The universe was created 6000 years ago too. The 4.5 billion figure, for any object terrestrial, or extra-terrestrial, is the product of a duped mind, duped by Satan himself; bound, like Satan himself to writhe eternally in the lake of fire
Not to worry Mr. snarky intellectual, in that pool, there is always "room for one more"
Wine snobs are pretty darn close. Especially French wine snobs..
The California wine industry would be a shell of what it is now, if some enterprising brit didn't convince them to try a tasting without looking at the labels
Even after they tried to force him to supremeness the results...
I thought he might be referring to eavesdropping on the internal "mixing" frequency emitted in the receiver circuitry (I'm probably referring to that wrong, but I bet you know what I mean)
I've heard there are services that will set up by highways with an ultra sensitive reciever and antenna and listen to the mixing freq of passing cars (to determine what channel they are tuned to, for ratings)
What I thought he was implying was that "they" would somehow fingerprint each mixer, and then somehow use this track you.. preposterous for a whole host of reasons...
You are mostly right. Although "size and power constraints" issues with FM is kinda overblown. Size, maybe (although FM recievers on a chip are tiny). Power, just isn't the case, not for any device capable of transmitting. The power drain from receiving is an order of magnitude (or more) less than transmitting,
I think it's a really cool feature, as there are times when the localized one-to-many format provided by a radio is extremely useful (for news and information mainly). Still, I'm not sure it's something manufacturers should be MADE to provide. As has been pointed out, there are phones that already offer this feature.
Automatic tire inflation is a common aftermarket mod in the offroading community. allows you to dial up one pressure for offroad and another for the highway.
for everyone else, there's 2dollar tire pressure gauges and 10 dollar plug-into-the-cigarette-lighter tire pumps. A simple solution that only requires giving a damn..
There's nothing wrong with filling a tire with pure nitrogen. It will help, marginally, in corrosion resistance and pressure maintenance. Not enough to matter for most folks, but it's not snake oil...
My local oil change price does it for free, so I get it. I wouldn't pay extra for it, but given the choice N2 versus air, I'll take the N2..
Considering car alternators have to be buff enough to power defrosters, wipers, headlights, and at the same time replace losses from starting, the few amps this system draws is likely to be neglible..
"Besides, the people at home pay good money just like anyone else. " good money, all money is good money, but the profit margin just isn't there.
Is there money to be made distributing DVDs? Of course, but in terms of raw margins, it is nowhere near what a movie theater can crank out...
So yes, people like Kevin smith can have a tidy little business for them and their studios selling DVDs. A tidy business is fine, but selling out a theater is the next best thing to owning the mint when it comes to cranking out money (or more importantly, profit)
DVDs : revenue, but little profit margin
Cinema : ridiculous margins : but in the modern era, declining revenue
3D : in the minds of the corporations that control this kind of stuff, the gimmick to increase cinema revenue.
And you better believe directors DO care, because producers and movie studios that bankroll them care. I'm not saying I like or approve of any of this, but when it comes down to artistic integrity versus cash, cash usually wins...
Red Box rental: 1 dollar for the whole family Sold out movie theater 10$ for the ticket ticket, 5-10$ in snacks X the number of seats Major studios want to resurrect that profit stream, and 3D is seen as a vehicle for that... Of course this idea has its limits, given home 3D isn't that far away...
"Most movies are going to be watched on 2D screens. Most homes have 2D only setups, and that's where a lot of movies get seen"
That's the whole point. 3D is an attempt to put asses back in the seats at movie theaters. Netflix, Red Box, et al. have cut the margins in the home business down to the bone. The real money is in getting a sucker to pay 10 bucks for a ticket, and God knows what for popcorn.
eh, no. The most directly comparable chevy, the corvette ZR1, does a zero to 60 in 3.3 seconds (and there are some 50-100k aftermarket upgrades that put that at 3 flat)...
it stickers for around 100k...
less gass mileage, yep, but a half a million dollars buys you a heck of a lot of gasoline...
Texas also produces more wind power than California, and far more than they did when the 2008 incident occurred, That gap is only stated to grow Reason, the power of the kind of groups that will block power lines, if not the wind farms themselves, is MUCH smaller in Texas...
There is a reason Texas has eclipse California as the #1 US wind producing state Power line NIMBYism, is as bad, if not worse, than power-plant NIMBYism
The green weenies want wind farms, just not in their backyard or off their private beach, and nothing more than residential power lines within 50 miles of their house... This just exacerbates one of the biggest so-called knocks about wind power: "well, what if the wind isn't blowing". The truth is that the wind is always blowing somewhere. If you do it right, wind power and other "inconsistent" renewables can make up a large part of the energy mix without creating a consistency issue. The consistency problem is largely manageable with: ...a) some overcapacity (okay since their footprint is relatively benign) ...b) a highly flexible grid that can send power from the "blowing" places to the "not blowing" places.. ...c) Some baseline and backup power sources, like Natural Gas, nuclear, or whatever.
