Because everybody needs high-speed mobile broadband all the time. It's just so ridiculously important to stay informed with 160kbit/s high-quality streaming music radio. You couldn't stay informed with lightweight mobile Fark and Slashdot.
My provider says I eat 50-100MB a month. Most of that is the Mint.com app. I have an Android phone and use the Web browser to Facebook (though Facebook Mobile proper app will eat 100MB in about 5 minutes--their stand-alone Messenger app is very light-weight). I send text messages and pictures through Gmail. Granted at home it connects to wifi and I generally don't spend every waking moment sending a picture to Facebook every 5 minutes.
No, a less than 5 year pay-off isn't compelling. Most drivers aren't accountants. Your own argument on the subsidized phone model should make my point for me (I bought my $350 Galaxy Nexus outright and pay $20/mo less for the same T-Mobile plan, with no 2 year contract).
Formula 1 says they can be electric or flywheel. In practice, companies like Flybrid have been supplying flywheel-driven systems because they're lighter and simpler to make than battery-driven systems. The weight doesn't matter as much, but complexity and reliability does.
Flywheels are simple, light, and cheap. This isn't really mechanically complex in any significant way. Integration is kind of complex, requires a new car platform built around the regenerative brake. Demand is low.
Volvo is leveraging KERS flywheels to allow the engine to shut completely off when stopped, allowing for no-idle situations and no acceleration penalty. The KERS gives a strong acceleration boost as well as a 20% increase in fuel economy--roughly 5mpg over a 25mpg car (so 30mpg suddenly), which isn't really massive. Basically you use 2/3 less gallons per 100 miles driven, or about 10 gallons instead of 12 on a tank when you get 300 miles per tank.
That's 80 gallons per year for the 12000 mile per year driver, or $320 per year. Now if the system costs $1500 more, the ROI isn't there or isn't compelling, especially with the maintenance risk. If it's $300 more, then it's compelling. Mind you I went 5000 miles in the last year and a half before getting an oil change, so to me it's not very compelling but to me $300 isn't much money either.
I don't get the joke. Do you mean they caused nuclear fission or some kind of chemical combination that made a useless gold compound; or do you mean they wasted their money (not turning gold into less gold, but less gold in their pockets)?
Because electric stuff is more complex. Batteries are difficult to produce and difficult to dispose of. Everything in a regular car is pretty much metal made in physically complex shapes, but put together with fire and hammers; batteries require concentrated, refined lead and acid, or other exotic electrolytes and charge plates (NiMH? Li+?), and producing and disposing of such thing is both expensive and hazardous.
Currently we use one little shallow-cycle battery for a car, rather than a massive deep-cycle battery; imagine having a little less metal going in, but 10 times as much hazardous chemical production and disposal.
A conventional car can't recapture this energy - but a hybrid can
Actually, petrol-powered Formula 1 racers have recently been made legal with regenerative braking. It was illegal before. And no, they don't have hub motors that turn into generators, nor big-ass batteries to charge up.
No, I mean, GPL allows you to copy things and doesn't allow them to link and ship this kind of modification without GPL. I'm just trying to make sure my understanding of the licensing involved is correct, i.e. that they're charging for access to their download site and not charging what they presume to be an enforceable license fee.
Even if I contracted the services of a lawyer, it'd be a phone call and forwarding some documents, and some money. Still takes barely any attention on my part.
If I can buy a house without putting any real-time effort into it, I'm sure I could send collections after somebody and let the collections agency handle filing liens and pestering the shit out of the person. I don't need to put 80 hours a week into battling judges and banging on doors trying to get my money.
I negotiate in traffic court. Pretty much I don't get dinged a lot and when the officer is wrong he's wrong; but otherwise I tend to elect for a higher fine for no license points, which is good for 2-3 years. If I get another in that time, I can't go PBJ on it.
Yeah, pretty much. E-mail it in. Hell you should see me buying this house, I've spent under 8 hours on it. Mostly I sign papers and e-mail the realtor things, I've gone out there twice (once for a 3 hour inspection, the longest I've had to deal with anyone by far!). Most of the stuff has been handled on my smart phone while I'm waiting for an Arby's sandwich or sitting on the light rail.
