Which is exactally what you could get in the old civics. My point is that our current hybrid designs are doing nothing for distance driving in the US. I think a huge point of improvement would be diesel-electric in the trucking industry. -nB
How many 1976 cars do you seen on the road, compared to recent SUVs? But yes, I have no problem with also removing older cars from the road. (With an exception for maintained antique cars.) Indeed it has been suggested by some that a targeted buy-back of old cars would be a great way to reduce pollution, but I haven't examined that proposal.
But that's just my point. The increase in gas prices over the last 12 years (from $1.00/gal to $3.00/gal) has already removed many of those older cars from the road. While I understand that average vehicle efficency is basically proportional to gas prices, if you can afford the gas then go ahead and burn it. Also, raw fuel consumption is not the only thing, the exhaust coming from the new SUV is likely cleaner than even a 10 year old car. Way more environmental damage is done by hydrocarbon emmissions and spills than any other exhaust component. If you burn 100 gallons of 87 octane and pour one gallon onto the ground which does more damage? The spill.
If you really want to clean up the environment quit picking on the newer car/truck/suv owners, and go implement the buyback program, also get after home power equipment. That old lawnmower pollutes more in a summer than that SUV will all year. -nB
Not to turn this into a flame war, but our current tax structure already does this. That shiney new SUV likely is way more fuel efficent than a 20-30 year old car. As gas is almost 1/3 tax WTF more do you want?
Also, in response to an uncle(aunt?) post, current hybrid vehicles (ala Toyota and Honda) are total Bullshit, they work in europe and japan where all (most) trips are short city driving. In the USA there is a lot more continuous speed driving at 55+ MPH. Hybrids of today's ilk don't do crap. In fact the mid-late 80's civic gets better milage. The appropriate hybrid is a small array of storage cells to capture breaking energy and a small diesel motor humming along at a fully constant 600 RPM spinning a generator, which in-turn feeds an electric motor.
Look to the rail industry for designs. For them every percent gain is millions of dollars of saved fuel over the life of the locomotive. -nB
I think there should be a distro that is configured to each major platform. I.E. a distro for the IBM T30's, 40's 60's etc. A distro for Dells (one for each model, even if largly duplicate) Then all the user needs to do is download the distro for their PC and wham! it works.
Most users buy a Dell and never change it other than adding a bit of disk on USB. It shouldn't be hard to give them good user experience. Besides, Dell has shown a willingness to switch vendors... perhaps they could provide some of the hard costs (hosting, dev platforms)? linux.dell.com would be awesome to see grown a bit... -nB
From my buddy at intel: if you're fired you're out the door *now*. if you quit you may stay two weeks, though not unheard of for the company to buy out the two weeks (here's your money, go away). if you are laid off you get two months to find another job. you are expected to show up to work nominally once a week (to show you're alive I guess), but you have no other job responsibilities. Considering the rather nice print work they have, I'm thinking full-up 4 color resume's sound pretty good:-) -nB
I'm basically with you. After I load a diagnostic disk and find nothing noteworthy I assume something is borked with my install. Out comes the ghost DVD and wham, clean install in 15 min flat with all my normal apps pre-installed.
I have yet for this to not fix an issue*, which means I have yet to have bad hardware*. -nB
* with the exception of dead HDDs, for which the symptom is usually rather obvious.
However, these chips seems to be marketed first to gamers [...] Games are not the easiest things to thread. They don't exactly thread infinitely like a web server [...] the game companies just write for what's popular at the time.
All true, but what about the kernal, and "helper" applications nevermind all the background processes. so two cores go to your game and two cores go to everything else. I just hope the platform supports dedicating x cores to an app. -nB
Childhood friend of mine's dad is a local lawyer. He normally goes upwards of $1K+/Hr. His Jr. lawyers in his firm are $250-500/hr and do most the work. He usually only bills his hours when the client insists he handle the case, or when in court and such. I helped him with his PBX and a couple other little PC things. He was quoted an absurd ammount of money (to the tune of $8K) for what took me about an hour or so to do. I told him "no worries" and went out to lunch with him (he bought) and that was good enough for me.
