The car could very well still be most efficient at 20mph even though the engineers concentrated on raising the 50mph efficiency. All they did was get it closer to the 20mph efficiency.
You're assuming that most vehicles are more efficient at 20mph (a ridiculously low speed) than 50mph (also a low speed.) You would be wrong. Try traveling 100 miles at 20mph, and 100 miles at 50 mph, and see which one burns more fuel.
That's fine, because PC is pretty much "done" technologically, we have all the hardware and software features anyone every wanted. But its unlikely there will be any great advancements that capture people's imaginations.
LOL
This reminds of an anecdote I once heard of a chemist, back in the 1920s or some such, saying "all the big discoveries had been made" , there's nothing more to be discovered, etc.
In fact, to get onto an equivalent place on the curve cast more money now, for a variety of reasons.
What? I built a top of the line quad core 3.3ghz AMD, 16 GB system w/ 2GB GTX570 desktop for about $600. Totally and completely blows away my Dell Ubuntu laptop circa 2007 w/ 2.0 ghz dual core Intel, 2 GB, onboard Nvidia.
That's something of an oversimplification. Merely producing is not enough to succeed, since efficiencies of scale kills dozens of family farms a day. There is also marketing value, distribution, all sorts of lockout/contract/exclusivity/undercutting complications, weather/climate, choosing the wrong crop in a bumper year.
Define success? I'm QUITE certain that one person can farm enough to feed a family, with enough left over for power and property taxes.
I just do not see how (it is far more efficient to use small cars to deliver stuff to the door, as you are necessarily making a special drive with a huge load in the back).
No. You are wrong. How would it be cheaper for me to drive across town and back, many times a month, compared to the marginal cost (measured in pennies) of putting my package on a truck that's already full and already drives down my street every day to deliver someone's ELSE's package? It costs me $8 to send a package around the country at my local post office; how much would it cost to pay YOU to drive it there? Clearly you do not understand economy of scale.
If it came down to US Army and Marine units versus a semi-organized group of gun-toting libertarians, my guess is that the professionals would wipe the floor with the amateurs. That's for the simple reason that they're professionals - they've trained much more than you have, many of them have seen serious combat before, they're much better equipped than you are, and they have trained officers to lead and direct them.
Uh huh. And yet a bunch of fucking camel herders in Iraq and Afghanistan are still kicking our asses and blowing our boys' legs off to this day. How's that work? You're gonna sit there and tell me that Americans---with 10x the education, skill, resources, etc mind you---on our own turf couldn't put a bullet through politicians' head or build big ass bombs and blow shit up on a far more massive scale if shit got that bad? Have you ever even fucking met any of these "highly trained and skilled" U.S. Army dimwits you speak so highly of? LOL.
Bottom line is,
#1 you don't know what the fuck you're talking about,
#2 why OH WHY do retards like you feel the need to shout so loudly and angrily any time this subject comes up with your FALSE assertion that an armed populace couldn't beat the government? Is it because you're one of those crazy, fearful anti-gun nuts who despises all guns? Is it because you want to see the government win? WHY, idiot?
You are a child. You may be 30, or 40, or 50 years old, but you are a child. Life is so much more complex than your simplistic little assertions. The government doesn't fear you because you're armed -- they have bigger guns, better guns, more guns. Nor does a gun give a sane man courage. A gun won't protect you from chemicals in your drinking water. It won't make the insurance company approve your claim, or stop your job from being sent overseas. The world can, and will, make you hurt and your pitiful little chunk of metal won't do anything to stop it. A rabbit's foot would be as effective.
You're an idiot.
Just look at the French Revolution, for one of countless counterexamples of how none of that matters when things get bad enough. It's coming, while people like you stick your fingers in your ears screaming LALALALALALALALAAAAAAA
Like one huge, ugly, cancerous, pulsating mass. Incredible. It should be sent to a lab, dissected, analyzed, and studied, for rational people to determine just how it's possible for a person to be so deluded. Afterwards, nuke it from orbit.
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The car could very well still be most efficient at 20mph even though the engineers concentrated on raising the 50mph efficiency. All they did was get it closer to the 20mph efficiency.
You're assuming that most vehicles are more efficient at 20mph (a ridiculously low speed) than 50mph (also a low speed.) You would be wrong. Try traveling 100 miles at 20mph, and 100 miles at 50 mph, and see which one burns more fuel.
It doesn't matter that my journey takes longer
It doesn't?
it's still more efficient.
Only if it doesn't matter that you journey takes longer.
Yes, that's why the Mexicans keep coming here. It's not to get a better life, it's to get more lives.
And they'll be just as wrong as people now who claim that Ford brought cars to the common man.
If it wasn't Henry Ford, then who was it?
am I supposed to object to safer cars on the road because the people using them would have more money than me?
Of course. This is slashdot.
Also, people who realize the speed limit is bullshit and ignore it for that reason.
And yet you spent all this time and effort typing out your hateful post. Get back to farming, peon.
Not even their search works as well as it used to; at least, the email search doesn't.
