2 is an excellent fraction of 3 and, indeed, of many other fine numbers.:) pi is an irrational number, 2 is rational. Both fractions, only 2 can be represented as a perfect fraction. I *think* pi can only be represented as a vulgar fraction. A-level maths, however, was a very long time ago...
So, this trend of moving your MVC/P/VM engine from the server (.NET, python, etc) to javascript (knockout) is a bad thing? Because I've ALWAYS wanted a decent reason to tell people to stop doing that.
My cloud isn't bad. It runs on my Synology NAS and Dropbox et al. can bugger off. It's not backed up yet, but I can sync it with encryption to E3. It's not simple (as in normal people simple, although it's the simplest non-simple solution I've ever seen) However it's all kinds of awesome.
Yes I realised, the statement about the gear box was unrelated. The reason I mentioned the gearbox was because with it it's possible to electrically disengage the clutch, there's no clutch pedal. Meaning with appropriate firmware it can run as a diesel electric drive system. I think I'll ask them. Anyway, I've found my next car! 8D They come into my price range next year.
There's one car like that, some boutique sports car. Of course, there's no reason why you can't just have the car disengage the clutch and charge the battery that's in the boot. For reference the transmission is an "electrically controlled manual". Assuming this means 6 speeds and clutch but electronic auto/semi controlls. So, use the diesel to accelerate up to 88 miles and hour. Then disengage the clutch, shutdown the diesel and maintain with the electrics. When you're out of leccy, start up the diesel and charge the battery with it at whatever is the most efficient RPM for the diesel. Apart from the fact that you're lugging a gearbox and clutch around this seems a good interim solution to me. Especially as Peugeot say it's very easy to retro fix to existing machine lines and vehicle platforms.
I've wondered why they haven't done that yet. Both the cars I've mentioned have something similar. No expensive complex linkage in the 3008 (diesel front, electric rear) No expensive batteries or big electric in the Merc (electric just there to maintain 70mph) There is one boutique sports car with an engine that is just a generator. So give it another 10 years.
The merc's like that, except backwards. Diesel to get up to speed and electric to keep you there, charging from the diesel when the small battery is flat. Clever sticks those Germans.
I'm not sure but I think they're summing the power of the dino engine and the electric engine. I have the same engine in my Ford and it puts out 138bhp (It's an engine by PSA) However the diesel powers the front wheels and the electric the rear. This allows you to use both at the same time and forgo the heavy, complex and expensive linkage in normal hybrids. Thing is, if it only produces 99 g/km.
Now, the Merc is quite different, the electric engine is small, as is the battery and it's packed somewhere in the transmission. On the Merc, at motorway speeds the diesel engine is shutdown and the electric is used to maintain 70 mph. When the small battery is exhausted, the diesel cuts in, generates motive power and electrickery until the battery is full again. Which is how a 200hp engine produces only 111 g/km.
With the Peugeot you can drive with either engine or both for bursts of power.
Peugeot's my preferred solution. Simple, cheap (er), flexible (2wd, 4wd, electric, diesel or both) and efficient (electric at low speeds, either at high speeds) I think I'll get one next year when the '11 plates are out of warranty and cheap (45% of showroom cost) Also you get 200bhp in what is (I think) a road tax exempt car (100 g/km, although that's a number that goes down as years go by)
"Sonics and ARM just made an agreement to use Sonics interconnects patents and some power management tech in ARM products."
"If Sonics is to be taken at face value on their functionality, then you can slap just about any IP block you have on an ARM core now with a fair bit of ease."
This is kind of relevant too, the internet will eat all our electricities:
Agreed. If there is ever the perfect fits all solution (such as Intel tries to build) it won't be for a very long time. If ever. Transistors are cheap, just built for what your target usage is. I seem to remember something about AMD and some sort of interconnect tech that (one day) allows you to quickly/cheaply/easily interconnect modular chip bits and really easily build for a target market.
I think they mean that Open software guarantees that, no matter what, any student will be able to afford access to required software. Not just people whop can afford Winows/OSX/Office/etc.
Agreed. Saw a journalist at a festival the other day writing a review on a tablet + stand + bluetooth keyboard. Bai bai laptops and desktops, hello convergence.
You can close a background application by right clicking it's icon in the task bar, selecting close (I think, haven't used it for a few weeks, it runs on my server)
You don't mean that a cheap ARM board with Bluetooth, WiFi, Miracast, HDMI out and touch/audio in + a simple GNU/Linux could do what 99% of the people want for about 50p do you?
I'm genuinely shocked that they would attempt this awful vendor lock in and price gouging.
"advocates the supremacy of technical experts'. Scientists, engineers, and technologists who have knowledge, expertise, or skills, would compose the governing body, instead of politicians, businesspeople, and economists."
Slashdot Mirror
Yes I notice nobody seems to be talking about this.
But who'd have thunk it eh?
Services in exchange for money.
That's a new one on me...
2 is an excellent fraction of 3 and, indeed, of many other fine numbers. :)
pi is an irrational number, 2 is rational.
Both fractions, only 2 can be represented as a perfect fraction.
I *think* pi can only be represented as a vulgar fraction.
A-level maths, however, was a very long time ago...
Are you suggesting that the high temperature full spectrum lighting throughout my white walled house might not have been such a hot idea?!?! 8@
Actually they're there for S.A.D and I've just not bothered getting round to putting in some regular incandescent lighting for after bedtime.... .
However they're really isn't anything like a light you feel you can get a tan off in the bathroom to wake you up in the morning.
"carbon dioxide removal (CDR),' taking carbon dioxide emissions out of the climate"
Have they also considered not bulldozing every tree in sight?
$ man macho
http://www.google.com/search?q=man+macho
Hmm, it seems you can.
