I think it's a stupid design with a vast amount of baggage
But the constant stream of incompatible architecture updates from ARM has a disadvantage too, combined with customer designed SoCs, every ARM design is pretty much different than any other, forcing developers to use a virtual machine architecture on top of it. How's that not a stupid design ?
On the other hand, on an architecture with a lot of registers, you waste bits to indicate the register numbers, even though in a lot of cases you only use a subset of the registers.
Variable length instructions are fairly compact, which saves I-cache. And I-cache uses much more transistors than the decoding logic. Even ARM has figured that out, because their Thumb-2 instructions are also variable length, and much more complex than ARM 32 bit instructions.
Design the connector so that in case of damage, arcing happens inside the connector to a safety ground. Several meters is nonsense by the way, it won't go over a few centimeters. And you can detect arcing by comparing outgoing current with incoming current, and seeing if there's anything missing. Also, you measure current going into the safety ground. As soon as you detect something out of the ordinary, cut the power, and don't turn it back on until a service technician has looked at it. Don't forget we don't need absolute safety. We just need to be safer than granny wielding a gasoline ejecting hose. Stepping down would take some effort, but it's not rocket science.
If the victims made a mistake (not saying they were), it is perfectly appropriate to blame them. The fact that they were trying to help sick people doesn't have anything to do with that.
by why would you charge at a station if you could just charge overnight at home
For starters, not everybody has a garage or even dedicated parking next to their house. Where I live, people park on the street, and it's completely impractical to string a charging cable across the street and sidewalk.
Why not, exactly ? We currently have inch-thick rubber hoses, capable of spraying gallons of highly flammable gasoline all over the place, with little or no protection. A good electrical cable and connector system would probably be safer.
It doesn't have to happen soon. We're not even close to the point where there are enough people with electric cars that we have to worry about 5 of them pulling up at the same time. The grid can be improved in the meantime.
It's about the principle. You don't have to use real diodes. You can use high power switching elements and get the same effect. Look up 'ideal diode', or 'active diode'.
This problem can be solved by using a higher voltage. At 10kV you only need 100A to charge in 5 minutes. Using 10kV sounds dangerous, but it's perfectly safe with the right connector technology.
By the way, even high amperage isn't "truly dangerous". The only problem with high amperage (current) is that you need very thick and unwieldy cables.
Taxes on property require similar intrusion as income tax. Taxes on consumption are much easier to circumvent, and people will be especially motivated to do so when tax rates are high.
In the history of aviation, how many people have actually been saved from death by using their seat cushion as flotation devices ? I suspect the number to be quite close to zero, actually.
Typically, when you put your valuables in a safety deposit box, there will be a contract signed that stipulates exactly what happens in case of theft or physical destruction. Most likely, the bank will pay you a certain amount of insurance money, for which you have to pay a monthly premium as part of the rent. Depending on the institution, they may offer you a choice of different rental rates for correspondingly different insured amounts.
The question is what we allow the government to do
Or maybe the question is what the government allows you to do. In the US, they won't allow a 3rd party, for starters. And the two remaining parties have a great deal of overlap regarding surveillance.
That doesn't mean that after these rituals their tolerance for pain is so much greater, or that their tolerance for pain is such a deciding factor in athletic performance. Unless you can present some links to literature, it sounds unlikely. Most top athletes, when competing for things like world/olympic championships, have an very high tolerance for pain, some even to the point of physical collapse, but that doesn't mean you can move the hard limits of the physiology.
On the other hand, studies have shown...
...significant differences in body mass index and bone structure between the Western pros and the Kenyan amateurs who had bested them. The studied Kenyans had less mass for their height, longer legs, shorter torsos, and more slender limbs. One of the researchers described the Kenyan physical differences as "bird-like," noting that these traits would make them more efficient runners, especially over long distances. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/why-kenyans-make-such-great-runners-a-story-of-genes-and-cultures/256015/
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You mean: But the bigger question is, will a Tesla bend?
We've already had mutually recursive acronyms so this is child's play.
