Clearly, by being an athlete these students have given up the idea that anything they do is personal. These glorified High School students should try to spend their college time finding out who they are, by being placed under an oppressive regime where their decisions are made for them.
And of course, the problem in this case is Twitter. It doesn't lie with a competitive college culture that prizes showmanship, machismo, and how much money they bring into the campus over personal growth, getting an education, and networking for the future. The best approach to the problem is not to shape students into better people, but to get them to shut up about their transgressions lest the Alumnis hear about it and decide to cut their funding.
The heavier the flywheel, the more energy it takes to accelerate or decelerate, fighting against itself.
That's a feature, not a bug.
Not if you're trying to accelerate the whole thing down the street. The more massive the flywheel system, the more energy it can store. But the more energy it can store, the heavier the car is. That's more energy you need to accelerate the car, or bring it up hill. Then you have additional weight in the structure to handle cornering with a heavy flywheel system, stronger brakes, etc.
Really, the three ways you can store more energy in a flywheel system is 1: heavier wheels, 2: larger wheels, 3: faster spinning. As we've seen with CD's, there are practical limitations before 3 becomes majorly problematic. With modern flywheels rotating at 250 times per second, we're probably pretty close to that limit for the moment. 1 and 2 are limited by the practicalities of car design and tooling. Even if you built out a pair of giant spinning disks in the underfloor of your car, in the most massive, structurally impenetrable SUV body you could find, you still couldn't get close to a quarter of the distance of a low-end gas car. And the radical retooling costs alone would probably be in the hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars... Not to mention repairs and liability on that much spinning mass constantly having rocks and other road debris thrown at it, or minor fender-benders, etc.
I'm not saying these are inherently insurmountable. Being able to recharge from a standard electric outlet already puts it above Hydrogen. But that's not where I'd invest my retirement savings. Yet.
Chrome and I.E. elegantly decide if you're trying to search or URL. If you type in facebook.com, you go to the url. If you type in facebook, you do a search for facebook.
I'm not sure how Firefox and Opera handle their URL bars, but I presume they're similar.
But everybody's already on Facebook. It's hard to get momentum behind a social networking service that everyone is already on and behind. LiveJournal, Friendster, and MySpace all reached massive amounts of users, and then sputtered. New users bring energy and vitality to a social community. And if you've already got all of the users, how are you going to get that new energy and momentum?
That's definitely arguable. Google would be in deep antitrust if Facebook suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from all Google search results.
Not running the ads are one thing. Banning the account is another. If he can prove that he was negatively impacted by what was essentially punitive actions by a company for using a competitor, he might have grounds.
Flywheels come with their own set of problems. They exhibit gyroscopic effects. The heavier the flywheel, the more energy it takes to accelerate or decelerate, fighting against itself. You have to maintain it in a vacuum. My 10-year-old car can't even keep the exhaust from breaking every five minutes, let alone maintain anything vacuum tight.
Also, you're not really talking about THAT massive a store of energy. Gasoline is at 47.2 Megajoules / Kilogram. LiOn batteries used in cars are at 720 Kilojoules / Kilogram. The article you list refers to commercial flywheel power storage at 40 Kilojoules / Kilogram. That's 10x less than Lithium Ion batteries. For the equivalent amount of weight, a Ford Volt could drive a paultry 4 miles between charges.
I wouldn't be surprised to see flywheel regenerative braking and acceleration take off... Momentarily store energy at a dead standstill before harnessing it to launch forwards. That's what it is used for in motorsports and it works well there.
But it would take a bit of a leap to get from there, to a car whose flywheel is spun up in the morning before driving out. Remember, once all of the physics conversions and equations are stripped out, you would need to spin a big honking physical something fast enough to power pushing around a 2k pound car for a day's driving.
Copyright covers creative works. Patents cover anything that can be made to look confusing on a piece of paper. Many connectors have been patented over the years.
And at bare minimum, HDCP is protected up the wazoo.
Yay for press releases that refer to things as "illegal" when they mean "our contracts don't like it." Sure, you may get sued. But you're getting sued in civil court for violating your contract with the 3rd party, and you're going to pay whatever recompense the contract specifies. You're not doing something "illegal," as what you're doing is not forbidden by law.
You make it sound like banks joining the fractional bank system are rare. Pretty much all banks that make loans are part, and a big reason is because the regulation helps keep them from going straight to poop.
