Sorry but as long as I cannot access the actual article I have to assume is fake. This is science: convince the world! So putting your actual paper behind some login is a no-no.
The thing with databases is: It,well, holds your data. You know: the meat and bones of your company. If someone hacks your webserver that is kind of embarrasing. If someone drops your database you're toast.
Almost completely correct. It is indeed episode 221. With the genius catchphrase : "never leave the boat".
The name of the episode however is: Look At The Princess Part II: I Do, I Thinksource
Oh, I miss it!
Hmm. Let me see. Option 1: Implement carbon emission limitations without carbon credits. You're saying that since there is no way to transfer theproblem. Every country is left to fend for itself in abiding the restrictions. Therfore technology will come from industrialised countries for whom restrictions are tightest. I would suspect that this would never work because those countries will simply not acknowledge the restrictions. Which is in fact what we can see happening.
Option 2: Implement carbon emission limitations with carbon credits. I can agree with the point you make here. It *is* a wealth transfer. Albeit not hidden. Because agrarian countries have something industrialised do not: enough trees and stuff to scrub the air. And now it has a price label. I also agree the price willl be very low. This comes from the buying power developed countries have. Thus relatively not much wealth is transfered. But since the income of people in,say africa, is very low. it will hopefully be enough to not let them percieve woods as ' worthless'. They are holding this planet , nearly literally, by the throat. Kyoto acknowledges that at least a little. For China and India it won't matter, because their income is already too high for them. That why they don't bother.
That's interesting. I didn't know that the participation of China and India an argument. Wouldn't this be an argument in the category 'I do not have to do anything, because they don't either' America being the biggest economy on the planet makes this a bit questionable maybe? I agree wholehartely with the argument that Kyoto would have a wealth re-distribution effect. It puts an economic value on a resource which before was free. How will this delay the adoption of pollution-reducing technologies? There is money to be made in that area now, because it has become a market.
Well, thinks like braking and waiting will be ok. Braking feeds back electricity into the batteries. There is always loss of course, but you won't lose it all in heat as with conventional brakes. A inventor made an active energy management system for existing cars with similar techniques and got a 23% better efficency on an existing car! Speedbumps however are something different. The energy goes into the springs and cannot be easily recovered.
Well, as I understand it the Bushg administration said 'no' to kyoto because he believes technology will come up with a solution (that's us guys btw). So I guess he sees alternatives to nuclear plants? Something to do with corn?
Just let those big, overpaid, greedy top-managers screem a while.
Then, publicly, pick out the loudest screamer and sack him. Something for public television and a president wanting to be popular again.
(You can sack him roman style which is a bit too bloody for modern times. Oh wait you are Americans right? You still do that. Well That's ok then.)
Anyways, his salary alone will compensate for those costs no problemo. With the added merit of the rest of those greedy bastards now wanting to scream too loud...
Japan's `Mileage Maniacs' Hack Hybrids, Beat Toyota Engineers
By Terje Langeland
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid car gets about 55 miles to the gallon, making it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the road. That's not good enough for Takashi Toya.
Toya, a 56-year-old manager for a tofu maker in central Japan, puts special tires on his Prius, tapes plastic and cardboard over the engine and blocks the grill with foam rubber. He drives without shoes and hacks into his car's computer -- all in the pursuit of maximum distance with minimum gasoline.
Toya is one of about 100 nenpimania, Japanese for ``mileage maniacs,'' or hybrid owners who compete against each other to squeeze as much as 115 miles per gallon out of their cars. In a country where gasoline costs more than $4 a gallon, at least $1 more than the U.S. price, enthusiasts tweak their cars and hone driving techniques to cut fuel bills and gain bragging rights.
``My wife thinks I've joined some strange secret society,'' Toya said in January at a nenpimania gathering in Nagoya in central Japan.
Mileage maniacs aren't alone in pushing the limits of hybrid vehicles. As U.S. automakers General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. race to introduce their own models, first rolled out by Japanese companies in 1997, engineers at Toyota and Honda Motor Co. are trying to boost hybrid performance to maintain their advantage.
``With higher oil prices and tightening environmental regulations, people will focus more on hybrid technology,'' said Koji Endo, an auto analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in Tokyo.
