You forgot the real reason -- that it looks like (after 40 years of speculation), that we may finally be at Peak Oil may have finally happened -- and that we might be in for one of the largest societal changes in the history of man.
And how does a compressed-air car solve that problem, when the air is being compressed by an electric motor, and the electricity is coming from oil?
Diesel is good for fuel economy, but horrible for emissions, especially particulates.
Diesels produce different kinds of harmful emissions from gas engines, not necessarily worse. And the biggest difference - particulates - can be dealt with using filters, as is now being done in Europe.
I purchased a fifteen passenger van in Colorado -- refurnished the interior with bed, closet, kitchen, pullout laptop desk, girlfriend, and surfboard storage racks -- and shipped it to Maui.
How did your girlfriend feel about being shut up inside a van while it was shipped to Hawaii?
thats roughly 445 horse-power-hours = 336 kilowatt hours or 1.21 gigajoules. if you push in this much energy in say ten minutes that requires a 2 megawatt power source.
And if you could push that much energy in one second, it'd be 1.21 gigawatts!!
I would be inclined agree, if it weren't for the fact that Stand on Zanzibar, Shockwave Rider and The Sheep Look Up are three of the best Sci-Fi books ever written. I've read other Brunner stories, and they were shit; but this trio is absolute, pure, 24-fuckin-carat gold.
Stand On Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider were both excellent, but I'm having a hard time getting through The Sheep Look Up. The doomspeak and extreme leftism are just so relentless. It's like he tried not to write a single sentence that didn't have a dire warning of death around the corner, or sheer and utter hatred of anybody who's white and has more than five dollars in his pocket, or both if he could manage it.
Google is not a 'relatively small corp'. It is worth more than both Ford and GM.
Are you talking about its market cap? That's not how much Google is worth; it's how much people are willing to believe Google is worth. If that belief were to vaporize, Google would be worth very little. Ford and GM, meanwhile, would still at least have all their plants and machinery, and a physical, saleable product.
Why is there an analog part of the signal chain at all?
Everything in the signal chain is analog. "Digital" doesn't exist in nature; it's just a useful abstraction that we apply to certain types of analog signals.
The only benefit your get from monster cables is a perhaps slightly lower resistance. That is all. The higher resistance of standard wires can easily be overcome by "turning up the volume".
This isn't strictly true. The resistance of the cables are part of the overall output impedance of the amplifier as "seen" by the complex input impedance of the speaker. If the resistance of the cables is high enough, this can start to "imprint" the impedance curve of the speakers onto the frequency response. That said, of course, even a 16-gauge lamp cord has a low enough resistance to prevent this effect, especially with low-output-impedance solid-state amps.
Check your voicemail, or your credit card balance, or anything else that you can do with a phone that requires you to enter a pin, zip code, or account number - without a numeric keypad. Go ahead. Try it.
What, you mean you can't whistle the DTMF tones in to the mic? Loser. (My number is "Mary Had A Little Lamb".)
C structs will probably always be lighter weight than objects
In C++, if a class has no virtual functions, there's no reason it can't have exactly the same memory footprint as a C POD struct. Member function calls should similarly incur no additional overhead vs. a C function call. That's the underlying philosophy behind C++ with regard to C - you only incur penalties for things (like virtual function indirection, exceptions, etc.) if you actually use them in your code.
The PPro was ridiculously expensive to produce at the time because of the on-die cache
Minor quibble, but - the PPro's cache was not on-die; the cache and the core were on separate dice, combined in a multi-chip module. It wasn't until the "Mendocino" PII-based Celeron that they started putting cache and core on the same die - and boy, did it show performance-wise.
Stella-Artois amonst others is from Belgium. You should try traveling to Europe and drinking some nice beer before you slag it off.
If you're going to sing the praises of European beer, surely you can come up with a better example than Stella. That stuff sucks almost as bad as the American macrobrews. Duvel, Chimay, Pilsner Urquell, Primator, Guinness, Bass - anything but Stella. (And you might not want to mention any French beers, either...)
IT is interesting that your country has tried over 300 different types of beer and still cannot make one good enough for every one to drink.
