jiggawatts == gigawatts. It is just an alternate pronunciation, one more quirk of old Doc Brown.
And some Spaniards pronounce it 'hhhhhhh-iGGKKawatts'. When English speakers can't even agree on what 'million' means, variations on pronouncing 10^9 shouldn't worry anybody.
One more thing - I use about 1300kWh/month, around here this is considered "holy shit that's a lot, do you have electrical heating or stove?", since "normal" people (who do not have several PCs running 24/7) only use somewhere around 300 (individual house) or even lower (flat).
Despite having 200A service, I only get up to about 1100kWh/month when it's the middle of summer and I acquiesce to having a couple air conditioners running. I probably have 3 always-on PC's in the house, others that sleep, and an electric clothes dryer (propane for hot water and to supplement wood heat). I have power tools but don't put too many hours on them.
So, on 32A, you're doing quite well! Mining bitcoins are we?;)
So at some point, all of those other issues just go by the wayside. 800 miles not good enough for you? Then wait for 1000. Or 1200. But at some point, you hit your mark. And low current distribution panels are increasingly a thing of the past.
800 is more than I need. I could use 500 miles between charges in a 5-passenger family car that I expect to run for a moonshot. Charge rates can be as long as 10 hours. When do the density and price curves put the real cost of such a system on an even footing with a gasoline vehicle (including maintenance costs)?
Last I looked, a Prius netted out with a Corolla at 180,000 miles of ownership, but only because Toyota was eating the subsidies still. At market prices, it was still a loss.
I'm genuinely interested - I have no love of gasoline - but vehicles are tools to solve a problem for me, and economics are one of the most important factors.
It never ran on fusion. It was a gasoline powered automobile, only the time circuits were electrical and they needed fusion to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts(Jigawatts) of electricity to operate.
The hover-conversion was fusion-powered and the primary means of propulsion for the DeLorean after 1985.
Remember the hover unit was damaged in the lightning strike on the second visit to 1955, so it was unavailable for use in 1885. The lack of available gasoline in 1885 lead to the train scheme (Doc Brown somehow thinking this superior to adjusting the Delorean to run on methanol).
The problem is one of moral hazard. In a sibling comment I endorsed another commenter's proposal of just informing people they will be charged for fixing their stupid bodies. That's better than not offering help, though I fear in an environment like the UK infeasible.
Skydiving is dangerous. If you hit a powerline while landing, we're not going to help you down. Driving is dangerous. If you get into an accident, we'll let you die on the road.
These aren't likely consequences of the activity - they're rare exceptions. In this case, the Ambulance Captain's warning was of a direct and likely consequence (he was proven right).
Playing football is dangerous. If you get hit badly and fuck up your knee, tough. You don't get reconstructive surgery.
A pro football player's team will usually pay for the repair. Amateur - yeah, it's a dumb idea to play football if you can't pay for the expected repairs. I haven't been skiing for a few years for this very reason. I can't think of anybody who's played football more than very occasionally and not been hurt.
Libertarianism isn't a philosophy, it's a political strategy, so you won't find any authoritative texts about what it means as a philosophy.
You can find widely varying texts that are written by authors of many philosophies who advocate a Libertarian position. If there's a commonality, it's that they subscribe to the non-aggression principle and usually a dedication to liberty.
Much of what people who advocate non-violent societies today use for models was only developed in the mid 20th Century, so if you're looking at something from an 18th century philosophy, it's not very relevant. Hayek's economics was done in the 30's-40's, much of game theory was developed in the 50's-60's, and many societal models were developed in the 70's and 80's. Heck, some of the best scholarship on 'intellectual property' is barely a decade old and important work on voting systems dates from the mid-90's. There may be some commonality with the likes of Jefferson, but also many important differences.
The oldest work one might point you to (that specifically criticizes 18th century philosophy) would be Bastiat's _The Law_. It provides a good philosophical foundation for Liberty and it only takes an hour to read, if you're really interested. Oh, and it can be downloaded for free in book or audiobook form. Is from the later 19th century. His exposition of France at that time sounds quite a bit like the way the US is developing today.
Would it be fair to mention Spock in this thread? Or Mr. Data? Bashir?
How about McGuyver, Sam Beckett, Walter Nebicher, Bruce Wayne, Daniel Jackson, Reed Richards, Sam Carter, Hank McCoy, Kevin Flynn, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Charles Xavier?
There are many parts of the world that would disagree with you.
There are very few places in the world where the lack of food is not due to the geopolitical environment. Food can be grown in most places with the technology we have today. See Norman Borlaug's work, for example.
