Or you tell it to activate when you're leaving work early or such. Heck, I could see an application keeping track of you and warming your place up(or cooling it down) when you get within a certain radius of your house.
I have a programmable thermostat. It's a pain in the butt to program, and I'd love to have a 'I'm home' button rather than having to press the temp+ button numerous times.
I wonder if it would be more effective to automate it through the use of a swimmer-worn panic button.
At the point you're having the swimmer wear a 'panic button', you might as well have them wear an inflatable vest to begin with, perhaps built into the body suit. Just have some sort of system that can tell the difference between 'I'm deliberately swimming under water' and 'I'm drowning!!!', which is probably a good trick to manage for a relatively lightweight and inexpensive system. It detects drowning(or the guy pulls the panic cord) and inflates.
One thing about life vests to remember is that they only have to lift the head, and the rest of the body tends to be neutrally buoyant. So 'one size fits all' is mostly true.
Misses the victim: with your idea, they're screwed. With a reusable drone, it comes back for another ring. Hits them with the drone: They're light-weight enough that it shouldn't happen, plus the control software for a NON-LANDING drone shouldn't let it hit the sea. Crashes due to payload: This is why you use an inflatable device as opposed to a foam ring. Such a device can be tiny. A relative heavyweight device can be only 1.5 pounds. I'm sure it can be made lighter for a device that's not intended to be worn all day in the off chance you'll end up in the water. Another beachgoer's drone: First, you'd have this problem anyways. Second, if used for lifesaving the drone going out should have priority. Third, the lifeguard should be the one with the drone.
Inflatables: The chance of failure is really miniscule, and you gain the benefits of a smaller size and less air resistance(probably more important).
The action of the government on this issue shows that the government is more interested in what terrorism can do for the military industrial complex than what the government can do for you.
It's more prosaic than this. Fighting this isn't 'cool' like the military, it's not life threatening, etc.... It's criminals, and they're generally operating out of a sympathetic country.:(
I'd love to catch their asses and prosecute them, and odds are it'll happen sooner or later.
Keep in mind that this would also mean that when military members are deployed to various locations around the world that you're restricting them to the content offered there.
It translates to my netflix account being almost useless outside of the country.
Agreed. My first thought was the old saying 'keep your friends close, and your enemies closer'.
I monitor several gun opposition groups just so I know what they're up to in order to better oppose them. I'm sure they do the same to us. I wouldn't be surprised as a result that I'm counted as a 'member' in some circles.
Of course, then there's the militias where it turns out over half the 'members' are undercover officers....
Simple enough: I don't because I never said they were manufacturing them. I say 'their' cells because while Panasonic is indeed making them, they're ordering so many that Panasonic is running custom 18650s for them - modified chemistry, reduced safety features* with a simple aluminum cap replacing them, etc... They're effectively Tesla's, because it's the only buyer(short of consumers getting them in the completed battery in their car) of those particular cells.
Oh, and from my memory the Roadster was powered by non-customized(or customized far less) 2800mAh cells.
I'd look for references, but I'm on a slow & unreliable wireless link right now.
*IE individual cells don't have the standard safety features of the 18650 battery, but that's because the battery itself provides the protections.
The roadster is very much a specialty car. It'll be hard to say how it'll look/perform if/when released in greater I agree with the others, if they 're-release it', it's going to be significantly changed, effectively a new model.
One thing they'll likely do is use their now more or less 'standard' model S 'skateboard' battery & drivetrain system.
Summary: Lots of improvements in a number of areas can make a big, big difference.
Since ~2008 I know they've increased the energy density of their 18650 cells by 20-30%, which would correspond to a 20-30% increase in range no matter what. After that it starts adding up quick.
I wonder if they might end up restarting roadster production. For a small car manufacturer that could even be fairly logical - produce as many as you can for a relatively short period of time(few years), then shut down production for a few years to let the demand recover and grow.
Perhaps more importantly, increasing the range of a car from 250 miles to ~400 also means that you could put a smaller battery pack in that costs nearly half as much, making it more affordable.
It also helps show the longevity of Battery Electronic Vehicles. Though it's only been two years since they stopped producing it, they're still producing not just maintenance parts, but serious upgrades.
So unless you were planning immolating yourself in front of Buckingham Palace as a protest for your country's policies, the quote is not really appropriate.
That would be an awfully odd place for me to do it, I'd be concerned that my message would be lost by doing it in a foreign country.
