Okay, FYI - _nobody_ knows when oil will peak. Here's why:
1) The information used to determine this depends on all known sources of oil remaining constant. Guess what - they're still finding (some major) new sources of oil.
a) They're also developing technology to extract previously-unextractable oil (oil sands, oil shale, etc.)
2) The information put out by various companies and countries is _highly_ suspect, if not downright fraudulent, in many cases. When countries routinely use the same numbers for how much oil they think they've got left, year after year, this becomes a little obvious.
The peak may have already been reached, according to some. According to others, it'll be a few years, to some, in 20+, or in the far future.
Either way, I wouldn't be expecting some universal concensus on when the oil peak has or will come. I'd be much more concerned with superbugs or global warming (whether caused entirely or partially by human activity or not), than with the question of peak oil.
Ahh, Colorado, home of Denver, the greyest city in the west! I almost went to Denver, once, but when I saw the big grey blot on the horizon, I turned north immediately and went to Wyoming.
Six times more energy than end product delivers, not six times more energy than gasoline; there's a big difference.
If you look at the site a previous poster mentioned (here), you'll see that ethanol's energy yield is 1.34, while gasoline's is 0.805. Obviously, that is nowhere near a 6x difference.
Also, the thing about portable fuel sources vs how much energy it takes to make them gets people thinking the wrong way. I'll put it in terms nerds can understand. It's like a desktop machine vs a laptop. A desktop machine is more powerful and a lot cheaper. So why would anyone ever buy a laptop? Because it's portable. Same thing with liquid fuels - it's not as efficient as plugging directly into the power grid, but guess what, extension cords don't run very far. You're giving up efficiency for an ability that you completely lack otherwise. The energy going into gasoline isn't 1:1, either. Think about all the energy that goes into drilling for oil, transporting said oil, refining said oil into gasoline, then transporting _again_ to the final destination.
Is the higher cost of ethanol & biodiesel directly attributable to its pump price? No, it's value to consumers reflects mainly two things: 1) much less production means economies of scale don't apply as well, and 2) better environmental impact. Much like the 'eco-friendly' brands of various products cost more. You pay for what you value.
Also to note about biodiesel: you get more power, better milage, and longer engine life than with diesel, so there is a long-term monetary benefit to using it.
True, but, you should investigate what happens in coal mining operations. It ain't pretty, and I'd rather have an oil derrick around than have a nice mountain stripmined for the layer of coal.
Others have mentioned various web-based things like wikis and wordpress, etc. If you don't want to have to worry about a wired connection, then you could run a lightweight webserver on your laptop, with the wiki or whatever running locally. And you'd still probably be using less system resources than MS Word or whatever.:)
The PowerMac won't be moving to Intel until 2007, so it's unlikely this has anything to do with the Intel move. Also, to clear existing inventory, you don't drop the product, you make the product cheaper, so either way, I doubt it.
"Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in remake of 'Alice.' No word on who will play Vic Tayback role. Alyson Hannigan as Flo? Kiss my grits."
I don't know why people keep giving her acting jobs. I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer show _despite_ the title character and actor, not _because_ of them. The 'supporting' cast was flat-out amazing, and the show had some of the best writing ever done for us nerds. The more nerdy you are, the more you get out of the show.
While it doesn't (yet) work with 1.51 or 1.52, it will soon enough. Plus, all many people were waiting for is for 1.5 to be cracked, as that's the one the U.S. PSP ships with. If you're not that interested in playing games on the PSP, you'll likely never be forced to upgrade your firmware from the stock 1.5, anyway.
Okay, now, let the homebrew _hardware_ addon market begin!
I just found on online for a whopping $78: SF608R.
I'm also seeing other products by that same manufacturer on Amazon.com that include ionizing air purifiers, etc. An interesting category of product I've not noticed before.
Many apartment buildings won't allow you to hang those things out the window, unfortunately. I have, however, seen some neat upright models at Fry's where you route a round plastic duct out the window. It's definitely on my list...
The only good Quarks are the one that owns the bar on a space station, and the one that captained a space garbage truck and had identical blonde twins (okay, one was a clone of the other one) as crew. Any other Quark with a capital Q is dead to me. Dead, I tell you.
6) How long it'll take the average hacker to realize they can crack all that stuff, but are unlikely to have an OS X driver that works for their onboard video, onboard audio, onboard networking, etc.
What fall back? The machines that come out June 2006 are replacing machines that are still 32-bit G4s (the Mac Mini and the laptops). No eating of crow-like substance necessary. When the 64-bit part (Merom) comes out in 2007, that's the right timing to replace the PowerMac line and anything else that needs upgrading from the first Intel generation. This maps out perfectly to what Jobs announced, and doesn't require any product to go back to 32-bit that is currently 64.
Then have a nice, dual core, 64bit chip lined up in late 2006 to replace the G5.
Well, keep in mind this doesn't even _start_ until the middle of next year, so it won't be the current Dothan, it would be Yonah, which will be 32bit. The 64bit successor to Yonah is called Merom.
Supposedly the low voltage or perhaps the ultra low voltage Yonahs will be single core, but all of them are supposed to be 32bit. I'm not concerned with 32bit on the laptops.
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I actually didn't see it before posting, but think what you want. I have _zero_ need for more karma at this point.
At first I thought that said, "Linux Attack Monkey," and hey, that actually sounds pretty neat.
SPEAK UP - I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
Okay, FYI - _nobody_ knows when oil will peak. Here's why:
1) The information used to determine this depends on all known sources of oil remaining constant. Guess what - they're still finding (some major) new sources of oil.
a) They're also developing technology to extract previously-unextractable oil (oil sands, oil shale, etc.)
2) The information put out by various companies and countries is _highly_ suspect, if not downright fraudulent, in many cases. When countries routinely use the same numbers for how much oil they think they've got left, year after year, this becomes a little obvious.