Hybrid Power
Hybrids combine a conventional gasoline engine with an electric motor. The motor powers the vehicle at low speeds, and the gasoline engine kicks in as the car accelerates. The motor uses the motion of the wheels to recharge the batteries.
Toya said he switched to a hybrid after years of driving sports cars, trading muscle ``for the fun of maximum mileage.'' Nicknamed ``The Shogun,'' Toya said he drove 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) on a single 13-gallon (49-liter) tank 17 times last year, an average of 79 mpg. At the advertised efficiency rate, a driver would get 715 miles per tank.
Toya isn't the best, though. A woman from Akita prefecture, nicknamed ``Teddy-Girl,'' is cited on mileage maniac Web sites as getting almost 116 mpg. That's enough to drive from New York to Wichita, Kansas -- 1,386 miles -- without refilling.
By comparison, a 2007 two-wheel drive Ford F-150 pickup running at peak efficiency burns through five times as much gasoline over the same distance.
Mileage Varies
While the nenpimania may take things to extremes, there is a long history of car owners tinkering with their machines to improve gas mileage.
``The Gas Mileage Bible'' (Infinity Publishing, 2006) promises to help drivers improve fuel efficiency by more than 30 percent. It is the latest in a line of books stretching back to at least 1942, when an American author named Lee Richter published a 64-page pamphlet on increasing tire and gas mileage to help save resources for the U.S. war effort.
Since the 1997 release of the Prius, the first mass-market hybrid, owners in Japan and elsewhere have fiddled with their cars to raise mileage and shared tips, including the best driving techniques, over the Internet. The mileage maniacs strive to perfect what they call the ``pulse and glide'' driving method.
On a chilly Saturday afternoon in Aichi prefecture, a short drive from Toyota's world headquarters in Toyota City, Toya removes his right shoe to demonstrate. Pulsing and gliding demands sensitivity when pushing or releasing the accelerato
In Holland an environmentalists group actually build a environment friendly car and showed it of at the annual, national car show. It was put together in a combined effort with three universities in a few months.
Made the big brands look pritty silly I can tell you!.
It's called the c,mm,n (pronounced: common). at it is open-source no-less:)
here is a local item on it. It's in dutch, but it got neeat pictures showing that this is no vapor-ware. It actually sits on someone's driveway....
The technology is there. It's proven.
I guess its the investments in factories putting the big guys off?
Does anyone know what such a long time in space does with your body? What would be differences in impact between woman and men? I seem to remember a documentary about Russian cosmonauts who's bone-mass had become alarmingly small after being in weightlessness too long. Is that different these days?
I 'Nay' too. Most of the time we have processing power to spare. Therfore I think the road will go elsewhere. I think we will see much more small, cheap but powerfull cpu's in everyday equipment. Which will be able to communicate and form spontanious clusters. Think RFID and Sun's SPOT.
Intel and AMD will make 8 core cpu's and discover that its a small market. After that they will use the *same* techologie to make single-core processors which can be dynamically coupled together with something like bluetooth. And then the possibilities are (again) endless.... And software makers can make software that does just a small piece of functionality. We can do that, Been doing that for decades. First we called it procedures, then functions, and now we call it Web Services.
I must rant against this, obviously provoking, list of horse manure:
1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric.
a. How much is a company like Sony making, and how much profit is joe, average artist, making at Sony?
2. AllOfMP3.com, the well-known Russian web site, has not been licensed by a single IFPI member, has been disowned by right holder groups worldwide and is facing criminal proceedings in Russia.
b. Just like the former head of Yukos hwo's also in jail. Legal equality does not exist in russia.
I think we all know whyAllOFMP3.com is facing court: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/01/22 15257/>
3. Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money.
c. This has nothing to do with filesharing. It has everything to do with professional manufacturing and selling CD's.
d. Tht criminals drop selling drugs in favour if illegal CD's goes to show how spectecular the profits are on music. It's more than indecent
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label.
e. Many smaller labels and artists release early work into file sharing networks themselves. It's free marketing.
Big labels are concerned by this since they had the monopoly on market access.
5. Reduced revenues for record companies mean less money available to take a risk on "underground" artists and more inclination to invest in "bankers" like American Idol stars.
f. Releasing music and bringing it into the market now costs less. Thus more and more "underground" artists can affort this opportunity. The could even do it without selling their souls to a big label. Since "blockbusters"do not bring in the huge profits anymore labels are forced to diversify in lots of smaller ("underground") music releases.