Now the bank makes a loan to someone. That loan comes in the form of an account at the bank. The bank then sets aside a fraction of the total loan (usually 10%, but I'm not sure what it is right now), and loans that out. That is in the form of a deposit. They take 10% of that aside, and loan the rest out again.
In the minds of the people who they have loaned money to, they've created money out of nothing. I have a business loan for 100k, therefore I have one hundred thousand dollars, and that much debt to pay off. But few people use all of that money right away. In practice, aggregated over many deposits and loans, no more than 100% of the initial deposit are ever actually out spent at one time. So no money is created out of thin air, just the perception of money.
For real money out of thin air, you need the Federal Reserve Bank.
Yes. And faced with fiscal realities, Regan also pushed through 130 billion in tax raises. No business makes more money by taking less in. That's just a fantasy. If you're throwing 100 million in tax cuts to chase 1 million in growth, you're going to be stuck in a massive national deficit, like we have been for the past few decades.
Fractional reserve banking is more like promising more money than you have, with the knowledge that the amount of people actually using it won't exceed the amount that you have. This is the same for internet connectivity, power supply, gym memberships, and many other businesses.
It would frankly be wonderful if enough Congresscritters had the chuzpa to not raise the limit.
Yeah, it would be great if our credit rating were downgraded. That would be wonderful. Paying extra percentages on the 14 trillion we already owe and can barely pay is a wonderful way of staying afloat. In fact, I stay up nights thinking "Gee, I wish the value of the dollar entered the sort of massive decline that Mexico saw in the 90's."
What I really wish is that the Republicans or Democrats actually believed that a balanced budget was worthwile. I'm sorry, if you're willing to axe a historic deal because you don't want to close tax loopholes on the most profitable industry in America (all the while cleaning up after its oil messes), then you're just a posturing nit. Oh no, we can't lower military spending. Oh, Social Security is sacrocent. And while we're at it, let's extend those tax cuts for the rich again, and keep taxing income from stock accounts at half of what normal income is taxed as.
To be fair, some of that is corporate debt. And if they're naturalized humans that keep getting larger and larger slices of the pie, they are going to be shouldering some of this debt burden too.
Steve Jobs is a complete tech geek, who co-founded a computer company in his garage. Jonathan Ive has his degree from Newcastle Polytechnic in Industrial Design, which is pretty geeky. If anything, Apple is a perfect example of a geek-driven company.
I worked at a bike shop that was part of a large national chain. As far as I know, we were the most profitable of the entire chain, but also had the highest real-estate cost: we were positioned at the biggest corner of the town, across from a Target, a 1/2 block pedestrian path from an elementary school, and a short jaunt from a college. Of course, being the highest profit store meant someone back at the home office had to meddle.
We got a much bigger, brand-new showroom. It was huge, gorgeous, and positioned in the far corner of the sort of outdoor mall where people drive to the one store they're going to. Oh yes, and it was empty of customers. Real estate costs were low. But because nobody who made the decision had any idea of who bike shop customers were or why things had been going well, we lost pretty much everything that made the shop work. By the time I left, we were within striking distance of being out of the red, but prior levels of profitability were a pipe dream.
I'm guessing this would be perfect for certain small robot applications, where traditional multi-wheel designs bump into production limitations. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see robot vacuum cleaners sporting these for durability and multi-directionality reasons.
If it has a physical connection to the internet, you're just as open to hackers. There isn't any sort of additional layer of authentication that you can put in place that isn't just-one-more layer of authentication to crack. Or rather, the idea that nobody thought of authenticating against hackers on the existing internet is deeply insulting.
If you need a network to be secure and private, run some dedicated T1 lines. Anything less (and even that, if you're not sure how your provider is handling the backend) just means you're on the internet.
My first spam was from somewhere between 88 and 92. It was for a church that didn't think anyone would mind getting a flier in their computer-mail box. Instead, they got flamed. And since they put everyone on the same CC lists, unfortunately lots of people kept flaming everyone. And then lots of people kept shouting to everyone else to stop shouting at everyone. It went south quickly.
At least the church was very polite and apologetic about it. That would be a nice change of pace from today.
Settling out of court doesn't invalidate the patent, it just reduces the likelyhood that the patent holder will sue with it. But if they know they are losing, it is in the patent holder's best interests to settle quickly rather than lose that weapon.
