CVT consumes less engine power power to operate than the insanely outdated standard Automatic transmission!
The reason CVTs are so much more efficient is that in conjunction with the engine controller they keep the engine at the precise RPM required to deliver the requested power at which the engine is most efficient. With conventional manual *and* auto transmissions, there are a few pre-set fixed ratios. So, for even the most experienced manual driver, or the most intelligent auto box, the revs are almost always lower or higher than they should be. Only for a brief moment is the rpm exactly correct to minimize consumption.
Yes, it could be that the 6-speed MT is tuned differently from the CVT product, but there's no getting away from the fact that the CVT's engine will always be turning over at the most efficient speed.
The employer submits PAYE data to the South African Revenue Service (SARS). Once registered as a tax payer, all you need to do is sign in to the online portal, and click a button accepting the pre-prepared return. End of story. Tax refund (if applicable) is transferred to your account by EFT within a week. No fuss, no mess, no hassle. What a pleasure.
If you have additional items to declare, you simply enter the details online, posting supporting documentation if necessary. Again, minimal fuss.
Strikes me as truly insane that while most of Europe, and 'third-world' countries like SA, can get this right -- the USA, which supposedly is one of the most IT-savvy countries in the world, is still in the dark ages of taxation.
Seems we have a new category of monopolistic industry in USA -- "Big Tax" !
Any heat harvesting system relies on a temperature differential - in this case, the temperature difference between your body and the air. If the device were a perfect conductor of heat, a) it would generate no power at all (because there is no temperature differential) and b) this would be pretty much identical to not wearing the device at all.
In reality, all such devices must be imperfect heat conductors (i.e. they insulate heat), and as such your skin temperature will always be higher than it would be if you were not wearing one of these. (obviously this ignores the comparison between how efficiently your skin dissipates heat, vs how quickly the 'cold' end of the thermopile does.)
Rotating service structure has been retracted. Launch targeted for between 9.00 and 9.15 EDT (1300Z and 1315Z).
Triboelectrification is still a concern.
You're right - damping is the correct usage in this instance.
damping (dam'ping)
n.
The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions.
dampen (dam'p?n)
v., -ened, -ening, -ens.
v.tr.
1. To make damp.
To deaden, restrain, or depress: “trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress” (Christian Science Monitor).
2. To soundproof.
v.intr.
3. To become damp.
damp'ener n.
http://www.englishforums.com/English/DampingVersusDampening/lpzh/post.htm
Some months ago I was curious about the reason behind these corkscrew fins, but couldn't find anything related on the net. Could someone qualified add something about this to wikipedia?
From Futurama:
Fry: Did you build the Smelloscope?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: No, I remembered that Id built one last
year. Go ahead, try it. Youll find that every heavenly body has
its own particular scent. Here, Ill point it at Jupiter.
Fry: Smells like strawberries.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Exactly. And now, Saturn.
Fry: Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you
dont make me smell Uranus.
Leela: I dont get it.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Im sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed
Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. Whats it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for
you.
Fry: No, no, I, I think Ill just smell around a bit over here.
Can somebody provide direct links to the media streams, especially lower bitrates? The yahoo links above seem to insist on playing only in the browser. I'd rather be using VLC. I'm in Johannesburg, and my bandwidth is unpredictable / slowish (supposedly 1mbps connection, actually i can only really get about 120kbps from nasa)
iBurst is the enemy #1.
iBurst is a wireless 'broadband' provider in South Africa, and apparently several other countries. It is not HSDPA, or any other recognizable acronym -- it is a Kyocera-backed wireless protocol that one might reasonably expect would give a good internet experience. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iburst)
Not in my case, however. I have been a subscriber to South Africa's iBurst service for more than two years. My signal strength is not magnificent, I get somewhere between 70% and 80% reported signal strength at all times. Late evenings and weekends, I can expect pretty good transfer rates. Very rarely do I experience any issues at all outside of office hours.
However, I work from home. During daylight hours, during the week, I see about 90% of my http page requests fail. Almost all TCP requests close unexpectedly.
