Of course, then you run into another problem: 900MJ in one hour is 250kW. That's over 1,000A at 240V! The main breaker in my house is only rated at 200A!
Of course, it would provide some opportunities for profit... "hey, neighbor, pay up, or I plug my car in when the whistle blows for the superbowl kickoff and brown out the neighborhood!" >:)
The first is heat from charging. If you use your figure of 900MJ, and charging is 90% efficient, that means you have to dissipate 90MJ of heat during the charge. 1J = 1Ws, so 90MJ is 25kWh of heat energy. That's 1kW if charging takes one day, or 4kW if it takes 6 hours. That's probably way too much heat for the battery/car to take. (assuming my math/conversions are correct!) Of course, that only applies if you're charging all at once. Charge time wouldn't be as much of an issue if you charge whenever you're not using the car.
The other issue is that we (US) have nowhere near the generation capacity to handle a nation full of electric cars. We'd have to start building a lot of extra capacity, seeing as how we sometimes have a hard time keeping up with demand as it is. On the other hand, everyone having a huge battery plugged into the grid could do a lot to help smooth out peak demand.
My company has several large data centers. While the network portion is generally separated from the server portion, so that two servers next to each other in a rack might talk to each other via a switch 25m away, the SAN racks and the servers that use them are usually fairly close to each other. There's no reason why an off-net storage switch couldn't be located in the SAN rack and connected directly for most installations.
Granted, you do lose some placement flexibility, which might be a deal-breaker in some situations, but if it's significantly faster or cheaper it might be popular.
The difference between software development and math/physics is that developers CAN'T use a lot of material that came before, because it's patented/copyrighted. Math and physics are not (yet).
I'm sure most developers know better than to reinvent the wheel. Sadly, our current legal BS forces them to.
The only way I can think of that the average consumer will benefit from an 8-core proc is that they'll be able to be infected by up to 7 botnet clients before their computer starts slowing down...
How many hundreds of billions are we wasting in Iraq? What kind of progress could we have made if we collected the trillion dollars we'll likely pour down that hole and gave it to a bunch of scientists and said, "here, come up with the coolest tech you can!" Wouldn't it have been better to have spent all the money we've spent on warfare/arms in the last 100 years and had the scientists compete to see who could come up with niftiest stuff or fix the biggest problems?
I'm willing to bet that if, instead of invading Iraq, we'd started transitioning to a hydrogen economy and spent all the money on that instead, we'd BE THERE by now!
Look at the paltry funding most basic medical research gets and compare it to that kind of money.
But a race will only have itself to war with until it gets off planet to war with someone else, unless someone else comes and makes contact. If they can't stop warring with themselves long enough to get off planet, they probably won't ever have an "external enemy" in the first place.
I think a lot of places would rather hire a new, inexperienced graduate cheaply than a seasoned vetran engineer that costs a lot more but wouldn't make newbie mistakes.
Even at lower altitudes, that would take a lot of light anti-aircraft systems off the table, and at least make it harder even for large SAM systems. Imagine being a guy with a shoulder-fired AA missile trying to get a bead on something going at Mach 2. Even if you get a successful lock on it and fire, it's unlikely your missile will be able to catch it even if it's on a low-level bombing run (something I wouldn't expect a B-2 to do, anyway).
Not to mention, if the guy with the shoulder-fired missile didn't get his shot off *before* you flew over him at 1000ft at mach 2, he'll be too busy holding his ears and screaming to worry about shooting at you. AND they can't hear you coming, so their main method of detection won't work.
Your model would have everyone on the share/download chain responsible for everyone downstream of them, meaning that the "loss" for the last person on the chain is being multiplied by however many people came before.
I'm not arguing tasers don't have their uses and should not be used, but hopefully this classification by the UN will get police departments to look seriously at their rules for using them and start to help curb their overuse and use in inappropriate situations, as well as provide support for private lawsuits that will help do the same thing.
Exactly... it's the same as the whole gun control thing:
It doesn't matter what kind of force is used; any force can kill. Guns, tasers, nightsticks/batons, fists, pepper spray, or even just leaving a handcuffed subject lying face down (positional asphyxiation).
Heck, I'd much rather be tasered than pepper sprayed or beat up. Pepper spray can hurt like hell for hours. Batons & fists will leave sore bruises or broken bones. The taser hurts like hell and locks your muscles up for 5 seconds then stops (although you could be injured when you fall).
I don't have a kid, but if I did, and he was young enough to be "sent to his room," there certainly wouldn't be a computer, video game, or TV in there, even if it was "his" system.
I think one of the better ways to do this is to sell a package with X GB of unthrottled transfer per month. As you approach X, instead of just letting you blow past it and chargeing for the extra bits, start throttling the sustained transfer speed down while leaving short bursts unthrottled.
You can pay more to increase X, but there's no fear of getting cut off or ending up with a large bandwidth bill to make people wary of buying a 'limited' or 'metered' service.