Generally when you add a dimension, the likelyhood of intersecting lines goes down. Really the 3rd dimension should make everything easier and simpler, except for the fact that your 3 dimensions are Left, Right, and FALLING.
Since we can build a flying network from the ground-up, we could define that all commuter fliers need to have HUDS delineating road boundaries, pointing out other fliers, and where autopilot is the norm. Add in decentralized navigation systems between fliers connecting intermittently with a central database, and it should work out.
It's a flying car. I was promised these in the 50's. Like jetpacks, laser guns, space colonies, and superheroes, it doesn't matter how practical or impractical they are: they're bred into our human souls.
And I do know a lot of aid workers for whom the ability to drive to an airport, fly out, land at an airstrip in the middle of nowhere, and drive on would be very practical.
But quite frankly, it could solve world hunger and it still wouldn't change the fact that building it is a moral imperative. It's a flying car.
It's more a question of urban density. In an open area, a minor fluid leak isn't a big deal. It falls on some dirt or pavement, not a big deal. In downtown New York, where a stretch of road may have a car passing over it every two seconds, the occasional drippy car leads to gallons of slippery toxic chemicals being poured onto the road every day. Those chemicals can't dissipate due to being hemmed in by the surrounding buildings and the fact that everything around it is just as polluted. The same becomes true of broken windscreen glass, cars driving without headlamps, etc.
Breaking down in the middle of the old suburbs where I used to live meant pushing the car into some random 7-11 parking lot and waiting for a tow. Nobody cared except for me and the tow truck guy, and the 7-11 sold a few extra slurpies. Breaking down in downtown Boston with high-density traffic on one-lane / one-way roads is a nightmare. Not only are you stopping up traffic for hundreds of angry people and businesses, but the tow truck has problems getting to you because of the traffic that you create.
It's a question of whether the state set their statewide rules based upon what works better for rural / suburban areas, or high-density city areas.
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Clearly, by being an athlete these students have given up the idea that anything they do is personal. These glorified High School students should try to spend their college time finding out who they are, by being placed under an oppressive regime where their decisions are made for them.
And of course, the problem in this case is Twitter. It doesn't lie with a competitive college culture that prizes showmanship, machismo, and how much money they bring into the campus over personal growth, getting an education, and networking for the future. The best approach to the problem is not to shape students into better people, but to get them to shut up about their transgressions lest the Alumnis hear about it and decide to cut their funding.
The heavier the flywheel, the more energy it takes to accelerate or decelerate, fighting against itself.
That's a feature, not a bug.
Not if you're trying to accelerate the whole thing down the street. The more massive the flywheel system, the more energy it can store. But the more energy it can store, the heavier the car is. That's more energy you need to accelerate the car, or bring it up hill. Then you have additional weight in the structure to handle cornering with a heavy flywheel system, stronger brakes, etc.
Really, the three ways you can store more energy in a flywheel system is 1: heavier wheels, 2: larger wheels, 3: faster spinning. As we've seen with CD's, there are practical limitations before 3 becomes majorly problematic. With modern flywheels rotating at 250 times per second, we're probably pretty close to that limit for the moment. 1 and 2 are limited by the practicalities of car design and tooling. Even if you built out a pair of giant spinning disks in the underfloor of your car, in the most massive, structurally impenetrable SUV body you could find, you still couldn't get close to a quarter of the distance of a low-end gas car. And the radical retooling costs alone would probably be in the hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars... Not to mention repairs and liability on that much spinning mass constantly having rocks and other road debris thrown at it, or minor fender-benders, etc.
I'm not saying these are inherently insurmountable. Being able to recharge from a standard electric outlet already puts it above Hydrogen. But that's not where I'd invest my retirement savings. Yet.
Chrome and I.E. elegantly decide if you're trying to search or URL. If you type in facebook.com, you go to the url. If you type in facebook, you do a search for facebook.
I'm not sure how Firefox and Opera handle their URL bars, but I presume they're similar.
But everybody's already on Facebook. It's hard to get momentum behind a social networking service that everyone is already on and behind. LiveJournal, Friendster, and MySpace all reached massive amounts of users, and then sputtered. New users bring energy and vitality to a social community. And if you've already got all of the users, how are you going to get that new energy and momentum?
That's definitely arguable. Google would be in deep antitrust if Facebook suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from all Google search results.
