The product weighs 400 pounds and delivers 52 kilowatt-hours.
And how is that supposed to be enough to drive 500 miles? A typical car requires something like 25 hp to maintain 60 mi/hr, IIRC. (That's about 34 kW to maintain 97 km/hr.) So, then 52 kWh is enough for just over 1.5 hours, or less than 150 km. That's more than a little shy of 500 miles, ain't it?
The best thing I can come up with is that the AF is banking on replacing the F-14 with the F-22 when (if?) the latter comes online.
Actually it's the Navy that is planning on eventually replacing both the F-14 and F/A-18 with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Air Force doesn't fly the F-14; it will eventually replace its F-15s with the F-22. (Which in my opinion should be pushed off several years, seeing as how the F-15 is still far and away the most successful air superiority fighter in service today. We simply don't need the F-22, yet.)
Guess how many bogeys the F14 shot down 34 year run, in total? Guess before you read the answer.
Which could be interpreted as an indication of just how fearsome a weapon the F-14 was. It was one of the reasons that nobody would ever mess with a US carrier battle group.
I know that Google employees receive a $5000 discount (plus a few other perks that I'm not clear on) on any purchase of a hybrid vehicle that gets 45 mpg (ie, Prius, Insight or Civic Hybrid).
That seems unfair to folks who might want to buy, say, a VW TDI, that can break 45 mpg and not end up eventually leaving behind a mess of batteries to be disposed of...
The answer should be obvious: tax gas to cover the cost of roads and their management, privatize transit, and let the transit company control the land surrounding bus stops and rail stations.
Yeah, great. Let's create more allegedly-private government-sponsored monopolies.
The public transit would be nice, but it would require everyone to not live on 3/4 acre in a development 35 miles from the center of the city for it to be even plausable.
Right, let's make our cities even more crowded instead!
And you are complaining that gas prices are high? Well, at least these prices are a good incentive for me to use public transport.
That's why your gas prices are high - because your government wants to encourage you to use public transport. If you don't like it, talk to your elected officials.
Electrical use is way up since the 80's. Possibly because we all have tonnes more electronics bits to plug in and nearly everyone has a PC which adds a certain minimum for the hours its on. If you had a few lamps burning around the house which added up to the energy consumption of most desktop PCs you'd notice it right away and wonder why it's necessary. Alas, we sit at our keyboards and type merrily away (there's that batsard, ackthpt again, oi if only I had the mod points to bury him.) oblivious to the power consumption of our tin box full of CPU, DDR-RAM, HD, Whizzo Video Card De-Luxe, etc. Quite possibly we even have a reading lamp going beside us in the evening (I don't know about you, but at my age I get a headache looking at a glowing screen in the dark.) Plus there's all these little black plastic cubes and rectangles to run all manner of gizmo, which all add up.
Well, obviously I can't speak for everyone, but: every computer in my house is either a notebook, or a mini-ITX box, that draws less than 100W (when they're on, that is - the only one that's continuously on is a mini-ITX box that runs on a 60W brick). Every screen in my house is an LCD. And most (not yet all, I'm lazy, OK?) of the light bulbs are CFLs. There are couple of places where I would have CFLs, but because they're slightly larger than incandescents (and they don't come in specialty sizes yet) they don't fit everywhere.
I think "redhead" belongs in that list somewhere. As in, "3-way bisexual incest with an imaginary redhead from a parallel afterlife" or something. Heinlein looooooved hot redheads. (Hey, who doesn't?)
And exactly how would you implement this grand policy, oh Savior of the Species? Something is warning me about yet another person who doesn't seem to *get* democracy
I said it was my opinion (i.e. that "earth first" people don't have humanity's best interests in mind), you loudmouthed jerk - I don't recall saying anything about implementing any sort of "grand policy". Overreact much? For a supposed fan of democracy, you sure are quick to shout down the opinions of others.
If we ever get to the point when our spaceships stop the rotation of the earth, then we will have big spaceships in enough quantities to get out of this non-spinning rock, and go somewhere else.
But first let's act out Jack Of Shadows! Wouldn't that be cool?
Well, many of the more fundamental environmentalists see humankind as a a plague that is scrourging an otherwise perfect earth (mother nature).
In other words, they're would-be genocidists who care more about a pile of rocks, water, dirt, and biomass than they care for their own species. So let's be sure to take their advice about what to do, mmm-kay? [rolls eyes] Yeeeeah....
Yes, we should protect our environment - because, and to the extent that, doing so protects us. Anyone whose primary concern in this debate is not the survival and flourishing of the human species shouldn't have a say, in my opinion. People first, not Earth first.
It's people. Hot dog is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Well, don't they use saws to chop us up for food? So if this technology becomes mandatory... problem solved!
I'm thinking about what we do with all that material when the bridge has outlived its usefulness. Concrete and steel are easy to recycle. What do you do with thousands of tons of plastic?
Write on the side of it, in huge letters: "I am Ozymandias, king of kings! Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Quick guys, I need help what big project have we built on a national scale that the US can point to and be proud of within the last 5-10 years? I'm coming up with a blank myself.
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now all they need to do is create something to supply the 900KW it would take to charge it.
They're almost there...
The product weighs 400 pounds and delivers 52 kilowatt-hours.
And how is that supposed to be enough to drive 500 miles? A typical car requires something like 25 hp to maintain 60 mi/hr, IIRC. (That's about 34 kW to maintain 97 km/hr.) So, then 52 kWh is enough for just over 1.5 hours, or less than 150 km. That's more than a little shy of 500 miles, ain't it?
An Israeli F-15 got shot up badly by Syrian MiGs once, but it managed to make it home and land safely with half a wing missing.
Yeah, good thing its "pancake" fuselage was cribbed from the F-14, to give it all that lift.