As for liberty/tyranny, it's always a balance that has to be constantly fought for. There's plenty of wannabe tyrants in the USA, UK, and pretty much every other country(including actual tyrants).
Having read your entire post, I'll say that I would have boiled down your post to what Free Censorship did. Well, I wouldn't mention North Korea.
"An attack on their dignity" - Mentioning the color blue is an attack on my dignity, you must never do that. Tying a noose is a reference to lynchings, even when you're a young boy from the north without a clue to that bit in history. Mentioning infidelity is an attack on the dignity of a politician.
Your dignity is a bit like the US 'right to seek happiness'. It doesn't mean that you can't be insulted.
Well, as they say, the tree of liberty needs to occasionally be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. It appears that their tree is in need of some watering.
Besides that, top gear's Stephen Fry: “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
And from Salman Rushdie: “Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
Repeat guests? C'mon, really? You shop for hotels the same way the rest of us do - Either your employer tells you "you will stay here", or you use a price search and pick the lowest place that doesn't mention rats in the toilet.
Short of emergencies, 'free internet' is a requirement I shop for. If it's a working trip, internet would be a *reimbursable* expense for work, thus increasing the effective cost of the hotel, making it effectively more expensive than the one that includes wifi, thus they'll route their people elsewhere.
As for blocking wifi but not cell phones because it pisses customers off, if they put a faraday cage up they could put cellular boosters inside the hotels to transmit those frequencies out.
Of course, the number of personal hotspots that would pop up...
Not to bust your imagination, but to build on the idea I figure that the first 'fork lifts' were actually intended to move heavy equipment. Lots of generators and such have cuts in their support platforms to support movement by fork. Now, Initially I figure they moved equipment via crane and such, but moving industrial equipment without dealing with a huge high roof is a lot easier if you can come in from below, to to mention that you need a frame anyways even if you're using a crane - as equipment gets heavier the less likely any random point you might hook into will be able to support the equipment without damage. You just need less framing if you're doing it via clever cuts in the floor stand.
Go back to the 'old days' on non-standardization, I can see a company that uses heavy equipment having some device, a sort of proto-jack, to move their equipment around, then deciding, hey, we can use this jack to help move supplies around! Perhaps with something more expensive/better built than modern pallets, which are built to be cheap.
Since I don't know your specific situation, I could be completely misinterpreting what you mean. But it seems you have 0% "figure out the problem".
Yeah, you're off. Really, my solve rate was darn near 100%, but I hit the occasional spot where I was asking 'what the hell are they looking for me to produce?' - and the answer wasn't in the book.
I wasn't counting the problems where I already knew what to do, or could figure it out without outside assistance. That's practice, not learning. Of my learning, IE learning the symbols, the properties of various constants and such, the execution of various rules*, that was done as I said - mostly NOT using the book.
*Not enough time in the tests to re-derive them, had to memorize
Like I said, I could be completely misreading your situation, but from what you wrote, it sounds like if there isn't a template for how to solve every single problem type that you give up.
I'd hardly call what I did 'giving up'. I would work a problem until I not only had it solved, but I understood the solving method. It must of worked, seeing as how I pulled an A in a class where 90% of my grade was from closed book tests.
Can you self-publish and get any respect from college book departments? Professors might be fairly easy, but getting the okay from your department to use a non-certified publisher/reviewed book might be difficult. Can you sell enough in order to justify printing sufficient quantities such that printing costs alone don't swamp most of the price difference?
It's not easy. Especially if he was under contract with the publisher for it and they pulled some shenanigans in order to raise the price.
That being said, I'd love to pull in some charity minded professionals to write and deliberately open source sets of textbooks.
It's pissing me and the students off because they really do need to have a text.
How long is this going to be true with resources like Khan Academy, Purple math, and everything else out there?
I am currently pissed at my calculus text(Larson/Edwards 5thEd ETC). While I read the chapters, more than half the book is actually just problems to work out, and worse, the methods to solve said problems are often not in the text. So I'd place my actual learning at about 10% textbook(and I'm being generous), 30% lecture, 20% math tutoring/TA help, 40% internet.
When the teacher is assigning roughly 1/10th of the problems as homework in a manner that often resembles 'this looks good, I like this one', etc... It should be trivial for him to do up said problems on a handout. Well, I'd recommend he make the problems up himself, but you should get the point.
