The problem is if you put filters as part of the light sensitive array, that would be all they can be used for. The Hubble probably has Red Green and Blue filters as part of its kit as well as a bunch of others that look at specific spectral lines for study. If you combine RGB filtered pictures in the right proportions, you get what we consider to be "natural" color. But it also has narrow band filters for other capabilities like Hydrogen Alpha (in the red band) and Sulfur along with many others. These can be combined to give scientists a visual input as to how the different elements are distributed in the clusters/clouds/etc.
So the Hubble can produce what we interpret as "natural color" but it can also photograph frequencies that we cannot see visually (human vision is pretty limited in spectral range) such as Ultra violet and Infra red.
So by having what we would consider to be "gray scale", with the use of the filters, tremendous amounts of information about the makeup and distribution of objects can be obtained.
I think you are right. Use of composites is not exactly new but it is very new at the scale they are using it on the 787. I worry a bit about it because we used composites on a program I was on and one thing we experienced is that internal damage is hard to detect.
I am hoping that this is more under control now with new technologies and also I am hoping they are using very conservative design parameters. I remember scrapping some very large pieces because someone went over the edge and attacked them with a hammer. You could not see any damage but we had no way to tell whether the internal plys were sound.
Burt Rutan has had major success with composites but those are lightly loaded, occasional use, craft. Even though Boeing used to be a competitor, I hope they survive this and make composites mainstream for commercial aircraft.
(I actually think that blended wing-body construction is the next big step in efficiency but the public is not ready for it - yet)
It might be that if more jails/prisons were run this way, we might have fewer return trips. I wonder what his repeat statistics are in comparison to other places that run taxpayer funded country clubs.
What is it about the words -Criminal- and -Illegal- alien that is so hard for slashdotters to fathom.
I dont think that prisoners should have access to TV or weight lifting equipment or be allowed to form gangs or get drugs while in prison. I suspect those activities are pretty limited under his command.
If it is so demeaning to dignity to be in jail, sobeit. It should NOT be a badge of honor like it is treated.
I am not against immigration or work permits but I am against paying for (via taxes) medical and infrastructure expenses for those who do not contribute and merely send money out of the country. If they pay their fair share and are here legally, good on them and they are welcome.
I am always amazed at how different people can basically share the same experience and come out of it diametrically opposed.
I stand by my statements and at one time had about 5 macs of various types at two locations that I kept track of. 9.1 was rock solid almost no matter what you threw at it. 9.2 was an entirely different story.
And I am sure you had the bad experiences you commented on.
I wonder what was different. (but I am not curious enough to try to figure it out and besides, Im not sure I remember how to use OS9) LOL I have enough trouble just keeping XP working right. But at least I hardly ever worry about 10.5 (although I never upgrade at the first offer, I wait until an upgrade has been out awhile, have not quite gutsed up to 10.5.7 yet.)
The latest version of OS9 was 9.2. It was pretty terrible. Supposedly an update to make it more compatible with running in a box alongside OSX.
BUT, if you stuck with 9.1, it was the most solid of all of the early Mac OS's. I dont think OSX approached its stability until the later versions of 10.3. And I ran lots of extensions and oddball programs on it.
And yes, you can drag out all the technical reasons why OSX architecture is so much better but the reality is, where the rubber met the road, OS9.1 worked just fine.
I preferred 9.1 over all of the early versions of OSX and interestingly enough it was the lack of an updated browser that became the main problem. I did take a couple of machine backwards from 9.2 to 9.1.
I am currently resurrecting an older G4 Mac to run OS9 so I can muck around with some of the games. It will share a monitor with my W98 system but you end up needing Mac specific keyboards/mice so the KVM will be a bit underutilized on that position.
Hmmm, 1983 is about when I signed up. Cant find a record of my old ID and unlike others I have forgotten it. But an Atari 800 and an acoustic modem is what I used at the time.
Geez that was a long time ago. I hadn't thought about it but 26 years is a long time.
Panels in general have a 20 year guarantee for something like 85% retained efficiency and seem to be lasting 30 years or so.
I put a 3.3KW system (a little over half of his) in about 14 months ago. Cost about 20K after rebates.
But I am on the "time of day" metering even though we are home. What that does is sell the KW back to PG&E at the higher afternoon rate when the sun is at its best and we don't use the oven or energy intense appliances during the afternoon.