Because it couldn't be that Apple is playing catch-up to Android on this one. Rather, Apple introduced a new feature that nobody else has ever had, and in the intervening week, Google developed a tool to translate between a dozen languages, ran it through QA, and released it, just to play catch-up to Apple.
When your mind is online, you don't have to worry about your knees wearing out.
We see people become intolerable just because they have pseudoanonymity on Slashdot... at least they still have to wipe their own asses.
Disconnect those people from the constraints of human existence and co-existence... watch out for the mecha-assholes. At least we'll be able to null-route them.
Why die at all when we can continue to live in a robot-body that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from our current body ?
Robot bodies are very 20th century. More likely now is that we'll be able to convince your body to repair itself or grow replacement parts. Maybe some nanobots to connect the new parts as an interim step.
I'm surprised their own network monitoring systems can't provide this data without have to drive millions of miles.
They must be doing this for the majority of their monitoring. A million miles a year is only a quarter of the US roads, assuming a perfect 'traveling network tech' route. I bet they don't even yield 2/3 of that in real coverage, which would net them a once every seven years coverage for a given piece of road. Probably once a decade for the real leaf-node roads.
I'm surprised they don't pay one of the mapping companies to just carry some extra gear on their trucks.
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jiggawatts == gigawatts. It is just an alternate pronunciation, one more quirk of old Doc Brown.
And some Spaniards pronounce it 'hhhhhhh-iGGKKawatts'. When English speakers can't even agree on what 'million' means, variations on pronouncing 10^9 shouldn't worry anybody.
One more thing - I use about 1300kWh/month, around here this is considered "holy shit that's a lot, do you have electrical heating or stove?", since "normal" people (who do not have several PCs running 24/7) only use somewhere around 300 (individual house) or even lower (flat).
Despite having 200A service, I only get up to about 1100kWh/month when it's the middle of summer and I acquiesce to having a couple air conditioners running. I probably have 3 always-on PC's in the house, others that sleep, and an electric clothes dryer (propane for hot water and to supplement wood heat). I have power tools but don't put too many hours on them.
So, on 32A, you're doing quite well! Mining bitcoins are we? ;)
So at some point, all of those other issues just go by the wayside. 800 miles not good enough for you? Then wait for 1000. Or 1200. But at some point, you hit your mark. And low current distribution panels are increasingly a thing of the past.
800 is more than I need. I could use 500 miles between charges in a 5-passenger family car that I expect to run for a moonshot. Charge rates can be as long as 10 hours. When do the density and price curves put the real cost of such a system on an even footing with a gasoline vehicle (including maintenance costs)?
Last I looked, a Prius netted out with a Corolla at 180,000 miles of ownership, but only because Toyota was eating the subsidies still. At market prices, it was still a loss.
I'm genuinely interested - I have no love of gasoline - but vehicles are tools to solve a problem for me, and economics are one of the most important factors.
The DeLorean failed because it was too expensive and quickly earned a bad safety reputation for shearing in half during collisions.
There are lots of antique cars that aren't safe to drive on highways. Still, people enjoy owning and driving them.
I guess it'd be harder to keep a DeLorean under 55 than a Model T, though.
It never ran on fusion. It was a gasoline powered automobile, only the time circuits were electrical and they needed fusion to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts(Jigawatts) of electricity to operate.
The hover-conversion was fusion-powered and the primary means of propulsion for the DeLorean after 1985.
Remember the hover unit was damaged in the lightning strike on the second visit to 1955, so it was unavailable for use in 1885. The lack of available gasoline in 1885 lead to the train scheme (Doc Brown somehow thinking this superior to adjusting the Delorean to run on methanol).
Being harmed is not a likely consequence of eating hot peppers peppers. You are wrong, and know not of what you are talking about
Did you read the article?
The problem is one of moral hazard. In a sibling comment I endorsed another commenter's proposal of just informing people they will be charged for fixing their stupid bodies. That's better than not offering help, though I fear in an environment like the UK infeasible.
You folks have a water problem!
Bah, we've got really big oceans, just far too little energy to use them to irrigate the crops. :)
These guys think it's a viable product for Netflix.
Apparently 'cult' now means 'profitable in the long-tail'.
you can't think what technology a civilisation 500 years older has
We can imagine it, but then everybody insists it's impossible.
You do realize why the mass media does not use the term "cracker", right?
I don't think 'cracker' is the best word Slashdot could have used here. 'Cyber-criminal', perhaps.
