Huh?
I'm not familiar with the Volt, but two other electric cars limit the use of their rooftop solar panels to powering the climate control system, keeping the car from getting too hot when the sun is bearing down.
You do imagine. There are economies of scale. A single small ICE is woefully inefficient; a centralized power plant, even coal, that benefits from its own large scale is better at the conversion of power and the capture of pollutants. Here about a third of the power is nuclear, which makes my ZEM that much cleaner than my ICE car. A decentralized grid where every electric car that pulls into a garage powers from solar panels on the roof is even better.
because when I get home at night I just don't to mess around to get the thing working.
That's the exact reason I give. Things just work with Apple products. All my terminals to OpenBSD boxes and Gentoo boxes and the localhost work for work, but iPhoto, iTunes, Addressbook, and so on work for my life.
Yes, there's theory, and then there's the reality: While a default address on the host-side of IPv6 is made up of the MAC address, padded, operating systems support Privacy Extensions and iirc Windows will generate a random new address several times a day.
And I would be very happy if we undid the changes of a century ago and the states regained their representation at the federal level in the Senate.
I like republics, because I dislike mob-rule. And I really hope this "democratic presidential election" idea will soon-enough re-bury itself for another four years because the electoral college is one of the better ideas for representation in a union of diverse states.
Speaking of ways that "populists" (nee "great unwashed masses") screw up things with their attempts at direct democracy, I also wish California would eliminate this "recall" process that lets one rich person (Darrell Issa) work to overturn the will of the voters because he wants to be governor instead. Before I changed my party registration to vote for Obama in the primaries, the closest I'd come to voting for a Democrat was voting against the recall of Gray Davis.
But in a car I only need two passengers, a 50km range, no heat or AC, I only expect to charge it at home, and I'd pay $30k for a pure-EV, no PHEV. I don't need whatever makes the Volt a $40k+ car unless it's faster and smaller than my chipped GTI.
So I settled on my one-passenger EV with a 50mile range, sunlight for heat or sea breeze for AC, I only charge it at home, and with VRLA batteries it's a tenth of the price I'd pay for a two-seater. (So I upgraded the batteries to Li-Ion.)
Yes, you have to walk to a gas station when you run out of gas. I just have to walk to the nearest building and plug in--- I ride my EV past a lot more buildings with electricity than I do service stations to air up the tires.
But, I've only actually run a car out of gas once, when I was young and couldn't afford more than a few dollars of gas at a time. I've never run out of stored fuel in my EV and I never expect to, but if I did it would be easier to find an electrical outlet than a gas station.
Electric power is actually more readily available than gasoline. We have an entire grid devoting to distributing it. Gas has to be shipped to specific gas stations. I don't see an infrastructure problem.
Please, don't point out the obvious. Sure, nuclear power from just up the coast is a much more resilient infrastructure than oil from Saudi Arabia or the Gulf of Mexico. And the cost per mile in raw fuel to move my electric scooter is a tenth of the cost of my fast expensive car that was made in Stuttgart, or free if the landlord were to install solar panels. Whatever.
My electric scooter uses LiFePo4 batteries. Cuts the overall weight by 20% and improves range+top speed compared to the (at this time) much cheaper VRLAs. It'll be nice when I can buy an Aptera with LiFePo4 batteries.
To my thinking, sitting out a recession in college is a very smart move. You're not seriously looking for work in your chosen profession at a time where there is little work to be found, and with any luck the economy will be recovering when you graduate and you'll find a job that much more easily.
You know, sometimes things just work out perfectly-- I'd been going to school part time after establishing residency for tuition in 2005 to complete the remaining 2/3rds of my degree and in January of this year transferred to UCSD to get the last set of required upper-division classes.
I couldn't take the full-time college workload even when I went part-time for a month so I made the choice to quit my job and live off savings for this final year of my degree. What fortuitous timing, I must say!
It was a hard day putting invested funds into my checking account but on the other hand, I didn't lose that money this summer -- I'm happily spending it living on the beach with my puppy reading random texts as I complete my degree in the Study of Religion.
As far as recessions go, I've got to admit I've activated my resume on Monster at times to see what's happening in the market and I'll have to side with people that give preference to experience in conjunction with a degree. I've been working at multi-megabit (>100Mb, 1Gb, normally) sites since the mid 90s for immediately recognizable companies. It was just last week that six-figure jobs started appearing, depending on how far up the coast I want to move.
