I like my DC metro smarttrip. This is a new plastic card with a radio transmitter (RFID). You just touch it to the SmartTrip cricle and you get through. You can load it via credit card and get a refund if it is lost. I keep it in my wallet, and just slap my whole wallet on the white circle. When I go through a handicapped gate with the circle on the side (as opposed to the top), I can keep my wallet in my pocket, and just knock it with my hip. I don't even break stride.
I could see it beeing useful for schools just the way current encyclopedias are. I wouldn't cite the wikipedia in a paper, but I would use it as a starting point for research. It has been understood for papers that I have written since 8th grade, that you get more advanced sources than an encyclopedia.
Cruising on the highway it provides no benefit, in fact the extra weight reduces your mileage slightly... If you do mostly highway cruising you really are better off with a normal, fuel efficient gasoline vehicle.
Not quite. Engines are sized based on acceleration not cruising (if you want to accelerate faster get a larger engine).
Throttled gasoline engines are most efficient at WOT peak horsepower or torque (I forget which). Second to that they are most efficent at WOT high load compared to partially open throttle low load. This is why it saves fuel to lug your engine (less throttling losses) its not good for your engine though. With a hybrid, the engine can be sized closer to the cruising requirements (running at WOT) and acceptable acceleration is achieved with the help of electric motor.
So, the hybrid is more efficient cruising compared to a regular model, even though it isn't using the electric motor. It is running closer to WOT during cruising than the regular engine.
Personally I am a fan of diesels. They don't suffer any throttling losses, because they don't have throttles. Their efficiency approaches that of hybrids, and their durability far surpasses them.
Throttling losses if you are wondering, result from the extra energy it takes to suck air through a partially closed inlet compared to an open inlet.
Similarly, many SUV's are over 5000 LBS, but they aren't forced to conform to street and bridge weight restrictions.
The bridge weight formula doesn't come into play until GVWR is over 26,000 lbs at the least. You probably wouldn't like SUVs that had to change their current design to comply with bridge weight formulas either. The designers would add wheelbase and possibly extra axles making the vehicle less manuevrable and adding weight.
If it's better than the existing Accord, then it's still worth doing.
No. Say it gets 1 mpg better than the existing car, but we have kill 5 people for each one produced, is it worth it? What if the new accord wears out after 50,000 miles, and you have to take it to a dump, still better?
Uhm, does the government force you to eat the food, no. If people ate the junk food and physically excerted themselves, they wouldn't be fat. When I worked construction, in 2 months I dropped 25 lbs (180-155) and I ate whatever I wanted to.
Drive through a project. I dare you. You'll see a bunch of fat people. Obesity is a problem that affects the poor more than the wealthy.
But, you say, "the poor can't afford the healthy foods that the rich can afford, its a lack of education". Whether they lack the education or money to buy the proper foods, they obviously aren't starving, as proven by the rolls of fat.
Beans and rice are very inexpensive and consitute a large part of a healthy diet.
SMP ready cpu's weren't always more expensive than there UP breatheren. The CPU's are almost exactly the same, but the manufacturers just disable the SMP ability and sell them for more.
The USPS is self funding because it is a tax on us. They were granted monopoly power by the federal government and it is illegal to compete with them. It is illegal for anyone but a USPS worker to deliver mail to your official mailbox. Thus the price is higher than it has to be.
When have you ever enjoyed the qaulity of government service? Name a government program which has been run efficiently.
And, what about censorship? Now if an isp censors their users, those users can go to another isp if they care enough. If the government provides zero additional cost ISP service, not as many people would be motivated to go to another ISP to get away from censorship. The other ISPs would have a smaller possible market, and thus have to charge more. The whole idea stinks.
Hmm, like I did as a freshman in highschool. First with a color printer and internet access at an all boyss school. The school said I was violating their moral value.
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Low power would be important, but it would have to be tolerant of bad power. Many developing nations don't have anywhere near the qaulity of power that we have. By qaulity I mean surges, frequency and voltage. Many countries have brownouts every morning because that is when peak demand occurs and they are lucky to have enough power production for average demand.
Solar power is probably a non starter. It is expensive. One of the greatest uses of a computer is internet access, if you can't get reliable power, I doubt you can get an internet connection, so why would you want to start the computer.
The problem with control-click is that its not ergonomically correct. I hate applications that make me use the mouse and keyboard at the same time (I realize sometimes its necessary). Having to use one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard is annoying. Keyboard shortcuts are good for the same reason, you can do all the work with the keyboard, and not have to move to the mouse and then back to the keyboard.