Lemme guess... yer a Coors drinker, aintcha? The Belgians make a number of brews that are good enough for anyone... anyone who hasn't been brainwashed into thinking American macropiss is good beer, at least.
Wait, wait, wait. You're from the USA and complain about bad beer? You can't be serious.
Wait, wait, wait. You think Bud and Coors are the only beers made in the US? You can't be serious. Some of the best beers in the world are made here in the US. It's just that 99% of the world doesn't know about them (including, sadly, 99% of Americans...)
I think we have a difference in terminology only, here. In the UK, a company is afforded certain legal rights and privileges (limited liability, reduced tax) as it is intended to foster co-operative productivity and thus eventually employment. Perhaps that maps better to corporation?
I think so. In the US, a company can be just any ol' business, whether legally incorporated or not. I don't think the term has legal significance. A corporation, however, is chartered by the government, afforded liability protection, a different tax structure, and legal "personhood" - i.e. a corporation can do things that normally can only be done by individuals, like engage in contracts, etc.
What I think you are not considering is that in, as far as I am aware, every country the notion of forming a company is a privilege. It is contingent on behaving in a way that is not detrimental to the consumer at large.
I agree that forming a corporation is a privilege granted (rightly or wrongly) by government. But forming a company, i.e. a group of people who work together for a common goal (which could be making CPUs, or putting on a theatre presentation, or whatever) is (at least in the United States) constitutionally protected by the First Amendment ("free assembly"); i.e. it is a right, not a privilege. And what's to say that an unincorporated company might not choose to give rebates to its customers based on their decision to buy or not buy from its competitors? Would that be wrong, too?
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You forgot the real reason -- that it looks like (after 40 years of speculation), that we may finally be at Peak Oil may have finally happened -- and that we might be in for one of the largest societal changes in the history of man.
And how does a compressed-air car solve that problem, when the air is being compressed by an electric motor, and the electricity is coming from oil?
Diesel is good for fuel economy, but horrible for emissions, especially particulates.
Diesels produce different kinds of harmful emissions from gas engines, not necessarily worse. And the biggest difference - particulates - can be dealt with using filters, as is now being done in Europe.
That said, my Prius can touch near 60, and that's pretty fucking good.
Enh. Even back in the '80s, a Rabbit Diesel could get 55 mpg. And you can run it on used vegetable oil.
You're also assuming no inflation in the price of gasoline over the 130,000 miles.
And, meanwhile, you're assuming that the price of electricity won't increase over the same time period.
I purchased a fifteen passenger van in Colorado -- refurnished the interior with bed, closet, kitchen, pullout laptop desk, girlfriend, and surfboard storage racks -- and shipped it to Maui.
How did your girlfriend feel about being shut up inside a van while it was shipped to Hawaii?
Put it on the Web. It'll end up cached and mirrored all over the place and it'll never go away.
thats roughly 445 horse-power-hours = 336 kilowatt hours or 1.21 gigajoules. if you push in this much energy in say ten minutes that requires a 2 megawatt power source.
And if you could push that much energy in one second, it'd be 1.21 gigawatts!!
Stand On Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider were both excellent, but I'm having a hard time getting through The Sheep Look Up. The doomspeak and extreme leftism are just so relentless. It's like he tried not to write a single sentence that didn't have a dire warning of death around the corner, or sheer and utter hatred of anybody who's white and has more than five dollars in his pocket, or both if he could manage it.
There's already a SP1 on Longhorn's roadmap?
Would you prefer that they not plan to make fixes in the future?
Google is not a 'relatively small corp'. It is worth more than both Ford and GM.
Are you talking about its market cap? That's not how much Google is worth; it's how much people are willing to believe Google is worth. If that belief were to vaporize, Google would be worth very little. Ford and GM, meanwhile, would still at least have all their plants and machinery, and a physical, saleable product.
Why is there an analog part of the signal chain at all?
Everything in the signal chain is analog. "Digital" doesn't exist in nature; it's just a useful abstraction that we apply to certain types of analog signals.
The only benefit your get from monster cables is a perhaps slightly lower resistance. That is all. The higher resistance of standard wires can easily be overcome by "turning up the volume".