The huge bandwidth users will either have to pay more or deal with slow downloads, while the "normal" users don't have to worry about it at all. If they do go over one month, their web browsing and MMORPGs aren't affected, and they don't get hit with a bunch of extra charges. Most people want very fast transfers for a few seconds at a time, and this seems like a perfect solution.
If you only reduce calories without exercising and lifting weights, you're going to end up losing muscle, not fat, and slowing down your metabolism yet to boot. Muscle burns calories, even if you're sitting around the office, and it will make you burn more calories for every minute of exercise you do. Any realistic weight loss/maintenance program includes diet (you can't lose weight if you're eating more calories than you're burning), cardio (burn calories), and resistance training (maintain - not necessarily gain - muscle mass). (IMO, any diet that has a name is total BS. They were designed to make someones wallet bigger, not make you smaller.)
Except they're not the same. If they demand a physical key, and you don't have it, can't you just say "Yes, that's my door, but I lost the key. Just bash it down." You should be able to do the same for virtual doors, but the bashing part is basically impossible.
I live in the Dallas area, and heard a little about this incident on the local news. It was vague information, but from what I heard, several thousand customers got knocked out with this outage. That would seem to indicate that this wasn't the small power pole on the corner that got hit, but a much larger line, maybe feeding a substation that took out the whole area. To get a redundant line in that situation could be difficult, as you'd have to run a dedicated line in from a separate substation somewhere. That could be extremely hard to do and very expensive in a built-up area like Dallas.
Or try this: - Ask if you'll be fired if you don't sign. - If so, ask to have that in writing - Once above document is in hand, and you have proof that the agreement was signed under duress, sign it
IANAL, of course, but it might not be valid after that...
Well, if this thing loads applications, doesn't that MAKE it an OS in some respects?
Your "real question" should be why do we need a *bloated* OS? The answer, of course, is that we've never needed it, and would probably be better off without it...
Yup, these guys skip a lot of the important stuff.
After researching a home theater room myself, I've come to the conclusion that if you can do your research in less than two months, and don't have a permanent headache from it, you probably still don't understand it.:)
Example: matching the crossovers on the processor's LFE channel/subwoofer combo with the ones the processor applies to the satellite speakers. If you're not careful, you end up with a 2nd order on satellites vs. 4th order on the LFE channel.
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ah... 99.9% would make a bit of a difference!
Of course, then you run into another problem: 900MJ in one hour is 250kW. That's over 1,000A at 240V! The main breaker in my house is only rated at 200A!
Of course, it would provide some opportunities for profit... "hey, neighbor, pay up, or I plug my car in when the whistle blows for the superbowl kickoff and brown out the neighborhood!" >:)
There are still a few problems, though.
The first is heat from charging. If you use your figure of 900MJ, and charging is 90% efficient, that means you have to dissipate 90MJ of heat during the charge. 1J = 1Ws, so 90MJ is 25kWh of heat energy. That's 1kW if charging takes one day, or 4kW if it takes 6 hours. That's probably way too much heat for the battery/car to take. (assuming my math/conversions are correct!) Of course, that only applies if you're charging all at once. Charge time wouldn't be as much of an issue if you charge whenever you're not using the car.
The other issue is that we (US) have nowhere near the generation capacity to handle a nation full of electric cars. We'd have to start building a lot of extra capacity, seeing as how we sometimes have a hard time keeping up with demand as it is. On the other hand, everyone having a huge battery plugged into the grid could do a lot to help smooth out peak demand.
My company has several large data centers. While the network portion is generally separated from the server portion, so that two servers next to each other in a rack might talk to each other via a switch 25m away, the SAN racks and the servers that use them are usually fairly close to each other. There's no reason why an off-net storage switch couldn't be located in the SAN rack and connected directly for most installations.
Granted, you do lose some placement flexibility, which might be a deal-breaker in some situations, but if it's significantly faster or cheaper it might be popular.
The difference between software development and math/physics is that developers CAN'T use a lot of material that came before, because it's patented/copyrighted. Math and physics are not (yet).
I'm sure most developers know better than to reinvent the wheel. Sadly, our current legal BS forces them to.
The only way I can think of that the average consumer will benefit from an 8-core proc is that they'll be able to be infected by up to 7 botnet clients before their computer starts slowing down...
How many hundreds of billions are we wasting in Iraq? What kind of progress could we have made if we collected the trillion dollars we'll likely pour down that hole and gave it to a bunch of scientists and said, "here, come up with the coolest tech you can!" Wouldn't it have been better to have spent all the money we've spent on warfare/arms in the last 100 years and had the scientists compete to see who could come up with niftiest stuff or fix the biggest problems?
I'm willing to bet that if, instead of invading Iraq, we'd started transitioning to a hydrogen economy and spent all the money on that instead, we'd BE THERE by now!
