If you are commuting to an urban center, the city bus shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to get you where you're going.
I just love this. "I think the world should meet my dreams, therefor it must be possible."
New York City is an urban center. How do you propose to get from northwest Bronx to southeast Brooklyn in ten minutes? Helicopter?
Los Angeles is an urban center. How do you propose to get from the northwest San Fernando valley to Long Beach in ten minutes? Jet fighter?
Think before you post.
Speaking of aerodynamics, it looks as if a good puff of wind will flip that car like a pancake. When I lived in Los Angeles, microbursts would occasionally knock over concrete benches at bus stops. This car doesn't stand a chance.
Tell your wife how difficult it is to keep ceraminc tile clean, and that dropped dishes/glasses are more likely to break if dropped on the harder ceramic. Ceramic tiles can crack.
Michael Moore and Ray Bradbury are both bad examples if you're trying to find rationality, and always have been. Bradbury is strongly religious (to the point of exclusion of reason) and his fiction is more about emotion than good science. At least he seems to be gentle. Moore is nasty, out to make trouble, and has shown he has no intention of showing the whole truth. His method is to try to generate indignation and anger in his viewers.
Pearson and Shaw noted the effect of vitamin C on radiotherapy many years ago and recommended increasing radiation to counter the vitamin C. They reasoned that the combined technique would be better at eradicating the cancer and safer for healthy tissue.
Vitamin C in the body doesn't truly reach saturation. Higher dosages decrease absorption; higher densities in the body increase the breakdown and excretion. There's no sharp cutoff as implied by the word "saturation".
The excessive use of DDT may have caused problems; there is some contrary evidence. Application of small amounts of DDT around the house is enough to greatly reduce malaria without significantly affecting desirable wildlife. Note that malaria is a problem mostly in poor countries, and many of the proposed solutions are expensive or very inconvenient. (How'd you like to wear mosquito netting 24/7 ?)
Smog: depends on location. Los Angeles and most of the US, it's better. Same for London and Europe.
Ozone Layer: I'm not well-informed on this, but other posters are claiming that we've turned the corner.
Acid rain: Depends strongly on local conditions. Note that much of the early "acid rain" claims were based on lake acidity rather than direct measurement of rain, and lake acidity is increased by reforestation.
Global warming: So many people think it's a bad thing. I disagree.
Playing an old cylinder recording is very easy. You need somthing to rotate the cylinder on its axis, something (like a rose thorn) to track the groove, and something to translate the vibrations of the tracking element into sound. A piece of paper stiffened with spray paint would probably be adequate for that last element.
If this USB device is powered off the USB port, there's a good chance that most of the concerns above won't be relevant. If you program it yourself after it's manufactured, you have some protection against being ripped off. If it's an all-electronic device, yield should not be a problem. Final QA has to be under your direct control.
The entrepreneur doesn't start getting anything until the VC have hit their return goals.
Every VC is going to have a different contract, and you can always negotiate.
Furthermore, you're going to be able to pay yourself a salary, and probably bonuses too, unless the VC contract expressly forbids it or the VC people control your board of directors.
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Aside from the fact that IBM chose the 8088, there are a number of reasons that the generally superior Z80 lost out in the long run.
The Z80 had no multiply instruction
The Z80 had no binary-compatible 16 bit extension, and no such extension has been developed to this day.
Generally, Zilog dropped the ball on development. Auxillary chips were slow to appear. Speed advances, needed to keep up with the IBM PC, were too late.
Zilog concentrated on the wrong things. They disappointed their fans, and killed the companies that depended on them to be state-of-the-art.
Circa 1970 RCA sold MOSFETs whose gate oxide was so totally broken that the gates formed a diode with the source/drain. Essentially, they were JFETs. They sold for about $1.50 each; the ones with good gates were about $3.00.
