I must not understand the definition of clog if our highways will be clogged with cars moving over 100mph. So the argument is the highways will be clogged because too many people use them but part of the reason they will use them is because they will be a faster, easier alternative to airplanes. Anyone else see a hole in that logic?
Actually, SQL Server does not provide a native JSON type which is one of the key benefits the author mentioned for PostgreSQL. However, there is a tool called JSON4SQL (http://www.json4sql.com) which is a port of the PostgreSQL JSONB type to SQLServer. That data type plus SQL Server is a pretty good alternative to PostgeSQL.
I definitely have noticed my Model S losing range at night but nothing like what is described in the article (which was written in March by the way). In fact, I went to France for 10 days in August and left it sitting at the airport while I was gone. If I had the type of loss described in the article, the battery would have been almost dead when I returned. Instead, I only lost 2-3 miles per night and had almost 200 miles of range left when I returned. I realize this wasn't cold weather, but it was only 10% of the loss described in the article.
Just curious where you got "Even if you doubled worldwide solar cell output every five years..." considering that PV production has gone up by a factor of about 7 in the past 5 years and is doubling every 2 years making it the world's fastest-growing energy source (according to The Earth Policy Institute). That is not even to mention that the pace is accelerating as a new wave of technologies comes to market (50% growth last year). At the current rate of growth, and using your numbers for production required, solar production would supply the equivalent of all of todays energy in less than 24 years. Not that I think that will happen since growth will curtail eventually, but your numbers based on a 5 year doubling are way off:
It is also worth pointing out that the earth receives enough energy from the sun in 40 minutes to match global energy consumption for all of 2006. So basically we would just need to capture 0.008% of the total energy available from solar radiation to provide enough energy for today's level of use. Given the advance of technology and the value of energy to mankind, I hardly think that sounds like a far fetched goal.
Flash definitely. They have invested heavily in Flex and AIR (which allows online apps to run offline). I have been doing a lot of development with Flex lately and have to say I would take it over AJAX, Java applets, or even native apps any day.
It is visually stunning, easy to develop, and very powerful. It is quite capable of delivering all the features of a full blown app, and it is cross browser, cross platform out of the box.
It is also mostly open source except for their dev environment (Eclipse based and not required), charting tools, and backend data services (there are open source equivalents for that).
This is the way MS is going too with Silverlight and Sun with JavaFX... and then there is also OpenLaszlo.
I'd say if you wine and complain that this can't be done and done right... you are going to miss the boat.
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I must not understand the definition of clog if our highways will be clogged with cars moving over 100mph. So the argument is the highways will be clogged because too many people use them but part of the reason they will use them is because they will be a faster, easier alternative to airplanes. Anyone else see a hole in that logic?
Actually, SQL Server does not provide a native JSON type which is one of the key benefits the author mentioned for PostgreSQL. However, there is a tool called JSON4SQL (http://www.json4sql.com) which is a port of the PostgreSQL JSONB type to SQLServer. That data type plus SQL Server is a pretty good alternative to PostgeSQL.
I definitely have noticed my Model S losing range at night but nothing like what is described in the article (which was written in March by the way). In fact, I went to France for 10 days in August and left it sitting at the airport while I was gone. If I had the type of loss described in the article, the battery would have been almost dead when I returned. Instead, I only lost 2-3 miles per night and had almost 200 miles of range left when I returned. I realize this wasn't cold weather, but it was only 10% of the loss described in the article.
Just curious where you got "Even if you doubled worldwide solar cell output every five years..." considering that PV production has gone up by a factor of about 7 in the past 5 years and is doubling every 2 years making it the world's fastest-growing energy source (according to The Earth Policy Institute). That is not even to mention that the pace is accelerating as a new wave of technologies comes to market (50% growth last year). At the current rate of growth, and using your numbers for production required, solar production would supply the equivalent of all of todays energy in less than 24 years. Not that I think that will happen since growth will curtail eventually, but your numbers based on a 5 year doubling are way off:
It is also worth pointing out that the earth receives enough energy from the sun in 40 minutes to match global energy consumption for all of 2006. So basically we would just need to capture 0.008% of the total energy available from solar radiation to provide enough energy for today's level of use. Given the advance of technology and the value of energy to mankind, I hardly think that sounds like a far fetched goal.
Flash definitely. They have invested heavily in Flex and AIR (which allows online apps to run offline). I have been doing a lot of development with Flex lately and have to say I would take it over AJAX, Java applets, or even native apps any day.
... and then there is also OpenLaszlo.
... you are going to miss the boat.
It is visually stunning, easy to develop, and very powerful. It is quite capable of delivering all the features of a full blown app, and it is cross browser, cross platform out of the box.
It is also mostly open source except for their dev environment (Eclipse based and not required), charting tools, and backend data services (there are open source equivalents for that).
This is the way MS is going too with Silverlight and Sun with JavaFX
I'd say if you wine and complain that this can't be done and done right
Since you're guaging interest, I'd also be very interested in your solution.