Gasoline has a lot of energy per volume, no doubt. But an IC engine has a maximum efficiency burning that gasoline of about 40%, real world efficiency is around 20%. Electric motors are 90% real world efficient. Now assuming your 50MJ/kg is correct, all your battery has to do is match 11MJ/kg and it will equal gasoline assuming everything is equal. As noted in another post its not equal, the electric motor weighs almost nothing compared to the IC engine, as a result you need even less energy. According to the article the batteries being researched will be capable of 5.6MJ/kg. That's halfway to the equal comparison. This isn't even considering that cars are designed for 300+ miles per fillup but the average daily use is less than 40milies and the median is less than 20miles.
Electric energy can propel your car for $0.03 per mile. If gas taxes were taken out (I used my states gas tax, yours could be several cents different either direction), you are paying roughly $2.30 per gallon and if you car gets 35mph per gallon you are paying $0.06 cents per mile, that's HALF the cost.
There are so many people that don't realize how game changing the Chevy Volt is. Give it a battery pack that can sustain it for equivalent miles to a gas tank (currently it's 40mph on pure electricity with a gasoline generator backup) at the same vehicle weight and the gasoline IC engine will fade into history. This doesn't even factor in how much funner it is to drive a car with electric drive train, the power and torque curve are identical where in an IC engine they are offset significantly. Car and Driver LOVED the Volt and Tesla Roadster because they are a blast to drive and cheaper to drive than a gas car. It's a win-win for everyone if the battery tech advances to the stage that you can get similar miles from battery pack as from gasoline.
If you live in the US the Electric line that supplies your home is probably a 7kv but stepdown isn't much of an issue as I understand most of the power lines in the US that are modern (defined as last 30 years) are sized sufficiently to support up to 45kv with the transmission lines upwards of 100kv. At those voltages millions of amps can be delivered safely to the transformer that feeds your home. The problem isn't going to be distribution, it's going to be generation.
The annual energy usage of automobiles is more than the current electricity usage in the US. Converting the entire automobile fleet to electricity would require more than double the amount of electrical power in theory. Currently though because the vast majority of the US power is generated in coal fired power plants which burn the same amount of coal all day long regardless of energy demand more than half a days power is essentially wasted. Being that most people park their cars at night, when this power isn't used, the solution is to balance demand by charging cars at night when demand bottoms out. This power would essentially be free as the power plant is still burning the same amount of coal, just not generating power. In areas where there is extensive use of other forms of power generation such as natural gas, nuke and hydro the power generation is turned down at night and resources aren't consumed because the power plant can scale. It's during this down time maintenance is done. In these areas more power plants will be needed, more than double actually. The US currently has ~120 nuke power plants, to convert our automobiles to electricity we are going to need to build 120 more nukes. A typical nuke takes upwards of 10 years to construct (even a natural gas plant takes over 5), if we want the fleet converted in two decades we have to start construction TODAY so the power is available the day people switch to electric. This doesn't even include annual increases in demand.
If electricity is the future of the automobile, and I agree it is, we need to start building power plants today, regardless of source (ie nuke, hydro, wind, solar, natural gas, coal) and legislation needs to be changed to limit the impact of NIMBY.
In this case that ARM 1GHZ chip is about half the speed of the currently shipping N450 Atom. Sure it consumes a tenth of the power but is half the processing power worth half the electricity for twice the cost? ARM is supposed to be cheaper than Intel, not more expensive.
I'm an EFF member and support their request for attorney's fees, but let's play devil's advocate. Suppose you were an indie musician who sold your songs online, and you found a number of YouTube videos that used your song without permission, so you sent a long list of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube. Included in that list was one video that used only a brief portion of your song, short enough to count as fair use. Is $400,000 a fair punishment for accidentally including one video in your list that wasn't a bona fide copyright infringement?
If there is a question of something being fair use then you shouldn't be sending a DMCA take down notice. What you should do is contact the poster or have the ISP forward a letter to the poster questioning their use and initiating a discussion with them rather than sending legal threats (that's what a DMCA notice is).
The law is clear, the take down should ONLY be used where you are 100% sure that you hold the copyright and the use is infringing. I don't have any sympathy for someone that's sending out blanket DMCA notices without oversight or thought. Currently companies are sending notices on stuff with names that are similar without even verifying content and there needs to be punishment for that, even if the route is lawyer fees through civil damages. A few examples and these companies will be far more careful in verifying their rights before sending out DMCA notices and maybe we can return some civility to the process. There has been far too much abuse of the DMCA notice, even where there was no copyright ownership and someone was trying to get embarrassing material removed. The perjury statue on DMCA's needs to be expanded and civil statutory damages added for abuse. Until there is a threat of costs for abusing the process it will continue to be abused.
