maybe in 50 years time, the people that really want freedom will have won out against the Liberals and the Republicans, and pretty much all drugs will be legal. It'll be a happy day when Americans finally regain the ownership of their own bodies.
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I have never, ever, met a Christian with that latter point of view.
Earnings season.
Most asked for feature? What kind of crack are you smoking. I read Slashdot regularly and I have never seen the term "MHT" before this story. I'm also a web developer and I've never heard of it before.
Yeah animation is particularly bad with the compression.. Tons of weird pink halos and ghost images with fast movement.
Since I have a DishPVR with Dish network, I can back it up to see frame by frame just how bad it is. Some frames are really really bad.
I agree that sometimes the other side is wrong or lying. Sometimes the other side might take a correlation, and somehow transmute that into a causation. You must be vigilant in watching for such junk science, especially if the other side claims that there's no point in even evaluating the criticism against their claims.
So how about another often debated Libertarian idea, one that I agree with?
Public schools. This is a much simpler case, as it's as simple as supply and demand for a product that people want. There's no externalities like pollution or catching someone else's house on fire.
Don't bring up welfare systems, because those wouldn't exist anyway.
The regulations encourage bare-minimum compliance. The public has no recourse to say "Hey, why aren't you disclosing this?", because the company can claim the compliance and not incur any damage to thier reputation.
You can't draw conclusions about a free market while you are looking at a distorted and regulated market. I support free markets in almost every case, but I don't have any delusions that companies will suddenly start doing things out of the goodness of their heart.
I believe that market forces (the same ones the companies are insulated from under the system of overregulation we have now), and the tort system, will force companies to act in a way that ultimately provides what the consumer wants.
It wouldn't be unnatural for you to do so.
That's another idea I have briefly contemplated.
:)
I haven't done the calculations on how much energy could be stored at reasonable PSI's yet, but that is one road I want to go down mentally before I discard it.
One concern I had off the top of my head was the ideal gas law. The tank might get hot... really hot.
The catch:
Capacitors in series are not like batteries in series. Even neglecting resistance, capacitors in series are 1/Ctotal = 1/C1 + 1/C2, etc.
So two 50 farad caps in series are 25 farad. Three 50 farad caps in series are 16.6F.
So, when you talk about a 200F supercap that is only rated for 2.5 volts.... putting 6 of those in series to get you enough to handle a 12 volt system... That only nets you 33.3Farad.
And that ignoring internal resistance, which adds linearly.
I actually did look into this. No one seems to be mass producing a coffee can sized flywheel. All the commercial energy storage flywheels I found seem to be aimed at putting them underground to use as a sort of UPS.
:)
I have limited manufacturing facilities available to me, as this is a hobby project. I know I definitely couldn't make a composite resin maglev flywheel that wouldn't explode.
Doesn't the predator know that the prey must die for it to eat?
Your view can only come from the religious ultra-right that believes that humans are something other than animal.
We are animals, plain and simple. We are just smart animals.
I can give a supporting argument. I work for a company that prints labels, mostly food labels. (Never thought I'd much use this area of expertise in a comment!)
Right now, companies are delaying as long as possible before putting trans-fat contents into their nutritional facts. A few companies are making the change early, but a lot are waiting until the deadline gets very close. This is obviously hard on my company, as all these customers will be requesting changes to their labelling at the same time. It'll make us money, but we'll be so swamped, it won't be efficient money (possible overtime, etc).
They do the bare minimum that is required of them by the regulations. The consumers that were basing nutritional decisions on these labels obviously put faith that the label is some indication of nutritional value, but in a case like trans-fats, something might not look as bad as it is, and consumers might eat more of it not knowing about trans-fats.
In the absence of nutritional facts required by law, it's more likely the consumer would base their consumption on 3rd party information that would most likely be more accurate in terms of total nutritional value, not just what some law says has to be on the label.
Of course, this ignores the most likely real reason for the labelling requirements, an excuse in court once more of these "fat law suits" hit the courts. It's the same way Philip Morris wants FDA regulation. Regulation means the companies can do whatever they want within the letter of the law and not worry about liability. It shifts responsibility from the producer and the consumer, to the government, and ultimately, the taxpayer.
The taxpayer gets a double hit as they must fund the administration and enforcement of the regulation, and then they must fund the cost of the labelling itself as it gets factored into every food product they buy. With the money they spent, they could have easily purchased a diet book with all the nutritional information already compiled in it, with most likely more detail and more up to date science.
