Yes. It is well known that conventional automobiles suffer drive train power losses of ~15% or more, which gearheads know is the reason you get different numbers whether you measure horsepower and torque at the wheels or at the engine's output shaft. If you are using electric motors at each wheel with less spinning hardware you also have less loss, though we also know that comparing power ratings of electric motors to traditional cars is troublesome. So as you are alluding to, AWD electrically-driven cars shouldn't suffer the same losses (relative to 2WD ones) as traditional cars. Of course you have the added complexity and cost inherent in having more motors, but 4 smaller electric motors shouldn't bee too much more inefficient than one or two larger ones, right? If anything, the elimination of driveshafts and mechanical differentials should be a plus (aside from adding failure points), no?
I don't have a need/desire/ability to hire coders, but I do hire people for other jobs. I honestly don't give a damn if they have "passion" for doing what I need them to do. What I do is try to be open about what is expected, which is to complete projects correctly and on time, while not bringing personal drama into the work place. I am friendly enough (I think) and I want them all to succeed and have a good time, and if work is enjoyable, so much the better, but what it comes down to is if you do quality work, you continue to be paid for doing it, period.
I don't need employees who double as cheerleaders, just competent people who take their jobs seriously and come to work ready and willing to work. After all, it is work and most of us won't do it without reasonable compensation. If my dad taught me one useful lesson about work it is that your employment need not (perhaps should not) define you as a person, and it should certainly not run your life. I suppose if you are passionate about painting or something and can support yourself solely via that, then passion is in order, but if you are working for someone else it is a little crazy to have a 24x7, job-first mentality.
I use IE exactly one time a week, because I am required to. My company uses a vendor whose B2B website is straight out of 1997 and freaks out if you don't use IE. Once in a great while I submit an order from home, in which case I use Firefox with the User Agent Switcher extension on Linux to trick the vendor's site into believing I am using IE, which actually works fine. I don't do this at work because the machine I use to access this particular vendor's site is shared and I am not permitted to install Firefox (LOL). A few times I have forgotten about this and used current versions of Firefox and Chrome, causing the vendor's site to suggest (demand, really, since it is supposedly optimized for IE and won't allow me to use anything else) that I "upgrade" to a more recent browser, like IE 6. That always cracks me up.
Before you accept anything from bitcointalk, make sure you punch yourself in the face (and maybe read news ANYWHERE else when you are done). That site is a joke, still, is it always has been.
Racist. Not all Romanians are gypsies, and "gypsy" is a term with negative connotations anyway. I don't think they even self-iedntify as Romanian. Way to post anonymously, coward. And I wouldn't worry about OpenBSD being tainted by bitcoins. Bitcoins are fine, and OpenBSD is better alive than dead, no?
It's like the disclaimers that vitamin and supplement sellers use to disclaim a bunch of claims they just made. If you say a bunch of stuff then claim you weren't actually saying anything, you have zero credibility in my book. "It is still unclear whether there are safe levels of use for cannabis" is a pretty curious statement coming from someone who isn't even studying whether there are safe levels for cannabis use. She's right, but that declaration in this context is misleading, at best. It would have been just as relevant to say that the first piano-playing, pink African elephant may or may not be discovered by elderly New Jersey construction workers within the next decade.
The vast majority of pot smokers never develop any measurable, diagnosed psychosis.
I won't whine about the difference between a weak correlation and causation, but it must be acknowledged that there is a possibility that people who experience psychosis are more likely than the general, healthy population to use drugs and, specifically, smoke marijuana daily.
There are signs that weed may exacerbate the symptoms of psychoses in some people, but that is about the only definite conclusion we can draw that links the two. That is, unless you choose to ignore science when it does not fit your agenda (we're looking at you ONDCP, DARE, and DEA).
If they use the stock (or other DOT-approved) reflector and housing, they are indeed legal, for the most part. Active aiming is over rated and not necessary - you just need to aim them correctly, which plenty of people can't seem to do with conventional headlights, either.
It's actually to in increase downward force on the vehicle and gain traction at higher speeds.
I'm still confused why as to why they put spoilers on front wheel drive vehicles though.
For the same reason they put spoilers on RWD cars - to keep the back end down at high speeds! Just because the drive wheels are at the front doesn't mean FWD cars have reversed aerodynamic properties!
By an large though, spoilers are for looks, as the street cars they find their ways onto don't need additional downforce, whether FWD, RWD, or AWD, since they don't corner at 100+ MPH very often. And of course most of the ones on street cars (factory-installed or aftermarket) are not even tuned to produce downforce.
