Mute the TV. Fast-forward recorded TV. Screen the calls. Block the ads. Fuck'em if they cant take a joke.
What's funny (or sad) is DVDs / Blu-rays that block you from fast-forwarding through previews. On a disc you bought. However if you rip the disc, or download it off the internet, there's no obnoxious ads they force you to sit through.
I've never had a car where I regularly used the key that the lock didn't end up freezing on me. Even recent cars have this issue. If you're anywhere that regularly receives freezing weather a remote can be the fastest way into your car.
Even with remote entry I've had both front door locking mechanisms freeze up. Thankfully I could get in the back door. Even once I got to work (with the heat blasting the whole time) I had to get out the back.
Kodak tried something similar to this.; big replaceable ink-tubs with 'reasonable' costs, coupled with separate replaceable print heads.
And in both cases they won't be a hit in the market because people will prefer to buy the $20 (or free with the computer!) complete piece of shit Inkjet that they will waste $500 on in ink cartridges on in the next 6 months, rather than buy a $300 inkjet that won't be a piece of junk.
My Samsung laser AIO will scan with the printer in fault. I rarely use it so I leave it switched off. I'll intentionally leave the toner door ajar if I'm scanning. When I switch it on it will see the printer in fault and won't needlessly warmer up the fuser, but still lets me scan. I could take the cartridge out if I wanted to.
Your anecdotal experience is dated and obsolete. I recently purchased HP desk jet printer produces phenomenal up when I print on glossy paper stock. . . . . . With the ink subscription from HP it cost five cents per page to print. The printer automatically orders ink when it's running low. . ..
I've heard of leasing Xerox machines on a per-page basis (with toner included for free) I never heard of HP ink subscription. A quick check shows that eligible printers are "Officejet" models, which are business models. From the GP's post
. I try to share this basic piece of wisdom with them. Consumer-grade inkjet printers are designed to do one thing and one thing only: Turn full inkjet cartridges into empty inkjet cartridges. If any printing happens during that process, that's fine, but it's completely incidental. These machines are not your friends.
Emphasis not added. It was already there. You are talking about a buisiness class machine, the GP was talking about consumer machines. In the case of the HP subscription, it looks like you pay per page / month, not per cartridge, so it's in HP's interest not to sell you more cartridges.
From HP's website
You’ll replace cartridges less often.
Our cartridges have more ink than HP XL ink cartridges, and the same cartridge will work for any plan.
They even admit to selling you half full cartridges unless it's in their best interest not to.
I bought a cheap Samsung all in one monochrome laser in 2011, have probably printed less than 100 pages, and still have the original starter cartridge. We first replaced our crappy HP inkjet with a Samsung Laser in 2004, and haven't looked at inkjets since.
It depends on the specific application, but in industry for pumps, fans, conveyors, compressors, and many other applications, the preferred motor is 3-phase AC induction motor (low maintenance, high efficiency). Where variable speed is required, a VFD can be used, which has an intermediate DC step (which is just straight AC rectified, before being inverted back to AC and sent to the motor), but otherwise an induction motor + across-the-line contactor starter is a very simple setup for industrial motors that is very reliable and low maintenance. VFDs add cost, and lower reliability for applications that don't need them, and generate harmonics that interfere with facility's distribution system.
DC Shunt motors are used in some industrial applications, primarily older ones requiring variable speed because it became possible on DC before AC, and also because they can provide better starting torque. The trend is very much to move to AC motors where possible because the motors are lower maintenance, lower cost, higher efficiency, and higher reliability. In any case the DC drives control the rectification of AC to varying DC voltage to allow control of speed, so it's not like there's a standard DC voltage you can use on these so there's no benefit supplying the drive with DC. The VSD will go straight from 460VAC input to 0-500VDC armature voltage via a bank of SCRs. This generates a very choppy "almost DC" waveform to the motor, and generates a ridiculous amount of of harmonics that can cause major problems on the facility distribution system.
AC really is easier to setup a distribution network, either around a State, or even within a commercial or industrial facility. DC is only used in distribution for looong distance, high capacity runs, where the benefits outweigh the significant costs of conversion.
AC distribution equipment is very simple and robust. Transformers are basically just a coil of wire. Motor starters are just simple contactors (relays). There is a surprising amount of 50 year old electrical distribution and control equipment still in service because it's so reliable.
VFD, VSD, and any DC-DC conversion will rely on power semiconductors (SCRs, IGBTs, etc), and electronic controls. These products are not as robust, are more expensive, and usually become obsolete before their simple counterparts.