My house is in Los Altos which is about 5 miles from Sunnyvale. It is about 3700 sq ft (including detached workshop) and my "true up" bill from PG&E was 157$ for the entire year. I seem to use much less electricity than he does for some reason. I sized it to cover about 1/2 of my usage but about 2/3 of the cost (results from the time of day metering). Seemed to work out quite well. My calculated payback was about 12 years and I included some inflation in that as well as interest on the money had I put it in savings instead of spending it. It would appear that the 12 years or so is going to be pretty accurate (I did not predict a rise in electric rates which allows the calculation to be conservative).
One benefit of the solar is that the panels cover the south facing roof with an airspace underneath so the shading effect of the panels keeps the house noticeably cooler. I was planning on putting in central air but am foregoing those plans as the house stays cool enough now. (small air conditioner in one room).
I would also do it again but would put in a larger system just so I could say I generate more than I use.
I agree with your comment about AltaVista and I firmly believe they lost out because AltaVista kept "improving" their search engine by guessing at what you -really wanted.
Kind of like the useless searches on MS or Apple that gives you percentages. Either the search found the phrase or it didnt. How asinine.
I see Google going down that path. I switched to google when I figured out it actually searched ONLY on what I entered. However, the last few months (not keeping track) it keeps "helping" me. I now have to enclose individual words in quotes to get it to search on THOSE WORDS. And leaving numbers out of searches by Google drives me crazy. I would not have put the damn number in if I didnt want to search on it.
As soon as another search engine comes on that doesnt treat me like I cannot spell or know what I want to ask, I will switch again. Yes, I make spelling errors but usually figure it out on my own.
As an example I searched on GPM and smog earlier today and I got the response that "are you sure you didnt want RPM". Now in this case it was only showing me the first two hits for RPM but it is annoying.
You really did move on a long time ago, didn't you.
6 hour has just as good a sound as 2 hour mode in any decent VHS with "HiFi" recording. They quit using the linear tracks along the edge a long time ago.
As for reliability, I have tossed a couple but because of the outdated preset tuners rather than the tape transport. I think I had one go bad and it just needed cleaning.
I can walk a tape to a different room in a shorter amount of time than 10 min and dont have to waste a blank DVD.
Time is money. Mucking around setting up a Windows Media Center, and then giving it care and feeding and then figuring out how to get the playback in some other room instantly takes a lot more time than grabbing the tape, walking across the house and plugging it in. Also you end up running a computer 24/7 which is not cheap electricity wise. VHS machines are pretty efficient in that regard and my Solar PV system likes them better. Computers get turned off at night around here (or just put to sleep in the case of my MBP which is in normally heavy use about 5 hours a day).
I have better things to do than screw around with the current crop of computer video solutions although I do think about a Myth setup on occasion.
While those solutions work for you and might for me if I wanted to put up with a Windows computer in the house (the 2 windows machines are relegated to the shop, Macs in the house), the video solution for most isnt out there yet.
I do agree that the events will force me to change at some point but I will only go kicking and screaming... LOL
Currently this place has 5 tvs plus a tuner in a PC and 4 VCR of various types. But I watch TV (other than the stock market stuff) about 1 hour per day. The reason for the number is convenience of where I want to be and that is the downfall of the current solutions (when you factor in wanting to slide by commercials). The wife watches her shows whereever she happens to be and the tape solution is so far, the absolute best. I rigged the house with a dual cable system so I can play any vcr on any tv but that ignores the problem of remote control of the VCR (the IR and Wireless solutions I have seen/used are garbage, pure and simple so that system goes basically unused).
Now something like a slingbox that could transmit to any receiver with full remote capability would be fine but the price has to be reasonable which it is not and they dont have the flexibility anyway (yet).
I absolutely agree. I do not have a TIVO because in my household tapes get recorded in 2 different places and are never watched at the taping location. Besides, why should I pay someone a monthly fee when I can set up VHS recorders for nothing.
DVD recording is not very easy (yes I have one) but the VHS tapes are transportable from room to room so you can be watching and recording at the same time. Besides, VHS tapes will last for many many recordings whereas DVDs do not (cheaply, at least).
And in the case of wife keeping up with episodes, once set up, she doesn't need to do anything except put a new tape in once or twice a week. And she watches in either of 3 places so you just grab the tape and put it in. Quality is not an issue either. 6 hr mode for these shows is plenty good.
I do have to throw out the occasional tape because it won't sync right (stretches along the edge where the track is) but DVDs are very fragile and prone to damage.
As far as I am concerned, the demise of VHS is a giant step backwards in the scheme of things taking away more personal capability and flexibility so the cable folks can earn more money by charging us for TIVO and TIVO-type devices.
And yes, when the cable companies decide to not transmit analog over the air, I expect to have big problems (probably a couple of years, comcast assured me 3 years but I don't trust them). Losing the flexibility of the remotes for regular TV is something I do not look forward to.