The peak may have already been reached, according to some. According to others, it'll be a few years, to some, in 20+, or in the far future.
Either way, I wouldn't be expecting some universal concensus on when the oil peak has or will come. I'd be much more concerned with superbugs or global warming (whether caused entirely or partially by human activity or not), than with the question of peak oil.
Ahh, Colorado, home of Denver, the greyest city in the west! I almost went to Denver, once, but when I saw the big grey blot on the horizon, I turned north immediately and went to Wyoming.
Six times more energy than end product delivers, not six times more energy than gasoline; there's a big difference.
If you look at the site a previous poster mentioned ( here ), you'll see that ethanol's energy yield is 1.34, while gasoline's is 0.805. Obviously, that is nowhere near a 6x difference.
Also, the thing about portable fuel sources vs how much energy it takes to make them gets people thinking the wrong way. I'll put it in terms nerds can understand. It's like a desktop machine vs a laptop. A desktop machine is more powerful and a lot cheaper. So why would anyone ever buy a laptop? Because it's portable. Same thing with liquid fuels - it's not as efficient as plugging directly into the power grid, but guess what, extension cords don't run very far. You're giving up efficiency for an ability that you completely lack otherwise. The energy going into gasoline isn't 1:1, either. Think about all the energy that goes into drilling for oil, transporting said oil, refining said oil into gasoline, then transporting _again_ to the final destination.
Is the higher cost of ethanol & biodiesel directly attributable to its pump price? No, it's value to consumers reflects mainly two things: 1) much less production means economies of scale don't apply as well, and 2) better environmental impact. Much like the 'eco-friendly' brands of various products cost more. You pay for what you value.
Also to note about biodiesel: you get more power, better milage, and longer engine life than with diesel, so there is a long-term monetary benefit to using it.
Hey, if someone's stupid enough to live in the fucking _desert_, that's just too damned bad, isn't it?
True, but, you should investigate what happens in coal mining operations. It ain't pretty, and I'd rather have an oil derrick around than have a nice mountain stripmined for the layer of coal.
I just hope noone steals their Plutonium 238 Explosive Space Modulator(*). There could be an Earth-shattering kaboom as a result.
* Note: Yes, I know, it was originally an Illudium Q-36 model, but that was a long time ago; things change.
Also - single-core Opterons are coming out in Socket 939.
Others have mentioned various web-based things like wikis and wordpress, etc. If you don't want to have to worry about a wired connection, then you could run a lightweight webserver on your laptop, with the wiki or whatever running locally. And you'd still probably be using less system resources than MS Word or whatever. :)
I believe in the movie, Lucius Fox said the suit would've had a _production cost_ of $300,000. No mention of the development cost, though. :)
The PowerMac won't be moving to Intel until 2007, so it's unlikely this has anything to do with the Intel move. Also, to clear existing inventory, you don't drop the product, you make the product cheaper, so either way, I doubt it.
"Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in remake of 'Alice.' No word on who will play Vic Tayback role. Alyson Hannigan as Flo? Kiss my grits."
I don't know why people keep giving her acting jobs. I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer show _despite_ the title character and actor, not _because_ of them. The 'supporting' cast was flat-out amazing, and the show had some of the best writing ever done for us nerds. The more nerdy you are, the more you get out of the show.
all obsolete by now, of course, but that's how the Golden Gate and the Titanic were built
:)
One of those is perhaps not the greatest example.
I bet they make a lotta bank on those overpriced accessories like MemorySticks, too.
"That is the sound of inevitability."
While it doesn't (yet) work with 1.51 or 1.52, it will soon enough. Plus, all many people were waiting for is for 1.5 to be cracked, as that's the one the U.S. PSP ships with. If you're not that interested in playing games on the PSP, you'll likely never be forced to upgrade your firmware from the stock 1.5, anyway.
Okay, now, let the homebrew _hardware_ addon market begin!
Has that keyboard been released, yet?
I just found on online for a whopping $78: SF608R.
I'm also seeing other products by that same manufacturer on Amazon.com that include ionizing air purifiers, etc. An interesting category of product I've not noticed before.
Many apartment buildings won't allow you to hang those things out the window, unfortunately. I have, however, seen some neat upright models at Fry's where you route a round plastic duct out the window. It's definitely on my list...
"Baby, why you gotta make me hurt you? You know I love you."
The only good Quarks are the one that owns the bar on a space station, and the one that captained a space garbage truck and had identical blonde twins (okay, one was a clone of the other one) as crew. Any other Quark with a capital Q is dead to me. Dead, I tell you.
I'm still not joining the Army until they invent the respawn point.
Well...it's not so much the _point_ that's the hard part, but more the respawning mechanism itself.
6) How long it'll take the average hacker to realize they can crack all that stuff, but are unlikely to have an OS X driver that works for their onboard video, onboard audio, onboard networking, etc.
What fall back? The machines that come out June 2006 are replacing machines that are still 32-bit G4s (the Mac Mini and the laptops). No eating of crow-like substance necessary. When the 64-bit part (Merom) comes out in 2007, that's the right timing to replace the PowerMac line and anything else that needs upgrading from the first Intel generation. This maps out perfectly to what Jobs announced, and doesn't require any product to go back to 32-bit that is currently 64.
Then have a nice, dual core, 64bit chip lined up in late 2006 to replace the G5.
Well, keep in mind this doesn't even _start_ until the middle of next year, so it won't be the current Dothan, it would be Yonah, which will be 32bit. The 64bit successor to Yonah is called Merom.
Supposedly the low voltage or perhaps the ultra low voltage Yonahs will be single core, but all of them are supposed to be 32bit. I'm not concerned with 32bit on the laptops.