Re: Wow, screw Google
You are indeed a crazy operations guy.
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Bill Gates did an interesting talk on TED about it. His basic premise was that
CO2 = population x services each person enjoys x units of energy per service x CO2 output for each unit of energy.
Basically we have an substantially increased population over the past 50 years and with places like China and India modernising the average services per person has gone through the roof.
Energy per service has reduced slightly as has CO2 per unit of energy but not enough to offset the first two points.
So cars should only be counted as cars if they can compete with 5 series??
If BMW decide not to build sell anything suited to young girls without rich daddys that is their prerogative.
But I would point out that most of the cheapest droids would outperform iPhone 1 on any measure. Does that mean iPhone 1 isn't a smart phone?
100x the density also means 100x the theoretical throughput.
Different technologies have different characteristics that are good in different cases. SSDs for example are very good at not damaging if dropped. They have very fast seek times but write speed and MTF is far less impressive.
I have no idea if hard disk will go the way of the zip drive or not, but even if no windows pc ships with a spinning disk it is a bit unimaginative to ignore the whole technology.
Your mind must have better logical reasoning skills than mine.
I don't see the fundamental difference between blocking the revenue of a developer who is ad funded vs blocking the revenue of a website who is ad funded.
In fact I suffer the same level of guilt when I leave the TV and make a coffee during those ads that are paying for that very show.
That said, I haven't installed adblock on my mobile yet. It lives on my desktop because websites were showing ads that got in the way, made a racket or otherwise consumed half the resources of my PC. On the mobile it hasn't been as bad.
All fuel sources have inefficiencies. It is however as you point out inappropriate to consider it like you would a hydrocarbon. It is closer to steamin that it is a material that is not easily procured without putting in your own energy to create it.
It is actually fairer to compare the technology to a battery. Except one that is about as far from practical energy density as you can get. For a practical range, you need to liquify it which wastes even more energy. You then have to truck and pump the volitile highly compressed gas to a service station and accept that you can't completely contain it so
more losses.
I guess it is lucky that the fuel cells themselves are not made from large quantities of very rare materials..... hmmm
Malware doesn't have to be a .exe file. It could be a JavaScript delivered to a perfectly sandboxed browser via some ad network. Therefore it wouldn't have permission to capture key strokes.
That said, it would seem rather trivial to add a fake random jitter to such responses from the server. This would prevent this attack vector.
Perhaps Apple could patent my new invention?
You see, what if there was a small hole in the side where a small plastic card about the size of your thumbnail could be inserted. This card could internally contain some solid state memory where files could be stored and read.
The customer could simply purchase such plastic cards with their desired capacity. They could call it a micro SD card.
Ahh, don't tell those folk at Samsung who definitely have no similar offering.
Furthermore, transferring large files could be done at over 40MB/s. Actually scrap that last point. I see no issues transferring 100 GB over Wi-Fi.
" you shouldn't use E-15 (gasoline with 15% ethanol) and car makers are saying if you do it will void your warranty"
Going out on a limb here, but perhaps better advice is to restrict yourself to the fuels your engine is engineered to work with. The same reason that you should not use petroleum in a car designed for diesel. Brazil use 85% ethanol blends.