6. ISPs often advertise music as a benefit of signing up to their service, but facilitate the illegal swapping on copyright infringing music on a grand scale.
g. Hmm. We have an advertisement here from shell, driving a ferrari Formula 1 car through a local town. LETS GET THEM TOO!
7. The anti-copyright movement does not create jobs, exports, tax revenues and economic growth-it largely consists of people pontificating on a commercial world about which they know little.
h. The business model of big labels, based on expensive market access, is no longer valid. Other companies with a more up-to-date business model seem to be doing just fine. More people have access to more music as a result of this. And one could ask the question if the music market at large is growing or shrinking (expressed in money). It's just more smaller companies instead of a few big corporations that are too big to move with a changing market.
i. Wasn't the argument in point 1 that the pirate bay is making money? hmmmm
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners.
j. as TFA points out: poor people do not have access to the internet. Firts food, then education, then a pleasant living environment (incl. buying music)
k. How is this point excactly 'inconvinient' ?
9. Most people know it is wrong to file-share copyright infringing material but won't stop till the law makes them, according to a recent study by the Australian anti-piracy group MIPI.
l. 'wrong'being defined as? People are willng to pay for music. fo
What about having the concentrators on the moon? I agree it is a bit tricky having so much energy beamed to earth, but beamed to a relay station (satellite) en then to a big solar panel somewhere in the desert?
No, I don't know for sure if that will be the case--but neither does anyone else Which is the reason the europe said: Let's do what we know will help, since it will also put pressure on research on minimizing the effects.
Funny how putting a pricetag on resources fuels investments in research on that resource (especially in capital-orientend countries;-))
Guess your opinion is wel-heard in the discussion. The ent result is just not what you expected.
Nr 1 on the list... Knowing the computer. I get the feeling that more and more systems are put together without ANYONE in the project knowing what it means on the machine level. And then, at the last moment the project leader goes to an unlucky DBA and says something like : The project is finished, now you store it. And why is it so slow?
H Are computer systems becoming to complex to think them through?
He's going to court over a suspention from scool of 40 days? Are you kidding me? apart from the fact if he deserved it or not. I woe the school who has to fight court battles over stuff like this. It would be a reason for me to kick his entire family from school. Just too big a risk for the stability of the school. I hope his parents get their asses kicked by the judge. That will make a valuable lesson for both the student *and* the parents.
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Sorry but as long as I cannot access the actual article I have to assume is fake.
This is science: convince the world!
So putting your actual paper behind some login is a no-no.
The thing with databases is: It ,well, holds your data. You know: the meat and bones of your company.
If someone hacks your webserver that is kind of embarrasing. If someone drops your database you're toast.
That's amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!
Almost completely correct. It is indeed episode 221. With the genius catchphrase : "never leave the boat".
The name of the episode however is: Look At The Princess Part II: I Do, I Think source
Oh, I miss it!
H
p.s
Farscape lives!
He,
/me ducks
but it is nuts and it has volts!
Just not stuff that matters....
Hmm. Let me see.
,say africa, is very low. it will hopefully be enough to not let them percieve woods as ' worthless'.
Option 1: Implement carbon emission limitations without carbon credits.
You're saying that since there is no way to transfer theproblem. Every country is left to fend for itself in abiding the restrictions. Therfore technology will come from industrialised countries for whom restrictions are tightest.
I would suspect that this would never work because those countries will simply not acknowledge the restrictions. Which is in fact what we can see happening.
Option 2: Implement carbon emission limitations with carbon credits.
I can agree with the point you make here. It *is* a wealth transfer. Albeit not hidden. Because agrarian countries have something industrialised do not: enough trees and stuff to scrub the air. And now it has a price label. I also agree the price willl be very low. This comes from the buying power developed countries have. Thus relatively not much wealth is transfered. But since the income of people in
They are holding this planet , nearly literally, by the throat. Kyoto acknowledges that at least a little.
For China and India it won't matter, because their income is already too high for them. That why they don't bother.
That's interesting. I didn't know that the participation of China and India an argument. Wouldn't this be an argument in the category 'I do not have to do anything, because they don't either'
America being the biggest economy on the planet makes this a bit questionable maybe?