Some years later I had a *real issue* at work with a way out of control manager (involved verbal and physical abuse, threats, and a knife). Gary gave me about 10 hours of his firms time and saved me from making some stupid, but not so obvious, mistakes when dealing with HR and legal. The end result is that I am still employed (so unfortunately is the manager) and I will never have to work with or under him again.
FF another few years to the link in my sig, again Gary to the rescue. He proof read my response to the C&D letter and blessed it as "an excellent response" along with some other wonder advice.
Moral? It never hurts to have an excellent lawyer think he owes you more than he does:-) -nB
Sorry for the ramble, just got going and wandered around O_o
I use horse clippers. I shit you not, electric horse clippers from the feed store. I always look like I have had a full night of partying and never went home, but it's a damn easy shave. Last time I shaved for real my co-workers all assumed one of three things: Someone died and I went to/had to go to a funeral. I had an interview. I had a court date.
In reality I was messing with them and it was fun. -nB
and yup I've used those same clippers on the horse too.
Better idea: Lets just buy enough votes in congree to revert (C) back to what it was in 1900? Retroactive of-course. add a rider requiring that any further changes to (C) law require a 2/3 majority and can not be a rider (a bit ironic...) -nB
and did you notice that the regions that the Republicans pulled their upsets in during the last elections were the ones that had Diebold machines?), Proof please. Also, how many upsets did not have diabold machines. Finally any dem upsets, mapped the same way. Do that and if it looks like proof I'll believe you. -nB
* Scaled particle theory for a simplified perturbed hard-chain, statistical mechanical model predicts that methane compressed to 30 or 40 kbar at 1000 C (conditions in the mantle) yields hydrocarbons having properties similar to petroleum [30][31]
* Experiments in diamond anvil high pressure cells have confirmed this theory[32] Basically this says the long HC chains of oil can be mimicked with pressure and short chains. While earth may have several impediments to this other planets very well may not. I'm not trying to say that our oil is not from dead dinos, just that there is more than one way to make long HC chains. -nB
Since that is not the only way it can be made, we can not say or assume that the presence of oil proves the past or current presance of life. It may well still be worth a second look, but it does not prove anything. -nB
[flamebait]Besides, it's not any riskier than being a soldier in Iraq...[/flamebait]
Since I'm biting on the flamebait, I'm not going to waste the time crunching numbers, but I think if you did you would be supprised just how much safer you are in Iraq over being an astronaut (percentage wise that is). -nB
Here's how our DC is wired: Mains fails Battery backup picks up within 1/2 phase, so fast that no switching supply in the world will notice. * Battery is good for at least 1/2 hour. Within 5 min of mains failure gen1 spins up (5KW, capable of powering critical systems, elevators, emergency lights only). Gen2 spins up 5 min after gen 1, additional 5KW. If Gen 1 failed to spin up, then only emergency systems operate, else gen 2 powers secondary systems. Cubes are still without power. UPS Battery banks charge from Gen 2 if gen 1 is spinning, else they do not re-charge till mains comes on-line.
-nB
* we have 4 systems that are ultra-resolution (imaging) systems. They run off a second UPS that is always-on. Mains charges batteries, batteries run equipment. Good for 10 min while mains fails-over to UPS and stabilizes.
I was kind of thinking, with how cheap notebooks are (compared to the data) just have one ready over the border and leave it behind, use VPN to get to your data.
Overkill, yes but better than losing my data to the goons. -nB
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Which is exactally what you could get in the old civics.
My point is that our current hybrid designs are doing nothing for distance driving in the US.
I think a huge point of improvement would be diesel-electric in the trucking industry.
