I think the 2000 were genetically different enough that evidence of 2000 people could be discerned several thousand years later. Had those 2000 been the descendants of one couple then genetic markers would show 2 descendants.
You do realize this is talking about climate change that happened 10-100 million years ago? It could have been a very slow change over a million years. It could have been due to solar activity and Earth experienced the same thing.
Or maybe an asteroid hit mars, the resulting dust cloud blocked the sun and caused global cooling to the extent that glaciers were able to form (from what I don't know).
Using a trend that may have happened over a million years to invalidate theories about the cause of a trend occuring over decades is just plain dumb.
Not that I am making an argument for man-made global warming. It is just that this isn't the argument to use and attempting to use it causes you to lose credibility so that your future arguments are more likely to be ignored.
I have color pictures of Mars on my computer desktop. Every single day at work I am reminded of the fanstically fantastic world we live in. I am so happy that we have those robots on Mars.
Naturally aspirated diesel engines are heavier than gasoline engines of the same power for two reasons. The first is that it takes a larger displacement diesel engine to produce the same power as a gasoline engine. This is essentially because the diesel must operate at lower engine speeds.[5] Diesel fuel is injected just before ignition, leaving the fuel little time to reach all the oxygen in the cylinder. In the gasoline engine, air and fuel are mixed for the entire compression stroke, ensuring complete mixing even at higher engine speeds. The second reason for the greater weight of a diesel engine is it must be stronger to withstand the higher combustion pressures needed for ignition, and the shock loading from the detonation of the ignition mixture. As a result, the reciprocating mass (the piston and connecting rod), and the resultant forces to accelerate and to decelerate these masses, are substantially higher the heavier, the bigger and the stronger the part, and the laws of diminishing returns of component strength, mass of component and inertia -- all come into play to create a balance of offsets, of optimal mean power output, weight and durability.
Could replacing the diesel engine with electric motors offset enough of the extra storage weight required by ultracapacitors?
How much power does can a residential electrical system provide?
I saw a references to 3500W fuse. Assuming that is the upper limit, it would take three hours to provide the same amount of energy as one kg of diesel (which is apparently larger than one Liter). Filling the capacitors could be slow or dangerous.
How much of diesel's energy is actually realized though? I've heard that IC engines lose half of their energy to heat. That lowers the ratio to 15:1 (although I'm not considering the efficiency of ultracapacitor to electric motor, am I?). Do you get weight advantages from using electric motors at the actuation source instead of one big engine with drive trains? Could enough weight be taken out to make up for increased fuel storage weight?
You don't have to transport electricity with a vehicle. What is the kwh/$ comparison between diesel and electricty? Maybe you don't care if your equipment is heavier if the cost savings are large enough. If your machinery is more simple (because of lack of drive trains and such) maybe you save even more money on maintenance.
I know very little about practical construction of capacitors. Is the physical strength of the insulation the most common weak point? I thought that the charge arcing through the insulation (and changing its resistance in the process) was the cause of failure in most capacitors. Or is the physical strength the weak point in ultra-capacitors?
Technically, no company invents anything. It is always people that invent things. Often those people are paid by companies to invent things. Does it really make a difference if they pay the person before the thing was invented or afterwards?
Now imagine the same scenario at Microsoft. At the step with the undocumented API the developer is told that due to antitrust regulations he can't do that even though it would make everyone's life easier. The Quartz team doesn't want to publish that API since it means supporting it for 10 years. Now there are two "secret lines" that everyone needs to use to make their applications run as fast as Microsoft's products.
I guarantee you they are doing it out of laziness and convenience -- not maliciousness.
It probably goes something like this:
The guy who wrote the unpublished function is just down the hall, overhears the problem you are having and offers a suggestion. But the company doesn't want to support that function for the next ten years so they don't publish it. But it solves the problem so into Safari it goes.
Software creates wealth. Business model determines who gets that wealth. FOSS gives all wealth to the consumer. Proprietary software give some wealth to consumer and some to producer.
If some authors receive value simply from having people use their software then FOSS cost can be beaten in the free market. All it takes is for one of those authors to accept a lower margin by paying people to use his software. I hearby name this new movement the Charitable Open Source Software movement -- or COSS. You heard it here first.
