I'll leave it at as an exercise of your imagination whether 20 cars going 30mph instead 35 can get through a light faster than 20 cars accelerating from a dead stop.
Because that's what would happen, the first car would run right up to the light and have to stop, and all the other cars would have to brake to a stop behind (or begin to) when the light turned red, they would still have to deal with the standing wave of stopped cars at the light.
This tech sounds similar to what they do in the Vorkosigan series. Sick or severely injured people have all their blood dumped/flushed with a cryo fluid and then are held until they are operated on or cured in the future of whatever disease ailed them.
Or they were supposed to be. Cryoburn goes into the implications in some detail. The protagonist gets carted out in a cryo coffin several times (and lost once).
The author really nailed it with this article though.
Pretty much any wifi-having unlocked smartphone from several years ago should have it.
I've got an old Samsung Nexus S with a big fat battery back on it (1400mah battery->3800mah). I can pop my SIM in it and use it as a USB or wifi modem that can also make phone calls forever.
Don't worry, they'll change that rule next when it becomes clear the magic of the internet makes those useless parasitic dealers even more useless and NJ starts seeing dollar signs flying out the window.
Now do that for a car that actually competes with the Model S.
The Audi A7 (base $64,500), the BMW 6 series (base $75,400), and the Mercedes-Benz CLS (base $72,100). Note base prices are pulled from Google's first result.
I would compare a Nissan Leaf to say... a Honda Fit or a Fiesta hatch likewise (or a Nissan Versa!).
Don't know why the GP decided comparing to a 30k car made any sense at all... he started a discussion that makes 0 sense.
You know there are physical controls for the radio right on the steering wheel, right?
And the climate control is full auto, you shouldn't even need to mess with anything on it, just the temperature setpoint (my car has a similar auto climate control, I leave the thermostat on 72 and haven't messed with anything else in a long time).
Interesting, but does it actually support the D2 comment system (heresy, I know)? I've tried setting it a couple times and it always returns to the classic system whenever I save. I do like to be able to uncollapse comments inline to see what context I missed from a high-rated reply.
ATVs and snowmobiles have handlebars that turn through maybe 45 degrees in each direction. A wire up the column suffices to carry electricity up to the wheel for the heat.
Those products that you so snarkily linked through lmgtfy are made to physically plug in when you start the car, then physically unplug again when you want to drive. Hardly very practical IMO.
You need extra space on the clock spring that carries signals from wheel mounted buttons because the wheel in a car goes all the way around, usually around 1.5 times in each direction, meaning 3 rotations. And that clock spring space has to be built more beefily because you're carrying real current, not just a couple mA, and you'll need two because you need a solid ground. Not something that you can just slap on and plug into the cigarette lighter.
I don't think it'll ever be going down again, and not due to inflation/weakened buying power of the dollar. We haven't hit peak oil yet, but the rise of demand in the east is far outstripping the rise in supply.
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Right, but your stem cells must divide additional times to replace the lost blood. Hence, it may be possibly blood donation is shortening our lives.
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So no one under the age of 85 is allowed in this conversation?
*Bows out*
I'll leave it at as an exercise of your imagination whether 20 cars going 30mph instead 35 can get through a light faster than 20 cars accelerating from a dead stop.
Because that's what would happen, the first car would run right up to the light and have to stop, and all the other cars would have to brake to a stop behind (or begin to) when the light turned red, they would still have to deal with the standing wave of stopped cars at the light.
Maybe because he wasn't yet born?
Right from the linked article (I know, you would have had to RTFA):
Tesla service will also retrofit the shields, free of charge, to existing cars upon request or as part of a normally scheduled service.
Sam
This tech sounds similar to what they do in the Vorkosigan series. Sick or severely injured people have all their blood dumped/flushed with a cryo fluid and then are held until they are operated on or cured in the future of whatever disease ailed them.
Or they were supposed to be. Cryoburn goes into the implications in some detail. The protagonist gets carted out in a cryo coffin several times (and lost once).
The author really nailed it with this article though.
Sam
Pretty much any wifi-having unlocked smartphone from several years ago should have it.
I've got an old Samsung Nexus S with a big fat battery back on it (1400mah battery->3800mah). I can pop my SIM in it and use it as a USB or wifi modem that can also make phone calls forever.
The downside is... no LTE. But it's cheap.
https://www.google.com/search?...
Scroll through those image results and see how many brands of "yellow multimeter with grey face plate you can find!"
Sam
Someone should have given him some tea made from the bark of the Pacific yew tree daily for a while.
Sam
Don't worry, they'll change that rule next when it becomes clear the magic of the internet makes those useless parasitic dealers even more useless and NJ starts seeing dollar signs flying out the window.
Sam
http://www.foxbusiness.com/per...
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
I think it's because when you use it like "...a scissors to cut..." it is implied that you are saying "... a [pair of] scissors to cut..."
It'd be funny if people did this with pants though.
Hold on, let me go put on a pants!
Sam
Ok ok, you can stop proving JavaBear's point already!
Now do that for a car that actually competes with the Model S.
The Audi A7 (base $64,500), the BMW 6 series (base $75,400), and the Mercedes-Benz CLS (base $72,100). Note base prices are pulled from Google's first result.
I would compare a Nissan Leaf to say... a Honda Fit or a Fiesta hatch likewise (or a Nissan Versa!).
Don't know why the GP decided comparing to a 30k car made any sense at all... he started a discussion that makes 0 sense.
You know there are physical controls for the radio right on the steering wheel, right?
And the climate control is full auto, you shouldn't even need to mess with anything on it, just the temperature setpoint (my car has a similar auto climate control, I leave the thermostat on 72 and haven't messed with anything else in a long time).
Interesting, but does it actually support the D2 comment system (heresy, I know)? I've tried setting it a couple times and it always returns to the classic system whenever I save. I do like to be able to uncollapse comments inline to see what context I missed from a high-rated reply.
You can already get a SLAM enabled vacuum robot.
I've had a Neato for 3 years and it makes Roomba look like a toy.
Good news!
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Um it said in the title that Dell is now a privet company
And Michael Dell is... A SHRUBBERY!
It's amazing just how different things are even 10 minutes across the Ohio River.
Two problems:
ATVs and snowmobiles have handlebars that turn through maybe 45 degrees in each direction. A wire up the column suffices to carry electricity up to the wheel for the heat.
Those products that you so snarkily linked through lmgtfy are made to physically plug in when you start the car, then physically unplug again when you want to drive. Hardly very practical IMO.
You need extra space on the clock spring that carries signals from wheel mounted buttons because the wheel in a car goes all the way around, usually around 1.5 times in each direction, meaning 3 rotations. And that clock spring space has to be built more beefily because you're carrying real current, not just a couple mA, and you'll need two because you need a solid ground. Not something that you can just slap on and plug into the cigarette lighter.
Check out http://www.co-opsharedbranch.o...
If your institution is a member, you get ~5000 branches around the country you can bank at.
Well 1970 seemed pretty near a local minimum. It's not quite that bleak if you look at the historical average.
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasoline_inflation_chart.htm
I don't think it'll ever be going down again, and not due to inflation/weakened buying power of the dollar. We haven't hit peak oil yet, but the rise of demand in the east is far outstripping the rise in supply.