At $609million in a year with MS at 10.9 Billion they are producing 1/20th the revenue of MS without selling a single product (where MS has hundreds) while Redhat is less than 10 years old and MS is close to 40 years old.
I'd say what RedHat is doing is pretty darn impressive. 1/20 the revenue of the largest software company in the world in 1/4 the time while only selling support and their product is available for free. Impressive doesn't even begin to describe how successful they are at this point.
And other people don't realize that with simple crop rotation the same results as industrial fertilization can be achieved. In fact a US university has had a running crop rotation experiment going for over 100 years that has demonstrated yields equivalent to industrial farming.
You may not realize it but the only reason we have to use fertilizers is farmers don't rotate crops anymore. We could re-institute crop rotation with little impact to food production and eliminate the use of fertilizers.
I probably shouldn't respond to this but Google did the right thing. Their employees would be jailed and maybe even executed if they refuse to follow chinese law while operating inside the country. It would be extremely foolish of them to disregard Chinese law while still operating inside the country because as I said it could even get some innocent employee killed. If they abandon the Chinese market and then still keep the results censored, then you have a complaint but until they pull out the Chinese government could do bad things to innocent people to punish the corporation.
The problem isn't the constitution. The courts ruling is correct. The problem is that Congress declared Corporations "persons" under US law. Give them the legal recognition of a person and they have all the rights too. Congress can undo this by simply making Corporations a legal entity that isn't a "person" under US law. Unfortunately this will never happen because to many people in congress benefit from corporations being "persons". It gives corporations all the benefits of being a "person" without any of the risks (such as going to jail). Congress did this, not the courts.
Because some people like the idea of FOSS. It took FreeDOS 5-8 years to fully clone 16bit MSDOS and then improve on it. Today there is a fully functioning alternative to DOS that is used extensively in the embedded space (particularly manufacturing subsystems where it's still common). By providing a fully functional clone of MS-DOS the FreeDOS people have removed the MS yoke from an entire sector of IT.
FreeDOS and ReactOS if it's successful are useful tools in dismantling the MS monopoly or making it more customer focused. Many of the DRM components in Vista and 7 wouldn't be possible if ReactOS was a fully working clone when Vista was announced. Now that MS has fully abandoned XP it gets even easier for ReactOS because they don't need to worry with MS coming in and rewriting a big chuck of win32 to obfuscate the development. ReactOS might just provide the necessary pressure for MS to dismantle the DRM subsystem in future versions of Windows if it begins gaining significant market share. This likely won't gain any traction in the retail market, but a successful implementation could destroy sales of MS licenses in the corporate climate, something MS would take very seriously as it accounts for most of the their windows income.
People are making their code available for free. Knock what they work on all you like but this isn't a corporation with an agenda. Much FOSS software is a labor of love, not a labor for a paycheck. But I can guarantee you could have a say in how things work out if you are willing to pay the salary of some developers. Otherwise the companies that do will get the selection in what's improved and those that aren't paid will work on what they want.
Yes it's a shortcoming of FOSS that there is no central direction and that people don't work together well. Welcome to the real world, when all your workers are volunteers they will work on what they want or they won't work at all. This is also a strength of the process in that you aren't dependent on a corporate overlord to decide to support features or provide programs.
Sandy rejected admission to Utopia and has never been part of the organization. Even in areas where Utopia exists the uptake is significantly less than 50% and the only speeds available are 15Mbs and 30Mbs with two cities having 50Mbs available. Even in the Utopia cities averages of 33.3Mbs couldn't be reached.
The article has the worst conclusions I've ever seen. They claim Sandy has an average internet speed that doesn't even exist anywhere in sandy unless you are buying at DS3 directly from a telecom company like Qwest or XO. The Akami numbers aren't residential connections, either the study is garbage or the numbers are the average connection an ISP has, not individuals. Even if it were the average connection an ISP has I still don't buy it.
Sandy Utah has two ISPs, Qwest and Comcast plus the occasionally available WISP. Not a single ISP in the Sandy area offers speeds in excess of Comcasts standard 16Mbs high end package. It's absurd that some article lists the average as 33.3Mbs as I don't know a single area where that speed is available and I live in the heart of Sandy. There is Metro Ethernet available at the cost of multiple thousands but no one outside large business has it.
