To be fair, cars these days have more airbags, emissions control hardware, traction control, etc. than cars in the mid 80s. That extra weight to carry around wherever you go.
Sorry. I should say I don't know where that Toyota dealership was getting its information. And the URL above can be changed from 2005 to 2007 and the battery warranty information holds.
Basic: 36 months/36,000 miles (all components other than normal wear and maintenance items).
Hybrid-Related Component Coverage: Hybrid-related components, including the HV battery, battery control module, hybrid control module and inverter with converter, are covered for 8 years/100,000 miles. The HV battery may have longer coverage under emissions warranty. Refer to applicable Owner's Warranty Information booklet for details.
Powertrain: 60 months/60,000 miles (engine, transmission/transaxle, front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, seatbelts and airbags).
Rust-Through: 60 months/unlimited miles (corrosion perforation of sheet metal).
Maglev trains don't have rails. The maglev I saw in Japan has wheels on the bottom that retract once the train gets up some speed. The train bottom sits inside a U-shaped track, which has superconducting magnets on both sides and the bottom. These magnets are switched between North and South to match up with the magnets on the train, to pull and push the train along. To steer the train the magnets on either side of the U shape either push a bit or pull a bit to keep the train centered.
There is some bit of tolerance within the track, considering the train at speed isn't touching it. I don't know how the track would hold up, but if it does I imagine the train should get by better than a traditional bullet train on rails.
My favorite part about the movie "I, Robot" was when the lights in the chests of the robots turned to red, to indicate that they were evil robots. And then they turned back to blue when they were good robots./sarcasm
To be fair, they ran a computer immersed in distilled water and it did crash after 5 minutes or so, IIRC. They added the oil after that and it booted just fine, so the water didn't fry anything.
A realistic and comprehensive look at our civilization of course shows that while some industries are bounding ahead, many if not most important technologies, like our ability to produce and store energy, have made little progress.
Kurzweil notes that many technologies are progressing at an exponential rate. This is perfectly consistent with slow progression, as long as it is speeding up, and also realize that the "speed" of a technology is not always the factor that is increasing.
It may seem like our ability to store energy is progressing slowly, but actually if you looked at a graph of battery weight vs energy or volume vs energy I think you would find that it would be fairly exponential. Yes, we use lead acid batteries still, but that is because of economics, not because the state of the art has stood still. The rechargeable AA batteries in my home have twice the energy storage of an alkaline battery from just 10 years ago, yet can be recharged thousands of times. And these same batteries can store about 50% more than batteries of the same chemistry of just 3 years ago.
Of course, in one clock cycle a signal does not need to travel from one side of the chip to the other, just to the next stage in the pipeline. But that still is a cool statistic!
Why should swapping hands make you slower? It seems to me it would make you faster, because your fingers on one hand have a small time while the other hand is typing to get set up for their next key press.
My Firefox has been running for close to a week. I have 15 tabs open, many tabs have been closed over the course of its uptime. I have 10 extensions installed. It is using ~100 MB of memory, 150 MB of swap. On a computer with 4 GB of ram. I just don't see this magical memory usage.
I don't think you understand. Not burning radioactive waste, but burning things like coal and oil. Coal burning releases more radioactivity into the air than nuclear power does. Nuclear power allows the radioactivity to be contained in concentrated, contained areas.
After my CFL bulbs have warmed up they actually look a tiny bit brighter to me than incandescent bulbs. I've had them both on at the same time, side by side.
Dual booting is not the same as virtualization. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems, with their own sets of programs, to run concurrently, allowing for a better utilization of the hardware. These may be the same operating systems or different. Dual booting only allows one operating system to run at any one time. You don't get the benefits of physical resource sharing.
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To be fair, cars these days have more airbags, emissions control hardware, traction control, etc. than cars in the mid 80s. That extra weight to carry around wherever you go.
Sorry. I should say I don't know where that Toyota dealership was getting its information. And the URL above can be changed from 2005 to 2007 and the battery warranty information holds.