I don't think we are that far from a major evolutionary advance: cats developing the ability to shoot lasers from their mouths. The galaxy will soon be at peace.
Yes, their user agreement might say you own your data, and it probably says a lot of other things. But honestly, what did you expect? Did you really think you could give them your data and expect them not to use it? Do you really trust social websites to look out for you? Such sites basically have two ways to make money, by showing you paid ads and selling/renting/"sharing" your data. Sorry, but if you're paying attention you must know that you can't trust any of them with anything you don't want to be public forever - and I mean all social sites. Even if they have a friendly EULA/TOS and actually abide by and don't change it, can you trust that your info is secure? Hackers and corporate buyouts are threats, as well.
And if he's smart, which he clearly seems to be, he has already given copies of the documents to a few people he trusts, with the threat of mass releases ensuring his safety. Surely the NSA has thought of this possibility. And any amnesty deal would have to be contingent upon him keeping a low profile, likely outside of the US, and be subject to revocation should anyone else release related documents that are believed to have been stolen by Snowden.
If it were me, I'd have divided copies up among multiple recipients, with multiple recipients for each document but without all documents to anyone. Of course this assumes that there are people he thinks he can trust, which may not be the case. Or maybe he doesn't have much more that is interesting? Either way, I would not be quick to trust his word enough to offer amnesty, nor should he be trusting enough to accept a deal from a government he clearly does not (and probably should not) trust.
Okay, Anonymous Coward, so 7500 cubic metres of highly radioactive waste is not a concern to you? Then what of the other problems associated with LFTRs, such as the need for a bunch of U-233 (a little hard to come by) and the fact that know one is experienced at building them, especially at the scale needed for commercially viable power generation? Just small details I am also wrong about?
Too bad you posted anonymously and will probably not keep up with this, as I'd love to see your answers. Great job figuring out that LFTRs are the holy grail of power generation, even though no one else seems to think so.
the man was arrested for being a dick to both the managers of the property and the officer on the scene. and, as you don't use someone's restroom when asked repeatedly not to, you shouldn't use someone's utilities without asking... especially when explicitly asked not to.
So you're saying he wasn't arrested for committing a crime at all? I thought he was arrested for committing the crime of theft (amounting to something like three cents), not for being a dick, which is not a crime.
LFTRs still have considerable problems to be worked out, which is why the technology has never been implemented on any large scale. They are a possibility but one that would require a huge amount of development before they could be a major commercial solution. I wouldn't count on this type of reactor having any impact in the foreseeable future, due to the U-233 required for startup, the highly radioactive waste that is still produced, proliferation risks, and a host of other concerns that would be very expensive to address. LFTRs are certainly interesting but still far from ready for prime time.
Wow, so there are intelligent, compassionate humans alive today. Good comment, hey!. I sure don't mourn criminals who die because of their follies, but I take no joy in their deaths.
Yes, you can't say with true certainty that everyone will die until everyone is actually dead. You get closer and closer every day as more people die, but with the world birth rate exceeding the death rate, there are an awful lot of people who have not dies yet. Some have proposed that the first human to live to 1000 has already been born. Plus it isn't widely considered likely that the universe has a definitive end point, so eternal life, however unlikely, might be possible. And as a Christian, I know I will someday be granted eternal life in another place - heaven. Thanks Obama, I mean, thanks Jesus.
I don't get this birthrate talk. Is having a lower birthrate indicative of a superior race, society, culture or country? If it were, it would mean the societies that became extinct the quickest were the greatest, no? And I have noticed that family sizes in the United States were once much higher. Does moving away from something that helped makes us great now make us greater? Is China's one child policy actually a good idea? People here in the US (and I mean white people) love to talk about the high perceived birthrate among Mexicans and welfare-dependent (a euphemism, usually meaning black) Americans, and consider it a problem. But when my white great grandparents were having 13-child families on their farms from 1900 to 1925, that was good for America? Does that make "the greatest generation" "the worst generation?"
Get over the racism and stereotypes, folks. It all makes no sense and makes the promoters look utterly stupid.
You missed the capitalization and didn't use proper punctuation in your comment, so you really shouldn't be telling other people when they should be talking about stupidity. But at least you were lame enough to flame anonymously, loser.
They're Mexican and older then 14. So yes, they have children.
And you are officially racist. It is not okay to say things like this about Mexicans or Chinese people, despite the odd acceptance of such racism in America today.