This apparent study of internet speeds is worthless and it's conclusions garbage.
Even suspended in a fluid the forces the objects will experience will be in the hundreds to thousands of PSI(kg/cm^2). Very little can survive that kind of pressure, even suspended in fluid it's going to smash anything that isn't a lump of solid material. And if you are dumb enough to try to suspend something in a fluid what you will find is that fluid will be integrated into everything that was inside it because if it's got even a bubble of air inside the fluid it's going to be smashed with fluid pressures that will make the ocean floor look like a walk in the park.
Escape velocity is 11.2km/s, to reach 11.2km/s with a 30 meter barrel you would need (11200m/s)^2 = 2(a)30m => acceleration = 2,090,666.67 m/s^2 and with a 50Kg object that's a force of F = 50kg(2,090.666.66m/s^2) = 104,533,333.33 Newtons (23,500KIP). I don't know the metric conversion that's common for pressure but for a launch object that had a backplate of one square foot 1FT^2 (0.09m^2) the pressure would be 163,194.64 PSI or (1125.2MPa). Increase the weight and the force goes up geometrically with the increase. That's gonna smash just about anything. Regular concrete will crush at 4000KIP (high strength is upto about 12,000kip, I've never heard of concrete that could survive 23,000kip), carbon steel yields at 250MPa and totally fails at 800MPa.
Very few materials raw materials can survive that kind of force without total failure and you actually think anything other than raw materials could survive the flight? A block of steel would make it to orbit but some (or all) of it's going to have fully yielded which would strain harden the material and might make it worthless for the application it's being launched for. Concrete put through the cannon would come out as pebbles (or dust) on the other side. Carbon fiber and some other materials can survive that kind of force so I guess if you are going to launch carbon fiber into space it might be economical, but little else would survive the flight without damage and in most cases total destruction. And certainlly electronics or any piece of equipment is going to be ruined. (Consult the following for the list, as a caveat this is tensile strength which is a bit different than compressive strength but most of the items on the table have balanced compressive/tensile strength except for stone materials like concrete which have negligible tensile strength) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_strength
Again, the final point, if you are going to use this to launch blocks of raw materials into space that you then forge into usable materials this might work but it's not going to be shipping anything else up unless your intent is to put more garbage into space.
To fire it from a cannon the G force is going to be astronomically high. Very little is going to be able to survive that type of acceleration without massive damage. You could certainly fire a block of metal that fast without worry that it's ruined (though it will likely deform) but you put a 2 billion satellite in that and it's going to be absolutely destroyed by the acceleration. Even with a conventional rocket they spend several million dollars packing and testing the container the satellite is shoved into to make sure the vibration and acceleration won't damage the bird during launch.
Now you might be able to use this to build a large space station in orbit if you build everything in orbit including forging every piece because you could use this to blast up the raw materials but in reality it's not going to be launching anything but raw materials due to the acceleration. Once you exceed a certain amount of G's and nothing mechanical or electrical can survive it without being damaged or destroyed. Rapid acceleration doesn't just damage living organisms, it can destroy almost anything.
They already exist. They are at least 10' by 6' typically have a bed and toilet inside, are surrounded by a faraday cage of reinforced concrete with a door made of nice thick heavy iron bars that complete the faraday cage on the only side open to the world. It's actually quite easy to get into one for free, they even provide free meals and all the sex you can handle. The federal ones are typically called supermax and include a roomate who will be your sexual partner.
If you would like to visit one simply rob a bank, shortly after being caught you will be transfered to your nice faraday cage where you are guaranteed safety from EM radiation for at least 15 years.
Exactly! You know what RedBox did? Rather than buying from the studio in bulk DVD's in sleeve's for a very slight discount they are buying all their movies at walmart retail then having an employee go through and pull the DVD's out a the boxes and stick them in a sleeve. This hasn't stopped Redbox and won't. Netflix agreed to comply so they can get the license to stream the movies digitally because they are making more money on the streaming than the rentals.
All this is going to do is make RedBox more powerful and give them a bigger market share. This is very foolish of the studio's because Netflix is more on their side then RedBox is.
If a 10 over cost $300 you were in a workzone or a school zone and you should have been fined twice as much. A first time speeding ticket in a school zone in my state is a class a misdemeanor with a $600+ fine, the second time it triples and the third time there is jail time involved. Workzones are double also but not handled under criminal statues.
