Is there a VAR that does good validation? Seems like a market opportunity - I'm not buying SSD's myself out of good old-fashioned distrust of new-fangled things I can't hear spinning.;) My slow, archaic, RAID-1 disk sets are at least free from surprising bugs. That is, at least after a few rounds of Seagate fixing the drive firmware.
I was watching the launch with my kids on NASATV, and just when the stages separated, the leading stage started to tumble, and NASATV went black. When they came back in 20 seconds or so, they were following the larger stage on its descent.
I have to say, the supersonic vapor plume around the rocket during acceleration was awesome. I said to my kids, "look, they just broke the sound barrier," and the announcer came on with "passing Mach 1".
Very cool looking rocket, more narrow exhaust plume than I'm used to seeing, interesting angled ascent (it didn't go up straight vertically like a shuttle). We like to rag on NASA, but if this is really a an under-3-year project, who am I to cast stones?
Yeah, that's about my city. Up to 28 on a long road trip, but they were driving the Tesla at 33 MPH, so...
Isn't the Citroen diesel? You'd expect 15% or so better fuel economy since it's more energy dense. Mine's a 2.5L and spinning all four wheels, so we're at roughly the same level of technology. A Honda CRX can easily blow past 40 with a good driver.
One of the new Mercedes diesels can go 750 miles on a tank. IIRC, one of the Lexus LS models does best on gas, 600 miles or so.
The trick with a new technology like this is the need for ubiquitous infrastructure. That's hard to do without mass acceptance, which is hard to do without mass appeal. Having a car that can't take a road-trip is something that would turn away a very large percentage of people.
Given the energy density of liquid fuels it's tough, but ICE's also waste a tragic portion of that energy, so there's reason for optimism. At 65MPH, range probably needs to be 800 miles, and charge times need to be under an hour.
It will require forcing building owners to stop being jerks as well.
If we can get real, sustainable power, say a safe nuclear fuel, then we'd expect to have things like free charging at grocery stores, while you shop.
I'd hate to over-generalize, but sometimes research organizations are more concerned with a good story and getting the grants than actually walking the walk, especially if there are costs associated (though this narrowly misses the opportunity costs of turning away the workers who do believe in the task).
What you may have missed is that Tesla is planning a family version of it. And they're recognized as having the best technology in the field, and are getting government grants to further develop it. That is, if Tesla can't do it, we're sure not going to expect GM to.
On the second point, if somebody is buying an electric car for sustainability reasons, they're going to want to have one car, not add to their personal fleet, especially if they're single. One of the many follies of the much-derided cash-for-clunkers program is that the environmental costs of building a new vehicle were not considered in the justification calculations.
For months I've had Google Voice set to Do Not Distrub and had my Verizon voicemail forwarded over to it (*-something my google number). I guess this eliminates the extra rings?
giving different people different algorithms and seeing which ones people find more or less useful.
Yes, I thought this was assumed from the 'Transcript Useful?' checkbox. They're collecting massive statistics on various voice recognition methods so they can eventually start placing the correct ads next to YouTube videos.
It's cheaper for them to offer us a phone service and have us do the data entry than to hire out the work. Win-win-win. Somebody will want to start regulating this soon, it's too good an idea.
313 miles is almost exactly the range of my '99 Subaru Outback Legacy (15-gallon tank), which is worth about $2500 now. Except I can easily refuel that and keep going. The trip to my folks' house is 365 miles.
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology Tesla was going to be comparable with the hybrids. This article helps re-adjust my expectations, but it also gives me hope that by time they're generally affordable the range will be there too.
I don't think my electric clothes dryer uses as much electricity as this thing, which is using ten times the juice a normal PC uses (or more).
I hope it does, or you're going to be waiting a long time for your clothes to dry. An average electric clothes dryer is about 5000W. Water is a bitch to heat.
ext4, but the block layer needs to handle it too. There was some LKML traffic a couple months ago about smart designs for this - it's probably not in current distro releases yet. TRIM can be very expensive if not well-optimized (the non-optimized demo took a half hour to delete a kernel tree with TRIM on a supporting SSD) and the right thing to do may depend on drive model capabilities. The moral is it's not worth doing poorly, and doing it right may require some re-plumbing. But the upside is that Linux ought to be very fast and efficient about it when it lands because smart folks are making sure it ships when it's ready, not by some arbitrary date.
Cool article, thanks. The average human body turns over every 7 years except for the neurons, so perhaps we've already answered the question insofar as we grant continuing rights and obligations to the '4D' entity.
that's not a general problem. Or, at least, it Works For Me (tm), on a Sony laptop (not renowned as a source of super-friendly hardware). I can suspend / resume as much as I like, no audio troubles.
It's probably fair to say it's not a problem across every driver. I'm using Intel audio, integrated.
Yeah, it's a FESco decision, but on the other hand, if Lennart had fr'instance said 'of course we shouldn't push it by default, what are you, _nuts_?' it probably wouldn't have happened.
Sure, but I'd expect far more often for a developer to think his package is ready than the steering committee (its raison d'etre in large part).
But if we don't have people actually using PA by default - i.e. hook applications into it - it's not getting any use, and none of the bugs would get exposed. It'd be 'there' by default but not actually being used at all.