What pisses me off about CR is that paper subscribers don't get access to the website, they make you pay again although, i guess you could subscribe to the site and not the magazine I found this out because the folks are paper subscribers.
Right, you'd have to have someway of mixing and matching scanning tools as they loose relevance still if that was managed through the repository so that dummies like myself could keep it viable, it would be pretty cool...
I've always envisioned a ubuntu on a USB stick (yes I know that exists) - loaded with a user friendly malware scanners (like Malwarebytes), that could be plugged in to a windows machine for scanning/repair. I know this is entirely possible, but I'm talking about more of a "shrinkwrapped" Ubuntu sub-flavor preconfigured for this very thing...
I know your trying to be funny, but it made me think, European or American Robins, hopefully American, as I for one would hate to see us fall behind the world yet again...
Of those that I've met who lived in NYC and then got out of that place to see the rest of America, most of them had to take driver's education when they left the Big Apple as the need for owning and operating your own private automobile simply wasn't there. Oh well then, that settles it, your anecdote proves that the NYC area is a carless/driverless utopia. Somebody needs to tell this to all of the owners of parking garages, parking services, mechanics, auto-dealerships in the area before they all go broke
I will note that California has an infrastructure that is largely built around an automobile, with three hour commutes (in each direction) quite common as well. I'll also note that California has more people than both the New York and Boston metro areas combined
Right, because there is no single driver use-case in CA that would fit the profile of a modern EV, like the leaf, so go ahead, put all 50 million Californians in your camp...
I've often said that people living in New York think that the western border of America appears on the Hudson River. New Jersey is a foreign country and the rest of America might as well not exist. Sentiments like this tend to make that kind of statement seem all that more appropriate. Oh please, laying the Urban V Rural working class hero shtick on just a little think aren't you?
I'm 8 hours away from NYC myself.. I was just making a point that you appear to be determined not understand, just because it might not work for you, doesn't mean it won't work for a lot of folks, the majority of folks actually..
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The universe was created 6000 years ago too.
The 4.5 billion figure, for any object terrestrial, or extra-terrestrial, is the product of a duped mind, duped by Satan himself; bound, like Satan himself to writhe eternally in the lake of fire
Not to worry Mr. snarky intellectual, in that pool, there is always "room for one more"
parent: I'm not a +1 type of guy, but hat's off to you, this post is complete ownage
Wine snobs are pretty darn close. Especially French wine snobs..
The California wine industry would be a shell of what it is now, if some enterprising brit didn't convince them to try a tasting without looking at the labels
Even after they tried to force him to supremeness the results...
What I want to know is when its time to key up the 10 meter rig
I thought he might be referring to eavesdropping on the internal "mixing" frequency emitted in the receiver circuitry (I'm probably referring to that wrong, but I bet you know what I mean)
I've heard there are services that will set up by highways with an ultra sensitive reciever and antenna and listen to the mixing freq of passing cars (to determine what channel they are tuned to, for ratings)
What I thought he was implying was that "they" would somehow fingerprint each mixer, and then somehow use this track you.. preposterous for a whole host of reasons...
Right, this is all just a ploy by the NSA, so that the can roll out billions of dollars in ELINT assets to track the average smartphone user..
Newsflash, its a cell phone, it probably is chatting away with the local tower, and it probably has a GPS chip...
This might not be the best idea, but I don't think this is a clever attempt by the man to find out where you are....
You are mostly right.
Although "size and power constraints" issues with FM is kinda overblown.
Size, maybe (although FM recievers on a chip are tiny). Power, just isn't the case, not for any device capable of transmitting.
The power drain from receiving is an order of magnitude (or more) less than transmitting,
I think it's a really cool feature, as there are times when the localized one-to-many format provided by a radio is extremely useful (for news and information mainly).
Still, I'm not sure it's something manufacturers should be MADE to provide. As has been pointed out, there are phones that already offer this feature.
Automatic tire inflation is a common aftermarket mod in the offroading community.
allows you to dial up one pressure for offroad and another for the highway.
for everyone else, there's 2dollar tire pressure gauges and 10 dollar plug-into-the-cigarette-lighter tire pumps. A simple solution that only requires giving a damn..
There's nothing wrong with filling a tire with pure nitrogen.
It will help, marginally, in corrosion resistance and pressure maintenance. Not enough to matter for most folks, but it's not snake oil...
My local oil change price does it for free, so I get it. I wouldn't pay extra for it, but given the choice N2 versus air, I'll take the N2..
Considering car alternators have to be buff enough to power defrosters, wipers, headlights, and at the same time replace losses from starting, the few amps this system draws is likely to be neglible..
Upstate New York generally isn't considered part of New England, although as a resident, I'll concede parts of it are very NewEnglandesqe...
It looks like 10 meters is actually doing well, maybe even better than before the event, but that might just be sporadic E, I dunno
I've always loved the top end of the HF spectrum 10 meters, and the 11 meter "freeband", sometimes it acts like VHF, sometimes HF, sometimes both.
On a side note, how ashamed should I be to say I have a "favorite" portion of the spectrum?