This tendency to make us pay for every minute of watching TV that is absolutely saturated with commercials is a giant scam and you all know it.
I suspect you have NoScrip installed in Firefox ??
That is the same reaction I got. However, when I allowed the demconvention it then requested me to download the move codec and noted that I already have silverlight (which I downloaded a few minutes ago)
Running 10.5.4 on a Macbookpro with Firefox 2. (yeah, I know, but 2 works so well for me that I havent bothered to install 3).
You wont get the prompts without allowing the site.
I can tell you dont have my knee or my flat feet. This could be a boon for those of us that cannot walk very far without a lot of pain but are not ready for wheelchairs, disabled parking placards, and the like. (or bicycles which, if you didnt notice, require lots of knee movement)
It appears to be small and light enough to be very useful. My concern would be ability to climb rises or to go "off road" (i.e. dirt footpaths, etc). It does not appear to be easy to move if you are not riding it (to get across rough stretches).
You are quite right in that it has to be a bit harder to walk. However, we probably all could use more exercise and if it is not too intrusive or difficult, it might be beneficial in the long run.
But without knowing exactly what the parameters are, it is difficult to determine the amount of extra effort. Foam inserts absorb energy, convert it to heat, and make walking more difficult too but those of us with flat feet (like me) would rather have the cushion than perfect efficiency.
It mentions "heel strike" energy so it might not be too bad for wheeled "things" (like wheelchairs).
Hi I suspect a lack of proper baffling in the tank. Sounds like fuel starvation to me. If it is a custom large tank, I also suspect it has a large flat bottom. There is not much you can do about that except maybe tip it a bit toward the fuel pickup area.
There are a couple of more complicated solutions like putting in a boost pump near the tank and an "accumulator" (read that as a 1/2 gallon small tank) in between the boost pump and the regular pump. If it is an old truck as you say, it probably uses a low pressure pump up front so it uses basically a vacuum to pull the gas. That is much more inefficient than pressure. A high volume pump near the tank might help, just by itself.
And yes, IWAMIAFL. (I was a mechanic in a former life). LOL
Sorry, I misread your first paragraph about "applying to the roof" as "roof mounted". And I didnt follow the link in your second paragraph. I mean, its slashdot, after all...
Yes, the panels I used are 205 on a frame about 3 inches off the roof. That also reduces the summer heat load by a large percentage (I didnt calculate it) which the directly mounted panels do not do.
I still think your numbers are pessimistic however. I use about 30kwh per day for a house twice that big although admittedly use natural gas for heating but individual room air conditioners in summer (only needed about 2 weeks out of the year but then the heating is only needed for about 2-4 months a year).
Well, OK, but current panels used for PV Solar installs are around 200 watts. I just had a 3.3Kw installation done and they used 205 watt panels.
So taking a ratio (I did not redo your calculations), the 4080 watts becomes 6150 watts using the 205 panels.
That is probably more than the 1400 sq ft house uses. (unless of course, the basement is full of outdated computers all running 24/7 - LOL)
My 3000 sq ft house uses about 30kwh per day. (and yes, I know, I am not energy positive).
Incidently the payback calculations (taking into account incentives) are between 9 years (Their estimate) and 12 years (My estimate). This is California in the Bay Area.
During my working career, I made specific investigations and recommendations that saved my company millions of dollars. Did I expect to be paid for -one- (of those) pieces of work for the rest of my life and to further provide support for my children and my childrens children??? No, of course not.
I do collect a pension but it is not a result of any -one hit wonders- it is for contributing for a long time in a good way to the company.
The people you are talking about expect a free ride if they can just make a "one hit wonder". Well, wake up, join the real world where your next paycheck depends on what you did during that pay period, NOT WHAT YOU DID IN THE PAST.
What we have are NOT -artists- but individuals looking to make it big.
The ones that are true artists are not in it for the money (but of course everyone has to support themselves somehow and yes, it is nice if you can make it with your art) but if they are good enough, the money will come. Some bands have proven this.
I posit that instead of -No Music- as you claim we will have, we will have much higher quality work because all of the -I wanna make big bucks- crowd will have to find something else to do.
Do you think all these aspiring musicians are in it for love of the work, NO, they may like it but it is really the attraction of the big bucks made by a few that spur them on. That, and most of them get to forego a formal education (and the terrible amount of slogging labor) that they would otherwise have to do.
And, before you ask, yes, I feel the same way about professional sports.
