.. then why bother with the weight and complexity of an ICE at all?
I get about 390-410WH/mi in my Volt, which (assuming 33KW/gallon) is about 80MPG. That's actually a bit lower "mileage" than I could get, but I have a bit of a heavy foot. Assuming an 80% efficiency in the fuel cell, that'd be 64MPG, roughly double the mileage of a comparably-sized and -equipped car.
(and yes, I'm an early adopter, it beats smoking crack.. Barely..)
There's plenty of ideas out there, but most of the good ones are ones that they NYTimes politburo disagrees with and ignores.. All of the 'great' State-embiggening social program ideas were already had, tried, and proved failures for the most part..
As far as tech goes, plenty of ideas still get funded, and some of them are even good!
LOL! Has that been upgraded lately? LTIC it was dog slow compared to Chrome, and ISTR that it wasn't terribly well threaded (loading in one tab cold slowdown loading in other tabs).. Has it kept up with Firefox Gecko?
I reverted from 5.0 to 2.8 because 5.0's DTMF implementation is horribly fucking broken and shitty. It fails consistently if somewhat randomly (that is, I can't predict _when_ in a call it will be broken, but I can predict that it _will_ be broken), and they fall back on some sort of dopey standards excuse. Alls I knows is, before the upgrade DTMF worked with any voicemail/conferencing/phonetree system I dialed with 2.8 but failed almost always at some point using 5.0. They need to digitize a PCM sample of all DTMF tones around the world and produce them for as long as you press the number key, with the appropriate tone for the appropriate country (if there's any local variations) given the phone #.
Also, while 2.8 would choke on phone #s without leading country codes (it would say that my unlimited US/Canada plan was not eligible to dial a 10-digit US number, retardation) and 5.0 seemed to handle it better, the 5.0 interface is AWFUL, and it doesn't let you put phone #s in the 'contact' text entry bar, you have to call up the dialpad.
ps: "Bad for someone else, but OK for me to do it!" sounds an awful lot like Al Gore and learjet liberals carping on about CO2 while they have chauffeured SUVs and private jets spewing several villages worth of CO2 as they travel from junket to junket..
Taxes in Buffalo are fucking insanity. Even if you like the weather, the taxes, utilities, etc. are bullshit.
Hell, I have a ton of friends in Buffalo, but that's what IM is for. I love to visit and get the only wings worth eating, but then I get to leave and not pay the rapacious income or property tax!
Moving to a city with zero income tax and a relatively low cost-of-living, but plenty of stuff to eat, do and see. 20 Schrute bucks if you can guess which city and state;)
At this point, I'd need to spend $80-100k per year to pay in sales tax in an average state what I'm paying right now in income tax. Fuck income tax.
No, what I'm saying is, if the folks who SAY it's a problem don't actually BELIEVE it's a problem (judging by their actions), then I am not convinced that it IS a problem.
Do as I say and not as I do because I said so only works if you're a parent lecturing a child, and by 'works' I mean 'something you can get away with', and only until they can free themselves of you.
I believe there's a Turkish solar panel maker that has hybrid PV/hot water panels (which increase PV efficiency as well as generate hot water) but I don't know if they can or do sell into the US market, or if there's a US-built competitor that does the same thing?
There's no such thing as irrational fear of global communism.
As far as Global Warminating is concerned, I'll take it seriously when the self-righteous greens and politicians take it seriously. That means: MASSIVE investment in LFTRs (as in, Manhattan Project with factories cranking out thousands of community 2-10MW reactors per year, NIMBY preemption, with 25% of all power generation in 5 years and 75% in 10 years) and making celebrity/pol lifestyles match their rhetoric (no more 10k sqft houses with massive power bills, no more private jets to wasteful junkets, etc).
When the hypocrisy stops and the real technological solutions begin, maybe I'll pay attention.
Also, all climate _data_ must be opensource and publicly available, for free, along with methodologies. That's what real science means.
"Workers celebrate as the "Big Becky" tunnel boring machine makes its breakthrough in Niagara Falls May 13, 2011 for the new hydroelectric project there."
You actually should look for the best processor/disk/etc BEFORE memory, since RAM is where vendors like to bend you over a counter and rape you. I miss the days where you could buy computers (especially Macs) with 0MB RAM and then fit it yourself.
