The Avestor batteries were a new innovation for powering telecommunications network elements. They were a lithium based chemistry (LiIon) instead of traditional lead acid gel cells. The advantage was supposed to be about twice the service life (6-8 years) instead of the traditional 3 to 5 years. Lithium is a reactive element and if they were having a problem where an internal short was causing thermal runaway, you have a reactive element combined with heat. Not a good thing...
As a proud citizen of Montana, I am pleased to report that our state told the federal government to "shove it". In the words of our governor, "Never, no, hell no".
I don't quite get your point. While it would be better for it to be able to accept -48 (or -50) to +48, it is quite a valid goal to be able to be powered by -24 to +24 (or so). It reduces problems with accidental reverse polarity hookups, as well as being powered by telecom type systems which are typically positive ground.
When I have heard about this problem before, I have thought why can't they orbit a couple of large (200') diameter pieces of very sticky something.. when enough stuff has collected the whole thing will de-orbit and burn up..
Oh, so you just admitted in point 1 that you violate federal labor laws. I hope that none of the applicants you have rejected see your post, and easily win a judgement against you.
The only reason a source is of any value to a reporter is because they are not anonymous to the reporter. The reporter has to know the identity and bona fides of the source for the information to have any validity.
You might create a technology solution so that the only place the identity of the source exists is in the reporters mind, but even then the reporter needs to 'sell' the story to the editorial committee.
Instead, this problem must be solved judicially by making the freedom of the press tangible in a reporter's ability to gather information confidentially.
No.. actually there was quite a famous case locally. (I live in the Big Sky state.) This fellow was stopped doing over 120mph. He took the case to jury trial. He successfully argued that it was reasonable. His arguments were that he had been a professional race driver, was driving a sports car safely capable of that speed, had speed rated tires, the road was dry, and he was on an empty piece of interstate... He beat the rap..
Your description may be accurate for many (most) PSAPs served by RBOCs (the baby bells). However, there are 1500 other local telephone companies that serve many rural areas. (I happen to work for one.) I know that not all the PSAPs in our areas have directory numbers associated with them.
My apologies. My experience is limited to AMPS and CDMA. But on the AMPS network that my company operates the calling card from a deactivated phone definately works.
The biggest technical problem is that most e-911 calls go on a dedicated trunk to the 911 call center. There is no 'phone number' associated with that line. So what vonage was doing was just getting a listed directory number for the police in a given jurisdiction and forwarding calls to that number. (often not answered at night etc). This order will require the VOIP provider to coordinate with local telephone companies to have the VOIP 911 calls get delivered over those dedicated trunks.
No they're not. I had vonage for 6 months and 911 never did work, although I repeatedly went through the steps. The biggest issue not getting to the correct center, its getting to any 911 center at all. Its is not the best situation in the world, but if you were in trouble in Florida, the chicago center would answer and would get ahold of a local jurisdiction.
Sorry. Incorrect. The reason this works is the system will allow a handset to register on the switch serving the nearest tower, but will block call completion unless the call goes to 911 or in many cases you can charge a call to a credit card, although the rates are quite high.
As a father of 3 daughters, I have considered constructing a hot water metering system to keep natural gas bills in line. A microcontroller, keypad, and a solanoid valve in the hot water line in the shower. Each user gets say 120 minutes hot water each month. The wife and I shower together so that means we would have plenty of minutes.
I recently had to write about a thousand word public address and thought I would try the speech to text that comes with Office. I loved it. It was not perfect and I still had to use the keyboard for clean up, but for that application it was great.
Just remember what Gershiw said in "Ain't Necessarily So..:"
"Methuslah lived nine hundred years, Methuslah lived nine hundred years. But who calls that livin' when no gal will give in to no man what's nine hundred years?"
I have a subscription at work to some trade journal about the mechanical design industry. They had a very interesting article recently about the new use of wood as a bearing material. There are several companies newly manufacturing wood bearings. Apparently over certain heat/life/bearing ranges some hardwoods can be excellent bearing materials.