The best thing I can come up with is that the AF is banking on replacing the F-14 with the F-22 when (if?) the latter comes online.
Actually it's the Navy that is planning on eventually replacing both the F-14 and F/A-18 with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Air Force doesn't fly the F-14; it will eventually replace its F-15s with the F-22. (Which in my opinion should be pushed off several years, seeing as how the F-15 is still far and away the most successful air superiority fighter in service today. We simply don't need the F-22, yet.)
Guess how many bogeys the F14 shot down 34 year run, in total? Guess before you read the answer.
Which could be interpreted as an indication of just how fearsome a weapon the F-14 was. It was one of the reasons that nobody would ever mess with a US carrier battle group.
A small slice of americana has officially slid into the past. It looked like the SUV of jet fighters, since it was so big, but it was sexy.
An SUV designed by Ferrari, maybe.
A people who can actually *eat* lutefisk need fear no invaders...
Besides, the US would never bother invading a country where gas costs more...
I know that Google employees receive a $5000 discount (plus a few other perks that I'm not clear on) on any purchase of a hybrid vehicle that gets 45 mpg (ie, Prius, Insight or Civic Hybrid).
That seems unfair to folks who might want to buy, say, a VW TDI, that can break 45 mpg and not end up eventually leaving behind a mess of batteries to be disposed of...
The answer should be obvious: tax gas to cover the cost of roads and their management, privatize transit, and let the transit company control the land surrounding bus stops and rail stations.
Yeah, great. Let's create more allegedly-private government-sponsored monopolies.
The public transit would be nice, but it would require everyone to not live on 3/4 acre in a development 35 miles from the center of the city for it to be even plausable.
Right, let's make our cities even more crowded instead!
And you are complaining that gas prices are high? Well, at least these prices are a good incentive for me to use public transport.
That's why your gas prices are high - because your government wants to encourage you to use public transport. If you don't like it, talk to your elected officials.
You can obviously use the libraries defined by standard C/C++, they are part of the language, they are NOT "external libraries"
But the sockets library is not part of the C++ Standard. It is platform-specific.
Didn't he have to compile numbers for WEekly Network USage and Annual Network USage?
Electrical use is way up since the 80's. Possibly because we all have tonnes more electronics bits to plug in and nearly everyone has a PC which adds a certain minimum for the hours its on. If you had a few lamps burning around the house which added up to the energy consumption of most desktop PCs you'd notice it right away and wonder why it's necessary. Alas, we sit at our keyboards and type merrily away (there's that batsard, ackthpt again, oi if only I had the mod points to bury him.) oblivious to the power consumption of our tin box full of CPU, DDR-RAM, HD, Whizzo Video Card De-Luxe, etc. Quite possibly we even have a reading lamp going beside us in the evening (I don't know about you, but at my age I get a headache looking at a glowing screen in the dark.) Plus there's all these little black plastic cubes and rectangles to run all manner of gizmo, which all add up.
Well, obviously I can't speak for everyone, but: every computer in my house is either a notebook, or a mini-ITX box, that draws less than 100W (when they're on, that is - the only one that's continuously on is a mini-ITX box that runs on a 60W brick). Every screen in my house is an LCD. And most (not yet all, I'm lazy, OK?) of the light bulbs are CFLs. There are couple of places where I would have CFLs, but because they're slightly larger than incandescents (and they don't come in specialty sizes yet) they don't fit everywhere.
A collective could excercise just as much responsibility as an individual, and it could even be done democratically.
Recent history (at least American history) would tend to indicate otherwise.
I think "redhead" belongs in that list somewhere. As in, "3-way bisexual incest with an imaginary redhead from a parallel afterlife" or something. Heinlein looooooved hot redheads. (Hey, who doesn't?)
And exactly how would you implement this grand policy, oh Savior of the Species? Something is warning me about yet another person who doesn't seem to *get* democracy
I said it was my opinion (i.e. that "earth first" people don't have humanity's best interests in mind), you loudmouthed jerk - I don't recall saying anything about implementing any sort of "grand policy". Overreact much? For a supposed fan of democracy, you sure are quick to shout down the opinions of others.
If we ever get to the point when our spaceships stop the rotation of the earth, then we will have big spaceships in enough quantities to get out of this non-spinning rock, and go somewhere else.
But first let's act out Jack Of Shadows! Wouldn't that be cool?
Well, many of the more fundamental environmentalists see humankind as a a plague that is scrourging an otherwise perfect earth (mother nature).
In other words, they're would-be genocidists who care more about a pile of rocks, water, dirt, and biomass than they care for their own species. So let's be sure to take their advice about what to do, mmm-kay? [rolls eyes] Yeeeeah....
Yes, we should protect our environment - because, and to the extent that, doing so protects us. Anyone whose primary concern in this debate is not the survival and flourishing of the human species shouldn't have a say, in my opinion. People first, not Earth first.
...in the little bottles? Makes me explode, every morning.
It's people. Hot dog is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Well, don't they use saws to chop us up for food? So if this technology becomes mandatory... problem solved!
(Balmer thought it a better idea than Gates's "Hasta La....Apple.....APPLE!!" comeback quip)
For some reason I hear this being spoken with Ben Stiller's voice...
I'm thinking about what we do with all that material when the bridge has outlived its usefulness. Concrete and steel are easy to recycle. What do you do with thousands of tons of plastic?
Write on the side of it, in huge letters: "I am Ozymandias, king of kings! Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
If the [P]olice do something wrong, they should be [P]unished just like the rest of us!
Do these [P]olice work for [H]ardOCP or something?
Quick guys, I need help what big project have we built on a national scale that the US can point to and be proud of within the last 5-10 years? I'm coming up with a blank myself.
Aw c'mon, what about Mission Accomplished?!?!