I don't think you could argue the Saabaru as a "single act that ended Saab." It was yet another sign of trouble-- but I think what killed Saab is global vehicle homogenization. The Saab problem is the same as the Saturn, Pontiac, etc problem-- One car with different prices attached to different badges and few meaningful differences between them. For a short time this might have worked, but soon entry level models under different marques are diluting the value of the "premium" cars. I wouldn't say Saab has a "mystique." I'd say they *had* interesting cars with some unique features-- once those interesting cars and unique features went away you really didn't have a Saab.
How 'bout we stop making this needlessly political? Saab isn't where it is due to any US president, but due to GM and its own management.
I do not enjoy living in a country where the president has the final say on whether once private companies live or die, and I feel as long as we don't get used to the idea that they can, we won't be stuck with it. Politicians are *not* that powerful, this one is the market and GM's problem.
The battery packs for tools are no more standard than those for computers; however, your battery *components* are. Your 3-cell, 4-cell, etc lithium batteries are going to be built around a standard cell. The Latitude that I have for work uses a six cell battery, 11.1 volt, 56wh. Given its dimensions and capacity, I figure it is- 6x 3.7v 18650 cells at 2500mAh (two sets of three in parallel).
*I* can buy those batteries for roughly $24, figure cost to Dell's supplier being some fraction of that. Dell charges $150 for a replacement pack. Of course there is more to the battery than cells-- packaging and internal electronics for charging and capacity reporting, though the cost for that CCA will be less than that of the cells.
Curious-- has anybody tried breaking open a worn out battery pack and replacing the cells?
Not exactly a technical response, but it is exactly why this won't work. Different speakers have different sensitivities-- x watts electrical energy input to result in x sound pressure output. I'm sure there are audio guys on here who can fill in the details that I'm missing (which I know are many!).
Yet more nanny state legislation that will be be largely unenforceable and easily bypassed. People have known for a long time that loud noise damages ears, we simply don't care.
A number of audio players (iTunes comes to mind) have a sound-check feature that measures the effective 'volume' of your songs and puts them all at a similar baseline-- so you don't have a quite song finish and a loud song blast your brains. Caveat-- I've never actually used it;)
Pulling it out of his ass. It's the linux users and related computer geeks at will be the targets for the lower cost software since we have the *most* influence over our respective circle of friends when it comes to purchasing computer hardware and software.
Of course, it's hard to determine who is causing all this purchasing influence when we never leave the basement. I mean, why risk the sunburn by coming outside to get some free software?
eh-- I was raised navigating by map. You never unfold the entire thing while driving-- unless you have a passenger to do it for you. At a stop, you simply refold the map to show the region you are in and generally figure out your waypoints to the next stop so you don't need the map until then. I won't argue that GPS is a bad thing or inherently dangerous, but I do enjoy doing my own navigating. I figure it's just another way to stay sharp and force myself to really learn the region I'm driving in.
No you're not the only one who doesn't understand, but you certainly aren't going out way to demonstrate that that lack of understanding isn't due to a lack of knowledge about vehicle power plants. They all have pros and cons-- hence why we discuss them instead of making a blanket "Problem solved" statement.
The problem is not solved-- if biofuels were the solution, where do I buy them? Where is the infrastructure? Where is your analysis on the feasibility of plant based fuels meeting current demand? Reworking our transportation infrastructure is a huge undertaking, and the problem is anything but solved.
While I completely agree he is well within his rights to say "no" to the request and disagree with his arrest (at least with the information I could clean from TFA linked in TF blog), I definitely feel that in this case the police were being prudent in asking him to send out the message to go home. The crowd was unruly and becoming dangerous (TFA noted several people going to the hospital for minor injuries)-- and while the police do have means of dispersing crowds, they are considerably more likely to cause injury.
Just because the police were wrong here doesn't make him right.
We could probably conduct several studies and publish our results in peer reviewed sociology journals that will support this statement. +1 Informative!
I'm pretty sure that was more of a commentary on punk kids these days not doing their chores... At least, that's what I got out of it. But y'know, girl power amirite?
I like where you're going with this. We could hack it to run Linux, Windows 7, anything! And it'd be cheap... and small... sort of like every single other netbook out on the market right now.
I dunno, hardware hacking a general purpose computer just doesn't excite me as much as it does for special purpose hardware.
Alright, well you clearly sound like you know what you're talking about on this subject, so perhaps you could answer a few questions that are likely weighing heavily on many of our minds:
1 - If I were to suck on a baloon filled with 3He, what would be the resulting effect on the frequency response of my vocal chords?
2 - Same question as above, but replace "I" and "my" with "Mickey Mouse"
3 - If I were to breathe reclaimed Mickey Mouse 3He, would I gain supernatural powers and large ears?
4 - Have all those years on the steamboat given Mickey Mouse emphysema and does he have long to live?
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I don't think you could argue the Saabaru as a "single act that ended Saab." It was yet another sign of trouble-- but I think what killed Saab is global vehicle homogenization. The Saab problem is the same as the Saturn, Pontiac, etc problem-- One car with different prices attached to different badges and few meaningful differences between them. For a short time this might have worked, but soon entry level models under different marques are diluting the value of the "premium" cars. I wouldn't say Saab has a "mystique." I'd say they *had* interesting cars with some unique features-- once those interesting cars and unique features went away you really didn't have a Saab.
How 'bout we stop making this needlessly political? Saab isn't where it is due to any US president, but due to GM and its own management.