There are a reason these fines are high and should be high, speeding in these two locations is much much more likely to result in fatalities and in the case of school zones the deaths of small children doing nothing more dangerous than walking to school.
If you ever get a real PHB's ear (preferably one that manages budgets) privately for a few minutes you should ask them if they have ever evaluated how much IT taking over someone's machine during work hours costs the company. Don't be confrontational, in fact act stupid, like you really don't know what you are asking and you are truly interested in an answer. Whatever the response is nod, accept it, say thanks and drop it, talk about sports or something else. The question will eat away at the PHB and he'll eventually start asking questions.
IT should NEVER EVER take over a machine during work hours unless the employee is needed to assist, and even then it should be a scheduled thing. It's been my experience that IT thinks they are important. There is only one business where IT people are actually the people making the company money and that's IT service companies. Otherwise the people they are interrupting are the ones that make the money that pay for their job. IT taking control of a machine for an hour during work hours could cost the company hundreds and even thousands of dollars in lost revenue. All machine maintenance should be done after general work hours, if needed the IT department should work such that one of the IT employees is on staff in the middle of the night to do such maintenance.
Nonsense. They didn't extract anything from a fossil. A fossil is a rock. On top of that, even if they had the actual real bones from a Neanderthal (which is possible) the DNA would be so highly degraded if there is any even left that you wouldn't get anything out of a sequencing. DNA barely lasts a few decades if it's not frozen and even if it's frozen it degrades over time and is worthless in short order. I bet you think it's possible to get Dino DNA from mosquitos in Amber too huh?
It's amazing how few people understand the regulatory framework of the POTS system. What you propose will NEVER happen.
The POTS is a regulated monopoly, local state regulatory boards set prices based on accounted costs to run and maintain the system plus a profit for the ILEC, typically anywhere from 10-15%. Local state regulatory authorities are petitioned yearly by the ILEC's to raise prices because of cost increases. As subscribers flee the base maintenance costs are passed on to a smaller and smaller group of rate payers. Basically the local state boards will increase the costs of a POTS line yearly as the numbers change. The higher the price goes the more people will flee the system, but there will never be a situation where the fixed costs exceed the revenue because the regulatory board will simply raise prices.
What ATT wants is that regulatory framework to go away so they can raise prices now while there are still a significant number of people in the system and soak them for everything they can get. The problem is all the people on fixed incomes that rely on POTS for emergency services. I don't have a problem with the ILEC's charging whatever they want except it's going to severely hurt grandma and may even make it so she can't afford a phone or that she goes without food to afford the phone. For the elderly the POTS line may be there only contact with the outside world. It's the entire reason we regulated the system and set milestones for service. Keep in mind that's the other part of the equation, the current regulatory authority gives the states the right to set conditions on support hold times, repair order delays and time to install. We've come to accept that if you call and order a phone it will be installed in a few days rather than a few months. Remove the regulatory framework and 100 years of regulated expectations go out the window as the ILEC's will be able to do anything they want.
Further, engineers tend to hold a particular mind-set that disdains ambiguity and compromise.
And all black people are criminals, Hispanics are Lazy, Jews are greedy and Arabs are terrorists. Do you generalize much? Your attitude that all of one group are similar is no different than racism. And what's your basis for this pearl of wisdom? That Bin Ladin and Christmas NW bomber are both engineers? How about the 4 doctors that tried to blow up Heathrow? How about Bin Ladin's second in command is a doctor? In fact much of the leadership of Al Queda has medical degrees. Should we also single out doctors as potential terrorists as well?
I can't believe this made the front page, its blatant hate speech.
There is no such thing as rehabilitation. People only change when they themselves want to change. Most American's enjoy the Idea of Prison being a violent dangerous place in the hope that it will convince criminals that they don't want to commit crimes again and end up there again. Even if deterrence is as big of a myth as rehabilitation it at least has some backing in reality.
Thanks for the Info. If I feel like committing Murder I will make sure to stop by Finland as it will only cost me 10 years. Can I also torture the murder victim and only get 10 years? What a wonderful system for repeat offenders.
One of the reasons your crime rate is lower probably has to do with the forced sterilization of those deemed unfit by the state that was practiced from the early 60's through the early 80's thereby sterilizing an entire generation of "undesirables" and preventing them from reproducing. We could likely lower the US crime rate by doing such things but frankly believe that doing so is akin to taking away a persons essential liberty for no cause.
