So what you are saying is that you would need the same power a subway line to charge this car in 6 minutes. Tell you what. When you try this let me know. I will want to be a good 200 meters from that experiment and in a bunker. The speed and amount of chemical reaction that would involve is also mind numbing. Think about it even if the battery is 98% efficient in charging how much heat will be dumped into the battery in 6 minutes.
Wow you must have had some craptasic java apps. We have been using a java app in my office for the last 8 years everyday and it doesn't take hours to load. We did have some gripping from stupid people about it being slow because it was java. It wasn't java that was the problem it was the fact that we had 50 users hitting PostgreSQL server hard that was running on a 300mhz PII with 256mb of ram!
BTW it is working fine right now backed by a 600 mhz PIII with 512 MB. Love Linux and PostgreSQL when running old slow hardware.
It all can be stored on a drive that costs less then $100. Now is that 900GB compressed or not? not compressed it would be a few hundred dollars for a RAID.
I don't agree. By writing to one browser devs where deciding to close what was supposed to be an open technology IE the web. Even when IE was 99% of the market I insisted that we develop for both Netscape and IE. Boy did I get a lot of heat from one lazy web developer over that. He got offended when he say take a look at this and I would fire up Firebird to look at it. My response was it looks like junk. He would say look at it in IE and I would refuse and tell him to not bother to show it to me until it works in both. Of course now that we have standardized on Firefox with a few people using Chrome it all seems very logical. Of course no one remembers the crap they gave me.
They should have used Java and done client server:) Actually if they had they wouldn't have this problem. I am also not betting that there will be few XP only applications as well. XP was around for a very long time and a lot of people wrote apps to that Version of Windows. Yep Microsoft screwed it's customer base pretty good on that one.
Yea that would be cool but... But the 6 minute recharge time is fiction. That is the "theoretical" maximum at some time in the future. A poster on a site actually did the math. "Giving them a very efficient 60kWhr for their 375 mile drive, you would need a 600kW feed to recharge that in 6 minutes. Even off a 14.4kV main, that would require a 40A current."
Wow 40A at 14.4 kv....... So that would take about a 3" cable and the rectifier you describe would be an impressive beast to say the least.
So what we are talking about isn't that far removed from a set of jumper cables for a nuclear aircraft carrier or the Starship Enterprise.
Not really I have a Mazda3 s which is the 5 door which in the US is only available with the 2.3 4. That gets an EPA rated 31 MPG. Now remember that US gallons are smaller by a good bit than imperial. Figuring in an off the cuff fudge factor for improvements I rounded that number up too 37.5 MPG. Still a rough fudge factor but still valid. Even if you want to take the energy and cut it in half it is still A LOT OF ENERGY. People just don't get it but it takes a lot of energy to push a ton of stuff 300+ miles at over 50 mpg. And think about how a battery works. When you put energy into a battery is stores it by a chemical reaction. Just charge your cell phone sometime and feel how warm that battery gets. Now imagine all the energy in even just 5 gallons of gasoline being dumped into a battery in just 6 minutes! Or save little way to see it in practical terms is find a backpackers camp stove. Get a good one like an MSR. Set it on high and see how long it takes to boil a quart of water. It can usually do it in about 6 minutes. Then look how much fuel it used and do the math. Until I see it tested by an outside source it is way into the range of probable snake oil. BTW you get double the range out of your car because I bet it is a TDI. Diesel actually has a lot more energy per gallon than gasoline you can see it in the density of the fuel. Diesel weighs right around 3.25KG per US gallon vs 2.72 which is one of the reasons that diesels get more MPG or KPLs than a gasoline engine does. The other reasons tend to be because a diesel does't have a throttle plate, lower friction from turning at lower RPMs, and a longer stroke to get the maximum power from the expansion phase. Modern gasoline engines with direct injection get very close to the same distance per KG as diesels do but we don't tend to measure fuel mass.
slight? that is more than range than my Mazda 3 gets out of a tank. So figure the energy density of around 10 US gallons of gasoline.... That is a lot of energy to put into a battery in a very short amount of time. I want a lot more info.
