What ever happened to the development of electrically actuated valves? This was a big deal five years ago, and it was supposed to be just around the corner once they ironed out some reliability and electrical system issues... but they had vehicles on the road that worked and had over 100k miles on the clock...
The benefit here would be independently, infinitely adjustable timing for each cylinder for both intake and exhaust, and less moving mass (no camshafts). Some of this can be achieved with other technology. What happened?
I noticed that immediately, too. Pretty strange, since there are others with the Industry Type of Motor Vehicles.
UPS & FedEx are Transportation? Can I get a ride via their service?
It's strange that Apple, Amazon.com, etc aren't on there. Both Ford and Volvo are, even though Ford owns Volvo. General Motors is, but none of their subsidiaries are (Cadillac?).
Depends on how it was built. My guess is that it was built for the most generic CPU instruction set for the architecture for which it was built.
How much parallel vector processing is there in web page rendering these days? Probably not much, so SSE3 (for example) instructions won't buy you much.
Some low level memory stuff can be sped up by certain "extended" instructions, but that's handled at the kernel level, not at the app level. In other words, be sure to pick the appropriate CPU type when you compile your Linux kernel.
(And if you want to compile the rest of your system with -fOMG! compiler flags, try Gentoo.)
Go look at some of the adobe structures that have lasted for hundreds upon hundreds of years in the Southwest of the United States.
Not much rain, no freezing temperatures, etc... If the right material is used, which can withstand damage from sunlight, etc, it will probably last a while in that location.
750km divided by 300,000,000 m/s gives about 2.5 ms, so round-trip would be about 5ms, but your point is valid... if the person on the other end of the line is geographically close enough to you to be using the same satellite.
How much bandwidth would be needed to handle the number of simultaneous calls to each one of the LEO satellites? Cellular cells in cities cover a rather small area.
Using satellites would introduce too much latency to be practical for routine phone calls. The RF signals still travel at the speed of light (or less through the atmosphere, etc). We can't change physics...
Modern cellphones transmit with very little power. This paper describes a little about how CDMA works. On page 33, you'll notice the typical TXPO (transmit power) from a handset is listed as 0 dBm "near middle of cell". 0 dBm, as we all remember, is 1 milliwatt.
Many wifi base stations transmit at 18 dBm (60 mW) or greater.
Please define Window. Does that mean an actual movable-on-the-desktop rectangular entity, or an application?
For example, does each tab in Firefox count? They are potentially conceptually different subjects, so my brain has to keep track of them separately.
How about photo editing tools (The GIMP, etc): each image opens in a different window, plus tools within the application open in different windows (Layers, etc). I can have 5 on-screen windows open to edit 1 image, or 6 windows to edit 5 files, etc.
How about in the terminal window: I can have multiple tabs, and each tab can be running screen, each with multiple sessions, and each session can have background tasks. Should these be counted as windows?
I can also run daemons or other interactively-started processes that don't have any windows, but they are definitely running. Should these be counted?
I know this doesn't answer your question, but I don't believe there is anything stopping a person from walking to their local library, borrowing a book with the music printed in it, and scanning it.
I won't even try to guess at the legality/morality of this.
The BBC article describes everything in 2006 in the past:
In 1915, immigrant citizens came mostly from Germany; in 1967 from Italy; and in 2006 mostly from Mexico
The average US family had 4.5 people in 1915, 3.3 in 1967 and 2.6 in 2006
Some 45.9% of Americans were property owners in 1915. That grew to 63.6% in 1967 and reached 68.9% in 2006
There were 4.5 million people aged 65 and older in 1915, or 4.5%; 19.1 million in 1967 (9.5%) and 36.8 million in 2006 (12.4%)
Life expectancy was 54.5 years in 1915, 70.5 years in 1967 and 77.8 years in 2006
About 23% of women were in the work force in 1915, compared to 41% in 1967 and 58% in 2006
There were 2.5 million cars in 1915, 98.9 million in 1967 and 237.2 million in 2006
John and Mary topped the list of most popular names in 1915; Michael and Lisa were favourites in 1967; and Jacob and Emily were preferred in 2006
According to my calendar, there's still almost 2 and a half months left in 2006; stated another way, this is the 290th day of the year. We're not even 80% through 2006.
