See, I don't like being in the dark on large decisions like that - particularly when it comes to something as politically significant as the GITMO debate and how we deal with enemy combatants. Big policy decisions should not be made behind closed doors. If there are valid reasons to change course on a policy like that, "I've analyzed all the data and decided to keep it open" is not a good enough answer. We need the details so we can ensure our representatives are being honest in their values. Routine reassurance is meaningless when actions do not line up with words. Unless we know the real reasons we can't determine if they're just or if it's just politics as usual.
After all, when is the last time a politician was lauded for their honesty? I'm all for voting somebody who shares my values, but I need to be able to keep tabs on them.
As another exemplary individual who is well above average in every respect, I certainly agree that talking isn't going to distract me either. Clearly we must rid the road of all of these simpletons who can't perform as mundane a task as talking on the phone while driving. After all, 100% of accidents are caused by other people. If only we could keep those other people off of the road you and I can relax and sip our caramel machiatos while carrying on a text conversation about the mundane simpletons who could never have our intellectual capacity.
You can't close the case on a correlation. Have you accounted for the much poorer average American diet and exercise regimen? Or that most of our walking is simply to get to and from our cars?
Focus your voting efforts in areas you're familiar with. Judge of character? Character is unquantifiable and changes with the weather. Too many people vote because they feel a person has "good character" even if their policy ideas are horrible. You say you know a lot about how things work? Dig into candidate views on things you're familiar with and see how it lines up with your understanding. Discuss it with your friends, post about it on forums. Communicate. The system only works works when people communicate what they know and listen to what they don't. It breaks down when you have people communicating what they don't know and have people set aside what they *do* understand to follow the guy with the biggest soap box.
Then we have a huge problem. Democracy is *wholly dependent* on having an informed voting base. If there are major national policies being carried out based on information that is not available to the voters - especially when those policies are contrary to the will of the voters that put the representatives in office in the first place - then we are no longer operating as a democracy and need to seriously re-evaluate what we want out of our government. As you say, these men are from radically different backgrounds and philosophies, if they chose the same course based on some intelligence how is it possible for voters to make an informed decision the next time around? Americans aren't yet children that need to be coddled.
I understand the need for occasional *operational* secrecy when it comes to specific bits of intelligence that could endanger individuals involved in those operations. These are details in deployments, technologies, even negotiations with foreign powers when we need to keep from showing our hand up front that should be kept in confidence for a time. However, you simply can not have an educated and informed voter base when you hide information that is being used for entire government policies. If Obama's reversal on GITMO and other policy carry-overs from Bush are based on intelligence, the voting public needs to be aware of that intelligence and reasoning for the reversal to make informed decisions at the next election cycle.
You can't really compare a cell phone image sensor with a reasonable camera image sensor. There is generally a very significant difference in size between the two. Larger sensor collects more light. More light on the sensor means less sensitivity gain, means less noise in the picture it produces (particularly in low-light). Even if you compare two identically sized CCDs, one with eight times the pixels, you end up with eight pixels with significantly more noise than your single pixel simply because less than 1/8th the light is hitting each of those sensors (hence an even *higher* gain on each of those).
I'm not saying it's going to be a bad cell phone camera, I'm simply saying that increasing the number of pixels over the same surface area of the sensor doesn't in and of itself give you a better image. I think the main benefits they will get with the high resolution CCD here are the ability to do significant digital zooms by cropping and using pixel averaging to keep a reasonable quality for images that aren't zoomed in.
Doesn't the Gmail spam filtering rely partially on crowd sourcing (users clicking the "this is spam" button)? Could make a decent Master's thesis to implement something similar for non-text media...
I don't like using the term "bricked" at all. The problem is not that complex to talk about without distilling the discussion down to an analogy then arguing over how to word that analogy. You end up with pages and pages of arguments over who bricked who when the issue is a hell of a lot easier to understand without all that misdirection.
The battery is damaged and repair or replacement is a significant chunk of the value of the car. See, not that hard!