News stories mentioning Mexicans do not automatically warrant jokes about refried beans, burritos, picking lettuce, border-jumping or fence climbing, being lazy, having 20 kids, or being illegal immigrants. Nor do stories about Chinese people mean it is okay to automatically say something irrelevant about rice, or talk with an offensive "Chinese" accent. If you see something written about an African-American do you think it is okay bring out the same tired old watermelon, fried chicken, barbecue, sambo, welfare comments? That is wrong, and the crap white people say about Mexicans and Chinese is just as bad, even if you can usually get away with it. (And no, it is not okay to call all people of Asian descent Chinese. Everyone knows you are not really joking, even when you say you are.)
Yeah, I'm white, American, and male, and I'm tired of people who look and talk like me making me look bad in the eyes of everyone else. They know we're not all bad, but the ignorance that goes hand in hand with white racist elitism still makes me sick. If you want to deride someone, don't be lazy -- at least have a reason and make it personal, not based on flawed stereotypes. Otherwise shut the fuck up.
Hmm, no, I think. While a fair number of the numerous other digital "alt" coins (bitcoin competitors and copycats) are known or suspected to have been "pre-mined," no one credible has ever accused Satoshi of cheating. Sure he was likely the first to mine BTC, but he was not a scammer developing the network merely to cash in himself. And I doubt many earl adopters are still holding their first coins.
Personally, I cashed out several times, like when it hit $6, then again at $20, then again at $110, a few at $210, then more at $140ish a couple months ago, at which time I gave up on mining and mostly stopped trading. We were all optimistic but few of us were patient enough to really amass huge wallets for the long term, nor did most of us really see the huge recent price spike coming, unfortunately. If there is any evidence that Satoshi somehow took advantage of BTC in a secretive, underhanded way, please enlighten us.
Just for shits and giggles, what if DPR and Satoshi were indeed in cahoots at the beginning, with DPR having the balls and skills to build a huge black market and Satoshi providing him with the means to make it work? Sounds unlikely to me, but it is conceivable that Satoshi created bitcoin not only knowing that it would be abused for illegal transactions, but also intending it to be used as such. Hmm...
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Yes. It is well known that conventional automobiles suffer drive train power losses of ~15% or more, which gearheads know is the reason you get different numbers whether you measure horsepower and torque at the wheels or at the engine's output shaft. If you are using electric motors at each wheel with less spinning hardware you also have less loss, though we also know that comparing power ratings of electric motors to traditional cars is troublesome. So as you are alluding to, AWD electrically-driven cars shouldn't suffer the same losses (relative to 2WD ones) as traditional cars. Of course you have the added complexity and cost inherent in having more motors, but 4 smaller electric motors shouldn't bee too much more inefficient than one or two larger ones, right? If anything, the elimination of driveshafts and mechanical differentials should be a plus (aside from adding failure points), no?
Are you suggesting that gourds migrate?
I don't have a need/desire/ability to hire coders, but I do hire people for other jobs. I honestly don't give a damn if they have "passion" for doing what I need them to do. What I do is try to be open about what is expected, which is to complete projects correctly and on time, while not bringing personal drama into the work place. I am friendly enough (I think) and I want them all to succeed and have a good time, and if work is enjoyable, so much the better, but what it comes down to is if you do quality work, you continue to be paid for doing it, period.
I don't need employees who double as cheerleaders, just competent people who take their jobs seriously and come to work ready and willing to work. After all, it is work and most of us won't do it without reasonable compensation. If my dad taught me one useful lesson about work it is that your employment need not (perhaps should not) define you as a person, and it should certainly not run your life. I suppose if you are passionate about painting or something and can support yourself solely via that, then passion is in order, but if you are working for someone else it is a little crazy to have a 24x7, job-first mentality.
I use IE exactly one time a week, because I am required to. My company uses a vendor whose B2B website is straight out of 1997 and freaks out if you don't use IE. Once in a great while I submit an order from home, in which case I use Firefox with the User Agent Switcher extension on Linux to trick the vendor's site into believing I am using IE, which actually works fine. I don't do this at work because the machine I use to access this particular vendor's site is shared and I am not permitted to install Firefox (LOL). A few times I have forgotten about this and used current versions of Firefox and Chrome, causing the vendor's site to suggest (demand, really, since it is supposedly optimized for IE and won't allow me to use anything else) that I "upgrade" to a more recent browser, like IE 6. That always cracks me up.