I got a loan, a housing purchase contract, homeowner's insurance, an inspection (which I eventually had to show up and be present for, when it was actually going on), and a title company ready to close all with e-mail, a few phone calls that lasted 5 minutes, and a few hours of physically being places. You think I can't call a collection agency, forward a copy of my documents, sign some papers and send them in, and then sit back and let them collect?
LibreOffice. You know, like Nacho Libre. OpenOffice had issues, so since it wasn't getting fixed fast enough a bunch of people started putting the upgrades in a different place and just called it something else.
Some big-name government organizations ban C#.NET because their codebase is in VB.NET and they don't want rogue developers making a mixed codebase like OpenOffice.org with some of it in Java, some in C, some in C++, some in Haskell.
Well, maybe YOU can, but I can't. I just install the stuff and make it work, I rely on folks like to give me the parts to put it together.
Bolt-on bullshit is bolt-on bullshit because refactoring a huge multi-million-line codebase is really freaking hard. Microkernels and other modular programming designs rely on small, specialized tasks so that the pieces can be shuffled, improved, and have other pieces interposed without the whole system needing a reworking front-to-back. Even Andrew Morton would have an easier time adding stuff like LSM to Minix rather than the (already completed, obviously) task of adding it to Linux.
Micro-modular software can get incremental updates more easily, for example notice you update library files easily enough and they rarely break. New versions of programs, completely reworked, still use the same core facilities in.dll or.so files. Similarly, microkernels like Minix and HURD tend to evolve in such a way that you can test new services individually and effectively upgrade the kernel in pieces. That makes things a bit easier, and security patches a lot easier to target and review (it's in this 4000 line service, these two lines. Not something that has major impact on the other 18 million lines of code, or a small 20,000 line subset thereof scattered amongst the sea of 18 million lines of code, which often happens).
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Because everybody needs high-speed mobile broadband all the time. It's just so ridiculously important to stay informed with 160kbit/s high-quality streaming music radio. You couldn't stay informed with lightweight mobile Fark and Slashdot.
My provider says I eat 50-100MB a month. Most of that is the Mint.com app. I have an Android phone and use the Web browser to Facebook (though Facebook Mobile proper app will eat 100MB in about 5 minutes--their stand-alone Messenger app is very light-weight). I send text messages and pictures through Gmail. Granted at home it connects to wifi and I generally don't spend every waking moment sending a picture to Facebook every 5 minutes.
Also: UK data plans are worse than in the US.
No, a less than 5 year pay-off isn't compelling. Most drivers aren't accountants. Your own argument on the subsidized phone model should make my point for me (I bought my $350 Galaxy Nexus outright and pay $20/mo less for the same T-Mobile plan, with no 2 year contract).
Formula 1 says they can be electric or flywheel. In practice, companies like Flybrid have been supplying flywheel-driven systems because they're lighter and simpler to make than battery-driven systems. The weight doesn't matter as much, but complexity and reliability does.
Flywheels are simple, light, and cheap. This isn't really mechanically complex in any significant way. Integration is kind of complex, requires a new car platform built around the regenerative brake. Demand is low.
Volvo is leveraging KERS flywheels to allow the engine to shut completely off when stopped, allowing for no-idle situations and no acceleration penalty. The KERS gives a strong acceleration boost as well as a 20% increase in fuel economy--roughly 5mpg over a 25mpg car (so 30mpg suddenly), which isn't really massive. Basically you use 2/3 less gallons per 100 miles driven, or about 10 gallons instead of 12 on a tank when you get 300 miles per tank.
That's 80 gallons per year for the 12000 mile per year driver, or $320 per year. Now if the system costs $1500 more, the ROI isn't there or isn't compelling, especially with the maintenance risk. If it's $300 more, then it's compelling. Mind you I went 5000 miles in the last year and a half before getting an oil change, so to me it's not very compelling but to me $300 isn't much money either.
You are converting a form of energy you can't use into a form you can use. As the saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
You're sticking your bird in the WRONG bushes. Try Vietnam or Japan.
I don't get the joke. Do you mean they caused nuclear fission or some kind of chemical combination that made a useless gold compound; or do you mean they wasted their money (not turning gold into less gold, but less gold in their pockets)?
No because solar panels use sunlight.
We should tear out the one in Egypt, though.
