This is interesting, but it doesn't seem to match what I have seen.
Last week, as an experiment I switched the (Sing-Tel) SIM in my unlocked iPhone (purchased in Singapore unlocked) with one from another company (M1). It worked straight away. I actually made a call to test. I certainly didn't log into itunes.... Admittedly I was in Australia at the time, so there may have been something to that (perhaps the global roam overrides the lock?) but I would have thought it would have made it less likely to work, not more....
One of my closest friends met his now wife by way of a book he was reading - while I guess the "line" may have worked if he was holding a Kindle (it wasn't title specific really) perhaps that relationship wouldn't have happened.
Close - but you don't want the banks to fail if you're gambling with CDS - after all how would you collect? And now they have all been nationalised it's not going to happen.
But a company you've punted on - that's a different matter.
How about this scenario - Bank has a loan to a company that's about to get into difficulty as the economy slows. The bank has insurance on the company default by way of CDS. In the past they work work with a good company to get through the trouble and keep them out of default - might take a few years and they may not get all their interest in the short term but the company would survive and the bank would hopefully get most of the loan back. No bank wants to put a company in default because everybody loses - the company, the employees and the banks (perhaps only the lawyers may win).
BUT with CDS as insurance the bank is incentivised to put the company into default - then they get them all their money back. It's better for them to burn the company. And the insured has no say in the process. They can't keep the companies out of default!
At least there was a period where they may have been concerned that their insurance (CDS) may have been worthless - if they put enough people under perhaps AIG would have gone under - but now everything has been effectively nationalised - no risk. And everybody is worse off.
Skip the ultrasonic repellers - I've seen rat's and mice party on those things (I think the ultrasonic pulse is actually like a rave for rodents - I swear the ones i saw dancing had pupils as big as their eye sockets).
They also claim they repel insects, but I think they actually attract cockroaches (cause they get a little warm..)
To get real value for money AND improve your ninja status - go for a nice 8 iron instead (you often don't get enough leverage with a 9 - they just bounce of the roof and keep running). It's hard work to really time a nice stroke with them all running around - but when you lift one right down the hall it's better than a hole in one - a bit like Mr Miyagi catching fly's with chopsticks.
Don't mind the sentiment, I agree that plastics (or more likely composites) are going to be of more and more importance, and I'm all for trying out some of these neat ideas, but I'm not convinced we're going to see a lot of new models with SERS anytime soon.
Don't get me wrong - it's easy to see how this can work in theory, at least to a degree (easy demo - get a bike with adjustable front shocks see how puffed you get riding 10km with the shocks on and off - quite a large difference)- but is seems likely the over all benefit is going to be pretty marginal AT BEST.
Firstly it can't save 10% over time - it's just too much.
If your common or garden variety shock was currently converting 10% of the output of a car to heat we'd need to have little heat sinks on each of our shock absorbers - admittedly they are exhausting heat into nice little oil baths or gas, but there is not that much volume and we don't see smoke pouring out of each corner after a long ride on a bumpy dirt road - there is just not that much heat going in! Then take into account the losses from the turbine system they have... doesn't even get close to passing the laugh test.
I'm guessing the 1Kw number they are quoting in the article is as the suspension is a peak oscillation or something (made up?).
Secondly, even if it does work, there is going to be a cost - at least in complexity, almost certainly in weight, probably in materials - I think the economics above are actually extremely optimistic - something with this sort of tech, machining tolerances, materials is going to cost heaps.
I also think you're a little harsh with your comments on the likely lifetime of such a system - TFA states that they "use a hydraulic system that forces fluid through a turbine attached to a generator" - seems like something pretty bloody complicated to me (and heavy by the way) and it will certainly wear (if not shake to destruction) - faster than the simple valve in todays shocks anyway. Even if they can move it to some sort of electromagnetic system it's still hard to see it can beat the rubber cones in a mini for durability and low cost/weight.
Perhaps the efficiency just comes from having almost no suspension travel - like the bike example again.
That said, if these guys really have found a way to EFFICIENTLY get energy out of small, random, decaying oscillations they are millionaires - and i'm not sure why they are bothering with cars - you could go for some low hanging fruit that doesn't have the problems of mounting in a car - think about all the possible use for this sort of tech - the obvious one would be to drive a pylon into the ocean, put a float on one end of the shock and attach the other end to the pylon and bang instant wave energy capture mechanism - unfortunately, people have been trying to do this for a while and it's pretty hard - now imagine to try and do it on a small scale, with increased losses at every turn.....
Sorry mate - I'm a bit skeptical
But lowering the weight of a vehicle with plastics - now that seem highly possible - it works for planes....
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Sure, but isn't the hypothesis that for each change in SIM it requires a re-registration with itunes? This doesn't seem to be the case.
