Dead dino petro will run out, but a diesel engine can run just fine on plant or algae derived petrochemicals and the total lifecycle may be significantly more efficient than any other "green" energy technology we can come up with short of fusion. Also Tesla came up with the solution to your rare long trip problem, a small trailer with an engine, fuel tank, and generator. You could rent them at the same places you rent vehicles today like Budget, Hertz, or U-Haul and it has the major advantage of not needing to carry around all that weight when using it as a commuter vehicle for 90+% of the time so it's more efficient.
Actually Ford did the best if you compare the percentage of CARS rebates to 2008 US market share with 16% of rebates compared to 14.6% market share. Toyota received 17.9% of rebates compared to 18.4% market shared and of course GM was the big loser with 18.7% of rebates compared to 22% market share.
I assume the newer Prius's pulse the engine less as with more experience they now know they don't need to keep the battery pack as topped off as they did with the gen 1's, but the other problem is NOX emissions of a cold gasoline engine are pretty bad and so they need to keep the compression chamber warm.
And every good science geek made one from his first electronics kit. That's one of the problems with everything going to digital signaling, high barrier of entry on learning the technology.
I assume they looked at what we are using today to send a bit and compared it to the theoretical limit and then put in a good engineering guard factor of 10x in. Actually if they are comparing it to some of the power sapping SFP's in use today it's not to hard to imagine, if they are comparing it to SFP+ it's a little harder for me to imagine as they would need to produce a laser capable of reaching 10km using about 10mW, quite a feat.
Actually I live in NE Ohio, none of my vehicles has rusted out, but I do drive ~20k miles per year so I've never had a car more than 11 years old. I little bit of rust on the underside of a door does not make it unsafe or unusable for transportation.
You're talking about a hybrid system like on a diesel locomotive, no cars currently in production use such a system, they are all mild hybrids where the electric motor provides assistance to the motor but do not disconnect it from the drivetrain. 100+ HP electric motors are too expensive and too heavy to do a pure hybrid design.
Dude, every car for sale in the first world should last for ~100k miles without any major issues. If a car has problems before then it's probably has some manufacturing fault specific to that vehicle, not a design fault. Most cars can make it to 200k miles without too many costly repairs. It's the *consumers* of new cars that are on a 3 year lease cycle, and I thank them for that because it means they have payed for the majority of the depreciation without using up a corresponding percentage of the vehicles useful life.
These guys were avoiding a $10k entry fee for THE industry tradeshow and you think they have the money to sustain a lawsuit against the mega gaming operators? LOL!
Yeah, ok, because it's SO much easier to add a site or an exception by opening another app to modify the config file instead of doing it in the UI of the app I'm already using... Right tool for the job dude, if I'm modifying the config on a couple hundred servers I want to be able to do it from the command line using a scripted tool, for adding a one line exception to my adblocker it's much easier to click on the exception icon.
I don't think most of the MRAP's have any additional guns, or at most have a couple of 50cal's, they aren't like a Bradly, and are certainly not like an even lightly munitioned tank.
Sorry but without an easy to use UI it's fairly worthless for the majority of users including us geeks who know when each type of interface is appropriate.
The wind maps I have seen put most of it about 10 miles out in the middle of the lake, not the easiest place to build, but far from the hardest as oil rigs have been put into that much *salt water* for over half a century. Also one of the biggest constraints to bigger turbines in commercial power is the inability to transport larger vanes overland, lake shipping obviously can accommodate as big of foils as we can produce. I'm really hopeful that abundant renewable energy combined with fresh water as major resources will help the rust belt recover over the remainder of my life.
That's kind of crazy since Lake Michigan is among the strongest wind sites near a population center in the entire country. I guess the tech for building the towers in a few hundred feet of water is still too expensive to offset the significant cost of building up the transmission infrastructure in the middle of Iowa fields.
Dude, MS's KB for kilo-byte predates the silly KiB definition by about two decades (KiB was only adopted as a standard in 2000 and proposed in 1998, MS DOS traces to M-DOS in 1979). Oh and as to performance, almost nothing writes in 512byte chunks, 4KB chunks are about the smallest defaults for current platforms and 8KB is becoming more common.
Your comment sort of hits on why I dropped out of a CS program, I loved programming too much to ruin it by making it a job =) I first programmed in BASIC, then LOGO, then C and early C++ versions (my first C++ compiler was really a pre-processor for a C compiler if that gives you a clue) then onto a whole host of languages like JAVA, Eiffel, vbscript, shell, and a ton of others I'm sure I'm forgetting.
And it's also a change that a lab would have been unlikely to predict, some of the time things break, life happens, and that's why you need dual paths and multiple datacenters to achieve more than about 4.5 9's in the real world.
My favorite ultimate backup for rebooting a device is a DTMF controlled PDU, call into the OOB number and hit a magic number sequence and the device reboots =)
This is networking equipment, other than transitory information like peer maps and MAC tables that can be re-learned you should always be able to revert to the previous state as far as the software and configuration.
My comments are that out of band management are the networking guys best friend, and POTS is the best OOB available. Also learn how to change the running config without affecting the saved config, that way worst case is you have to power cycle (can be done with the correct OOB config or you can pre-schedule a reboot that you cancel if everything goes well). Oh and downtime windows might seem like a luxury but unless you are Google or Amazon the business needs to be made aware that they are necessary and critical to the smooth functioning of their IT infrastructure, so you should be making these changes during the downtime window where everyone is aware that things might break.
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Dead dino petro will run out, but a diesel engine can run just fine on plant or algae derived petrochemicals and the total lifecycle may be significantly more efficient than any other "green" energy technology we can come up with short of fusion. Also Tesla came up with the solution to your rare long trip problem, a small trailer with an engine, fuel tank, and generator. You could rent them at the same places you rent vehicles today like Budget, Hertz, or U-Haul and it has the major advantage of not needing to carry around all that weight when using it as a commuter vehicle for 90+% of the time so it's more efficient.