What a bunch of damn whiners. These are folks that are basically doing the Slashdot thing (learning, exploring, trying). Yes it amateur radio, but it is telemetry data and full motion color video. Hurray for them trying!
I am sorry I must disagree.Consider the number of classified missions, where the shuttle's lauch time and date were confidential until launch, and the actual payload was classified. In addition, the shuttle has deployed both classified and unclassified GEO and HEO payloads, through the use of secondary boosters, once the payload is separated from the shuttle.
The reason that the shuttle program will be allowed to die is that its true justification was deployment and maintenance of intelligence gathering satellites. Deployment of VERY LARGE array antennas in orbit required a vehicle like the shuttle. The science benefits from the shuttle program were just a cover story to allow congress to justify the expenditures. With the end of the cold war and recent repeated intelligence failures, it will be harder to justify the black budget support of the shuttle program. Not to mention the fact, that our current adversaries are relatively low tech, making technical spaceborn collection programs less valuable.
This is the same effect that has been discussed here often. Heavy internet users are likely to be people who are interested in life. They want to learn, do new things, try new things, know how things work..
Do you consider universal affordable phone service to be a social good worth paying for?
That goal of universal phone service is possible only because of the current system of regulation. Regulation is an unfortunate term. It is really a system whereby telephone subscribers in populus areas subsidize subcribers in more rural areas. Regulation allows phone providers a consistent rate of return on their capital investment while keeping rates down for everyone.
I hate comparison's to fiber or wireless deployments in Asia. The average Japanese family lives in an apartment of something like 650 sq ft. With density like that there are a lot of service business models that work that _absolutely_ won't work in the US.
The issue is purely business. Its the same reason you can't buy just the six cable channels you want for $10, or why you can't go to a car dealership and say "I only want the front seat installed, don't charge me for the back seat".
DSL by itself is not a huge money maker, service bundling is how many markets (cell phone, cable, etc ) are going to be organized.
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The Avestor batteries were a new innovation for powering telecommunications network elements. They were a lithium based chemistry (LiIon) instead of traditional lead acid gel cells. The advantage was supposed to be about twice the service life (6-8 years) instead of the traditional 3 to 5 years. Lithium is a reactive element and if they were having a problem where an internal short was causing thermal runaway, you have a reactive element combined with heat. Not a good thing...
As a proud citizen of Montana, I am pleased to report that our state told the federal government to "shove it". In the words of our governor, "Never, no, hell no".
I don't quite get your point. While it would be better for it to be able to accept -48 (or -50) to +48, it is quite a valid goal to be able to be powered by -24 to +24 (or so). It reduces problems with accidental reverse polarity hookups, as well as being powered by telecom type systems which are typically positive ground.
When I have heard about this problem before, I have thought why can't they orbit a couple of large (200') diameter pieces of very sticky something.. when enough stuff has collected the whole thing will de-orbit and burn up..
It will end up requiring MS-Privacy v1.0 for all taxpayers. No linux version available.
Oh, so you just admitted in point 1 that you violate federal labor laws. I hope that none of the applicants you have rejected see your post, and easily win a judgement against you.
The only reason a source is of any value to a reporter is because they are not anonymous to the reporter. The reporter has to know the identity and bona fides of the source for the information to have any validity.
You might create a technology solution so that the only place the identity of the source exists is in the reporters mind, but even then the reporter needs to 'sell' the story to the editorial committee.
Instead, this problem must be solved judicially by making the freedom of the press tangible in a reporter's ability to gather information confidentially.
No.. actually there was quite a famous case locally. (I live in the Big Sky state.) This fellow was stopped doing over 120mph. He took the case to jury trial. He successfully argued that it was reasonable. His arguments were that he had been a professional race driver, was driving a sports car safely capable of that speed, had speed rated tires, the road was dry, and he was on an empty piece of interstate...
He beat the rap..
