There are only two energy sources on Earth - nuclear (fission/fussion) and solar (well, also tidal). The rest (including wind, biodiesel and even oil and coal) are just transformed and/or stored solar energy. We need to get closer to the source of all this energy technologically, so that we waste less of it - biodesel collects solar energy, stores it into chemical energy, that is then converted into useful mechanical energy via internal combustion. Solar cells + batteries + electrical motors are far more efficient than that. Even solar cells -> water hydrogen separation -> hydrogen fuel cells -> electrical motors is more efficient. Yes - we need to balance scalability and cost by means of mass production, but the end goal is end-to-end efficiency.
Actually it is much more interesting to handle each of them as you would handle an individual virtual machine - so you have 512 nice low-powered virtual servers with each of them having a fixed and dedicated processor.
In fact such a load-out would be very useful for hosting companies - you can have a ton of small clients with minimal management or scheduling burden.
Hmm, unsatisfied with water pressure in you main? How about we give you 10 times the pressure, but if you use more than 2 m2 per month, it will automatically shut off! Get better pressure, now!
And then there was a fire or you just needed a drink...
According to my router, I average around 150 Gb down and 400-600 Gb up traffic per month. What can I say.. I love torrenting.. Linux distributions and keeping them for 6-12 months to provide seeds for people.:)
There is no compromise. Only slow slippery slope erosion of freedom of speech (as such and not in the context of the USA's first constitutional amendment) and blaming of words and concepts for actions.
Sucker punch them in front of the whole school and loudly proclaim that it was a come back for the beating you got yesterday. Let them expel you if they dare. If they do and the other parents and teachers do not protest, then you do not belong in such fascist school.
No one actually hates Sarah, her story is way too sad - a provincial beauty queen and sports commentator, brought to international spotlight, exposed as the illiterate wanna-be politician as she is and then nudged to leave her office - abandon her only accomplishment in life, to run around and sell her body at the extremist speaking engagements. You can't hate that - you can disagree with her world view and you can feel very sorry that such a person actually exists, but hate... nah, she just made that up. No one actually hates her.
Most wars cause famine, because fields are destroyed, able bodied farmers are drafted into military and die and most of the industrial resources of the warring countries are diverted towards the military complex instead of improving food production. So your argument is invalid. Fighting does not actually solve famine, it just makes sure that military gets fed and that's all.
Either you are mature or you are not. Parents have nothing to do with it. They can help a child mature earlier, but in the end, everyone has to do the deed on their own.
Running a program creates a copy of it in RAm, which you were not authorized to do as you have violated the terms of the copyright licence. Whether that is fair use or any other copyright-avoidance manoeuvre applies is for the courts to decide at that point.
Because batteries can be charged over-night from the otherwise idle powergrid baseload generators thus effectively using free energy that would have been wasted otherwise?
GRUB2 I am not deeply impressed about, but it does make it so that my computer switches to native resolution immediately and never switches to anything else, so there is no annoying flicker during boot. Also, they say that support for newer filesystems on root/boot partitions (such as btrfs) is easier to ass in GRUB2.
However NetworkManager and PulseAudio are a godsend. NetworkManager works like a charm - simplifying all that crazy stuff with juggling multiple wireless access points in different locations, each with their own network settings and wireless encryption setting. I set it up once per location and now I can just roam and have my network just work. And PulseAudio is great - I can play multiple audio streams and adjust volume for every application separately and also stream sound over the network with by just checking two boxes.
Ubuntu provides vision. They don't have to always be right, they just need to walk forward toward a goal they consider worthy and see if enough people go with them.
If you want good hardware, look up MikroTik. They make great hardware and also some great software for their hardware (it actually is better than DD-WRT and OpenWRT) and they also spend the time and money to rewrite drivers for their network cards, even if they need to sign an NDA with the hardware developers and thus are unable to release the driver code. Their stuff is expensive, but it sure is excellent.
ICEs and all the other mechanical parts of the traditional car have a huge internal friction that can not be overcome. Multiply that by the efficiency of the ICE itself. And then add lower weight and lower center of gravity. An electric car with hub motors only needs a fraction of the power to get the same results, in most cases an electric car can get the same performance with 1/10th of the power usage.
Build a wall of tubes with water as higway sound barriers (near houses). Less noise will get trough and maybe it will get some hydrogen to help power a LED light to illuminate part of the road at night (along with a solar hydrogen generator on top and a fuel cell in a closed loop).
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There are only two energy sources on Earth - nuclear (fission/fussion) and solar (well, also tidal). The rest (including wind, biodiesel and even oil and coal) are just transformed and/or stored solar energy. We need to get closer to the source of all this energy technologically, so that we waste less of it - biodesel collects solar energy, stores it into chemical energy, that is then converted into useful mechanical energy via internal combustion. Solar cells + batteries + electrical motors are far more efficient than that. Even solar cells -> water hydrogen separation -> hydrogen fuel cells -> electrical motors is more efficient. Yes - we need to balance scalability and cost by means of mass production, but the end goal is end-to-end efficiency.