Actually Ford did the best if you compare the percentage of CARS rebates to 2008 US market share with 16% of rebates compared to 14.6% market share. Toyota received 17.9% of rebates compared to 18.4% market shared and of course GM was the big loser with 18.7% of rebates compared to 22% market share.
I assume the newer Prius's pulse the engine less as with more experience they now know they don't need to keep the battery pack as topped off as they did with the gen 1's, but the other problem is NOX emissions of a cold gasoline engine are pretty bad and so they need to keep the compression chamber warm.
And every good science geek made one from his first electronics kit. That's one of the problems with everything going to digital signaling, high barrier of entry on learning the technology.
Sorry, make that 1mW.
I assume they looked at what we are using today to send a bit and compared it to the theoretical limit and then put in a good engineering guard factor of 10x in. Actually if they are comparing it to some of the power sapping SFP's in use today it's not to hard to imagine, if they are comparing it to SFP+ it's a little harder for me to imagine as they would need to produce a laser capable of reaching 10km using about 10mW, quite a feat.
And? Having others subsidize your luxury toy doesn't make it any less expensive to produce, it just makes it cheaper to purchase.
It's also $40k, way too high to compete with most cars.
Actually I live in NE Ohio, none of my vehicles has rusted out, but I do drive ~20k miles per year so I've never had a car more than 11 years old. I little bit of rust on the underside of a door does not make it unsafe or unusable for transportation.
You're talking about a hybrid system like on a diesel locomotive, no cars currently in production use such a system, they are all mild hybrids where the electric motor provides assistance to the motor but do not disconnect it from the drivetrain. 100+ HP electric motors are too expensive and too heavy to do a pure hybrid design.
Dude, every car for sale in the first world should last for ~100k miles without any major issues. If a car has problems before then it's probably has some manufacturing fault specific to that vehicle, not a design fault. Most cars can make it to 200k miles without too many costly repairs. It's the *consumers* of new cars that are on a 3 year lease cycle, and I thank them for that because it means they have payed for the majority of the depreciation without using up a corresponding percentage of the vehicles useful life.
These guys were avoiding a $10k entry fee for THE industry tradeshow and you think they have the money to sustain a lawsuit against the mega gaming operators? LOL!
It looks great, if they could just compensate for the yellow cast I would probably buy a netbook with one by the end of this year.
Yeah, ok, because it's SO much easier to add a site or an exception by opening another app to modify the config file instead of doing it in the UI of the app I'm already using... Right tool for the job dude, if I'm modifying the config on a couple hundred servers I want to be able to do it from the command line using a scripted tool, for adding a one line exception to my adblocker it's much easier to click on the exception icon.
I don't think most of the MRAP's have any additional guns, or at most have a couple of 50cal's, they aren't like a Bradly, and are certainly not like an even lightly munitioned tank.
Sorry but without an easy to use UI it's fairly worthless for the majority of users including us geeks who know when each type of interface is appropriate.
The wind maps I have seen put most of it about 10 miles out in the middle of the lake, not the easiest place to build, but far from the hardest as oil rigs have been put into that much *salt water* for over half a century. Also one of the biggest constraints to bigger turbines in commercial power is the inability to transport larger vanes overland, lake shipping obviously can accommodate as big of foils as we can produce. I'm really hopeful that abundant renewable energy combined with fresh water as major resources will help the rust belt recover over the remainder of my life.
That's kind of crazy since Lake Michigan is among the strongest wind sites near a population center in the entire country. I guess the tech for building the towers in a few hundred feet of water is still too expensive to offset the significant cost of building up the transmission infrastructure in the middle of Iowa fields.
Just like the HP EVA and some other enterprise arrays do for Windows 2003 and other non-aligned OS's running on VMWare.
Dude, MS's KB for kilo-byte predates the silly KiB definition by about two decades (KiB was only adopted as a standard in 2000 and proposed in 1998, MS DOS traces to M-DOS in 1979). Oh and as to performance, almost nothing writes in 512byte chunks, 4KB chunks are about the smallest defaults for current platforms and 8KB is becoming more common.
Your comment sort of hits on why I dropped out of a CS program, I loved programming too much to ruin it by making it a job =) I first programmed in BASIC, then LOGO, then C and early C++ versions (my first C++ compiler was really a pre-processor for a C compiler if that gives you a clue) then onto a whole host of languages like JAVA, Eiffel, vbscript, shell, and a ton of others I'm sure I'm forgetting.
And it's also a change that a lab would have been unlikely to predict, some of the time things break, life happens, and that's why you need dual paths and multiple datacenters to achieve more than about 4.5 9's in the real world.
My favorite ultimate backup for rebooting a device is a DTMF controlled PDU, call into the OOB number and hit a magic number sequence and the device reboots =)
Almost as importantly with a simulator you don't have to POWER all that equipment, my CCNP lab almost maxed out a 20A circuit.
This is networking equipment, other than transitory information like peer maps and MAC tables that can be re-learned you should always be able to revert to the previous state as far as the software and configuration.
My comments are that out of band management are the networking guys best friend, and POTS is the best OOB available. Also learn how to change the running config without affecting the saved config, that way worst case is you have to power cycle (can be done with the correct OOB config or you can pre-schedule a reboot that you cancel if everything goes well). Oh and downtime windows might seem like a luxury but unless you are Google or Amazon the business needs to be made aware that they are necessary and critical to the smooth functioning of their IT infrastructure, so you should be making these changes during the downtime window where everyone is aware that things might break.