A simple gear system can have a 99% efficiency. That high an efficiency in a generator-motor system is in the difficult-to-impossible range. It requires low current densities and low magnetic densities, which are achieved by using high voltages, thick, heavy wires, and thick, heavy magnetic circuits. Particularly important is the word heavy; more mass reduces the overall efficiency of the transportation system.
Locomotives are not only very heavy, they have to be heavy to provide enough pulling force. Steel wheels on steel track have a fairly low coefficient of friction, low enough that a little oil on the tracks has caused many deaths. Engine to generator to electric motor is heavy and expensive, and to a first-order approximation, no railroader cares.
In automobiles, a Prius-like scheme with a differential joining the engine to the electric motor is substantially lighter and less expensive.
With some battery technologies, recharge time is limited by heating. If you can supply cold water to appropriately designed batteries, recharge time can be considerably reduced.
Avoiding bad practices and bad substances reduces the likelihood of cancer. Eating well and using the right supplements substantially reduces the likelihood of cancer. This works because we do, if fact, know where a lot of cancer comes from and how to help prevent it. It's like driving carefully in a well-designed, carefully maintained car. This is a private issue because only an individual can act wisely. "Public" healthcare inevitably involves stealing from those who take care of themselves.
If the extension is actually still good for the new version, but has a specific version limit that prevents it from installing, the install file for that extension can be text-edited to work. I've used this with statusbar clock.
If all that's available is a.jar file for the extension, I've read that it can be decompressed with unzip, edited, and recompressed; and then it will work.
..higher level languages (which are typically more verbose...
One of the major selling points of a HLL is that it is less verbose. I want to put a concept on a line, not a page. This makes it easier to write, easier to maintain.
"At least this bug was found. How many more like it are there, but we simply don't have the proper trace to find it?"
Hard to say. This is a design margin thing, depending upon worst case conditions plus localized heating, and localized heating (AFAIK) isn't generally modeled. Writing test vectors to find all logic errors is difficult, unpleasant, and labor intensive work. Even if software identifies the worst case path, it won't account for localized heating.
I'd guess there are other problems out there like this, but they generally can be avoided by staying well away from maximum operating conditions: keep your chip cool and within the specified voltage range, and don't overclock.
"You can't put such a small car on roads with normal compact and larger cars. It's a safety nightmare."
Just imagine, if this is allowed, pretty soon there will be two-wheeled cars with no bodies. Just like a bicycle with a motor. Why, I bet they'd call them "motorcycles" and we'd have to have special roads for them, too.
Sorry, you're wrong. Merriam-Webster's "Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary", page 968 in my copy.
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"I figure that in any country, if the land hasn't been sold, then the land is owned by the government."
True, but...
...Government ownership almost never results in the best use of the property.
...Government ownership seldom comes about honestly; it is usually the result of some sort of theft.
...Government ownership tends to be irreversible. Vast stretches of the western U.S. are owned by the federal government, and are unavailable for purchase for any reason whatsoever.
...Government ownership promotes corruption. Complaints about the forest service and the BLM are commonplace.
"What is fucking wrong with all the idiots alive today and their money cult? Why is everything about how much we can get for this or that if we chop it up, dig it up, divide it, and sell it to the highest bidder?
In order to evaluate the worth of something, we need a standard to measure that worth against. That standard is money. It can be applied to more things, more easily and more accurately, than anything else.
You're getting ripped off in either case. I've never spent more than $50 for a pair of shoes (boots actually; I've never paid more than $25 for shoes). I've never had them last less than a year.
I live about a half mile from a ski slope. The snow making machines don't even register on my sound level meter when I'm outside (so they're below 60 dB), yet they're still irritating inside when I'm trying to sleep. I'd imagine that windmills would have a more pleasant sound (a rhythmic whoosh instead of a midrange buzz).
Note that the complainers against windmills don't state the distance at which the 102 dB was measured, and it's for sure that they weren't citing best available technology.
Many power companies already subsidize the purchase of CF bulbs.
The subsidies you claim power companies get are vastly outweighed by the taxes they pay and the absurd restrictions on their operations that they put up with.
My experience in Los Angeles indicates that the worst polluting big vehicles are city-owned busses. Newsracks near bus stops are covered with particles of diesel soot.
"...and does not even offer them a platform on which they can freely express their views"
Paid for by whom?
Most fringe groups are fringe because they're looney, and are recognized as such by most people. In most cases, if change cannot be effected without the use of force, then the change is wrong. Remember that force is the essence of tyranny.
According to my encyclopedia, bears in the wild can live beyond 30 years. This seems about right to me. A big smart omnivorous predator without many effective natural enemies should have a pretty good lifespan.
Not only does this unjustly enrich a patent system abuser, it raises Microsoft's costs, which will be passed on to Microsoft's customers. Everyone who buys Microsoft's products in the future, or does business with someone buying Microsoft's products, will be hurt. The only winners are the scum who sued and their lawyers.