-nB
But that's just my point. The increase in gas prices over the last 12 years (from $1.00/gal to $3.00/gal) has already removed many of those older cars from the road. While I understand that average vehicle efficency is basically proportional to gas prices, if you can afford the gas then go ahead and burn it. Also, raw fuel consumption is not the only thing, the exhaust coming from the new SUV is likely cleaner than even a 10 year old car. Way more environmental damage is done by hydrocarbon emmissions and spills than any other exhaust component. If you burn 100 gallons of 87 octane and pour one gallon onto the ground which does more damage? The spill.
If you really want to clean up the environment quit picking on the newer car/truck/suv owners, and go implement the buyback program, also get after home power equipment. That old lawnmower pollutes more in a summer than that SUV will all year.
-nB
Not to turn this into a flame war, but our current tax structure already does this.
That shiney new SUV likely is way more fuel efficent than a 20-30 year old car. As gas is almost 1/3 tax WTF more do you want?
Also, in response to an uncle(aunt?) post, current hybrid vehicles (ala Toyota and Honda) are total Bullshit, they work in europe and japan where all (most) trips are short city driving. In the USA there is a lot more continuous speed driving at 55+ MPH. Hybrids of today's ilk don't do crap. In fact the mid-late 80's civic gets better milage. The appropriate hybrid is a small array of storage cells to capture breaking energy and a small diesel motor humming along at a fully constant 600 RPM spinning a generator, which in-turn feeds an electric motor.
Look to the rail industry for designs. For them every percent gain is millions of dollars of saved fuel over the life of the locomotive.
-nB
I was kind of thinking along those lines.
I think there should be a distro that is configured to each major platform.
I.E.
a distro for the IBM T30's, 40's 60's etc.
A distro for Dells (one for each model, even if largly duplicate) Then all the user needs to do is download the distro for their PC and wham! it works.
Most users buy a Dell and never change it other than adding a bit of disk on USB. It shouldn't be hard to give them good user experience.
Besides, Dell has shown a willingness to switch vendors... perhaps they could provide some of the hard costs (hosting, dev platforms)?
linux.dell.com would be awesome to see grown a bit...
-nB
From my buddy at intel: :-)
if you're fired you're out the door *now*.
if you quit you may stay two weeks, though not unheard of for the company to buy out the two weeks (here's your money, go away).
if you are laid off you get two months to find another job. you are expected to show up to work nominally once a week (to show you're alive I guess), but you have no other job responsibilities. Considering the rather nice print work they have, I'm thinking full-up 4 color resume's sound pretty good
-nB
I'm basically with you. After I load a diagnostic disk and find nothing noteworthy I assume something is borked with my install.
Out comes the ghost DVD and wham, clean install in 15 min flat with all my normal apps pre-installed.
I have yet for this to not fix an issue*, which means I have yet to have bad hardware*.
-nB
* with the exception of dead HDDs, for which the symptom is usually rather obvious.
Nah, just Grues.
-nB
However, these chips seems to be marketed first to gamers [...] Games are not the easiest things to thread. They don't exactly thread infinitely like a web server [...] the game companies just write for what's popular at the time.
All true, but what about the kernal, and "helper" applications nevermind all the background processes. so two cores go to your game and two cores go to everything else. I just hope the platform supports dedicating x cores to an app.
-nB
My current alarm clock (a sharper image model) shifted one hour in the wrong direction on the last time change :-(
Anyone else have that issue?
-nB
There really is no other type.
And it's "pound me in the ass prision"
-nB
Childhood friend of mine's dad is a local lawyer.
:-)
He normally goes upwards of $1K+/Hr. His Jr. lawyers in his firm are $250-500/hr and do most the work. He usually only bills his hours when the client insists he handle the case, or when in court and such.
I helped him with his PBX and a couple other little PC things. He was quoted an absurd ammount of money (to the tune of $8K) for what took me about an hour or so to do. I told him "no worries" and went out to lunch with him (he bought) and that was good enough for me.
Some years later I had a *real issue* at work with a way out of control manager (involved verbal and physical abuse, threats, and a knife). Gary gave me about 10 hours of his firms time and saved me from making some stupid, but not so obvious, mistakes when dealing with HR and legal. The end result is that I am still employed (so unfortunately is the manager) and I will never have to work with or under him again.