The only exception to this is where the RAM is soldered onto the system board, like the Macbook Air. Or, if you're exceedingly lucky, you buy from a vendor that doesn't have a one-size-rapes-all RAM pricing policy.
Paid time off for training plus certs I would consider tantamount to vacation time, and would appreciate it.
Last training I went to was for SunCluster, and there was some neat hardware to play with in the lab, and the instructor was actually pretty solid. Got to do some extracurricular HBA tweaking as well as one of the other students' systems wasn't recognizing the one in his workstation.
Plus, A5000 arrays, which I just think are neat even though their capacity can be matched or exceeded by desktop drives these days.
Wifi can be handy as a 'core' network if you live in an apartment and don't want to (or can't) drill holes to run copper throughout. An extended 802.11n 5GHz-dedicated works well enough to feed 1080p from my upstairs NAS to my downstairs home theater. Still, if I owned, or had an apartment with ethernet wall plates, I'd take advantage of that..
This crap is basically what Richard Pryor was doing in Superman III, shaving off the difference between bid and ask, millions or billions of times a day.
Also, if you want to see more fraud, check out dark pools and fake bids..
My question is, how do you get picosecond performance with any networked system? Wouldn't you need a CPU clock to resolve that finely first at a bare minimum?
I'd turn it into an opensource 'App Store' that catalogs opensource software, provides downloads for all platforms, source and documentation, as well as interactive help wikis or other sorts of user-generated docs and troubleshooting help. Add a search engine or mechanism that lets folks put in the name of closed-source software they wish to substitute and have it come up with a list of well-supported opensource alternatives.
Or, sell it to American Express for a healthy profit and use the proceeds to fund OSS development.
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.. then why bother with the weight and complexity of an ICE at all?
I get about 390-410WH/mi in my Volt, which (assuming 33KW/gallon) is about 80MPG. That's actually a bit lower "mileage" than I could get, but I have a bit of a heavy foot. Assuming an 80% efficiency in the fuel cell, that'd be 64MPG, roughly double the mileage of a comparably-sized and -equipped car.
(and yes, I'm an early adopter, it beats smoking crack.. Barely..)
incoherent light?
IMO I'd rather see laser 'sparkplugs' first, I know Ford is working on them..
There's plenty of ideas out there, but most of the good ones are ones that they NYTimes politburo disagrees with and ignores.. All of the 'great' State-embiggening social program ideas were already had, tried, and proved failures for the most part..
As far as tech goes, plenty of ideas still get funded, and some of them are even good!
LOL! Has that been upgraded lately? LTIC it was dog slow compared to Chrome, and ISTR that it wasn't terribly well threaded (loading in one tab cold slowdown loading in other tabs).. Has it kept up with Firefox Gecko?
I reverted from 5.0 to 2.8 because 5.0's DTMF implementation is horribly fucking broken and shitty. It fails consistently if somewhat randomly (that is, I can't predict _when_ in a call it will be broken, but I can predict that it _will_ be broken), and they fall back on some sort of dopey standards excuse. Alls I knows is, before the upgrade DTMF worked with any voicemail/conferencing/phonetree system I dialed with 2.8 but failed almost always at some point using 5.0. They need to digitize a PCM sample of all DTMF tones around the world and produce them for as long as you press the number key, with the appropriate tone for the appropriate country (if there's any local variations) given the phone #.
Also, while 2.8 would choke on phone #s without leading country codes (it would say that my unlimited US/Canada plan was not eligible to dial a 10-digit US number, retardation) and 5.0 seemed to handle it better, the 5.0 interface is AWFUL, and it doesn't let you put phone #s in the 'contact' text entry bar, you have to call up the dialpad.
An unanswered phone is a happy phone!
ps: "Bad for someone else, but OK for me to do it!" sounds an awful lot like Al Gore and learjet liberals carping on about CO2 while they have chauffeured SUVs and private jets spewing several villages worth of CO2 as they travel from junket to junket..
... bwahahah
Of course they're desperate: Yahoo is a shithole.
Taxes in Buffalo are fucking insanity. Even if you like the weather, the taxes, utilities, etc. are bullshit.
Hell, I have a ton of friends in Buffalo, but that's what IM is for. I love to visit and get the only wings worth eating, but then I get to leave and not pay the rapacious income or property tax!
Moving to a city with zero income tax and a relatively low cost-of-living, but plenty of stuff to eat, do and see. 20 Schrute bucks if you can guess which city and state ;)
At this point, I'd need to spend $80-100k per year to pay in sales tax in an average state what I'm paying right now in income tax. Fuck income tax.