The whole benefit of "giving up AC and going DC" might make sense in a small residential 12VDC "off the grid" system where everything is close together and uses the same voltage, but it falls apart in the industrial setting where you need to power 10's, 100's, or 1,000's of kW worth of load, and you need a distribution system. The products required to make a large scale DC industrial facility simply don't exist, and it's like some people are trying to chase after some gain that doesn't exist.
Statistics I found was 29% Residential, 39% Industrial, 26% Commercial and Institutional, and the remainder for "Public Administration, Agriculture, and transportation"
Industry can be quite energy intensive. A 10MW facility is not going to go off the grid with a couple solar panels, a windmill, and some batteries. Supplement maybe, but not completely replace. Compare this to a house that can have an average demand of less than 1kW.
If you buy a highend Haswell CPU, they're faster than the first generation by enough to make it matter. Anything newer and you're actually slowing down. Intel's new strategy is to make slower CPUs with faster graphics and lower power consumption.
One thing I found when speccing a new computer was single thread performance. Properly designed intense workloads will multithread (even video encoding), but for day to day use, it's usually one thread that's bogging down the system. AMD in particular pushes for multithread performance at the expense of single thread performance. For Intel, i7 Haswell chips do great at multithreading, but only slightly better at single threaded performance than i5 Haswells, for substantially more cost. Since I don't game, I went with a higher end i5.
Is the upgrade really free? Yes, it’s free. This is a full version of Windows, not a trial or introductory version. It is available for a limited time: you have until July 29, 2016 to take advantage of this offer. Once you upgrade, you’ll have Windows 10 for free on that device.
I think Microsoft is trying to drum up business by pushing it through WU, have the concept of "reserving" your free upgrade that you have a year to claim.
Just like they did when Windows 7 came out, they want to be able to have numbers that say "Look at how many people upgraded in the first 2 months. This is the most of any version of Windows ever!"
Myself I'm playing with it in a VM, but will probably wait a couple months before upgrading my main OS.
While computer CD-R drives can write audio tracks to standard CD-R blanks, some set-top CD Recorders require "CD-R Audio" blanks. CD-R Audio blanks were more expensive so RIAA could get their cut, but otherwise used identical technology.
For fractional horsepower motors there's no cost-benefit to doing sophisticated controls in most cases. You just need it to turn on and off at one, sometimes two or three speeds and the load is more or less constant. I wouldn't expect that to change any time soon.
For which the shaded pole induction, capacitor start induction, series wound "Universal motors" do a great job. Especially equipment that runs for long periods, induction motors will run years without maintenance (like motors in fridges)
In the industrial setting, aside from a process that needs to vary speed during cycle / between qualities, efficiency gains from VFDs (on fans and pumps), usually means that the system wasn't properly speced out (when they're used for example, to run the same machine at 50% speed continuously). Across-the-line starter for an induction motor is always more efficient than a VFD running the same machine at the same speed. Change the gear ratio, change the motor rating, and you will get more efficiency out than installing a VFD.
VFDs are something like 97% efficent. It's incredible the waste heat that comes off a 2000HP VFD vs an across-the-line starter for the same application. Plus the VFD is higher maintenance than the starter.
Interesting. I live in the "We don't trust you to pump your own gas" state, otherwise known as New Jersey, and I've never seen the attendant have to go inside to get my receipt. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Most receipt paper has a green, pink, or some other stripe or mark all over the paper as it's getting low. Cashiers recognize the pattern and will swap rolls before completely running out. Customers being a combination of lazy and stupid will ignore it, grab their receipt and leave. Given that the full serve attendants are effectively cashiers, they probably recognize this and swap rolls before running out. I can't explain the other poster's claim that the friend behind them got a receipt.
I could be giving the attendants too much credit though. Any time I'm forced to go to one, they keep "topping up" the tank to even dollar amounts. WTF? I'm paying with a credit card, I don't care if it's $57.83. Besides, it's bad for the evaporative emissions system to flood it with raw gas. That and I'm usually left waiting at the end of the transaction as they go tend to other cars. I'm glad I'm paying for such "professional service" from someone half my age.
Current charge times make "recharge when the driver stops for breaks" impossible.
Of course they don't. You don't have to charge an EV from empty to full every time any more than you have to wait for an ICE vehicle to go empty then fill the tank to the top. With an EV the thing is to top it up at every opportunity. The batteries won't be empty, and you don't have to wait till they are full.