Before you accept anything from bitcointalk, make sure you punch yourself in the face (and maybe read news ANYWHERE else when you are done). That site is a joke, still, is it always has been.
Racist. Not all Romanians are gypsies, and "gypsy" is a term with negative connotations anyway. I don't think they even self-iedntify as Romanian. Way to post anonymously, coward. And I wouldn't worry about OpenBSD being tainted by bitcoins. Bitcoins are fine, and OpenBSD is better alive than dead, no?
It's like the disclaimers that vitamin and supplement sellers use to disclaim a bunch of claims they just made. If you say a bunch of stuff then claim you weren't actually saying anything, you have zero credibility in my book. "It is still unclear whether there are safe levels of use for cannabis" is a pretty curious statement coming from someone who isn't even studying whether there are safe levels for cannabis use. She's right, but that declaration in this context is misleading, at best. It would have been just as relevant to say that the first piano-playing, pink African elephant may or may not be discovered by elderly New Jersey construction workers within the next decade.
The vast majority of pot smokers never develop any measurable, diagnosed psychosis.
I won't whine about the difference between a weak correlation and causation, but it must be acknowledged that there is a possibility that people who experience psychosis are more likely than the general, healthy population to use drugs and, specifically, smoke marijuana daily.
There are signs that weed may exacerbate the symptoms of psychoses in some people, but that is about the only definite conclusion we can draw that links the two. That is, unless you choose to ignore science when it does not fit your agenda (we're looking at you ONDCP, DARE, and DEA).
If they use the stock (or other DOT-approved) reflector and housing, they are indeed legal, for the most part. Active aiming is over rated and not necessary - you just need to aim them correctly, which plenty of people can't seem to do with conventional headlights, either.
It's actually to in increase downward force on the vehicle and gain traction at higher speeds.
I'm still confused why as to why they put spoilers on front wheel drive vehicles though.
For the same reason they put spoilers on RWD cars - to keep the back end down at high speeds! Just because the drive wheels are at the front doesn't mean FWD cars have reversed aerodynamic properties!
By an large though, spoilers are for looks, as the street cars they find their ways onto don't need additional downforce, whether FWD, RWD, or AWD, since they don't corner at 100+ MPH very often. And of course most of the ones on street cars (factory-installed or aftermarket) are not even tuned to produce downforce.
I don't think we are that far from a major evolutionary advance: cats developing the ability to shoot lasers from their mouths. The galaxy will soon be at peace.
Yes, their user agreement might say you own your data, and it probably says a lot of other things. But honestly, what did you expect? Did you really think you could give them your data and expect them not to use it? Do you really trust social websites to look out for you? Such sites basically have two ways to make money, by showing you paid ads and selling/renting/"sharing" your data. Sorry, but if you're paying attention you must know that you can't trust any of them with anything you don't want to be public forever - and I mean all social sites. Even if they have a friendly EULA/TOS and actually abide by and don't change it, can you trust that your info is secure? Hackers and corporate buyouts are threats, as well.
And if he's smart, which he clearly seems to be, he has already given copies of the documents to a few people he trusts, with the threat of mass releases ensuring his safety. Surely the NSA has thought of this possibility. And any amnesty deal would have to be contingent upon him keeping a low profile, likely outside of the US, and be subject to revocation should anyone else release related documents that are believed to have been stolen by Snowden.
If it were me, I'd have divided copies up among multiple recipients, with multiple recipients for each document but without all documents to anyone. Of course this assumes that there are people he thinks he can trust, which may not be the case. Or maybe he doesn't have much more that is interesting? Either way, I would not be quick to trust his word enough to offer amnesty, nor should he be trusting enough to accept a deal from a government he clearly does not (and probably should not) trust.
Okay, Anonymous Coward, so 7500 cubic metres of highly radioactive waste is not a concern to you? Then what of the other problems associated with LFTRs, such as the need for a bunch of U-233 (a little hard to come by) and the fact that know one is experienced at building them, especially at the scale needed for commercially viable power generation? Just small details I am also wrong about?
Too bad you posted anonymously and will probably not keep up with this, as I'd love to see your answers. Great job figuring out that LFTRs are the holy grail of power generation, even though no one else seems to think so.
the man was arrested for being a dick to both the managers of the property and the officer on the scene. and, as you don't use someone's restroom when asked repeatedly not to, you shouldn't use someone's utilities without asking... especially when explicitly asked not to.
So you're saying he wasn't arrested for committing a crime at all? I thought he was arrested for committing the crime of theft (amounting to something like three cents), not for being a dick, which is not a crime.