I raised a call log with iBurst South Africa about this issue, requesting that somebody get back to me on this issue. I have had a couple of callbacks, requesting that I perform a speed test on my connection, however it's not even fast enough that I can even load the speed test flash file!
I am now at the point of despair. I have called 15 times and spoken to 6 different representatives, over a period of about 3 weeks. Nobody useful ever gets back to me.
iBurst advertises that they offer technical support 24/7, however when anyone attempts to call outside those times, a recorded message advises callers to retry in office hours.
It's no surprise that a South African service provider can get away with poor service, and in fact no surprise either that they screw their users over. But it's not right.
I work from home, and I rely on my internet connection to earn my living. It costs me R600 per month, which is around $80, for 3.5 gigabytes of data per month. Those of you in the first world, you can consider yourselves extremely lucky. Here I'm just lucky if I can actually download 3.5 gigs in the whole month in which I have paid for it. (I'm a software engineer working for a USA company, FYI)
My own hypothesis is that the penny-pinching bastards have a tiny upstream connection that they pay peanuts for, and charge enormous amounts for their users to make use for -- which is, by definition, profiteering.
In the absence of a class-action law here in South Africa, what are my options for getting just recompense for not only me but all those other poor sods who are being screwed over by iBurst? Do I start a petition? Open a case with the police? Approach the fair trading commission here? What?!?!?! I'm at a loss!
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Note prices in that graph are probably Aussie dollars
CVT consumes less engine power power to operate than the insanely outdated standard Automatic transmission!
The reason CVTs are so much more efficient is that in conjunction with the engine controller they keep the engine at the precise RPM required to deliver the requested power at which the engine is most efficient. With conventional manual *and* auto transmissions, there are a few pre-set fixed ratios. So, for even the most experienced manual driver, or the most intelligent auto box, the revs are almost always lower or higher than they should be. Only for a brief moment is the rpm exactly correct to minimize consumption.
Yes, it could be that the 6-speed MT is tuned differently from the CVT product, but there's no getting away from the fact that the CVT's engine will always be turning over at the most efficient speed.
The employer submits PAYE data to the South African Revenue Service (SARS). Once registered as a tax payer, all you need to do is sign in to the online portal, and click a button accepting the pre-prepared return. End of story. Tax refund (if applicable) is transferred to your account by EFT within a week. No fuss, no mess, no hassle. What a pleasure.
If you have additional items to declare, you simply enter the details online, posting supporting documentation if necessary. Again, minimal fuss.
Strikes me as truly insane that while most of Europe, and 'third-world' countries like SA, can get this right -- the USA, which supposedly is one of the most IT-savvy countries in the world, is still in the dark ages of taxation.
Seems we have a new category of monopolistic industry in USA -- "Big Tax" !
Any heat harvesting system relies on a temperature differential - in this case, the temperature difference between your body and the air. If the device were a perfect conductor of heat, a) it would generate no power at all (because there is no temperature differential) and b) this would be pretty much identical to not wearing the device at all.
In reality, all such devices must be imperfect heat conductors (i.e. they insulate heat), and as such your skin temperature will always be higher than it would be if you were not wearing one of these. (obviously this ignores the comparison between how efficiently your skin dissipates heat, vs how quickly the 'cold' end of the thermopile does.)
<pedantic>
try { Signature mysig = new cleverAttempt(); } catch(NonCleverSignatureException e) { postanyway(); }
try { Signature mysig = new CleverAttempt(); } catch(NonCleverSignatureException e) { postanyway(); }
Constructor of CleverAttempt must be public, and therefore starts with a capital letter. Fixed that for you.
</pedantic>
Oh, BELGIUM!
What sux is that most of the torrents I'm trying to use from TPB have DHT disabled. There doesn't seem to be any workaround :(
It's not possible to read too many Greg Egan books :)
Flight successful.
The endless delays are killing me. At the moment looks like countdown will resume 11:26EDT (1526Z)
Rotating service structure has been retracted. Launch targeted for between 9.00 and 9.15 EDT (1300Z and 1315Z). Triboelectrification is still a concern.
