I don't know where you get the idea of short distances at low speeds from, but you're wrong.
The reviews when it first came out said that it used the gasoline engine when driving at highway speeds because the electric motors weren't powerful enough to handle high-speed driving by themselves.
Which implies that it's more complex than those reviews said, so the gasoline engine will come on to help run the car in various situations, depending on what mode it's in. Like going up a steep hill at more than 40mph(!).
Explain how this is worse, and part of some gubmint conspiracy.
The Volt has a gas tank _and_ a huge battery, so it's the worst of both worlds.
From what I've read GM apparently said that the battery must be drained after an accident, so that means another possibly complex procedure which isn't required for a gasoline car. I don't know exactly what that involves, but I presume the battery may be toast, or will at least require a thorough inspection before it can be used again... yet more costs that someone will have to cover after a crash.
if someone today came up with that we should all be driving around at 100kmp with 100L of highly flammable liquid people would say; are you nuts?
Sorry, but that's nonsense. Our ancestors used to drive electric cars, but when the ICE came along it was so clearly superior that they rapidly dumped the electric nonsense; it's taken a century for people to forget the lessons of the past and come to believe that electric cars make any kind of sense.
How dare anyone manufacture or purchase a vehicle that doesn't rely on a big oil corporation to be useful!
You are aware that the Volt is a hybrid with a gasoline engine, right?
The Volt was a good idea when first proposed, the problem was that by the time it was actually released it cost twice as much as a Civic and offered no real benefit other than being able to run for short distances at low speeds on the battery.
And that might be because there is a reason the US (at least, among others) Use Gold to back their currency. It helps to stabilize inflation, deflation, basically it means the dollar won't be worth 10 cents overnight. Read about it some time.
Uh, the US government hasn't backed the dollar with gold in 40 years. That's why the dollar has lost 99% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created.
Central banking was pushed by the 'progressives' precisely because a gold-backed currency prevents governments from creating new money out of nothing. You don't need a central bank when you have gold-backed currency, because anyone with gold who people trust can issue it.
If he doesn't understand company politics, he shouldn't be making pronouncements about company policy. Particularly stupid ones like writing off the entire commercial market for your product.
Is there any new development that could cast new light on the problem of fission propulsion?
What problem? We've built and tested fission rockets; the only problem is getting them into space when politicos would prefer to listen to the anti-nuclear luddites.
A bunch of people deny that evolution exists. Very few people deny that the climate changes, and their wacky 'Hockey Stick' graphs have been thoroughly disproven.
Ha-ha. GFWL... not content with forcing you to reboot after installing a crappy like OS update, now Microsoft force you to exit and restart your game just so you can update the GFWL crap that you didn't want in the first place.
After my experience with GTA4, I vowed never to buy another GFWL game. In fact, I don't buy any games on Steam any more if they have anything more than the basic Steam DRM.
Journalling most certainly does not rely on luck and timing! Under heavy I/O, journalling can guarantee filesystem data integrity (modulo coding bugs).
Back in the real world, journalling is generally only used for metadata, and many hard drives lie when you ask them to flush their cache to disk. So even if the drive doesn't lie and your journal works, the actual file data -- you know, the stuff you actually care about -- may well be trashed.
Meanwhile, NTFS is a solid file system, offering support for Unicode, alternate data streams, compression and ACLs long before any of those got acceptance in the Unix ecosystem. While my sympathies lie more with the GNU folks, I've got to give it to Microsoft for NTFS.
Uh, but aren't Microsoft now removing most of those things because most people don't use them?
Turn off last access time and you can get faster compiles on NTFS, but it was never a particularly fast FS, just a very reliable one.
Considering the gigabytes of data that I've lost on NTFS in the past, I would have to disagree with that. I've lost far more data on NTFS than FAT or ext3, or even ext4.
No, it shouldn't use any more memory than it needs.
How much memory does it need? I'd much rather that it cached recent pages in RAM than on disk or not at all.
250MB is nothing on a modern PC with many gigabytes of RAM. My laptop has 6GB, and logged into Gnome with Firefox and another app running the OS is using a whole 900MB, only about half of which is being used by applications. Why not do something useful with the rest of the RAM?
