Good news! As everyone in warmer climates adopt compressed air to power their vehicles, demand for gasoline will drop and therefore the price. You guys will get to keep using your IC vehicles at the same prices everyone else is using compressed air. You even have the oil rich nation of Norway to keep producing the stuff.
I am skeptical too. On the other hand, consider how much energy from a gasoline powered vehicle is lost to heat. Wikipedia says:
The efficiency of various types of internal combustion engines vary. It is generally accepted that most gasoline fueled internal combustion engines, even when aided with turbochargers and stock efficiency aids, have a mechanical efficiency of about 20%. Most internal combustion engines waste about 36% of the energy in gasoline as heat lost to the cooling system and another 38% through the exhaust. The rest is lost to friction, about 6%.
Let's be optimistic and pretend that compressed air only loses 6% to friction. It costs me $30 for around 300 miles with gasoline. If the efficiency could be improved from 20% to 94% then I would only pay $6.40 for 300 miles. For 200 km that comes out to $2.64. The compressed air probably costs less per Joule than gasoline does too. Since they are advertising $3/200km, we can infer that their efficiency is less than 94%.
IC engines generate a lot of waste heat that can be used to warm the passenger compartment with little additional cost. On the other hand, IC vehicles need complicated a power hungry air conditioners to cool the passenger compartment during hot weather.
The compressed air powered car operates the other way around. Compressed air cools as it decompresses. The exhaust from this vehicle is below zero Celcius. That cold air acts as free AC. A heating system for a vehicle like this is going to be very expensive from a power consideration.
If these vehicles are not a scam then I think we can expect their adoption only in warm climates. In cold weather, I would not be surprised if the decompressed air freezes the components that transfer power to the wheels.
Last I heard, Google puts their applicants in front of an N body committee. If an one of the members of the committee rejects the applicant then they do not hire him. They are much more worried about false positives than they are of false negatives. They get so many applications that they can afford to do this. At some point their candidates become nearly indistinguishable and the hiring result random. You shouldn't take it personally (although if some of those false negatives do take it personally and make it a life mission to crush Google with the company that did hire them then maybe they should worry more about false negatives and spend a little more quality effort evaluating their potential employees).
I intepreted the statement as Hawking's drawing the "God line" at the beginning of the universe. That is: Everything that happened before that is directly attributed to God. Some people draw their "God Line" at the creation of the Earth. Others at the creation of human civilization.
The statement about creating hell was just a humorous speculation of what God might have done before creating the universe. I do not see anything hostile about that. I bet it even made God chuckle when he foresaw it as he was creating the universe from nothing.
And if you do not believe that God has a sense of humor then please explain to me the platypus.
Haha! What a medianist post. I bet you used to pick fights with everyone. You probably figured that they had a lack of social skills and thus deserved to be beat up. Although in reality you were just afraid they might upset the cozy little blinder-vision world in which you live.
I was going to write more, but I think mocking your generalizations is effective enough at highlighting the absurdity your statements. Although judging by the +1 mod, maybe the absurdity is self-evident and I am simply wasting my time.
I'm sorry. This is the department of sarcastic humor. If you want to participate in a straw man argument you will have to go down the hall, three doors, on your right. Can't miss it.
If on the other hand you want to talk about straw man arguments you are in entirely the wrong department. To get there you have to go down the hall, up twelve flights of stairs, then turn left, left, right, left, right, right, right, go through the tiger cage, jump over the spiked pit, pass the accounting deparment, first door on your left. Can't miss it. Thank you. Next?
I am going to research if a game has ads and if it does I will not buy it unless it is really cool or fun.
Or all of my friends are playing it.
Right. But that's it. It the game is really cool, fun or if all of my friends are playing it then I'll put up with the ads, but otherwise I am NOT buying ANY game with ads.
Unless it has a good demo.
So that's cool, fun, lots of friends, and a good demo. But otherwise NO ADS!
Although sometimes I buy a game because it has a pretty box.
Or maybe it includes a strategy guide or a book of concept art. I'm really into concept art.
But I'm drawing the line there. Cool, fun, friends, demo, box, books. If you do not have one of those and you put ads in your game then I WILL NOT BUY IT.
That is true. I know of a company that tried to hire an H1-B worker at a low rate. They spent a lot of money bringing them over only to have some government department force them to pay a higher rate based on the job description. They basically wasted a bunch of money and prevented an American from getting the job (since they had interviewed qualified candidates who wouldn't work at the initial pay scale).
From what I have been told by people who have received offers from both Google and Microsoft, Google pays even less than Microsoft does. However, it is expected that Google's stock incentives will more than make up the difference.
Just to clarify a few of the repsonses: - You can throw anything that you can pick up. - You cannot pick up a living bad guy. - You cannot pick up a car that has people in it.
Being able to pick up cars is fun. You can sneak into the kingpin's complex. Pick up one of the cars, jump over the locked gate with the car you are carrying, put the car down on the street outsiede of the gate, get in and drive away.
It is worse than that. Bringing in foreign workers lowers wages. Lower wages reduce incentives to go into computer science. Lower graduation in computer science does not result in higher wages as supply/demand equations dictate. Instead, we exasperate the problem by bringing in more foreign workers.
We are systematically destroying America's technological advantage by outsourcing everything we need in the name of short-term profits.
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Good news! As everyone in warmer climates adopt compressed air to power their vehicles, demand for gasoline will drop and therefore the price. You guys will get to keep using your IC vehicles at the same prices everyone else is using compressed air. You even have the oil rich nation of Norway to keep producing the stuff.
Charging a battery requires more energy than you get out of the battery. Batteries are useless. I do not know why we use them.