(ooh, yeah!)
So, this trend of moving your MVC/P/VM engine from the server (.NET, python, etc) to javascript (knockout) is a bad thing?
Because I've ALWAYS wanted a decent reason to tell people to stop doing that.
My cloud isn't bad.
It runs on my Synology NAS and Dropbox et al. can bugger off.
It's not backed up yet, but I can sync it with encryption to E3.
It's not simple (as in normal people simple, although it's the simplest non-simple solution I've ever seen)
However it's all kinds of awesome.
Yes I realised, the statement about the gear box was unrelated.
The reason I mentioned the gearbox was because with it it's possible to electrically disengage the clutch, there's no clutch pedal. Meaning with appropriate firmware it can run as a diesel electric drive system. I think I'll ask them.
Anyway, I've found my next car! 8D
They come into my price range next year.
There's one car like that, some boutique sports car.
Of course, there's no reason why you can't just have the car disengage the clutch and charge the battery that's in the boot.
For reference the transmission is an "electrically controlled manual".
Assuming this means 6 speeds and clutch but electronic auto/semi controlls.
So, use the diesel to accelerate up to 88 miles and hour.
Then disengage the clutch, shutdown the diesel and maintain with the electrics.
When you're out of leccy, start up the diesel and charge the battery with it at whatever is the most efficient RPM for the diesel.
Apart from the fact that you're lugging a gearbox and clutch around this seems a good interim solution to me.
Especially as Peugeot say it's very easy to retro fix to existing machine lines and vehicle platforms.
I've wondered why they haven't done that yet.
Both the cars I've mentioned have something similar.
No expensive complex linkage in the 3008 (diesel front, electric rear)
No expensive batteries or big electric in the Merc (electric just there to maintain 70mph)
There is one boutique sports car with an engine that is just a generator.
So give it another 10 years.
The merc's like that, except backwards.
Diesel to get up to speed and electric to keep you there, charging from the diesel when the small battery is flat.
Clever sticks those Germans.
I'm not sure but I think they're summing the power of the dino engine and the electric engine.
I have the same engine in my Ford and it puts out 138bhp (It's an engine by PSA)
However the diesel powers the front wheels and the electric the rear.
This allows you to use both at the same time and forgo the heavy, complex and expensive linkage in normal hybrids.
Thing is, if it only produces 99 g/km.
Now, the Merc is quite different, the electric engine is small, as is the battery and it's packed somewhere in the transmission.
On the Merc, at motorway speeds the diesel engine is shutdown and the electric is used to maintain 70 mph.
When the small battery is exhausted, the diesel cuts in, generates motive power and electrickery until the battery is full again.
Which is how a 200hp engine produces only 111 g/km.
With the Peugeot you can drive with either engine or both for bursts of power.
Peugeot's my preferred solution. Simple, cheap (er), flexible (2wd, 4wd, electric, diesel or both) and efficient (electric at low speeds, either at high speeds)
I think I'll get one next year when the '11 plates are out of warranty and cheap (45% of showroom cost)
Also you get 200bhp in what is (I think) a road tax exempt car (100 g/km, although that's a number that goes down as years go by)
Is that so? ;)
Mercedes Benz E300 BlueTEC Hybrid 65 mpg 111 g/km (201bhp 2.1l)
Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 74 mpg 99g/km (200bhp 2.0l)
The Prius is old news.
Whoops, replied to the wrong message...
Found it:
http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/01/sonics-licenses-fabric-tech-to-arm/
"Sonics and ARM just made an agreement to use Sonics interconnects patents and some power management tech in ARM products."
"If Sonics is to be taken at face value on their functionality, then you can slap just about any IP block you have on an ARM core now with a fair bit of ease."
This is kind of relevant too, the internet will eat all our electricities:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/26/interview_rod_tucker/
"and if we don’t do anything, it could become ten percent between 2020 and 2025"
Although if you read it, the lion shares of internet electric usage is actually those amp happy DSL connections we have.
Agreed.
If there is ever the perfect fits all solution (such as Intel tries to build) it won't be for a very long time. If ever.
Transistors are cheap, just built for what your target usage is.
I seem to remember something about AMD and some sort of interconnect tech that (one day) allows you to quickly/cheaply/easily interconnect modular chip bits and really easily build for a target market.
*cries into his ballot box*
I think they mean that Open software guarantees that, no matter what, any student will be able to afford access to required software.
Not just people whop can afford Winows/OSX/Office/etc.
Agreed. Saw a journalist at a festival the other day writing a review on a tablet + stand + bluetooth keyboard.
Bai bai laptops and desktops, hello convergence.
Followed by a singularity.
You can close a background application by right clicking it's icon in the task bar, selecting close (I think, haven't used it for a few weeks, it runs on my server)
Middle button starts a new copy.
Similar to Windows 7 I guess?
Temps Universel Coordonné, putain!
What?
You don't mean that a cheap ARM board with Bluetooth, WiFi, Miracast, HDMI out and touch/audio in + a simple GNU/Linux could do what 99% of the people want for about 50p do you?
I'm genuinely shocked that they would attempt this awful vendor lock in and price gouging.
No honour amongst thieves, eh?
*reads the wiki page on technocracy*
O.O
Holy mother of jebus I want one.
Where can I buy one of those?
Can I borrow the Egyptian army this weekend plz?
"advocates the supremacy of technical experts'. Scientists, engineers, and technologists who have knowledge, expertise, or skills, would compose the governing body, instead of politicians, businesspeople, and economists."
I have government wood.
[Flags]
public enum Moods
{
FeckedOffWithWindows,
WishingTheydBoughtAnIPhone,
WishingTheydBoughtAnAndroid,
}
...is the next obvious development and I can't believe it's taken this long for people to start talking about it.