Learning the difference between the crista gallae and the palatine bone in my human anatomy class never helped me bring up a GRE/GIF/IPSec/blahblah tunnel faster, nor will my year of Italian or current semester of Arabic help me to build a custom RPM because redhat excluded some feature at compile time. My art history classes had nothing to do writing a better bash script or php-snmp-hack.
But together they make me a better smarter person more aware of and interactive with the world outside computers. Because of my anatomy class, I actually understand how dumbbells make muscles bigger so ladies swoon. I've spent about six weeks in Italy and I'm headed to the Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt for three weeks after Christmas thanks to time in this Arabic class and in my Italian class, where I met friends I adore and still spend time with three years later. I even managed a girlfriend a year after the fact thanks to one my art classes.
So I figure, if I can talk to a tech guy in an interview about how I've been watching and using IPv6 since it was NG in 1997 and I remember the 6bone/3ff3, and I know how to get PI v6 space from ARIN and safely dualstack a network, that can impress him at the same time I can talk to the recruiter over in HR about Renaissance architecture in Florence and impress her and get the money I want to make me filthy rich.
So moral of the story, get your degree before you're thirty, preferably somewhere far away from your parents where you live at school so you may engage in the hedonistic delights of campus life and let the spirit of Dionysus consume you.
I don't have a wife or two small children; how can I get rid of those three extra seats in my VW GTI? Oh, by getting a single seat electric motorbike with better specs than the Think mentioned in the summary. Just because I'm not in a certain category doesn't exclude anyone else from being in that category.
If you want a serious answer, if it were ten years ago you could put them all in a RAV4 EV or a four-seater GM EV1. But there was "no demand" for electric vehicles since no one was allowed to buy them, with the idea today being let's all go buy "flex fuel" cars that keep the chains of petroleum intact and prevent a large scale migration to electric vehicles.
If I could trade-in my GTI for an Aptera, I would. No more oil changes, no more trips to the gas station, no more noise...
i begrudgingly bought a macbook the other day...after having an iBook and then 12" PowerBook with matte screens and thinking I could never go glossy. But you give it a new perspective that I hope to be the case when the delivery man brings my new portable.
Probably the best naming scheme was first sub-domained by airport code and/or country code:
jfk.us.domain.com
lgw.uk.domain.com
If that doesn't work, you can also do city.country.domain.com
Thank you for understanding DNS.
I've worked at crazy places where type of device, location, and all that were crammed into the hostname, just like this post. I blame people not using subdomains or.local for active directory. Oh, and removing vowels. If a software application was called "Pacific Beach" the machine name would contain it, condensed to PcfcBch with an 01 at the end. Come on people, our language has vowels, use them.
Also, the world is a better place with tinydns at the top of your hierarchy. It's easy to convert from BIND. (even though i do use bind9 slaves as v6 listeners.)
Someone else made a comment about the hostname "fileserver01.servers.production.marketing.sjc.somecompany.com" and I'll confess I love it. Better than calling it "hitchcock.somecompany.com" and leaving it for someone else to figure out in five years.
IPv6 is another consideration; people do make a valid point that it is inconvenient to type 2620:0:c0:f010:218:e7ff:fe17:cad8/64 but at the same time I find it ridiculous that people will just read off IP addresses like 172.18.19.20 in large organizations. But that's what DNS is for.
International travel for a field engineer? I can make computer stuff work, where do I sign up?
Seriously. I'll explain in the interview that my UID is so high because I didn't get around to creating an account for a few months. Back in the days of Afterstep.
Could you please add an IPv6 VIP to slashdot now that you've got this move out of the way? I mean, it's 2008 already:)
Have you ran any stats on your dns logs to see what percentage are requests for quad-As?
If you're nervous about suddenly blackholing because of misconfigured remote sites, perhaps you could add an ipv6beta.slashdot.org site à la ipv6.google.com? Or, I read of a long-running test a website had been running where a third of clients were served a one-pixel image from a hostname with a single AAAA record, another third a dual record, and finally a single A record to test against reachability problems.
So, I'm sure you're all smart and working on it and I'll just have to keep patiently waiting, but I'll be so pleased when your v6 integration matches undeadly.org.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, a useful comment.
Huh? I'm not familiar with the Volt, but two other electric cars limit the use of their rooftop solar panels to powering the climate control system, keeping the car from getting too hot when the sun is bearing down.
You do imagine. There are economies of scale. A single small ICE is woefully inefficient; a centralized power plant, even coal, that benefits from its own large scale is better at the conversion of power and the capture of pollutants. Here about a third of the power is nuclear, which makes my ZEM that much cleaner than my ICE car. A decentralized grid where every electric car that pulls into a garage powers from solar panels on the roof is even better.
because when I get home at night I just don't to mess around to get the thing working.
