They have a factory actually producing vehicles and are planning to make profits... Aptera have a proof of concept car. I suspect their numbers are based somewhat on imagination.
The compressed gas enters the expansion cylinder at environmental temperature and as it expands, it cools, in exactly the same way as the combustion gases in an Internal Combustion Engine cool as they expand.
"Join 'Amend der constitution for me.' 100,000 members. Dis time it's personalized."
"Constitution" (Einrichtung) is feminine (die), and german speakers tend to fake "th" with "s" when speaking english rather than d, though equivalent german words tend to replace "th" with "d". e.g. to think becomes "denken".
In consumer electronic stores there are $350 Laptops (after rebate) with Intel Graphic chips and 2G of RAM a 120G HD. that run Vista and cost less than a Netbook
It's a heat engine, no more efficient than a petrol powered engine, but with the problem of low density energy storage. Basically it doesn't look good compared to batteries and electric drive.
The thing is... Queue performance is predictable. The organisers know how long it takes to service a single request (on average), they know approximately the number of people who are going to use the service and they set the number of service points to minimise the costs of servicing the queue.
Now,if you live in the UK, everyone will stand around for hours with nobody daring to say a word, so they can get away with a fraction of the number of service points which would be required in a country like Germany where queueing is considered quaint. This means that people who live in the UK spend far longer standing in queues than in other countries.
Now, if they bitched to the management, or horror of horrors demanded their money back then queues would be a small fraction of the size they run to now because the management would organise more service points.
See quickly the management work out how much it's costing them.
That's one of the problems of building 5 nines szstems, the management blood pressure level falls too low. Oxygen starvation to the brain you see. A bit of action solves it all though.
The US dollar is backed by oil, no longer gold. Everyone needs dollars to buy oil so America gets to export it's inflation to the developed and developing world. This is a bonanza for the government and banks. Growth (Credit expansion) without end... Woohoo...
Of course to continue the growth (credit expansion) you have to continually expand the number of people who have access to credit. Eventually you are stopping people in the street and giving it away...
But, like all exponential functions, you hit a limit, run out of some resource... Like people able to pay.
When it was good, it was very very good, but when it was bad, well, it was a windowing system written in Postscript that let you pass pieces of Postscript code back and forth between client and server to get things done, which could be appallingly insecure and buggy
What we could do now! We could create a brand NEW windowing system but instead of Postscript, they could use... Javascript instead!!! Doesn't that just sound like a totally FABULOUS idea?
I don't understand why I can't simply "dock" my 300MHz 64Mb RAM, 2Gb storage mobile phone into a cradle and use a normal keyboard, mouse and screen to edit documents, write emails, browse web etc.
Psion had fully featured word processors, spreadsheets and cardfile databases running on 16bit hardware a decade ago, the problem isn't the OS or hardware... All the current crop of smartphones are up to the job.
1: Can your service be load balanced across several identical servers? 2: Does your services experience predictable but varying load? 3: Can the state used by your service be rapidly replicated (10 minutes) across newly booted systems?
Not all server systems make good candidates for shutdown. Web farms do tend to because they fit the criteria above.
You can't spend your way out of debt, but you can INVEST your way out of debt.
Sounds good but it's wrong, because money IS debt. You can't[1] have money without debt. Reduce the debt (however) you also reduce the money. Increase the money and you increase the debt.
or the CEOs of most of the companies out there. It was the fundamental nature of our monetary system and banking itself. It is built into the fabric of our society. Has been for centuries.
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They have a factory actually producing vehicles and are planning to make profits... Aptera have a proof of concept car. I suspect their numbers are based somewhat on imagination.
Allright then.. what's the heat source?
The environment.
The compressed gas enters the expansion cylinder at environmental temperature and as it expands, it cools, in exactly the same way as the combustion gases in an Internal Combustion Engine cool as they expand.
"Join 'Amend der constitution for me.' 100,000 members. Dis time it's personalized."
"Constitution" (Einrichtung) is feminine (die), and german speakers tend to fake "th" with "s" when speaking english rather than d, though equivalent german words tend to replace "th" with "d". e.g. to think becomes "denken".