Vmware workstation is supposed to be able to play all DirectX 9.0c games. In my experience there are crashes but that this support does exist. This makes it possible to play a full blown copy of XP ontop of Linux with full game support which is quite impressive.
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Gasoline has a lot of energy per volume, no doubt. But an IC engine has a maximum efficiency burning that gasoline of about 40%, real world efficiency is around 20%. Electric motors are 90% real world efficient. Now assuming your 50MJ/kg is correct, all your battery has to do is match 11MJ/kg and it will equal gasoline assuming everything is equal. As noted in another post its not equal, the electric motor weighs almost nothing compared to the IC engine, as a result you need even less energy. According to the article the batteries being researched will be capable of 5.6MJ/kg. That's halfway to the equal comparison. This isn't even considering that cars are designed for 300+ miles per fillup but the average daily use is less than 40milies and the median is less than 20miles.
Electric energy can propel your car for $0.03 per mile. If gas taxes were taken out (I used my states gas tax, yours could be several cents different either direction), you are paying roughly $2.30 per gallon and if you car gets 35mph per gallon you are paying $0.06 cents per mile, that's HALF the cost.
There are so many people that don't realize how game changing the Chevy Volt is. Give it a battery pack that can sustain it for equivalent miles to a gas tank (currently it's 40mph on pure electricity with a gasoline generator backup) at the same vehicle weight and the gasoline IC engine will fade into history. This doesn't even factor in how much funner it is to drive a car with electric drive train, the power and torque curve are identical where in an IC engine they are offset significantly. Car and Driver LOVED the Volt and Tesla Roadster because they are a blast to drive and cheaper to drive than a gas car. It's a win-win for everyone if the battery tech advances to the stage that you can get similar miles from battery pack as from gasoline.
If you live in the US the Electric line that supplies your home is probably a 7kv but stepdown isn't much of an issue as I understand most of the power lines in the US that are modern (defined as last 30 years) are sized sufficiently to support up to 45kv with the transmission lines upwards of 100kv. At those voltages millions of amps can be delivered safely to the transformer that feeds your home. The problem isn't going to be distribution, it's going to be generation.
The annual energy usage of automobiles is more than the current electricity usage in the US. Converting the entire automobile fleet to electricity would require more than double the amount of electrical power in theory. Currently though because the vast majority of the US power is generated in coal fired power plants which burn the same amount of coal all day long regardless of energy demand more than half a days power is essentially wasted. Being that most people park their cars at night, when this power isn't used, the solution is to balance demand by charging cars at night when demand bottoms out. This power would essentially be free as the power plant is still burning the same amount of coal, just not generating power. In areas where there is extensive use of other forms of power generation such as natural gas, nuke and hydro the power generation is turned down at night and resources aren't consumed because the power plant can scale. It's during this down time maintenance is done. In these areas more power plants will be needed, more than double actually. The US currently has ~120 nuke power plants, to convert our automobiles to electricity we are going to need to build 120 more nukes. A typical nuke takes upwards of 10 years to construct (even a natural gas plant takes over 5), if we want the fleet converted in two decades we have to start construction TODAY so the power is available the day people switch to electric. This doesn't even include annual increases in demand.
If electricity is the future of the automobile, and I agree it is, we need to start building power plants today, regardless of source (ie nuke, hydro, wind, solar, natural gas, coal) and legislation needs to be changed to limit the impact of NIMBY.
In this case that ARM 1GHZ chip is about half the speed of the currently shipping N450 Atom. Sure it consumes a tenth of the power but is half the processing power worth half the electricity for twice the cost? ARM is supposed to be cheaper than Intel, not more expensive.
If there is a question of something being fair use then you shouldn't be sending a DMCA take down notice. What you should do is contact the poster or have the ISP forward a letter to the poster questioning their use and initiating a discussion with them rather than sending legal threats (that's what a DMCA notice is).
The law is clear, the take down should ONLY be used where you are 100% sure that you hold the copyright and the use is infringing. I don't have any sympathy for someone that's sending out blanket DMCA notices without oversight or thought. Currently companies are sending notices on stuff with names that are similar without even verifying content and there needs to be punishment for that, even if the route is lawyer fees through civil damages. A few examples and these companies will be far more careful in verifying their rights before sending out DMCA notices and maybe we can return some civility to the process. There has been far too much abuse of the DMCA notice, even where there was no copyright ownership and someone was trying to get embarrassing material removed. The perjury statue on DMCA's needs to be expanded and civil statutory damages added for abuse. Until there is a threat of costs for abusing the process it will continue to be abused.
