Glad to see other cities catching up, as enabling use of public transit is one of the best ways to reduce traffic, pollution, etc
Unfortunately not. You can make as much public transport you want in cities, but as soon as you move people to public transport, the roads clear up, and new people start driving. Lessening congestion will also encourage people to move further away from their jobs, bringing you back to more traffic and pollution.
If you want to reduce traffic and pollution, the only effective ways to do it are increased congestion for cars and massively increased costs of driving. The cost of alternatives to driving is insignificant, since the advantages of car transport are so large -- people will pay a lot extra to drive. Once you have made driving painful or overly expensive, you can then add public transport to make the situation bearable for the population.
It is nice to think that there are happy fluffy ways to make traffic better. I really wish it was possible.
I can't find any reference to AIS being radar triggered. There is a lot about how slots are assigned and how certain AIS transmitters get priority over others and all sorts of things -- but nothing about radar.
I am not sure what use radar triggering would be anyway. AIS is transmitted several times a minute, which should be enough.
Not anymore. Microsoft joined the patent pool, so there are no longer any patent fees to Microsoft for stuff implemented in the Linux kernel, like exFat etc.
This is a widespread misunderstanding.
exFAT is NOT implemented in the official kernel, precisely because of those patents. It is NOT covered by the patent pledge. Microsoft joining the patent pool gave them all the protections of the pool but their most precious patents were kept out.
You can start a new telco that drop the "caller ID" numbers, and displays the real billable numbers instead. For the telco always knows who to bill for any call. They know the real number.
They only know the real number for calls coming from their own customers. For calls received from another provider, all bets are off. This is why the T-Mobile solution only covers T-Mobile customers.
Power plants do not generate waste heat at 100K heat differential. Their waste heat is at less than 20K. You can fix that by removing the last turbine stage, then you'll get decently hot steam out that you can use this invention for. However, that will cost you at least 5 percentage-points of overall efficiency, and you are gaining less than 2 percentage-points back using this invention.
According to the calculations, TheRealQuestor just meant K, not K/W or kW. There is no way to calculate the amount of power you can extract when only knowing the temperature difference. The calculations shown do not produce a meaningful result.
I have uBlock Origin everywhere. I would still like faster page loads. Yes, everything tries to run in parallel, but resources depend on other resources that depend on other resources. If websites would start with a list of everything they recursively required, page loads would be a lot faster. But they don't.
Again, so what? If 5G doesn't work, the device will switch to 4G or lower. Eventually the 4G frequencies will be reused for 5G, which will dramatically increase the utility.
I don't see the point of this article. If you have a 5G handset and you get better speed at 4G, then by all means disable 5G.
The major pull for me for 5G isn't the higher speed, it's the lower latency. Browsing is generally fairly bad at achieving anything close to line speed because there are so many round trips and connections to different domains. Cutting latency helps a lot more than extra bandwidth. If 5G can give me reliable low-latency 50Mbps, I will be a very happy customer.
$70 for 15GB on the other hand is extortion. That needs to come down at least an order of magnitude.
I think the cars should not advertise that they have ABS, so the people drive as if there is no ABS.
This is not a good idea, for multiple reasons.
For one thing, regular drivers will find it very difficult to brake optimally and steer at the same time, so without ABS the advice is to brake until you need to evade, then let go of the brake pedal and steer around. With ABS the optimal solution is to slam the brakes and keep them slammed while you do the manoeuvre.
Another problem is that ABS makes the brake pedal shake which can spook people into letting go of the brake if they do not expect that to happen.
A smaller problem is that ABS on gravel or in certain types of snow can increase braking distance. Without ABS you can build up a bit of a pile of gravel or snow in front of the wheels and use that to slow you down.
You don't understand my point. I am not arguing that the CONSEQUENCES in the US are better than in China.
I am arguing that the REASONS for low credit are entirely different, and that is the entire difference between merely misguided capitalism and malicious tyranny.
Yes, it sucks. I moved to one of those sanity-deficient countries, I had to get a credit card at a generous 49.9% annual rate. Obviously with no way to automatically pay it down each month, because the company only makes money when its customers mess up.
It is REALLY annoying. But it is nowhere as annoying as being unable to say that the president is a nincompoop.
That is exactly right, by big worry is Winnie the Pooh. If you cannot see the difference between being stopped from travelling because you can't be bothered to get one of those dubious credit cards and being stopped from travelling because you tweeted that the president is somewhat mentally unstable, I feel for you.
The Chinese social credit system punishes you for posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh. The American credit score punishes you for not consuming financial services in the way that benefits the banks the most.
Both are bad, but I am much more worried about my freedom to post Winnie the Pooh than I am about my freedom to use a debit card instead of a credit card.
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Glad to see other cities catching up, as enabling use of public transit is one of the best ways to reduce traffic, pollution, etc
Unfortunately not. You can make as much public transport you want in cities, but as soon as you move people to public transport, the roads clear up, and new people start driving. Lessening congestion will also encourage people to move further away from their jobs, bringing you back to more traffic and pollution.
If you want to reduce traffic and pollution, the only effective ways to do it are increased congestion for cars and massively increased costs of driving. The cost of alternatives to driving is insignificant, since the advantages of car transport are so large -- people will pay a lot extra to drive. Once you have made driving painful or overly expensive, you can then add public transport to make the situation bearable for the population.
