Disks have two sides. Half of the surface of the earth, with continents, oceans, etc., could be on the other surface of the disk from which one lives. We just haven't dug a hole deep enough to find the other side of the disk, so if you want to get to the other side, you must go the edge of the disk. Not a flat earther here.
Perhaps the FAA Administrator who made these changes should be forced to resign. This administration has had enough turnover that the President should be capable of appointing new leadership quickly.
The replacement administrator would likely be the Boeing's chief lobbyist.
Just wondering if they sleep under their desk and if Google provides showers and laundry services for these $15/hour workers. Certainly $15/hour workers can't afford housing in Silicon Valley unless it's in the local homeless shelter. I understand Google provides "free" food for some workers, but not sure about these folks under discussion.
I think heat pumps are more common than resistive heat, though.
It's my understanding that heat pumps for heating lose their efficiency over other fuels at 32 deg F, 0 deg C. In my area of Colorado there's a region outside the city where folks can't get natural gas and duel fuel heat pumps are used to heat homes. When the outside temperature reaches 32 deg F, the heating system switches to liquid propane or perhaps even electric resistance for heat. I would assume the same for electric vehicles - a switch to electric resistance heating.
I assume there may be another factor that reduces the distance an electric vehicle can travel in cold weather in addition to reduced battery efficiency. When it's cold outside and one wants to be warm inside, the vehicle needs to have some source of cabin heat. Some of the heat could come from the warm electric motor and the warm battery but likely the vehicle will have an electric resistance heater. In places where summer temperatures are very high, such as the American southwest, air conditioning will be a necessity, also reducing travel distances from a full charge.
If it can't be turned off then someone needs to write code that can easily be added to gmail to do so. Google could add such an option but it would likely be buried as a obscure option in the settings.
It's been a long time since I visited San Francisco, but, if I remember correctly, many, if not most, of the buses were electric using overhead wiring. They were pretty quiet and there was no smoke coming from a non existent tail pipe. Not sure the input energy source for the cable cars, but I'm guessing electricity. Cable cars are not likely an important transportation source, but they're nice for tourists.
Nothing in the referenced articles note whether the buses are battery operated or use overhead wires for the electricity delivery. The latter situation might be more efficient as the buses wouldn't need to be take out of service to charge the on board batteries or exchange them. Batteries also add weight to the buses and have a limited lifetime thus the cost of using them vs. overhead cables would increase cost.
Perhaps in the case of plane crashes behaving irrationally isn't a bad thing. Lives are at stake and waiting a short time for data to prove or disprove the need to ground the model of aircraft in this type of situation may be the better policy. Not that we'd expect a third crash in the few days required to examine the flight data, should one have occurred, the FAA would look pretty bad for not grounding these planes.
Upon reading the OP, I was going to post, "Maybe Elon Musk could step in and do a better job for a reasonable route for such a high speed tunnel LA to SF."
Diplomats with diplomatic passports have immunity and cannot be arrested. Doesn't matter if they're from the US serving in China or from China serving in the US. However, diplomats can be sent back to their home country.
Exactly my thoughts expressed in another/. thread. How many Americans in China on business that will be detained will it take to free the woman should she be extradited to the US?
What percentage of their product is shipped to the US? 10%, 50%? That not destined from the US will still be made in China. Didn't see any thing about manufacturing in the US.
I have not heard yet that T-Mobile or AT&T need to generate the money required for 5G deployment by reducing payroll expenses. So, where will the other wireless telecoms get the cash?
Right. One question (of many) I have is why are they still in business? Why weren't put out of business? There'd still be two credit bureaus out there. I'm not sure who regulates this kind of operation but they sure weren't and haven't been doing their job.
In a previous incarnation the company I worked for used Lotus Notes. What an absolute disaster. I think IBM is very lucky to palm this off to get $1.8 billion for it after paying $3.5 billion those many years ago. Good work, IBM. I wonder how much they lost over the years trying to maintain it.
You're correct. They're following the the same path taken by Windows Phone, or whatever it was called. Same for RT and 10 S. They need to spend money making sure that semi annual updates of Windows 10 do not brick PCs.
So, what does GM do - start the process of eliminating ~15,000 jobs and closing factories. I know, it's more complicated than that in that competition for foreign car makers, most of whom make cars in the US with likely higher quality products, changes in customer preferences to SUVs and trucks, and the availability of hybrid and electric vehicles from other companies. Another example is Ford's decision not to make a car for import to the US from China and rejecting the suggestion that it be made in the North America because it would cost too much.
At one time, GM was the world's largest manufacturer of industrial robots. Not sure if that's true today. When I moved to the Detroit area in 1971, there were something like 1.8 million auto assembly line workers. When I left in 1982 there were something like 800,000. Today it's about 400,000 and they're making more vehicles than ever. Some of these workers are with the aerospace and agricultural equipment manufacturers. Continued automation will kill auto maker jobs regardless of what type of vehicle is made.
My Prius Hybrid is fun to drive and I get 54 MPG city and highway. It's not an SUV but a hatchback, which seem to be popular these days. Toyota also has the Rav 4, a small SUV, that comes as a hybrid, but not sure its MPG.
I had also thought that this invention for self driving cars would put the repo man out of business, but what about chop shops? Stolen cars could be broken up for parts sold to repair shops or car owners. It'll take some years for new cars to need worn out parts but if chop shops can find cars with parts that have been replaced with fairly new ones there's a business opportunity. Need a several thousand dollar replacement battery for your Tesla, it may be readily available for much less than at a dealer.
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Disks have two sides. Half of the surface of the earth, with continents, oceans, etc., could be on the other surface of the disk from which one lives. We just haven't dug a hole deep enough to find the other side of the disk, so if you want to get to the other side, you must go the edge of the disk. Not a flat earther here.
