I don't buy this 5-minute recharging. A car takes between 20 to 200 horsepower to run. One horsepower equals about 750 watts. So that's about 15KW to 150KW per hour of running time. First of all, if you pump energy in that range into a battery in 5 minutes, the heat loss due to resistance in the system will be fairly large. I.e. the battery will get very hot. Cutting the lifetime. Second, if you try to put in enough energy to power the car for more than one hour, that's even more of a problem. Let's say you pump in enough for 3 hours of driving. That's 45KW to 450KW in five minutes. That's serious energy transfer. Even if the battery is a high voltage battery, i.e. the charging current flow will be less than with a lower voltage higher current battery, you're not going to put nearly half a megawatt into the battery quickly. Maybe my rough numbers are wrong. But this scheme looks bogus.
It seems to me that the DRM people are basically parasites. They do not create the original source material, they would have no function if the source material did not exist. Now I admit that if original works that are expensive to produce (movies) were heavily pirated, then no one could afford to make them and they would generally not come into being. (Although machinima is pointing to the future when maybe you won't need to spend $50 million to produce a movie, with a $10 million paycheck for some actor.) But I think that neither parasites nor pirates have an honorable role in society. Maybe we need new models for the arts that make both irrelevant. Look at the great animation that came from projects sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada. Then look at the latest Hollywood stinkbomb produced by the existing bloated system. Somewhere there's something wrong.
And on a side note, if we have a system where DRM is needed to protect Kevin Federline or Britney, it begs the question of why lock up turds in a vault anyway.
Seriously, I don't follow your logic. He's moving money around nefariously between his own companies and charities for...some evil reason only you know about?
You're pretty naive, aincha? Well, as long as you don't work in IT I guess it's okay. You don't have to be sophisticated to work behind the counter at Taco Bell.
The LA Times article turned out to so shame the Gates Foundation that Gates' people pulled in material telling what they did, and changed their website to hide some of it. Nothing to see here, move along. We didn't do anything sleazy.
You say "sob stories about poor old couples. All kinds of businesses have sleazy people who work for them. " I'm glad to see you're upfront about your moral perspective and the things you defend. You're the best, Fred, really. And I sincerely wish there is no such thing as karma when you buy your next vehicle. Although I see you as mostly a Chrysler man, since Yugos aren't available anymore.
If you ever want to step up from your customer support job in the call center, I have a tip for you, Fred: attitude counts. Not that you can understand that, but that's your barrier to advancing in life, not my problem.
Gee, Fred, thanks for taking the time out from watching Nascar races to write. Let us scumbags know who won, would you?
Yes, I do say Gates is performing sophisticated shell games with his money. And he is not the pure, socially responsible angel that his PR flacks tout and you ignorant morons suck up to. The LA Times carried an article about how sleazy some of the Gates Foundation investment methods are. I need to go find the other article that identified how Gates donates money for vaccine and at the same time has some ownership in the same companies that produce the vaccines. But for now, assuming you know how to read above a 3rd grade level, suck this up:
The Gates Foundation gives away piles of cash for humanitarian goals
But there's a hidden side to that. How many people know that although the foundation gives money for vaccines, Gates owns large amounts of the very same pharmaceutical companies favored by the foundation. So the money goes out - Gates gets tax benefits and PR glory - and then the money comes in to his companies. I'd say, nice plan if you can afford it. He always was, is, and will be a rotten SOB. I hope the Russians give him a humanitarian award, and invite him to Russia to collect it. And then find contraband in his luggage.
It can't be pirates, because my friends from the planet Xenon told me it is indeed cosmic rays. See, when they visited me last month, they said "Your planet is being warmed because cosmic radiation is affecting the atmosphere." I said "Wow! You came all the way here to tell me that?" But the big gray one said "No, actually, we came because our scientists also said the PS3 was the most advanced computer on Earth, and we wanted to buy one, but there was a big line and Circuit City was all sold out when we tried." I asked, "The same scientists who told you about cosmic rays?" and he said "Yes. But we got a raincheck from the clerk. And then he sold us something called an 'iPod'. He said it was cooler than an anal probe."