Then the plant closes - point being that they can't keep this up indefinitely. First - what's started this whole discussion was a restriction of exports because China needed the materials for domestic consumption. Sure, they could flood the market again, but it would cost them domestically and wouldn't stop us from waiting them out yet again. Second - these are uncommon materials. It's not like mining salt out of the ocean where you can simply add more pumps and get more salt, it's a resource that takes time to extract and when it's extracted, it's gone.
Every message I got from my sister when she first got her new iPhone 4s was as an MMS - she had to fiddle with some settings to get it to switch back to SMS.
GPS only receives, doesn't transmit. You can detect the call out that a tracking device will make to send your location, but you can't detect a GPS device that is just receiving GPS signals.
Stop subsidizing farmers and giving the food away to countries that can't afford to produce it themselves
Worse than that even. The countries can afford to produce food themselves. What they can't do is compete with free food from the US. We give them food, all of their local sources of food go under because who exactly will buy bread when you get it from free from the USAID box?
Oh it's not for lack of prospecting. Just about every scrap of this country has been combed over. The real kicker is the cost to mine the stuff relative to the price it can be sold at. Sure there's always new stuff to find, but most often the case is "We know it's there, we just can't get it until it sells for $x or we can get our cost to mine it down to $y"
His Duster didn't cost $100k new. While I'm sure replacing the engine in it wasn't quite 40% the new cost of the vehicle, it couldn't have been too far from there.
Because a common 30m cable (even the lower cost orange "heavy duty" ones) uses 16 gauge wire, unlike the 12 (or possibly 14) in your home. Drawing any significant current that distance over that small a wire is going to have a noticeable drop in voltage. I'm guessing the charger detects this drop and stops charging.
You're actually pretty much spot on - the battery uses lithium ion battery cells (in the 18650 form factor, if you're familiar...). Each cell has a protection circuit which prevents charging when it is unsafe to do so (at a deep state of discharge) - this is to protect you from a potentially dangerous cell failure. The cells are assembled in the battery pack which will prevent discharge when the cells are too low - this is to protect the cells from discharging to the damage-point. As you stated, the cells have a slow self discharge simply due to how they work and they will eventually discharge to that point if left unplugged for too long.
It's a quirk of the technology that users need to be aware of.
With the right information, there are always more possible explanations.
You have a battery pack which contains a number of individual battery cells - a quick Google search says 6,800 individual cells in the Tesla battery pack. The battery manager will have protection to try to keep the batteries from discharging to an unsafe level. The intent there is to protect the battery and allow you to recharge them. If a cell does discharge past that point, then it is unsafe to use and the *cell* protection circuit then protects *you* from a potentially dangerous cell failure. A good battery pack will discharge all cells at a similar rate, so you can expect most or all cells to go bad at about the same time.
So, the battery *could* be fixed and resold, but only by testing or replacing most or all of those 6,800 li-ion cells, which are the vast majority of the cost (I recall buying some for about five or six bucks each a while ago, expect the price has come down). It is simply cheaper to replace the entire pack than dismantle it and individually test and replace the cells.
It is made apparent in the user manual that the vehicle needs to be plugged in when not in use. They even lay out how quickly the battery will discharge when not in use and state that the battery will be irreparably damaged if left too long on empty. It's new technology that needs a new way of looking at how to use it. Drained batteries in a very deep state of discharge fail. It is unavoidable with most battery chemistries. It is also impossible to make a battery that doesn't self discharge at a slow rate. This obviously isn't acceptable to you and there's nothing wrong with that; however, in no way does the fact that an EV must be plugged in make it "not ready for prime time."
So yes, the battery management system could possibly use some improvement to extend the "idle shelf life" - but to call it woefully inadequate is wrong. For the technologies it uses, the management system does a fantastic job. Keep in mind the grand total of vehicles reported with this failure are five - that is 0.2%.