From http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/2005/prius/faq.htm
Basic: 36 months/36,000 miles (all components other than normal wear and maintenance items).
Hybrid-Related Component Coverage: Hybrid-related components, including the HV battery, battery control module, hybrid control module and inverter with converter, are covered for 8 years/100,000 miles. The HV battery may have longer coverage under emissions warranty. Refer to applicable Owner's Warranty Information booklet for details.
Powertrain: 60 months/60,000 miles (engine, transmission/transaxle, front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, seatbelts and airbags).
Rust-Through: 60 months/unlimited miles (corrosion perforation of sheet metal).
Rectally-implanted alien mind-probes -- which work so well because so many people think with their asses?
Bravo!
Maglev trains don't have rails. The maglev I saw in Japan has wheels on the bottom that retract once the train gets up some speed. The train bottom sits inside a U-shaped track, which has superconducting magnets on both sides and the bottom. These magnets are switched between North and South to match up with the magnets on the train, to pull and push the train along. To steer the train the magnets on either side of the U shape either push a bit or pull a bit to keep the train centered. There is some bit of tolerance within the track, considering the train at speed isn't touching it. I don't know how the track would hold up, but if it does I imagine the train should get by better than a traditional bullet train on rails.
Incredibly old P4-3.0ghz processor? Are you kidding? Or just from the future? ;)
One has already been to school with Mary, though it was against the rules. It made the children laugh and play.
My favorite part about the movie "I, Robot" was when the lights in the chests of the robots turned to red, to indicate that they were evil robots. And then they turned back to blue when they were good robots. /sarcasm
To be fair, they ran a computer immersed in distilled water and it did crash after 5 minutes or so, IIRC. They added the oil after that and it booted just fine, so the water didn't fry anything.
It may seem like our ability to store energy is progressing slowly, but actually if you looked at a graph of battery weight vs energy or volume vs energy I think you would find that it would be fairly exponential. Yes, we use lead acid batteries still, but that is because of economics, not because the state of the art has stood still. The rechargeable AA batteries in my home have twice the energy storage of an alkaline battery from just 10 years ago, yet can be recharged thousands of times. And these same batteries can store about 50% more than batteries of the same chemistry of just 3 years ago.
You talk as if faith is a bad thing. I believe it is just as important for the atheist as it is for the religious.
Because it's probably illegal, unless you inform the other party that they are being recorded.
Of course, in one clock cycle a signal does not need to travel from one side of the chip to the other, just to the next stage in the pipeline. But that still is a cool statistic!
OK, Slashdot. Where are my less-than signs going? I'm typing plain old text.
Where did my "" go? It was supposed to say 1 day flaws.
I think you mean 1 day flaws.
Please. The Yahoo Finance message boards? I'd say that's one strike against any system that uses it, based on my experience.
Why should swapping hands make you slower? It seems to me it would make you faster, because your fingers on one hand have a small time while the other hand is typing to get set up for their next key press.
Sorry, that should be ~100 MB of ram, ~150 MB total virtual memory.
My Firefox has been running for close to a week. I have 15 tabs open, many tabs have been closed over the course of its uptime. I have 10 extensions installed. It is using ~100 MB of memory, 150 MB of swap. On a computer with 4 GB of ram. I just don't see this magical memory usage.
and not to have a bunch of dead hard drive space filled with junk I'll never use but have to have installed due to piss-poor package management
You mean like all the source and intermediate build files in your emerge directory?
I don't think you understand. Not burning radioactive waste, but burning things like coal and oil. Coal burning releases more radioactivity into the air than nuclear power does. Nuclear power allows the radioactivity to be contained in concentrated, contained areas.
After my CFL bulbs have warmed up they actually look a tiny bit brighter to me than incandescent bulbs. I've had them both on at the same time, side by side.
Dual booting is not the same as virtualization. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems, with their own sets of programs, to run concurrently, allowing for a better utilization of the hardware. These may be the same operating systems or different. Dual booting only allows one operating system to run at any one time. You don't get the benefits of physical resource sharing.