At $609million in a year with MS at 10.9 Billion they are producing 1/20th the revenue of MS without selling a single product (where MS has hundreds) while Redhat is less than 10 years old and MS is close to 40 years old.
I'd say what RedHat is doing is pretty darn impressive. 1/20 the revenue of the largest software company in the world in 1/4 the time while only selling support and their product is available for free. Impressive doesn't even begin to describe how successful they are at this point.
And other people don't realize that with simple crop rotation the same results as industrial fertilization can be achieved. In fact a US university has had a running crop rotation experiment going for over 100 years that has demonstrated yields equivalent to industrial farming.
You may not realize it but the only reason we have to use fertilizers is farmers don't rotate crops anymore. We could re-institute crop rotation with little impact to food production and eliminate the use of fertilizers.
I probably shouldn't respond to this but Google did the right thing. Their employees would be jailed and maybe even executed if they refuse to follow chinese law while operating inside the country. It would be extremely foolish of them to disregard Chinese law while still operating inside the country because as I said it could even get some innocent employee killed. If they abandon the Chinese market and then still keep the results censored, then you have a complaint but until they pull out the Chinese government could do bad things to innocent people to punish the corporation.
The problem isn't the constitution. The courts ruling is correct. The problem is that Congress declared Corporations "persons" under US law. Give them the legal recognition of a person and they have all the rights too. Congress can undo this by simply making Corporations a legal entity that isn't a "person" under US law. Unfortunately this will never happen because to many people in congress benefit from corporations being "persons". It gives corporations all the benefits of being a "person" without any of the risks (such as going to jail). Congress did this, not the courts.
Because some people like the idea of FOSS. It took FreeDOS 5-8 years to fully clone 16bit MSDOS and then improve on it. Today there is a fully functioning alternative to DOS that is used extensively in the embedded space (particularly manufacturing subsystems where it's still common). By providing a fully functional clone of MS-DOS the FreeDOS people have removed the MS yoke from an entire sector of IT.
FreeDOS and ReactOS if it's successful are useful tools in dismantling the MS monopoly or making it more customer focused. Many of the DRM components in Vista and 7 wouldn't be possible if ReactOS was a fully working clone when Vista was announced. Now that MS has fully abandoned XP it gets even easier for ReactOS because they don't need to worry with MS coming in and rewriting a big chuck of win32 to obfuscate the development. ReactOS might just provide the necessary pressure for MS to dismantle the DRM subsystem in future versions of Windows if it begins gaining significant market share. This likely won't gain any traction in the retail market, but a successful implementation could destroy sales of MS licenses in the corporate climate, something MS would take very seriously as it accounts for most of the their windows income.
People are making their code available for free. Knock what they work on all you like but this isn't a corporation with an agenda. Much FOSS software is a labor of love, not a labor for a paycheck. But I can guarantee you could have a say in how things work out if you are willing to pay the salary of some developers. Otherwise the companies that do will get the selection in what's improved and those that aren't paid will work on what they want.
Yes it's a shortcoming of FOSS that there is no central direction and that people don't work together well. Welcome to the real world, when all your workers are volunteers they will work on what they want or they won't work at all. This is also a strength of the process in that you aren't dependent on a corporate overlord to decide to support features or provide programs.
Sandy rejected admission to Utopia and has never been part of the organization. Even in areas where Utopia exists the uptake is significantly less than 50% and the only speeds available are 15Mbs and 30Mbs with two cities having 50Mbs available. Even in the Utopia cities averages of 33.3Mbs couldn't be reached.
The article has the worst conclusions I've ever seen. They claim Sandy has an average internet speed that doesn't even exist anywhere in sandy unless you are buying at DS3 directly from a telecom company like Qwest or XO. The Akami numbers aren't residential connections, either the study is garbage or the numbers are the average connection an ISP has, not individuals. Even if it were the average connection an ISP has I still don't buy it.
Sandy Utah has two ISPs, Qwest and Comcast plus the occasionally available WISP. Not a single ISP in the Sandy area offers speeds in excess of Comcasts standard 16Mbs high end package. It's absurd that some article lists the average as 33.3Mbs as I don't know a single area where that speed is available and I live in the heart of Sandy. There is Metro Ethernet available at the cost of multiple thousands but no one outside large business has it.
This apparent study of internet speeds is worthless and it's conclusions garbage.
