The Panama Canal was dug around 1910. In 1910, about 38% of Americans were employed in agriculture... now it is under 2%. In other words, humankind is radically better at things like "moving dirt." There is no comparison.
PC games really do (or did, I don't know) have the upper hand here. On the same hardware, you could run a higher resolution with less detail, or a lower resolution with more detail, your choice. Or on a "mega" system (including a low-end system from 5 years after the game was released), get high resolution AND maximum detail.
Is it just me or is the current gen of consoles really underwhelming, hardware-wise?
This kind of post works so much better if you wait until somebody actually says the thing you are so sure everybody will say.
Anyways, Xiaomi, Samsung, and Apple are all Chinese-made phones so who really cares? It would be far more shocking if the manufacture of components and final assembly for tens of millions of phones shifted from one nation to another within a year. Designing a styling a phone doesn't require any infrastructure. Heck, the baton has already passed from Motorolla (Chicago? or Phoenix?) to Ericcson (Sweden) to Blackberry (Canada) to Samsung (Korea) and Apple.
We were told refrigerator sized batteries were available at substantial cost which could be used in a power outtage. Most people do not realize that solar power does not equate to always available power without significant additional cost and inconvenience.
Solving that problem is exactly what this Morgan Stanley / Tesla article is about, so evidently somebody realizes it.
However, I think wide-scale battery storage is premature. We do have an existing grid infrastructure. Until / unless solar reaches the point of supplying more than 100% of overall demand during the day, we may as well consume it as we produce it, and use stored energy (such as natural gas) at night.
No, the key difference is that Newton could measure the world in order to select the equations that best modeled his measurements.
Of course there were limits to how accurately he could measure, so his mathematical models were only accurate within those bounds (as always with physics).
I think not, because of the bad precedent in the music industry. Sony bought CBS Music for $2BN (a huge acquisition back then!) in 1987 when they were riding high on the Walkman and Discman, thus owning the catalogue of Michael Jackson among many others. Sony was ideally positioned to dominate portable music, forever. Where is it now?
Likewise I look at my Clie TH55 and see today's Mobile devices, 10 years ago. And where is Sony now?
Of course, ideally "all of us" will never need it, because any outbreaks are carpet-bombed with whatever this stuff is, before it becomes a pandemic. (Then again, in prevention-mode, the market is a few thousand poverty-stricken people, whereas in disaster recovery mode it includes a few billion people with money... I'm not alleging conspiracy, more like market failure. Maybe health insurers should pay for this?)
Well, even a normal microphone is "just" measuring the linear displacement of a membrane over time, so clearly the important distinction is how you measure it. A laser range-finder is different from a microphone, and a video camera is different from a laser range-finder.
The world has already seen what becomes of nuclear power without regulation and the threat of lawsuits. They serve an important purpose.
Now, don't get me wrong, the public is quite moronic when it comes to nuclear power (or most anything else). But as in other areas, "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others." So what do you propose? Give free reign to unaccountablre technocrats (or cronies) appointed by a politician? Let some CEO make the final call?
Nuclear power is awesome. It is the power of the sun. Thus things ocassionally go horribly wrong when it is put into the hands of homo sapien primates.
Yeah, I think it would be too much weight to lug around a gas engine and fuel, plus a 200 mile battery, and still get 0-60 in 4.2 seconds. Given that it gets 300 miles on its 11 gallon gas tank in hybrid mode, I'll bet a tank of gas would last me a couple months if I started with a full battery each morning. Not that I could ever own one anyways.
Now the BMW i8, that car is the works. But then in a car of that price, who cares about fuel costs? Even if you actually care about the environment, for that kind of money you can buy a LOT of carbon offsets (or solar panels) to conserve fossil fuels when heating your mansion or whatever.
Well I must admit, I calculated PSI using Goodyear's figures from my link, which explicitly states the tread weight, and assuming a width of 9" and I got... 4.7 psi.
The forces are 4x at twice the speed, so you'd have to go a little over 200 mph to generate an extra 20 psi.
So I must agree, 20 psi over-inflation is quite bad, don't do that.