Adding unsigned types to the language would add very little value, but it would add at least some value, so I won't argue with that one.
Not having unsigned types is probably the second dumbest decision in Java's design, after compulsory garbage collection.
Sure, you can work around it by using larger data types (e.g. short when you really mean byte), but it's a real pain when interoperating with code in other languages.
The internet provides a great deal of medical information, however you still need someone with experience to relate it to a specific case.
The last few times we've visited a doctor we'd already done the research on the Internet and knew exactly what the problem was, so we had to wait around for hours just so the doctor could agree and sign the prescription.
Doctors should really only be dealing with cases where the cause isn't obvious.
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Then How about a kickstarter campaign to fund lobbying against these kind of things?
So you're going to discourage politicians from taking money from the IP Barons to pass stupid laws by... giving them money?
If I was a a politician I'd think that was double-payday; I could take money from the IP Barons to put forward stupid laws and then take even more money from the anti-IP lobbyists to vote against it. In fact, I'd be pushing as many stupid laws as I possibly could, to increase the amount of money people would give me for voting against them.
It's like paying software developers based on the number of bugs they fix... while allowing them to introduce as many bugs as they want.
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Inflation is really necessary, as it requires people with money put it to work.
That's true, because otherwise people would just pile up their cash in their vault and swim in it, like Scrooge McDuck.
Back in the real world, inflation is just another scam by which governments steal money from the productive members of society.
I don't know where you get the idea of short distances at low speeds from, but you're wrong.
The reviews when it first came out said that it used the gasoline engine when driving at highway speeds because the electric motors weren't powerful enough to handle high-speed driving by themselves.
Here's one of the first results Google found:
http://gm-volt.com/2010/10/11/motor-trend-explains-the-volts-powertrain/
Which implies that it's more complex than those reviews said, so the gasoline engine will come on to help run the car in various situations, depending on what mode it's in. Like going up a steep hill at more than 40mph(!).
Explain how this is worse, and part of some gubmint conspiracy.
The Volt has a gas tank _and_ a huge battery, so it's the worst of both worlds.
From what I've read GM apparently said that the battery must be drained after an accident, so that means another possibly complex procedure which isn't required for a gasoline car. I don't know exactly what that involves, but I presume the battery may be toast, or will at least require a thorough inspection before it can be used again... yet more costs that someone will have to cover after a crash.
if someone today came up with that we should all be driving around at 100kmp with 100L of highly flammable liquid people would say; are you nuts?
Sorry, but that's nonsense. Our ancestors used to drive electric cars, but when the ICE came along it was so clearly superior that they rapidly dumped the electric nonsense; it's taken a century for people to forget the lessons of the past and come to believe that electric cars make any kind of sense.
How dare anyone manufacture or purchase a vehicle that doesn't rely on a big oil corporation to be useful!
You are aware that the Volt is a hybrid with a gasoline engine, right?
The Volt was a good idea when first proposed, the problem was that by the time it was actually released it cost twice as much as a Civic and offered no real benefit other than being able to run for short distances at low speeds on the battery.
yeah the volt's batteries aren't safe like a big tank of hydrocarbons under your ass.
I'm not aware of any car that puts a big tank of hydrocarbons under your ass, though my old car did put one behind the passenger seat.
Rule #1 being that you do not connect control systems to the internet. I don't care how good the hacker is, he can't overcome an airgap.
He can if those systems are connected to a Windows PC and someone plugs in a USB key so they can watch their pr0n while they work.
Why would there be a Windows jailbreak?
You'll need one once Microsoft pushes 'secure boot' on all Windows systems.
And that might be because there is a reason the US (at least, among others) Use Gold to back their currency. It helps to stabilize inflation, deflation, basically it means the dollar won't be worth 10 cents overnight. Read about it some time.
Uh, the US government hasn't backed the dollar with gold in 40 years. That's why the dollar has lost 99% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created.
Central banking was pushed by the 'progressives' precisely because a gold-backed currency prevents governments from creating new money out of nothing. You don't need a central bank when you have gold-backed currency, because anyone with gold who people trust can issue it.
Asa's not a politician.