Wow I guess I assumed too much out of people. Most video is already compressed if the format fits the bandwidth provided then you can just pass through. I mean was that too much to assume? Yes I do understand the concept of trans-coding already compressed data using a lossy codec. I figured everybody did so I didn't bother to state the obvious. Pass through what you can. Thing is that this is using wifi so it must be encoding so these devices will have all the problems you describe. If you move the logic deeper in the device then you can have selective transcoding of streams. For the true videoophile I doubt anything but a gold plated hand made by deaf nuns in the mountains of New Zealand HDMI cable will do.
I think I watch 2 network shows a week, some history channel, sci-fi, Discover, plus TCM. For old movies I can go to Netflix streaming. I mean do they really want to loose me as a customer?
Haa. Since every HD Video source you use is already lossy what is the difference? BluRay, cable, satellite, streaming.... And the best of them already use H.264! BTW odds are this device is also uses a lossy codec.
Okay at 60 hhz do you really need a millisecond of latency? Also for video "not gaming" that seems way over kill. And how is this not just streaming? You use h.264 and wifi and you have "streaming HDMI" Okay add some cryto so only "approved" devices can show it.
Yea this is really cool but frankly this could be hacked right now with a two systems with GPU and wifi. Frankly most computers should handle this with a software update. Microsoft and Sony could add software to the PS/3 and the XBox so they could both an adapter and or use an adapter.
My uncle died of lung cancer and never smoked a day in his life. I believe that it was from the asbestos they liked the tanks with back then. His end was not as well scripted as you fathers. I am sure that my high school dean was shocked at my reaction when they told me. I was actually relived because he and my mother and aunt had all been suffering so long. One has to wonder at them. When I was 19 and 20 all I cared about was beer and girls. My life was so easy compared to that time.
For us we get to have the gift of knowing great men. Funny thing is that maybe 66 years ago your father and my Uncle Charlie might have sat in a pub together having a pint, or your father might have been one of the solders that helped him after his tank got hit. Yes my uncle also helped to liberate one of the camps. He would never talk about it. My aunt later told me that after the war he went to church every Sunday. She told me that after the war he told her that he knew that there must be a devil.
The Cable TV model is the problem. My wifes mother and sister do not have cable. They live in the Dallas area and can get a lot of very good HD content OVA and now they have Netflix streaming. Why spend over $1000 for cable TV. When Cable was $30 to $50 a month it was fine. Now they have 200 channels of which I want maybe 8 of them. So lets say I pay $100 a month for 200 channels that is.50 dollars a channel. Tell you what let my buy the channels I want to watch at 4x that and I will be happy. Even better make it automated. Charge me for the channels I watch each month. I would drop cable except I live where I can only get a single channel. As for the broadcasters. I don't mind commercials on free content. Really I will be glad to watch your shows and your commercials on the internet if you put them up. Heck I will even give you my demographics so you target ads to me. Goodness knows that I wouldn't mind Kawasaki, Suzuki, Apple, HP, Pizza Hut, and other ads of that type vs beer and depends undergarments ads. I swear that TV is trying to self destruct all on it's own. I am just waiting for Apple, Intel, Microsoft, or Google to sponsor a TV show that is only in the internet. Just bypass the networks all together. Podcasts have already replaced my drive time radio. I would probably watch them on my TV if there was an easy way to get them on my XBox.
I think this simple question will solve it for you.
Would you ever vote for someone because their name is first?
Ask as many people as you want and count how many say yes.
Now ask a large number of people if they think having the ballot in a different order than the sample ballot sent to them would could cause problems?
I promise you that if the race is close and if the sample ballot doesn't match what people see in the voting booth you will have a disaster of huge proportions.
If you father is still alive give him a thanks for me. My Uncle served in WWII as well as a tanker. He was reported killed in action twice and had a terrible scar on his wrist from where his watch branded him. His tank caught fire and his watch got that hot that it burned a watch shaped scare on his Arm. He was much older than my mother like 20 years old. After the war he came home and worked to build a modern hospital in our small town. I was born in that Hospital and when they replaced that one they named a wing for him. The thing is that he was the kindest and most gentle man I ever knew. Of course he was as you put it a Yank. I do miss him. He died way back in 82 when I was in high school.