I may be misunderstanding - do apps not go through PulseAudio unless they're re-written to use it? I understood it transposed itself in the ordinary case, but provided great advantage in the optimized case. Based on that, I assumed it would have been possible to get Pulse working first with its hardware/kernel interface, and when that was ready to go get apps optimized. My impression may well be incorrect.
The way this will probably play out is when they can start to augment some failing neurons, say in the case of Alzheimer's. You send in a few nano-neurons which find the ones that are dying, and replace them. Say it's 2%, and it's a major therapeutic win for the elderly. Grandma is just back to normal.
The trick comes when gene therapy, DNA repair, telemere extension, etc. start to make the body last longer. Maybe that 2% slowly needs to ratchet up to 5%. Then 10%. A few decades later, Grandma is 95% nano-tech in the brain, and nobody has noticed any different. Does Grandma still have human rights? I think everybody says yes.
Then, Grandma gets a backup and restore to a separate entity. What is that thing that thinks it's grandma? Does it have rights? It thinks it does.
There are several problems with this article:
First, it appears she didn't see The Matrix.
That aside, why should artificial neurons be unable to properly rate-limit? Don't ECT patients go for nearly a minute without cohesive brain electrical activity?
Adult neurons do replace, that's an old misconception.
There are some people who are eager to get into a machine body, but focusing on that misses the vast majority of folks who will just want regular repairs. And since they're past 65, they'll want Medicare to pay for it until they're at least 540.
Nokia's patents pertaining to GSM technology and UMTS have absolutely nothing to do with a phones OS but rather the 7 layers under it.
Yes, this is the prima facie matter, but usually there's more to it than that. Most likely Nokia has found that upcoming Qt features (or something related) infringe on Apple's IP. This is a corporation's way of saying, "we'd like to do a cross-licensing deal with you," especially if the other side isn't playing ball. In the end, Apple gets to makes its phones, Nokia ships the UI it wants to, nobody has to pay (except to the lawyers, of course).
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Is there a VAR that does good validation? Seems like a market opportunity - I'm not buying SSD's myself out of good old-fashioned distrust of new-fangled things I can't hear spinning. ;) My slow, archaic, RAID-1 disk sets are at least free from surprising bugs. That is, at least after a few rounds of Seagate fixing the drive firmware.
It could have been a man-rated Delta IV Heavy. Opportunity cost is why I continue to rag on NASA.
It seems to matter whether the moon or the ISS are the more important targets.
he says it has a "Carb" so probably not
Ah, thanks - I don't understand diesel engines.
I can do over 600, if they're all freeway miles, on my 1982 300SD :)
Wow, and you're carrying around a real steel engine too. Nice.
I was watching the launch with my kids on NASATV, and just when the stages separated, the leading stage started to tumble, and NASATV went black. When they came back in 20 seconds or so, they were following the larger stage on its descent.
I have to say, the supersonic vapor plume around the rocket during acceleration was awesome. I said to my kids, "look, they just broke the sound barrier," and the announcer came on with "passing Mach 1".
Very cool looking rocket, more narrow exhaust plume than I'm used to seeing, interesting angled ascent (it didn't go up straight vertically like a shuttle). We like to rag on NASA, but if this is really a an under-3-year project, who am I to cast stones?
Yeah, that's about my city. Up to 28 on a long road trip, but they were driving the Tesla at 33 MPH, so...
Isn't the Citroen diesel? You'd expect 15% or so better fuel economy since it's more energy dense. Mine's a 2.5L and spinning all four wheels, so we're at roughly the same level of technology. A Honda CRX can easily blow past 40 with a good driver.
One of the new Mercedes diesels can go 750 miles on a tank. IIRC, one of the Lexus LS models does best on gas, 600 miles or so.
Because those costs were irrelevent, the cars were ALREADY built, and dealers had a huge surplus of cars.
and just as usable next year, no?
The trick with a new technology like this is the need for ubiquitous infrastructure. That's hard to do without mass acceptance, which is hard to do without mass appeal. Having a car that can't take a road-trip is something that would turn away a very large percentage of people.
Given the energy density of liquid fuels it's tough, but ICE's also waste a tragic portion of that energy, so there's reason for optimism. At 65MPH, range probably needs to be 800 miles, and charge times need to be under an hour.
It will require forcing building owners to stop being jerks as well.
If we can get real, sustainable power, say a safe nuclear fuel, then we'd expect to have things like free charging at grocery stores, while you shop.
I'd hate to over-generalize, but sometimes research organizations are more concerned with a good story and getting the grants than actually walking the walk, especially if there are costs associated (though this narrowly misses the opportunity costs of turning away the workers who do believe in the task).
What you may have missed is that Tesla is planning a family version of it. And they're recognized as having the best technology in the field, and are getting government grants to further develop it. That is, if Tesla can't do it, we're sure not going to expect GM to.
On the second point, if somebody is buying an electric car for sustainability reasons, they're going to want to have one car, not add to their personal fleet, especially if they're single. One of the many follies of the much-derided cash-for-clunkers program is that the environmental costs of building a new vehicle were not considered in the justification calculations.
