The only healthcare most people need is to eat well, exercise adequately, and not do stupid things like run in front of a moving truck. Most health problems are due to self-destructive activities.
The primary goal of government healthcare, and the one thing it will acomplish, is to move us much closer to tyranny.
A fairly small passenger car (4 people, 2000 lb / 900 kg), fairly well streamlined but not so much so as to be difficult to use, can be expected to need at least 10 hp for level 55 mph (88 kph) travel. Going uphill (say 9 degrees at 55 mph) would add another 30 hp to the requirements.
So if you covered your whole car with these excellent cells delivering 2 hp, you could expect to improve your fuel economy by 25%. Fewer cells would mean less improvement. If you could store energy while not driving, that would help even more.
I find visible quantization and blockiness to be more irritating than moderately poor high frequency reponse and random noise. Thus I find that I like poor analog quality better than I like poor digital quality. On the other hand, I like good digital quality better than good analog.
He's right in one regard, but the effect should be insignificant. Here's how it works:
A huge low frequency signal vibrates a reflecting surface. A higher frequency signal bounces off the vibrating surface, being doppler shifted by the motion of the surface.
However, the idea that one or more ultrasonic sounds are going to create audible differences under reasonable conditions is make-believe.
More than that, it's how people work. It is very hard to resist getting something of value for almost no effort. IIRC economists call this "rent seeking".
Note also "within five years" and "nearly a quarter". This seems like a very vague quantification upon which to claim that something causal is happening. If it were "90% of all married scientists immediately stopped thinking well" then there would be something notable to look at. And how many people make more that one "significant contribution to history's hall of fame", anyway?
I look at OS code only when I have a problem with the binary executable, and need to fix it if I can.
The code I have seen has been of only moderate quality (from the standpoint of design for fast execution) and the commenting has been grossly inadequate. On the plus side, structure and modularity are usually quite good. Overall, I don't see a lot of evidence that developers have been behaving better because someone else might see the source.
To run hardware and software that doesn't run properly or at all under Linux, that's why.
I'm hoping for good performance with my Samsung QL85G laser printer, and Matrox PC-Remote.
I'd love to run Photoshop and LViewPro under Linux, too. And my WinModem.
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Easy. Install a speed regulator set for 2 mph, that's a safety solution that will work almost always.
Cars that do not contribute to pollution, at least a little, under most conditions, are not possible.
Please think before you post.
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power loss in wire = resistance of wire times square of current. If voltage at the load is 3 times larger and current is 1/3 as large, the power at the load is constant, but the resistance of the wire can be 9 times higher for the same power loss in the wire.
So the wire can be 1/3 the diameter. (Ignoring the fact that the smaller wire won't dissipate heat as well)
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Resistance is going to be roughly inversely proportional to contact area. Grab the engine block with one hand and firmly grasp the + terminal of the battery with the other hand. You'll be badly hurt and potentially dead. DC is worse than AC; you're less likely to be able to let go.
I don't have a handbook available at the moment, but I think that the nickel used in the gates has a significantly higher melting point than aluminum used for interconnects, and maybe higher than copper.
You reversed cause and effect. Being close to extinction in this case means a very small population. A very small population is likely to have a reduced amount of genetic diversity.
Ever population has a magic number that determine the minimum number of individuals required to maintain its existance. For birds this number is about 4,000.
Whooping cranes reached a population low of 22 (16 if you count only those that now have descendants). The population as of 1993 was 150 and growing.
"just because it is not for human benefit doesn't mean it doesn't have value."
As a human being, the only things of value to me are those which benefit human beings, and me in particular. The concept of value, without naming its beneficiary, is meaningless.
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Insurance is for cowards.
The primary goal of government healthcare, and the one thing it will acomplish, is to move us much closer to tyranny.
So if you covered your whole car with these excellent cells delivering 2 hp, you could expect to improve your fuel economy by 25%. Fewer cells would mean less improvement. If you could store energy while not driving, that would help even more.
In a sense, much longer than 20 years. The Roberts "cross field" head audio tape recorders were selling circa 1960, IIRC.
I find visible quantization and blockiness to be more irritating than moderately poor high frequency reponse and random noise. Thus I find that I like poor analog quality better than I like poor digital quality. On the other hand, I like good digital quality better than good analog.
A huge low frequency signal vibrates a reflecting surface. A higher frequency signal bounces off the vibrating surface, being doppler shifted by the motion of the surface.
However, the idea that one or more ultrasonic sounds are going to create audible differences under reasonable conditions is make-believe.
"Interstate commerce" is used as an excuse to regulate elevators. This is just a power grab by the federal government.
More than that, it's how people work. It is very hard to resist getting something of value for almost no effort. IIRC economists call this "rent seeking".
I love it! This is so much better than Battlestar Gallactica, new or old.
Much ado about nothing.
Castration removes the major source of testosterone, and thus of the drive to do anything. No more productive genius.
Are these 1 or 2 LSB errors or are the answers flat-out wrong? References please.
Promote the existence of a non/anti-productive class (the clergy).
Waste the time consumed in worship.
Promote irrationality and gullibilty.
Give tyrants another excuse for war.
Obstruct science (anti-Darwinism, for example).
Create an irritating class of people who proselytize.
Christianity bears a large part of the responsibilty for the roughly 1000 years of no advancement of civilization prior to the renaissance.
The code I have seen has been of only moderate quality (from the standpoint of design for fast execution) and the commenting has been grossly inadequate. On the plus side, structure and modularity are usually quite good. Overall, I don't see a lot of evidence that developers have been behaving better because someone else might see the source.
I'm hoping for good performance with my Samsung QL85G laser printer, and Matrox PC-Remote.
I'd love to run Photoshop and LViewPro under Linux, too. And my WinModem.
Cars that do not contribute to pollution, at least a little, under most conditions, are not possible.
Please think before you post.
So the wire can be 1/3 the diameter. (Ignoring the fact that the smaller wire won't dissipate heat as well)
Resistance is going to be roughly inversely proportional to contact area. Grab the engine block with one hand and firmly grasp the + terminal of the battery with the other hand. You'll be badly hurt and potentially dead. DC is worse than AC; you're less likely to be able to let go.
I don't have a handbook available at the moment, but I think that the nickel used in the gates has a significantly higher melting point than aluminum used for interconnects, and maybe higher than copper.
You reversed cause and effect. Being close to extinction in this case means a very small population. A very small population is likely to have a reduced amount of genetic diversity.
Whooping cranes reached a population low of 22 (16 if you count only those that now have descendants). The population as of 1993 was 150 and growing.
Effective Radiated Power, as you point out, does include antenna gain. So of course the actual power consumed is very substantially less than 5 MW.
Don't confuse anti-religion views with leftist views. There's plenty of capitalist philosophy that considers religion a hideous evil.
As a human being, the only things of value to me are those which benefit human beings, and me in particular. The concept of value, without naming its beneficiary, is meaningless.
There are TOYS that do nearly the same thing.