Your description may be accurate for many (most) PSAPs served by RBOCs (the baby bells). However, there are 1500 other local telephone companies that serve many rural areas. (I happen to work for one.) I know that not all the PSAPs in our areas have directory numbers associated with them.
My apologies. My experience is limited to AMPS and CDMA. But on the AMPS network that my company operates the calling card from a deactivated phone definately works.
The biggest technical problem is that most e-911 calls go on a dedicated trunk to the 911 call center. There is no 'phone number' associated with that line. So what vonage was doing was just getting a listed directory number for the police in a given jurisdiction and forwarding calls to that number. (often not answered at night etc). This order will require the VOIP provider to coordinate with local telephone companies to have the VOIP 911 calls get delivered over those dedicated trunks.
No they're not. I had vonage for 6 months and 911 never did work, although I repeatedly went through the steps. The biggest issue not getting to the correct center, its getting to any 911 center at all. Its is not the best situation in the world, but if you were in trouble in Florida, the chicago center would answer and would get ahold of a local jurisdiction.
Sorry. Incorrect. The reason this works is the system will allow a handset to register on the switch serving the nearest tower, but will block call completion unless the call goes to 911 or in many cases you can charge a call to a credit card, although the rates are quite high.
What time zone is IST?
As a father of 3 daughters, I have considered constructing a hot water metering system to keep natural gas bills in line. A microcontroller, keypad, and a solanoid valve in the hot water line in the shower. Each user gets say 120 minutes hot water each month. The wife and I shower together so that means we would have plenty of minutes.
I recently had to write about a thousand word public address and thought I would try the speech to text that comes with Office. I loved it. It was not perfect and I still had to use the keyboard for clean up, but for that application it was great.
"Methuslah lived nine hundred years, Methuslah lived nine hundred years.
But who calls that livin' when no gal will give in
to no man what's nine hundred years?"
I have a subscription at work to some trade journal about the mechanical design industry. They had a very interesting article recently about the new use of wood as a bearing material. There are several companies newly manufacturing wood bearings. Apparently over certain heat/life/bearing ranges some hardwoods can be excellent bearing materials.
What a bunch of damn whiners. These are folks that are basically doing the Slashdot thing (learning, exploring, trying). Yes it amateur radio, but it is telemetry data and full motion color video. Hurray for them trying!
I am sorry I must disagree.Consider the number of classified missions, where the shuttle's
lauch time and date were confidential until launch, and the actual payload was classified. In addition,
the shuttle has deployed both classified and unclassified GEO and HEO payloads, through the use
of secondary boosters, once the payload is separated from the shuttle.
The reason that the shuttle program will be allowed to
die is that its true justification was deployment and maintenance of intelligence gathering satellites. Deployment of VERY LARGE array antennas in orbit required a vehicle like the shuttle. The science benefits from the shuttle program were just a cover story to allow congress to justify the expenditures. With the end of the cold war and recent repeated intelligence failures, it will be harder to justify the black budget support of the shuttle program. Not to mention the fact, that our current adversaries are relatively low tech, making technical spaceborn collection programs less valuable.
This is the same effect that has been discussed here often. Heavy internet users are likely to be people who are interested in life. They want to learn, do new things, try new things, know how things work..
Do you consider universal affordable phone service to be a social good worth paying for?
That goal of universal phone service is possible only because of the current system of regulation. Regulation is an unfortunate term. It is really a system whereby telephone subscribers in populus areas subsidize subcribers in more rural areas. Regulation allows phone providers a consistent rate of return on their capital investment while keeping rates down for everyone.
I hate comparison's to fiber or wireless deployments in Asia. The average Japanese family lives in an apartment of something like 650 sq ft. With density like that there are a lot of service business models that work that _absolutely_ won't work in the US.
The issue is purely business. Its the same reason you can't buy just the six cable channels you want for $10, or why you can't go to a car dealership and say "I only want the front seat installed, don't charge me for the back seat".
DSL by itself is not a huge money maker, service bundling is how many markets (cell phone, cable, etc ) are going to be organized.