I do not doubt that Google monetizes their search better than Yahoo does, but they also own a larger share of the search market. I am pretty sure that more people use Google than Yahoo and Microsoft combined. They don't use Google because Google monetizes better.
In Word 2007 Step 1: Type "it never ever ever works" with each word on a single line. Step 2: Select all of the words and hit the "start a bulleted list" tollbar button Step 3: Place the cursor after each word before a blank lines and press enter. Step 4: Repeat for the second "ever" (it will have two blank lines both with bullets). Step 4: Select "never\n\ever" and press "Increase Indent" Step 5: Select the indented "ever" and press "Increase Indent" Step 6: Select "works" and press "Increase Indent" twice. Step 7: Put the cursor on the line above "works" and press backspace. Step 8: Your bullets are probably different based on indentation. For each unique level, put the cursor on the line and select the drop down menu next to the "start bullet" button. Select the round bullet to change that level to that bullet type. Step 9: Save the file.
If Word 2007 doesn't save a file that fits that specification then I don't know what to say.
There are a lot of different groups in Microsoft and they all have different goals with different marketing departments. The guys who market the 360 are not the same guys who market Silverlight, Windows, or Search. It is pretty common for console makers to do exclusive titles. The people in charge of 360 adoption probably do not have Vista adoption as part of their goal. If you are just bitter about Mass Effect not being available on the PC then I recommend being patient. These exclusive deals usually have time limits (as I discovered when I purchased an N64 so I could play Shadows of the Empire).
From what I can tell, Microsoft is not using its current search portal (http://live.com/) to promote use of its desktop software. There might be ways they are using it to promote their server software, but it isn't clear to me how. I just don't see that changing simply because they aquire Yahoo.
Everyone is trying to push their products. The Google toolbar seems to come with every pieces of non-Microsoft software I use. I agree that it is annoying. Sadly, these techniques are effective or they wouldn't use them.
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Maybe it was a spaceship crash landing!
I think the 2000 were genetically different enough that evidence of 2000 people could be discerned several thousand years later. Had those 2000 been the descendants of one couple then genetic markers would show 2 descendants.
Compared to the timespans discussed in the article, it is still quite new.
You are just jealous because you are not 3/8ths Norweigen like I am.
I don't think I'll ever get over how good looking we Norweigens are.
Microsoft has already proposed a solution to help Yahoo! fix its business penetration.
You do realize this is talking about climate change that happened 10-100 million years ago? It could have been a very slow change over a million years. It could have been due to solar activity and Earth experienced the same thing.
Or maybe an asteroid hit mars, the resulting dust cloud blocked the sun and caused global cooling to the extent that glaciers were able to form (from what I don't know).
Using a trend that may have happened over a million years to invalidate theories about the cause of a trend occuring over decades is just plain dumb.
Not that I am making an argument for man-made global warming. It is just that this isn't the argument to use and attempting to use it causes you to lose credibility so that your future arguments are more likely to be ignored.
Making a car analogy on slashdot is like driving a car on a closed loop track. You never...
Funny you should say "pun intended". The term "sea change" was actually coined by the maritime reforms enacted in response to the Titanic disaster.
If you don't believe me, look it up on Wikipedia. I just entered it there as fact too.
What is the theoretical time before this black hole evaporates through Hawking radiation?
I have color pictures of Mars on my computer desktop. Every single day at work I am reminded of the fanstically fantastic world we live in. I am so happy that we have those robots on Mars.
Not to mention the lack of shovelware for Linux.
The more interesting question is: Can a few people using a different acceleration/breaking strategy prevent or reverse a phase transition?
1 kWh = 3.6 MJ
That puts ultracapacitors at a theoretical energy density around
Which isn't any better than the LiIon batteries you discuss.
But apparently, diesel engines are heavy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
Could replacing the diesel engine with electric motors offset enough of the extra storage weight required by ultracapacitors?
How much power does can a residential electrical system provide?
I saw a references to 3500W fuse. Assuming that is the upper limit, it would take three hours to provide the same amount of energy as one kg of diesel (which is apparently larger than one Liter). Filling the capacitors could be slow or dangerous.
