Latency was also reduced still further simply due to the masses of bandwidth FiOS offers compared to bog standard ADSL: in our case, 25mbps.
Damn it, kids, Latency and bandwidth are not the same thing and anybody who makes that mistake should be forced to use a "1Gb/s" connection via fedex.
Its not just the kids. I had the corporate IT department tell me they would fix their latency issues by compressing the link, and if that didn't work they would put another compressor in series with the original one.
In FVWM with focus follows mouse, changes of focus are much faster. Focus changes don't seem to lag when system load increases.
When launching applications on my eeepc 701 the application startup time is more consistent than on other laptops which have hard disks. I put this down to SSDs having fewer variable which control read speed.
On the PDP 11s in question we ran a traffic signal application which controlled 120 traffic signals via 300 baud modems. Each modem had three LEDs TX, RX, and carrier. The modems updated on a regular cycle and we quickly got used to the way it looked. If something was wrong with communications the difference was quite apparent. But loading the system by copying files on disk made no difference to the LEDs. They just kept chugging away. This frequently continued for a year or so. Working with linux systems I don't always get the same feeling of consistency. The system occasionally stalls to update things. This is why linux has special purpose real time builds, and RSX is a real time system from the get go.
These examples illustrate something about the way I (at least) interact with technology. Some things feel better engineered than others. They feel nice in the same way good food feels nice. Good technology has a feel. Thats all. Its hard to explain.
I have no idea about this sort of thing, but I would imagine that electric vehicles would do better in cold weather climates. At least you would not have to keep the motor running because it won't start if you don't...
One factor is that there is less energy lost as heat in an electric vehicle so running a heater will increase power consumption. You might be able to recover some heat from the batteries and motor though. Does anybody know how the heater (if it exists) in the Tesla works?
Extreme environments pose challenges for vehicles. There are examples you can point to where EVs may not be appropriate. But say I want to camp in the desert. The nearest petrol station is 1000km away. I could use a bank of photocells to charge my vehicle on site.
And BTW 1000km is quite realistic for remote areas in my country.
The burning of oil is non-reversable. Once used it is gone for good. Batteries may degrade with use but the original material is still there and available for reconditioning.
I have never owned or even driven one save for a golf cart. My experience with the golf cart leaves me doubt as to whether an electric car can deliver enough torque to climb steep inclines.
Have you tried a Tesla? I hear they are fast.
Heck, what happens when you are stuck in snow all the while, the spinning of wheels eating away at your juice? Scary, isn't it?
Heck, what happens when you are stuck in snow all the while, the spinning of wheels eating away at your fuel? Scary, isn't it?
Consider the difference between running 100km of moving walkway at 100km/h and OTH running one train at 100km/h over 100km. The train will use a lot less power because you only have to drive a dozen or so wheels and the moving mass is smaller, so drag is limited. If you set up PV cells along your transport corridor then excess power could go into the grid, using money. A system with close to 100% load factor along the transport corridor would justify moving walkways. We see that in airports. Not between cities.
But your walkway has to run flat chat all the time and it is using energy which could be used elsewhere. Rail transport OTH can adjust capacity to demand.
are the best approach. Speed, exercise, reasonable distance range. The main reason I don't ride my bike in the city is the likelihood of getting creamed by traffic. Bike lanes painted on the street are of zero help with that. There are some parts of the city with a separate bike path about 4 feet wide, and that is absolutely fantastic, it just doesn't go everywhere.
But you still get creamed at intersections. The advantage from the planners perspective is that bikes lose right of way at intersections so the statistics look better.
Fewer car vs bike crashes but more bike vs car and bike vs pedestrian. Those nasty bike riders!
We need him to take over Defense or Foreign Affairs. I need a press conference that starts 'US forces give the nod.'
Which sums up the missed opportunity which is our labour government. Employers run the liberals. Unions run labour. For most purposes both camps represent identical interests. Neither wants anything to do with Garrett.
Better to join the greens than continue as a token green minister in this government. Funny thing is that Rudd was further from the unions than Gillard. He could have given Garrett real power while he had the chance.
This shows what a great thing the internet is, provided that we defend it. Ten or 20 years ago you had to trust organisations like libraries to take care of donated product. Now you can just slap a GFDL header on the sheet music and post it to wikipedia. Done.
Good point though I suppose most people thought "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" was written so long ago that a claim was unlikely. I certainly thought so.
Granted, the VAX had less power than a Mac mini, but it also had reliability that modern systems can't match.
In my previous job we ran PDP 11/84s and 11/83s, VAX 11/750s and later various alphas. The PDPs running RSX11M had the greatest feeling of stability I have seen. You could get back to a system after a year and find it in exactly the same state you had left it. The architecture of RSX probably helped. Dynamic memory is discouraged. Many applications are effectively built into the kernel.
We did not get access to kids as they were going through college
Anybody else find that just a LITTLE creepy? "Getting access" sounds like something a Catholic priest and/or a cult leader would say. Perhaps employing clueless marketroids like Bob might have something to do with the problem as well.
Not really. Its the reason why my high school had apple ][s and my college had a facom. Manufacturers spend their marketing budget on subsidized sales to schools, so that students want to work on their platform.
The microsoft software stack is designed so that service providers can siphon money off at the point of delivery. Antivirus is a good example. Yeah we sold you an OS but you need this extra thing to make it secure, didn't you know that?
So its a great way to make money if you stay with their targeted solutions. But if you want to do something totally new the benefits of using microsoft aren't really there so developers look elsewhere.
Well okay but the local shopping center here had five or six big shops selling CDs (previously LPs) ten years ago. All of those are gone and I can't see how they will return.
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How is grovvy formed?
Well you see when two languages love each other very much...
