I don't think there's any evidence that either economics or politics forms a good basis for encouraging right behavior. Both seem to have failed miserably, and what is clearly needed is a third system no one has apparently thought of yet. Or perhaps such a system cannot exist, it is not within the fundamental nature of man or the universe he occupies.
Nope. 38. Cars used to change much more rapidly than they do now, and the rate of change, excepting the conversion to electric power, is in continuing decline.
My point was precisely that very much unlike a computer, there comes a point very quickly with cars where you simply don't have much to upgrade. Once you make a car safe enough to travel at 150 mph, you just don't need any more because you can't really make a consumer car go 200mph, it isn't physically practical. For the next 20-30 years there will definitely be a lot of evolution, but after that I expect cars will basically be unchanging in terms of everything but style (assuming of course that cars/roads remains the travel mode of choice).
There are limited resources in the world. The people who are born without access to them demand that we take care of them, or they will kill us in retribution. Centralized government is the consensus plan for taking care of that problem, because most of us don't have the stomach for mass murder or mass murderers.
So we pay our 40% to keep the world from blowing up in our faces, and to keep our hands from having to touch icky gore.
They wouldn't have remained popular in the past, but what about the future:
Once you get beyond 7 point adjustable, heated and cooled seats, do you ever need more? If the seats are easily replaceable and just need a power/data connection, it's just not hard to upgrade.
Upgrades/replacement render the upholstery issue moot too.
Hopefully the battery module has a pretty simple interface to the engine/drive system, so upgrading there isn't difficult either.
Really, with fully electric cars, there should be only 3 parts that are a challenge to upgrade:
The frame. This is essentially what you're handing down to your grandchildren. If you replace the frame, you may as well buy a new car, because you've lost any of the 'classic' value.
The engine. This can be challenging because the placement and size of it are typically tied tightly to the frame, but it IS still often possible, even for gas powered engines for which it is a greater challenge.
The interior design. In most cases, the interior design is essentially part of the frame. If there are must have items in the future that fundamentally redesign the interior layout of cars, you're in trouble with your classic (consider where to mount your dvd player in your model T so your kids don't distract you while driving). Where exactly do you mount your 1 cubic foot holography-tv in your tesla?
25 billion / 100,000 = 250K of us could have tesla cars, if in fact those tesla cars could be made at a profit at that price point. With about 250 million drivers in this country, about 1 in a thousand of us will win your tesla lottery, which are pretty high odds as far as lotteries go, but still not good odds.
Well, any is better than none. You just build as many as you need to get the heat dissipation rate up to the level you need.
In the long run, I think you consider it a process of building out an array of leaves of electricity generating solar panels that also conveniently act as a heat dump into space with maximum efficiency. Of course, by the time we have the technology to take this seriously, we have other options as well which people will probably prefer. As one example, it would by then be ultra cheap to lift people into orbit along with small space craft, so we'll probably just have a diaspora to the stars before this happens. Who would choose to live on an economically impoverished earth when the resources off-earth are comparatively unlimited.
Radiated was the point. It would be converting the radiating surface of the earth from the surface of a sphere with degree 2 to a fractal with degree up to 2.5.
Uhhhh. Wouldn't making chips a bit more efficient be better, as opposed to making them "less likely to burn out at higher temps"
Seems that google's not really thinking green in this case (despite the pretension to do so in others), unless they plan on making use of the datacenter heat elsewhere.
Yes, assuming those were the tradeoffs, which they weren't.
Google is trading existing performance levels against reduced cooling, which is a pure win, just by demanding more resilient chips from Intel.
It's going to be far cheaper to build radiator fins extending into space than to move the earth's orbit, barring some innovative invention in the orbit moving department. Also, orbit moving has the downside of reducing the solar flux, which will be bad for our solar energy efforts.
Well, I was never getting 1 or 3 mbit when my speed was supposed to be at those levels either. I've had about a 5x improvement in download speed during the transition from 1mbit to 6.
1) Criticism and mocking are not the same thing. 2) Amateur projects shouldn't be held to the same standards as professional ones because they receive significantly different resources as inputs, and so naturally differ quantitatively in their outputs.
The mocking post suggested that the developers were incompetent because their project was missing one random feature that some other program had years ago. An amateur project can't afford to implement every feature that a funded project does. These things require resources that simply may not be available to the amateur developer.
The house plays poker if they are fronting one of the players, and in online poker that means they can provide that player with information about the cards held by the other players. They can do this in table poker too (and if you play in a mob game, they will), but in the major casinos this is less common.
It's retroactively in their interest to run an honest game only if they get caught cheating. If they never get caught, they add the margin to the rake, and that makes it in their best interest to cheat.
Sadly, that's just not what I experience, though. I don't use 800kbps continuous, I really do burst traffic. And as long as I stay under the cap, they're really selling me the burst speed.
I have observed the price per bit of broadband dropping recently. My comcast service has gone from 1mbit to 3mbit to 6mbit over the last 5 years with no change in price.
The introduction of the cap, of course, significantly complicates that computation.
Such systems definitely exist. Our system uses a wiki to link cm, build, test, results, requirements. I've seen other places with similar infrastructure.
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I don't think there's any evidence that either economics or politics forms a good basis for encouraging right behavior. Both seem to have failed miserably, and what is clearly needed is a third system no one has apparently thought of yet. Or perhaps such a system cannot exist, it is not within the fundamental nature of man or the universe he occupies.
Nope. 38. Cars used to change much more rapidly than they do now, and the rate of change, excepting the conversion to electric power, is in continuing decline.