My quick check of Google shows that while the $85,000 Tesla has a 240 mile range, most cars are 90 miles. That's an hour and a half on the freeway and you're completely out of juice. While you don't have to wait for an ICE car to be empty, it only takes a couple minutes to fill from 50 miles remaining to 450. For commuting electric cars are great. Very efficient in stop and go, and yes you can top up everywhere you stop (if they have a charger). However the range, and time to charge does put a big damper on long distance trips. Tesla is trying to address this (with over 2.5x the normal range, and Supercharger stations), hopefully it filters down to all models, but right now Tesla is priced out of reach of most consumers.
A lot can depend on individual circumstances, and the market. I live in an economically depressed area and rent. I'm glad I do.
One guy I know bought his house for $185k and sold it 4 years later for $165k (after being on the market 8 months). Another guy bought his house 5 years ago for $103k, and has had it on the market for 4 months at $100k. If I get a new job and move, I just have to give 30 days notice. The above people will also lose out on commission and closing costs.
I don't have any kids, and can live in an apartment for much cheaper than buying a house, and condos don't exist in this market.
Buying a house is great if you *want* to buy a house, but it shouldn't be bought primarily as an investment. The amount lost to interest alone is scandalous.
500MB/s vs 150MB/s is great on linear reads, but where the SSD really shines is random IO. 2MB/s on a platter drive vs. 80MB/s on an SSD. That's a 40-fold improvement. This is where the major improvement during boot, program load, and any swap-thrashing.
So called Brushless DC motors are actually permanent magnet rotor, synchronous AC motors?
I haven't seen a large change in small 1 phase motors. Most are still: -Shaded pole induction motor for small fans -Capacitor start induction motor for air conditioners, fridges, etc. -Series wound "Universal motors" (that are basically a brushed DC motor) for intermittent high torque loads (vacuums, blenders, hair dryers).
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Mute the TV. Fast-forward recorded TV. Screen the calls. Block the ads.
Fuck'em if they cant take a joke.
What's funny (or sad) is DVDs / Blu-rays that block you from fast-forwarding through previews. On a disc you bought. However if you rip the disc, or download it off the internet, there's no obnoxious ads they force you to sit through.
I've never had a car where I regularly used the key that the lock didn't end up freezing on me. Even recent cars have this issue. If you're anywhere that regularly receives freezing weather a remote can be the fastest way into your car.
Even with remote entry I've had both front door locking mechanisms freeze up. Thankfully I could get in the back door. Even once I got to work (with the heat blasting the whole time) I had to get out the back.
Kodak tried something similar to this.; big replaceable ink-tubs with 'reasonable' costs, coupled with separate replaceable print heads.
And in both cases they won't be a hit in the market because people will prefer to buy the $20 (or free with the computer!) complete piece of shit Inkjet that they will waste $500 on in ink cartridges on in the next 6 months, rather than buy a $300 inkjet that won't be a piece of junk.
People still fax?
My Samsung laser AIO will scan with the printer in fault. I rarely use it so I leave it switched off. I'll intentionally leave the toner door ajar if I'm scanning. When I switch it on it will see the printer in fault and won't needlessly warmer up the fuser, but still lets me scan. I could take the cartridge out if I wanted to.
Your anecdotal experience is dated and obsolete. I recently purchased HP desk jet printer produces phenomenal up when I print on glossy paper stock. . . .
. . . With the ink subscription from HP it cost five cents per page to print. The printer automatically orders ink when it's running low. . .
I've heard of leasing Xerox machines on a per-page basis (with toner included for free) I never heard of HP ink subscription. A quick check shows that eligible printers are "Officejet" models, which are business models. From the GP's post
. I try to share this basic piece of wisdom with them. Consumer-grade inkjet printers are designed to do one thing and one thing only: Turn full inkjet cartridges into empty inkjet cartridges. If any printing happens during that process, that's fine, but it's completely incidental. These machines are not your friends.
Emphasis not added. It was already there. You are talking about a buisiness class machine, the GP was talking about consumer machines. In the case of the HP subscription, it looks like you pay per page / month, not per cartridge, so it's in HP's interest not to sell you more cartridges.
From HP's website
You’ll replace cartridges less often.
Our cartridges have more ink than HP XL ink cartridges, and the same cartridge will work for any plan.
They even admit to selling you half full cartridges unless it's in their best interest not to.
I bought a cheap Samsung all in one monochrome laser in 2011, have probably printed less than 100 pages, and still have the original starter cartridge. We first replaced our crappy HP inkjet with a Samsung Laser in 2004, and haven't looked at inkjets since.