I agree wholehartely with the argument that Kyoto would have a wealth re-distribution effect. It puts an economic value on a resource which before was free. How will this delay the adoption of pollution-reducing technologies? There is money to be made in that area now, because it has become a market.
Well, thinks like braking and waiting will be ok. Braking feeds back electricity into the batteries. There is always loss of course, but you won't lose it all in heat as with conventional brakes.
A inventor made an active energy management system for existing cars with similar techniques and got a 23% better efficency on an existing car!
Speedbumps however are something different. The energy goes into the springs and cannot be easily recovered.
Well,
as I understand it the Bushg administration said 'no' to kyoto because he believes technology will come up with a solution (that's us guys btw).
So I guess he sees alternatives to nuclear plants?
Something to do with corn?
H
Just let those big, overpaid, greedy top-managers screem a while. Then, publicly, pick out the loudest screamer and sack him. Something for public television and a president wanting to be popular again. (You can sack him roman style which is a bit too bloody for modern times. Oh wait you are Americans right? You still do that. Well That's ok then.) Anyways, his salary alone will compensate for those costs no problemo. With the added merit of the rest of those greedy bastards now wanting to scream too loud...
It will come from a country where they know how to handle sparse resources: japan:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&si d=atw_4DmW_OjA&refer=asia"
Japan's `Mileage Maniacs' Hack Hybrids, Beat Toyota Engineers
By Terje Langeland
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid car gets about 55 miles to the gallon, making it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the road. That's not good enough for Takashi Toya.
Toya, a 56-year-old manager for a tofu maker in central Japan, puts special tires on his Prius, tapes plastic and cardboard over the engine and blocks the grill with foam rubber. He drives without shoes and hacks into his car's computer -- all in the pursuit of maximum distance with minimum gasoline.
Toya is one of about 100 nenpimania, Japanese for ``mileage maniacs,'' or hybrid owners who compete against each other to squeeze as much as 115 miles per gallon out of their cars. In a country where gasoline costs more than $4 a gallon, at least $1 more than the U.S. price, enthusiasts tweak their cars and hone driving techniques to cut fuel bills and gain bragging rights.
``My wife thinks I've joined some strange secret society,'' Toya said in January at a nenpimania gathering in Nagoya in central Japan.
Mileage maniacs aren't alone in pushing the limits of hybrid vehicles. As U.S. automakers General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. race to introduce their own models, first rolled out by Japanese companies in 1997, engineers at Toyota and Honda Motor Co. are trying to boost hybrid performance to maintain their advantage.
``With higher oil prices and tightening environmental regulations, people will focus more on hybrid technology,'' said Koji Endo, an auto analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in Tokyo.
Hybrid Power
Hybrids combine a conventional gasoline engine with an electric motor. The motor powers the vehicle at low speeds, and the gasoline engine kicks in as the car accelerates. The motor uses the motion of the wheels to recharge the batteries.
Toya said he switched to a hybrid after years of driving sports cars, trading muscle ``for the fun of maximum mileage.'' Nicknamed ``The Shogun,'' Toya said he drove 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) on a single 13-gallon (49-liter) tank 17 times last year, an average of 79 mpg. At the advertised efficiency rate, a driver would get 715 miles per tank.
Toya isn't the best, though. A woman from Akita prefecture, nicknamed ``Teddy-Girl,'' is cited on mileage maniac Web sites as getting almost 116 mpg. That's enough to drive from New York to Wichita, Kansas -- 1,386 miles -- without refilling.
By comparison, a 2007 two-wheel drive Ford F-150 pickup running at peak efficiency burns through five times as much gasoline over the same distance.
Mileage Varies
While the nenpimania may take things to extremes, there is a long history of car owners tinkering with their machines to improve gas mileage.
``The Gas Mileage Bible'' (Infinity Publishing, 2006) promises to help drivers improve fuel efficiency by more than 30 percent. It is the latest in a line of books stretching back to at least 1942, when an American author named Lee Richter published a 64-page pamphlet on increasing tire and gas mileage to help save resources for the U.S. war effort.
Since the 1997 release of the Prius, the first mass-market hybrid, owners in Japan and elsewhere have fiddled with their cars to raise mileage and shared tips, including the best driving techniques, over the Internet. The mileage maniacs strive to perfect what they call the ``pulse and glide'' driving method.