If he doesn't understand company politics, he shouldn't be making pronouncements about company policy. Particularly stupid ones like writing off the entire commercial market for your product.
Is there any new development that could cast new light on the problem of fission propulsion?
What problem? We've built and tested fission rockets; the only problem is getting them into space when politicos would prefer to listen to the anti-nuclear luddites.
You know, maybe it would be easier if they just got rid of the entire bill of rights and put us all in cages.
Don't give them ideas...
A bunch of people deny that evolution exists. Very few people deny that the climate changes, and their wacky 'Hockey Stick' graphs have been thoroughly disproven.
Wait until the game has been out for six months and see how many people complain about the DRM problems they've been having.
The bonus is that by then you'll be able to buy it for $5 in a Steam sale.
Ha-ha. GFWL... not content with forcing you to reboot after installing a crappy like OS update, now Microsoft force you to exit and restart your game just so you can update the GFWL crap that you didn't want in the first place.
After my experience with GTA4, I vowed never to buy another GFWL game. In fact, I don't buy any games on Steam any more if they have anything more than the basic Steam DRM.
Journalling most certainly does not rely on luck and timing! Under heavy I/O, journalling can guarantee filesystem data integrity (modulo coding bugs).
Back in the real world, journalling is generally only used for metadata, and many hard drives lie when you ask them to flush their cache to disk. So even if the drive doesn't lie and your journal works, the actual file data -- you know, the stuff you actually care about -- may well be trashed.
Meanwhile, NTFS is a solid file system, offering support for Unicode, alternate data streams, compression and ACLs long before any of those got acceptance in the Unix ecosystem. While my sympathies lie more with the GNU folks, I've got to give it to Microsoft for NTFS.
Uh, but aren't Microsoft now removing most of those things because most people don't use them?
Turn off last access time and you can get faster compiles on NTFS, but it was never a particularly fast FS, just a very reliable one.
Considering the gigabytes of data that I've lost on NTFS in the past, I would have to disagree with that. I've lost far more data on NTFS than FAT or ext3, or even ext4.
Let's see: 32K file name and path limits (instad of 255)
That'll be great fun for all those old C programs that do:
char filename[MAX_PATH];
strcpy( filename, lpstrSomeWindowsFileCrap() );
(Yeah, I know that weird Windows Reverse Mongolian naming is probably wrong, I haven't programmed on Windows in years)
No, it shouldn't use any more memory than it needs.
How much memory does it need? I'd much rather that it cached recent pages in RAM than on disk or not at all.
250MB is nothing on a modern PC with many gigabytes of RAM. My laptop has 6GB, and logged into Gnome with Firefox and another app running the OS is using a whole 900MB, only about half of which is being used by applications. Why not do something useful with the rest of the RAM?
If this sort of logic were applied at the time of the discovery of fire we would still be living in dark unheated caves and eating our food raw.
Well, duh. You just described the Greenist Utopia.
How can you compete against a labor cost of zero!
Since when do slaves have a labor cost of zero?
The USSR couldn't even make the Gulags profitable.
Adding unsigned types to the language would add very little value, but it would add at least some value, so I won't argue with that one.
Not having unsigned types is probably the second dumbest decision in Java's design, after compulsory garbage collection.
Sure, you can work around it by using larger data types (e.g. short when you really mean byte), but it's a real pain when interoperating with code in other languages.
The internet provides a great deal of medical information, however you still need someone with experience to relate it to a specific case.
The last few times we've visited a doctor we'd already done the research on the Internet and knew exactly what the problem was, so we had to wait around for hours just so the doctor could agree and sign the prescription.
Doctors should really only be dealing with cases where the cause isn't obvious.
Then How about a kickstarter campaign to fund lobbying against these kind of things?
So you're going to discourage politicians from taking money from the IP Barons to pass stupid laws by... giving them money?
If I was a a politician I'd think that was double-payday; I could take money from the IP Barons to put forward stupid laws and then take even more money from the anti-IP lobbyists to vote against it. In fact, I'd be pushing as many stupid laws as I possibly could, to increase the amount of money people would give me for voting against them.
It's like paying software developers based on the number of bugs they fix... while allowing them to introduce as many bugs as they want.