"Besides, the people at home pay good money just like anyone else. "
good money, all money is good money, but the profit margin just isn't there.
Is there money to be made distributing DVDs? Of course, but in terms of raw margins, it is nowhere near what a movie theater can crank out... So yes, people like Kevin smith can have a tidy little business for them and their studios selling DVDs. A tidy business is fine, but selling out a theater is the next best thing to owning the mint when it comes to cranking out money (or more importantly, profit)
DVDs : revenue, but little profit margin
Cinema : ridiculous margins : but in the modern era, declining revenue
3D : in the minds of the corporations that control this kind of stuff, the gimmick to increase cinema revenue. And you better believe directors DO care, because producers and movie studios that bankroll them care.
I'm not saying I like or approve of any of this, but when it comes down to artistic integrity versus cash, cash usually wins...
Red Box rental: 1 dollar for the whole family
Sold out movie theater 10$ for the ticket ticket, 5-10$ in snacks X the number of seats
Major studios want to resurrect that profit stream, and 3D is seen as a vehicle for that...
Of course this idea has its limits, given home 3D isn't that far away...
"Most movies are going to be watched on 2D screens. Most homes have 2D only setups, and that's where a lot of movies get seen"
That's the whole point. 3D is an attempt to put asses back in the seats at movie theaters.
Netflix, Red Box, et al. have cut the margins in the home business down to the bone.
The real money is in getting a sucker to pay 10 bucks for a ticket, and God knows what for popcorn.
Oh, I get it, because "American cars can't corner" -- you must watch a lot of Top Gear...
In real life the ZR1
1.06g on the skidpad
74.7 in the slalom
That bests cars that cost a LOT more...
eh, no. The most directly comparable chevy, the corvette ZR1, does a zero to 60 in 3.3 seconds (and there are some 50-100k aftermarket upgrades that put that at 3 flat)...
it stickers for around 100k...
less gass mileage, yep, but a half a million dollars buys you a heck of a lot of gasoline...
Texas also produces more wind power than California, and far more than they did when the 2008 incident occurred,
That gap is only stated to grow
Reason, the power of the kind of groups that will block power lines, if not the wind farms themselves, is MUCH smaller in Texas...
There is a reason Texas has eclipse California as the #1 US wind producing state
Power line NIMBYism, is as bad, if not worse, than power-plant NIMBYism
The green weenies want wind farms, just not in their backyard or off their private beach, and nothing more than residential power lines within 50 miles of their house...
This just exacerbates one of the biggest so-called knocks about wind power: "well, what if the wind isn't blowing".
The truth is that the wind is always blowing somewhere. If you do it right, wind power and other "inconsistent" renewables can make up a large part of the energy mix without creating a consistency issue.
The consistency problem is largely manageable with:
...a) some overcapacity (okay since their footprint is relatively benign)
...b) a highly flexible grid that can send power from the "blowing" places to the "not blowing" places..
...c) Some baseline and backup power sources, like Natural Gas, nuclear, or whatever.
Yahvole!!
I thought the same thing
Are you from CNY too?
What pisses me off about CR is that paper subscribers don't get access to the website, they make you pay again
although, i guess you could subscribe to the site and not the magazine
I found this out because the folks are paper subscribers.
Right,
you'd have to have someway of mixing and matching scanning tools as they loose relevance
still if that was managed through the repository so that dummies like myself could keep it viable, it would be pretty cool...
I've always envisioned a ubuntu on a USB stick (yes I know that exists) - loaded with a user friendly malware scanners (like Malwarebytes), that could be plugged in to a windows machine for scanning/repair.
I know this is entirely possible, but I'm talking about more of a "shrinkwrapped" Ubuntu sub-flavor preconfigured for this very thing...
Oh no!
I read TFA
European Robins!
They're years ahead of us!
I know your trying to be funny, but it made me think, European or American Robins, hopefully American, as I for one would hate to see us fall behind the world yet again...
Of those that I've met who lived in NYC and then got out of that place to see the rest of America, most of them had to take driver's education when they left the Big Apple as the need for owning and operating your own private automobile simply wasn't there.
Oh well then, that settles it, your anecdote proves that the NYC area is a carless/driverless utopia. Somebody needs to tell this to all of the owners of parking garages, parking services, mechanics, auto-dealerships in the area before they all go broke
I will note that California has an infrastructure that is largely built around an automobile, with three hour commutes (in each direction) quite common as well. I'll also note that California has more people than both the New York and Boston metro areas combined
Right, because there is no single driver use-case in CA that would fit the profile of a modern EV, like the leaf, so go ahead, put all 50 million Californians in your camp...
I've often said that people living in New York think that the western border of America appears on the Hudson River. New Jersey is a foreign country and the rest of America might as well not exist. Sentiments like this tend to make that kind of statement seem all that more appropriate.
Oh please, laying the Urban V Rural working class hero shtick on just a little think aren't you?
I'm 8 hours away from NYC myself.. I was just making a point that you appear to be determined not understand, just because it might not work for you, doesn't mean it won't work for a lot of folks, the majority of folks actually..