Notice that all the problems happened at around the same time. It's not a constant failure rate.
It's entirely possible that a couple of drivers did have a stuck throttle due to a floor mat or other issue. This made the news. Then a bunch of other people thought that this would be a great way to make money on a class action lawsuit by faking the same problem. It doesn't have to be a defect or bad drivers, just a bandwagon effect of people trying to scam money in tough times.
No it not augmented. Just like a colour blind person doesn't think that a person with normal vision is perceiving augmented reality. The information is there we just cannot see it.
.the fact that they managed to land on a moving asteroid is amazing. The fact that they were able to land on a moving asteroid, take off from that asteroid after landing, and successfully make it back to Earth is nothing short of astounding.
the fact that they tried to drive a rover onto the asteroid which immediately floated off into space because they forgot about a little thing called GRAVITY is nothing short of mind blowingly idiotic
My Father, who recently turned 50, used to be a police officer. He used to have to write his police reports using ink and paper, and it wasn't until he was nearly 35 that they started using computers at the precinct to type reports. You can't just do something one way for 35 years...
So he was writing police reports since the day he was born?
How could I make it possible to connect to this battery no matter what position it's in?
This is still not the solution to that problem. Unless the batteries end up being perfect cubes, I'm still restricted to putting the batteries in lengthwise. For each battery this increases my orientation possibilities to two from one. Nothing more.
Where do you think companies like SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin get their money for space projects from? Lots of it comes directly from the US government, more from NASA contracts, DARPA etc. Just because NASA is reducing their own programs doesn't mean the US is out of involvement in or funding of space.
What the hell are you talking about? Falcon 9 never blew up, its quite successful. Ares is cancelled and good riddance. The future is with commercial space flight ventures like Virgin and Space X.
I've had really bad experiences with ATI cards, especially the poor OpenGL support which I use predominantly. I'm sticking with nVidia - OpenGL is always faster on nVidia than ATI.
Width is part of it but it's also clock rate. The fastest overclocked DDR3 will go to 2.5GHz. The stock Geforce 480 is 3.7Ghz. At those rates the bus length gets to be an issue. The memory on a graphics card can be kept very close to the chip. On a PC the memory due to practical reason has to be set farther away resulting in necessarily slower clocks and data rates.
The 51 GB/sec you mention is definitely overclocked. I've not seen stock memory that fast. Even so its still less than a third the rate of the graphics memory.
My memory bandwidth on the GTX480 is 177 GB/sec. The fastest DDR3 module is PC3-17000 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM ) which gives approx 17000 MB/s which is approx 17GB/sec. So my graphics ram is basically 10x faster than system ram as it should be.
Hybrids are crap. Instead of an engine to maintain, or a battery to maintain, you now have both.
I disagree. I have a hybrid SUV and its the best purchase I've ever made. I had the V6 equivalent sister vehicle before this one and I'm spending about half on gas and feel no difference in power (hybrid compared to a V6). In a year I guess I'm saving about $1000 in gas.
The gas engine is very simple which translates into easier to maintain. The electric is maintenance free. Hybrids are far better than their gasoline equivalents, especially for in town/city driving.
A good start would seem to be delivery vehicles - predictable loads, distances, always park at the same place. Sounds ideal. And indeed this is being done - I reckon they will be a huge success (there are some excellent hybrid diesel vans starting to appear already).
I think hybrids are an excellent place to start, and a good proving ground for lighter and more powerful batteries.
I have a hybrid (Ford Escape) and my previous vehicle was the non hybrid sister vehicle the Mazda Protege (V6). The hybrid uses about half the gas and has the identical feel of amount of power. There's no practical difference in power of my current hybrid and the older V6. But I'm probably saving about $100 in gas per year. That, combined with the green discounts I received upon purchase means I'm way ahead even if the batteries completely failed.
Batteries will get cheaper with mass production, and hybrids are a good way to get there while reducing the dependancy on oil.
The item I'm waiting on is electric motorcycles. For the days you don't need cargo space and are just getting from point a to b, you cant beat it.
And depends where you live, but parts of southern Ontario and BC see very little snow. States to the south like Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania all get more snow on average.
You can make anything sound easy but the fact remains it cannot be done.
You might as well be saying 'flying is easy, all you do is push off the ground and dont fall'. It sounds easy but its a physical and practical impossibility just like the space elevator.
Interesting times will be when the US finally does go metric
Haven't you noticed that every bolt nut and screw in American cars are now metric? Most electronics are also metric (CPU traces and ram are in nm for example). US industry is defacto metric already. It just hasn't been made official by the government yet.
In someones imagination. Not so that its feasible.
Now you unroll the ribbon in both directions
Ever try this with even a ball of string on a spool? Physical impossibility.
Tie down the ground end.
Yet another simple statement that is logistically impossible. You are trying to unroll something from orbit and lower it down to a precise point. This is impossible from the top of a building let alone from orbit!
Lots of engineering challenges, most notably the nanotubes, but no obvious impossibilities.
I'm an engineer. Lots of impossibilities wrapped up in simple but unrealistic concepts.
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The resolution and viewing angle is not nearly as good. The best 3D to date is with active shutter glasses.
Notice that all the problems happened at around the same time. It's not a constant failure rate.
It's entirely possible that a couple of drivers did have a stuck throttle due to a floor mat or other issue. This made the news. Then a bunch of other people thought that this would be a great way to make money on a class action lawsuit by faking the same problem. It doesn't have to be a defect or bad drivers, just a bandwagon effect of people trying to scam money in tough times.