In anycase, I re-tested today back in Singapore - it definitely didn't require re-log in to itunes....
This is interesting, but it doesn't seem to match what I have seen.
Last week, as an experiment I switched the (Sing-Tel) SIM in my unlocked iPhone (purchased in Singapore unlocked) with one from another company (M1). It worked straight away. I actually made a call to test. I certainly didn't log into itunes.... Admittedly I was in Australia at the time, so there may have been something to that (perhaps the global roam overrides the lock?) but I would have thought it would have made it less likely to work, not more....
So what gives?
Good post/question.
One of my closest friends met his now wife by way of a book he was reading - while I guess the "line" may have worked if he was holding a Kindle (it wasn't title specific really) perhaps that relationship wouldn't have happened.
Close - but you don't want the banks to fail if you're gambling with CDS - after all how would you collect? And now they have all been nationalised it's not going to happen.
But a company you've punted on - that's a different matter.
How about this scenario -
Bank has a loan to a company that's about to get into difficulty as the economy slows. The bank has insurance on the company default by way of CDS. In the past they work work with a good company to get through the trouble and keep them out of default - might take a few years and they may not get all their interest in the short term but the company would survive and the bank would hopefully get most of the loan back. No bank wants to put a company in default because everybody loses - the company, the employees and the banks (perhaps only the lawyers may win).
BUT with CDS as insurance the bank is incentivised to put the company into default - then they get them all their money back. It's better for them to burn the company. And the insured has no say in the process. They can't keep the companies out of default!
At least there was a period where they may have been concerned that their insurance (CDS) may have been worthless - if they put enough people under perhaps AIG would have gone under - but now everything has been effectively nationalised - no risk. And everybody is worse off.
Thing are going to get worse.
Skip the ultrasonic repellers - I've seen rat's and mice party on those things (I think the ultrasonic pulse is actually like a rave for rodents - I swear the ones i saw dancing had pupils as big as their eye sockets).
They also claim they repel insects, but I think they actually attract cockroaches (cause they get a little warm..)
To get real value for money AND improve your ninja status - go for a nice 8 iron instead (you often don't get enough leverage with a 9 - they just bounce of the roof and keep running). It's hard work to really time a nice stroke with them all running around - but when you lift one right down the hall it's better than a hole in one - a bit like Mr Miyagi catching fly's with chopsticks.
Don't mind the sentiment, I agree that plastics (or more likely composites) are going to be of more and more importance, and I'm all for trying out some of these neat ideas, but I'm not convinced we're going to see a lot of new models with SERS anytime soon.
Don't get me wrong - it's easy to see how this can work in theory, at least to a degree (easy demo - get a bike with adjustable front shocks see how puffed you get riding 10km with the shocks on and off - quite a large difference)- but is seems likely the over all benefit is going to be pretty marginal AT BEST.
Firstly it can't save 10% over time - it's just too much.
If your common or garden variety shock was currently converting 10% of the output of a car to heat we'd need to have little heat sinks on each of our shock absorbers - admittedly they are exhausting heat into nice little oil baths or gas, but there is not that much volume and we don't see smoke pouring out of each corner after a long ride on a bumpy dirt road - there is just not that much heat going in! Then take into account the losses from the turbine system they have... doesn't even get close to passing the laugh test.
I'm guessing the 1Kw number they are quoting in the article is as the suspension is a peak oscillation or something (made up?).
Secondly, even if it does work, there is going to be a cost - at least in complexity, almost certainly in weight, probably in materials - I think the economics above are actually extremely optimistic - something with this sort of tech, machining tolerances, materials is going to cost heaps.
I also think you're a little harsh with your comments on the likely lifetime of such a system - TFA states that they "use a hydraulic system that forces fluid through a turbine attached to a generator" - seems like something pretty bloody complicated to me (and heavy by the way) and it will certainly wear (if not shake to destruction) - faster than the simple valve in todays shocks anyway. Even if they can move it to some sort of electromagnetic system it's still hard to see it can beat the rubber cones in a mini for durability and low cost/weight.
Perhaps the efficiency just comes from having almost no suspension travel - like the bike example again.
That said, if these guys really have found a way to EFFICIENTLY get energy out of small, random, decaying oscillations they are millionaires - and i'm not sure why they are bothering with cars - you could go for some low hanging fruit that doesn't have the problems of mounting in a car - think about all the possible use for this sort of tech - the obvious one would be to drive a pylon into the ocean, put a float on one end of the shock and attach the other end to the pylon and bang instant wave energy capture mechanism - unfortunately, people have been trying to do this for a while and it's pretty hard - now imagine to try and do it on a small scale, with increased losses at every turn.....
Sorry mate - I'm a bit skeptical
But lowering the weight of a vehicle with plastics - now that seem highly possible - it works for planes....