That's a good analogy, but it fails because a single citizen can't "own" a senator. A corporation can be owned by a single person or even another corporation. Protecting the single guy (or small group of people) who completely controls the corporation probably makes little sense from a "what's good for society" standpoint.
I don't quite go as far as you, but I have definitely come around to view limited liability as too generous. While I think that passive investors should still enjoy limited liability, I think that active participants in the business should not. In other words, you should not be on the hook for, say, the BP oil spill just because your pension fund or 401(k) holds it or a mutual fund which owns it. But if you are on the board, in the management, or a majority owner then you should definitely be on the hook for the actions of the company- both financially and legally.
If you have access to trees, plastic tubing, and some kind of sealant, then yeah, you probably have access to other methods... like boiling. I'm not saying this has no use, but in the crowded conditions where clean water is most needed it probably isn't practical as presented.
The power of the language can be measured in how easily it can be extended or non trivial algorithms can be implemented
True, but the usefulness of a language largely depends on how quickly you can get a result - and while hard to tell from this little demonstration - I certainly see some impressive capability from the standard library.
It looks like Mathematica because Mathematica implements this language and is where it comes from. Historically the language developed ad hoc and now they have made an effort to standardize it into a "language".
The link you posted is a side-loading exploit, albeit one that begins with instructions when you click on an ad. You have to download the app and then sideload it.
Now my mechanical engineering degree finally comes to good use! You will develop more power at lower RPMs, so you won't need to stomp as hard on the throttle to go the same speed. Lower RPM means lower frictional loss in the intake and in the drivetrain. In addition to extra density of air making the engine more powerful, an ICE is just a type of heat engine. And presuming the heat of the combustion chamber is approximately constant, the lower atmospheric temperature makes for a more efficient heat sink.
In case you did hit your paywall limit, here's the relevant text:
It begins with technology that is de rigueur on most luxury cars: Radar adaptive cruise control lets the Infiniti regulate its speed, even in stop-and-go traffic, with no need to touch the gas or brake pedals. But the radar tracks not just the car ahead, but the one ahead of that, providing more time to warn drivers and make smart decisions during chain-reaction stops.
More autonomy groundwork is laid with the optional Direct Adaptive Steering: The world’s first steer-by-wire system in a production car eliminates any physical link between the steering wheel and the turning wheels. It’s all done electronically, with three separate controllers for fail-safe redundancy. If all else fails, a clutch re-connects the mechanical steering column to restore physical control.
You can see where this is headed. Another option, Active Lane Control, links lane-keeping cameras with electronic steering that subtly turns the steering wheel (drivers can adjust the level of assistance) to center the car in its lane and adjust for crosswinds and pavement.
With the Q50 managing its own speed and adjusting course, I could sit back and simply watch, even on mildly curving highways, for three or more miles at a stretch.
Drivers can also toggle up standard or customized settings for power assist and steering ratio, the latter making sharper turns for a given amount of steering input.
I do like the idea of PRT, but I'm somewhat skeptical due to it not having been implemented anywhere in the world in any meaningful way. Once there are self-driving cars, it will only be a matter of time before we get self-driving cabs - those would be very similar to PRT in practice, and might be a reasonable alternative to car ownership.
There must be more to it than that. Rail gets taxpayer money - even a piece of the gas tax! I'd be pissed if I lived out in the boonies on some potholed road while my gas tax was going towards rail... I get that point of view. Also, I think your cost numbers are off. I think light rail averages around $35/mile in the US. Wikipedia seems to think that rail and road are comparable when it comes to capital cost/mile.
Maintenance is probably just as important, but I can never find numbers on that. Much of the true labor cost is obscured by pension obligations and the like, which don't always get factored in. Slowly we'll automate the trains like Singapore does, which ought to help quite a bit.
and really a danger as it can lull a driver into a false sense of security.
While your rationale seems logical, I have to assume that Nissan has done their homework. If I'm wrong, we'll see cars like the Q50 go the way of the dodo as insurance carriers jack up rates.
I like rail, too, but you have to couple rail with sensible development - and that cat is already out of the bag. Also, the government seems incapable of running these systems cost-effectively. I live in an old suburb with decent rail service every half hour. A 20-minute ride downtown costs about $5, and the same on the way back. Even off-peak, it is almost $4. Take the kids downtown on the weekend (if I plan ahead and get the lower rate from the ticket office) and I'm out $24 for what would be a 6 mile drive. And that's heavily subsidized!
To be fair, the system is geared towards commuters who can buy a pass for around $100/month. That works out to roughly $5/working day, which is 1/2 price. Still only barely competitive with a carpool, which is a shame - though again, to be fair roads are also subsidized somewhat.
I'd argue that the new electronic (no mechanical link) steering and ability of the car to drive itself under certain conditions make the Infinity Q50 worthy of a mention. It's at least as geeky cool as coupling a battery to an electric motor.
But it doesn't preclude you from using email, which most everyone still has. There is nothing intimate about multiple-recipient email blasts.
Furthermore, Facebook has personal-message capability. Aside from being proprietary, this is exactly the same personal interaction as email - though it kind of combines email and chat.
I'm one of those people who likes Facebook specifically because I no longer have to maintain an address book or worry about who to include on what emails. Just throw it all out there and let people who care read it. I wish Facebook weren't proprietary, but I'm not going to be a zealot about it - when it dies I'll just move on to the next thing.
What I meant was that the fuel having more alcohol or equivalent mixed in for winter emissions will reduce the energy content. The fuel only needs to be warm enough to atomize. Denser air will cause a bit more resistance at the intake, but this should be more than compensated for by the increased amount of oxygen available for combustion.
