However, the situation is even worse than that. When you use jet fuel, you use it up. Depending on the type of airplane, at take off fuel is generally 25% to 50% of the mass of the plane. So one gets serious savings that one doesn't have to move all the used fuel the entire way. That doesn't work with batteries: they are the same mass and volume whether or not they are charged, and dumping them would defeat most of the point. It might be possible to do some sort of staging approach where one uses some set of batteries to nearly empty and then have them break off in a modular plane that returns to the ground site. But that itself would lead to all sorts of additional problems.
A very interesting point! I have never thought of it that way before. I would mod this +1 insightful.
when people ask me why electric vehicles aren't as good as conventional cars, I explain that gasoline and diesel are basically God's fuel. There's an enormous amount of energy in a gallon, it's a liquid at room temperature and pressure so it's easy to carry around, it doesn't explode and it's cheap and abundant. It's really hard for any alternative fuel to match most of these characteristics. And because of this, alternative fuel cars always end up limited compared to conventional cars.
I don't see why/. is losing their minds over this. It's just a straight up NIMBY issue. The people who live there don't want it, and obviously nobody has successfully explained why they should care. I don't even know if anybody has even tried. I certainly haven't seen an explanation here about why the TMT is so important, and why we must have it so bad that we should override the wishes of the local residents.
I don't know why everybody here needs to play up the pacific islander aspect, poking fun at their hokey religion and ancient weapons.
no, because if they did that they they would hold a monopoly on desktop / laptop CPUs. Then they would be regulated as a monopoly, and could no longer get away with their abusive business practices.
I used to think that Donald was an adult gutter child, but actually, as I began to watch the comic show, I began to notice a strategy aimed at putting his opponents off balance.
So basically you're saying that Trump is a Zui Quan (Drunken Fist) master.
I don't think anybody is a morning person. I think a lot of people drag themselves out of bed because they have shizz to do. the difference between them and others is that others don't drag themselves out of bed.
I don't see why people hate morning people. morning people make the world go round. I always though people who hated morning people were lazy and felt bad about it, so they lash out at others.
that would be novel if he were to try investigative reporting rather than dumping any sort of sensitive files on the internet with glee. also maybe he should stop raping all the women.
APK is my favorite troll. he either has a bot that scans comments for his name, or is a daily reader, cuz summon his name three times and he shall appear!
dude, the lottery analogy is just a way of saying that hillary was suspiciously lucky in her coin tosses. I'm not saying the odds of winning the actual lottery are one in twenty or one in sixty four.
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I didn't see him in the movie, and I watched the whole thing through.
However, the situation is even worse than that. When you use jet fuel, you use it up. Depending on the type of airplane, at take off fuel is generally 25% to 50% of the mass of the plane. So one gets serious savings that one doesn't have to move all the used fuel the entire way. That doesn't work with batteries: they are the same mass and volume whether or not they are charged, and dumping them would defeat most of the point. It might be possible to do some sort of staging approach where one uses some set of batteries to nearly empty and then have them break off in a modular plane that returns to the ground site. But that itself would lead to all sorts of additional problems.
A very interesting point! I have never thought of it that way before. I would mod this +1 insightful.
when people ask me why electric vehicles aren't as good as conventional cars, I explain that gasoline and diesel are basically God's fuel. There's an enormous amount of energy in a gallon, it's a liquid at room temperature and pressure so it's easy to carry around, it doesn't explode and it's cheap and abundant. It's really hard for any alternative fuel to match most of these characteristics. And because of this, alternative fuel cars always end up limited compared to conventional cars.
> First, with Tesla, the man so many people call the real life Tony Stark
I have never heard anybody say this. this seems to be a slashdot fandom crush.
> At $50 per month per infant,
I say, stick with the boob, it's free!
> Or do you just not care, you have a highway to pave, and to hell with anybody who gets in your way?
All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local galactic planning department for years.
> Fuck these savages.
I don't see why /. is losing their minds over this. It's just a straight up NIMBY issue. The people who live there don't want it, and obviously nobody has successfully explained why they should care. I don't even know if anybody has even tried. I certainly haven't seen an explanation here about why the TMT is so important, and why we must have it so bad that we should override the wishes of the local residents.
I don't know why everybody here needs to play up the pacific islander aspect, poking fun at their hokey religion and ancient weapons.
no, because if they did that they they would hold a monopoly on desktop / laptop CPUs. Then they would be regulated as a monopoly, and could no longer get away with their abusive business practices.
Morning people are generally boring bastards.
Yes we are! Before I was interesting but the world felt boring, now I'm boring but the world feels interesting.
Thank you for this, it is actually quite inspirational.
I used to think that Donald was an adult gutter child, but actually, as I began to watch the comic show, I began to notice a strategy aimed at putting his opponents off balance.
So basically you're saying that Trump is a Zui Quan (Drunken Fist) master.
What does that mean, cleaning my living habits. I want to learn more!
I do it. and its hard, but I do it anyway. I fail to see why I should excuse anybody who whines "waaa it's hard."
I don't think anybody is a morning person. I think a lot of people drag themselves out of bed because they have shizz to do. the difference between them and others is that others don't drag themselves out of bed.
I don't see why people hate morning people. morning people make the world go round. I always though people who hated morning people were lazy and felt bad about it, so they lash out at others.
i think they would love to teach him a lesson and make an example out of him. give him some orange pajamas and a one way ticket to Guantanamo.
some things are correct and some things are incorrect. just cuz you find something more convenient doesn't change this basic fact. facts are facts!
that would be novel if he were to try investigative reporting rather than dumping any sort of sensitive files on the internet with glee. also maybe he should stop raping all the women.
Maybe he shouldn't have legal issues? Just keep his head down?
> "Less code/less programs in the container means less attack surface..."
*fewer
i don't know what they're doing that would require 4kB per comment... maybe it's an optimization issue?
APK is my favorite troll. he either has a bot that scans comments for his name, or is a daily reader, cuz summon his name three times and he shall appear!
these are good points and something I hadn't considered.
I hate the phrase politically correct. it used to mean something. now its just meaningless term to describe something you disagree with.
I don't think band caps are an issue. even if it's a whole page of comments, it's all plain text. Let's say in an extreme case,
1000 comments x
x 100 characters per comment on average (a sentence or two)
x 1 byte per ascii character
= 100 kB's, less than an image worth.
so I'm not crying over anybody's character cap, understood? no crying!
mysterious comment.
dude, the lottery analogy is just a way of saying that hillary was suspiciously lucky in her coin tosses. I'm not saying the odds of winning the actual lottery are one in twenty or one in sixty four.