That's the exact reason I give. Things just work with Apple products. All my terminals to OpenBSD boxes and Gentoo boxes and the localhost work for work, but iPhoto, iTunes, Addressbook, and so on work for my life.
Yes, there's theory, and then there's the reality: While a default address on the host-side of IPv6 is made up of the MAC address, padded, operating systems support Privacy Extensions and iirc Windows will generate a random new address several times a day.
And I would be very happy if we undid the changes of a century ago and the states regained their representation at the federal level in the Senate.
I like republics, because I dislike mob-rule. And I really hope this "democratic presidential election" idea will soon-enough re-bury itself for another four years because the electoral college is one of the better ideas for representation in a union of diverse states.
Speaking of ways that "populists" (nee "great unwashed masses") screw up things with their attempts at direct democracy, I also wish California would eliminate this "recall" process that lets one rich person (Darrell Issa) work to overturn the will of the voters because he wants to be governor instead. Before I changed my party registration to vote for Obama in the primaries, the closest I'd come to voting for a Democrat was voting against the recall of Gray Davis.
LiFePo4 I should say
So I settled on my one-passenger EV with a 50mile range, sunlight for heat or sea breeze for AC, I only charge it at home, and with VRLA batteries it's a tenth of the price I'd pay for a two-seater. (So I upgraded the batteries to Li-Ion.)
Yes, you have to walk to a gas station when you run out of gas. I just have to walk to the nearest building and plug in--- I ride my EV past a lot more buildings with electricity than I do service stations to air up the tires. But, I've only actually run a car out of gas once, when I was young and couldn't afford more than a few dollars of gas at a time. I've never run out of stored fuel in my EV and I never expect to, but if I did it would be easier to find an electrical outlet than a gas station.
Would you spend $25k+ on a 2 seater with the option for a gas backup? Get an Aptera.
Electric power is actually more readily available than gasoline. We have an entire grid devoting to distributing it. Gas has to be shipped to specific gas stations. I don't see an infrastructure problem.
Please, don't point out the obvious. Sure, nuclear power from just up the coast is a much more resilient infrastructure than oil from Saudi Arabia or the Gulf of Mexico. And the cost per mile in raw fuel to move my electric scooter is a tenth of the cost of my fast expensive car that was made in Stuttgart, or free if the landlord were to install solar panels. Whatever.
My electric scooter uses LiFePo4 batteries. Cuts the overall weight by 20% and improves range+top speed compared to the (at this time) much cheaper VRLAs. It'll be nice when I can buy an Aptera with LiFePo4 batteries.
They're also made in Princeton, Indiana.
and everyone at UCSD will be studying it
To my thinking, sitting out a recession in college is a very smart move. You're not seriously looking for work in your chosen profession at a time where there is little work to be found, and with any luck the economy will be recovering when you graduate and you'll find a job that much more easily.
You know, sometimes things just work out perfectly-- I'd been going to school part time after establishing residency for tuition in 2005 to complete the remaining 2/3rds of my degree and in January of this year transferred to UCSD to get the last set of required upper-division classes.
I couldn't take the full-time college workload even when I went part-time for a month so I made the choice to quit my job and live off savings for this final year of my degree. What fortuitous timing, I must say!
It was a hard day putting invested funds into my checking account but on the other hand, I didn't lose that money this summer -- I'm happily spending it living on the beach with my puppy reading random texts as I complete my degree in the Study of Religion.
As far as recessions go, I've got to admit I've activated my resume on Monster at times to see what's happening in the market and I'll have to side with people that give preference to experience in conjunction with a degree. I've been working at multi-megabit (>100Mb, 1Gb, normally) sites since the mid 90s for immediately recognizable companies. It was just last week that six-figure jobs started appearing, depending on how far up the coast I want to move.
Learning the difference between the crista gallae and the palatine bone in my human anatomy class never helped me bring up a GRE/GIF/IPSec/blahblah tunnel faster, nor will my year of Italian or current semester of Arabic help me to build a custom RPM because redhat excluded some feature at compile time. My art history classes had nothing to do writing a better bash script or php-snmp-hack.
But together they make me a better smarter person more aware of and interactive with the world outside computers. Because of my anatomy class, I actually understand how dumbbells make muscles bigger so ladies swoon. I've spent about six weeks in Italy and I'm headed to the Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt for three weeks after Christmas thanks to time in this Arabic class and in my Italian class, where I met friends I adore and still spend time with three years later. I even managed a girlfriend a year after the fact thanks to one my art classes.
