I expect that you will want to transfer energy more rapidly to your car than enough to power a single speaker. For more power at similar range, you will probably need a bigger antenna.
(And 20% power loss from transmitter to receiver is pretty horrible efficiency.)
Quite true, but I personally have no idea how this technology scales. I wouldn't automatically assume that the antenna size needs to grow with power throughput. If I were to assume anything, I would assume antenna size is a function of the frequency being used. Perhaps that frequency is a function of power throughput though.
So could a having a cable with a a cable reel and a fixed, locked cabinet, which would also give you a lot better transfer efficiency and capacity than this seems to offer.
Yes, that's also true. However, I personally think that anything that would make plug-in electrics more convenient would help the adoption rate, and thus is worth investigating. I don't think many people really welcome the idea of having to wind up the cable from the car when it's pouring rain and/or they're running late for work.
Of course, you can tell 7+ how much ram to use (same as photoshop), but in my experience these applications willfully ignore user input and treat the machine they're running on as if it exists for that application and that application only.
But, that's supposed to be the entire point of the OS. It's fundamental job it to make the application think it's the only thing running on the machine. If the OS is letting an application use so many resources that other applications do not run correctly, then it's the OS that is to blame and not the application. Let's not go backwards by abandoning preemtive multitasking for cooperative multitasking, which is what you imply with "knows how to share".
Why is the Senate a good idea and the electoral college a bad one?
Because the electoral college works at the wrong resolution. A simple fix to the system would be to remove the "winner-takes-all" aspect of state votes. The electoral votes of a state should be split up based on that states popular vote; however, the round-off error becomes a large issue. I think an even better idea would be to elect by congressional district, one vote per disctrict. That would solve the issue where states with large cities end up discounting the views of the rest of the state.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman
