I'm pretty sure that if electrics had double the range as gas cars, people would not complain about charge times (500-600 being reasonable for a modern midsized car last I checked). As it is they are instead half that distance.

When I drove home from Nashville in a car with a 350 mile range, a one hour fill time would have turned a long day travel into a two day trip (2 or 3 fill-ups over 11 hours), I was young, and aside from gas stopped once for food at a rest stop, the electric, assuming optimal location of chargers, would have added 20% to my travel time. 1000 miles on the other hand changes everything.

Also, the 300 mile range is at 55MPH, at 70 (legal or 5 over on much of the long haul drives) you're down to 240 (my 350 was at 70MPH).

Using the non topped off charge technique at a super charger gets you 170 per 30 minutes charge, take out the 20% for actual highway speeds and you're at 140 for 30 minutes charge, that 30 minutes for every two hours driving, a far cry from 8 hours for 16 hours.

Keep in mind that a standard wall outlet take 60 hours to charge current capacity, a 240 40A one takes 9. A standard charge station, so we're still a ways away from charging double the capacity in the 8 hours when traveling, but certainly 8 hours for 1000 miles would work.

And many journeys where the endpoint is more than half the range.

I don't think Buzz was a turd, as I said, we used it a lot.

Wave on the otherhand absolutely was. I really wanted to be able to use it, to collaboratively post in a discussion style thing, with threaded responses.

It's biggest flaw was they didn't integrate it into mail, Waves should have sat like conversation threads, and bumped back up to the top when updated. The everything real time would be the second.

I think each step has gotten worse. Google plus is exacty what I don't want in another service, in that it's connected to everybody.

I don't even think Buzz was a failure, I think they thought it would immediately blow up, rather than slowly grow, then blow up with the network effect.

They should have worked on integrating it with picasa, in a non forced down your throat way, but instead allowing picasa to be your place to store photos, and making it easy to post them in Buzz.

Buzz had a few things going for it.

1) not everybody you ever met forever was your friend (I suppose that would fade if it took off)
2) not blocked by internet filters (more places allow gmail than facebook)
3) not full of junk (see 1)

My friends and I used it as essentially our private message board and it worked well for that. Wave was similar, but the realtime aspect of it made it pretty annoying. It shouldn't of sent anything until you hit submit the first time.

This was my biggest fear when I purchased a Chromecast, but actually it works fine in the background.

It doesn't really stream from Phone to Chromecast, what actually happens (I'm guessing based on behavior) is phone sends app to Chromecast when you set said app to cast, then your tablet sends commands to that app loaded on the chromecast, the Chromecast actually pulls the video from the internet itself, not your tablet. You can hit the home button and browse away, with most apps having control buttons in the ongoing part of the status pull down.

In fact, if your device goes away, you can no longer control the chromecast, but what's playing will finish.

I wonder if thats addressed in TFA?

Yep, it is.

I did until last year when I purchased a Macbook Pro with the 256GB SSD.

It's a work computer that I have total control over. Previously I had a thinkpad, Win7 for Creative suite, PowerPoint, and Trial Director, and Ubuntu for everything else (personal, and petty website work).

The new computer has a small hard drive, and rather than figure out howto:
1) triple boot
2) split it into three pieces

I use Win7 exclusively (I have a small OSX partition that I don't think has been booted since the first week I had the laptop).

Purchased the 13.3 inch for the lightness, and the screen. I can't wait until screens like this hit the PC world, bonus if it's cheaper even! Win7 suffers mildly on the screen, especially CS4, but it's totally work the minor annoyances to have real workspace when I'm off site for weeks at a time.

That sounds horribly inefficient.

You're using heat from somewhere to make the oil and gas, but not convert all of the carbon in the wood.

Then you take a subset of the carbon and burn it in the form of oil and gas.

Actually, my bank is perfect for this method, as they have the secret questions either, and if you needed to get them right, and the password to login, I think you'd get similar protection??

The bank requires a secret question on new systems anyway, then verifies with a cookie, I bet you could combine said questions with the password the way this article describes.

It all becomes a shell game, if you need to connect to the main DB at any time, then a compromised system can be a problem.

The only solution I can think would involve downtime by writing to disk, booting single user mode, updating the master copy while safe in single user mode (assumption being that is as secure as memory anyway), reboot caching locally changes (which are probably not that often in a typical system).

You'd have to have an hour or so of scheduled downtime, in exchange for only users that signed up, or changed passwords since the last scheduled downtime are vulnerable. For many systems I'd think this is a reasonable trade, for example, my bank's website, that allows checks to be written (though not without email notification for email address change, and check being written), could go down an hour a week, or even a day between 4:30am and 5:30am eastern time (2:30-3:30 western), and it wouldn't be a big deal.

I bet that makes password changes and adding accounts super easy too.

They did that to me too, no longer offering modem purchases, or modem only.

I was able to get it into bridging mode, but it was a big pain on the phone (they asked for a reason, and I just said work VPN equipment, and every rep I spoke too (I talked to 3 because switching modes revealed the one they shipped me was broken and I had to get a new one) knew what I meant and was super helpful, but I was kinda cranky that they locked the ability to bridge from the admin interface. The Modem / AP where I work allows the customer to turn on bridge mode.

The fact that you make that choice makes you a good driver (and that I don't arguably makes me a bad driver (thought I'm past median miles between accidents with no accidents yet, so I'm not the worse driver at least).

I'm not saying talking on the phone isn't bad, simply that those that talk on the phone don't consider the potential issues with driving distracted in general, and frequently make the wrong call (such as reaching for a dropped candy bar, etc.).

Part of the issue with many studies is they take people, but them on a course or simulator, have them drive. This has them driving at their best (there's a word for subjects being better than real life when being studied, I'm too lazy to find it). Somebody focused on driving with full attention is obviously significantly better than someone that isn't, but in day to day driving many (such as myself) are not particularly focused anyway.

I think it was this study:
http://www.vt.edu/spotlight/ac...

along with explanation (by study author) on this podcast:
http://freakonomics.com/2013/1...

that formed my opinion.

And studies where people are actually driving in real world environments find that talking on the phone does not increase accidents. They did find that operating the phone does, at a similar rate to any other activity that takes one's eyes off the road for a second. The dialing is dangerous, the talking not so much so. In the real world that is, because in the real world people aren't hyper focused on driving, the phone cuts into that other part, not the driving part.

It's the day dreaming, the trying to place a song, drinking of coffee, adjusting the radio, etc. Part of the brain that the phone deprives in real life.

In the study you mention, all that is artificially focused on driving.