Dodgeball was Twitter before Twitter.. Google bought it and fucking squandered it, stupidity of a Microsoftian degree.
I can't wait to see Facebook melt down though, too scamilicious to IPO in the US lol...
No, what I'm saying is, if the folks who SAY it's a problem don't actually BELIEVE it's a problem (judging by their actions), then I am not convinced that it IS a problem.
Do as I say and not as I do because I said so only works if you're a parent lecturing a child, and by 'works' I mean 'something you can get away with', and only until they can free themselves of you.
Better yet, think of something totally new. If the primary joke of your Brady Bunch reboot is "Ha! Remember Brady Bunch?" then you've failed.
Seth MacFarlane's giant bags of cash beg to differ. ;)
I believe there's a Turkish solar panel maker that has hybrid PV/hot water panels (which increase PV efficiency as well as generate hot water) but I don't know if they can or do sell into the US market, or if there's a US-built competitor that does the same thing?
Except we did this for lead, CFCs, DDT, etc. And gee, no Global Communist Government seems to exist...
Who said the globalists would necessarily be a publicly-visible government?
Also, I would bet that malaria kills more Africans than war, and irrational fears of DDT have contributed to more African deaths than the AK-47.
There's no such thing as irrational fear of global communism.
As far as Global Warminating is concerned, I'll take it seriously when the self-righteous greens and politicians take it seriously. That means: MASSIVE investment in LFTRs (as in, Manhattan Project with factories cranking out thousands of community 2-10MW reactors per year, NIMBY preemption, with 25% of all power generation in 5 years and 75% in 10 years) and making celebrity/pol lifestyles match their rhetoric (no more 10k sqft houses with massive power bills, no more private jets to wasteful junkets, etc).
When the hypocrisy stops and the real technological solutions begin, maybe I'll pay attention.
Also, all climate _data_ must be opensource and publicly available, for free, along with methodologies. That's what real science means.
OK, 10 years is a bit long to be avoiding the IRS/Inland Revenue, but I still believe it.
The lead photo's caption says:
"Workers celebrate as the "Big Becky" tunnel boring machine makes its breakthrough in Niagara Falls May 13, 2011 for the new hydroelectric project there."
To be fair, the print is relatively small.
You actually should look for the best processor/disk/etc BEFORE memory, since RAM is where vendors like to bend you over a counter and rape you. I miss the days where you could buy computers (especially Macs) with 0MB RAM and then fit it yourself.
The only exception to this is where the RAM is soldered onto the system board, like the Macbook Air. Or, if you're exceedingly lucky, you buy from a vendor that doesn't have a one-size-rapes-all RAM pricing policy.
Paid time off for training plus certs I would consider tantamount to vacation time, and would appreciate it.
Last training I went to was for SunCluster, and there was some neat hardware to play with in the lab, and the instructor was actually pretty solid. Got to do some extracurricular HBA tweaking as well as one of the other students' systems wasn't recognizing the one in his workstation.
Plus, A5000 arrays, which I just think are neat even though their capacity can be matched or exceeded by desktop drives these days.
Wifi can be handy as a 'core' network if you live in an apartment and don't want to (or can't) drill holes to run copper throughout. An extended 802.11n 5GHz-dedicated works well enough to feed 1080p from my upstairs NAS to my downstairs home theater. Still, if I owned, or had an apartment with ethernet wall plates, I'd take advantage of that..
Is there a SugarCRM module for running a medicinal marijuana biz?
This crap is basically what Richard Pryor was doing in Superman III, shaving off the difference between bid and ask, millions or billions of times a day.
Also, if you want to see more fraud, check out dark pools and fake bids..
My question is, how do you get picosecond performance with any networked system? Wouldn't you need a CPU clock to resolve that finely first at a bare minimum?
What, no Cyberiad reference? Maybe it's folded into a reply or under my threshold...
I'd turn it into an opensource 'App Store' that catalogs opensource software, provides downloads for all platforms, source and documentation, as well as interactive help wikis or other sorts of user-generated docs and troubleshooting help. Add a search engine or mechanism that lets folks put in the name of closed-source software they wish to substitute and have it come up with a list of well-supported opensource alternatives.
Or, sell it to American Express for a healthy profit and use the proceeds to fund OSS development.