I am a libertarian, and I still say that regulation is the wrong approach. Pollution creates identifiable and specific damages, and it is the responisibility of the state to use its proper available mechanisms (courts and taxing powers) to add costs to the entities causing the pollution. Provable pollutants (and that means b.s. like CO2 as a pollutant is not included) are charged according to the quantity generated. Diffuse pollutants hurt everyone, and can be applied to the general tax base. Concentrated pollution (like an oil spill) should involve payments to the actual victims. The result is an economic incentive to do the right thing, rather than an arbitrary application of inflexible power implied by the word "regulation".
"His peers at the time", and the time itself, were deeply split. This was Vietnam War time, and everything was politicized. Ellison and his ilk were leftist antiwar, and Ellison was one of the loudest and most prominent of the weirdos. It's no surprise that the artsy community honored him; they would have voted for any one who agreed with their politics who had a reasonable chance of winning the award.
I've seen examples of reverse discrimination. In one case, about 11 years ago, a semiconductor company made "Head of Personnel" a board seat to stop the complaints of activist "women's" groups. In another case, an incompetent technician who thought he should be an engineer was coddled instead of being fired, because he was black and threatened to sue. This stuff happens all the time.
It is the government's responsibility, its sole responsibility, to protect a person's rights. Rights generally are protections against malicious human action, and terrorism surely falls into that category. Roadway deaths don't qualify (and not all roadway deaths are highway deaths), and the only reason government is messing around with road safety is that gov't has arrogated to itself ownership of roads. And cancer? Good grief! How should that be the province of politicians? Beyond keeping a polluter from violating my property rights, the gov't has no proper business dealing with cancer.
Space-based cells produce about twice as much energy as the same panels on the ground.
That would be true if the sky were cloudless, the cells tracked the sun, and the earth was perfectly transparent. Real locations even in very clear climates are going to average 8 useable hours a day, so space-based cells will be about 6 times as effective.
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I just love this. "I think the world should meet my dreams, therefor it must be possible."
New York City is an urban center. How do you propose to get from northwest Bronx to southeast Brooklyn in ten minutes? Helicopter?
Los Angeles is an urban center. How do you propose to get from the northwest San Fernando valley to Long Beach in ten minutes? Jet fighter?
Think before you post.
Poppycock. Central planning creates laws, especially abusive laws. It is not possible to abuse a law that does not exist.
Speaking of aerodynamics, it looks as if a good puff of wind will flip that car like a pancake. When I lived in Los Angeles, microbursts would occasionally knock over concrete benches at bus stops. This car doesn't stand a chance.
We are planning to send Al Gore to Jupiter to examine the problem. Since the air here is already polluted, we won't be sending any along with him.
Tell your wife how difficult it is to keep ceraminc tile clean, and that dropped dishes/glasses are more likely to break if dropped on the harder ceramic. Ceramic tiles can crack.
Michael Moore and Ray Bradbury are both bad examples if you're trying to find rationality, and always have been. Bradbury is strongly religious (to the point of exclusion of reason) and his fiction is more about emotion than good science. At least he seems to be gentle. Moore is nasty, out to make trouble, and has shown he has no intention of showing the whole truth. His method is to try to generate indignation and anger in his viewers.
Pearson and Shaw noted the effect of vitamin C on radiotherapy many years ago and recommended increasing radiation to counter the vitamin C. They reasoned that the combined technique would be better at eradicating the cancer and safer for healthy tissue.
Vitamin C in the body doesn't truly reach saturation. Higher dosages decrease absorption; higher densities in the body increase the breakdown and excretion. There's no sharp cutoff as implied by the word "saturation".
The excessive use of DDT may have caused problems; there is some contrary evidence. Application of small amounts of DDT around the house is enough to greatly reduce malaria without significantly affecting desirable wildlife. Note that malaria is a problem mostly in poor countries, and many of the proposed solutions are expensive or very inconvenient. (How'd you like to wear mosquito netting 24/7 ?)
Smog: depends on location. Los Angeles and most of the US, it's better. Same for London and Europe.
Ozone Layer: I'm not well-informed on this, but other posters are claiming that we've turned the corner.
Acid rain: Depends strongly on local conditions. Note that much of the early "acid rain" claims were based on lake acidity rather than direct measurement of rain, and lake acidity is increased by reforestation.