So I figure, if I can talk to a tech guy in an interview about how I've been watching and using IPv6 since it was NG in 1997 and I remember the 6bone/3ff3, and I know how to get PI v6 space from ARIN and safely dualstack a network, that can impress him at the same time I can talk to the recruiter over in HR about Renaissance architecture in Florence and impress her and get the money I want to make me filthy rich.
So moral of the story, get your degree before you're thirty, preferably somewhere far away from your parents where you live at school so you may engage in the hedonistic delights of campus life and let the spirit of Dionysus consume you.
You're right, I'm set in my ways. The reason I use OpenBSD and djbdns is because everything else sucks.
But nowadays I spend my time with Greek gods, Jesus, and Arabic, so I really don't care if you think i'm significantly less adaptive to change.
The guy preaching Windows 95 can work shouldn't have been hired in 1996, nevermind 2008.
I don't have a wife or two small children; how can I get rid of those three extra seats in my VW GTI? Oh, by getting a single seat electric motorbike with better specs than the Think mentioned in the summary. Just because I'm not in a certain category doesn't exclude anyone else from being in that category.
If you want a serious answer, if it were ten years ago you could put them all in a RAV4 EV or a four-seater GM EV1. But there was "no demand" for electric vehicles since no one was allowed to buy them, with the idea today being let's all go buy "flex fuel" cars that keep the chains of petroleum intact and prevent a large scale migration to electric vehicles.
If I could trade-in my GTI for an Aptera, I would. No more oil changes, no more trips to the gas station, no more noise...
No hacking required.
And you didn't even mention FundRace! Let's go haxor teh public interwebs.
i begrudgingly bought a macbook the other day...after having an iBook and then 12" PowerBook with matte screens and thinking I could never go glossy. But you give it a new perspective that I hope to be the case when the delivery man brings my new portable.
thanks for posting that comment. It surprised me.
About a year ago someone in their early twenties asked me if it was legal to take photographs of federal buildings.
Or so I expect, now. It's good PR, I saw a little segment about the twitterer on some network news program this week.
And it had a Terminal application! The sad day was when the BeOS guys decided to follow the single-user model instead of multi-user.
The best part about Be was the weekly newsletter JLG sent out, well, that and the BeBox.
In how many places have we all seen that "three person" icon reappear?
Probably the best naming scheme was first sub-domained by airport code and/or country code:
jfk.us.domain.com
lgw.uk.domain.com
If that doesn't work, you can also do city.country.domain.com
Thank you for understanding DNS.
I've worked at crazy places where type of device, location, and all that were crammed into the hostname, just like this post. I blame people not using subdomains or .local for active directory. Oh, and removing vowels. If a software application was called "Pacific Beach" the machine name would contain it, condensed to PcfcBch with an 01 at the end. Come on people, our language has vowels, use them.
Also, the world is a better place with tinydns at the top of your hierarchy. It's easy to convert from BIND. (even though i do use bind9 slaves as v6 listeners.)
Someone else made a comment about the hostname "fileserver01.servers.production.marketing.sjc.somecompany.com" and I'll confess I love it. Better than calling it "hitchcock.somecompany.com" and leaving it for someone else to figure out in five years.
IPv6 is another consideration; people do make a valid point that it is inconvenient to type 2620:0:c0:f010:218:e7ff:fe17:cad8/64 but at the same time I find it ridiculous that people will just read off IP addresses like 172.18.19.20 in large organizations. But that's what DNS is for.
International travel for a field engineer? I can make computer stuff work, where do I sign up?
Seriously. I'll explain in the interview that my UID is so high because I didn't get around to creating an account for a few months. Back in the days of Afterstep.
Greetings Germanic Dancers,
:)
Could you please add an IPv6 VIP to slashdot now that you've got this move out of the way? I mean, it's 2008 already
Have you ran any stats on your dns logs to see what percentage are requests for quad-As?
If you're nervous about suddenly blackholing because of misconfigured remote sites, perhaps you could add an ipv6beta.slashdot.org site à la ipv6.google.com? Or, I read of a long-running test a website had been running where a third of clients were served a one-pixel image from a hostname with a single AAAA record, another third a dual record, and finally a single A record to test against reachability problems.
So, I'm sure you're all smart and working on it and I'll just have to keep patiently waiting, but I'll be so pleased when your v6 integration matches undeadly.org.