Agreed, but the flywheel is spun carbon fiber meaning it will disintegrate in small pieces so I wouldn't worry about shrapnel. But you're right in saying it adds additional maintenance and stress on other components.
Looking at some vehicles here in Montreal (vehicles that should have been retired & destroyed years ago), let's just say that mandatory mechanical inspections would be a good idea...
"Texting whilst driving is simply trying to commit suicide"
That would be the easy Darwin solution. Thing is, most of the times the driver is not hurt when the car runs over a pedestrian or someone riding a bike
1. We're talking about cars, not motorcycles 2. Turbos and blowers can provide a lot more than 80HP boost.
Albeit a battery seems more logical than a big flywheel (and more efficient). What would be even better would be a diesel generator (like in locomotives). Even better economy as the engine would run at optimal efficiency. I'm sick of having to choose between 2 or 3 engines when the same car in Europe has 3-4 gas engines and 3-4 Diesel engines to choose from. (not to mention the Fusion/Mondeo is available as a station wagon)
"On the other hand, an econobox will get you from the same point A to the same point B for 3l per 100km (or over 60mpg) and cost a quarter of the price."
Doesn't exist
"Of course, we can trust the average Joe to properly maintain a piece of hardware designed to rotate at 60000 RPM, right? I'm looking forward to cars just blowing up when they come to a stop because unmaintained flywheels explode and shrapnel likes gas tanks, according to hollywood."
Turbochargers don't explode all the time, and they spin at even faster speeds (around 5 times)
They don't want to be accountable for what's on their network (dumb pipes), yet they want control over what's flowing in said pipes. Have their cake and eat it too?
Besides, people are paying for connectivity at specified speeds, what they do with it doesn't matter if it's Youtube, Netflix, or anything else...
Why should Netflix pay? what about ABC, CBS, NBC, Youtube, Porntube, and all the others? What about web sites? Facebook?
People are running CPUs much faster than 4Ghz (albeit with really exotic cooling). If they can run a CPU at 8.4 Ghz with sub-zero cooling now, In a couple of years with smaller nodes and perhaps different techniques and materials we will have cpus running in the 5-6Ghz range.
I remember when people thought breaking 1Ghz was impossible unless helium or nitrogen was used. For a while it was, until new fabrication techniques were used. Now we have multi-Ghz chips that are passively cooled.
If we kill enough mosquitoes and other insects so we can allow "much reduced use of pesticides", it means we killed enough to mess something up in the food chain. As for the bees, nature will make sure another species takes over...
This, but AMD with Athlon helped a lot (at 33Mhz a year, we might have 2Ghz CPUs now), Otherwise Intel wouldn't have had have any incentive to push clock speeds that fast. If AMD were kicking them again, I'm pretty sure those exotic conditions wouldn't be such a barrier anymore.
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"(and when they fail, they tend to do so without warning and completely, so be sure to always have backups)."
That much can be said about Seagate drives
People have been doing this for years, and what's with the video? this isn't youtube...
Unless you're buying ABS by the *container ship*, you'll never match the price LEGO gets
"The translator in that show has never had a problem with translating such before."
I'm pretty sure when they encounter teenagers, it will...
What?
Molari and G'Kar were amazing, Garibaldi and Ivanova witty and sarcastic. It all fell down in Season 5 when they brought Tracy Scoggins in...
-The Inner Light
-Chain Of Command (There are FOUR lights!)
-Best Of Both Worlds
Agreed, but the flywheel is spun carbon fiber meaning it will disintegrate in small pieces so I wouldn't worry about shrapnel. But you're right in saying it adds additional maintenance and stress on other components.
Looking at some vehicles here in Montreal (vehicles that should have been retired & destroyed years ago), let's just say that mandatory mechanical inspections would be a good idea...
Isn't it the way our society works?
"get court permission"
Please... Like they ask for permission before doing stuff like that.
Can you imagine 90 women PMSing at the same time?
Trust me, getting tossed the airlock will be salvation
"Texting whilst driving is simply trying to commit suicide"
That would be the easy Darwin solution. Thing is, most of the times the driver is not hurt when the car runs over a pedestrian or someone riding a bike
1. We're talking about cars, not motorcycles
2. Turbos and blowers can provide a lot more than 80HP boost.
Albeit a battery seems more logical than a big flywheel (and more efficient). What would be even better would be a diesel generator (like in locomotives). Even better economy as the engine would run at optimal efficiency. I'm sick of having to choose between 2 or 3 engines when the same car in Europe has 3-4 gas engines and 3-4 Diesel engines to choose from. (not to mention the Fusion/Mondeo is available as a station wagon)
"There's nothing whatsoever in most production cars which spins as fast as KERS"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Ever driven a Lexus 400h ? or a Fusion ?
"On the other hand, an econobox will get you from the same point A to the same point B for 3l per 100km (or over 60mpg) and cost a quarter of the price."
Doesn't exist
"Of course, we can trust the average Joe to properly maintain a piece of hardware designed to rotate at 60000 RPM, right?
I'm looking forward to cars just blowing up when they come to a stop because unmaintained flywheels explode and shrapnel likes gas tanks, according to hollywood."
Turbochargers don't explode all the time, and they spin at even faster speeds (around 5 times)
Why was that modded down? Those are valid points...
That's nothing, while learning electronics as a kid, I invented a way to turn LEDs into Smoke Emitting Diodes...
Antennas are optimized for a frequency range. You can't change their size via software.
They don't want to be accountable for what's on their network (dumb pipes), yet they want control over what's flowing in said pipes. Have their cake and eat it too?
Besides, people are paying for connectivity at specified speeds, what they do with it doesn't matter if it's Youtube, Netflix, or anything else...
Why should Netflix pay? what about ABC, CBS, NBC, Youtube, Porntube, and all the others? What about web sites? Facebook?
People are running CPUs much faster than 4Ghz (albeit with really exotic cooling). If they can run a CPU at 8.4 Ghz with sub-zero cooling now, In a couple of years with smaller nodes and perhaps different techniques and materials we will have cpus running in the 5-6Ghz range.
I remember when people thought breaking 1Ghz was impossible unless helium or nitrogen was used. For a while it was, until new fabrication techniques were used. Now we have multi-Ghz chips that are passively cooled.
Trust me, we'll get there, we'll find a way...
If we kill enough mosquitoes and other insects so we can allow "much reduced use of pesticides", it means we killed enough to mess something up in the food chain. As for the bees, nature will make sure another species takes over...
This, but AMD with Athlon helped a lot (at 33Mhz a year, we might have 2Ghz CPUs now), Otherwise Intel wouldn't have had have any incentive to push clock speeds that fast. If AMD were kicking them again, I'm pretty sure those exotic conditions wouldn't be such a barrier anymore.
I'd rather WB release standard 4:3 versions without cropping and blowing the CGI like they did. The previews on the DVD look better than the episodes.
"How exactly do you remove the poison if it is internal to the kernel?"
Recompile it from source?
And killing a bunch of mosquitoes will mess up something in the food chain. Can we stop playing God with nature?