I agree that they are not widely available yet, but I'm thinking ultracap mass production will happen before we get parking lot charging plug infrastructure as Shai suggests.
technical rant section:
1. batteries in general are a poor solution because of several things:
a. poor energy density compared to chemical energy
b. battery production is inherently filthy, and quite bad for the environment on its own
c. charge times are awful. people like the model of gas. several hours to deplete the energy, but you can replenish it at a filling station in under 5 minutes, assuming you don't have a semi or something.
d. even the best batteries are quite heavy, and thus make the car less efficient.
happily, there is a very good solution. ultracapacitors, sometimes known as ultracaps. they hold more than batteries, weigh an order of magnitude less (sometimes 2 orders) and can be charged, quite literally, in seconds. (not with plugs at your house... you'd have to go to a filling station that can generate a LOT of current to recharge this fast. you could still trickle charge at home in the evening, but for a quick fillup, you'd need a power station). ultracaps are not dirtier to make than LiON batteries. ultracaps have good staying power, last virtually forever (no practical limit on charge cycles) and hold much more than a battery of similar size, and orders of magnitude more than a battery of the same weight.
that always amused me, it's just a big powerkite with stronger lines. what they aren't aware of, it seems, is that if they figure8 it like a racekite they can actually move faster than simply running before the wind, thanks to the miracle of high-aspect kites and apparent winds.
I've been in the development business for a while now, and I've been on both ends of this mess.
As a cocky young prick^h^h^h^h^h developer right out of school, I would frequently go off on my own and do things that I thought were cool and clever. Occasionally, they actually were. Never really thought much of it, in those days of 80 hour weeks, but one day I got sick and stayed home. Much to my dismay, I got phone calls all day long because of how needlessly complicated and unfamiliar my shit was. From then on, I started to see how it wasn't that cool.
Fast forward a few years and I'm the project lead on a pretty ambitious (couple million lines) web project. One of my direct reports was a Cowboy Coder like I had been. He did a lot of the same things, and I understood why: it was faster. He understood the codebase better than anyone, and so he could fix problems in an hour or two. Other devs struggled to do the same in days. In the end, I had to make a policy that everyone would take a few hours each week and teach their job to someone else. That way, if one of them got hit by a truck or something, the project wouldn't sink. There was a lot of bitching at first, but when devs realized it meant they wouldn't be getting nagging calls on sick days and vacation, they were a lot less pissed.
In the end, it's about the team. I'm not writing the code for myself, I'm not managing the project for myself. It's for my employer (assuming I'm not self-employed) and I have to consider what is best, in the long run, for them. Yes, bringing the whole team (or at least a few other people) up to speed on stuff is expensive, time-wise. But it totally pays off in the end.
exactly. or, as I thought to myself when I initially read this:
"Why not just lie and provide a bunch of mundane TPS reports? They shouldn't be able to tell what the encrypted files are, it's mathematically infeasible to solidly prove that one way or another."
is to shoot the fuckers. If you are concerned about damaging equipment, try snake shells.
The last time I saw a rat in my house, I managed to hit him with a revolver I had lying around. Needless to say some of my dinner guests were a little surprised, but they all agreed it was a great shot.
Just a side note, this has already been growing in the field of UPS units for at least 5 years, and it's not terribly hard to find UPS units and PSU units with DC connectors.
(Since to use a UPS without DC means converting battery's DC, sending it to the PSU in AC where it's converted back again.)
That's interesting. I was referring to engineering positions, but now that I check, our IT staff is 30:1 male:female.
I wonder if the US Citizen thing factors in, we are a defense company, the DoD won't let us hire non-citizens; now you've got me curious if that's a contributing factor as well.
It seems to me (a software engineer for a company of about 600) that this is less about barriers and more about preferred lifestyle.
Let's be honest with ourselves: the life of a coder is one with a very solidly entrenched lifestyle of sleeplessness and caffeine addiction. Interpersonal relationships are stereotypically uncomfortable, and non-technical conversations are rare and usually involve the word "d20" and "hit points". I'm getting a bit extreme, but the point is there. Coding is nerdy. I've made my peace with that, and enjoy the lifestyle.
Out of the 60 or so engineers in my segment, 3 are female. That's a whopping 5%. Those three females are every bit as nerdy as the guys, and so they fit in well and are accorded respect and not treated any differently.
I can only surmise that there are fewer nerdy/geeky girls, and thus fewer female engineers. Based on life experience (anecdotal, I know) I would say this is due mostly to peer pressure from OTHER GIRLS when they are younger. Not saying guys don't contribute to this, but I think it's mostly same-sex peer pressure that drives females away from nerd-stereotypes.
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full disclosure: to clarify, i was going by the figures in the wikipedia EEStor article, if they are erroneous then some of my points lose validity.
I agree that they are not widely available yet, but I'm thinking ultracap mass production will happen before we get parking lot charging plug infrastructure as Shai suggests.
technical rant section:
1. batteries in general are a poor solution because of several things:
a. poor energy density compared to chemical energy
b. battery production is inherently filthy, and quite bad for the environment on its own
c. charge times are awful. people like the model of gas. several hours to deplete the energy, but you can replenish it at a filling station in under 5 minutes, assuming you don't have a semi or something.
d. even the best batteries are quite heavy, and thus make the car less efficient.
happily, there is a very good solution. ultracapacitors, sometimes known as ultracaps. they hold more than batteries, weigh an order of magnitude less (sometimes 2 orders) and can be charged, quite literally, in seconds. (not with plugs at your house... you'd have to go to a filling station that can generate a LOT of current to recharge this fast. you could still trickle charge at home in the evening, but for a quick fillup, you'd need a power station). ultracaps are not dirtier to make than LiON batteries. ultracaps have good staying power, last virtually forever (no practical limit on charge cycles) and hold much more than a battery of similar size, and orders of magnitude more than a battery of the same weight.