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See, I don't like being in the dark on large decisions like that - particularly when it comes to something as politically significant as the GITMO debate and how we deal with enemy combatants. Big policy decisions should not be made behind closed doors. If there are valid reasons to change course on a policy like that, "I've analyzed all the data and decided to keep it open" is not a good enough answer. We need the details so we can ensure our representatives are being honest in their values. Routine reassurance is meaningless when actions do not line up with words. Unless we know the real reasons we can't determine if they're just or if it's just politics as usual.
After all, when is the last time a politician was lauded for their honesty? I'm all for voting somebody who shares my values, but I need to be able to keep tabs on them.
As another exemplary individual who is well above average in every respect, I certainly agree that talking isn't going to distract me either. Clearly we must rid the road of all of these simpletons who can't perform as mundane a task as talking on the phone while driving. After all, 100% of accidents are caused by other people. If only we could keep those other people off of the road you and I can relax and sip our caramel machiatos while carrying on a text conversation about the mundane simpletons who could never have our intellectual capacity.
You can't close the case on a correlation. Have you accounted for the much poorer average American diet and exercise regimen? Or that most of our walking is simply to get to and from our cars?
Focus your voting efforts in areas you're familiar with. Judge of character? Character is unquantifiable and changes with the weather. Too many people vote because they feel a person has "good character" even if their policy ideas are horrible. You say you know a lot about how things work? Dig into candidate views on things you're familiar with and see how it lines up with your understanding. Discuss it with your friends, post about it on forums. Communicate. The system only works works when people communicate what they know and listen to what they don't. It breaks down when you have people communicating what they don't know and have people set aside what they *do* understand to follow the guy with the biggest soap box.
Then we have a huge problem. Democracy is *wholly dependent* on having an informed voting base. If there are major national policies being carried out based on information that is not available to the voters - especially when those policies are contrary to the will of the voters that put the representatives in office in the first place - then we are no longer operating as a democracy and need to seriously re-evaluate what we want out of our government. As you say, these men are from radically different backgrounds and philosophies, if they chose the same course based on some intelligence how is it possible for voters to make an informed decision the next time around? Americans aren't yet children that need to be coddled.
I understand the need for occasional *operational* secrecy when it comes to specific bits of intelligence that could endanger individuals involved in those operations. These are details in deployments, technologies, even negotiations with foreign powers when we need to keep from showing our hand up front that should be kept in confidence for a time. However, you simply can not have an educated and informed voter base when you hide information that is being used for entire government policies. If Obama's reversal on GITMO and other policy carry-overs from Bush are based on intelligence, the voting public needs to be aware of that intelligence and reasoning for the reversal to make informed decisions at the next election cycle.
...except that this entire discussion is about EOL software, so it *is* broke and needs fixing.
Hey, where can I get some of those pancakes?
I think Jobwin's law would be more betterer.
You can't really compare a cell phone image sensor with a reasonable camera image sensor. There is generally a very significant difference in size between the two. Larger sensor collects more light. More light on the sensor means less sensitivity gain, means less noise in the picture it produces (particularly in low-light). Even if you compare two identically sized CCDs, one with eight times the pixels, you end up with eight pixels with significantly more noise than your single pixel simply because less than 1/8th the light is hitting each of those sensors (hence an even *higher* gain on each of those).
I'm not saying it's going to be a bad cell phone camera, I'm simply saying that increasing the number of pixels over the same surface area of the sensor doesn't in and of itself give you a better image. I think the main benefits they will get with the high resolution CCD here are the ability to do significant digital zooms by cropping and using pixel averaging to keep a reasonable quality for images that aren't zoomed in.
Doesn't the Gmail spam filtering rely partially on crowd sourcing (users clicking the "this is spam" button)? Could make a decent Master's thesis to implement something similar for non-text media...
I don't like using the term "bricked" at all. The problem is not that complex to talk about without distilling the discussion down to an analogy then arguing over how to word that analogy. You end up with pages and pages of arguments over who bricked who when the issue is a hell of a lot easier to understand without all that misdirection.
The battery is damaged and repair or replacement is a significant chunk of the value of the car. See, not that hard!