In the distant past, artists that made a living at it were the ones that rose to the top and they starved in many cases for their craft. Music, painting, writing, all of that falls into that catagory. Many of them were not recognized until after they died and they died poor. And the arts were better off for it. There were NO ECONOMIC INCENTIVES for producing music. It was not part of the equation yet you speak of this as if -money- is the holy grail for artists. Should not be, never has been, yet art continued to get produced from ancient times.
A real talented musician can make a living since there actually exist paying jobs for them. But I do agree that most of the current crop of music would disappear and I think we would be better off.
Copyright, and to some extent, patents are a flawed concept from the beginning. Possibly some minor protection is needed for direct ripoffs but this should be in terms of months, not years or decades.
Copyright is the legitimizing of a -Free Ride- and is just NOT deserved. This goes for software as well. Some protection for a short period to make back the money you dumped into it, but again, measured in MONTHS not years. No living off of the stuff you did 2 years ago.
I typically dont reply to comments but am making an exception. One of us has, in fact, been leading a sheltered life. I have lived and worked in Silicon Valley for more than 40 years. I have watched Microsoft lie cheat and steal its way to domination in the OS market.
I have watched them buy out companies just to take the products off the market because someday they might compete. You may call it "Typical Corporate" behavior and in many cases you are right. But Microsoft has always treaded on the edge of "evil". Moreso than most other corporate entities.
They finally made it to Monopolistic status and should have been split up. But a corporate profit loving government went easy on them.
Corporations are not "nice", they have to survive in a competative world egged on by the system that requires "next quarter" to make more money than the last quarter.
But Microsoft has always been on the ragged edge of illegal and usually over it. They threaten small companies with reprisals if their applications dont run a little better on MS OS systems and/or have a few more features. Very common and well known but the involved parties wont speak up because of those threats. I have personally known of these threats.
So yes, one of us is living in a dream world. But I dont think it is me. Or maybe you are an another MBA with a "corporations can do no wrong" attitude. I feel for you in that case.
So when I said "evil" in quotes, it was an implication. I would not put it in quotes had I not recognized that it is an arguable point.
The Rockefellers, Kennedys, all fall into the same bucket. Lie cheat steal, run illegal operations then use the money to buy respect. Go read up on your history.
Companies generally reflect the attitudes and methods of doing business of their founders (at least while their founders are still around).
Bill Gates way of doing business has always been "evil". So now he is giving away millions IN AN ATTEMPT TO BUY RESPECT. That is all it is. BUYING RESPECT.
There is no way to respect Bill Gates and dislike Microsoft. Those "respected" eastern big name families pulled the same shit. Railroads, prohibition, etc, these families made their fortunes in underhanded ways using dirty politics/etc. Then they financed all kinds of public/private projects for the "good" of mankind. They BOUGHT respect. That is a whole lot different than EARNING it.
While that left me agape, I keep having visions of police with these things strapped on the front and back flashing subliminal messages and doubling as bulletproof vests.
I do wonder how they do against a bullet (slow bullet like an ordinary 38), maybe you need to double them...
TFA says it can take 50 amps. It is a lithium cell, therefore 3.6 volts.
That is 1.6 amps at 120volts. Not a big deal (and yes, I didn't account for conversion losses so say 2 amps max at 120v). Now this is for your cell phone or PDA.
So, while your wall wart will grow some and will probably end up close to the unit being charged instead of being plugged into the wall, the power cord is fine and you won't be blowing any house breakers.
Now for your laptop at 20volts which is 5 or 6 cells, you will need 8.8 amps at 120v so say 10 amps total. Still not a deal breaker but you may need 18 ga wire in the power supply to wall connection instead of 20 or 22 ga. The thing that gets big here is the wire ga to the unit itself. Now THAT could be a problem so we will probably not see a full 50 amps into the unit itself. The physical space for the leads inside the cell phone, computer, etc, get a bit large.
Uhhh, not quite. If you remove the belt and go for a drive, you are correct. But if you kill the engine suddenly, you cannot control the car until the power steering system pressure drops down. (runs at over 1000psi).
I had a belt break once on the power steering unit. I was in a corner, I almost ended up in a school yard. A few minutes later I drove home and the steering was heavy but doable like you said. But for those few seconds, it was like someone had welded the steering with an arc welder. The hydraulics are at full pressure but the control valve has no authority.
At the time I was a working mechanic but had not thought about that scenario before.
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The problem is if you put filters as part of the light sensitive array, that would be all they can be used for. The Hubble probably has Red Green and Blue filters as part of its kit as well as a bunch of others that look at specific spectral lines for study. If you combine RGB filtered pictures in the right proportions, you get what we consider to be "natural" color. But it also has narrow band filters for other capabilities like Hydrogen Alpha (in the red band) and Sulfur along with many others. These can be combined to give scientists a visual input as to how the different elements are distributed in the clusters/clouds/etc.