It is nice to think that there are happy fluffy ways to make traffic better. I really wish it was possible.
Are you sure about this?
I can't find any reference to AIS being radar triggered. There is a lot about how slots are assigned and how certain AIS transmitters get priority over others and all sorts of things -- but nothing about radar.
I am not sure what use radar triggering would be anyway. AIS is transmitted several times a minute, which should be enough.
This is wrong.
https://patents.google.com/pat... expires in 2027.
The FAT32 patents are mostly gone, which is nice. However, that doesn't help exFAT.
Not anymore. Microsoft joined the patent pool, so there are no longer any patent fees to Microsoft for stuff implemented in the Linux kernel, like exFat etc.
This is a widespread misunderstanding.
exFAT is NOT implemented in the official kernel, precisely because of those patents. It is NOT covered by the patent pledge. Microsoft joining the patent pool gave them all the protections of the pool but their most precious patents were kept out.
Classic Microsoft move.
You can only get an SD card slot if you pay the Microsoft tax.
The spammers are working on using numbers you DO know as caller-ID. It isn't widespread. Yet.
You can start a new telco that drop the "caller ID" numbers, and displays the real billable numbers instead. For the telco always knows who to bill for any call. They know the real number.
They only know the real number for calls coming from their own customers. For calls received from another provider, all bets are off. This is why the T-Mobile solution only covers T-Mobile customers.
You can have your own opinions, you can't have your own facts.
The best selling EV 2018 in Norway is the Leaf. That year. Not cumulative.
You're a troll because you're trolling.
The fastest selling EV in Norway is the Leaf.
The most popular car sold in Norway last year was the Leaf, not the iPace.
Correcting your trolling is tedious, but someone has to do it.
Power plants do not generate waste heat at 100K heat differential. Their waste heat is at less than 20K. You can fix that by removing the last turbine stage, then you'll get decently hot steam out that you can use this invention for. However, that will cost you at least 5 percentage-points of overall efficiency, and you are gaining less than 2 percentage-points back using this invention.
According to the calculations, TheRealQuestor just meant K, not K/W or kW. There is no way to calculate the amount of power you can extract when only knowing the temperature difference. The calculations shown do not produce a meaningful result.
Well more like I'd expect at least 150GB for $70.
https://www.oister.dk/mobilabo...
That's 1000GB for $20. This is admittedly extraordinarily cheap, their competitors are generally in the $40 to $60 range.
I have uBlock Origin everywhere. I would still like faster page loads. Yes, everything tries to run in parallel, but resources depend on other resources that depend on other resources. If websites would start with a list of everything they recursively required, page loads would be a lot faster. But they don't.
Again, so what? If 5G doesn't work, the device will switch to 4G or lower. Eventually the 4G frequencies will be reused for 5G, which will dramatically increase the utility.
I don't see the point of this article. If you have a 5G handset and you get better speed at 4G, then by all means disable 5G.
The major pull for me for 5G isn't the higher speed, it's the lower latency. Browsing is generally fairly bad at achieving anything close to line speed because there are so many round trips and connections to different domains. Cutting latency helps a lot more than extra bandwidth. If 5G can give me reliable low-latency 50Mbps, I will be a very happy customer.
$70 for 15GB on the other hand is extortion. That needs to come down at least an order of magnitude.
I think the cars should not advertise that they have ABS, so the people drive as if there is no ABS.
This is not a good idea, for multiple reasons.
For one thing, regular drivers will find it very difficult to brake optimally and steer at the same time, so without ABS the advice is to brake until you need to evade, then let go of the brake pedal and steer around. With ABS the optimal solution is to slam the brakes and keep them slammed while you do the manoeuvre.
Another problem is that ABS makes the brake pedal shake which can spook people into letting go of the brake if they do not expect that to happen.
A smaller problem is that ABS on gravel or in certain types of snow can increase braking distance. Without ABS you can build up a bit of a pile of gravel or snow in front of the wheels and use that to slow you down.
That's 2G speed...
How can 5GB be sold as "unlimited"?
On the other hand, being throttled to 40Mbps (3G speed) isn't THAT terrible.
You don't understand my point. I am not arguing that the CONSEQUENCES in the US are better than in China.
I am arguing that the REASONS for low credit are entirely different, and that is the entire difference between merely misguided capitalism and malicious tyranny.
Yes, it sucks. I moved to one of those sanity-deficient countries, I had to get a credit card at a generous 49.9% annual rate. Obviously with no way to automatically pay it down each month, because the company only makes money when its customers mess up.
It is REALLY annoying. But it is nowhere as annoying as being unable to say that the president is a nincompoop.
That is exactly right, by big worry is Winnie the Pooh. If you cannot see the difference between being stopped from travelling because you can't be bothered to get one of those dubious credit cards and being stopped from travelling because you tweeted that the president is somewhat mentally unstable, I feel for you.
The Chinese social credit system punishes you for posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh. The American credit score punishes you for not consuming financial services in the way that benefits the banks the most.
Both are bad, but I am much more worried about my freedom to post Winnie the Pooh than I am about my freedom to use a debit card instead of a credit card.
Being punished for not paying back a loan is a lot different from being punished for writing "N" to your friend.
THAT is why China's social credit is a lot worse than credit scores in the US.
Another thing is that China being totally appalling leaves plenty of room for everywhere else to be bad, while still being less appalling than China.