Posts by GloriousVictoryForThePeople 89 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2011
>there could be 4 percent growth in the average selling prices for smartphones in the US market, but any further negative impact will be reduced by the "unique structure of the US smartphone market,"
By unique it means "extortionate profiteering that people in China don't have to suffer" if 50% extra tarriffs results in 4% price rise
> the rear camera displays are failing to turn on within the federally mandated two-second limit
This is computerisation for you. 2 seconds to "activate" a running camera. 10ms would be reasonable. Connect video feed to screen when R is active.
(And yeah this totally bugs me in my Mitsubishi which takes a second or two, generally bringing up the camera display as my tow ball goes through the door of the car unadvisedly parked opposite my driveway)
> All the calculators I have bought in my adult life are HP calculators and RPN to me is a far more logical way to do calculations.
This is like that brain fungus thing that makes the ant climb up a stalk and die there to better spread spores, or Toxoplasmosis* infections.
* associated with impulsive behaviour, reduced perception of risk, and psychotic symptoms
**also a habitual RPN user
>Specifically, if these bots are accessible to the public, and we're told a good number of them are, they can be potentially tricked into handing over, or simply hand over by design, information to people that should not have been volunteered during conversations, it's claimed.
I'll bet a lot of the staff don't have access to the documents due to security policies from the same manglement that is rolling out co-pillock willie nilly
> "Tesla doesn't know how to make, or at least is unwilling to install, a connector that can handle consistent high-current speeds," Conner said.
The great news is that Tesla is a company that takes shared responsibility seriously - Elon has fired the person responsible. And everyone else.
Someone has been reading business books from that famous thought leader Ghengis Khan.
Again, poor low speed torque is a function of design. Type A induction motors are designed for full speed operation and have low starting torque. That is because they are designed that way. You can design them for stall torque if you wish, and some IM's are. Or you can design for variable torque.
Stationary use IM's are designed for operation direct from mains, with minimal control gear.
They don't have to be, it's not inherent in the IM.
Beyond already commercialised motors you can have active rotor motors with electronics on the rotor to eliminate slip rings, and quite a few other tricks that have not been needed much in the past for stationary motors.
The referred paper was breathlessly suggesting that electric cars are in trouble without REE's for the motors, that is not even close to true. All the tricks that allow a petrol engine to work, can be used in an EV, and if they are economic for petrol cars they are still going to be economic with an electric motor.
Actually they might be improved. My EV has one major failing (despite its PM motors): It has limited stall torque even with PM motors. It can (and has), get trapped by very steep hills, rocks and bits of wood, despite being a 4wd.
This is caused by a design obsession with direct drive and no gear box. If they had even given it a 2 speed overdrive unit, it would have adequate torque.
>It was a reasonable technical fix for a design flaw.
I would have been a reasonable opt-in temporary fix. The correct fix, was a reasonably priced, and easy to do, battery replacement. Apple did not offer this until forced.
In reality it looked more like a convenient bit of planned obsolescence, which encouraged people to replace perfectly serviceable (ok, imperfectly serviceable).
It was also helping to mask the consequences of a glaring failing of the product's un-repairable design, from that small number of customers who might care.
Well, not everywhere...
"In enacting the Health and Safety at Work Act in 2015, Parliament’s “express intention” was to promote accountability of officers in senior leadership positions – “especially those at a distance from day-to-day operational and safety decision-making because of their seniority”.
The prosecutors drew on Australian research which found that corporate officers responsible for worker safety should be exposed to a “meaningful personal risk of regulatory action”.
Personal liability, backed by credible enforcement, was “the single most important motivator of CEOs”."
Across Asia, power companies are bemoaning the loss of business and the need to mothball power plants, as the shift to cloud has seen millions of irregularly loaded old on-premises servers replaced with centralised cloud datacenters running optimal loads distributed across more efficient modern processors, drastically reducing the energy demands of IT operations.
That is what you meant to write, surely...