I do not enjoy living in a country where the president has the final say on whether once private companies live or die, and I feel as long as we don't get used to the idea that they can, we won't be stuck with it. Politicians are *not* that powerful, this one is the market and GM's problem.
Well, at least you're open minded about it...
Can I throw in 4) Embedded systems? It's one thing to write the code, it's another thing to actually go outside and watch your code do cool shit.
The battery packs for tools are no more standard than those for computers; however, your battery *components* are. Your 3-cell, 4-cell, etc lithium batteries are going to be built around a standard cell. The Latitude that I have for work uses a six cell battery, 11.1 volt, 56wh. Given its dimensions and capacity, I figure it is- 6x 3.7v 18650 cells at 2500mAh (two sets of three in parallel).
*I* can buy those batteries for roughly $24, figure cost to Dell's supplier being some fraction of that. Dell charges $150 for a replacement pack. Of course there is more to the battery than cells-- packaging and internal electronics for charging and capacity reporting, though the cost for that CCA will be less than that of the cells.
Curious-- has anybody tried breaking open a worn out battery pack and replacing the cells?
Honestly, I'm not sure how outside "the box" this thinking really is...
Which is technology I recall being advertised over a decade ago, I *think* by Philips.
Not exactly a technical response, but it is exactly why this won't work. Different speakers have different sensitivities-- x watts electrical energy input to result in x sound pressure output. I'm sure there are audio guys on here who can fill in the details that I'm missing (which I know are many!).
Yet more nanny state legislation that will be be largely unenforceable and easily bypassed. People have known for a long time that loud noise damages ears, we simply don't care.
A number of audio players (iTunes comes to mind) have a sound-check feature that measures the effective 'volume' of your songs and puts them all at a similar baseline-- so you don't have a quite song finish and a loud song blast your brains. Caveat-- I've never actually used it ;)
Hell, my university athletics department *charges* sports medicine companies for the privilege of treating their athletes.
Pulling it out of his ass. It's the linux users and related computer geeks at will be the targets for the lower cost software since we have the *most* influence over our respective circle of friends when it comes to purchasing computer hardware and software.
Of course, it's hard to determine who is causing all this purchasing influence when we never leave the basement. I mean, why risk the sunburn by coming outside to get some free software?
Better than *her* getting stuck with windows 95. Hell, I can think of ways to get worse uptime, but not many...
I hosted a Linux install party and got a free copy of Ubuntu...
I suppose "tool" is a pretty relative term.
eh-- I was raised navigating by map. You never unfold the entire thing while driving-- unless you have a passenger to do it for you. At a stop, you simply refold the map to show the region you are in and generally figure out your waypoints to the next stop so you don't need the map until then. I won't argue that GPS is a bad thing or inherently dangerous, but I do enjoy doing my own navigating. I figure it's just another way to stay sharp and force myself to really learn the region I'm driving in.
Exactly what I'm getting at-- GPS will be the doom of us all!
...oh wait
...and that is while going 240 km/h..
Slow down!!
...punk kids
Everybody knows you use the Dell netbook hackintosh because the Acer wifi is unsupported!
...amateurs
No you're not the only one who doesn't understand, but you certainly aren't going out way to demonstrate that that lack of understanding isn't due to a lack of knowledge about vehicle power plants. They all have pros and cons-- hence why we discuss them instead of making a blanket "Problem solved" statement.
The problem is not solved-- if biofuels were the solution, where do I buy them? Where is the infrastructure? Where is your analysis on the feasibility of plant based fuels meeting current demand? Reworking our transportation infrastructure is a huge undertaking, and the problem is anything but solved.
ARM netbooks!! Be still my fleeting heart!
Definitely would be more interesting. Y'know, enough waiting, let's just build and sell one already. There's clearly a market!
While I completely agree he is well within his rights to say "no" to the request and disagree with his arrest (at least with the information I could clean from TFA linked in TF blog), I definitely feel that in this case the police were being prudent in asking him to send out the message to go home. The crowd was unruly and becoming dangerous (TFA noted several people going to the hospital for minor injuries)-- and while the police do have means of dispersing crowds, they are considerably more likely to cause injury.
Just because the police were wrong here doesn't make him right.
We could probably conduct several studies and publish our results in peer reviewed sociology journals that will support this statement. +1 Informative!
I'm pretty sure that was more of a commentary on punk kids these days not doing their chores... At least, that's what I got out of it. But y'know, girl power amirite?
I believe what our anarchist friend was trying to say was:
RIOT!! BURN THE PLACE DOWN!!!
It's sad when people forget that rights require responsibilities...
I like where you're going with this. We could hack it to run Linux, Windows 7, anything! And it'd be cheap... and small... sort of like every single other netbook out on the market right now.
I dunno, hardware hacking a general purpose computer just doesn't excite me as much as it does for special purpose hardware.
Alright, well you clearly sound like you know what you're talking about on this subject, so perhaps you could answer a few questions that are likely weighing heavily on many of our minds:
1 - If I were to suck on a baloon filled with 3He, what would be the resulting effect on the frequency response of my vocal chords?
2 - Same question as above, but replace "I" and "my" with "Mickey Mouse"
3 - If I were to breathe reclaimed Mickey Mouse 3He, would I gain supernatural powers and large ears?
4 - Have all those years on the steamboat given Mickey Mouse emphysema and does he have long to live?
Inquiring minds must know!