Or as a separate venture to capture and broadcast "in-car pr0n" - they don't have to be pictures - HD space is cheap... I wonder if that's covered in the rental agreement fine-print.

Listen, is it normal to expect all our encounters to have "party oversight"? For now, I'll assume that Hertz vehicles are "police state-ready" while others are still "in development".

Makes my choices easier for now.

Again, I fail to see the problem :)

(Bimmer owners think they also own the road)

New York is another. Ultra-high-density communities may not be common in the US -- but the ones that do are exist are, well, kinda' a big deal.

But -- oh, yeah! -- we were talking about city planning as relates to lower-income folks. And the thing is, even though you and I might consider it impossible to get to work, buy groceries, &c. in much of the country without a car, there are still people doing that by necessity. My brother-in-law used to take his bicycle on the bus and sleep on a bench until his shift started, because the bus routes he needed shut down long before his shift started. When city planning is done in a way that assumes everyone is going to have a car, what you get is people left behind by the system. If you're lucky, they can manage to hold down jobs anyhow -- if you aren't, you have more folks who need safety-net features much more expensive than public transportation.

Don't know why I want to feed the troll -- and explicitly not accepting the assertions I don't challenge here, but...

You talk about "traffic flow" -- but think about this for a minute. You're proposing to take a very high-population, dense chunk of city -- plugged into the rest of that city's transportation network -- and move it out into the middle of nowhere.

Have you looked at the level of car ownership in high-density areas recently -- particularly in lower-income high-density areas? How exactly do you expect folks to get to work or school when they're suddenly no longer in an area with transit access? (And without that, how do you expect folks to work, or go to school to improve their circumstances? Would you rather be buying the same number of heads worth of homeless shelter, and getting no tax base at all)?

Hell. I'm in the rich part (financial district) of downtown Chicago, and less than half my neighbors if that own cars if that; being in walking distance from work (and directly next to a stop for every single L line) is why people pay to live in the Loop. Owning a vehicle is expensive in a city -- heck, parking wherever you're going to is expensive in and of itself, as is having a place to park that vehicle at home (in my building, a parking spot costs about $30k to buy, or rents for upward of $200/mo). You can't take folks who can't afford decent housing unassisted, move them away from their jobs, and expect them all to be able to buy, maintain and fuel vehicles -- and park those vehicles near their jobs in the city -- when they were only barely making ends meet beforehand. It's insane.

Looks like he's pinching a loaf. Xerox that look.

80 CRI is awful. Greenish, bluish, pinkish, yellowish - you can have a pastel disco party if you don't re-lamp all at the same time. Anything less than 80 is more industrial quality than residential. Especially give that they *can* make 95-98CRI lamps.

Sylvania used to make a PAR20 with a 95CRI and, I'll tell you, they're dead ringers for the incandescent they replace at full power. They don't make them anymore. Could be they were 10W (vs the 50W halogen they replace), or it could be they were $40 when bought at discount so they just didn't move them well enough. Then again, I've had a 25% failure rate of these 20,000h lamps in just 2 years (thank goodness for the 5 year warranty), so maybe that's part of the problem too.

LEDs rarely last more than 4 years. Or, more specifically, the electronics rarely last more than 4 years. If you end up with a net average life of the lamps of less than 3 years, you're behind. Considering most lamp warranties are a year or less, you're probably going to end up on the short end of that bargain until the electronics become more reliable.

Also, LEDs have poor color rendering (which means different brands will look bluish, pinkish, greenish) regardless of color temperature, many do NOT turn on instantly (there's a short delay ranging up to 100s of ms) to allow the electronics to stabilize, do not dim below ~10%, and do emit EMI/RFI.

Call me back when they start making all the lights 95+ CRI. We've been seeing light at 100CRI for millions of years, that part of the "correct" light picture won't change with time.

But their total lifecycle cost may be less than an incandescent if they last long enough.

Reliability of a $10-30 lamp is far more critical than a $0.50 lamp. It's all well and good to say that the lifecycle cost of your 10,000 hour, $10 lamp is lower than a 2000 hour $0.50 lamp. However, if your $10 lamp dies early, and it costs $7 to ship to the manufacturer for a replacement or you've lost your sales receipt or (most likely) it's out of the 1 year warranty period, then you would have been far better off getting an incandescent.

I have 13 very high quality LEDs in my kitchen (dimmable 10W PAR20 w/ 2950K color and 95 CRI). In two years, 3 of the 13 have failed. I'm lucky that they're high end lamps with a 5 year warranty and Sylvania has simply shipped me a new lamp (no return of the old one) each time one dies. If these had been OTS, they would have been out of warranty by now, despite having a 20,000 hour "rating".

I suspect that we could persuade those caches to flush to RAM, simply by exhausting the number of possible lines for that address - if the cache is set-associative. Of course modern processors have multiple levels of cache, so that makes it harder.

Hi AC,

This is sort of self-contradictory, so I don't really need to respond to it directly. I just want to point one thing out. I can't afford to work for any company as less than a C-level employee. It would be a salary cut from my current business.

Not to mention that I'd not like it.

An AC talking about balls. Pathetic.

Right. I didn't even bother responding to the taunts.

Coward really means coward. I am sorry for the folks who are afraid that their employer will take a dislike of what they post, but for them we have handles.

I can't say I'm happy about what's happened to Debian. Having Ubuntu as a commercial derivative really has been the kiss of death for it, not that there were not other problems. It strikes me that the kernel team has done better for its lack of a constitution and elections, and Linus' ability to tell someone to screw off. I even got to tell him to screw off when he was dumping on 'Tridge over Bitkeeper. Somehow, that stuff works.

IMO, don't create a happy inclusive project team full of respect for each other. Hand-pick the geniuses and let them fight. You get better code in the end.

This actually has something to do with why so many people hate Systemd. It turns out that Systemd is professional-quality work done by competent salaried engineers. Our problem with it is that we're used to beautiful code made by geniuses. Going all of the way back to DMR.

It really does look like Jomo did post this article, and it refers to another article of his.

What isn't to like about Ubuntu is that it's a commercial project with a significant unpaid staff. Once in a while I make a point of telling the unpaid staff that there really are better ways that they could be helping Free Software.