It depends on the specific application, but in industry for pumps, fans, conveyors, compressors, and many other applications, the preferred motor is 3-phase AC induction motor (low maintenance, high efficiency). Where variable speed is required, a VFD can be used, which has an intermediate DC step (which is just straight AC rectified, before being inverted back to AC and sent to the motor), but otherwise an induction motor + across-the-line contactor starter is a very simple setup for industrial motors that is very reliable and low maintenance. VFDs add cost, and lower reliability for applications that don't need them, and generate harmonics that interfere with facility's distribution system.
DC Shunt motors are used in some industrial applications, primarily older ones requiring variable speed because it became possible on DC before AC, and also because they can provide better starting torque. The trend is very much to move to AC motors where possible because the motors are lower maintenance, lower cost, higher efficiency, and higher reliability. In any case the DC drives control the rectification of AC to varying DC voltage to allow control of speed, so it's not like there's a standard DC voltage you can use on these so there's no benefit supplying the drive with DC. The VSD will go straight from 460VAC input to 0-500VDC armature voltage via a bank of SCRs. This generates a very choppy "almost DC" waveform to the motor, and generates a ridiculous amount of of harmonics that can cause major problems on the facility distribution system.
AC really is easier to setup a distribution network, either around a State, or even within a commercial or industrial facility. DC is only used in distribution for looong distance, high capacity runs, where the benefits outweigh the significant costs of conversion.
AC distribution equipment is very simple and robust. Transformers are basically just a coil of wire. Motor starters are just simple contactors (relays). There is a surprising amount of 50 year old electrical distribution and control equipment still in service because it's so reliable.
VFD, VSD, and any DC-DC conversion will rely on power semiconductors (SCRs, IGBTs, etc), and electronic controls. These products are not as robust, are more expensive, and usually become obsolete before their simple counterparts.
The whole benefit of "giving up AC and going DC" might make sense in a small residential 12VDC "off the grid" system where everything is close together and uses the same voltage, but it falls apart in the industrial setting where you need to power 10's, 100's, or 1,000's of kW worth of load, and you need a distribution system. The products required to make a large scale DC industrial facility simply don't exist, and it's like some people are trying to chase after some gain that doesn't exist.
Statistics I found was 29% Residential, 39% Industrial, 26% Commercial and Institutional, and the remainder for "Public Administration, Agriculture, and transportation"
Industry can be quite energy intensive. A 10MW facility is not going to go off the grid with a couple solar panels, a windmill, and some batteries. Supplement maybe, but not completely replace. Compare this to a house that can have an average demand of less than 1kW.
Kerosene models do exist
Really they just need a source of heat.
In any case the risk of "burning to death" could be possible with any liquid fuel powered device (even eg: Lawnmower, or car).
try this .reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx]
"DisableGwx"=dword:00000001
If you buy a highend Haswell CPU, they're faster than the first generation by enough to make it matter. Anything newer and you're actually slowing down. Intel's new strategy is to make slower CPUs with faster graphics and lower power consumption.
One thing I found when speccing a new computer was single thread performance. Properly designed intense workloads will multithread (even video encoding), but for day to day use, it's usually one thread that's bogging down the system. AMD in particular pushes for multithread performance at the expense of single thread performance. For Intel, i7 Haswell chips do great at multithreading, but only slightly better at single threaded performance than i5 Haswells, for substantially more cost. Since I don't game, I went with a higher end i5.
There could be less demand, If we really had a good handle on the limited time to upgrade for free window.
We have a good handle, it's one year. From their webpage
Is the upgrade really free?
Yes, it’s free. This is a full version of Windows, not a trial or introductory version. It is available for a limited time: you have until July 29, 2016 to take advantage of this offer. Once you upgrade, you’ll have Windows 10 for free on that device.
I think Microsoft is trying to drum up business by pushing it through WU, have the concept of "reserving" your free upgrade that you have a year to claim.
Just like they did when Windows 7 came out, they want to be able to have numbers that say "Look at how many people upgraded in the first 2 months. This is the most of any version of Windows ever!"
Myself I'm playing with it in a VM, but will probably wait a couple months before upgrading my main OS.
Chrome does similar cutsy stuff, eg: when a tab crashes.
Are you upgrading from Windows 7 (or earlier, or Linux), or from Windows 8/8.1?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/what-is-pae-nx-sse2>Windows 8/8.1 introduced a requirement for SSE2, PAE, and NX.
NX is sometimes disabled in the BIOS. As far as I know there's no additional processor limitations on Windows 10.
While computer CD-R drives can write audio tracks to standard CD-R blanks, some set-top CD Recorders require "CD-R Audio" blanks. CD-R Audio blanks were more expensive so RIAA could get their cut, but otherwise used identical technology.