The Leaf has 107 HP, the BMW 170. The Leaf weighs 3300 LB, the BMW 2630 LB. Based on those two numbers alone, they are on two completely different levels of performance, even if they look similar on a checklist of included options.
I think the BMW is ugly but it is revolutionary because its frame and body are carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic.
It is better to err on the side of over-inflation. The centrifugal forces of high-speed driving are pretty extreme (even 100 mph) and you'd have to over-inflate a LOT to replicate them, so they'll take a lot before bursting from pressure alone. The problem with under-inflation is the tire is racked by vibrations that cause extreme forces, and also cause it to overheat.
Here is a cool page, evidently 225 mph at 20 psi below the optimum is a bad idea.
No the trend actually is the same in application development - away from clean sheets, and towards lashing together complex components that can made to sort of work together, supported by complex development tools.
It sucks, but I'm intentionally throwing more of my time now into learning the latest languages and development environments. Are they better? Not really. But you will never, ever convince anybody that fuddy-duddy is actually cool. They'll just think you're irrelevant. Every career has some drawbacks, and spending your life chasing fads, coupled with others' disdain for everything you did or learned over a decade ago, is a drawback of this one. (Heck, why didn't you start a successful startup or at least move into management by now, anyways?)
Cars are generally not designed to be resistant to 'hacking' by their owner/operators, and should not be. Yes, you can drive without a seatbelt if you snip the little blue wire. You can disconnect your airbags. You can cause your tires to explode just by letting out most of the air and driving on the freeway.
Presenting this as some sort of coup fosters the notion that he system ought to be idiot-proof. No sudo rm -fR / for you! We'll put a thousand annoying and ultimately useless obstacles in the way to doing any little thing!
Don't blame the car for not protecting itself from you.
"We are going to proceed with at least two locations in parallel, just in case one of them encounters some issues after breaking ground," Musk said. He said Panasonic was likely to be Tesla's partner in battery production.
The fact that construction started and then stopped makes it sound more like this is that - who else would do such a thing?
I was going to write something snarky about the silliness of getting excited about this one factory, of all things. But it really does hit all the right points, doesn't it: (1) the manufacturing industry in the US, (2) the geopolitics of our oil addiction and resulting involvement in the middle east, and (3) environmental harm from fossil fuels.
Morgan Stanley is excited about the potential use of gigafactory batteries for home energy storage and grid independence, and thinks they might make more on that than on cars. (I would have thought good old lead acid car batteries were cheaper for this?)
You could just leave your vacuum cleaner running I guess... (even Shop Vacs have HEPA filters available, and they move a lot of air!)
But it makes more sense to filter the air at the inlet if you can, or at least as it recirculates through the HVAC system already built into your home. Check your air filter once in a while, people!
What you are missing is that ratings are assigned relative to the competition that existed when the rating was assigned. Go over to gamespot and check out the graphics of a game that got the top rating for graphics 8 years ago. Are those graphics still 10/10? Not even close. Go over to Amazon.com and search SD Cards by "Average Customer Review." Many of the top-ranked cards are little 8 and 16 GB cards that were rated up years ago.
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China has poured 47% more concrete in the last 3 years than the US has poured in the last century. They know how to build.
The Panama Canal was dug around 1910. In 1910, about 38% of Americans were employed in agriculture... now it is under 2%. In other words, humankind is radically better at things like "moving dirt." There is no comparison.
Is it just me or is the current gen of consoles really underwhelming, hardware-wise?
Anyways, Xiaomi, Samsung, and Apple are all Chinese-made phones so who really cares? It would be far more shocking if the manufacture of components and final assembly for tens of millions of phones shifted from one nation to another within a year. Designing a styling a phone doesn't require any infrastructure. Heck, the baton has already passed from Motorolla (Chicago? or Phoenix?) to Ericcson (Sweden) to Blackberry (Canada) to Samsung (Korea) and Apple.
Solving that problem is exactly what this Morgan Stanley / Tesla article is about, so evidently somebody realizes it.