It is unlikley that Germany could have taken England. Germany never well at amphibious operations and the Royal Navy pretty dang good as was the RAF at defense. But if England did fall then Germany would have eventually faced B-29s and later B-36s from the US with nuclear weapons. Also we would not have had to stage across the entire Atlantic just from Iceland. Plus the US would have had the option of working with South Africa and attacking from Africa across the Med. So even with better weather in Russia things are not as clear cut as you would wee them. BTW it is a myth that the US was far behind Germany on swept wing research. The NACA was well long in that field as well and Lockheed had proposed a jet in 1940. Now if Japan had attacked Russia on December 7th and not the US so Russia had to fight on two fronts and Germany had managed to keep the US out and if the UK signed an armistice with Germany then you have a strong maybe. But those of us in the US and Canada would still not be speaking German.
I didn't. What I said was that using the tech available in the late 1950s that slant range would be too great to read tail numbers. Of you look from an angle you are looking farther. A good deal farther than straight down. A modern imaging satellite would probably not have any problem but a 1960s Corona? You can look at Corona data online and see for your self that reading tail numbers just wasn't going to happen.
True but the author didn't give a date for when this happened. He only said that in the 1950s the CIA was a junior partner no when they became a major player. That is why I said that the first satellites where late 1950s tech. If it went operation in the early 60s development would have to start in the mid to late 50s.
That is just it. It isn't about protecting the candidate. It is about protecting the voters. Anything that causes any voter to miss vote needs to be eliminated. I really doubt that a significant percentage of voters just pick the first one on the list. However if you cause confusion by randomization your are trading the welfare of the voter for the welfare of the candidate.
I don't agree. If the race is close enough the randomized data can cause all sorts of problems. I also believe that it will cause more harm than the tiny amount of bias that may be introduced. I think you and that study may suffer from the same problem as this software did. You are not looking at the unintended problems that your introduction of complexity would cause.
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So what you are saying is that you would need the same power a subway line to charge this car in 6 minutes.
Tell you what. When you try this let me know. I will want to be a good 200 meters from that experiment and in a bunker.
The speed and amount of chemical reaction that would involve is also mind numbing. Think about it even if the battery is 98% efficient in charging how much heat will be dumped into the battery in 6 minutes.
diamond is only one form of carbon crystal. Bucky balls can also form crystals.
Wow you must have had some craptasic java apps.
We have been using a java app in my office for the last 8 years everyday and it doesn't take hours to load.
We did have some gripping from stupid people about it being slow because it was java. It wasn't java that was the problem it was the fact that we had 50 users hitting PostgreSQL server hard that was running on a 300mhz PII with 256mb of ram!
BTW it is working fine right now backed by a 600 mhz PIII with 512 MB.
Love Linux and PostgreSQL when running old slow hardware.
Here I have the soluition. 1 gram = the mass of 6.02x10^12 carbon=12 atoms /12 not weight since that can very with location and atmospheric conditions.
It all can be stored on a drive that costs less then $100.
Now is that 900GB compressed or not? not compressed it would be a few hundred dollars for a RAID.
I don't agree.
By writing to one browser devs where deciding to close what was supposed to be an open technology IE the web.
Even when IE was 99% of the market I insisted that we develop for both Netscape and IE. Boy did I get a lot of heat from one lazy web developer over that. He got offended when he say take a look at this and I would fire up Firebird to look at it. My response was it looks like junk. He would say look at it in IE and I would refuse and tell him to not bother to show it to me until it works in both.
Of course now that we have standardized on Firefox with a few people using Chrome it all seems very logical.
Of course no one remembers the crap they gave me.
They should have used Java and done client server :)
Actually if they had they wouldn't have this problem. I am also not betting that there will be few XP only applications as well. XP was around for a very long time and a lot of people wrote apps to that Version of Windows.
Yep Microsoft screwed it's customer base pretty good on that one.
Yea that would be cool but...
But the 6 minute recharge time is fiction. That is the "theoretical" maximum at some time in the future. A poster on a site actually did the math.
"Giving them a very efficient 60kWhr for their 375 mile drive, you would need a 600kW feed to recharge that in 6 minutes. Even off a 14.4kV main, that would require a 40A current."
Wow 40A at 14.4 kv.......