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Yes, but there is plenty of competition for each senator. :)
That's a good analogy, but it fails because a single citizen can't "own" a senator. A corporation can be owned by a single person or even another corporation. Protecting the single guy (or small group of people) who completely controls the corporation probably makes little sense from a "what's good for society" standpoint.
I don't quite go as far as you, but I have definitely come around to view limited liability as too generous. While I think that passive investors should still enjoy limited liability, I think that active participants in the business should not. In other words, you should not be on the hook for, say, the BP oil spill just because your pension fund or 401(k) holds it or a mutual fund which owns it. But if you are on the board, in the management, or a majority owner then you should definitely be on the hook for the actions of the company- both financially and legally.
I'm simply referring to the procedure used in TFA. I know, we're not supposed to read that...
If you have access to trees, plastic tubing, and some kind of sealant, then yeah, you probably have access to other methods... like boiling. I'm not saying this has no use, but in the crowded conditions where clean water is most needed it probably isn't practical as presented.
When people have to hike for miles to find wood for cooking fires, I'm not sure that fresh cut wood is all that practical.
The power of the language can be measured in how easily it can be extended or non trivial algorithms can be implemented
True, but the usefulness of a language largely depends on how quickly you can get a result - and while hard to tell from this little demonstration - I certainly see some impressive capability from the standard library.
It looks like Mathematica because Mathematica implements this language and is where it comes from. Historically the language developed ad hoc and now they have made an effort to standardize it into a "language".
The link you posted is a side-loading exploit, albeit one that begins with instructions when you click on an ad. You have to download the app and then sideload it.
Isn't the vast majority (all?) of the malware side-loaded? That would explain the number, since you can't turn on side-loading on the i-things.
Now my mechanical engineering degree finally comes to good use! You will develop more power at lower RPMs, so you won't need to stomp as hard on the throttle to go the same speed. Lower RPM means lower frictional loss in the intake and in the drivetrain. In addition to extra density of air making the engine more powerful, an ICE is just a type of heat engine. And presuming the heat of the combustion chamber is approximately constant, the lower atmospheric temperature makes for a more efficient heat sink.
Don't forget massive amounts of road salt! :)
I apologize if you have already hit your NY Times limit for the month, but here's a pretty decent article describing the features in non-geek terms.
In case you did hit your paywall limit, here's the relevant text:
I do like the idea of PRT, but I'm somewhat skeptical due to it not having been implemented anywhere in the world in any meaningful way. Once there are self-driving cars, it will only be a matter of time before we get self-driving cabs - those would be very similar to PRT in practice, and might be a reasonable alternative to car ownership.
There must be more to it than that. Rail gets taxpayer money - even a piece of the gas tax! I'd be pissed if I lived out in the boonies on some potholed road while my gas tax was going towards rail... I get that point of view. Also, I think your cost numbers are off. I think light rail averages around $35/mile in the US. Wikipedia seems to think that rail and road are comparable when it comes to capital cost/mile.
Maintenance is probably just as important, but I can never find numbers on that. Much of the true labor cost is obscured by pension obligations and the like, which don't always get factored in. Slowly we'll automate the trains like Singapore does, which ought to help quite a bit.
and really a danger as it can lull a driver into a false sense of security.
While your rationale seems logical, I have to assume that Nissan has done their homework. If I'm wrong, we'll see cars like the Q50 go the way of the dodo as insurance carriers jack up rates.
I like rail, too, but you have to couple rail with sensible development - and that cat is already out of the bag. Also, the government seems incapable of running these systems cost-effectively. I live in an old suburb with decent rail service every half hour. A 20-minute ride downtown costs about $5, and the same on the way back. Even off-peak, it is almost $4. Take the kids downtown on the weekend (if I plan ahead and get the lower rate from the ticket office) and I'm out $24 for what would be a 6 mile drive. And that's heavily subsidized!
To be fair, the system is geared towards commuters who can buy a pass for around $100/month. That works out to roughly $5/working day, which is 1/2 price. Still only barely competitive with a carpool, which is a shame - though again, to be fair roads are also subsidized somewhat.
True, and counter to my own point, there was a story about an autonomous Nissan in Japan a while back. (Nissan is the parent company of Infinity.)
Well, I drive a yawn of a car (two, actually) - but it can't drive itself!
I'd argue that the new electronic (no mechanical link) steering and ability of the car to drive itself under certain conditions make the Infinity Q50 worthy of a mention. It's at least as geeky cool as coupling a battery to an electric motor.
But it doesn't preclude you from using email, which most everyone still has. There is nothing intimate about multiple-recipient email blasts.
Furthermore, Facebook has personal-message capability. Aside from being proprietary, this is exactly the same personal interaction as email - though it kind of combines email and chat.
I'm one of those people who likes Facebook specifically because I no longer have to maintain an address book or worry about who to include on what emails. Just throw it all out there and let people who care read it. I wish Facebook weren't proprietary, but I'm not going to be a zealot about it - when it dies I'll just move on to the next thing.
What I meant was that the fuel having more alcohol or equivalent mixed in for winter emissions will reduce the energy content. The fuel only needs to be warm enough to atomize. Denser air will cause a bit more resistance at the intake, but this should be more than compensated for by the increased amount of oxygen available for combustion.
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Yes, but we put less than 4000 miles on our commuter car each year, which is why I'd like a cheaper battery to shorten the payback period.
Ah, the fuel... that's probably the big hitter, since the other stuff will warm up :) Thanks for the informative response.