HTH
I wish I was the guy paid to implement it.
Imagine, government of the people, in real time.
Imagine, government of the people, in real time...
You simply have to understand that the more power you give politicians, the more corrupt they will become.
In consumer electronic stores there are $350 Laptops (after rebate) with Intel Graphic chips and 2G of RAM a 120G HD. that run Vista and cost less than a Netbook
Handbag?
Or is it 30cmx30cm, weighing in at 3kg?
They learn to script instead.
It's a heat engine, no more efficient than a petrol powered engine, but with the problem of low density energy storage. Basically it doesn't look good compared to batteries and electric drive.
shred won't be installed.
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda is far more likely to work.
HTH
Consider it a form of quarantine.
Zap the partition table.
The thing is... Queue performance is predictable. The organisers know how long it takes to service a single request (on average), they know approximately the number of people who are going to use the service and they set the number of service points to minimise the costs of servicing the queue.
Now,if you live in the UK, everyone will stand around for hours with nobody daring to say a word, so they can get away with a fraction of the number of service points which would be required in a country like Germany where queueing is considered quaint. This means that people who live in the UK spend far longer standing in queues than in other countries.
Now, if they bitched to the management, or horror of horrors demanded their money back then queues would be a small fraction of the size they run to now because the management would organise more service points.
See quickly the management work out how much it's costing them.
That's one of the problems of building 5 nines szstems, the management blood pressure level falls too low. Oxygen starvation to the brain you see. A bit of action solves it all though.
The VM software vendor becomes "the major player".
As The Who's so insightfully titled song said "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."
Sorry, I was just ranting about web browsers.
The US dollar is backed by oil, no longer gold. Everyone needs dollars to buy oil so America gets to export it's inflation to the developed and developing world. This is a bonanza for the government and banks. Growth (Credit expansion) without end... Woohoo...
Of course to continue the growth (credit expansion) you have to continually expand the number of people who have access to credit. Eventually you are stopping people in the street and giving it away...
But, like all exponential functions, you hit a limit, run out of some resource... Like people able to pay.
When it was good, it was very very good, but when it was bad, well, it was a windowing system written in Postscript that let you pass pieces of Postscript code back and forth between client and server to get things done, which could be appallingly insecure and buggy
What we could do now! We could create a brand NEW windowing system but instead of Postscript, they could use... Javascript instead!!! Doesn't that just sound like a totally FABULOUS idea?
I don't understand why I can't simply "dock" my 300MHz 64Mb RAM, 2Gb storage mobile phone into a cradle and use a normal keyboard, mouse and screen to edit documents, write emails, browse web etc.
Psion had fully featured word processors, spreadsheets and cardfile databases running on 16bit hardware a decade ago, the problem isn't the OS or hardware... All the current crop of smartphones are up to the job.
1: Can your service be load balanced across several identical servers?
2: Does your services experience predictable but varying load?
3: Can the state used by your service be rapidly replicated (10 minutes) across newly booted systems?
Not all server systems make good candidates for shutdown. Web farms do tend to because they fit the criteria above.
You can't spend your way out of debt, but you can INVEST your way out of debt.
Sounds good but it's wrong, because money IS debt. You can't[1] have money without debt. Reduce the debt (however) you also reduce the money. Increase the money and you increase the debt.
[1] Under our existing monetary system.
Indeed. The tax plans of the left or right. Hell, the concepts of left and right are just distractions.
or the CEOs of most of the companies out there. It was the fundamental nature of our monetary system and banking itself. It is built into the fabric of our society. Has been for centuries.
e.g.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/frb.html
and/or:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-905047436258345
But hey look. There's an election coming! Maybe something will change. LOL.
Even if I'd be a little inconvenienced to dig up a copy of Corel Draw
It is in a business's interest to use open formats. Most have no clue that this is the case, so never bother. They'll figure it out eventually.
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Something plenty of "leaders" later rely upon.
The UK and US voting systems deliberately throw away at least 50% of votes.