There are a variety of different types of electric motors, not all appropriate for electric cars. Being that this motor uses magents, my question would be what kind of starting power or torque does this motor have.
I use Linux full time as my desktop, except for the two/three times a week I decide to play a game with some friends. Then I have no choice (winex doesn't work) to boot into Windows.
As a work desktop, it more than satisfies my requirements. Honestly though, as much as I'd rather not have to, I have to keep the Windows partition to play those occasional games.
I think that the 'year of the penguin' will come around whenever game companies really start shipping titles for Linux. I think it's ironic though that if a couple of the larger PC manufacturers actually started shipping Linux, that games would be available in short order, I'm sure. Of course, neither industry wants to make the first leap.
Take the example of those executives. Why do investors turn their money over to individuals who have nothing to lose by running the company into the ground? I certainly don't.
This is a big one. I think a tendency is to want to regulate executive contracts and pay, but I believe there's another solution. Instead of attacking this symptom directly with hard to enforce laws, attack it at the source.
I'm talking about the role of financial analysts. It's a bit suspicious to me when 30 out of 30 analysts all decide to make the same call on a company in the same day, when there was no activity in the prior three months. I also think that analysts should somehow demonstrate a knowledge of the industry they're following.
I remember awhile back when Merrill finally canned Henry Blodget, the guy who made the self fullfilling call on Amazon. The guy was still recommending buys on stocks that were tanking. Here's an article that goes into a bit more detail - the short version being that these jokers recommend 100 buys for every sell.
Rant aside, these CEOs are encouraged into doing short term, risky, and often times very ill-thought out things in the name of their stock price. If analysts would cry foul when they're supposed to, I think you would finally start to see the market correct itself in what might otherwise be ethical or behavorial issues.
Re SCO, I think a group of analysts that a) knew what they were doing, and b) felt they were there to work for the stock buyer (you and me), would have saved the day already. Darl would have seen his stock hitting the floor, been reading the bad press, and stopped his action. I think Enron is another obvious example, with the same conclusion.
I think it's this type of stuff that would cause the SEC to not let this aquisition go through. There is too much market and technology that each firm has such a hold on, that for them to merge would create a monopoly or near monopoly in more areas.
You list google, and msft already has msn search, and wanted google in the past we know.
MSN IM & AIM
MSN internet access (verizon now dumps you into this) & AOL - together they would be by far the majority ISP in the US.
One of the last semblances of a competing browser exists in netscape (AOL)
MSFT's has current problems re media players with Real, and in the EU
MSFT already has the office, os, and browser markets tied up
I'm probably wrong, but I don't see this happening (crossing fingers).
I was going to ask about this, as I remembered the stories on these guys. I remember thinking that was pretty cool. I'm sure though that the use described in this story is considered less risky, as there is probably not the frequency of take off and landing.
I'm sure it's that, and the low altitude flight (at least in take off / landing phase) of a cargo transport that presents the most risk - much like a normal aircraft.
Hopefully it's just the need for a current design like this that will encourage different commercial interests to use something like this as opposed to satellites for some of their services.
That is the greatest argument for requiring a hard expiration date on all laws.
I've never even heard of or thought of this before, but this sounds like an AWESOME idea. I'm not sure that it should pertain to *all* laws, but definitely a large share of them.
I believe this would be one of Newtons Laws. Something about an equal / opposite reaction.
A nice example of this though is the A-10 Warthog, a slow aircraft used by the marines with a very large gatling gun (rounds size of old milk bottles). The kick back on that gun is apparently close to equal with the thrust of one of it's two engines.
An amazing aircraft given the limitations they had at the time. One instead of two engines - same type as in the ME-262. Wood construction, designed to be easy to fly - as there was a serious shortage of experienced pilots.
It's not the aircraft that is so sensitive, F/A 18's have been around awhile, it'd be any specialized electronics systems. I can guarantee those have been removed (or were never on this a/c).
I've read the peformance thing Re: Java vs..NET a few places as well. I have a question (or two) though, as I know next to nothing about.NET. Could this be in part because.NET uses more native components than Java? Meaning, are a share of the.NET libraries compiled to run w/o a VM, giving.NET a natural advantage for.x86 Windows?
I think the timeline proposed will lend the project to too much political muddling, much like the ISS suffered.
Watch our own politicians rail against NASA because of cost of the ISS. It's ironic, when much of the overrun is due to their required desing changes, all in the name of efficiency.
Maybe not comic books, but how about motorcycles or snowmobiles? I know a few different people here close to Seattle that drive to Canada once every two-three years, buy a new machine, import it to the states - and in the process save 20% or so on the cost. It's marked higher in Canada obviously because of the exchange, but it's not marked high enough to make up the entire difference.
Typically, after 2-3 years of use, they can sell the machine here used for what it takes to buy another new one out of Canada.