I think it's a stupid design with a vast amount of baggage
But the constant stream of incompatible architecture updates from ARM has a disadvantage too, combined with customer designed SoCs, every ARM design is pretty much different than any other, forcing developers to use a virtual machine architecture on top of it. How's that not a stupid design ?
On the other hand, on an architecture with a lot of registers, you waste bits to indicate the register numbers, even though in a lot of cases you only use a subset of the registers.
Variable length instructions are fairly compact, which saves I-cache. And I-cache uses much more transistors than the decoding logic. Even ARM has figured that out, because their Thumb-2 instructions are also variable length, and much more complex than ARM 32 bit instructions.
Just let the compiler allocate memory on the stack, and let the hardware worry about keeping local stack access as fast as registers.
Design the connector so that in case of damage, arcing happens inside the connector to a safety ground. Several meters is nonsense by the way, it won't go over a few centimeters. And you can detect arcing by comparing outgoing current with incoming current, and seeing if there's anything missing. Also, you measure current going into the safety ground. As soon as you detect something out of the ordinary, cut the power, and don't turn it back on until a service technician has looked at it. Don't forget we don't need absolute safety. We just need to be safer than granny wielding a gasoline ejecting hose. Stepping down would take some effort, but it's not rocket science.
Thousands of years isn't very long, even on the scale of human civilization.
Except that on Slashdot it's easy to get downmodded as 'troll' for expressing healthy criticism that someone doesn't like to hear.
If the victims made a mistake (not saying they were), it is perfectly appropriate to blame them. The fact that they were trying to help sick people doesn't have anything to do with that.
by why would you charge at a station if you could just charge overnight at home
For starters, not everybody has a garage or even dedicated parking next to their house. Where I live, people park on the street, and it's completely impractical to string a charging cable across the street and sidewalk.
Why not, exactly ? We currently have inch-thick rubber hoses, capable of spraying gallons of highly flammable gasoline all over the place, with little or no protection. A good electrical cable and connector system would probably be safer.
It doesn't have to happen soon. We're not even close to the point where there are enough people with electric cars that we have to worry about 5 of them pulling up at the same time. The grid can be improved in the meantime.
It's about the principle. You don't have to use real diodes. You can use high power switching elements and get the same effect. Look up 'ideal diode', or 'active diode'.
This problem can be solved by using a higher voltage. At 10kV you only need 100A to charge in 5 minutes. Using 10kV sounds dangerous, but it's perfectly safe with the right connector technology. By the way, even high amperage isn't "truly dangerous". The only problem with high amperage (current) is that you need very thick and unwieldy cables.
Taxes on property require similar intrusion as income tax. Taxes on consumption are much easier to circumvent, and people will be especially motivated to do so when tax rates are high.
In the history of aviation, how many people have actually been saved from death by using their seat cushion as flotation devices ? I suspect the number to be quite close to zero, actually.
I don't know if I would trust consumer grade hardware in an industrial environment.
I want distros to be able to release an ARM version that just works on all ARM devices.
These are called x86.
Typically, when you put your valuables in a safety deposit box, there will be a contract signed that stipulates exactly what happens in case of theft or physical destruction. Most likely, the bank will pay you a certain amount of insurance money, for which you have to pay a monthly premium as part of the rent. Depending on the institution, they may offer you a choice of different rental rates for correspondingly different insured amounts.
Given the frequency of celebrity relationship break ups, I even question the wisdom of sending nude photographs to a future ex-boyfriend.
Unless I was personally negligent, the bank or credit card issuer will reimburse me for the lost money.
Additionally the combination was 1234
Hey! How did you guess the combination of my luggage ?
The question is what we allow the government to do
Or maybe the question is what the government allows you to do. In the US, they won't allow a 3rd party, for starters. And the two remaining parties have a great deal of overlap regarding surveillance.
...significant differences in body mass index and bone structure between the Western pros and the Kenyan amateurs who had bested them. The studied Kenyans had less mass for their height, longer legs, shorter torsos, and more slender limbs. One of the researchers described the Kenyan physical differences as "bird-like," noting that these traits would make them more efficient runners, especially over long distances. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/why-kenyans-make-such-great-runners-a-story-of-genes-and-cultures/256015/