I have a few doubts about the cosmic ray advice, frankly. But, yes, iPods are cooler than an anal probe.
In other news, scientists from Harlem University have succeeded in making sound waves bop to cool jazz tracks. Said Doctor Miles Davis, "We plan to move the high notes uptown soon."
Another way of looking at the amygdala is to consider it a Priority Interrupt Controller. Other parts of the brain evaluate success or impending failure of certain goals, such as survival, and the amygdala chooses the strongest and most important issues and flags them for highest attention. This can be overriden by conscious rationality, but that is slower. I believe the amygdala evolved to handle fast decisions needing urgent attention or the cave bear would eat you by the time you reasoned out how to rationally respond.
Faraday cage good for electrostatic charge, maybe not so good for current flow from laptop to testicles to ankles. Let me get some aluminum foil and test this.. be right back.... $#%)(&!!!!... whimper... yup, it's a baaaad idea...
Speaking of non-repro, if you have the laptop in your lap and your feet in the bathtub, you may never have to worry about not getting a date on Saturday night ever again. It only takes one line voltage zap and Mr. Happy will be terminally depressed, as will his two small buddies. So remember, NEVER put a ground strap on your ankles and sit down to use a Dell laptop during a thunderstorm on Friday the 13th. In Texas. While wearing an aluminized Mylar bunnysuit and no underwear. However, this is all too common.
At first, I thought from the heading "convert trash to electricity" that the military had put Britney Spears and Kevin Federline on bicycles with generators, and they were merrily pedalling away. But, nooo, you had to go and spoil it.
Glad to see my post modded 'flamebait'. Demonstrates there ARE some clueless people with no sense of humor or irony, which class were my target anyway. But I'm puzzled, how did Digg posters manage to get accounts on Slashdot? (cough)
And they call Americans intolerant, lazy, fat bastards...
You lousy foreigners! I'd get up out of my Barcalounger and pound the bejesus outta you for insulting us but I'm too tired and my ankles hurt and I'd spill my bag of Cheetos and my Coke and I'd miss the game on TV. Never mind. I'm content. I don't care about transfats, global warming, or genocide. That's all for sissy liberals. Wallace and Grommit, hah! Any Hanna-Barbara is far better.
...(blink) Say, I just woke up from a very bad dream. I dreamed I had no taste at all.
In related news, 50,000 petitioners for more honest government, whose names begin with letters from A through F, were mysteriously killed by men in unmarked vans. Petitioners with names from G through L are advised to go into hiding right quick, and ones with names from M through Z are advised to move to New Zealand while there's still time. Citizens of the US are advised to kiss their asses goodbye and forget about reform. It's too late.
I once worked with one of these idiots. She plugged a 1500 watt radiator and a 750 watt fan heater in through her cubicle wiring. They drew so much power that they caused my monitor in another cubicle to have severe sine-wave horizontal jitter from low line voltage and harmonics. No matter how much I requested, she would not turn them off. I ended up working a lot from home. One day I came in, and her cubicle resembled a superior grade of toast. I asked what happened. They told me her cubicle had caught on fire. Apparently the in-panel wiring was well-insulated and due to power loss got very hot, without the breakers tripping. I was so totally disconsolate. Eat heater, bitch!
Jeanie Cummins... says Mr. Gates's philanthropy made her a much bigger fan of Microsoft. "He showed he cared more for people than all the money he made building Microsoft from the ground up," she says."
Sad how many people don't realize that a lot of the Gates charity money is going from one pocket to the other. Some of his charity is actually a shell game. Though the foundation gives money for vaccines, because Gates has substantial ownership in some of the vaccine manufacturers the corporate profits go back to him. But he gets plenty of good PR out of it. Just plain nasty, the whole business. Millennia from now, space travellers to Earth will look over the ruins and say "Boy, were these creatures stoopid." Well, okay, they won't say THAT, they'll actually say "Zxaknow prddd ksssik f'tooey! Billgates fskng genius!" But it amounts to the same thing.