My point was precisely that very much unlike a computer, there comes a point very quickly with cars where you simply don't have much to upgrade. Once you make a car safe enough to travel at 150 mph, you just don't need any more because you can't really make a consumer car go 200mph, it isn't physically practical. For the next 20-30 years there will definitely be a lot of evolution, but after that I expect cars will basically be unchanging in terms of everything but style (assuming of course that cars/roads remains the travel mode of choice).
There are limited resources in the world. The people who are born without access to them demand that we take care of them, or they will kill us in retribution. Centralized government is the consensus plan for taking care of that problem, because most of us don't have the stomach for mass murder or mass murderers.
So we pay our 40% to keep the world from blowing up in our faces, and to keep our hands from having to touch icky gore.
They wouldn't have remained popular in the past, but what about the future:
Once you get beyond 7 point adjustable, heated and cooled seats, do you ever need more? If the seats are easily replaceable and just need a power/data connection, it's just not hard to upgrade.
Upgrades/replacement render the upholstery issue moot too.
Hopefully the battery module has a pretty simple interface to the engine/drive system, so upgrading there isn't difficult either.
Really, with fully electric cars, there should be only 3 parts that are a challenge to upgrade:
The frame. This is essentially what you're handing down to your grandchildren. If you replace the frame, you may as well buy a new car, because you've lost any of the 'classic' value.
The engine. This can be challenging because the placement and size of it are typically tied tightly to the frame, but it IS still often possible, even for gas powered engines for which it is a greater challenge.
The interior design. In most cases, the interior design is essentially part of the frame. If there are must have items in the future that fundamentally redesign the interior layout of cars, you're in trouble with your classic (consider where to mount your dvd player in your model T so your kids don't distract you while driving). Where exactly do you mount your 1 cubic foot holography-tv in your tesla?
25 billion / 100,000 = 250K of us could have tesla cars, if in fact those tesla cars could be made at a profit at that price point. With about 250 million drivers in this country, about 1 in a thousand of us will win your tesla lottery, which are pretty high odds as far as lotteries go, but still not good odds.
Technically, I'm assuming she didn't lie to me about not being into that.
Well, any is better than none. You just build as many as you need to get the heat dissipation rate up to the level you need.
In the long run, I think you consider it a process of building out an array of leaves of electricity generating solar panels that also conveniently act as a heat dump into space with maximum efficiency. Of course, by the time we have the technology to take this seriously, we have other options as well which people will probably prefer. As one example, it would by then be ultra cheap to lift people into orbit along with small space craft, so we'll probably just have a diaspora to the stars before this happens. Who would choose to live on an economically impoverished earth when the resources off-earth are comparatively unlimited.
I'm sure the headline just means that they are actually in use, falsifying their idleness.
Radiated was the point. It would be converting the radiating surface of the earth from the surface of a sphere with degree 2 to a fractal with degree up to 2.5.
And ideally, I'd come home to find Alyson Hannigan oiled up and duct taped to my bed
You know you're pathetic when they're even unwilling in your fantasies.
You're assuming everyone prefers them willing.
Uhhhh. Wouldn't making chips a bit more efficient be better, as opposed to making them "less likely to burn out at higher temps"
Seems that google's not really thinking green in this case (despite the pretension to do so in others), unless they plan on making use of the datacenter heat elsewhere.
Yes, assuming those were the tradeoffs, which they weren't.
Google is trading existing performance levels against reduced cooling, which is a pure win, just by demanding more resilient chips from Intel.
It's going to be far cheaper to build radiator fins extending into space than to move the earth's orbit, barring some innovative invention in the orbit moving department. Also, orbit moving has the downside of reducing the solar flux, which will be bad for our solar energy efforts.
Well, I was never getting 1 or 3 mbit when my speed was supposed to be at those levels either. I've had about a 5x improvement in download speed during the transition from 1mbit to 6.
I think you missed the subtle difference between comparison and criticism.
1) Criticism and mocking are not the same thing.
2) Amateur projects shouldn't be held to the same standards as professional ones because they receive significantly different resources as inputs, and so naturally differ quantitatively in their outputs.
The mocking post suggested that the developers were incompetent because their project was missing one random feature that some other program had years ago. An amateur project can't afford to implement every feature that a funded project does. These things require resources that simply may not be available to the amateur developer.
The house plays poker if they are fronting one of the players, and in online poker that means they can provide that player with information about the cards held by the other players. They can do this in table poker too (and if you play in a mob game, they will), but in the major casinos this is less common.
It's retroactively in their interest to run an honest game only if they get caught cheating. If they never get caught, they add the margin to the rake, and that makes it in their best interest to cheat.
You have to be crazy to trust the house in online poker. In physical poker, it's a lot easier to see when the house is cheating.
Sadly, that's just not what I experience, though. I don't use 800kbps continuous, I really do burst traffic. And as long as I stay under the cap, they're really selling me the burst speed.
The problem with your theory is that for many of us, there can't legally BE any competition, so no, there won't be other options.
I have observed the price per bit of broadband dropping recently. My comcast service has gone from 1mbit to 3mbit to 6mbit over the last 5 years with no change in price.
The introduction of the cap, of course, significantly complicates that computation.
Beat the shop owner to death with the beer, take the money from the register, then put back $7.99 so you can't get charged with theft of the beer?
A small example suffices:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=399999999999999+-+399999999999998&btnG=Search
It's not clear to me why that would get the right result, but
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=299999999999999+-+299999999999998&btnG=Search
does not. It's close to 48 bit limits, but the 29 version is over also.
Such systems definitely exist. Our system uses a wiki to link cm, build, test, results, requirements. I've seen other places with similar infrastructure.