Since the US is still growing, it'd be about time to build good transportation in densely populated areas, like Personal Rapid Transit. It would be more energy efficient than trains, buses, or automobiles, and would be more time efficient for the passengers, both for waiting-to-get-in-a-vehicle and non-stop-travel categories.
No, I probably can't do it as well if not better with OS X. I've used OS X for a total of about 15 minutes in my life. I've been using Linux for 8 years.
I'd say my work done per $ is much higher with Linux. And, everything I need to do, I can do with Linux.
Dude, 400 emails in 24 hours is one every 216 seconds, or ~3.5 minutes. If he is awake and sending emails for 18 hours, that's one email every 162 seconds, or ~2.7 minutes. These must not be very substantial emails...
I haven't watched commercials for a while. MythTV has auto commercial skip, and "skip ahead 30 seconds" as standard features. Watching live TV is so...low tech.
Wow, it sounds like you're asking for Personal Rapid Transit. A system like this would be comprised of:
Grade-separated tracks, so no slowdowns due to automobile congestion
Small, ~4 person vehicles, designed to carry individuals or groups going to the same destination
Offline stations, so vehicles not stopping at those stations continue without slowing down
Stations located every approximately one-half mile, so you would never be more than one-quarter mile from a station
Computer operated vehicles that determine the best/fastest route to your destination, with no transfers or stopping
The system would be operational 24 hours a day, with vehicles immediately available when you arrive at a station to board. During peak operating times (rush hour), the maximum wait is usually 3 minutes or less. Since you wouldn't have to stop anywhere along the way, travel times would be better than any bus or rail transit.
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What ever happened to the development of electrically actuated valves? This was a big deal five years ago, and it was supposed to be just around the corner once they ironed out some reliability and electrical system issues... but they had vehicles on the road that worked and had over 100k miles on the clock...
The benefit here would be independently, infinitely adjustable timing for each cylinder for both intake and exhaust, and less moving mass (no camshafts). Some of this can be achieved with other technology. What happened?
How will you use it?
If it's really important to you, don't guess; do your own test. The Hydrogen Audio folks know something about this.
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Choosing_the_best_codec
The point is that there is nothing new or notable here. Some default connection settings got tweaked that might speed up certain use cases, so... huh?
They changed the default values for some connection settings? What's the big deal? I've had these settings for a really long time now.
roll-eyes.
I noticed that immediately, too. Pretty strange, since there are others with the Industry Type of Motor Vehicles.
UPS & FedEx are Transportation? Can I get a ride via their service?
It's strange that Apple, Amazon.com, etc aren't on there. Both Ford and Volvo are, even though Ford owns Volvo. General Motors is, but none of their subsidiaries are (Cadillac?).
Depends on how it was built. My guess is that it was built for the most generic CPU instruction set for the architecture for which it was built.
How much parallel vector processing is there in web page rendering these days? Probably not much, so SSE3 (for example) instructions won't buy you much.
Some low level memory stuff can be sped up by certain "extended" instructions, but that's handled at the kernel level, not at the app level. In other words, be sure to pick the appropriate CPU type when you compile your Linux kernel.
(And if you want to compile the rest of your system with -fOMG! compiler flags, try Gentoo.)
Most distributions use already-built binary packages for any software that has to be compiled. It's been this way for many years.
Yeah, you can usually get the source, if you want (it is "open-source" software). To say it is always distributed as source is just wrong.
750km divided by 300,000,000 m/s gives about 2.5 ms, so round-trip would be about 5ms, but your point is valid... if the person on the other end of the line is geographically close enough to you to be using the same satellite.
How much bandwidth would be needed to handle the number of simultaneous calls to each one of the LEO satellites? Cellular cells in cities cover a rather small area.