Even suspended in a fluid the forces the objects will experience will be in the hundreds to thousands of PSI(kg/cm^2). Very little can survive that kind of pressure, even suspended in fluid it's going to smash anything that isn't a lump of solid material. And if you are dumb enough to try to suspend something in a fluid what you will find is that fluid will be integrated into everything that was inside it because if it's got even a bubble of air inside the fluid it's going to be smashed with fluid pressures that will make the ocean floor look like a walk in the park.
Escape velocity is 11.2km/s, to reach 11.2km/s with a 30 meter barrel you would need (11200m/s)^2 = 2(a)30m => acceleration = 2,090,666.67 m/s^2 and with a 50Kg object that's a force of F = 50kg(2,090.666.66m/s^2) = 104,533,333.33 Newtons (23,500KIP). I don't know the metric conversion that's common for pressure but for a launch object that had a backplate of one square foot 1FT^2 (0.09m^2) the pressure would be 163,194.64 PSI or (1125.2MPa). Increase the weight and the force goes up geometrically with the increase. That's gonna smash just about anything. Regular concrete will crush at 4000KIP (high strength is upto about 12,000kip, I've never heard of concrete that could survive 23,000kip), carbon steel yields at 250MPa and totally fails at 800MPa.
Very few materials raw materials can survive that kind of force without total failure and you actually think anything other than raw materials could survive the flight? A block of steel would make it to orbit but some (or all) of it's going to have fully yielded which would strain harden the material and might make it worthless for the application it's being launched for. Concrete put through the cannon would come out as pebbles (or dust) on the other side. Carbon fiber and some other materials can survive that kind of force so I guess if you are going to launch carbon fiber into space it might be economical, but little else would survive the flight without damage and in most cases total destruction. And certainlly electronics or any piece of equipment is going to be ruined. (Consult the following for the list, as a caveat this is tensile strength which is a bit different than compressive strength but most of the items on the table have balanced compressive/tensile strength except for stone materials like concrete which have negligible tensile strength)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_strength
Again, the final point, if you are going to use this to launch blocks of raw materials into space that you then forge into usable materials this might work but it's not going to be shipping anything else up unless your intent is to put more garbage into space.
To fire it from a cannon the G force is going to be astronomically high. Very little is going to be able to survive that type of acceleration without massive damage. You could certainly fire a block of metal that fast without worry that it's ruined (though it will likely deform) but you put a 2 billion satellite in that and it's going to be absolutely destroyed by the acceleration. Even with a conventional rocket they spend several million dollars packing and testing the container the satellite is shoved into to make sure the vibration and acceleration won't damage the bird during launch.
Now you might be able to use this to build a large space station in orbit if you build everything in orbit including forging every piece because you could use this to blast up the raw materials but in reality it's not going to be launching anything but raw materials due to the acceleration. Once you exceed a certain amount of G's and nothing mechanical or electrical can survive it without being damaged or destroyed. Rapid acceleration doesn't just damage living organisms, it can destroy almost anything.
They already exist. They are at least 10' by 6' typically have a bed and toilet inside, are surrounded by a faraday cage of reinforced concrete with a door made of nice thick heavy iron bars that complete the faraday cage on the only side open to the world. It's actually quite easy to get into one for free, they even provide free meals and all the sex you can handle. The federal ones are typically called supermax and include a roomate who will be your sexual partner.
If you would like to visit one simply rob a bank, shortly after being caught you will be transfered to your nice faraday cage where you are guaranteed safety from EM radiation for at least 15 years.
Exactly! You know what RedBox did? Rather than buying from the studio in bulk DVD's in sleeve's for a very slight discount they are buying all their movies at walmart retail then having an employee go through and pull the DVD's out a the boxes and stick them in a sleeve. This hasn't stopped Redbox and won't. Netflix agreed to comply so they can get the license to stream the movies digitally because they are making more money on the streaming than the rentals.
All this is going to do is make RedBox more powerful and give them a bigger market share. This is very foolish of the studio's because Netflix is more on their side then RedBox is.
If a 10 over cost $300 you were in a workzone or a school zone and you should have been fined twice as much. A first time speeding ticket in a school zone in my state is a class a misdemeanor with a $600+ fine, the second time it triples and the third time there is jail time involved. Workzones are double also but not handled under criminal statues.
There are a reason these fines are high and should be high, speeding in these two locations is much much more likely to result in fatalities and in the case of school zones the deaths of small children doing nothing more dangerous than walking to school.
The IT manager should be fired.