Look at the paltry funding most basic medical research gets and compare it to that kind of money.
But a race will only have itself to war with until it gets off planet to war with someone else, unless someone else comes and makes contact. If they can't stop warring with themselves long enough to get off planet, they probably won't ever have an "external enemy" in the first place.
Not just losing experience to retirement...
I think a lot of places would rather hire a new, inexperienced graduate cheaply than a seasoned vetran engineer that costs a lot more but wouldn't make newbie mistakes.
Better hope you don't run into a game warden while you're camping! Or just don't go to the bathroom the whole time...
Couldn't the ISPs get around that by adding a frameset, with their content in one frame and the https URL you requested in the other?
Not to mention, if the guy with the shoulder-fired missile didn't get his shot off *before* you flew over him at 1000ft at mach 2, he'll be too busy holding his ears and screaming to worry about shooting at you. AND they can't hear you coming, so their main method of detection won't work.
No, the patches just need to detect when they've been put on an ambulance chasing lawyer and release cyanide instead of their normal payload.
Your model would have everyone on the share/download chain responsible for everyone downstream of them, meaning that the "loss" for the last person on the chain is being multiplied by however many people came before.
Exactly... it's the same as the whole gun control thing:
Guns don't kill people; people do...
Tasers don't torture people; people do...
It doesn't matter what kind of force is used; any force can kill. Guns, tasers, nightsticks/batons, fists, pepper spray, or even just leaving a handcuffed subject lying face down (positional asphyxiation).
Heck, I'd much rather be tasered than pepper sprayed or beat up. Pepper spray can hurt like hell for hours. Batons & fists will leave sore bruises or broken bones. The taser hurts like hell and locks your muscles up for 5 seconds then stops (although you could be injured when you fall).
Hell, if it means I get my electricity for free, you can bury the damn thing in my back yard.
Please?
I don't have a kid, but if I did, and he was young enough to be "sent to his room," there certainly wouldn't be a computer, video game, or TV in there, even if it was "his" system.
I think one of the better ways to do this is to sell a package with X GB of unthrottled transfer per month. As you approach X, instead of just letting you blow past it and chargeing for the extra bits, start throttling the sustained transfer speed down while leaving short bursts unthrottled.
You can pay more to increase X, but there's no fear of getting cut off or ending up with a large bandwidth bill to make people wary of buying a 'limited' or 'metered' service.
The huge bandwidth users will either have to pay more or deal with slow downloads, while the "normal" users don't have to worry about it at all. If they do go over one month, their web browsing and MMORPGs aren't affected, and they don't get hit with a bunch of extra charges. Most people want very fast transfers for a few seconds at a time, and this seems like a perfect solution.
If you only reduce calories without exercising and lifting weights, you're going to end up losing muscle, not fat, and slowing down your metabolism yet to boot. Muscle burns calories, even if you're sitting around the office, and it will make you burn more calories for every minute of exercise you do. Any realistic weight loss/maintenance program includes diet (you can't lose weight if you're eating more calories than you're burning), cardio (burn calories), and resistance training (maintain - not necessarily gain - muscle mass). (IMO, any diet that has a name is total BS. They were designed to make someones wallet bigger, not make you smaller.)
Except they're not the same. If they demand a physical key, and you don't have it, can't you just say "Yes, that's my door, but I lost the key. Just bash it down." You should be able to do the same for virtual doors, but the bashing part is basically impossible.
I live in the Dallas area, and heard a little about this incident on the local news. It was vague information, but from what I heard, several thousand customers got knocked out with this outage. That would seem to indicate that this wasn't the small power pole on the corner that got hit, but a much larger line, maybe feeding a substation that took out the whole area. To get a redundant line in that situation could be difficult, as you'd have to run a dedicated line in from a separate substation somewhere. That could be extremely hard to do and very expensive in a built-up area like Dallas.
Or try this:
- Ask if you'll be fired if you don't sign.
- If so, ask to have that in writing
- Once above document is in hand, and you have proof that the agreement was signed under duress, sign it
IANAL, of course, but it might not be valid after that...
Screw class-action... that takes years, and you won't get anything back, anyway.
Just call up the credit card company you used to buy it, explain that they stole it from you and that you'd like to charge it back.
Credit card companies might be evil, but they are occasionally useful...
Well, if this thing loads applications, doesn't that MAKE it an OS in some respects?
Your "real question" should be why do we need a *bloated* OS? The answer, of course, is that we've never needed it, and would probably be better off without it...
Yup, these guys skip a lot of the important stuff.
:)
After researching a home theater room myself, I've come to the conclusion that if you can do your research in less than two months, and don't have a permanent headache from it, you probably still don't understand it.
Example: matching the crossovers on the processor's LFE channel/subwoofer combo with the ones the processor applies to the satellite speakers. If you're not careful, you end up with a 2nd order on satellites vs. 4th order on the LFE channel.