Do some reading on the 12v systems of blue water sailboats. You'll find that they have a separate circuit for their running system/lights vs their navigational electronics/radar etc.
Generally they run the engine to charge the battery, and when that isn't possible, shore power or wind/solar. They will run the system/nav lights off of one 100ah (50ah real world use) deep cycle battery, and the other system will run off of 1-3 100ah deep cycle batteries, depending on size/budget. This is generally topped off by 1-2 400w solar panels (taking up the space of about a 4x8' sheet of plywood) and/or wind power. Wind power might be an issue in your mom's driveway though.
Also consider upgrading your alternator. Conversion vans typically come with a much higher rated alternator to deal with the additional loads the experience. Tapping in to the existing 12v system is asking for trouble, it's not designed for what you're going to ask of it.
My friend's dad worked for the radar department at Raytheon for about 35 years. He always told us about this radar array in the panhandle of Texas. The power sent out from the radar array was so high that flocks of geese flying in formation would fly through the field, suddenly would become disorientated and fly in different directions, sometimes crashing in to the ground, effectively scrambling their brains. Once they got out of the field, they would return to normal and form up again. Eventually someone got on to them about this and they would shut down the array briefly when geese were detected. Reportedly you needed to wear special eye wear because the radiation could cook your eyeballs like eggs if you weren't careful (your eyes and testes have not many blood vessels and have trouble regulating their temperature compared to the rest of the body). There are stories about beached whales due to navy sonar tests too, but this is a discussion about atmospheric radar.
Anyways, my point is, you start beaming enough energy through the atmosphere and you can have some unwanted effects. I'm sure the aluminum frame of a Cessna 172 acts as enough of a Faraday Cage against these sorts of things, but with your balls literally on the line, do you really want to test out that theory?;)
Might as well karma whore this myself, because someone else is going to, here's a brilliant quote from HHGTTG:
Rob McKenna had two hundred and thirty-one different types of rain entered in his little book, and he didn't like any of them.
Since he had left Denmark the previous afternoon, he had been through types 33 (light pricking drizzle which made the roads slippery), 39 (heavy spotting), 47 to 51 (vertical light drizzle through to sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle freshening), 87 and 88 (two finely distinguished varieties of vertical torrential downpour), 100 (postdownpour squalling, cold), all the sea-storm types between 192 and 213 at once, 123, 124, 126, 127 (mild and intermediate cold gusting, regular and syncopated cab-drumming), 11 (breezy droplets), and now his least favorite of all, 17.
Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windshield so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.
And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him.
The Space Shuttle generally flew only under clear conditions (Challenger excepted, of course); I can't ever recall seeing a photo of the Shuttle taking off or landing in the rain.
Light rain, I can see this working, but a proper Texas Downpour (a.k.a. "cow pissing on a flat rock") is probably going to block the signal after 300m of heavy rain, even at higher energies. I'd be curious to hear what kind of rainstorms and what region of the country they were testing this in. Light mist in Seattle is very different from a tropical thunderstorm in Miami is very different from a squall line in Dallas.
I think you can set different wallpapers for different monitors now.... something you've been able to do on any mac/linux machine since the dawn of time.
'If there's wreckage there that can be recovered, we need to know what it is, how big it is, what it looks like, and what it's made of
Funny thing when we went to pull up Amelia's airplane, we found something that's a Submarine, 150' long, long black and slender, and made of steel! Glomar Explorer was dispatched to the area a few months before the secretary of state, seemingly at random, and to the bewilderment of the press, announced from the whitehouse that they would be assisting in this "exploration of America's heritage".
Kids normally carry these things around in a carrying case with about 9 other games + accessories, battery charger, etc. That then goes inside their school bag. Whether or not it actually fits in a pocket is pretty trivial for 90% of users, so long as it's smaller than a netbook.
believe they're sitting on a large body of cash and in no danger of going under any time soon.
What I want to know is how they've fallen so quickly?