LFTRs still have considerable problems to be worked out, which is why the technology has never been implemented on any large scale. They are a possibility but one that would require a huge amount of development before they could be a major commercial solution. I wouldn't count on this type of reactor having any impact in the foreseeable future, due to the U-233 required for startup, the highly radioactive waste that is still produced, proliferation risks, and a host of other concerns that would be very expensive to address. LFTRs are certainly interesting but still far from ready for prime time.
Wow, so there are intelligent, compassionate humans alive today. Good comment, hey!. I sure don't mourn criminals who die because of their follies, but I take no joy in their deaths.
The loot starts to glow, say "holy shit!!!" and run like a motherfather.
Yes, you can't say with true certainty that everyone will die until everyone is actually dead. You get closer and closer every day as more people die, but with the world birth rate exceeding the death rate, there are an awful lot of people who have not dies yet. Some have proposed that the first human to live to 1000 has already been born. Plus it isn't widely considered likely that the universe has a definitive end point, so eternal life, however unlikely, might be possible. And as a Christian, I know I will someday be granted eternal life in another place - heaven. Thanks Obama, I mean, thanks Jesus.
"The life of a repoman is always intense."
I don't get this birthrate talk. Is having a lower birthrate indicative of a superior race, society, culture or country? If it were, it would mean the societies that became extinct the quickest were the greatest, no? And I have noticed that family sizes in the United States were once much higher. Does moving away from something that helped makes us great now make us greater? Is China's one child policy actually a good idea? People here in the US (and I mean white people) love to talk about the high perceived birthrate among Mexicans and welfare-dependent (a euphemism, usually meaning black) Americans, and consider it a problem. But when my white great grandparents were having 13-child families on their farms from 1900 to 1925, that was good for America? Does that make "the greatest generation" "the worst generation?"
Get over the racism and stereotypes, folks. It all makes no sense and makes the promoters look utterly stupid.
Way to defend racism anonymously. How typical.
You missed the capitalization and didn't use proper punctuation in your comment, so you really shouldn't be telling other people when they should be talking about stupidity. But at least you were lame enough to flame anonymously, loser.
They're Mexican and older then 14. So yes, they have children.
And you are officially racist. It is not okay to say things like this about Mexicans or Chinese people, despite the odd acceptance of such racism in America today.
News stories mentioning Mexicans do not automatically warrant jokes about refried beans, burritos, picking lettuce, border-jumping or fence climbing, being lazy, having 20 kids, or being illegal immigrants. Nor do stories about Chinese people mean it is okay to automatically say something irrelevant about rice, or talk with an offensive "Chinese" accent. If you see something written about an African-American do you think it is okay bring out the same tired old watermelon, fried chicken, barbecue, sambo, welfare comments? That is wrong, and the crap white people say about Mexicans and Chinese is just as bad, even if you can usually get away with it. (And no, it is not okay to call all people of Asian descent Chinese. Everyone knows you are not really joking, even when you say you are.)
Yeah, I'm white, American, and male, and I'm tired of people who look and talk like me making me look bad in the eyes of everyone else. They know we're not all bad, but the ignorance that goes hand in hand with white racist elitism still makes me sick. If you want to deride someone, don't be lazy -- at least have a reason and make it personal, not based on flawed stereotypes. Otherwise shut the fuck up.
Hmm, no, I think. While a fair number of the numerous other digital "alt" coins (bitcoin competitors and copycats) are known or suspected to have been "pre-mined," no one credible has ever accused Satoshi of cheating. Sure he was likely the first to mine BTC, but he was not a scammer developing the network merely to cash in himself. And I doubt many earl adopters are still holding their first coins.
Personally, I cashed out several times, like when it hit $6, then again at $20, then again at $110, a few at $210, then more at $140ish a couple months ago, at which time I gave up on mining and mostly stopped trading. We were all optimistic but few of us were patient enough to really amass huge wallets for the long term, nor did most of us really see the huge recent price spike coming, unfortunately. If there is any evidence that Satoshi somehow took advantage of BTC in a secretive, underhanded way, please enlighten us.
Just for shits and giggles, what if DPR and Satoshi were indeed in cahoots at the beginning, with DPR having the balls and skills to build a huge black market and Satoshi providing him with the means to make it work? Sounds unlikely to me, but it is conceivable that Satoshi created bitcoin not only knowing that it would be abused for illegal transactions, but also intending it to be used as such. Hmm...