I think your idea would almost work. Ice would be shed from the top and side surfaces, and fall to the bottom, ending up as a layer of crushed ice. This would have to be shoveled out occasionally, hopefully before it coalesces into a big chunk.
Displays are being made with LEDs; they're used at sporting events and they're expensive. Look up Daktronics.
For desktop displays, most common LED chips are too large to make a good display (10 mil squares) and would require too many chips and too much labor to assemble a cost-effective display. Wafers containing a large number of pixels have problems with dead pixels and poor luminous uniformity (I'm guessing here.) OLEDs have the potential to be printed on an inexpensive substrate.
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A simple gear system can have a 99% efficiency. That high an efficiency in a generator-motor system is in the difficult-to-impossible range. It requires low current densities and low magnetic densities, which are achieved by using high voltages, thick, heavy wires, and thick, heavy magnetic circuits. Particularly important is the word heavy; more mass reduces the overall efficiency of the transportation system.
In automobiles, a Prius-like scheme with a differential joining the engine to the electric motor is substantially lighter and less expensive.
With some battery technologies, recharge time is limited by heating. If you can supply cold water to appropriately designed batteries, recharge time can be considerably reduced.
Just as I wouldn't buy sled dogs at a car dealership, I wouldn't look for diabetes prevention at a hospital. Try a gym.
What you have just proposed is drafting and enslaving doctors. You you want to be treated by a doctor who is working at gunpoint?
Avoiding bad practices and bad substances reduces the likelihood of cancer. Eating well and using the right supplements substantially reduces the likelihood of cancer. This works because we do, if fact, know where a lot of cancer comes from and how to help prevent it. It's like driving carefully in a well-designed, carefully maintained car. This is a private issue because only an individual can act wisely. "Public" healthcare inevitably involves stealing from those who take care of themselves.
If all that's available is a .jar file for the extension, I've read that it can be decompressed with unzip, edited, and recompressed; and then it will work.
France does have nuclear reactors for electricity generation.
One of the major selling points of a HLL is that it is less verbose. I want to put a concept on a line, not a page. This makes it easier to write, easier to maintain.
Or is APL not a HLL?
Hard to say. This is a design margin thing, depending upon worst case conditions plus localized heating, and localized heating (AFAIK) isn't generally modeled. Writing test vectors to find all logic errors is difficult, unpleasant, and labor intensive work. Even if software identifies the worst case path, it won't account for localized heating.
I'd guess there are other problems out there like this, but they generally can be avoided by staying well away from maximum operating conditions: keep your chip cool and within the specified voltage range, and don't overclock.
Just imagine, if this is allowed, pretty soon there will be two-wheeled cars with no bodies. Just like a bicycle with a motor. Why, I bet they'd call them "motorcycles" and we'd have to have special roads for them, too.
Oh, wait...
Sorry, you're wrong. Merriam-Webster's "Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary", page 968 in my copy.
True, but...
In order to evaluate the worth of something, we need a standard to measure that worth against. That standard is money. It can be applied to more things, more easily and more accurately, than anything else.
You're getting ripped off in either case. I've never spent more than $50 for a pair of shoes (boots actually; I've never paid more than $25 for shoes). I've never had them last less than a year.
Note that the complainers against windmills don't state the distance at which the 102 dB was measured, and it's for sure that they weren't citing best available technology.
The subsidies you claim power companies get are vastly outweighed by the taxes they pay and the absurd restrictions on their operations that they put up with.
My experience in Los Angeles indicates that the worst polluting big vehicles are city-owned busses. Newsracks near bus stops are covered with particles of diesel soot.
Paid for by whom?
Most fringe groups are fringe because they're looney, and are recognized as such by most people. In most cases, if change cannot be effected without the use of force, then the change is wrong. Remember that force is the essence of tyranny.
According to my encyclopedia, bears in the wild can live beyond 30 years. This seems about right to me. A big smart omnivorous predator without many effective natural enemies should have a pretty good lifespan.
Not only does this unjustly enrich a patent system abuser, it raises Microsoft's costs, which will be passed on to Microsoft's customers. Everyone who buys Microsoft's products in the future, or does business with someone buying Microsoft's products, will be hurt. The only winners are the scum who sued and their lawyers.
I think your idea would almost work. Ice would be shed from the top and side surfaces, and fall to the bottom, ending up as a layer of crushed ice. This would have to be shoveled out occasionally, hopefully before it coalesces into a big chunk.
For desktop displays, most common LED chips are too large to make a good display (10 mil squares) and would require too many chips and too much labor to assemble a cost-effective display. Wafers containing a large number of pixels have problems with dead pixels and poor luminous uniformity (I'm guessing here.) OLEDs have the potential to be printed on an inexpensive substrate.
Perhaps you mean starvation or severe malnutrition?
Half a pixel is indeed like half a bit. In information theory non-integer bits are common and useful.