Not running the ads are one thing. Banning the account is another. If he can prove that he was negatively impacted by what was essentially punitive actions by a company for using a competitor, he might have grounds.
Flywheels come with their own set of problems. They exhibit gyroscopic effects. The heavier the flywheel, the more energy it takes to accelerate or decelerate, fighting against itself. You have to maintain it in a vacuum. My 10-year-old car can't even keep the exhaust from breaking every five minutes, let alone maintain anything vacuum tight.
Also, you're not really talking about THAT massive a store of energy. Gasoline is at 47.2 Megajoules / Kilogram. LiOn batteries used in cars are at 720 Kilojoules / Kilogram. The article you list refers to commercial flywheel power storage at 40 Kilojoules / Kilogram. That's 10x less than Lithium Ion batteries. For the equivalent amount of weight, a Ford Volt could drive a paultry 4 miles between charges.
I wouldn't be surprised to see flywheel regenerative braking and acceleration take off... Momentarily store energy at a dead standstill before harnessing it to launch forwards. That's what it is used for in motorsports and it works well there.
But it would take a bit of a leap to get from there, to a car whose flywheel is spun up in the morning before driving out. Remember, once all of the physics conversions and equations are stripped out, you would need to spin a big honking physical something fast enough to power pushing around a 2k pound car for a day's driving.
I believe you've just violated my 2002 patent on true random data compression algorithms. That's due 5 years out from my Israeli start-up.
Somewhat of a tangent, but why is compatibility on this type of thing built into the kernel level?
Copyright covers creative works. Patents cover anything that can be made to look confusing on a piece of paper. Many connectors have been patented over the years.
And at bare minimum, HDCP is protected up the wazoo.
Yay for press releases that refer to things as "illegal" when they mean "our contracts don't like it." Sure, you may get sued. But you're getting sued in civil court for violating your contract with the 3rd party, and you're going to pay whatever recompense the contract specifies. You're not doing something "illegal," as what you're doing is not forbidden by law.
Contract != law
You make it sound like banks joining the fractional bank system are rare. Pretty much all banks that make loans are part, and a big reason is because the regulation helps keep them from going straight to poop.
Now the bank makes a loan to someone. That loan comes in the form of an account at the bank. The bank then sets aside a fraction of the total loan (usually 10%, but I'm not sure what it is right now), and loans that out. That is in the form of a deposit. They take 10% of that aside, and loan the rest out again.
In the minds of the people who they have loaned money to, they've created money out of nothing. I have a business loan for 100k, therefore I have one hundred thousand dollars, and that much debt to pay off. But few people use all of that money right away. In practice, aggregated over many deposits and loans, no more than 100% of the initial deposit are ever actually out spent at one time. So no money is created out of thin air, just the perception of money.
For real money out of thin air, you need the Federal Reserve Bank.
"Entitlements" account for the vast majority of the budget.
Actually, Defense still counts for almost 2/3rds of the federal budget. http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/
Reagan knew what Kennedy (JFK) knew: tax cuts INCREASES private investment
Yes. And faced with fiscal realities, Regan also pushed through 130 billion in tax raises. No business makes more money by taking less in. That's just a fantasy. If you're throwing 100 million in tax cuts to chase 1 million in growth, you're going to be stuck in a massive national deficit, like we have been for the past few decades.
Fractional reserve banking is more like promising more money than you have, with the knowledge that the amount of people actually using it won't exceed the amount that you have. This is the same for internet connectivity, power supply, gym memberships, and many other businesses.
It would frankly be wonderful if enough Congresscritters had the chuzpa to not raise the limit.
Yeah, it would be great if our credit rating were downgraded. That would be wonderful. Paying extra percentages on the 14 trillion we already owe and can barely pay is a wonderful way of staying afloat. In fact, I stay up nights thinking "Gee, I wish the value of the dollar entered the sort of massive decline that Mexico saw in the 90's."
What I really wish is that the Republicans or Democrats actually believed that a balanced budget was worthwile. I'm sorry, if you're willing to axe a historic deal because you don't want to close tax loopholes on the most profitable industry in America (all the while cleaning up after its oil messes), then you're just a posturing nit. Oh no, we can't lower military spending. Oh, Social Security is sacrocent. And while we're at it, let's extend those tax cuts for the rich again, and keep taxing income from stock accounts at half of what normal income is taxed as.