For months I've had Google Voice set to Do Not Distrub and had my Verizon voicemail forwarded over to it (*-something my google number). I guess this eliminates the extra rings?
giving different people different algorithms and seeing which ones people find more or less useful.
Yes, I thought this was assumed from the 'Transcript Useful?' checkbox. They're collecting massive statistics on various voice recognition methods so they can eventually start placing the correct ads next to YouTube videos.
It's cheaper for them to offer us a phone service and have us do the data entry than to hire out the work. Win-win-win. Somebody will want to start regulating this soon, it's too good an idea.
313 miles is almost exactly the range of my '99 Subaru Outback Legacy (15-gallon tank), which is worth about $2500 now. Except I can easily refuel that and keep going. The trip to my folks' house is 365 miles.
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology Tesla was going to be comparable with the hybrids. This article helps re-adjust my expectations, but it also gives me hope that by time they're generally affordable the range will be there too.
I don't recall ever associating Pystar with SCO, all I said was that they are using the same tactics.
Along with just about everybody else who's ever been party to a lawsuit. Why call out SCO?
If I put $20 a week into your mailbox and you put that into your wallet, can I have you brought up on theft?
mplayer rtsp://a1364.l1856753153.c18567.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/1364/18567/v0001/reflector:53153
rescheduled for 8AM tomorrow.
Going for the guilt by association card so early in the morning? ;)
I hope it does, or you're going to be waiting a long time for your clothes to dry. An average electric clothes dryer is about 5000W. Water is a bitch to heat.
ext4, but the block layer needs to handle it too. There was some LKML traffic a couple months ago about smart designs for this - it's probably not in current distro releases yet. TRIM can be very expensive if not well-optimized (the non-optimized demo took a half hour to delete a kernel tree with TRIM on a supporting SSD) and the right thing to do may depend on drive model capabilities. The moral is it's not worth doing poorly, and doing it right may require some re-plumbing. But the upside is that Linux ought to be very fast and efficient about it when it lands because smart folks are making sure it ships when it's ready, not by some arbitrary date.
I was looking forward to saying "Told you so" on 12/22/2012. But they always find a way to weasel out of their crazy predictions.
I was planning to sell binding reverse mortgages through 2012 to the real believers, these Dutch guys could ruin my plans.
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed.
I'm still trying to find just one self-titled environmentalist who has switched to cold showers. (And no, hippies don't count).
Cool article, thanks. The average human body turns over every 7 years except for the neurons, so perhaps we've already answered the question insofar as we grant continuing rights and obligations to the '4D' entity.
if by 'sleep' you mean suspend
OK, yeah, I was using KDE terminology. ;)
that's not a general problem. Or, at least, it Works For Me (tm), on a Sony laptop (not renowned as a source of super-friendly hardware). I can suspend / resume as much as I like, no audio troubles.
It's probably fair to say it's not a problem across every driver. I'm using Intel audio, integrated.
Yeah, it's a FESco decision, but on the other hand, if Lennart had fr'instance said 'of course we shouldn't push it by default, what are you, _nuts_?' it probably wouldn't have happened.
Sure, but I'd expect far more often for a developer to think his package is ready than the steering committee (its raison d'etre in large part).
But if we don't have people actually using PA by default - i.e. hook applications into it - it's not getting any use, and none of the bugs would get exposed. It'd be 'there' by default but not actually being used at all.
I may be misunderstanding - do apps not go through PulseAudio unless they're re-written to use it? I understood it transposed itself in the ordinary case, but provided great advantage in the optimized case. Based on that, I assumed it would have been possible to get Pulse working first with its hardware/kernel interface, and when that was ready to go get apps optimized. My impression may well be incorrect.
The way this will probably play out is when they can start to augment some failing neurons, say in the case of Alzheimer's. You send in a few nano-neurons which find the ones that are dying, and replace them. Say it's 2%, and it's a major therapeutic win for the elderly. Grandma is just back to normal.
The trick comes when gene therapy, DNA repair, telemere extension, etc. start to make the body last longer. Maybe that 2% slowly needs to ratchet up to 5%. Then 10%. A few decades later, Grandma is 95% nano-tech in the brain, and nobody has noticed any different. Does Grandma still have human rights? I think everybody says yes.
Then, Grandma gets a backup and restore to a separate entity. What is that thing that thinks it's grandma? Does it have rights? It thinks it does.
There are several problems with this article:
There are some people who are eager to get into a machine body, but focusing on that misses the vast majority of folks who will just want regular repairs. And since they're past 65, they'll want Medicare to pay for it until they're at least 540.
Nokia's patents pertaining to GSM technology and UMTS have absolutely nothing to do with a phones OS but rather the 7 layers under it.
Yes, this is the prima facie matter, but usually there's more to it than that. Most likely Nokia has found that upcoming Qt features (or something related) infringe on Apple's IP. This is a corporation's way of saying, "we'd like to do a cross-licensing deal with you," especially if the other side isn't playing ball. In the end, Apple gets to makes its phones, Nokia ships the UI it wants to, nobody has to pay (except to the lawyers, of course).
Have you seen Civitas?