No it not augmented. Just like a colour blind person doesn't think that a person with normal vision is perceiving augmented reality. The information is there we just cannot see it.
Most women can sense desperation the instant a guy walks into a room.
Space already has a vacuum you idiot!
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.the fact that they managed to land on a moving asteroid is amazing. The fact that they were able to land on a moving asteroid, take off from that asteroid after landing, and successfully make it back to Earth is nothing short of astounding.
the fact that they tried to drive a rover onto the asteroid which immediately floated off into space because they forgot about a little thing called GRAVITY is nothing short of mind blowingly idiotic
My Father, who recently turned 50, used to be a police officer. He used to have to write his police reports using ink and paper, and it wasn't until he was nearly 35 that they started using computers at the precinct to type reports. You can't just do something one way for 35 years...
So he was writing police reports since the day he was born?
How could I make it possible to connect to this battery no matter what position it's in?
This is still not the solution to that problem. Unless the batteries end up being perfect cubes, I'm still restricted to putting the batteries in lengthwise. For each battery this increases my orientation possibilities to two from one. Nothing more.
No. That was your momma.
Where do you think companies like SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin get their money for space projects from? Lots of it comes directly from the US government, more from NASA contracts, DARPA etc. Just because NASA is reducing their own programs doesn't mean the US is out of involvement in or funding of space.
What the hell are you talking about? Falcon 9 never blew up, its quite successful. Ares is cancelled and good riddance. The future is with commercial space flight ventures like Virgin and Space X.
I've had really bad experiences with ATI cards, especially the poor OpenGL support which I use predominantly. I'm sticking with nVidia - OpenGL is always faster on nVidia than ATI.
No, I mean the fastest consumer card available right now.
Width is part of it but it's also clock rate. The fastest overclocked DDR3 will go to 2.5GHz. The stock Geforce 480 is 3.7Ghz. At those rates the bus length gets to be an issue. The memory on a graphics card can be kept very close to the chip. On a PC the memory due to practical reason has to be set farther away resulting in necessarily slower clocks and data rates.
The 51 GB/sec you mention is definitely overclocked. I've not seen stock memory that fast. Even so its still less than a third the rate of the graphics memory.
GPUs have extremely fast RAM connected to them, much faster than even system RAM
I'd like to see a citation for that little bit of trivia
Ok, so my Geforce GTX480 has GDDR5 ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_480_us.html ) which is based on DDR3 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR5 )
My memory bandwidth on the GTX480 is 177 GB/sec. The fastest DDR3 module is PC3-17000 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM ) which gives approx 17000 MB/s which is approx 17GB/sec. So my graphics ram is basically 10x faster than system ram as it should be.
Hybrids are crap. Instead of an engine to maintain, or a battery to maintain, you now have both.
I disagree. I have a hybrid SUV and its the best purchase I've ever made. I had the V6 equivalent sister vehicle before this one and I'm spending about half on gas and feel no difference in power (hybrid compared to a V6). In a year I guess I'm saving about $1000 in gas.
The gas engine is very simple which translates into easier to maintain. The electric is maintenance free. Hybrids are far better than their gasoline equivalents, especially for in town/city driving.
Good post
A good start would seem to be delivery vehicles - predictable loads, distances, always park at the same place. Sounds ideal. And indeed this is being done - I reckon they will be a huge success (there are some excellent hybrid diesel vans starting to appear already).
I think hybrids are an excellent place to start, and a good proving ground for lighter and more powerful batteries.
I have a hybrid (Ford Escape) and my previous vehicle was the non hybrid sister vehicle the Mazda Protege (V6). The hybrid uses about half the gas and has the identical feel of amount of power. There's no practical difference in power of my current hybrid and the older V6. But I'm probably saving about $100 in gas per year. That, combined with the green discounts I received upon purchase means I'm way ahead even if the batteries completely failed.
Batteries will get cheaper with mass production, and hybrids are a good way to get there while reducing the dependancy on oil.
The item I'm waiting on is electric motorcycles. For the days you don't need cargo space and are just getting from point a to b, you cant beat it.
Canada's taxes in reality are little different from that of the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_Taxes_By_Country.svg
And depends where you live, but parts of southern Ontario and BC see very little snow. States to the south like Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania all get more snow on average.
You can make anything sound easy but the fact remains it cannot be done.
You might as well be saying 'flying is easy, all you do is push off the ground and dont fall'. It sounds easy but its a physical and practical impossibility just like the space elevator.
Since the moon was originally part of hte earth, the moons composition is pretty much exactly that of the earths crust.
Interesting times will be when the US finally does go metric
Haven't you noticed that every bolt nut and screw in American cars are now metric? Most electronics are also metric (CPU traces and ram are in nm for example). US industry is defacto metric already. It just hasn't been made official by the government yet.
This has been worked out.
In someones imagination. Not so that its feasible.
Now you unroll the ribbon in both directions
Ever try this with even a ball of string on a spool? Physical impossibility.
Tie down the ground end.
Yet another simple statement that is logistically impossible. You are trying to unroll something from orbit and lower it down to a precise point. This is impossible from the top of a building let alone from orbit!
Lots of engineering challenges, most notably the nanotubes, but no obvious impossibilities.
I'm an engineer. Lots of impossibilities wrapped up in simple but unrealistic concepts.
They said the same thing about putting a man on the moon.
No. For the moon they had to make new materials and advance technology. For a space elevator they need to break the laws of physics.
But seriously, if you want anyone to get interested in the moon, you need to find out how much light sweet crude is up there.
Well since there has never been life on the moon, in the equivalent of our Mesozoic or Paleozoic timeframes, there would be none at all.