I'd sell a body part to be able to get a "battery" that was somwhere between a capacitor and battery in features. Supercapacitors are getting closer, but even 10F is no where near a small battery in capacity.
I'm working on a hybrid vehicle, and finding a way to make good use of the regenerative braking power is a real challenge. Lead acids can only take a charge so fast, usually less than 0.1 of the power available during braking, unless you completely oversize the battery banks.
I want something with a very low charge impedance that can basically lock the shaft of the motor/generator, if need be.. completely eliminating friction brakes.
This would have bigger applications... Imagine charging your laptop in 10 minutes, then running for 6 hours.
So these advances in power density and discharge impedance are good, but tangential to what I think will be the real killer app, a super low charging impedance battery.
I remember some time in the past I could go to a web site and it would tell me what my MAC address was. Don't know if this was a browser specific bug or what. It was several years ago.
While we do have some areas of agreement, I think the free market can solve these problems. If a significant number of people would like to eat/drink at nonsmoking only places, then there is already a financial motivation to open up such a place.
Nonsmokers who have a problem with it already seek out nonsmoking areas, just as smokers seek out places where you can smoke.
I know I generally will eat less at a place that doesn't allow smoking, and I would never in a million years go to a non-smoking bar, as long as I am a smoker.
I don't see how a smoking ban would really change people's views. You make it sound like non-smokers are oppressed, weak, and unable to choose for themselves, without a smoking ban in place. The fact that non-smoking areas exist at all is good evidence to the contrary.
Heh, back when I was in school, that was a major source of junk hardware. Schools *don't* want your old junk. They would "break the rules" and let me haul it away for them because they had no use for it all.
That's the thing, I am thoughtful. I don't sit next to people and blow smoke all over them unless we are in a smoking area.
The idea of using the force of law to legislate politeness really grates me the wrong way though. Even if I wasn't a smoker, public smoking bans would still be something I would be strongly against. Even indoors. Who is the government to tell me I can't allow smoking in my own damn bar/restaurant?? It's a huge erosion of property rights.
You are looking at the heat pump wrong.
But it can't be more than 100% efficient so that is another 150 Watts (at least)
In theory the heat pump might be more than 100% efficient, the way you are looking at it.
I might create a heat pump that only uses 5 watts for every 10 watts of heat it moves. Think of something like water cooling, which in effect is a sort of heat pump. You might spend 10 watts moving water around which is carrying 70 watts of heat from the CPU to the radiator... etc.
Anyway, your point is correct, you just have to be careful talking about percentage efficiencies with heat pumps.
What if a person with a loud stereo sits next to you playing Celine Dion at volume 11.
If I were sitting in the Celine Dion area, I wouldn't mind. I'd just ask to sit in the non-Celine Dion area.
SIDS is not unexplained, people just don't want to accept the explanation. It's just an early form of Darwinism. If you are too stupid to figure out how to roll over if you start suffocating, you are taken out of the system.
I fear a world when they "cure" SIDS, it'll be a much stupider place.
If I'm sitting in a smoking section (or outside) and some asshole like yourself told me not to smoke, I'd tell you to fuck off.
That's fine with me!
I think this socialistic sort of health insurance where a claim is made for every little office visit is totally crazy.
For the other stuff, I'm OK with use taxes to offset your cost, or privatization if possible (sometimes not practical).
You are absolutely correct that socialist programs do erode our personal liberties, and should be eliminated as much as possible.
Yeah, it's called Firefox's incredibly buggy download manager.
Ever try to download more than 3 or 4 files at once? It'll be 10 or 20 minutes before the dialog boxes pop up for the later files.
If I have to download more than one or two files, I just use wget, because firefox is totally fucked.
In 50 years, the Cola companies will be sued by the fucking lawyers and liberals for the "lies" about the addictiveness of caffiene, just like they did with the tobacco companies.
Of course everyone knows caffiene and nicotine are drugs! They always did! It's only revisionist history to say that the tobacco companies actions really made one bit of difference to anything, just as Coke's posting of that "FAQ" isn't going to convince anyone that caffiene isn't a drug.
Of course, maybe in 50 years time, the people that really want freedom will have won out against the Liberals and the Republicans, and pretty much all drugs will be legal. It'll be a happy day when Americans finally regain the ownership of their own bodies.