Electric motors are cheap and known. Energy storage systems? Not so much.
The Tesla battery packs are works of art. Thousands of cells being babied by control systems that monitor charge states, temperature, etc. Once the manufacture of these packs scales up, and more is known about how the react out in the field for extended periods of time (10+ years), the prices should come down considerably. Until then, those with the cash are going to be subsidizing the R&D that needs to be done (by buying cars that are too expensive for most people).
I admit though, its not all altruistic. The Model S is a hot looking car.
I put $5K down 2 years ago. Yes, its expensive, but no more than a mid-level Audi or BMW (I love the S4 as well as the M5, respectively). I make over six figures, and have for the last several years, so I've already put a large downpayment aside and can easily afford the $400-500/month payment.
I wanted a luxury car that was all electric and could hold my myself, my wife, and my on-the-way kids. It also needed to be usable by my wife for errands, driving the kids around, etc.
I would buy this car even if gas was $2/gal. Someone has to eat the R&D costs for the price to drop for everyone else.
NTP was not designed to run inside of a virtual machine. It requires a high resolution system clock, with response times to clock interrupts that are serviced with a high level of accuracy. No known virtual machine is capable of meeting these requirements. Run NTP on the base OS of the machine, and then have your various guest OSes take advantage of the good clock that is created on the system. Even that may not be enough, as there may be additional tools or kernel options that you need to enable so that virtual machine clients can adequately synchronize their virtual clocks to the physical system clock.
Metering makes sense when there is a finite amount of capacity. Unless you want to be lied to, offered "unlimited", and then complain when throttling to maintain network integrity occurs.
The scale on the self-checkout doesn't do any sort of sanity check; it just makes sure the weight changes after scanning an item to ensure you've placed it in the bagging area.
Seems to work for me just fine in the areas I'm in (almost all of Northern Illinois, SF proper, Tampa/Orlando, FL). Hell, there isn't even an extra charge when I'm in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands (I cruise frequently). I'm *easily* getting my money's worth for $50/month with my Galaxy Nexus and 2GB data cap.
Then get out of the way. I gladly budget $1,000 a year for speeding tickets, as the time I save speeding over the 15K-20K/miles a year I drive is much more valuable to me than the cash. But that's what money is there for, to buy the things you value, and time is more valuable to me than the tickets I incur each year.
The probability of death from an air travel based terrorist attack is 1 in 30 million. I think the airline insurance carriers are going to be just fine with the risks.
If they have to replace the copper plant because its at the end of its useful life (and repair costs are higher than the capex costs), yes, an ILEC will do it. They aren't going to do it out of the goodness of their heart though.
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I didn't rob anyone at gunpoint for my salary. I get paid for my time, just like most everyone else here.
Perhaps someone may argue I get paid too much for my time; clearly, my employer thinks differently.
Electric motors are cheap and known. Energy storage systems? Not so much.
The Tesla battery packs are works of art. Thousands of cells being babied by control systems that monitor charge states, temperature, etc. Once the manufacture of these packs scales up, and more is known about how the react out in the field for extended periods of time (10+ years), the prices should come down considerably. Until then, those with the cash are going to be subsidizing the R&D that needs to be done (by buying cars that are too expensive for most people).
I admit though, its not all altruistic. The Model S is a hot looking car.
Let me get these out of the way as well.
I put $5K down 2 years ago. Yes, its expensive, but no more than a mid-level Audi or BMW (I love the S4 as well as the M5, respectively). I make over six figures, and have for the last several years, so I've already put a large downpayment aside and can easily afford the $400-500/month payment.
I wanted a luxury car that was all electric and could hold my myself, my wife, and my on-the-way kids. It also needed to be usable by my wife for errands, driving the kids around, etc.
I would buy this car even if gas was $2/gal. Someone has to eat the R&D costs for the price to drop for everyone else.
If quadrotors can do it with Kinects for indoor mapping, using Kinects with your car and a precision GPS/WAAS receiver are around the corner:
http://kinect.dashhacks.com/kinect-hacks/2011/04/14/autonomous-3d-indoor-quadrotor-exploration-localization-mapping
Openstreetmap is going to need more storage capacity.
Virtual machines cannot be used for NTP:
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.2.
NTP was not designed to run inside of a virtual machine. It requires a high resolution system clock, with response times to clock interrupts that are serviced with a high level of accuracy. No known virtual machine is capable of meeting these requirements.
Run NTP on the base OS of the machine, and then have your various guest OSes take advantage of the good clock that is created on the system. Even that may not be enough, as there may be additional tools or kernel options that you need to enable so that virtual machine clients can adequately synchronize their virtual clocks to the physical system clock.
+1 Agreed.
I agree that Iceland and Ireland are fairly different, but at the same time, you shouldn't cripple your economy by backstopping phantom debt.
Iceland will recovery faster than any EU country, precisely because they told their banks (as well as Britain and the Netherlands) to go fuck off:
http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20120227/the-lesson-from-icelands-economic-recovery-let-banks-go-bust.html
Iceland is doing fantastic actually, and instead of propping their banks up, they told them to go fuck themselves.
http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20120227/the-lesson-from-icelands-economic-recovery-let-banks-go-bust.html
What the hell is wrong with the rest of you?
Unbalanced expectations; and I'm not talking about the expectations of the person getting canned. Respect is a two way street.
Unless you can derive the username from the password. But heh, what are the odds of that happening? *rolls eyes*
Metering makes sense when there is a finite amount of capacity. Unless you want to be lied to, offered "unlimited", and then complain when throttling to maintain network integrity occurs.
With voice on LTE networks being converted to VoIP anyway, it makes sense.
One day, our kids are going to laugh at us that "minutes" were metered.
A low 6 figure income in Mountain View (and most of California) is middle class. Family of four in the bay area? $75K/year is scrapping by.
The scale on the self-checkout doesn't do any sort of sanity check; it just makes sure the weight changes after scanning an item to ensure you've placed it in the bagging area.
Otherwise known as EROEI, or Energy Returned On Energy Invested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_invested
Seems to work for me just fine in the areas I'm in (almost all of Northern Illinois, SF proper, Tampa/Orlando, FL). Hell, there isn't even an extra charge when I'm in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands (I cruise frequently). I'm *easily* getting my money's worth for $50/month with my Galaxy Nexus and 2GB data cap.
Then get out of the way. I gladly budget $1,000 a year for speeding tickets, as the time I save speeding over the 15K-20K/miles a year I drive is much more valuable to me than the cash. But that's what money is there for, to buy the things you value, and time is more valuable to me than the tickets I incur each year.
Sir! As a patriot, I want to be incinerated in a space vehicle made by my home country!
Oh Monty Python, you never get dated =)
No, I was implying that using the scanners were senseless. It is an enormous waste of passenger time, not to mention taxpayer money.
You have the same odds of being killed on an airplane by a terrorist as you do being killed by cancer from a body scanning device (1 in 30 million):
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/04390118385/tsa-security-theater-described-one-simple-infographic.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/04390118385/tsa-security-theater-described-one-simple-infographic.shtml
The probability of death from an air travel based terrorist attack is 1 in 30 million. I think the airline insurance carriers are going to be just fine with the risks.
Correct; my pricing was based on averages of bids to three contractors for 2 miles of a fiber pull in Oak Brook, IL
If they have to replace the copper plant because its at the end of its useful life (and repair costs are higher than the capex costs), yes, an ILEC will do it. They aren't going to do it out of the goodness of their heart though.