These particular terrorists are funded by oil producing nations, Iran and Saudi. They're doing it because they don't like the influence particularly the USA has within their nations. The US for instance is propping up the Saudi royal family, paying them with worthless bits of green paper and military aid. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, Osama bin Laden is Saudi. They see themselves as freedom fighters, fighting the great satan that is literally sucking their wealth dry, and, frankly, when Bernanke switches on the presses they'll be right.
To stop terrorism, stop using oil. Simple. The peak's coming RSN anyway.
Give em a Nokia N95. Load up a jabber client which can post the encrypted GPS co-ordinates and IMEI number to those you trust. Someone nicks the phone, you know exactly where they are.
It's still a heat engine, which means, maybe 30% efficiency under ideal conditions. Then there's the problem with getting heat into the cylinder fast enough as the air expands so it won't even come close to the ideal.
Compare with an electric motor where 95% efficiency is not uncommon. An air car just doesn't make any sense, particularly when you're using electricity to charge the tanks.
I Not that I think Windows Mobile is the best thing since sliced bread, performance/power wise it's way lacking compared to Symbian, but nevertheless, it is a really nice platform. You can't just drop a PC style interface onto a mobile, as Qtopia and Windows mobile try to do. It doesn't work. It sucks. There isn't the screen space to waste the way they do, there isn't a keyboard there isn't a mouse.
Symbian and the iPhone are successful because they don't try to fit an inappropriate interface to the devices.
Obligatory OpenMoko disclaimer; sure OpenMoko may be the shit, but the device simple doesn't fit my hardware needs. It's so horribly two years ago. It's something which has the potential to revolutionise particularly business applications and processes.
DB in Berlin has bikes all over the place. That works well too. You see one, phone them, they give you a code to unlock it and you ride where you want to go.
We have a similar system in Glasgow in Scotland which I have just experienced whereby you lock up your bike to something solid and some little fucker comes along and chisels your lock off and takes your bike.
These scholars should devote their energy to the study and advancement of this system. Indeed. Their solution also doesn't solve the traffic congestion problem. Their system is on normal roads and therefore you have to drive it which means you can't do anything else for the 1.5 hours you're spending in the traffic each morning and evening. Christ, their solution doesn't even solve the problem they say it solves... "with kiosks at locations around a city or small community." Which means you still have to go to a kiosk to pick one up, which is just another name for a stop or station.
"said Franco Vairani, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's school of architecture".
Well that explains it then.
There is already a US system designed by a transport researcher (J. Edward Anderson) who's actually thought about the whole problem of transport, instead of just how to make a car a bit more environmentally friendly.
What they should do now is average the lot of them and with that number of drawings it would average out all the anomalies leaving us with just the true essence of sheep.
Peak oil has been just a decade away ever since the theory was first floated 50 years ago. Actually it's usually been predicted to peak around 2010. 50 years ago that sounded like forever. Even 30 years ago when US production peaked that sounded like forever. Well, it's 2 years now.
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL30807475.html
Fact is, we keep finding new oil reserves and new ways of extracting oil that we didn't have the technology to get to before. Sure, now you have tanks, A10 ground attack aircraft and cruise missiles.
Astroturfing for whom? That doesn't make a lot of sense. Microsoft. My original comment: "What the engineers giveth, Microsoft taketh away."
It makes perfect sense. Slashdot is a well known and frankly, influential website. Keeping the profile of negative comments as low as possible makes perfect sense for any large company.
Hell, I'd do it, if I had a multi billion dollar business.
Take an array of 1U cheapo intel servers with consistent Lights Out Management systems, a really nice 10Gbit ethernet switch, or maybe InfiniBand, install a basic Linux. Install Xen, Install a load balancing system like Sun Grid Engine.
Write some clever scripts and whahey! Your own personal mainframe/virtual datacentre with power and AC requirements which depend on your workload, which BTW, you can keep at 90% plus, rather than the more common 18%. The secret is in the "clever scripts", the fastest network (It's always been about the network) you can get your hands on and a bit of imagination.
This is BTW, what Cisco and VMWARE are working on. Basically a commodity mainframe; commodity hardware, commodity software. IBM of course have been doing it for decades... Smart cookies IBM, they really understand computing.
poverty creates plenty of carbon output. burning dirty sources of heating and collected wood in inefficient fireplaces etc. Not even close to the amount of CO2 produced by cars, ships and planes.
I actually have a theory that global warming is being pushed so hard by politicians primarily because of peak oil.
Just one politician trying to make another politician look bad.