So that would take about a 3" cable and the rectifier you describe would be an impressive beast to say the least.
So what we are talking about isn't that far removed from a set of jumper cables for a nuclear aircraft carrier or the Starship Enterprise.
Not really I have a Mazda3 s which is the 5 door which in the US is only available with the 2.3 4. That gets an EPA rated 31 MPG.
Now remember that US gallons are smaller by a good bit than imperial. Figuring in an off the cuff fudge factor for improvements I rounded that number up too 37.5 MPG. Still a rough fudge factor but still valid.
Even if you want to take the energy and cut it in half it is still A LOT OF ENERGY. People just don't get it but it takes a lot of energy to push a ton of stuff 300+ miles at over 50 mpg.
And think about how a battery works. When you put energy into a battery is stores it by a chemical reaction. Just charge your cell phone sometime and feel how warm that battery gets.
Now imagine all the energy in even just 5 gallons of gasoline being dumped into a battery in just 6 minutes!
Or save little way to see it in practical terms is find a backpackers camp stove. Get a good one like an MSR. Set it on high and see how long it takes to boil a quart of water. It can usually do it in about 6 minutes. Then look how much fuel it used and do the math.
Until I see it tested by an outside source it is way into the range of probable snake oil.
BTW you get double the range out of your car because I bet it is a TDI. Diesel actually has a lot more energy per gallon than gasoline you can see it in the density of the fuel. Diesel weighs right around 3.25KG per US gallon vs 2.72 which is one of the reasons that diesels get more MPG or KPLs than a gasoline engine does. The other reasons tend to be because a diesel does't have a throttle plate, lower friction from turning at lower RPMs, and a longer stroke to get the maximum power from the expansion phase.
Modern gasoline engines with direct injection get very close to the same distance per KG as diesels do but we don't tend to measure fuel mass.
slight? that is more than range than my Mazda 3 gets out of a tank. So figure the energy density of around 10 US gallons of gasoline....
That is a lot of energy to put into a battery in a very short amount of time.
I want a lot more info.
Wow I guess I assumed too much out of people. Most video is already compressed if the format fits the bandwidth provided then you can just pass through. I mean was that too much to assume?
Yes I do understand the concept of trans-coding already compressed data using a lossy codec. I figured everybody did so I didn't bother to state the obvious.
Pass through what you can. Thing is that this is using wifi so it must be encoding so these devices will have all the problems you describe. If you move the logic deeper in the device then you can have selective transcoding of streams.
For the true videoophile I doubt anything but a gold plated hand made by deaf nuns in the mountains of New Zealand HDMI cable will do.
Ummm. If the device is already getting a compressed video stream you can just pass it along!
I think I watch 2 network shows a week, some history channel, sci-fi, Discover, plus TCM.
For old movies I can go to Netflix streaming.
I mean do they really want to loose me as a customer?
Haa. Since every HD Video source you use is already lossy what is the difference?
BluRay, cable, satellite, streaming.... And the best of them already use H.264!
BTW odds are this device is also uses a lossy codec.
Okay at 60 hhz do you really need a millisecond of latency?
Also for video "not gaming" that seems way over kill.
And how is this not just streaming? You use h.264 and wifi and you have "streaming HDMI" Okay add some cryto so only "approved" devices can show it.
Yea this is really cool but frankly this could be hacked right now with a two systems with GPU and wifi.
Frankly most computers should handle this with a software update. Microsoft and Sony could add software to the PS/3 and the XBox so they could both an adapter and or use an adapter.
But not CNet which is our favorite. I am thinking of a TV PC/Boxee but a Roku is on our list.
My uncle died of lung cancer and never smoked a day in his life. I believe that it was from the asbestos they liked the tanks with back then.
His end was not as well scripted as you fathers. I am sure that my high school dean was shocked at my reaction when they told me. I was actually relived because he and my mother and aunt had all been suffering so long.
One has to wonder at them. When I was 19 and 20 all I cared about was beer and girls. My life was so easy compared to that time.
For us we get to have the gift of knowing great men. Funny thing is that maybe 66 years ago your father and my Uncle Charlie might have sat in a pub together having a pint, or your father might have been one of the solders that helped him after his tank got hit. Yes my uncle also helped to liberate one of the camps. He would never talk about it. My aunt later told me that after the war he went to church every Sunday. She told me that after the war he told her that he knew that there must be a devil.