FF another few years to the link in my sig, again Gary to the rescue. He proof read my response to the C&D letter and blessed it as "an excellent response" along with some other wonder advice.
Moral? It never hurts to have an excellent lawyer think he owes you more than he does
-nB
Sorry for the ramble, just got going and wandered around O_o
Wouldn't that be purgery?
(yes I know it isn't, but it could prove to be mighty inconvienent in the courtroom).
-nB
I use horse clippers.
I shit you not, electric horse clippers from the feed store.
I always look like I have had a full night of partying and never went home, but it's a damn easy shave.
Last time I shaved for real my co-workers all assumed one of three things:
Someone died and I went to/had to go to a funeral.
I had an interview.
I had a court date.
In reality I was messing with them and it was fun.
-nB
and yup I've used those same clippers on the horse too.
Better idea:
Lets just buy enough votes in congree to revert (C) back to what it was in 1900?
Retroactive of-course.
add a rider requiring that any further changes to (C) law require a 2/3 majority and can not be a rider (a bit ironic...)
-nB
and did you notice that the regions that the Republicans pulled their upsets in during the last elections were the ones that had Diebold machines?),
Proof please.
Also, how many upsets did not have diabold machines.
Finally any dem upsets, mapped the same way.
Do that and if it looks like proof I'll believe you.
-nB
I'll settle for amature writer.
That story was off to a great start.
-nB
I hereby declaire the pirate party shall sweep the congressonal, executive, and judicial elections.
We win.
-nB
rant, whay is there a timeout between posts when said posts are in a different topic entirely?
-gaah
Thank you.
A breif except:
Evidence of abiogenic mechanisms
* Scaled particle theory for a simplified perturbed hard-chain, statistical mechanical model predicts that methane compressed to 30 or 40 kbar at 1000 C (conditions in the mantle) yields hydrocarbons having properties similar to petroleum [30][31]
* Experiments in diamond anvil high pressure cells have confirmed this theory[32]
Basically this says the long HC chains of oil can be mimicked with pressure and short chains. While earth may have several impediments to this other planets very well may not. I'm not trying to say that our oil is not from dead dinos, just that there is more than one way to make long HC chains.
-nB
Is that the only way it can be made?
No.
Since that is not the only way it can be made, we can not say or assume that the presence of oil proves the past or current presance of life.
It may well still be worth a second look, but it does not prove anything.
-nB
[flamebait]Besides, it's not any riskier than being a soldier in Iraq...[/flamebait]
Since I'm biting on the flamebait, I'm not going to waste the time crunching numbers, but I think if you did you would be supprised just how much safer you are in Iraq over being an astronaut (percentage wise that is).
-nB
"Since oil on a distant planet would be proof of life"
Prey tell, how so?
-nB
Here's how our DC is wired:
Mains fails
Battery backup picks up within 1/2 phase, so fast that no switching supply in the world will notice. *
Battery is good for at least 1/2 hour. Within 5 min of mains failure gen1 spins up (5KW, capable of powering critical systems, elevators, emergency lights only).
Gen2 spins up 5 min after gen 1, additional 5KW. If Gen 1 failed to spin up, then only emergency systems operate, else gen 2 powers secondary systems. Cubes are still without power.
UPS Battery banks charge from Gen 2 if gen 1 is spinning, else they do not re-charge till mains comes on-line.
-nB
* we have 4 systems that are ultra-resolution (imaging) systems. They run off a second UPS that is always-on. Mains charges batteries, batteries run equipment. Good for 10 min while mains fails-over to UPS and stabilizes.
So what you're saying is someone needs to start-up a company making fly-wheels and induction coils.
-nB
Dude,
That had to suck...
On the bright side you now possibly had ammo to stay employed with (at least till you found another job).
-nB
I was kind of thinking, with how cheap notebooks are (compared to the data) just have one ready over the border and leave it behind, use VPN to get to your data.
Overkill, yes but better than losing my data to the goons.
-nB