If there's a demand for mathematicians or statisticians then they'll be well paid, and being well paid the profession will attract people which'll push down the cost.
Slashdot Mirror
Bolted all the chairs down. Just for a laugh.
Well, we'll see with time, a couple of years will tell. In the meantime start saving for one of these:
http://www.teslamotors.com/
http://www.venturi.fr/
Hell, it's easier than that. All you need are beauty products...
These particular terrorists are funded by oil producing nations, Iran and Saudi. They're doing it because they don't like the influence particularly the USA has within their nations. The US for instance is propping up the Saudi royal family, paying them with worthless bits of green paper and military aid. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, Osama bin Laden is Saudi. They see themselves as freedom fighters, fighting the great satan that is literally sucking their wealth dry, and, frankly, when Bernanke switches on the presses they'll be right.
To stop terrorism, stop using oil. Simple. The peak's coming RSN anyway.
With libel you have to prove they're true. If you don't have the evidence, you lose.
Give em a Nokia N95. Load up a jabber client which can post the encrypted GPS co-ordinates and IMEI number to those you trust. Someone nicks the phone, you know exactly where they are.
Fire the people who are infected.
....Actually I can't be bothered.
http://www.fon.com/en/
It's still a heat engine, which means, maybe 30% efficiency under ideal conditions. Then there's the problem with getting heat into the cylinder fast enough as the air expands so it won't even come close to the ideal.
Compare with an electric motor where 95% efficiency is not uncommon. An air car just doesn't make any sense, particularly when you're using electricity to charge the tanks.
Symbian and the iPhone are successful because they don't try to fit an inappropriate interface to the devices. Obligatory OpenMoko disclaimer; sure OpenMoko may be the shit, but the device simple doesn't fit my hardware needs. It's so horribly two years ago. It's something which has the potential to revolutionise particularly business applications and processes.
DB in Berlin has bikes all over the place. That works well too. You see one, phone them, they give you a code to unlock it and you ride where you want to go.
http://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/kundenbuchung/
We have a similar system in Glasgow in Scotland which I have just experienced whereby you lock up your bike to something solid and some little fucker comes along and chisels your lock off and takes your bike.
It has the worst aspects of the car and train combined.
1: You still get stuck in traffic.
2: You still have to drive it.
3: You have to travel to a kiosk or station to pick one up.
Actually, I can't think of any advantages over a normal car, other than it being electric, which we can do now anyway. Going to suggest some?
"said Franco Vairani, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's school of architecture".
Well that explains it then.
There is already a US system designed by a transport researcher (J. Edward Anderson) who's actually thought about the whole problem of transport, instead of just how to make a car a bit more environmentally friendly.
http://www.taxi2000.com/
And the UK system, Ultra is actually being implemented at Heathrow Airport:
http://www.atsltd.co.uk/
If you're trying to produce an artificial intelligence to run the robot then the low level electronics aren't terribly important to you.
What they should do now is average the lot of them and with that number of drawings it would average out all the anomalies leaving us with just the true essence of sheep.
Ah, you're one of them.
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL30807475.html Fact is, we keep finding new oil reserves and new ways of extracting oil that we didn't have the technology to get to before. Sure, now you have tanks, A10 ground attack aircraft and cruise missiles.
It makes perfect sense. Slashdot is a well known and frankly, influential website. Keeping the profile of negative comments as low as possible makes perfect sense for any large company.
Hell, I'd do it, if I had a multi billion dollar business.
Multics...
What goes around comes around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/
Take an array of 1U cheapo intel servers with consistent Lights Out Management systems, a really nice 10Gbit ethernet switch, or maybe InfiniBand, install a basic Linux. Install Xen, Install a load balancing system like Sun Grid Engine.
Write some clever scripts and whahey! Your own personal mainframe/virtual datacentre with power and AC requirements which depend on your workload, which BTW, you can keep at 90% plus, rather than the more common 18%. The secret is in the "clever scripts", the fastest network (It's always been about the network) you can get your hands on and a bit of imagination.
This is BTW, what Cisco and VMWARE are working on. Basically a commodity mainframe; commodity hardware, commodity software. IBM of course have been doing it for decades... Smart cookies IBM, they really understand computing.
I actually have a theory that global warming is being pushed so hard by politicians primarily because of peak oil.
Just one politician trying to make another politician look bad.
If there's a demand for mathematicians or statisticians then they'll be well paid, and being well paid the profession will attract people which'll push down the cost.
80% of the energy in gasoline is wasted. The other thing is that there are batteries which are specifically designed not to lose charge ability.
Don't care.