So the Hubble can produce what we interpret as "natural color" but it can also photograph frequencies that we cannot see visually (human vision is pretty limited in spectral range) such as Ultra violet and Infra red.
So by having what we would consider to be "gray scale", with the use of the filters, tremendous amounts of information about the makeup and distribution of objects can be obtained.
I think you are right. Use of composites is not exactly new but it is very new at the scale they are using it on the 787. I worry a bit about it because we used composites on a program I was on and one thing we experienced is that internal damage is hard to detect.
I am hoping that this is more under control now with new technologies and also I am hoping they are using very conservative design parameters. I remember scrapping some very large pieces because someone went over the edge and attacked them with a hammer. You could not see any damage but we had no way to tell whether the internal plys were sound.
Burt Rutan has had major success with composites but those are lightly loaded, occasional use, craft. Even though Boeing used to be a competitor, I hope they survive this and make composites mainstream for commercial aircraft.
(I actually think that blended wing-body construction is the next big step in efficiency but the public is not ready for it - yet)
It might be that if more jails/prisons were run this way, we might have fewer return trips. I wonder what his repeat statistics are in comparison to other places that run taxpayer funded country clubs.
What is it about the words -Criminal- and -Illegal- alien that is so hard for slashdotters to fathom.
I dont think that prisoners should have access to TV or weight lifting equipment or be allowed to form gangs or get drugs while in prison. I suspect those activities are pretty limited under his command.
If it is so demeaning to dignity to be in jail, sobeit. It should NOT be a badge of honor like it is treated.
I am not against immigration or work permits but I am against paying for (via taxes) medical and infrastructure expenses for those who do not contribute and merely send money out of the country. If they pay their fair share and are here legally, good on them and they are welcome.
(so much for karma in this thread)
I am always amazed at how different people can basically share the same experience and come out of it diametrically opposed.
I stand by my statements and at one time had about 5 macs of various types at two locations that I kept track of. 9.1 was rock solid almost no matter what you threw at it. 9.2 was an entirely different story.
And I am sure you had the bad experiences you commented on.
I wonder what was different. (but I am not curious enough to try to figure it out and besides, Im not sure I remember how to use OS9) LOL I have enough trouble just keeping XP working right. But at least I hardly ever worry about 10.5 (although I never upgrade at the first offer, I wait until an upgrade has been out awhile, have not quite gutsed up to 10.5.7 yet.)
The latest version of OS9 was 9.2. It was pretty terrible. Supposedly an update to make it more compatible with running in a box alongside OSX.
BUT, if you stuck with 9.1, it was the most solid of all of the early Mac OS's. I dont think OSX approached its stability until the later versions of 10.3. And I ran lots of extensions and oddball programs on it.
And yes, you can drag out all the technical reasons why OSX architecture is so much better but the reality is, where the rubber met the road, OS9.1 worked just fine.
I preferred 9.1 over all of the early versions of OSX and interestingly enough it was the lack of an updated browser that became the main problem. I did take a couple of machine backwards from 9.2 to 9.1.
I am currently resurrecting an older G4 Mac to run OS9 so I can muck around with some of the games. It will share a monitor with my W98 system but you end up needing Mac specific keyboards/mice so the KVM will be a bit underutilized on that position.
Hmmm, 1983 is about when I signed up. Cant find a record of my old ID and unlike others I have forgotten it. But an Atari 800 and an acoustic modem is what I used at the time.
Geez that was a long time ago. I hadn't thought about it but 26 years is a long time.
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Panels in general have a 20 year guarantee for something like 85% retained efficiency and seem to be lasting 30 years or so.
I put a 3.3KW system (a little over half of his) in about 14 months ago. Cost about 20K after rebates.
But I am on the "time of day" metering even though we are home. What that does is sell the KW back to PG&E at the higher afternoon rate when the sun is at its best and we don't use the oven or energy intense appliances during the afternoon.
My house is in Los Altos which is about 5 miles from Sunnyvale. It is about 3700 sq ft (including detached workshop) and my "true up" bill from PG&E was 157$ for the entire year. I seem to use much less electricity than he does for some reason. I sized it to cover about 1/2 of my usage but about 2/3 of the cost (results from the time of day metering). Seemed to work out quite well. My calculated payback was about 12 years and I included some inflation in that as well as interest on the money had I put it in savings instead of spending it. It would appear that the 12 years or so is going to be pretty accurate (I did not predict a rise in electric rates which allows the calculation to be conservative).
