Electrical losses in power distribution could be essentially completely eliminated.
Superconductors in transmission lines would certainly help, but they're not quite that good.
All of the superconductors have a limit to the amount of current they can conduct before their superconductivity breaks down, so we'd still have to step up the voltage for long-distance transmission. The bulk of the power we lose isn't in resistance, its lost to hysteresis in transformers (basically, heating up the transformer's core by inducing alternating magnetic fields in it.)
Here in the US we obviously need a constitutional amendment to address this issue.
I wish!
Our governments at all levels have gotten far too used to ignoring the constitution whenever it proves inconvenient. It took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, and that amendment has been repealed. Where's the constitutional authority to ban any other drug? The constitution reserves the power to declare war to the congress, and we haven't declared any war since WW 2. The constitution authorizes the congress to coin money, not issue fiat currency. How did they get the power to not only abandon sound money, but delegate that power to a private banking cartel?
The US constitution isn't perfect, but it's a damn sight better than what we have now.
I think Steve is still pissed at me over some negative comments I made about iPod development tools a while ago.
I really doubt it. You've given some really killer demos at various Apple events, and a lot of people at Apple know that you had a major influence on Apple's decision to go with OpenGL over QD3D. Believe me, Apple appreciates you.
But, despite their living conditions, many Cubans are happy with their country and don't want to embrace American style capitalism either.
Sure, there's a lot of apparatchiks in Cuba, just like there are in any totalitarian regime.
I think most of them still largely believe in the ideals of Casto and Guevara.
It's amazing what propaganda can accomplish when any dissenters can be tossed in Jail. Lots of north koreans worship that repugnant little elvis impersonator who rules their country.
Spam is not, and has never been a free-speech issue. It's a property rights issue. The spammers' right to speak does not include a right to use other people's equipment to do so.
This spammer has committed millions of counts of unauthorized use of property, along with fraud.
This YouTube video is just anti-Islamic propaganda, and unrelated to the subjects at hand. Don't waste your time on it
Funny, but whenever someone tells me not to watch something, and especially when they go so far as to try to censor it, it makes me go and watch it. Call it the Anti-Scientology response.
They're already an industry-leading, publicly traded company. Microsoft sure isn't going to increase their market share, and they have nothing at all to offer SAP in the way of technical or management skills.
What's different about IBM and Microsoft is that IBM has lost their monopoly, and been through a change of top management. IBM didn't clean up their act until they had to, and neither will Microsoft.
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Superconductors in transformers get you no resistance in the windings, but you still lose power to hysteresis of the core.
-jcr
We have desktop systems now that can go up to 32GB RAM, so 1TB isn't that far off.
-jcr
Electrical losses in power distribution could be essentially completely eliminated.
Superconductors in transmission lines would certainly help, but they're not quite that good.
All of the superconductors have a limit to the amount of current they can conduct before their superconductivity breaks down, so we'd still have to step up the voltage for long-distance transmission. The bulk of the power we lose isn't in resistance, its lost to hysteresis in transformers (basically, heating up the transformer's core by inducing alternating magnetic fields in it.)
-jcr
Because they hold a monopoly.
Not quite, but even if they did, having a monopoly isn't illegal. They aren't acting to prevent other vendors from offering either music or players.
-jcr
Your statement presumes that a government can not commit a criminal act. We threw out that theory at the Nuremburg trials.
-jcr
If they have a substantially better DC-DC conversion technology, that's worth a lot of money to a lot of people already.
-jcr
Here in the US we obviously need a constitutional amendment to address this issue.
I wish!
Our governments at all levels have gotten far too used to ignoring the constitution whenever it proves inconvenient. It took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, and that amendment has been repealed. Where's the constitutional authority to ban any other drug? The constitution reserves the power to declare war to the congress, and we haven't declared any war since WW 2. The constitution authorizes the congress to coin money, not issue fiat currency. How did they get the power to not only abandon sound money, but delegate that power to a private banking cartel?
The US constitution isn't perfect, but it's a damn sight better than what we have now.
-jcr
I'll be the first one who is a law & order type of person, but this one scares the crap out of me.
That's probably because this has nothing to do with law and order. This is about totalitarianism, which is a crime.
-jcr
I think Steve is still pissed at me over some negative comments I made about iPod development tools a while ago.
I really doubt it. You've given some really killer demos at various Apple events, and a lot of people at Apple know that you had a major influence on Apple's decision to go with OpenGL over QD3D. Believe me, Apple appreciates you.
-jcr
Yes, propaganda can be very effective; it's got you thinking cuba is teh evils, after all.
Who said Cuba is evil? It's country ruled by a thug, but that's the fault of the thug, not his victims.
-jcr
But, despite their living conditions, many Cubans are happy with their country and don't want to embrace American style capitalism either.
Sure, there's a lot of apparatchiks in Cuba, just like there are in any totalitarian regime.
I think most of them still largely believe in the ideals of Casto and Guevara.
It's amazing what propaganda can accomplish when any dissenters can be tossed in Jail. Lots of north koreans worship that repugnant little elvis impersonator who rules their country.
-jcr
I'm impressed. I would expect them to be handing off 8" floppies.
-jcr
Smarter people have blamed the atrocious coding in Adobe's flash interpreter. There's no excuse for busy-wait loops.
-jcr
I think it would be better if they apologized for supporting dictatorships
;-)
Like the papacy?
-jcr
What if one particular teacher really hates Jews, and truly feels they are an inferior race that need wiped out?
Then you take your kids to a different school!
Oh, wait...
-jcr
Actually, there is good science to support ID also.
Wishing doesn't make it so, sunshine.
-jcr
The hotter the chip gets, the faster the fan goes. Simple and elegant.
-jcr
The nature of SMTP invites anyone to use the resource...
I hope that any spammer who's brought to court hires you to argue their case.
strike three. You're out.
Sorry, my right to my property doesn't vanish just because you say so.
-jcr
Ahh, so you bill the senders of legitimate email that you receive?
No, why should I?
Then that's an extremely weak argument.
There's no argument necessary. It's my property, not the spammers'.
-jcr
Spam is not, and has never been a free-speech issue. It's a property rights issue. The spammers' right to speak does not include a right to use other people's equipment to do so.
This spammer has committed millions of counts of unauthorized use of property, along with fraud.
-jcr
This YouTube video is just anti-Islamic propaganda, and unrelated to the subjects at hand. Don't waste your time on it
Funny, but whenever someone tells me not to watch something, and especially when they go so far as to try to censor it, it makes me go and watch it. Call it the Anti-Scientology response.
-jcr
Are you joking?
Well, some moderators apparently thought so.
-jcr
They're already an industry-leading, publicly traded company. Microsoft sure isn't going to increase their market share, and they have nothing at all to offer SAP in the way of technical or management skills.
-jcr
What's different about IBM and Microsoft is that IBM has lost their monopoly, and been through a change of top management. IBM didn't clean up their act until they had to, and neither will Microsoft.
-jcr
The tactics are remarkably similar. Try to suppress information, thus ensuring that millions of people read about who wouldn't have cared otherwise.
-jcr