Probably because they sat on that large body of cash for years and years, failed to invest it in improving their product, and hardly improved the OS between 2006 and 2010 (largely just bug fixes and better screens (color, then higher resolution) as they came down in price), meanwhile Apple and Google were dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in to their products. Business users/buyers don't generally like change, but there was a watershed moment with mobile phone products market, and RIM decided to play it safe for too long.
Dropped my Nexus S (owned 1.5 years now) ~4ft on to concrete sidewalk, the rear cover/battery cover came loose on one end. My Blackberry Curve 83xx had an easily removable battery cover, but I can't ever recall it coming off unless I was bored (Blackberries allow for completely tool-less disassembly, good way to kill time in the airport or whatever)
Really? We're in the middle of a presidential reelection, syria is in strife, E3 just happened, Macworld is in full swing, literally hundreds of new IvyBridge laptops/ultrabook models have been released, Lenovo announces a no-contract wireless data plan at a reasonable price, and it's a "slow news day" so slashdot is rerunning crap from the front page of reddit? Really?
Oh CmdrTaco, how I miss you. Did your non-compete say anything about creating a competitor? I'm glad you got out before the corporate drones sucked the last life out of Slashdot, but you couldn't have established a safe haven for the rest of us?
[blockquote]So what next?[/blockquote]So assume your password is going to be compromised eventually (the bigger the service, the greater that chance approaches 1), use a different, randomized password for each website, and rely on "forgot your password?" links for when your browser's cookie times out.
For most websites, the "forgot your password?" link + checking your email takes less time than trying to guess if that was a capital P or lowercase p in "p455w0rD".
I'm pretty sure Brazil does space launches on a fairly regular basis. Russia has been launching from Kzyrgistan for decades, both military, civilian and commercial.
Sure, but once the airplane + building hit the ground, it doesn't leave highly lethal debris floating in midair immediately in the approach/takeoff airspace over every airport on the globe. Space debris is there, effectively forever. Geostationary sattelites are only going to exist until the beginning of WW3, when someone launches a bunch of flak into an intersecting elipitcal orbit to take out the vast majority of spy and comm sattelites.
I'm having trouble thinking of a star wars game (with perhaps the exception of Star Wars: Rebellion, a 4X game) that the main character doesn't later on find out that he has some level of latent jedi abilities. There'll be cameos by C3, R2 droids, star destroyers in the background and all the other bits and bobs that help verify what universe you're currently occupying.
It consumed roughtly 737,400lbs of fuel, minus the weight of the Atlas V rocket (so 500,000 lbs of fuel?) to get it in orbit. To orbit the earth at an altitude above the non-negligible atmosphere, you need to travel at around 17,000mph or more. This is roughly the same speed the Shuttle, ISS, Dragon capsule, Hubble, et all are moving. The rocket puts it in orbit at that speed. I think once in orbit, about 6 months in to it's mission, it did an orbital course correction, which if done at the correct time, requires surprisingly little fuel to do.
If anything, the NRO probably helped bring down the cost of the Hubble down considerably. Precision grinding a mirror of that size, only to make one or two of them (spare backup on the ground) is hugely wasteful; if you can set up an assembly line for production of the mirrors, it drops the cost per unit dramatically. Hell, the abberation might have actually been due to inserting the hubble's mirror grinding in to the NRO's production schedule. That sort of error shouldn't really pop up when you're doing a one-off creation.
Nay, I am month to month with my Nexus S that I paid (way too much for, especially 6 months after the fact) ~$650 for at launch. The Blackberry was $99 on contract (For me) and I got four years out of it. $250 was the buy it outright price.
1080p output on $99, 4" cell phones is only a few years away. If not new, then through the used/craigslist channels. It's too bad the OLPC project didn't invest more heavily in cell phones.
This 4th of july I'll be launching an old blackberry curve a couple hundred feet in the air using fireworks simply because it's worth more to me as a disposable video camera than anything else. In 2008 that phone cost $250 with contract.
Honestly these near-daily advertisements for sub-cellphone hardware on slashdot are getting tiring.
She's the cover story for recovering a nuclear submarine in the area. Glomar Explorer was dispatched to the region about three months prior to the secretary of state unexpectedly announcing that they would be assisting helping look for her airplane. Google "Glomar Explorer" and/or "Project Azorian"
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Do some reading on the 12v systems of blue water sailboats. You'll find that they have a separate circuit for their running system/lights vs their navigational electronics/radar etc.