Hahhaahha. Ouch, thank you for correcting. My typo bad. I did mean distributed denial of service. Er, my Engleesh she not so good, here in Nigeria the schools suck. Please send money to me by Western Union, I guarantee terrific election results.
I speculate that obligatory uniform for the Webmistress is black mesh stockings, a corset, hornrimmed glasses, and a pocket protector. Oh yeah, I forgot - a whip and a slide rule, too.
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I don't buy this 5-minute recharging. A car takes between 20 to 200 horsepower to run. One horsepower equals about 750 watts. So that's about 15KW to 150KW per hour of running time. First of all, if you pump energy in that range into a battery in 5 minutes, the heat loss due to resistance in the system will be fairly large. I.e. the battery will get very hot. Cutting the lifetime. Second, if you try to put in enough energy to power the car for more than one hour, that's even more of a problem. Let's say you pump in enough for 3 hours of driving. That's 45KW to 450KW in five minutes. That's serious energy transfer. Even if the battery is a high voltage battery, i.e. the charging current flow will be less than with a lower voltage higher current battery, you're not going to put nearly half a megawatt into the battery quickly. Maybe my rough numbers are wrong. But this scheme looks bogus.
And on a side note, if we have a system where DRM is needed to protect Kevin Federline or Britney, it begs the question of why lock up turds in a vault anyway.
You're pretty naive, aincha? Well, as long as you don't work in IT I guess it's okay. You don't have to be sophisticated to work behind the counter at Taco Bell.
The LA Times article turned out to so shame the Gates Foundation that Gates' people pulled in material telling what they did, and changed their website to hide some of it. Nothing to see here, move along. We didn't do anything sleazy.
You say "sob stories about poor old couples. All kinds of businesses have sleazy people who work for them. " I'm glad to see you're upfront about your moral perspective and the things you defend. You're the best, Fred, really. And I sincerely wish there is no such thing as karma when you buy your next vehicle. Although I see you as mostly a Chrysler man, since Yugos aren't available anymore.
If you ever want to step up from your customer support job in the call center, I have a tip for you, Fred: attitude counts. Not that you can understand that, but that's your barrier to advancing in life, not my problem.
Yes, I do say Gates is performing sophisticated shell games with his money. And he is not the pure, socially responsible angel that his PR flacks tout and you ignorant morons suck up to. The LA Times carried an article about how sleazy some of the Gates Foundation investment methods are. I need to go find the other article that identified how Gates donates money for vaccine and at the same time has some ownership in the same companies that produce the vaccines. But for now, assuming you know how to read above a 3rd grade level, suck this up:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-gates8jan08,0,7911824.story?coll=la-home-headli nes
But there's a hidden side to that. How many people know that although the foundation gives money for vaccines, Gates owns large amounts of the very same pharmaceutical companies favored by the foundation. So the money goes out - Gates gets tax benefits and PR glory - and then the money comes in to his companies. I'd say, nice plan if you can afford it. He always was, is, and will be a rotten SOB. I hope the Russians give him a humanitarian award, and invite him to Russia to collect it. And then find contraband in his luggage.
I have a few doubts about the cosmic ray advice, frankly. But, yes, iPods are cooler than an anal probe.
Women everywhere will rejoice in the development of newer, more powerful...er...massagers.
In other news, scientists from Harlem University have succeeded in making sound waves bop to cool jazz tracks. Said Doctor Miles Davis, "We plan to move the high notes uptown soon."
Another way of looking at the amygdala is to consider it a Priority Interrupt Controller. Other parts of the brain evaluate success or impending failure of certain goals, such as survival, and the amygdala chooses the strongest and most important issues and flags them for highest attention. This can be overriden by conscious rationality, but that is slower. I believe the amygdala evolved to handle fast decisions needing urgent attention or the cave bear would eat you by the time you reasoned out how to rationally respond.