Talk about hardware karma. Never ceases to amaze me how some people can have awesome luck with brand A, and others nothing but problems. I used to buy only Western Digitals, and know many people that swear by them. Every one I had (3-4) died w/ in 18 months. Cheaper Maxtors or Seagates, seemed to last forever.
To talk about something more expensive, cars; I have a couple of friends that have owned nothing but Toyotas, and swear by them. I finally bought one a year ago, and it was bought back in six weeks under the local lemon law. The replacement vehicle, another Toyota, had a roof leak after ten months which was fixed under Warranty.
I suspect that a large part of this is to show prospective customers that there are alternatives to Windows. Kind of a proverbial 'walk the walk'.
In addition, any clients or customers that they can convince to use Linux vs. Windows will be clients/customers that are unlikely to purchase other msft software.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, to see what the real intentions are.
Re #1: My first though also was that there was a lot of spin on this story, and it was getting a bit out there. As long as the possibility does exist though that it can still be salvaged, perhaps it is just well placed optimism.
Re #2: Someone being able to make do with what they have and still build what they need would be a sign of good engineering, in my mind. The British Hawker Huricane I believe was made out of wood, probably a more important (numerically at least) fighter than the spitfire. Considering the comment was on wood, how about this German creation, arguably better than anything the allies had - and constructed out of wood.
It would have been interesting, given the 64-bit capabilities. Checkout this review done at LinuxHardware.org recently, between Opteron and Xeon CPUs. On some of the tests they included results from a 64-bit compiled kernel for the opteron, and the results are noticable.
I agree with your sentiment. My question, and I'm not an experty by any means on WiFi, is this. If a new standard comes out, say 802.11musthave, do I suddenly have to buy a new motherboard (+ CPU/Memory/etc) to use that? It'd be awfully convenient for Intel now, wouldn't it.....
I think that WiFi has gone through more upgrades lately that processor architectures, and perhaps Intel is looking for another upgrade gravy train.
My experience is pretty close to !3ren's. I tried netbeans when I was looking for an IDE on Linux for Java, but then found Eclipse. The turnoff for eclipse for me initially was that file handling seemed non-intuitive. I think that was my turnoff, I'm not sure, because it's no longer an issue.
I've got a celeron 800 w/ 392mb, and Eclipse runs pretty nicely on this. Netbeans did not.....
The next item, plugins. No idea at all on the community involvement for Netbeans, but for eclipse, it seems to be pretty good. There are plugins for almost everything imaginable - use it for PHP, w/ CVS, control your app servers, etc.....
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It's a wiki. The 'real' geronimo page is at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/geronimo.html
There are a variety of different types of electric motors, not all appropriate for electric cars. Being that this motor uses magents, my question would be what kind of starting power or torque does this motor have.
I use Linux full time as my desktop, except for the two/three times a week I decide to play a game with some friends. Then I have no choice (winex doesn't work) to boot into Windows.
As a work desktop, it more than satisfies my requirements. Honestly though, as much as I'd rather not have to, I have to keep the Windows partition to play those occasional games.
I think that the 'year of the penguin' will come around whenever game companies really start shipping titles for Linux. I think it's ironic though that if a couple of the larger PC manufacturers actually started shipping Linux, that games would be available in short order, I'm sure. Of course, neither industry wants to make the first leap.
We're sorry Olav, but the ratings are down, we're going to have to terminate you.
Awesome idea, I hadn't heard that before.
This is a big one. I think a tendency is to want to regulate executive contracts and pay, but I believe there's another solution. Instead of attacking this symptom directly with hard to enforce laws, attack it at the source.
I'm talking about the role of financial analysts. It's a bit suspicious to me when 30 out of 30 analysts all decide to make the same call on a company in the same day, when there was no activity in the prior three months. I also think that analysts should somehow demonstrate a knowledge of the industry they're following.
I remember awhile back when Merrill finally canned Henry Blodget, the guy who made the self fullfilling call on Amazon. The guy was still recommending buys on stocks that were tanking. Here's an article that goes into a bit more detail - the short version being that these jokers recommend 100 buys for every sell.
Rant aside, these CEOs are encouraged into doing short term, risky, and often times very ill-thought out things in the name of their stock price. If analysts would cry foul when they're supposed to, I think you would finally start to see the market correct itself in what might otherwise be ethical or behavorial issues.
Re SCO, I think a group of analysts that a) knew what they were doing, and b) felt they were there to work for the stock buyer (you and me), would have saved the day already. Darl would have seen his stock hitting the floor, been reading the bad press, and stopped his action. I think Enron is another obvious example, with the same conclusion.
Rant over, sorry.
Already done. It's called child.
I think it's this type of stuff that would cause the SEC to not let this aquisition go through. There is too much market and technology that each firm has such a hold on, that for them to merge would create a monopoly or near monopoly in more areas.
I'm probably wrong, but I don't see this happening (crossing fingers).