Actually it is much more interesting to handle each of them as you would handle an individual virtual machine - so you have 512 nice low-powered virtual servers with each of them having a fixed and dedicated processor.
In fact such a load-out would be very useful for hosting companies - you can have a ton of small clients with minimal management or scheduling burden.
Except that you have to rewrite you application completely to be able to use the GPGPU. And it will be impossible for most applications.
More like imagine a cloud of those ;)
Hmm, unsatisfied with water pressure in you main? How about we give you 10 times the pressure, but if you use more than 2 m2 per month, it will automatically shut off! Get better pressure, now!
And then there was a fire or you just needed a drink ...
You softie, who listens to 160 Kbps streams? 320 kbps all the way! 310 Gb/mo. Thanks!
According to my router, I average around 150 Gb down and 400-600 Gb up traffic per month. What can I say .. I love torrenting .. Linux distributions and keeping them for 6-12 months to provide seeds for people. :)
Luckily here in Latvia there are no traffic caps.
There is no compromise. Only slow slippery slope erosion of freedom of speech (as such and not in the context of the USA's first constitutional amendment) and blaming of words and concepts for actions.
Sucker punch them in front of the whole school and loudly proclaim that it was a come back for the beating you got yesterday. Let them expel you if they dare. If they do and the other parents and teachers do not protest, then you do not belong in such fascist school.
She is like a two legged puppy trying to run a marathon. You can't hate that, but you can hate watching that.
No one actually hates Sarah, her story is way too sad - a provincial beauty queen and sports commentator, brought to international spotlight, exposed as the illiterate wanna-be politician as she is and then nudged to leave her office - abandon her only accomplishment in life, to run around and sell her body at the extremist speaking engagements. You can't hate that - you can disagree with her world view and you can feel very sorry that such a person actually exists, but hate ... nah, she just made that up. No one actually hates her.
Most wars cause famine, because fields are destroyed, able bodied farmers are drafted into military and die and most of the industrial resources of the warring countries are diverted towards the military complex instead of improving food production. So your argument is invalid. Fighting does not actually solve famine, it just makes sure that military gets fed and that's all.
Either you are mature or you are not. Parents have nothing to do with it. They can help a child mature earlier, but in the end, everyone has to do the deed on their own.
More like:
Poor car companies.
HOW DARE YOU USE A TELEPORT?!
~ Fin ~
i am no yellin, dear filter.
Running a program creates a copy of it in RAm, which you were not authorized to do as you have violated the terms of the copyright licence. Whether that is fair use or any other copyright-avoidance manoeuvre applies is for the courts to decide at that point.
I've lived in Socialism - same guys were in power and approximately the same number of them. There are career politicians in all forms of government.
Because batteries can be charged over-night from the otherwise idle powergrid baseload generators thus effectively using free energy that would have been wasted otherwise?
GRUB2 I am not deeply impressed about, but it does make it so that my computer switches to native resolution immediately and never switches to anything else, so there is no annoying flicker during boot. Also, they say that support for newer filesystems on root/boot partitions (such as btrfs) is easier to ass in GRUB2.
However NetworkManager and PulseAudio are a godsend. NetworkManager works like a charm - simplifying all that crazy stuff with juggling multiple wireless access points in different locations, each with their own network settings and wireless encryption setting. I set it up once per location and now I can just roam and have my network just work. And PulseAudio is great - I can play multiple audio streams and adjust volume for every application separately and also stream sound over the network with by just checking two boxes.
Ubuntu provides vision. They don't have to always be right, they just need to walk forward toward a goal they consider worthy and see if enough people go with them.
There is barely any difference between Ubuntu and Debian on a server.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aigarius/sets/72157623984654192/
You don't remember the Microsoft version of Java? The one that was 'slightly' incompatible with all other versions of Java?
If you want good hardware, look up MikroTik. They make great hardware and also some great software for their hardware (it actually is better than DD-WRT and OpenWRT) and they also spend the time and money to rewrite drivers for their network cards, even if they need to sign an NDA with the hardware developers and thus are unable to release the driver code. Their stuff is expensive, but it sure is excellent.
ICEs and all the other mechanical parts of the traditional car have a huge internal friction that can not be overcome. Multiply that by the efficiency of the ICE itself. And then add lower weight and lower center of gravity. An electric car with hub motors only needs a fraction of the power to get the same results, in most cases an electric car can get the same performance with 1/10th of the power usage.
Here is the reference http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/200mpgcar.htm .
Because the supercap cann't hold the charge for more than a few hours needed to charge the main battery pack?
Build a wall of tubes with water as higway sound barriers (near houses). Less noise will get trough and maybe it will get some hydrogen to help power a LED light to illuminate part of the road at night (along with a solar hydrogen generator on top and a fuel cell in a closed loop).