On a chilly Saturday afternoon in Aichi prefecture, a short drive from Toyota's world headquarters in Toyota City, Toya removes his right shoe to demonstrate. Pulsing and gliding demands sensitivity when pushing or releasing the accelerato
The technology is there. It's proven. I guess its the investments in factories putting the big guys off?
p.s. found the homepage to the project:
Butt of course you are :)
seriuosly though.
Woman tend to have ligter bones and less mussle tissue,
Wouldn't a woman suffer from weigtlessness earlier and more?
Does anyone know what such a long time in space does with your body?
What would be differences in impact between woman and men?
I seem to remember a documentary about Russian cosmonauts who's bone-mass had become alarmingly small after being in weightlessness too long.
Is that different these days?
H
p.s Please keep it scientific....
I 'Nay' too. Most of the time we have processing power to spare. Therfore I think the road will go elsewhere.
I think we will see much more small, cheap but powerfull cpu's in everyday equipment.
Which will be able to communicate and form spontanious clusters.
Think RFID and Sun's SPOT.
Intel and AMD will make 8 core cpu's and discover that its a small market.
After that they will use the *same* techologie to make single-core processors which can be dynamically coupled together with something like bluetooth. And then the possibilities are (again) endless....
And software makers can make software that does just a small piece of functionality. We can do that, Been doing that for decades. First we called it procedures, then functions, and now we call it Web Services.
H
Therefore, according to the /. headline maker, you *must* be a nerd...
But wouldn't a stream of charged particles from the engine mess up the data collected?
a. How much is a company like Sony making, and how much profit is joe, average artist, making at Sony?
b. Just like the former head of Yukos hwo's also in jail. Legal equality does not exist in russia. I think we all know whyAllOFMP3.com is facing court: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/01/22 15257/>
c. This has nothing to do with filesharing. It has everything to do with professional manufacturing and selling CD's. d. Tht criminals drop selling drugs in favour if illegal CD's goes to show how spectecular the profits are on music. It's more than indecent
e. Many smaller labels and artists release early work into file sharing networks themselves. It's free marketing. Big labels are concerned by this since they had the monopoly on market access.
f. Releasing music and bringing it into the market now costs less. Thus more and more "underground" artists can affort this opportunity. The could even do it without selling their souls to a big label. Since "blockbusters"do not bring in the huge profits anymore labels are forced to diversify in lots of smaller ("underground") music releases.
g. Hmm. We have an advertisement here from shell, driving a ferrari Formula 1 car through a local town. LETS GET THEM TOO!
h. The business model of big labels, based on expensive market access, is no longer valid. Other companies with a more up-to-date business model seem to be doing just fine. More people have access to more music as a result of this. And one could ask the question if the music market at large is growing or shrinking (expressed in money). It's just more smaller companies instead of a few big corporations that are too big to move with a changing market. i. Wasn't the argument in point 1 that the pirate bay is making money? hmmmm
j. as TFA points out: poor people do not have access to the internet. Firts food, then education, then a pleasant living environment (incl. buying music) k. How is this point excactly 'inconvinient' ?
l. 'wrong'being defined as? People are willng to pay for music. fo
What about having the concentrators on the moon?
I agree it is a bit tricky having so much energy beamed to earth, but beamed to a relay station (satellite) en then to a big solar panel somewhere in the desert?
Nr 1 on the list... Knowing the computer.
I get the feeling that more and more systems are put together without ANYONE in the project knowing what it means on the machine level.
And then, at the last moment the project leader goes to an unlucky DBA and says something like : The project is finished, now you store it. And why is it so slow?
H
Are computer systems becoming to complex to think them through?
XML for everything except higlevel communication between systems (read webservices)
Especially config files
Horrible files I had to edit...
He's going to court over a suspention from scool of 40 days?
Are you kidding me?
apart from the fact if he deserved it or not.
I woe the school who has to fight court battles over stuff like this. It would be a reason for me to kick his entire family from school. Just too big a risk for the stability of the school.
I hope his parents get their asses kicked by the judge. That will make a valuable lesson for both the student *and* the parents.
Unbelievable
I'm so excited!
The browser is the new OS. For example