I was going to ask about this, as I remembered the stories on these guys. I remember thinking that was pretty cool. I'm sure though that the use described in this story is considered less risky, as there is probably not the frequency of take off and landing.
I'm sure it's that, and the low altitude flight (at least in take off / landing phase) of a cargo transport that presents the most risk - much like a normal aircraft.
Hopefully it's just the need for a current design like this that will encourage different commercial interests to use something like this as opposed to satellites for some of their services.
I believe this would be one of Newtons Laws. Something about an equal / opposite reaction.
A nice example of this though is the A-10 Warthog, a slow aircraft used by the marines with a very large gatling gun (rounds size of old milk bottles). The kick back on that gun is apparently close to equal with the thrust of one of it's two engines.
An amazing aircraft given the limitations they had at the time. One instead of two engines - same type as in the ME-262. Wood construction, designed to be easy to fly - as there was a serious shortage of experienced pilots.
Amazing, but I wouldn't want to be flying in one.
It's not the aircraft that is so sensitive, F/A 18's have been around awhile, it'd be any specialized electronics systems. I can guarantee those have been removed (or were never on this a/c).
I've read the peformance thing Re: Java vs. .NET a few places as well. I have a question (or two) though, as I know next to nothing about .NET. Could this be in part because .NET uses more native components than Java? Meaning, are a share of the .NET libraries compiled to run w/o a VM, giving .NET a natural advantage for .x86 Windows?
I've read a few posts already here claiming bunk on Java's portability. I'm curious as to the context you use it in as an advantage for .NET.
Have you tried Jython? Essentially Python running on the Java VM.
Especially when the alternative user base is controlled by your largest competitor.
I think the timeline proposed will lend the project to too much political muddling, much like the ISS suffered.
Watch our own politicians rail against NASA because of cost of the ISS. It's ironic, when much of the overrun is due to their required desing changes, all in the name of efficiency.
Maybe not comic books, but how about motorcycles or snowmobiles? I know a few different people here close to Seattle that drive to Canada once every two-three years, buy a new machine, import it to the states - and in the process save 20% or so on the cost. It's marked higher in Canada obviously because of the exchange, but it's not marked high enough to make up the entire difference.
Typically, after 2-3 years of use, they can sell the machine here used for what it takes to buy another new one out of Canada.
Talk about hardware karma. Never ceases to amaze me how some people can have awesome luck with brand A, and others nothing but problems. I used to buy only Western Digitals, and know many people that swear by them. Every one I had (3-4) died w/ in 18 months. Cheaper Maxtors or Seagates, seemed to last forever.
To talk about something more expensive, cars; I have a couple of friends that have owned nothing but Toyotas, and swear by them. I finally bought one a year ago, and it was bought back in six weeks under the local lemon law. The replacement vehicle, another Toyota, had a roof leak after ten months which was fixed under Warranty.
I suspect that a large part of this is to show prospective customers that there are alternatives to Windows. Kind of a proverbial 'walk the walk'.
In addition, any clients or customers that they can convince to use Linux vs. Windows will be clients/customers that are unlikely to purchase other msft software.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, to see what the real intentions are.
Re #1: My first though also was that there was a lot of spin on this story, and it was getting a bit out there. As long as the possibility does exist though that it can still be salvaged, perhaps it is just well placed optimism.
Re #2: Someone being able to make do with what they have and still build what they need would be a sign of good engineering, in my mind. The British Hawker Huricane I believe was made out of wood, probably a more important (numerically at least) fighter than the spitfire. Considering the comment was on wood, how about this German creation, arguably better than anything the allies had - and constructed out of wood.
It would have been interesting, given the 64-bit capabilities. Checkout this review done at LinuxHardware.org recently, between Opteron and Xeon CPUs. On some of the tests they included results from a 64-bit compiled kernel for the opteron, and the results are noticable.
I agree with your sentiment. My question, and I'm not an experty by any means on WiFi, is this. If a new standard comes out, say 802.11musthave, do I suddenly have to buy a new motherboard (+ CPU/Memory/etc) to use that? It'd be awfully convenient for Intel now, wouldn't it.....
I think that WiFi has gone through more upgrades lately that processor architectures, and perhaps Intel is looking for another upgrade gravy train.
My experience is pretty close to !3ren's. I tried netbeans when I was looking for an IDE on Linux for Java, but then found Eclipse. The turnoff for eclipse for me initially was that file handling seemed non-intuitive. I think that was my turnoff, I'm not sure, because it's no longer an issue.
I've got a celeron 800 w/ 392mb, and Eclipse runs pretty nicely on this. Netbeans did not.....
The next item, plugins. No idea at all on the community involvement for Netbeans, but for eclipse, it seems to be pretty good. There are plugins for almost everything imaginable - use it for PHP, w/ CVS, control your app servers, etc.....