Then the plant closes - point being that they can't keep this up indefinitely. First - what's started this whole discussion was a restriction of exports because China needed the materials for domestic consumption. Sure, they could flood the market again, but it would cost them domestically and wouldn't stop us from waiting them out yet again. Second - these are uncommon materials. It's not like mining salt out of the ocean where you can simply add more pumps and get more salt, it's a resource that takes time to extract and when it's extracted, it's gone.
Let us know how that worked out for you...
Every message I got from my sister when she first got her new iPhone 4s was as an MMS - she had to fiddle with some settings to get it to switch back to SMS.
I think the point is to install a black box to collect the real-time data.
I prefer peeing on the power lines, myself.
GPS only receives, doesn't transmit. You can detect the call out that a tracking device will make to send your location, but you can't detect a GPS device that is just receiving GPS signals.
Stop subsidizing farmers and giving the food away to countries that can't afford to produce it themselves
Worse than that even. The countries can afford to produce food themselves. What they can't do is compete with free food from the US. We give them food, all of their local sources of food go under because who exactly will buy bread when you get it from free from the USAID box?
How don't they still apply? Chinese restricting the supply of rare earths raises the price, making it cost effective to do here now.
Oh it's not for lack of prospecting. Just about every scrap of this country has been combed over. The real kicker is the cost to mine the stuff relative to the price it can be sold at. Sure there's always new stuff to find, but most often the case is "We know it's there, we just can't get it until it sells for $x or we can get our cost to mine it down to $y"
His Duster didn't cost $100k new. While I'm sure replacing the engine in it wasn't quite 40% the new cost of the vehicle, it couldn't have been too far from there.
Because a common 30m cable (even the lower cost orange "heavy duty" ones) uses 16 gauge wire, unlike the 12 (or possibly 14) in your home. Drawing any significant current that distance over that small a wire is going to have a noticeable drop in voltage. I'm guessing the charger detects this drop and stops charging.
You're actually pretty much spot on - the battery uses lithium ion battery cells (in the 18650 form factor, if you're familiar...). Each cell has a protection circuit which prevents charging when it is unsafe to do so (at a deep state of discharge) - this is to protect you from a potentially dangerous cell failure. The cells are assembled in the battery pack which will prevent discharge when the cells are too low - this is to protect the cells from discharging to the damage-point. As you stated, the cells have a slow self discharge simply due to how they work and they will eventually discharge to that point if left unplugged for too long.
It's a quirk of the technology that users need to be aware of.
With the right information, there are always more possible explanations.
You have a battery pack which contains a number of individual battery cells - a quick Google search says 6,800 individual cells in the Tesla battery pack. The battery manager will have protection to try to keep the batteries from discharging to an unsafe level. The intent there is to protect the battery and allow you to recharge them. If a cell does discharge past that point, then it is unsafe to use and the *cell* protection circuit then protects *you* from a potentially dangerous cell failure. A good battery pack will discharge all cells at a similar rate, so you can expect most or all cells to go bad at about the same time.
So, the battery *could* be fixed and resold, but only by testing or replacing most or all of those 6,800 li-ion cells, which are the vast majority of the cost (I recall buying some for about five or six bucks each a while ago, expect the price has come down). It is simply cheaper to replace the entire pack than dismantle it and individually test and replace the cells.
It is made apparent in the user manual that the vehicle needs to be plugged in when not in use. They even lay out how quickly the battery will discharge when not in use and state that the battery will be irreparably damaged if left too long on empty. It's new technology that needs a new way of looking at how to use it. Drained batteries in a very deep state of discharge fail. It is unavoidable with most battery chemistries. It is also impossible to make a battery that doesn't self discharge at a slow rate. This obviously isn't acceptable to you and there's nothing wrong with that; however, in no way does the fact that an EV must be plugged in make it "not ready for prime time."
So yes, the battery management system could possibly use some improvement to extend the "idle shelf life" - but to call it woefully inadequate is wrong. For the technologies it uses, the management system does a fantastic job. Keep in mind the grand total of vehicles reported with this failure are five - that is 0.2%.