That is why you have Google pull your other mail into Gmail and add a label to it. All your mail in one convenient location, always available.
Except Google's web mail interface is shit, so why in the world would he do that?
Then either he isn't as intelligent as you make out, or there is something wrong with his hardware.
Or he's running Windows.
That's fine, because PC is pretty much "done" technologically, we have all the hardware and software features anyone every wanted. But its unlikely there will be any great advancements that capture people's imaginations.
LOL
This reminds of an anecdote I once heard of a chemist, back in the 1920s or some such, saying "all the big discoveries had been made" , there's nothing more to be discovered, etc.
LOL
In fact, to get onto an equivalent place on the curve cast more money now, for a variety of reasons.
What? I built a top of the line quad core 3.3ghz AMD, 16 GB system w/ 2GB GTX570 desktop for about $600. Totally and completely blows away my Dell Ubuntu laptop circa 2007 w/ 2.0 ghz dual core Intel, 2 GB, onboard Nvidia.
That's something of an oversimplification. Merely producing is not enough to succeed, since efficiencies of scale kills dozens of family farms a day. There is also marketing value, distribution, all sorts of lockout/contract/exclusivity/undercutting complications, weather/climate, choosing the wrong crop in a bumper year.
Define success? I'm QUITE certain that one person can farm enough to feed a family, with enough left over for power and property taxes.
I just do not see how (it is far more efficient to use small cars to deliver stuff to the door, as you are necessarily making a special drive with a huge load in the back).
No. You are wrong. How would it be cheaper for me to drive across town and back, many times a month, compared to the marginal cost (measured in pennies) of putting my package on a truck that's already full and already drives down my street every day to deliver someone's ELSE's package? It costs me $8 to send a package around the country at my local post office; how much would it cost to pay YOU to drive it there? Clearly you do not understand economy of scale.
I've never head "flatline" mean anything but "dead."
Flat line means the line on the monitor went flat.
Coincidentally, in a hospital environment, on an EEG, this means your heart is not pumping and therefore you're dead.
It could also mean the line on some other monitor went flat.
Good one
If you're so fucking stupid that you take illegal drugs where anyone walking/driving by can see you, I'd say you were nowhere near paranoid enough.
I'm stupid? I didn't write these stupid laws, so no, I'm not the one being stupid here.
You must be new around here.
Nice way to sidestep the guy's actual argument...peon.
Won't arming everyone simply lead to civil war and chaotic and impulsive violence?
No. Why on earth would you make that ASSumption?
Look at places like Afghanistan where a significant fraction of the populace are armed; it sure is hell on earth.
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Yeah, Afghanistan's problems are caused by guns. Totally.
I believe guns simply don't make for a stable society though.
Regardless of what you wrongly believe, guns aren't going away. They're here to stay.
If it came down to US Army and Marine units versus a semi-organized group of gun-toting libertarians, my guess is that the professionals would wipe the floor with the amateurs. That's for the simple reason that they're professionals - they've trained much more than you have, many of them have seen serious combat before, they're much better equipped than you are, and they have trained officers to lead and direct them.
Uh huh. And yet a bunch of fucking camel herders in Iraq and Afghanistan are still kicking our asses and blowing our boys' legs off to this day. How's that work? You're gonna sit there and tell me that Americans---with 10x the education, skill, resources, etc mind you---on our own turf couldn't put a bullet through politicians' head or build big ass bombs and blow shit up on a far more massive scale if shit got that bad? Have you ever even fucking met any of these "highly trained and skilled" U.S. Army dimwits you speak so highly of? LOL.
Bottom line is,
#1 you don't know what the fuck you're talking about,
#2 why OH WHY do retards like you feel the need to shout so loudly and angrily any time this subject comes up with your FALSE assertion that an armed populace couldn't beat the government? Is it because you're one of those crazy, fearful anti-gun nuts who despises all guns? Is it because you want to see the government win? WHY, idiot?
You are a child. You may be 30, or 40, or 50 years old, but you are a child. Life is so much more complex than your simplistic little assertions. The government doesn't fear you because you're armed -- they have bigger guns, better guns, more guns. Nor does a gun give a sane man courage. A gun won't protect you from chemicals in your drinking water. It won't make the insurance company approve your claim, or stop your job from being sent overseas. The world can, and will, make you hurt and your pitiful little chunk of metal won't do anything to stop it. A rabbit's foot would be as effective.
You're an idiot.
Just look at the French Revolution, for one of countless counterexamples of how none of that matters when things get bad enough. It's coming, while people like you stick your fingers in your ears screaming LALALALALALALALAAAAAAA
Of the candidates being offered to you, which one fills you with confidence?
Ron Paul.
Like one huge, ugly, cancerous, pulsating mass. Incredible. It should be sent to a lab, dissected, analyzed, and studied, for rational people to determine just how it's possible for a person to be so deluded. Afterwards, nuke it from orbit.
I kinda understand what you're getting at, but am somewhat unfamiliar with the terminology you used, and an explanation would be helpful. Thank you.