Skydiving is dangerous. If you hit a powerline while landing, we're not going to help you down.
Driving is dangerous. If you get into an accident, we'll let you die on the road.
These aren't likely consequences of the activity - they're rare exceptions. In this case, the Ambulance Captain's warning was of a direct and likely consequence (he was proven right).
Playing football is dangerous. If you get hit badly and fuck up your knee, tough. You don't get reconstructive surgery.
A pro football player's team will usually pay for the repair. Amateur - yeah, it's a dumb idea to play football if you can't pay for the expected repairs. I haven't been skiing for a few years for this very reason. I can't think of anybody who's played football more than very occasionally and not been hurt.
No need to. He just could have stated that next time the costs will be charged to whoever does it again despite his 'warning'
Your solution is superior.
Yikes, I read up on it a bit, and it looks like IgG is going for $75/gram, world-wide. That's about a 50% premium on gold.
Is anybody working on growing these (looks like 4 types are required?) in vats?
Libertarianism isn't a philosophy, it's a political strategy, so you won't find any authoritative texts about what it means as a philosophy.
You can find widely varying texts that are written by authors of many philosophies who advocate a Libertarian position. If there's a commonality, it's that they subscribe to the non-aggression principle and usually a dedication to liberty.
Much of what people who advocate non-violent societies today use for models was only developed in the mid 20th Century, so if you're looking at something from an 18th century philosophy, it's not very relevant. Hayek's economics was done in the 30's-40's, much of game theory was developed in the 50's-60's, and many societal models were developed in the 70's and 80's. Heck, some of the best scholarship on 'intellectual property' is barely a decade old and important work on voting systems dates from the mid-90's. There may be some commonality with the likes of Jefferson, but also many important differences.
The oldest work one might point you to (that specifically criticizes 18th century philosophy) would be Bastiat's _The Law_. It provides a good philosophical foundation for Liberty and it only takes an hour to read, if you're really interested. Oh, and it can be downloaded for free in book or audiobook form. Is from the later 19th century. His exposition of France at that time sounds quite a bit like the way the US is developing today.
They've not done anything like that
Would it be fair to mention Spock in this thread? Or Mr. Data? Bashir?
How about McGuyver, Sam Beckett, Walter Nebicher, Bruce Wayne, Daniel Jackson, Reed Richards, Sam Carter, Hank McCoy, Kevin Flynn, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Charles Xavier?
There are many parts of the world that would disagree with you.
There are very few places in the world where the lack of food is not due to the geopolitical environment. Food can be grown in most places with the technology we have today. See Norman Borlaug's work, for example.
Hope this helps.
No, it's just uninformed line-noise. Try reading about 50 books on history, economics, and political science, then come back and try again.
Because it couldn't be that Apple is playing catch-up to Android on this one. Rather, Apple introduced a new feature that nobody else has ever had, and in the intervening week, Google developed a tool to translate between a dozen languages, ran it through QA, and released it, just to play catch-up to Apple.
Oh, wait, no it's just fanboi revisionism.
I don't want to think about doing that for a hundred years.
Have you thought about just how long you are willing to tolerate that? Feel free to ignore the question if it's too uncomfortable.
When your mind is online, you don't have to worry about your knees wearing out.
We see people become intolerable just because they have pseudoanonymity on Slashdot ... at least they still have to wipe their own asses.
Disconnect those people from the constraints of human existence and co-existence ... watch out for the mecha-assholes. At least we'll be able to null-route them.
Why die at all when we can continue to live in a robot-body that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from our current body ?
Robot bodies are very 20th century. More likely now is that we'll be able to convince your body to repair itself or grow replacement parts. Maybe some nanobots to connect the new parts as an interim step.
Especially considering that the population has more than doubled from 3 Billion in 1960.
Which is why 'scientists' were predicting mass-starvation by the end of the 1970's.
We have an energy problem, not a food problem.
it could've just been the Ambulance Service captain saying "I think this is dangerous."
Too bad he didn't say, "and if you persist at it anyway, we're not going to help you."
I'm surprised their own network monitoring systems can't provide this data without have to drive millions of miles.
They must be doing this for the majority of their monitoring. A million miles a year is only a quarter of the US roads, assuming a perfect 'traveling network tech' route. I bet they don't even yield 2/3 of that in real coverage, which would net them a once every seven years coverage for a given piece of road. Probably once a decade for the real leaf-node roads.
I'm surprised they don't pay one of the mapping companies to just carry some extra gear on their trucks.