Because electric stuff is more complex. Batteries are difficult to produce and difficult to dispose of. Everything in a regular car is pretty much metal made in physically complex shapes, but put together with fire and hammers; batteries require concentrated, refined lead and acid, or other exotic electrolytes and charge plates (NiMH? Li+?), and producing and disposing of such thing is both expensive and hazardous.
Currently we use one little shallow-cycle battery for a car, rather than a massive deep-cycle battery; imagine having a little less metal going in, but 10 times as much hazardous chemical production and disposal.
A conventional car can't recapture this energy - but a hybrid can
Actually, petrol-powered Formula 1 racers have recently been made legal with regenerative braking. It was illegal before. And no, they don't have hub motors that turn into generators, nor big-ass batteries to charge up.
No, I mean, GPL allows you to copy things and doesn't allow them to link and ship this kind of modification without GPL. I'm just trying to make sure my understanding of the licensing involved is correct, i.e. that they're charging for access to their download site and not charging what they presume to be an enforceable license fee.
Well. That's new. How is this legal? You can just get it from another bloke who has it already or what?
Even if I contracted the services of a lawyer, it'd be a phone call and forwarding some documents, and some money. Still takes barely any attention on my part.
If I can buy a house without putting any real-time effort into it, I'm sure I could send collections after somebody and let the collections agency handle filing liens and pestering the shit out of the person. I don't need to put 80 hours a week into battling judges and banging on doors trying to get my money.
I don't understand. This cup contains hot coffee, caveat if you spill it on yourself it's hot you moron.
The constitution says small claims are for claims under $20.
I negotiate in traffic court. Pretty much I don't get dinged a lot and when the officer is wrong he's wrong; but otherwise I tend to elect for a higher fine for no license points, which is good for 2-3 years. If I get another in that time, I can't go PBJ on it.
Yeah, pretty much. E-mail it in. Hell you should see me buying this house, I've spent under 8 hours on it. Mostly I sign papers and e-mail the realtor things, I've gone out there twice (once for a 3 hour inspection, the longest I've had to deal with anyone by far!). Most of the stuff has been handled on my smart phone while I'm waiting for an Arby's sandwich or sitting on the light rail.
I got a loan, a housing purchase contract, homeowner's insurance, an inspection (which I eventually had to show up and be present for, when it was actually going on), and a title company ready to close all with e-mail, a few phone calls that lasted 5 minutes, and a few hours of physically being places. You think I can't call a collection agency, forward a copy of my documents, sign some papers and send them in, and then sit back and let them collect?
Look, in the US, we have this thing where black people and white people don't go well together most of the time.
In open source software development, what we have is 50 shades of grey and they all hate each other.
Copy & Paste isn't fud, it's real. AbiWord had a crasher for TWO YEARS where if you pasted stuff it would just abruptly segfault.
hit ctrl+z to undo auto-shit.
LibreOffice. You know, like Nacho Libre. OpenOffice had issues, so since it wasn't getting fixed fast enough a bunch of people started putting the upgrades in a different place and just called it something else.
NeoOffice is the OSX port.
Some big-name government organizations ban C#.NET because their codebase is in VB.NET and they don't want rogue developers making a mixed codebase like OpenOffice.org with some of it in Java, some in C, some in C++, some in Haskell.
Well, maybe YOU can, but I can't. I just install the stuff and make it work, I rely on folks like to give me the parts to put it together.
Bolt-on bullshit is bolt-on bullshit because refactoring a huge multi-million-line codebase is really freaking hard. Microkernels and other modular programming designs rely on small, specialized tasks so that the pieces can be shuffled, improved, and have other pieces interposed without the whole system needing a reworking front-to-back. Even Andrew Morton would have an easier time adding stuff like LSM to Minix rather than the (already completed, obviously) task of adding it to Linux.
Micro-modular software can get incremental updates more easily, for example notice you update library files easily enough and they rarely break. New versions of programs, completely reworked, still use the same core facilities in .dll or .so files. Similarly, microkernels like Minix and HURD tend to evolve in such a way that you can test new services individually and effectively upgrade the kernel in pieces. That makes things a bit easier, and security patches a lot easier to target and review (it's in this 4000 line service, these two lines. Not something that has major impact on the other 18 million lines of code, or a small 20,000 line subset thereof scattered amongst the sea of 18 million lines of code, which often happens).
Why... I'm a hairy guy.