Global warming: So many people think it's a bad thing. I disagree.
Playing an old cylinder recording is very easy. You need somthing to rotate the cylinder on its axis, something (like a rose thorn) to track the groove, and something to translate the vibrations of the tracking element into sound. A piece of paper stiffened with spray paint would probably be adequate for that last element.
Granted that the founding fathers were mostly religeous in some manner, they didn't toe the line on any particular orthodoxy.
Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen stand out. Allen rejected faith completely; Paine tore into that great mass of foul stupidity that is the bible.
If this USB device is powered off the USB port, there's a good chance that most of the concerns above won't be relevant. If you program it yourself after it's manufactured, you have some protection against being ripped off. If it's an all-electronic device, yield should not be a problem. Final QA has to be under your direct control.
Every VC is going to have a different contract, and you can always negotiate.
Furthermore, you're going to be able to pay yourself a salary, and probably bonuses too, unless the VC contract expressly forbids it or the VC people control your board of directors.
Aside from the fact that IBM chose the 8088, there are a number of reasons that the generally superior Z80 lost out in the long run.
Zilog concentrated on the wrong things. They disappointed their fans, and killed the companies that depended on them to be state-of-the-art.
Going to art museums is wasteful and provides no measureable benefit. Ban them.
Books and newspapers cause the destruction of trees; ban them all and if someone wants to read, force them to use the internet.
Expensive home computers serve no good purpose. Everyone must use a 4 MHz Z80 and browse using text-only on dial-up modems.
It's for your own good! We're perfectly justified to force these things AT GUNPOINT.
Anything else you want, Josef?
Circa 1970 RCA sold MOSFETs whose gate oxide was so totally broken that the gates formed a diode with the source/drain. Essentially, they were JFETs. They sold for about $1.50 each; the ones with good gates were about $3.00.
I am a libertarian, and I still say that regulation is the wrong approach. Pollution creates identifiable and specific damages, and it is the responisibility of the state to use its proper available mechanisms (courts and taxing powers) to add costs to the entities causing the pollution. Provable pollutants (and that means b.s. like CO2 as a pollutant is not included) are charged according to the quantity generated. Diffuse pollutants hurt everyone, and can be applied to the general tax base. Concentrated pollution (like an oil spill) should involve payments to the actual victims. The result is an economic incentive to do the right thing, rather than an arbitrary application of inflexible power implied by the word "regulation".
"His peers at the time", and the time itself, were deeply split. This was Vietnam War time, and everything was politicized. Ellison and his ilk were leftist antiwar, and Ellison was one of the loudest and most prominent of the weirdos. It's no surprise that the artsy community honored him; they would have voted for any one who agreed with their politics who had a reasonable chance of winning the award.
I've seen examples of reverse discrimination. In one case, about 11 years ago, a semiconductor company made "Head of Personnel" a board seat to stop the complaints of activist "women's" groups. In another case, an incompetent technician who thought he should be an engineer was coddled instead of being fired, because he was black and threatened to sue. This stuff happens all the time.
It is the government's responsibility, its sole responsibility, to protect a person's rights. Rights generally are protections against malicious human action, and terrorism surely falls into that category. Roadway deaths don't qualify (and not all roadway deaths are highway deaths), and the only reason government is messing around with road safety is that gov't has arrogated to itself ownership of roads. And cancer? Good grief! How should that be the province of politicians? Beyond keeping a polluter from violating my property rights, the gov't has no proper business dealing with cancer.
Deep caves are natural and spiritual. Go spend the rest of your life in one, and stop annoying people who like cleanliness and light.
and, if you want to get away from electricity, a gas mantle.
Dr Suess will save us! http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Zebra-Classic-Seuss/dp/0394800842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235319102&sr=1-1?
That would be true if the sky were cloudless, the cells tracked the sun, and the earth was perfectly transparent. Real locations even in very clear climates are going to average 8 useable hours a day, so space-based cells will be about 6 times as effective.
Some of your estimates are a little too pessimistic, like 15% efficiency for solar cells. Your conclusion seems to be valid, however.