Generally they run the engine to charge the battery, and when that isn't possible, shore power or wind/solar. They will run the system/nav lights off of one 100ah (50ah real world use) deep cycle battery, and the other system will run off of 1-3 100ah deep cycle batteries, depending on size/budget. This is generally topped off by 1-2 400w solar panels (taking up the space of about a 4x8' sheet of plywood) and/or wind power. Wind power might be an issue in your mom's driveway though.
Also consider upgrading your alternator. Conversion vans typically come with a much higher rated alternator to deal with the additional loads the experience. Tapping in to the existing 12v system is asking for trouble, it's not designed for what you're going to ask of it.
My friend's dad worked for the radar department at Raytheon for about 35 years. He always told us about this radar array in the panhandle of Texas. The power sent out from the radar array was so high that flocks of geese flying in formation would fly through the field, suddenly would become disorientated and fly in different directions, sometimes crashing in to the ground, effectively scrambling their brains. Once they got out of the field, they would return to normal and form up again. Eventually someone got on to them about this and they would shut down the array briefly when geese were detected. Reportedly you needed to wear special eye wear because the radiation could cook your eyeballs like eggs if you weren't careful (your eyes and testes have not many blood vessels and have trouble regulating their temperature compared to the rest of the body). There are stories about beached whales due to navy sonar tests too, but this is a discussion about atmospheric radar.
;)
Anyways, my point is, you start beaming enough energy through the atmosphere and you can have some unwanted effects. I'm sure the aluminum frame of a Cessna 172 acts as enough of a Faraday Cage against these sorts of things, but with your balls literally on the line, do you really want to test out that theory?
Might as well karma whore this myself, because someone else is going to, here's a brilliant quote from HHGTTG:
The Space Shuttle generally flew only under clear conditions (Challenger excepted, of course); I can't ever recall seeing a photo of the Shuttle taking off or landing in the rain.
Light rain, I can see this working, but a proper Texas Downpour (a.k.a. "cow pissing on a flat rock") is probably going to block the signal after 300m of heavy rain, even at higher energies. I'd be curious to hear what kind of rainstorms and what region of the country they were testing this in. Light mist in Seattle is very different from a tropical thunderstorm in Miami is very different from a squall line in Dallas.
I think you can set different wallpapers for different monitors now.... something you've been able to do on any mac/linux machine since the dawn of time.
Funny thing when we went to pull up Amelia's airplane, we found something that's a Submarine, 150' long, long black and slender, and made of steel! Glomar Explorer was dispatched to the area a few months before the secretary of state, seemingly at random, and to the bewilderment of the press, announced from the whitehouse that they would be assisting in this "exploration of America's heritage".
Kids normally carry these things around in a carrying case with about 9 other games + accessories, battery charger, etc. That then goes inside their school bag. Whether or not it actually fits in a pocket is pretty trivial for 90% of users, so long as it's smaller than a netbook.
Probably because they sat on that large body of cash for years and years, failed to invest it in improving their product, and hardly improved the OS between 2006 and 2010 (largely just bug fixes and better screens (color, then higher resolution) as they came down in price), meanwhile Apple and Google were dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in to their products. Business users/buyers don't generally like change, but there was a watershed moment with mobile phone products market, and RIM decided to play it safe for too long.
Anyone want to shed some light on this process? Or is that simply some sort of oxide coating over the magnesium?
Dropped my Nexus S (owned 1.5 years now) ~4ft on to concrete sidewalk, the rear cover/battery cover came loose on one end. My Blackberry Curve 83xx had an easily removable battery cover, but I can't ever recall it coming off unless I was bored (Blackberries allow for completely tool-less disassembly, good way to kill time in the airport or whatever)
My coworker asked me "how many gigs is 77,000mb?"
Me: "Uhh, roughly 77GB, depending on what metric you use, why?"
Him: "Oh, I was just looking at how much data my phone's used this month"
Me: "... who is your carrier?"