Faraday cage good for electrostatic charge, maybe not so good for current flow from laptop to testicles to ankles. Let me get some aluminum foil and test this.. be right back.... $#%)(&!!!!... whimper... yup, it's a baaaad idea...
Speaking of non-repro, if you have the laptop in your lap and your feet in the bathtub, you may never have to worry about not getting a date on Saturday night ever again. It only takes one line voltage zap and Mr. Happy will be terminally depressed, as will his two small buddies. So remember, NEVER put a ground strap on your ankles and sit down to use a Dell laptop during a thunderstorm on Friday the 13th. In Texas. While wearing an aluminized Mylar bunnysuit and no underwear. However, this is all too common.
At first, I thought from the heading "convert trash to electricity" that the military had put Britney Spears and Kevin Federline on bicycles with generators, and they were merrily pedalling away. But, nooo, you had to go and spoil it.
Ahmed: I would like 5,000 LEDs please! And hurry!
Clerk: So, building yourself an LED sign, eh!
Ahmed: (suspiciously) What do you mean by that!
Clerk: Well, what else would you use LEDs for?
Ahmed: Oh! Hahahah. Yes, I am building... a sign!
Clerk: Would you like some C4 with that? We're having a sale this month.
Ahmed: No, thank you. I have enough already.
Kidnap Adler on a dark night. Leave him tied up in a tunnel at the It's A Small World ride at Disneyland. Soon, his head will explode. Problem solved.
Glad to see my post modded 'flamebait'. Demonstrates there ARE some clueless people with no sense of humor or irony, which class were my target anyway. But I'm puzzled, how did Digg posters manage to get accounts on Slashdot? (cough)
You lousy foreigners! I'd get up out of my Barcalounger and pound the bejesus outta you for insulting us but I'm too tired and my ankles hurt and I'd spill my bag of Cheetos and my Coke and I'd miss the game on TV. Never mind. I'm content. I don't care about transfats, global warming, or genocide. That's all for sissy liberals. Wallace and Grommit, hah! Any Hanna-Barbara is far better.
In related news, 50,000 petitioners for more honest government, whose names begin with letters from A through F, were mysteriously killed by men in unmarked vans. Petitioners with names from G through L are advised to go into hiding right quick, and ones with names from M through Z are advised to move to New Zealand while there's still time. Citizens of the US are advised to kiss their asses goodbye and forget about reform. It's too late.
I once worked with one of these idiots. She plugged a 1500 watt radiator and a 750 watt fan heater in through her cubicle wiring. They drew so much power that they caused my monitor in another cubicle to have severe sine-wave horizontal jitter from low line voltage and harmonics. No matter how much I requested, she would not turn them off. I ended up working a lot from home. One day I came in, and her cubicle resembled a superior grade of toast. I asked what happened. They told me her cubicle had caught on fire. Apparently the in-panel wiring was well-insulated and due to power loss got very hot, without the breakers tripping. I was so totally disconsolate. Eat heater, bitch!
Sad how many people don't realize that a lot of the Gates charity money is going from one pocket to the other. Some of his charity is actually a shell game. Though the foundation gives money for vaccines, because Gates has substantial ownership in some of the vaccine manufacturers the corporate profits go back to him. But he gets plenty of good PR out of it. Just plain nasty, the whole business. Millennia from now, space travellers to Earth will look over the ruins and say "Boy, were these creatures stoopid." Well, okay, they won't say THAT, they'll actually say "Zxaknow prddd ksssik f'tooey! Billgates fskng genius!" But it amounts to the same thing.
Hahhaahha. Ouch, thank you for correcting. My typo bad. I did mean distributed denial of service. Er, my Engleesh she not so good, here in Nigeria the schools suck. Please send money to me by Western Union, I guarantee terrific election results.
So what happens when someone runs DDS attacks against servers in an election?
I speculate that obligatory uniform for the Webmistress is black mesh stockings, a corset, hornrimmed glasses, and a pocket protector. Oh yeah, I forgot - a whip and a slide rule, too.
Could we trade Darl McBride to the Russians in exchange for... well ...let's give him to them for free.