Is found in the bottom of a bottle of scotch. seriously. for whatever reason if i am slightly buzzed, i get hyper and am able to focus really well.
an average high school student?
that always amused me, it's just a big powerkite with stronger lines. what they aren't aware of, it seems, is that if they figure8 it like a racekite they can actually move faster than simply running before the wind, thanks to the miracle of high-aspect kites and apparent winds.
I use a Das Keyboard for similar reasons. It feels good, I can bang away on it for hours on end, and the noise is somehow comforting to me.
Plus, it infuriates my cubemates, which is always a plus.
I've been in the development business for a while now, and I've been on both ends of this mess.
As a cocky young prick^h^h^h^h^h developer right out of school, I would frequently go off on my own and do things that I thought were cool and clever. Occasionally, they actually were. Never really thought much of it, in those days of 80 hour weeks, but one day I got sick and stayed home. Much to my dismay, I got phone calls all day long because of how needlessly complicated and unfamiliar my shit was. From then on, I started to see how it wasn't that cool.
Fast forward a few years and I'm the project lead on a pretty ambitious (couple million lines) web project. One of my direct reports was a Cowboy Coder like I had been. He did a lot of the same things, and I understood why: it was faster. He understood the codebase better than anyone, and so he could fix problems in an hour or two. Other devs struggled to do the same in days. In the end, I had to make a policy that everyone would take a few hours each week and teach their job to someone else. That way, if one of them got hit by a truck or something, the project wouldn't sink. There was a lot of bitching at first, but when devs realized it meant they wouldn't be getting nagging calls on sick days and vacation, they were a lot less pissed.
In the end, it's about the team. I'm not writing the code for myself, I'm not managing the project for myself. It's for my employer (assuming I'm not self-employed) and I have to consider what is best, in the long run, for them. Yes, bringing the whole team (or at least a few other people) up to speed on stuff is expensive, time-wise. But it totally pays off in the end.
actually, it's called a sporran.
It was the same for me growing up in the South. (in a military family, no less.)
Saying sir or ma'am is simply good manners, and it costs nothing to be polite.
exactly. or, as I thought to myself when I initially read this:
"Why not just lie and provide a bunch of mundane TPS reports? They shouldn't be able to tell what the encrypted files are, it's mathematically infeasible to solidly prove that one way or another."
So she's invented Shetty mint and Shetty banana. Pretty sweet.
But will she ever bioengineer a Shetty wall? Will the goddamn Mongorians break down her Shetty wall?
is to shoot the fuckers. If you are concerned about damaging equipment, try snake shells.
The last time I saw a rat in my house, I managed to hit him with a revolver I had lying around. Needless to say some of my dinner guests were a little surprised, but they all agreed it was a great shot.
actually, I'm pretty sure the only people who believed it were people who had been whacked on the head hundreds of times.
What, so we can dig up Martian artifacts and unwittingly open the gates of hell or something?
Just a side note, this has already been growing in the field of UPS units for at least 5 years, and it's not terribly hard to find UPS units and PSU units with DC connectors.
(Since to use a UPS without DC means converting battery's DC, sending it to the PSU in AC where it's converted back again.)
Please note that the author is referring to Theistic Satanism (sometimes called Luciferianism) and not LaVeyan Satanism when he references VB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism
That's interesting. I was referring to engineering positions, but now that I check, our IT staff is 30:1 male:female.
I wonder if the US Citizen thing factors in, we are a defense company, the DoD won't let us hire non-citizens; now you've got me curious if that's a contributing factor as well.
It seems to me (a software engineer for a company of about 600) that this is less about barriers and more about preferred lifestyle.
Let's be honest with ourselves: the life of a coder is one with a very solidly entrenched lifestyle of sleeplessness and caffeine addiction. Interpersonal relationships are stereotypically uncomfortable, and non-technical conversations are rare and usually involve the word "d20" and "hit points". I'm getting a bit extreme, but the point is there. Coding is nerdy. I've made my peace with that, and enjoy the lifestyle.
Out of the 60 or so engineers in my segment, 3 are female. That's a whopping 5%. Those three females are every bit as nerdy as the guys, and so they fit in well and are accorded respect and not treated any differently.
I can only surmise that there are fewer nerdy/geeky girls, and thus fewer female engineers. Based on life experience (anecdotal, I know) I would say this is due mostly to peer pressure from OTHER GIRLS when they are younger. Not saying guys don't contribute to this, but I think it's mostly same-sex peer pressure that drives females away from nerd-stereotypes.
Thoughts?
A fool and her money are soon parted.
Film at 11.
Seriously, why is this news? Idiots fall for scams all the time, this idiot just fell a little harder than most.
I don't anyone is advocating that parents have total, life-and-death legal control like that.
but neither do I think it is appropriate for the federal gov't to make those decisions either, because it can be seen as undermining personal liberty.
Thank you.
that's pretty funny
what if all employers behave badly?
Violent revolution, of course!
"My voice is my passport."