The Cable TV model is the problem. My wifes mother and sister do not have cable. They live in the Dallas area and can get a lot of very good HD content OVA and now they have Netflix streaming. Why spend over $1000 for cable TV. .50 dollars a channel. Tell you what let my buy the channels I want to watch at 4x that and I will be happy.
When Cable was $30 to $50 a month it was fine. Now they have 200 channels of which I want maybe 8 of them. So lets say I pay $100 a month for 200 channels that is
Even better make it automated. Charge me for the channels I watch each month.
I would drop cable except I live where I can only get a single channel.
As for the broadcasters. I don't mind commercials on free content. Really I will be glad to watch your shows and your commercials on the internet if you put them up.
Heck I will even give you my demographics so you target ads to me. Goodness knows that I wouldn't mind Kawasaki, Suzuki, Apple, HP, Pizza Hut, and other ads of that type vs beer and depends undergarments ads.
I swear that TV is trying to self destruct all on it's own. I am just waiting for Apple, Intel, Microsoft, or Google to sponsor a TV show that is only in the internet. Just bypass the networks all together.
Podcasts have already replaced my drive time radio. I would probably watch them on my TV if there was an easy way to get them on my XBox.
I think this simple question will solve it for you.
Would you ever vote for someone because their name is first?
Ask as many people as you want and count how many say yes.
Now ask a large number of people if they think having the ballot in a different order than the sample ballot sent to them would could cause problems?
I promise you that if the race is close and if the sample ballot doesn't match what people see in the voting booth you will have a disaster of huge proportions.
If you father is still alive give him a thanks for me.
My Uncle served in WWII as well as a tanker. He was reported killed in action twice and had a terrible scar on his wrist from where his watch branded him. His tank caught fire and his watch got that hot that it burned a watch shaped scare on his Arm.
He was much older than my mother like 20 years old. After the war he came home and worked to build a modern hospital in our small town. I was born in that Hospital and when they replaced that one they named a wing for him.
The thing is that he was the kindest and most gentle man I ever knew.
Of course he was as you put it a Yank.
I do miss him. He died way back in 82 when I was in high school.
It is unlikley that Germany could have taken England. Germany never well at amphibious operations and the Royal Navy pretty dang good as was the RAF at defense.
But if England did fall then Germany would have eventually faced B-29s and later B-36s from the US with nuclear weapons. Also we would not have had to stage across the entire Atlantic just from Iceland.
Plus the US would have had the option of working with South Africa and attacking from Africa across the Med.
So even with better weather in Russia things are not as clear cut as you would wee them. BTW it is a myth that the US was far behind Germany on swept wing research. The NACA was well long in that field as well and Lockheed had proposed a jet in 1940.
Now if Japan had attacked Russia on December 7th and not the US so Russia had to fight on two fronts and Germany had managed to keep the US out and if the UK signed an armistice with Germany then you have a strong maybe.
But those of us in the US and Canada would still not be speaking German.
I didn't.
What I said was that using the tech available in the late 1950s that slant range would be too great to read tail numbers. Of you look from an angle you are looking farther. A good deal farther than straight down.
A modern imaging satellite would probably not have any problem but a 1960s Corona?
You can look at Corona data online and see for your self that reading tail numbers just wasn't going to happen.
True but the author didn't give a date for when this happened. He only said that in the 1950s the CIA was a junior partner no when they became a major player.
That is why I said that the first satellites where late 1950s tech. If it went operation in the early 60s development would have to start in the mid to late 50s.
That is just it. It isn't about protecting the candidate. It is about protecting the voters. Anything that causes any voter to miss vote needs to be eliminated. I really doubt that a significant percentage of voters just pick the first one on the list. However if you cause confusion by randomization your are trading the welfare of the voter for the welfare of the candidate.
I don't agree. If the race is close enough the randomized data can cause all sorts of problems. I also believe that it will cause more harm than the tiny amount of bias that may be introduced. I think you and that study may suffer from the same problem as this software did. You are not looking at the unintended problems that your introduction of complexity would cause.