To be fair, some of that is corporate debt. And if they're naturalized humans that keep getting larger and larger slices of the pie, they are going to be shouldering some of this debt burden too.
Steve Jobs is a complete tech geek, who co-founded a computer company in his garage. Jonathan Ive has his degree from Newcastle Polytechnic in Industrial Design, which is pretty geeky. If anything, Apple is a perfect example of a geek-driven company.
I worked at a bike shop that was part of a large national chain. As far as I know, we were the most profitable of the entire chain, but also had the highest real-estate cost: we were positioned at the biggest corner of the town, across from a Target, a 1/2 block pedestrian path from an elementary school, and a short jaunt from a college. Of course, being the highest profit store meant someone back at the home office had to meddle.
We got a much bigger, brand-new showroom. It was huge, gorgeous, and positioned in the far corner of the sort of outdoor mall where people drive to the one store they're going to. Oh yes, and it was empty of customers. Real estate costs were low. But because nobody who made the decision had any idea of who bike shop customers were or why things had been going well, we lost pretty much everything that made the shop work. By the time I left, we were within striking distance of being out of the red, but prior levels of profitability were a pipe dream.
I'm guessing this would be perfect for certain small robot applications, where traditional multi-wheel designs bump into production limitations. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see robot vacuum cleaners sporting these for durability and multi-directionality reasons.
If it has a physical connection to the internet, you're just as open to hackers. There isn't any sort of additional layer of authentication that you can put in place that isn't just-one-more layer of authentication to crack. Or rather, the idea that nobody thought of authenticating against hackers on the existing internet is deeply insulting.
If you need a network to be secure and private, run some dedicated T1 lines. Anything less (and even that, if you're not sure how your provider is handling the backend) just means you're on the internet.
They could also setup filters for things that they find they're wasting time on... Hulu, Slashdot, Facebook, etc.
My first spam was from somewhere between 88 and 92. It was for a church that didn't think anyone would mind getting a flier in their computer-mail box. Instead, they got flamed. And since they put everyone on the same CC lists, unfortunately lots of people kept flaming everyone. And then lots of people kept shouting to everyone else to stop shouting at everyone. It went south quickly.
At least the church was very polite and apologetic about it. That would be a nice change of pace from today.
Settling out of court doesn't invalidate the patent, it just reduces the likelyhood that the patent holder will sue with it. But if they know they are losing, it is in the patent holder's best interests to settle quickly rather than lose that weapon.
Generally when you add a dimension, the likelyhood of intersecting lines goes down. Really the 3rd dimension should make everything easier and simpler, except for the fact that your 3 dimensions are Left, Right, and FALLING.
Since we can build a flying network from the ground-up, we could define that all commuter fliers need to have HUDS delineating road boundaries, pointing out other fliers, and where autopilot is the norm. Add in decentralized navigation systems between fliers connecting intermittently with a central database, and it should work out.
It's a flying car. I was promised these in the 50's. Like jetpacks, laser guns, space colonies, and superheroes, it doesn't matter how practical or impractical they are: they're bred into our human souls.
And I do know a lot of aid workers for whom the ability to drive to an airport, fly out, land at an airstrip in the middle of nowhere, and drive on would be very practical.
But quite frankly, it could solve world hunger and it still wouldn't change the fact that building it is a moral imperative. It's a flying car.
It's more a question of urban density. In an open area, a minor fluid leak isn't a big deal. It falls on some dirt or pavement, not a big deal. In downtown New York, where a stretch of road may have a car passing over it every two seconds, the occasional drippy car leads to gallons of slippery toxic chemicals being poured onto the road every day. Those chemicals can't dissipate due to being hemmed in by the surrounding buildings and the fact that everything around it is just as polluted. The same becomes true of broken windscreen glass, cars driving without headlamps, etc.
Breaking down in the middle of the old suburbs where I used to live meant pushing the car into some random 7-11 parking lot and waiting for a tow. Nobody cared except for me and the tow truck guy, and the 7-11 sold a few extra slurpies. Breaking down in downtown Boston with high-density traffic on one-lane / one-way roads is a nightmare. Not only are you stopping up traffic for hundreds of angry people and businesses, but the tow truck has problems getting to you because of the traffic that you create.
It's a question of whether the state set their statewide rules based upon what works better for rural / suburban areas, or high-density city areas.