For fractional horsepower motors there's no cost-benefit to doing sophisticated controls in most cases. You just need it to turn on and off at one, sometimes two or three speeds and the load is more or less constant. I wouldn't expect that to change any time soon.
For which the shaded pole induction, capacitor start induction, series wound "Universal motors" do a great job. Especially equipment that runs for long periods, induction motors will run years without maintenance (like motors in fridges)
In the industrial setting, aside from a process that needs to vary speed during cycle / between qualities, efficiency gains from VFDs (on fans and pumps), usually means that the system wasn't properly speced out (when they're used for example, to run the same machine at 50% speed continuously). Across-the-line starter for an induction motor is always more efficient than a VFD running the same machine at the same speed. Change the gear ratio, change the motor rating, and you will get more efficiency out than installing a VFD.
VFDs are something like 97% efficent. It's incredible the waste heat that comes off a 2000HP VFD vs an across-the-line starter for the same application. Plus the VFD is higher maintenance than the starter.
Not just any drone! A 3-D printed, Internet of things drone
How well do the seat and steering wheel heaters melt frost off the windshield?
Interesting. I live in the "We don't trust you to pump your own gas" state, otherwise known as New Jersey, and I've never seen the attendant have to go inside to get my receipt. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Most receipt paper has a green, pink, or some other stripe or mark all over the paper as it's getting low. Cashiers recognize the pattern and will swap rolls before completely running out. Customers being a combination of lazy and stupid will ignore it, grab their receipt and leave. Given that the full serve attendants are effectively cashiers, they probably recognize this and swap rolls before running out. I can't explain the other poster's claim that the friend behind them got a receipt.
I could be giving the attendants too much credit though. Any time I'm forced to go to one, they keep "topping up" the tank to even dollar amounts. WTF? I'm paying with a credit card, I don't care if it's $57.83. Besides, it's bad for the evaporative emissions system to flood it with raw gas. That and I'm usually left waiting at the end of the transaction as they go tend to other cars. I'm glad I'm paying for such "professional service" from someone half my age.
Current charge times make "recharge when the driver stops for breaks" impossible.
Of course they don't. You don't have to charge an EV from empty to full every time any more than you have to wait for an ICE vehicle to go empty then fill the tank to the top. With an EV the thing is to top it up at every opportunity. The batteries won't be empty, and you don't have to wait till they are full.
My quick check of Google shows that while the $85,000 Tesla has a 240 mile range, most cars are 90 miles. That's an hour and a half on the freeway and you're completely out of juice. While you don't have to wait for an ICE car to be empty, it only takes a couple minutes to fill from 50 miles remaining to 450. For commuting electric cars are great. Very efficient in stop and go, and yes you can top up everywhere you stop (if they have a charger). However the range, and time to charge does put a big damper on long distance trips. Tesla is trying to address this (with over 2.5x the normal range, and Supercharger stations), hopefully it filters down to all models, but right now Tesla is priced out of reach of most consumers.
A lot can depend on individual circumstances, and the market. I live in an economically depressed area and rent. I'm glad I do.
One guy I know bought his house for $185k and sold it 4 years later for $165k (after being on the market 8 months). Another guy bought his house 5 years ago for $103k, and has had it on the market for 4 months at $100k. If I get a new job and move, I just have to give 30 days notice. The above people will also lose out on commission and closing costs.
I don't have any kids, and can live in an apartment for much cheaper than buying a house, and condos don't exist in this market.
Buying a house is great if you *want* to buy a house, but it shouldn't be bought primarily as an investment. The amount lost to interest alone is scandalous.
500MB/s vs 150MB/s is great on linear reads, but where the SSD really shines is random IO. 2MB/s on a platter drive vs. 80MB/s on an SSD. That's a 40-fold improvement. This is where the major improvement during boot, program load, and any swap-thrashing.
You also need to Download the driver for your USB floppy drive
What do we standardize on? 3 Phase 120V is 208V. Most American industrial is 480V 3-phase. Canada industrial is 600V 3-phase.
The DC bus for these drives run at a nominal 295, 679, 849 VDC respectively.
Plus you still have a lot of control equipment (relays, contactors, etc) running at 120VAC single phase.
There is already so much established equipment completely replacing the grid would be almost impossible.
So called Brushless DC motors are actually permanent magnet rotor, synchronous AC motors?
I haven't seen a large change in small 1 phase motors. Most are still:
-Shaded pole induction motor for small fans
-Capacitor start induction motor for air conditioners, fridges, etc.
-Series wound "Universal motors" (that are basically a brushed DC motor) for intermittent high torque loads (vacuums, blenders, hair dryers).