Using satellites would introduce too much latency to be practical for routine phone calls. The RF signals still travel at the speed of light (or less through the atmosphere, etc). We can't change physics...
Modern cellphones transmit with very little power. This paper describes a little about how CDMA works. On page 33, you'll notice the typical TXPO (transmit power) from a handset is listed as 0 dBm "near middle of cell". 0 dBm, as we all remember, is 1 milliwatt.
Many wifi base stations transmit at 18 dBm (60 mW) or greater.
Please define Window. Does that mean an actual movable-on-the-desktop rectangular entity, or an application?
For example, does each tab in Firefox count? They are potentially conceptually different subjects, so my brain has to keep track of them separately.
How about photo editing tools (The GIMP, etc): each image opens in a different window, plus tools within the application open in different windows (Layers, etc). I can have 5 on-screen windows open to edit 1 image, or 6 windows to edit 5 files, etc.
How about in the terminal window: I can have multiple tabs, and each tab can be running screen, each with multiple sessions, and each session can have background tasks. Should these be counted as windows?
I can also run daemons or other interactively-started processes that don't have any windows, but they are definitely running. Should these be counted?
I know this doesn't answer your question, but I don't believe there is anything stopping a person from walking to their local library, borrowing a book with the music printed in it, and scanning it.
I won't even try to guess at the legality/morality of this.
- In 1915, immigrant citizens came mostly from Germany; in 1967 from Italy; and in 2006 mostly from Mexico
- The average US family had 4.5 people in 1915, 3.3 in 1967 and 2.6 in 2006
- Some 45.9% of Americans were property owners in 1915. That grew to 63.6% in 1967 and reached 68.9% in 2006
- There were 4.5 million people aged 65 and older in 1915, or 4.5%; 19.1 million in 1967 (9.5%) and 36.8 million in 2006 (12.4%)
- Life expectancy was 54.5 years in 1915, 70.5 years in 1967 and 77.8 years in 2006
- About 23% of women were in the work force in 1915, compared to 41% in 1967 and 58% in 2006
- There were 2.5 million cars in 1915, 98.9 million in 1967 and 237.2 million in 2006
- John and Mary topped the list of most popular names in 1915; Michael and Lisa were favourites in 1967; and Jacob and Emily were preferred in 2006
According to my calendar, there's still almost 2 and a half months left in 2006; stated another way, this is the 290th day of the year. We're not even 80% through 2006.It's really stupid to describe 2006 as the past.
Since the US is still growing, it'd be about time to build good transportation in densely populated areas, like Personal Rapid Transit. It would be more energy efficient than trains, buses, or automobiles, and would be more time efficient for the passengers, both for waiting-to-get-in-a-vehicle and non-stop-travel categories.
You are aware of the recommendations for generally avoiding installing CFLs in cold or vibration-prone environments, right?
Linky and linky.
Seriously, with 10 drives, there's gotta be something better for him that still provides the fault tolerance he needs.
No, I probably can't do it as well if not better with OS X. I've used OS X for a total of about 15 minutes in my life. I've been using Linux for 8 years.
I'd say my work done per $ is much higher with Linux. And, everything I need to do, I can do with Linux.
"One type of Linux (embedded) works well in this application."
How does that have anything to do with how well other types work in other applications??
Go to Howard Forums and search/re-post your question. I'm pretty sure it's been discussed a quadrillion times.
Dude, 400 emails in 24 hours is one every 216 seconds, or ~3.5 minutes. If he is awake and sending emails for 18 hours, that's one email every 162 seconds, or ~2.7 minutes. These must not be very substantial emails...
I haven't watched commercials for a while. MythTV has auto commercial skip, and "skip ahead 30 seconds" as standard features. Watching live TV is so...low tech.
The system would be operational 24 hours a day, with vehicles immediately available when you arrive at a station to board. During peak operating times (rush hour), the maximum wait is usually 3 minutes or less. Since you wouldn't have to stop anywhere along the way, travel times would be better than any bus or rail transit.
Gentoo's advisory, released 2006/03/22