How much of diesel's energy is actually realized though? I've heard that IC engines lose half of their energy to heat. That lowers the ratio to 15:1 (although I'm not considering the efficiency of ultracapacitor to electric motor, am I?). Do you get weight advantages from using electric motors at the actuation source instead of one big engine with drive trains? Could enough weight be taken out to make up for increased fuel storage weight?
You don't have to transport electricity with a vehicle. What is the kwh/$ comparison between diesel and electricty? Maybe you don't care if your equipment is heavier if the cost savings are large enough. If your machinery is more simple (because of lack of drive trains and such) maybe you save even more money on maintenance.
By stating that you would rather die than kill, you remove the fear incentive for someone you kill you.
Unfortuntely, the resource incentive still remains.
I know very little about practical construction of capacitors. Is the physical strength of the insulation the most common weak point? I thought that the charge arcing through the insulation (and changing its resistance in the process) was the cause of failure in most capacitors. Or is the physical strength the weak point in ultra-capacitors?
Technically, no company invents anything. It is always people that invent things. Often those people are paid by companies to invent things. Does it really make a difference if they pay the person before the thing was invented or afterwards?
Now imagine the same scenario at Microsoft. At the step with the undocumented API the developer is told that due to antitrust regulations he can't do that even though it would make everyone's life easier. The Quartz team doesn't want to publish that API since it means supporting it for 10 years. Now there are two "secret lines" that everyone needs to use to make their applications run as fast as Microsoft's products.
I guarantee you they are doing it out of laziness and convenience -- not maliciousness.
It probably goes something like this:
The guy who wrote the unpublished function is just down the hall, overhears the problem you are having and offers a suggestion. But the company doesn't want to support that function for the next ten years so they don't publish it. But it solves the problem so into Safari it goes.
I like this answer. Maybe you cannot find superstar employees because you are not a superstar employer. Self-identification is prone to error.
Software creates wealth.
Business model determines who gets that wealth.
FOSS gives all wealth to the consumer.
Proprietary software give some wealth to consumer and some to producer.
If some authors receive value simply from having people use their software then FOSS cost can be beaten in the free market. All it takes is for one of those authors to accept a lower margin by paying people to use his software. I hearby name this new movement the Charitable Open Source Software movement -- or COSS. You heard it here first.
Luckily, I have RantBlock installed so I can't read a word you are typing. I haven't read a rant in years.
I do not doubt that Google monetizes their search better than Yahoo does, but they also own a larger share of the search market. I am pretty sure that more people use Google than Yahoo and Microsoft combined. They don't use Google because Google monetizes better.
In Word 2007
Step 1: Type "it never ever ever works" with each word on a single line.
Step 2: Select all of the words and hit the "start a bulleted list" tollbar button
Step 3: Place the cursor after each word before a blank lines and press enter.
Step 4: Repeat for the second "ever" (it will have two blank lines both with bullets).
Step 4: Select "never\n\ever" and press "Increase Indent"
Step 5: Select the indented "ever" and press "Increase Indent"
Step 6: Select "works" and press "Increase Indent" twice.
Step 7: Put the cursor on the line above "works" and press backspace.
Step 8: Your bullets are probably different based on indentation. For each unique level, put the cursor on the line and select the drop down menu next to the "start bullet" button. Select the round bullet to change that level to that bullet type.
Step 9: Save the file.
If Word 2007 doesn't save a file that fits that specification then I don't know what to say.
There are a lot of different groups in Microsoft and they all have different goals with different marketing departments. The guys who market the 360 are not the same guys who market Silverlight, Windows, or Search. It is pretty common for console makers to do exclusive titles. The people in charge of 360 adoption probably do not have Vista adoption as part of their goal. If you are just bitter about Mass Effect not being available on the PC then I recommend being patient. These exclusive deals usually have time limits (as I discovered when I purchased an N64 so I could play Shadows of the Empire).
From what I can tell, Microsoft is not using its current search portal (http://live.com/) to promote use of its desktop software. There might be ways they are using it to promote their server software, but it isn't clear to me how. I just don't see that changing simply because they aquire Yahoo.
Everyone is trying to push their products. The Google toolbar seems to come with every pieces of non-Microsoft software I use. I agree that it is annoying. Sadly, these techniques are effective or they wouldn't use them.