One benefit of the solar is that the panels cover the south facing roof with an airspace underneath so the shading effect of the panels keeps the house noticeably cooler. I was planning on putting in central air but am foregoing those plans as the house stays cool enough now. (small air conditioner in one room).
I would also do it again but would put in a larger system just so I could say I generate more than I use.
I agree with your comment about AltaVista and I firmly believe they lost out because AltaVista kept "improving" their search engine by guessing at what you -really wanted.
Kind of like the useless searches on MS or Apple that gives you percentages. Either the search found the phrase or it didnt. How asinine.
I see Google going down that path. I switched to google when I figured out it actually searched ONLY on what I entered. However, the last few months (not keeping track) it keeps "helping" me. I now have to enclose individual words in quotes to get it to search on THOSE WORDS. And leaving numbers out of searches by Google drives me crazy. I would not have put the damn number in if I didnt want to search on it.
As soon as another search engine comes on that doesnt treat me like I cannot spell or know what I want to ask, I will switch again. Yes, I make spelling errors but usually figure it out on my own.
As an example I searched on GPM and smog earlier today and I got the response that "are you sure you didnt want RPM". Now in this case it was only showing me the first two hits for RPM but it is annoying.
You really did move on a long time ago, didn't you.
6 hour has just as good a sound as 2 hour mode in any decent VHS with "HiFi" recording. They quit using the linear tracks along the edge a long time ago.
As for reliability, I have tossed a couple but because of the outdated preset tuners rather than the tape transport. I think I had one go bad and it just needed cleaning.
I can walk a tape to a different room in a shorter amount of time than 10 min and dont have to waste a blank DVD.
Time is money. Mucking around setting up a Windows Media Center, and then giving it care and feeding and then figuring out how to get the playback in some other room instantly takes a lot more time than grabbing the tape, walking across the house and plugging it in. Also you end up running a computer 24/7 which is not cheap electricity wise. VHS machines are pretty efficient in that regard and my Solar PV system likes them better. Computers get turned off at night around here (or just put to sleep in the case of my MBP which is in normally heavy use about 5 hours a day).
I have better things to do than screw around with the current crop of computer video solutions although I do think about a Myth setup on occasion.
While those solutions work for you and might for me if I wanted to put up with a Windows computer in the house (the 2 windows machines are relegated to the shop, Macs in the house), the video solution for most isnt out there yet.
I do agree that the events will force me to change at some point but I will only go kicking and screaming... LOL
Currently this place has 5 tvs plus a tuner in a PC and 4 VCR of various types. But I watch TV (other than the stock market stuff) about 1 hour per day. The reason for the number is convenience of where I want to be and that is the downfall of the current solutions (when you factor in wanting to slide by commercials). The wife watches her shows whereever she happens to be and the tape solution is so far, the absolute best. I rigged the house with a dual cable system so I can play any vcr on any tv but that ignores the problem of remote control of the VCR (the IR and Wireless solutions I have seen/used are garbage, pure and simple so that system goes basically unused).
Now something like a slingbox that could transmit to any receiver with full remote capability would be fine but the price has to be reasonable which it is not and they dont have the flexibility anyway (yet).
So, Get off my lawn, again..... LOL
I absolutely agree. I do not have a TIVO because in my household tapes get recorded in 2 different places and are never watched at the taping location. Besides, why should I pay someone a monthly fee when I can set up VHS recorders for nothing.
DVD recording is not very easy (yes I have one) but the VHS tapes are transportable from room to room so you can be watching and recording at the same time. Besides, VHS tapes will last for many many recordings whereas DVDs do not (cheaply, at least).
And in the case of wife keeping up with episodes, once set up, she doesn't need to do anything except put a new tape in once or twice a week. And she watches in either of 3 places so you just grab the tape and put it in. Quality is not an issue either. 6 hr mode for these shows is plenty good.
I do have to throw out the occasional tape because it won't sync right (stretches along the edge where the track is) but DVDs are very fragile and prone to damage.
As far as I am concerned, the demise of VHS is a giant step backwards in the scheme of things taking away more personal capability and flexibility so the cable folks can earn more money by charging us for TIVO and TIVO-type devices.
And yes, when the cable companies decide to not transmit analog over the air, I expect to have big problems (probably a couple of years, comcast assured me 3 years but I don't trust them). Losing the flexibility of the remotes for regular TV is something I do not look forward to.
This tendency to make us pay for every minute of watching TV that is absolutely saturated with commercials is a giant scam and you all know it.