I am skeptical too. On the other hand, consider how much energy from a gasoline powered vehicle is lost to heat. Wikipedia says:
The efficiency of various types of internal combustion engines vary. It is generally accepted that most gasoline fueled internal combustion engines, even when aided with turbochargers and stock efficiency aids, have a mechanical efficiency of about 20%. Most internal combustion engines waste about 36% of the energy in gasoline as heat lost to the cooling system and another 38% through the exhaust. The rest is lost to friction, about 6%.
Let's be optimistic and pretend that compressed air only loses 6% to friction. It costs me $30 for around 300 miles with gasoline. If the efficiency could be improved from 20% to 94% then I would only pay $6.40 for 300 miles. For 200 km that comes out to $2.64. The compressed air probably costs less per Joule than gasoline does too. Since they are advertising $3/200km, we can infer that their efficiency is less than 94%.
IC engines generate a lot of waste heat that can be used to warm the passenger compartment with little additional cost. On the other hand, IC vehicles need complicated a power hungry air conditioners to cool the passenger compartment during hot weather.
The compressed air powered car operates the other way around. Compressed air cools as it decompresses. The exhaust from this vehicle is below zero Celcius. That cold air acts as free AC. A heating system for a vehicle like this is going to be very expensive from a power consideration.
If these vehicles are not a scam then I think we can expect their adoption only in warm climates. In cold weather, I would not be surprised if the decompressed air freezes the components that transfer power to the wheels.
Last I heard, Google puts their applicants in front of an N body committee. If an one of the members of the committee rejects the applicant then they do not hire him. They are much more worried about false positives than they are of false negatives. They get so many applications that they can afford to do this. At some point their candidates become nearly indistinguishable and the hiring result random. You shouldn't take it personally (although if some of those false negatives do take it personally and make it a life mission to crush Google with the company that did hire them then maybe they should worry more about false negatives and spend a little more quality effort evaluating their potential employees).
That is just stupid, seriously.
You would be much better off searching for "How to get away with murder."
Centuries, maybe?
I intepreted the statement as Hawking's drawing the "God line" at the beginning of the universe. That is: Everything that happened before that is directly attributed to God. Some people draw their "God Line" at the creation of the Earth. Others at the creation of human civilization.
The statement about creating hell was just a humorous speculation of what God might have done before creating the universe. I do not see anything hostile about that. I bet it even made God chuckle when he foresaw it as he was creating the universe from nothing.
And if you do not believe that God has a sense of humor then please explain to me the platypus.
There are some who think that free television does more to reduce crime than any other thing.
But Dune was inspired by Herzog Zwei on the Genesis.
Haha! What a medianist post. I bet you used to pick fights with everyone. You probably figured that they had a lack of social skills and thus deserved to be beat up. Although in reality you were just afraid they might upset the cozy little blinder-vision world in which you live.
I was going to write more, but I think mocking your generalizations is effective enough at highlighting the absurdity your statements. Although judging by the +1 mod, maybe the absurdity is self-evident and I am simply wasting my time.
I think that is spelled FEUDALIST.
Those aren't ads. Those are product placement. And the whole commercialism aspect was built right into the game.
I'm sorry. This is the department of sarcastic humor. If you want to participate in a straw man argument you will have to go down the hall, three doors, on your right. Can't miss it.
If on the other hand you want to talk about straw man arguments you are in entirely the wrong department. To get there you have to go down the hall, up twelve flights of stairs, then turn left, left, right, left, right, right, right, go through the tiger cage, jump over the spiked pit, pass the accounting deparment, first door on your left. Can't miss it. Thank you. Next?
... unless the game is really cool. ... or fun.
I am going to research if a game has ads and if it does I will not buy it unless it is really cool or fun.
Or all of my friends are playing it.
Right. But that's it. It the game is really cool, fun or if all of my friends are playing it then I'll put up with the ads, but otherwise I am NOT buying ANY game with ads.
Unless it has a good demo.
So that's cool, fun, lots of friends, and a good demo. But otherwise NO ADS!
Although sometimes I buy a game because it has a pretty box.
Or maybe it includes a strategy guide or a book of concept art. I'm really into concept art.
But I'm drawing the line there. Cool, fun, friends, demo, box, books. If you do not have one of those and you put ads in your game then I WILL NOT BUY IT.
Unless it is really inexpensive.
That is true. I know of a company that tried to hire an H1-B worker at a low rate. They spent a lot of money bringing them over only to have some government department force them to pay a higher rate based on the job description. They basically wasted a bunch of money and prevented an American from getting the job (since they had interviewed qualified candidates who wouldn't work at the initial pay scale).
From what I have been told by people who have received offers from both Google and Microsoft, Google pays even less than Microsoft does. However, it is expected that Google's stock incentives will more than make up the difference.
How about the water at your skin's boiling away because of the low pressure? Wouldn't that take heat away?
I stand corrected.
Just to clarify a few of the repsonses:
- You can throw anything that you can pick up.
- You cannot pick up a living bad guy.
- You cannot pick up a car that has people in it.
Being able to pick up cars is fun. You can sneak into the kingpin's complex. Pick up one of the cars, jump over the locked gate with the car you are carrying, put the car down on the street outsiede of the gate, get in and drive away.
Maybe when they said "busted some employee selling email addresses" they mean "hired some employee to sell email addresses".
Now, that is funny.
Bah! If you have a bad boss then fire him and find a better one.
Probably not in that order though.
That would be great except that other countries don't do it. Try to get a job in France if you do not believe me.
It is worse than that. Bringing in foreign workers lowers wages. Lower wages reduce incentives to go into computer science. Lower graduation in computer science does not result in higher wages as supply/demand equations dictate. Instead, we exasperate the problem by bringing in more foreign workers.
We are systematically destroying America's technological advantage by outsourcing everything we need in the name of short-term profits.