However, I think wide-scale battery storage is premature. We do have an existing grid infrastructure. Until / unless solar reaches the point of supplying more than 100% of overall demand during the day, we may as well consume it as we produce it, and use stored energy (such as natural gas) at night.
Sure there is!
Just accept on faith that the market valuation is infallible by definition, it makes everything so much simpler that way.
Of course there were limits to how accurately he could measure, so his mathematical models were only accurate within those bounds (as always with physics).
You can spin equations out the wazoo (math) but it doesn't mean they model any natural phenomenon in particular (physics).
Likewise I look at my Clie TH55 and see today's Mobile devices, 10 years ago. And where is Sony now?
Instead of exoskeletons it might be easier to just increase the denominator. KFC anyone?
Of course, ideally "all of us" will never need it, because any outbreaks are carpet-bombed with whatever this stuff is, before it becomes a pandemic. (Then again, in prevention-mode, the market is a few thousand poverty-stricken people, whereas in disaster recovery mode it includes a few billion people with money... I'm not alleging conspiracy, more like market failure. Maybe health insurers should pay for this?)
But what if your competition is first to the punch?
Well, even a normal microphone is "just" measuring the linear displacement of a membrane over time, so clearly the important distinction is how you measure it. A laser range-finder is different from a microphone, and a video camera is different from a laser range-finder.
Now, don't get me wrong, the public is quite moronic when it comes to nuclear power (or most anything else). But as in other areas, "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others." So what do you propose? Give free reign to unaccountablre technocrats (or cronies) appointed by a politician? Let some CEO make the final call?
Nuclear power is awesome. It is the power of the sun. Thus things ocassionally go horribly wrong when it is put into the hands of homo sapien primates.
Yeah, I think it would be too much weight to lug around a gas engine and fuel, plus a 200 mile battery, and still get 0-60 in 4.2 seconds. Given that it gets 300 miles on its 11 gallon gas tank in hybrid mode, I'll bet a tank of gas would last me a couple months if I started with a full battery each morning. Not that I could ever own one anyways.
Now the BMW i8, that car is the works. But then in a car of that price, who cares about fuel costs? Even if you actually care about the environment, for that kind of money you can buy a LOT of carbon offsets (or solar panels) to conserve fossil fuels when heating your mansion or whatever.
The forces are 4x at twice the speed, so you'd have to go a little over 200 mph to generate an extra 20 psi.
So I must agree, 20 psi over-inflation is quite bad, don't do that.
I think the BMW is ugly but it is revolutionary because its frame and body are carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic.
Here is a cool page, evidently 225 mph at 20 psi below the optimum is a bad idea.
It sucks, but I'm intentionally throwing more of my time now into learning the latest languages and development environments. Are they better? Not really. But you will never, ever convince anybody that fuddy-duddy is actually cool. They'll just think you're irrelevant. Every career has some drawbacks, and spending your life chasing fads, coupled with others' disdain for everything you did or learned over a decade ago, is a drawback of this one. (Heck, why didn't you start a successful startup or at least move into management by now, anyways?)
Presenting this as some sort of coup fosters the notion that he system ought to be idiot-proof. No sudo rm -fR / for you! We'll put a thousand annoying and ultimately useless obstacles in the way to doing any little thing!
Don't blame the car for not protecting itself from you.
The fact that construction started and then stopped makes it sound more like this is that - who else would do such a thing?
Morgan Stanley is excited about the potential use of gigafactory batteries for home energy storage and grid independence, and thinks they might make more on that than on cars. (I would have thought good old lead acid car batteries were cheaper for this?)
But it makes more sense to filter the air at the inlet if you can, or at least as it recirculates through the HVAC system already built into your home. Check your air filter once in a while, people!
What you are missing is that ratings are assigned relative to the competition that existed when the rating was assigned. Go over to gamespot and check out the graphics of a game that got the top rating for graphics 8 years ago. Are those graphics still 10/10? Not even close. Go over to Amazon.com and search SD Cards by "Average Customer Review." Many of the top-ranked cards are little 8 and 16 GB cards that were rated up years ago.