If you ever get a real PHB's ear (preferably one that manages budgets) privately for a few minutes you should ask them if they have ever evaluated how much IT taking over someone's machine during work hours costs the company. Don't be confrontational, in fact act stupid, like you really don't know what you are asking and you are truly interested in an answer. Whatever the response is nod, accept it, say thanks and drop it, talk about sports or something else. The question will eat away at the PHB and he'll eventually start asking questions.
IT should NEVER EVER take over a machine during work hours unless the employee is needed to assist, and even then it should be a scheduled thing. It's been my experience that IT thinks they are important. There is only one business where IT people are actually the people making the company money and that's IT service companies. Otherwise the people they are interrupting are the ones that make the money that pay for their job. IT taking control of a machine for an hour during work hours could cost the company hundreds and even thousands of dollars in lost revenue. All machine maintenance should be done after general work hours, if needed the IT department should work such that one of the IT employees is on staff in the middle of the night to do such maintenance.
Nonsense. They didn't extract anything from a fossil. A fossil is a rock. On top of that, even if they had the actual real bones from a Neanderthal (which is possible) the DNA would be so highly degraded if there is any even left that you wouldn't get anything out of a sequencing. DNA barely lasts a few decades if it's not frozen and even if it's frozen it degrades over time and is worthless in short order. I bet you think it's possible to get Dino DNA from mosquitos in Amber too huh?
It's amazing how few people understand the regulatory framework of the POTS system. What you propose will NEVER happen.
The POTS is a regulated monopoly, local state regulatory boards set prices based on accounted costs to run and maintain the system plus a profit for the ILEC, typically anywhere from 10-15%. Local state regulatory authorities are petitioned yearly by the ILEC's to raise prices because of cost increases. As subscribers flee the base maintenance costs are passed on to a smaller and smaller group of rate payers. Basically the local state boards will increase the costs of a POTS line yearly as the numbers change. The higher the price goes the more people will flee the system, but there will never be a situation where the fixed costs exceed the revenue because the regulatory board will simply raise prices.
What ATT wants is that regulatory framework to go away so they can raise prices now while there are still a significant number of people in the system and soak them for everything they can get. The problem is all the people on fixed incomes that rely on POTS for emergency services. I don't have a problem with the ILEC's charging whatever they want except it's going to severely hurt grandma and may even make it so she can't afford a phone or that she goes without food to afford the phone. For the elderly the POTS line may be there only contact with the outside world. It's the entire reason we regulated the system and set milestones for service. Keep in mind that's the other part of the equation, the current regulatory authority gives the states the right to set conditions on support hold times, repair order delays and time to install. We've come to accept that if you call and order a phone it will be installed in a few days rather than a few months. Remove the regulatory framework and 100 years of regulated expectations go out the window as the ILEC's will be able to do anything they want.
And all black people are criminals, Hispanics are Lazy, Jews are greedy and Arabs are terrorists. Do you generalize much? Your attitude that all of one group are similar is no different than racism. And what's your basis for this pearl of wisdom? That Bin Ladin and Christmas NW bomber are both engineers? How about the 4 doctors that tried to blow up Heathrow? How about Bin Ladin's second in command is a doctor? In fact much of the leadership of Al Queda has medical degrees. Should we also single out doctors as potential terrorists as well?
I can't believe this made the front page, its blatant hate speech.
And next time you are at your newlywed friends home consider how many times they have had sex and left bodily fluids on the couch you are sitting on.
There is no such thing as rehabilitation. People only change when they themselves want to change. Most American's enjoy the Idea of Prison being a violent dangerous place in the hope that it will convince criminals that they don't want to commit crimes again and end up there again. Even if deterrence is as big of a myth as rehabilitation it at least has some backing in reality.
Thanks for the Info. If I feel like committing Murder I will make sure to stop by Finland as it will only cost me 10 years. Can I also torture the murder victim and only get 10 years? What a wonderful system for repeat offenders.
One of the reasons your crime rate is lower probably has to do with the forced sterilization of those deemed unfit by the state that was practiced from the early 60's through the early 80's thereby sterilizing an entire generation of "undesirables" and preventing them from reproducing. We could likely lower the US crime rate by doing such things but frankly believe that doing so is akin to taking away a persons essential liberty for no cause.
Vmware workstation is supposed to be able to play all DirectX 9.0c games. In my experience there are crashes but that this support does exist. This makes it possible to play a full blown copy of XP ontop of Linux with full game support which is quite impressive.