>It can't. There is no way for Microsoft, Amazon, or Google to get round it.
Actually it is far from insoluble.
They set up a local subsidiary, with local-ish systems.
In any and all roles with data access or authority to order data access, they can only employ single citizenship locals.
The employment contract explicitly specifies that they must ignore all orders from the non approved zone.
Now the NSA might be able to engineer around that, but it stops the day to day US courts ordering Irish data to be handed over by a sysop in Redmond
It is true that artists only get a sliver of what is collected, but it is also true that they actually do get that sliver, instead of nothing.
However one, if not the major factor that allows that to happen, is that big focused music corporations also get money that way that they would not otherwise get, and a diffuse cloud of corporations (your hairdresser) get milked for it. This dynamic makes it work (legally and politically).
Free software is the opposite - big focused corporations don't want to pay, unless they are going to be getting lots more money from the great mass of unfocussed corporations and consumers. They currently see "cloud taxing" and free software as the way to do this.
To see how completely unprepared to pay-up megacorps are you just have to look at the Apple - Qualcomm fight. Apple is not prepared to pay anything significant for what is the core underlying technology of their whole product. It is only by being utterly ruthless and toxic that Q can get paid royalties at all. It seems delusional that Apple would share anything but floor sweepings with people who do not carry a very big stick.
I recently was at a supplier fishing event for tradies. Someone pointed out that the plumbers turned up with raycraft, and the sparkies turned up with tinnies. It was true: electricians will undercut each others rates. plumbers don't. Who knows why, but the result was very clear down at the boat ramp. I didn't notice any free software developers - I suppose you don't have to catch ramen noodles.
Good luck with your project Bruce, but looks to me more like something that cannot really do better than put free software developers on welfare or subsistence, not a decent living, and is more likely to see a big income stream going to megacorps if it works at all.
"Hi Chris."
"Hi Sundar, Nice to hear from you. How life at the Big G"
"Oh you know, just fired 12k.
Getting a bit of blowback about my stock options though.
Could you pop out a press release asking us to fire 20k instead."
"No Problemo - Why don't I make it a round 30k, that should make them properly grateful eh?"
Corporate tussles: It's actually like WWF wrestling
Much as rockets and space are very cool, I think we get little payback from it.
Compare spending just on the SLS with the total US spend on fusion power.
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/margraf1/
One of these things pushes the boundaries of pure science and applied engineering to the very limits, so far we are not even certain of an outcome. It might give the whole planet a way out of existential threats.
The other retreads the 1960's, but even when/if it succeeds there is no significant payoff for the people who paid for it.
You seem to be supporting my point, not contradicting it.
Since baseload electrical generation (of the kind you describe) can't be shutdown quickly, you need to have loads that can be turned on and off at whim instead.
Process heat, augmenting existing fossil fueled furnaces with renewable electricity is that kind of of load. You can turn the heaters up and down as fast as you can send control signals. Your process always runs as normal, because it is (initially at least) a fossil fueled system anyway
This is economic because the (pre-existing) fossil fuel furnace is sunk cost - so there is no penalty for not using it when cheaper renewables are available.
Of course this is a transitional tool, in 30 years time, long after today's furnaces have been scrapped we need to do something different.
Easy to find some number for that: 46 vs 164g/kWh
Total life cycle GHG emissions from solar PV systems are similar to other renewables and nuclear energy, and much lower than coal.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56487.pdf
It is true to point out however than renewables are front loaded: most of the emissions happen today, not over the lifetime.
It is reasonable to expect solar to improve by a factor of 2 over time, while coal won't.
(My mate just added new panels and they are ~30% lighter/W than those installed 6 years ago)
Assuming your figures (18km/yr) are correct, then:
To miss a 12600 diameter object you have to move 6300km / 18km/yr = 350 x 570kg=200,00kg
SpaceX Starship is ~100T dry mass and 100+T payload = 200,000kg
Coincidence??
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