I am sure we would be more likely to come up with a cure for cancer if the barriers to entry for research weren't so damn high. Last time I checked, you can't buy a person in the US to expirement on. Much less buy a person for $400. Even if you did have a brilliant drug idea, you would need millions to be able to try it out because of the FDA.
So I say to you, if you want a cure to cancer, find some biologist in his mom's basement and let him do experiments on you.
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I like my DC metro smarttrip. This is a new plastic card with a radio transmitter (RFID). You just touch it to the SmartTrip cricle and you get through. You can load it via credit card and get a refund if it is lost. I keep it in my wallet, and just slap my whole wallet on the white circle. When I go through a handicapped gate with the circle on the side (as opposed to the top), I can keep my wallet in my pocket, and just knock it with my hip. I don't even break stride.
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I could see it beeing useful for schools just the way current encyclopedias are. I wouldn't cite the wikipedia in a paper, but I would use it as a starting point for research. It has been understood for papers that I have written since 8th grade, that you get more advanced sources than an encyclopedia.
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Throttled gasoline engines are most efficient at WOT peak horsepower or torque (I forget which). Second to that they are most efficent at WOT high load compared to partially open throttle low load. This is why it saves fuel to lug your engine (less throttling losses) its not good for your engine though. With a hybrid, the engine can be sized closer to the cruising requirements (running at WOT) and acceptable acceleration is achieved with the help of electric motor.
So, the hybrid is more efficient cruising compared to a regular model, even though it isn't using the electric motor. It is running closer to WOT during cruising than the regular engine.
Personally I am a fan of diesels. They don't suffer any throttling losses, because they don't have throttles. Their efficiency approaches that of hybrids, and their durability far surpasses them.
Throttling losses if you are wondering, result from the extra energy it takes to suck air through a partially closed inlet compared to an open inlet.
Why can't someone design a proper UI that doesn't need a mouse ford navigation?
Thats why I love the state lotteries. They are largely a tax on the stupid and poor.
Uhm, does the government force you to eat the food, no. If people ate the junk food and physically excerted themselves, they wouldn't be fat. When I worked construction, in 2 months I dropped 25 lbs (180-155) and I ate whatever I wanted to.
Drive through a project. I dare you. You'll see a bunch of fat people. Obesity is a problem that affects the poor more than the wealthy. But, you say, "the poor can't afford the healthy foods that the rich can afford, its a lack of education". Whether they lack the education or money to buy the proper foods, they obviously aren't starving, as proven by the rolls of fat. Beans and rice are very inexpensive and consitute a large part of a healthy diet.
SMP ready cpu's weren't always more expensive than there UP breatheren. The CPU's are almost exactly the same, but the manufacturers just disable the SMP ability and sell them for more.
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The USPS is self funding because it is a tax on us. They were granted monopoly power by the federal government and it is illegal to compete with them. It is illegal for anyone but a USPS worker to deliver mail to your official mailbox. Thus the price is higher than it has to be.
When have you ever enjoyed the qaulity of government service? Name a government program which has been run efficiently. And, what about censorship? Now if an isp censors their users, those users can go to another isp if they care enough. If the government provides zero additional cost ISP service, not as many people would be motivated to go to another ISP to get away from censorship. The other ISPs would have a smaller possible market, and thus have to charge more. The whole idea stinks.
Low power would be important, but it would have to be tolerant of bad power. Many developing nations don't have anywhere near the qaulity of power that we have. By qaulity I mean surges, frequency and voltage. Many countries have brownouts every morning because that is when peak demand occurs and they are lucky to have enough power production for average demand. Solar power is probably a non starter. It is expensive. One of the greatest uses of a computer is internet access, if you can't get reliable power, I doubt you can get an internet connection, so why would you want to start the computer.
The problem with control-click is that its not ergonomically correct. I hate applications that make me use the mouse and keyboard at the same time (I realize sometimes its necessary). Having to use one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard is annoying. Keyboard shortcuts are good for the same reason, you can do all the work with the keyboard, and not have to move to the mouse and then back to the keyboard.
I am sure we would be more likely to come up with a cure for cancer if the barriers to entry for research weren't so damn high. Last time I checked, you can't buy a person in the US to expirement on. Much less buy a person for $400. Even if you did have a brilliant drug idea, you would need millions to be able to try it out because of the FDA. So I say to you, if you want a cure to cancer, find some biologist in his mom's basement and let him do experiments on you.