My rant for todsy.
Now, GET Off my lawn....
Replacing the BSOD with the ASOD.
Except with ASOD, you wont know whos SOD it is...
Just what MS needed....
I suspect you have NoScrip installed in Firefox ??
That is the same reaction I got. However, when I allowed the demconvention it then requested me to download the move codec and noted that I already have silverlight (which I downloaded a few minutes ago)
Running 10.5.4 on a Macbookpro with Firefox 2. (yeah, I know, but 2 works so well for me that I havent bothered to install 3).
You wont get the prompts without allowing the site.
I can tell you dont have my knee or my flat feet. This could be a boon for those of us that cannot walk very far without a lot of pain but are not ready for wheelchairs, disabled parking placards, and the like. (or bicycles which, if you didnt notice, require lots of knee movement)
It appears to be small and light enough to be very useful. My concern would be ability to climb rises or to go "off road" (i.e. dirt footpaths, etc). It does not appear to be easy to move if you are not riding it (to get across rough stretches).
You are quite right in that it has to be a bit harder to walk. However, we probably all could use more exercise and if it is not too intrusive or difficult, it might be beneficial in the long run.
But without knowing exactly what the parameters are, it is difficult to determine the amount of extra effort. Foam inserts absorb energy, convert it to heat, and make walking more difficult too but those of us with flat feet (like me) would rather have the cushion than perfect efficiency.
It mentions "heel strike" energy so it might not be too bad for wheeled "things" (like wheelchairs).
Most of us dont walk efficiently anyway.
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I suspect a lack of proper baffling in the tank. Sounds like fuel starvation to me. If it is a custom large tank, I also suspect it has a large flat bottom. There is not much you can do about that except maybe tip it a bit toward the fuel pickup area.
There are a couple of more complicated solutions like putting in a boost pump near the tank and an "accumulator" (read that as a 1/2 gallon small tank) in between the boost pump and the regular pump. If it is an old truck as you say, it probably uses a low pressure pump up front so it uses basically a vacuum to pull the gas. That is much more inefficient than pressure. A high volume pump near the tank might help, just by itself.
And yes, IWAMIAFL. (I was a mechanic in a former life). LOL
Sorry, I misread your first paragraph about "applying to the roof" as "roof mounted". And I didnt follow the link in your second paragraph. I mean, its slashdot, after all...
Yes, the panels I used are 205 on a frame about 3 inches off the roof. That also reduces the summer heat load by a large percentage (I didnt calculate it) which the directly mounted panels do not do.
I still think your numbers are pessimistic however. I use about 30kwh per day for a house twice that big although admittedly use natural gas for heating but individual room air conditioners in summer (only needed about 2 weeks out of the year but then the heating is only needed for about 2-4 months a year).
Well, OK, but current panels used for PV Solar installs are around 200 watts. I just had a 3.3Kw installation done and they used 205 watt panels.
So taking a ratio (I did not redo your calculations), the 4080 watts becomes 6150 watts using the 205 panels.
That is probably more than the 1400 sq ft house uses. (unless of course, the basement is full of outdated computers all running 24/7 - LOL)
My 3000 sq ft house uses about 30kwh per day. (and yes, I know, I am not energy positive).
Incidently the payback calculations (taking into account incentives) are between 9 years (Their estimate) and 12 years (My estimate). This is California in the Bay Area.
Sorry, your argument just doesn't hold water.
During my working career, I made specific investigations and recommendations that saved my company millions of dollars. Did I expect to be paid for -one- (of those) pieces of work for the rest of my life and to further provide support for my children and my childrens children??? No, of course not.
I do collect a pension but it is not a result of any -one hit wonders- it is for contributing for a long time in a good way to the company.
The people you are talking about expect a free ride if they can just make a "one hit wonder". Well, wake up, join the real world where your next paycheck depends on what you did during that pay period, NOT WHAT YOU DID IN THE PAST.
What we have are NOT -artists- but individuals looking to make it big.
The ones that are true artists are not in it for the money (but of course everyone has to support themselves somehow and yes, it is nice if you can make it with your art) but if they are good enough, the money will come. Some bands have proven this.
I posit that instead of -No Music- as you claim we will have, we will have much higher quality work because all of the -I wanna make big bucks- crowd will have to find something else to do.
Do you think all these aspiring musicians are in it for love of the work, NO, they may like it but it is really the attraction of the big bucks made by a few that spur them on. That, and most of them get to forego a formal education (and the terrible amount of slogging labor) that they would otherwise have to do.
And, before you ask, yes, I feel the same way about professional sports.