Currently launch is planned to take place at between 8.45 and 9.00 EDT (between 1245Z and 1300Z)
You're right - damping is the correct usage in this instance. damping (dam'ping) n. The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions. dampen (dam'p?n) v., -ened, -ening, -ens. v.tr. 1. To make damp. To deaden, restrain, or depress: “trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress” (Christian Science Monitor). 2. To soundproof. v.intr. 3. To become damp. damp'ener n. http://www.englishforums.com/English/DampingVersusDampening/lpzh/post.htm
Launch scrub for today due to weather.
Go for launch, just waiting for weather window to open up. T-4 resume imminent.
Just announced, T-4 resume delayed to 1500Z (11:00 EDT) putting the launch at 1504Z
VLC 0.9.8a plays the lower bitrate stream fine, but if you press stop then play again, an error occurs consistently.
Some months ago I was curious about the reason behind these corkscrew fins, but couldn't find anything related on the net. Could someone qualified add something about this to wikipedia?
From Futurama: Fry: Did you build the Smelloscope? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: No, I remembered that Id built one last year. Go ahead, try it. Youll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent. Here, Ill point it at Jupiter. Fry: Smells like strawberries. Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Exactly. And now, Saturn. Fry: Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you dont make me smell Uranus. Leela: I dont get it. Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Im sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Fry: Oh. Whats it called now? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you. Fry: No, no, I, I think Ill just smell around a bit over here.
Thanks, that worked. Didn't realise VLC would handle that link directly.
Currently looking at 10:54 launch. Range is still red, but that's being cleared.
Audio feed (Real) : http://www.nasa.gov/ram/55643main_NASATV_Audio_Only.ram
Can somebody provide direct links to the media streams, especially lower bitrates? The yahoo links above seem to insist on playing only in the browser. I'd rather be using VLC. I'm in Johannesburg, and my bandwidth is unpredictable / slowish (supposedly 1mbps connection, actually i can only really get about 120kbps from nasa)
Apologies, R600 is US$48, not $80
iBurst is the enemy #1. iBurst is a wireless 'broadband' provider in South Africa, and apparently several other countries. It is not HSDPA, or any other recognizable acronym -- it is a Kyocera-backed wireless protocol that one might reasonably expect would give a good internet experience. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iburst) Not in my case, however. I have been a subscriber to South Africa's iBurst service for more than two years. My signal strength is not magnificent, I get somewhere between 70% and 80% reported signal strength at all times. Late evenings and weekends, I can expect pretty good transfer rates. Very rarely do I experience any issues at all outside of office hours. However, I work from home. During daylight hours, during the week, I see about 90% of my http page requests fail. Almost all TCP requests close unexpectedly. I raised a call log with iBurst South Africa about this issue, requesting that somebody get back to me on this issue. I have had a couple of callbacks, requesting that I perform a speed test on my connection, however it's not even fast enough that I can even load the speed test flash file! I am now at the point of despair. I have called 15 times and spoken to 6 different representatives, over a period of about 3 weeks. Nobody useful ever gets back to me. iBurst advertises that they offer technical support 24/7, however when anyone attempts to call outside those times, a recorded message advises callers to retry in office hours. It's no surprise that a South African service provider can get away with poor service, and in fact no surprise either that they screw their users over. But it's not right. I work from home, and I rely on my internet connection to earn my living. It costs me R600 per month, which is around $80, for 3.5 gigabytes of data per month. Those of you in the first world, you can consider yourselves extremely lucky. Here I'm just lucky if I can actually download 3.5 gigs in the whole month in which I have paid for it. (I'm a software engineer working for a USA company, FYI) My own hypothesis is that the penny-pinching bastards have a tiny upstream connection that they pay peanuts for, and charge enormous amounts for their users to make use for -- which is, by definition, profiteering. In the absence of a class-action law here in South Africa, what are my options for getting just recompense for not only me but all those other poor sods who are being screwed over by iBurst? Do I start a petition? Open a case with the police? Approach the fair trading commission here? What?!?!?! I'm at a loss! c