Perhaps the FAA Administrator who made these changes should be forced to resign. This administration has had enough turnover that the President should be capable of appointing new leadership quickly.
The replacement administrator would likely be the Boeing's chief lobbyist.
Just wondering if they sleep under their desk and if Google provides showers and laundry services for these $15/hour workers. Certainly $15/hour workers can't afford housing in Silicon Valley unless it's in the local homeless shelter. I understand Google provides "free" food for some workers, but not sure about these folks under discussion.
I think heat pumps are more common than resistive heat, though.
It's my understanding that heat pumps for heating lose their efficiency over other fuels at 32 deg F, 0 deg C. In my area of Colorado there's a region outside the city where folks can't get natural gas and duel fuel heat pumps are used to heat homes. When the outside temperature reaches 32 deg F, the heating system switches to liquid propane or perhaps even electric resistance for heat. I would assume the same for electric vehicles - a switch to electric resistance heating.
I assume there may be another factor that reduces the distance an electric vehicle can travel in cold weather in addition to reduced battery efficiency. When it's cold outside and one wants to be warm inside, the vehicle needs to have some source of cabin heat. Some of the heat could come from the warm electric motor and the warm battery but likely the vehicle will have an electric resistance heater. In places where summer temperatures are very high, such as the American southwest, air conditioning will be a necessity, also reducing travel distances from a full charge.
If it can't be turned off then someone needs to write code that can easily be added to gmail to do so. Google could add such an option but it would likely be buried as a obscure option in the settings.
It's been a long time since I visited San Francisco, but, if I remember correctly, many, if not most, of the buses were electric using overhead wiring. They were pretty quiet and there was no smoke coming from a non existent tail pipe. Not sure the input energy source for the cable cars, but I'm guessing electricity. Cable cars are not likely an important transportation source, but they're nice for tourists.
Nothing in the referenced articles note whether the buses are battery operated or use overhead wires for the electricity delivery. The latter situation might be more efficient as the buses wouldn't need to be take out of service to charge the on board batteries or exchange them. Batteries also add weight to the buses and have a limited lifetime thus the cost of using them vs. overhead cables would increase cost.
Perhaps in the case of plane crashes behaving irrationally isn't a bad thing. Lives are at stake and waiting a short time for data to prove or disprove the need to ground the model of aircraft in this type of situation may be the better policy. Not that we'd expect a third crash in the few days required to examine the flight data, should one have occurred, the FAA would look pretty bad for not grounding these planes.
I was wondering about this as I can look up the price of an item, and a few days latter after considering the purchase, the price has increased.
Upon reading the OP, I was going to post, "Maybe Elon Musk could step in and do a better job for a reasonable route for such a high speed tunnel LA to SF."
Diplomats with diplomatic passports have immunity and cannot be arrested. Doesn't matter if they're from the US serving in China or from China serving in the US. However, diplomats can be sent back to their home country.
Exactly my thoughts expressed in another /. thread. How many Americans in China on business that will be detained will it take to free the woman should she be extradited to the US?
What percentage of their product is shipped to the US? 10%, 50%? That not destined from the US will still be made in China. Didn't see any thing about manufacturing in the US.
I have not heard yet that T-Mobile or AT&T need to generate the money required for 5G deployment by reducing payroll expenses. So, where will the other wireless telecoms get the cash?
Right. One question (of many) I have is why are they still in business? Why weren't put out of business? There'd still be two credit bureaus out there. I'm not sure who regulates this kind of operation but they sure weren't and haven't been doing their job.
In a previous incarnation the company I worked for used Lotus Notes. What an absolute disaster. I think IBM is very lucky to palm this off to get $1.8 billion for it after paying $3.5 billion those many years ago. Good work, IBM. I wonder how much they lost over the years trying to maintain it.
You're correct. They're following the the same path taken by Windows Phone, or whatever it was called. Same for RT and 10 S. They need to spend money making sure that semi annual updates of Windows 10 do not brick PCs.
You spelled it wrong. It's Windows Pain.
So, what does GM do - start the process of eliminating ~15,000 jobs and closing factories. I know, it's more complicated than that in that competition for foreign car makers, most of whom make cars in the US with likely higher quality products, changes in customer preferences to SUVs and trucks, and the availability of hybrid and electric vehicles from other companies. Another example is Ford's decision not to make a car for import to the US from China and rejecting the suggestion that it be made in the North America because it would cost too much.
No one wins from a trade war.
At one time, GM was the world's largest manufacturer of industrial robots. Not sure if that's true today. When I moved to the Detroit area in 1971, there were something like 1.8 million auto assembly line workers. When I left in 1982 there were something like 800,000. Today it's about 400,000 and they're making more vehicles than ever. Some of these workers are with the aerospace and agricultural equipment manufacturers. Continued automation will kill auto maker jobs regardless of what type of vehicle is made.
My Prius Hybrid is fun to drive and I get 54 MPG city and highway. It's not an SUV but a hatchback, which seem to be popular these days. Toyota also has the Rav 4, a small SUV, that comes as a hybrid, but not sure its MPG.
I had also thought that this invention for self driving cars would put the repo man out of business, but what about chop shops? Stolen cars could be broken up for parts sold to repair shops or car owners. It'll take some years for new cars to need worn out parts but if chop shops can find cars with parts that have been replaced with fairly new ones there's a business opportunity. Need a several thousand dollar replacement battery for your Tesla, it may be readily available for much less than at a dealer.
It might scale better if someone would come up with an anti gravity device that didn't use too much energy to lift the thing.
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