I still have an XP installation running in a vbox,
My XP laptops (two of them) get used every day and do their job perfectly but they don't have enough disk space for Windows 7/8. Should they become landfill? I don't have an extra $1200 lying around for a couple of new laptops (and even if I did, they don't make them as small as my EeePC 900 any more - it's the size that makes that one useful).
I have a 1984 Tandy 1000 that does exactly what I need it to do - give me bragging rights in Internet threads about how my niche usage case is relevant to all users, everywhere.
Is Microsoft withdrawing support for those as well as XP?
Short version: They have a perfectly working computer with all their stuff on it. Why should they have to throw it in the trash and go through all the pain/expense of an "upgrade"?
(Not to mention all the printers/scanners/etc. that will stop working if they do...)
What about all the essential software that won't work except on XP because it's attached to some hardware? (eg. at my local car repair shop)
You'd have to be stupid to think all these people are just "whiners who need to get with the program".
It's irrelevant if they do this anyway, because if you had a 100kWh car battery that could charge in 5 minutes, the voltage and current requirements would be so enormous to make it impractical, because you'd have to deliver 1.2MW to charge the battery in that time. At 11000 volts you'd still require a current of about 110 amps, so not only very high current, but very high voltage.
Don't forget that if the process is even 10% inefficient then that's a 120kW heater underneath your car. Winding the windows down while you're charging probably won't be enough cooling to keep the passengers alive.
IANAEE (I am not an Electrical Engineer), but couldn't you just locate some capacitors close to the charging location? Charge them up slowly over time, then quickly discharge them when a car needs juice, that way you're not putting the load on the grid all at once.
Whilst I am not the AC which refused to believe in man made climate change, I do share one problem which seems to be obvious to climate change, the illegal tree felling industry needs to stop. full stop.
Trees do more for this planet then most people realize.
So... man can change the climate by cutting down trees?
If instead of assuming random participants, you assume participants deliberately picked to be as genetically distant from each other as possible, you should be able to reduce the population requirements quite significantly.
....and pack a whole load of extra embryos. Just to be sure.
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What about all the 3rd-party device drivers that simply don't exist?
If you consider that a horrific sum of money, I'd hate to see what you think of my monthly grocery bill, or gas for two weeks.
What does you being an over-consumer have to do with anything?
The reason they should upgrade is because you over-consume? Yeah, that makes sense. Not.
You can get a 1 TB drive for $60.
Sure, but it won't fit in my laptop.
And it sure as hell won't fit in my SSD-based EeePC.
I still have an XP installation running in a vbox,
My XP laptops (two of them) get used every day and do their job perfectly but they don't have enough disk space for Windows 7/8. Should they become landfill? I don't have an extra $1200 lying around for a couple of new laptops (and even if I did, they don't make them as small as my EeePC 900 any more - it's the size that makes that one useful).
I have a 1984 Tandy 1000 that does exactly what I need it to do - give me bragging rights in Internet threads about how my niche usage case is relevant to all users, everywhere.
Is Microsoft withdrawing support for those as well as XP?
Do people really not get it?
Short version: They have a perfectly working computer with all their stuff on it. Why should they have to throw it in the trash and go through all the pain/expense of an "upgrade"?
(Not to mention all the printers/scanners/etc. that will stop working if they do...)
What about all the essential software that won't work except on XP because it's attached to some hardware? (eg. at my local car repair shop)
You'd have to be stupid to think all these people are just "whiners who need to get with the program".
It means you didn't get the 1980s cultural reference.
makes me feel sad for the dude who paid over 1000 BTC for a strad recently.
What about the guy who sold it for a few digital tokens that plummeted in value afterwards?
It's irrelevant if they do this anyway, because if you had a 100kWh car battery that could charge in 5 minutes, the voltage and current requirements would be so enormous to make it impractical, because you'd have to deliver 1.2MW to charge the battery in that time. At 11000 volts you'd still require a current of about 110 amps, so not only very high current, but very high voltage.
Don't forget that if the process is even 10% inefficient then that's a 120kW heater underneath your car. Winding the windows down while you're charging probably won't be enough cooling to keep the passengers alive.
IANAEE (I am not an Electrical Engineer), but couldn't you just locate some capacitors close to the charging location? Charge them up slowly over time, then quickly discharge them when a car needs juice, that way you're not putting the load on the grid all at once.
There's usually a queue at my local gas station.
Very fast charge (on the order of 1-2 mins for current battery sizes) would make "gas stations" viable for electric cars.
You've done the calculation for how many amps that would need, right...?
Too long, didn't read.
I suspect the problem there is lack of demand for higher resolutions.
Selective aerial photography is much cheaper.
Whilst I am not the AC which refused to believe in man made climate change, I do share one problem which seems to be obvious to climate change, the illegal tree felling industry needs to stop. full stop.
Trees do more for this planet then most people realize.
So... man can change the climate by cutting down trees?
Is that the only thing he could do to affect it?
The adware they are talking about is the crap that gets installed without consent and then proceeds to replace ads on web pages with other ads.
...until their adware server goes down. Then they call me and say "Internet isn't working!!!"
Kill them all. With fire.
Is that not the deal? You get the program for sort-of-free, the price being that you get adverts displayed.
Spoken like somebody who hasn't had to remove "Babel toolbar" from anybody's machine and try to get the machine working normally again...
It removes the uncertainty of one of the steps of the process.
If instead of assuming random participants, you assume participants deliberately picked to be as genetically distant from each other as possible, you should be able to reduce the population requirements quite significantly.
....and pack a whole load of extra embryos. Just to be sure.
By the time we have the tech to build a starship we can just ship out as many embryos as we can fit in a freezer. Job done.
So why aren't zebras all-white?
All-white would help with the heat, too.
What I'm trying to say is that maybe the dislike of striped surfaces came *after* the stripes.
The flies might have learned to avoid zebras because zebras evolved a really good tail for swatting flies (or whatever).
This research doesn't "solve the mystery of why zebras have stripes". At best it just presents a new theory to add to the list of possibilities.
I don't think it's very likely because: (a) Flies can evolve to ignore stripes, and (b) Occam's razor (other theories are simpler).
But they'll make a lot less from the people who travel with company phones and don't give a damn about the phone bill.
Or maybe I should view restricting the bandwidth to a speed the hard disk can cope with as a First-World Problem...
If you're using uTorrent, it incorrectly uses memory mapped files in Windows,
I am, yes.
Maybe I should change...
Would you go to a tourist place where your internet that you intend to use to keep in touch with home sucks? Maybe you will, but how many like you?
This bill covers the European Union, a bunch of geographically-close first world countries.
Internet coverage is usually better here than in the USA.