In the distant past, artists that made a living at it were the ones that rose to the top and they starved in many cases for their craft. Music, painting, writing, all of that falls into that catagory. Many of them were not recognized until after they died and they died poor. And the arts were better off for it. There were NO ECONOMIC INCENTIVES for producing music. It was not part of the equation yet you speak of this as if -money- is the holy grail for artists. Should not be, never has been, yet art continued to get produced from ancient times.
A real talented musician can make a living since there actually exist paying jobs for them. But I do agree that most of the current crop of music would disappear and I think we would be better off.
Copyright, and to some extent, patents are a flawed concept from the beginning. Possibly some minor protection is needed for direct ripoffs but this should be in terms of months, not years or decades.
Copyright is the legitimizing of a -Free Ride- and is just NOT deserved. This goes for software as well. Some protection for a short period to make back the money you dumped into it, but again, measured in MONTHS not years. No living off of the stuff you did 2 years ago.
Now, get off my lawn.
I typically dont reply to comments but am making an exception. One of us has, in fact, been leading a sheltered life. I have lived and worked in Silicon Valley for more than 40 years. I have watched Microsoft lie cheat and steal its way to domination in the OS market.
I have watched them buy out companies just to take the products off the market because someday they might compete. You may call it "Typical Corporate" behavior and in many cases you are right. But Microsoft has always treaded on the edge of "evil". Moreso than most other corporate entities.
They finally made it to Monopolistic status and should have been split up. But a corporate profit loving government went easy on them.
Corporations are not "nice", they have to survive in a competative world egged on by the system that requires "next quarter" to make more money than the last quarter.
But Microsoft has always been on the ragged edge of illegal and usually over it. They threaten small companies with reprisals if their applications dont run a little better on MS OS systems and/or have a few more features. Very common and well known but the involved parties wont speak up because of those threats. I have personally known of these threats.
So yes, one of us is living in a dream world. But I dont think it is me. Or maybe you are an another MBA with a "corporations can do no wrong" attitude. I feel for you in that case.
So when I said "evil" in quotes, it was an implication. I would not put it in quotes had I not recognized that it is an arguable point.
The Rockefellers, Kennedys, all fall into the same bucket. Lie cheat steal, run illegal operations then use the money to buy respect. Go read up on your history.
Give me an F***in break.
Companies generally reflect the attitudes and methods of doing business of their founders (at least while their founders are still around).
Bill Gates way of doing business has always been "evil". So now he is giving away millions IN AN ATTEMPT TO BUY RESPECT. That is all it is. BUYING RESPECT.
There is no way to respect Bill Gates and dislike Microsoft. Those "respected" eastern big name families pulled the same shit. Railroads, prohibition, etc, these families made their fortunes in underhanded ways using dirty politics/etc. Then they financed all kinds of public/private projects for the "good" of mankind. They BOUGHT respect. That is a whole lot different than EARNING it.
Bill Gates is no different.
hmmm, comes out 8.04+ in the math I use....
But, YMMV, LOL
While that left me agape, I keep having visions of police with these things strapped on the front and back flashing subliminal messages and doubling as bulletproof vests.
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I do wonder how they do against a bullet (slow bullet like an ordinary 38), maybe you need to double them
Not exactly.
TFA says it can take 50 amps. It is a lithium cell, therefore 3.6 volts.
That is 1.6 amps at 120volts. Not a big deal (and yes, I didn't account for conversion losses so say 2 amps max at 120v). Now this is for your cell phone or PDA.
So, while your wall wart will grow some and will probably end up close to the unit being charged instead of being plugged into the wall, the power cord is fine and you won't be blowing any house breakers.
Now for your laptop at 20volts which is 5 or 6 cells, you will need 8.8 amps at 120v so say 10 amps total. Still not a deal breaker but you may need 18 ga wire in the power supply to wall connection instead of 20 or 22 ga. The thing that gets big here is the wire ga to the unit itself. Now THAT could be a problem so we will probably not see a full 50 amps into the unit itself. The physical space for the leads inside the cell phone, computer, etc, get a bit large.
Uhhh, not quite. If you remove the belt and go for a drive, you are correct. But if you kill the engine suddenly, you cannot control the car until the power steering system pressure drops down. (runs at over 1000psi).
I had a belt break once on the power steering unit. I was in a corner, I almost ended up in a school yard. A few minutes later I drove home and the steering was heavy but doable like you said. But for those few seconds, it was like someone had welded the steering with an arc welder. The hydraulics are at full pressure but the control valve has no authority.
At the time I was a working mechanic but had not thought about that scenario before.