Him: "Sprint"
Sprint might be a shit company with shitty customer service, but goddamn, 77GB is a lot of data, and that includes tethering too. Wow.
Yep, I had a 200mhz Pentium MMX Sony Vaio that came with Win95 OSR 1.1 with rudimentary USB support.
Really? We're in the middle of a presidential reelection, syria is in strife, E3 just happened, Macworld is in full swing, literally hundreds of new IvyBridge laptops/ultrabook models have been released, Lenovo announces a no-contract wireless data plan at a reasonable price, and it's a "slow news day" so slashdot is rerunning crap from the front page of reddit? Really?
Oh CmdrTaco, how I miss you. Did your non-compete say anything about creating a competitor? I'm glad you got out before the corporate drones sucked the last life out of Slashdot, but you couldn't have established a safe haven for the rest of us?
As an aside, that password was a joke. *woosh*
[blockquote]So what next?[/blockquote]So assume your password is going to be compromised eventually (the bigger the service, the greater that chance approaches 1), use a different, randomized password for each website, and rely on "forgot your password?" links for when your browser's cookie times out.
For most websites, the "forgot your password?" link + checking your email takes less time than trying to guess if that was a capital P or lowercase p in "p455w0rD".
I'm pretty sure Brazil does space launches on a fairly regular basis. Russia has been launching from Kzyrgistan for decades, both military, civilian and commercial.
Sure, but once the airplane + building hit the ground, it doesn't leave highly lethal debris floating in midair immediately in the approach/takeoff airspace over every airport on the globe. Space debris is there, effectively forever. Geostationary sattelites are only going to exist until the beginning of WW3, when someone launches a bunch of flak into an intersecting elipitcal orbit to take out the vast majority of spy and comm sattelites.
I'm having trouble thinking of a star wars game (with perhaps the exception of Star Wars: Rebellion, a 4X game) that the main character doesn't later on find out that he has some level of latent jedi abilities. There'll be cameos by C3, R2 droids, star destroyers in the background and all the other bits and bobs that help verify what universe you're currently occupying.
It consumed roughtly 737,400lbs of fuel, minus the weight of the Atlas V rocket (so 500,000 lbs of fuel?) to get it in orbit. To orbit the earth at an altitude above the non-negligible atmosphere, you need to travel at around 17,000mph or more. This is roughly the same speed the Shuttle, ISS, Dragon capsule, Hubble, et all are moving. The rocket puts it in orbit at that speed. I think once in orbit, about 6 months in to it's mission, it did an orbital course correction, which if done at the correct time, requires surprisingly little fuel to do.
If anything, the NRO probably helped bring down the cost of the Hubble down considerably. Precision grinding a mirror of that size, only to make one or two of them (spare backup on the ground) is hugely wasteful; if you can set up an assembly line for production of the mirrors, it drops the cost per unit dramatically. Hell, the abberation might have actually been due to inserting the hubble's mirror grinding in to the NRO's production schedule. That sort of error shouldn't really pop up when you're doing a one-off creation.
Depends if NASA or the NRO ordered it. NASA got the Greyhound edition, while the NRO got the short bus.
Solar flare from Bernard's Star in our direction
Nay, I am month to month with my Nexus S that I paid (way too much for, especially 6 months after the fact) ~$650 for at launch. The Blackberry was $99 on contract (For me) and I got four years out of it. $250 was the buy it outright price.
1080p output on $99, 4" cell phones is only a few years away. If not new, then through the used/craigslist channels. It's too bad the OLPC project didn't invest more heavily in cell phones.
This 4th of july I'll be launching an old blackberry curve a couple hundred feet in the air using fireworks simply because it's worth more to me as a disposable video camera than anything else. In 2008 that phone cost $250 with contract.
Honestly these near-daily advertisements for sub-cellphone hardware on slashdot are getting tiring.
She's the cover story for recovering a nuclear submarine in the area. Glomar Explorer was dispatched to the region about three months prior to the secretary of state unexpectedly announcing that they would be assisting helping look for her airplane. Google "Glomar Explorer" and/or "Project Azorian"