This isn't strictly true. The resistance of the cables are part of the overall output impedance of the amplifier as "seen" by the complex input impedance of the speaker. If the resistance of the cables is high enough, this can start to "imprint" the impedance curve of the speakers onto the frequency response. That said, of course, even a 16-gauge lamp cord has a low enough resistance to prevent this effect, especially with low-output-impedance solid-state amps.
Check your voicemail, or your credit card balance, or anything else that you can do with a phone that requires you to enter a pin, zip code, or account number - without a numeric keypad. Go ahead. Try it.
What, you mean you can't whistle the DTMF tones in to the mic? Loser. (My number is "Mary Had A Little Lamb".)
C structs will probably always be lighter weight than objects
In C++, if a class has no virtual functions, there's no reason it can't have exactly the same memory footprint as a C POD struct. Member function calls should similarly incur no additional overhead vs. a C function call. That's the underlying philosophy behind C++ with regard to C - you only incur penalties for things (like virtual function indirection, exceptions, etc.) if you actually use them in your code.
The PPro was ridiculously expensive to produce at the time because of the on-die cache
Minor quibble, but - the PPro's cache was not on-die; the cache and the core were on separate dice, combined in a multi-chip module. It wasn't until the "Mendocino" PII-based Celeron that they started putting cache and core on the same die - and boy, did it show performance-wise.
Ok, I'm going to reply to this since I haven't seen one post get it right... 7.62x39 mm, usually with ~125 grain bullets. That's
Oh, the irony. (7.62 mm is .30 even, not .308)
or ten seconds with a big enough explosive (nine to get to Minimum Safe Distance, and one to punch the button...).
I sure hope you're not on foot...
fast hard-hull boat manufacturing as needed (army forced river crossing)
Or erect a bunch of them end-to-end, as a bridge.
Stella-Artois amonst others is from Belgium. You should try traveling to Europe and drinking some nice beer before you slag it off.
If you're going to sing the praises of European beer, surely you can come up with a better example than Stella. That stuff sucks almost as bad as the American macrobrews. Duvel, Chimay, Pilsner Urquell, Primator, Guinness, Bass - anything but Stella. (And you might not want to mention any French beers, either...)
IT is interesting that your country has tried over 300 different types of beer and still cannot make one good enough for every one to drink.
Lemme guess... yer a Coors drinker, aintcha? The Belgians make a number of brews that are good enough for anyone... anyone who hasn't been brainwashed into thinking American macropiss is good beer, at least.
Wait, wait, wait. You're from the USA and complain about bad beer? You can't be serious.
Wait, wait, wait. You think Bud and Coors are the only beers made in the US? You can't be serious. Some of the best beers in the world are made here in the US. It's just that 99% of the world doesn't know about them (including, sadly, 99% of Americans...)
If the patent is for processing word processing XML files, how do they define that?
C'mon, these are patents we're talking about. Defining stuff is completely optional.
...and there ain't no such thing as the Mafia, either - after all, that's what the Mafiosi always say...
I think we have a difference in terminology only, here. In the UK, a company is afforded certain legal rights and privileges (limited liability, reduced tax) as it is intended to foster co-operative productivity and thus eventually employment. Perhaps that maps better to corporation?
I think so. In the US, a company can be just any ol' business, whether legally incorporated or not. I don't think the term has legal significance. A corporation, however, is chartered by the government, afforded liability protection, a different tax structure, and legal "personhood" - i.e. a corporation can do things that normally can only be done by individuals, like engage in contracts, etc.
What I think you are not considering is that in, as far as I am aware, every country the notion of forming a company is a privilege. It is contingent on behaving in a way that is not detrimental to the consumer at large.
I agree that forming a corporation is a privilege granted (rightly or wrongly) by government. But forming a company, i.e. a group of people who work together for a common goal (which could be making CPUs, or putting on a theatre presentation, or whatever) is (at least in the United States) constitutionally protected by the First Amendment ("free assembly"); i.e. it is a right, not a privilege. And what's to say that an unincorporated company might not choose to give rebates to its customers based on their decision to buy or not buy from its competitors? Would that be wrong, too?