Latency was also reduced still further simply due to the masses of bandwidth FiOS offers compared to bog standard ADSL: in our case, 25mbps.
Damn it, kids, Latency and bandwidth are not the same thing and anybody who makes that mistake should be forced to use a "1Gb/s" connection via fedex.
Its not just the kids. I had the corporate IT department tell me they would fix their latency issues by compressing the link, and if that didn't work they would put another compressor in series with the original one.
Why?
I would be inclined to stand back before switching the power on. And I don't think I would leave the kids in the car during the charging operation.
But you're happy to have your kids in a car while you fill it up with 50 liters of some toxic and highly flammable liquid or even gas.
You don't have to heat the fuel tank to do that.
A few examples of my definition of stabiity:
These examples illustrate something about the way I (at least) interact with technology. Some things feel better engineered than others. They feel nice in the same way good food feels nice. Good technology has a feel. Thats all. Its hard to explain.
Just curious: what is the Tesla like in the cold? Does it use battery power for heating? Is it still comfortable?
I have no idea about this sort of thing, but I would imagine that electric vehicles would do better in cold weather climates. At least you would not have to keep the motor running because it won't start if you don't...
One factor is that there is less energy lost as heat in an electric vehicle so running a heater will increase power consumption. You might be able to recover some heat from the batteries and motor though. Does anybody know how the heater (if it exists) in the Tesla works?
Extreme environments pose challenges for vehicles. There are examples you can point to where EVs may not be appropriate. But say I want to camp in the desert. The nearest petrol station is 1000km away. I could use a bank of photocells to charge my vehicle on site.
And BTW 1000km is quite realistic for remote areas in my country.
The burning of oil is non-reversable. Once used it is gone for good. Batteries may degrade with use but the original material is still there and available for reconditioning.
If I had an electric car I would plug it in at night and wave at you filling up your car.
I have never owned or even driven one save for a golf cart. My experience with the golf cart leaves me doubt as to whether an electric car can deliver enough torque to climb steep inclines.
Have you tried a Tesla? I hear they are fast.
Heck, what happens when you are stuck in snow all the while, the spinning of wheels eating away at your juice? Scary, isn't it?
Heck, what happens when you are stuck in snow all the while, the spinning of wheels eating away at your fuel? Scary, isn't it?
I would be inclined to stand back before switching the power on. And I don't think I would leave the kids in the car during the charging operation.
So what happens to gamespot, do they get in trouble for using "copyrighted" screenshots in their game reviews?
More likely the screenshots are provided by the develper/vendor/retailer.
Not without a few... modifications to the robots.
Consider the difference between running 100km of moving walkway at 100km/h and OTH running one train at 100km/h over 100km. The train will use a lot less power because you only have to drive a dozen or so wheels and the moving mass is smaller, so drag is limited. If you set up PV cells along your transport corridor then excess power could go into the grid, using money. A system with close to 100% load factor along the transport corridor would justify moving walkways. We see that in airports. Not between cities.
But your walkway has to run flat chat all the time and it is using energy which could be used elsewhere. Rail transport OTH can adjust capacity to demand.
are the best approach. Speed, exercise, reasonable distance range. The main reason I don't ride my bike in the city is the likelihood of getting creamed by traffic. Bike lanes painted on the street are of zero help with that. There are some parts of the city with a separate bike path about 4 feet wide, and that is absolutely fantastic, it just doesn't go everywhere.
But you still get creamed at intersections. The advantage from the planners perspective is that bikes lose right of way at intersections so the statistics look better.
Fewer car vs bike crashes but more bike vs car and bike vs pedestrian. Those nasty bike riders!
...they will all move at the same speed. 10 miles per hour.
We need him to take over Defense or Foreign Affairs. I need a press conference that starts 'US forces give the nod.'
Which sums up the missed opportunity which is our labour government. Employers run the liberals. Unions run labour. For most purposes both camps represent identical interests. Neither wants anything to do with Garrett.
Better to join the greens than continue as a token green minister in this government. Funny thing is that Rudd was further from the unions than Gillard. He could have given Garrett real power while he had the chance.
This shows what a great thing the internet is, provided that we defend it. Ten or 20 years ago you had to trust organisations like libraries to take care of donated product. Now you can just slap a GFDL header on the sheet music and post it to wikipedia. Done.
Good point though I suppose most people thought "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" was written so long ago that a claim was unlikely. I certainly thought so.
Granted, the VAX had less power than a Mac mini, but it also had reliability that modern systems can't match.
In my previous job we ran PDP 11/84s and 11/83s, VAX 11/750s and later various alphas. The PDPs running RSX11M had the greatest feeling of stability I have seen. You could get back to a system after a year and find it in exactly the same state you had left it. The architecture of RSX probably helped. Dynamic memory is discouraged. Many applications are effectively built into the kernel.
We did not get access to kids as they were going through college
Anybody else find that just a LITTLE creepy? "Getting access" sounds like something a Catholic priest and/or a cult leader would say. Perhaps employing clueless marketroids like Bob might have something to do with the problem as well.
Not really. Its the reason why my high school had apple ][s and my college had a facom. Manufacturers spend their marketing budget on subsidized sales to schools, so that students want to work on their platform.
I still wound up working on DEC though.
The microsoft software stack is designed so that service providers can siphon money off at the point of delivery. Antivirus is a good example. Yeah we sold you an OS but you need this extra thing to make it secure, didn't you know that?
So its a great way to make money if you stay with their targeted solutions. But if you want to do something totally new the benefits of using microsoft aren't really there so developers look elsewhere.
Well okay but the local shopping center here had five or six big shops selling CDs (previously LPs) ten years ago. All of those are gone and I can't see how they will return.