Also, Colorado should (if they don't already) have laws preventing the export of marijuana to other states where it is illegal. Want to grow for distribution in Colorado? Fine. Want to grow in the safety of Colorado to go profiteer in Nebraska? Jail.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think that would actually be illegal under the constitution. The states aren't allowed to get into trade wars with each other with prohibitions, taxes, duties, and such.
Yes, I know in this case that Nebraska doesn't want the stuff, but it's free to pass a general prohibition, it's not allowed to ban only weed from Colorado. Colorado isn't allowed to ban weed to Nebraska.
I think the difference here is that marijuana is illegal under federal law. It is not a law the states created, and so they are complaining about the disproportionate burden placed on them.
There's a really simple solution here: Do basically what Colorado did, and tell the feds that if they want to prohibit weed they can do it themselves.
but in Washington the legal weed costs about twice as much as what you'd find from a traditional dealer,
Yeah, when I saw the measures I said they were setting the tax too high. Part of the problem is higher expenses due to the Fed's threatening the banks and such.
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Or you tell it to activate when you're leaving work early or such. Heck, I could see an application keeping track of you and warming your place up(or cooling it down) when you get within a certain radius of your house.
I have a programmable thermostat. It's a pain in the butt to program, and I'd love to have a 'I'm home' button rather than having to press the temp+ button numerous times.
I wonder if it would be more effective to automate it through the use of a swimmer-worn panic button.
At the point you're having the swimmer wear a 'panic button', you might as well have them wear an inflatable vest to begin with, perhaps built into the body suit. Just have some sort of system that can tell the difference between 'I'm deliberately swimming under water' and 'I'm drowning!!!', which is probably a good trick to manage for a relatively lightweight and inexpensive system. It detects drowning(or the guy pulls the panic cord) and inflates.
One thing about life vests to remember is that they only have to lift the head, and the rest of the body tends to be neutrally buoyant. So 'one size fits all' is mostly true.
I worked surf rescue for 7 years and have seen these ideas come and go.
Did you ever get the cannon launcher for flotation devices? I thought that was a hilarious idea.
Misses the victim: with your idea, they're screwed. With a reusable drone, it comes back for another ring.
Hits them with the drone: They're light-weight enough that it shouldn't happen, plus the control software for a NON-LANDING drone shouldn't let it hit the sea.
Crashes due to payload: This is why you use an inflatable device as opposed to a foam ring. Such a device can be tiny. A relative heavyweight device can be only 1.5 pounds. I'm sure it can be made lighter for a device that's not intended to be worn all day in the off chance you'll end up in the water.
Another beachgoer's drone: First, you'd have this problem anyways. Second, if used for lifesaving the drone going out should have priority. Third, the lifeguard should be the one with the drone.
Inflatables: The chance of failure is really miniscule, and you gain the benefits of a smaller size and less air resistance(probably more important).
The action of the government on this issue shows that the government is more interested in what terrorism can do for the military industrial complex than what the government can do for you.
It's more prosaic than this. Fighting this isn't 'cool' like the military, it's not life threatening, etc.... It's criminals, and they're generally operating out of a sympathetic country. :(
I'd love to catch their asses and prosecute them, and odds are it'll happen sooner or later.
I'm another one. I operate my own VPS on which I've configured a VPN. Yes, it'd be a lot harder to track.
Keep in mind that this would also mean that when military members are deployed to various locations around the world that you're restricting them to the content offered there.
It translates to my netflix account being almost useless outside of the country.
Agreed. My first thought was the old saying 'keep your friends close, and your enemies closer'.
I monitor several gun opposition groups just so I know what they're up to in order to better oppose them. I'm sure they do the same to us. I wouldn't be surprised as a result that I'm counted as a 'member' in some circles.
Of course, then there's the militias where it turns out over half the 'members' are undercover officers....
Not many tree farmers are emotionally keen on that, though.
You might be surprised there. Lots of wood burners up where I live and pellet stoves are increasing in popularity.
To the point that they're actually an air hazard.
Simple enough: I don't because I never said they were manufacturing them. I say 'their' cells because while Panasonic is indeed making them, they're ordering so many that Panasonic is running custom 18650s for them - modified chemistry, reduced safety features* with a simple aluminum cap replacing them, etc... They're effectively Tesla's, because it's the only buyer(short of consumers getting them in the completed battery in their car) of those particular cells.
Oh, and from my memory the Roadster was powered by non-customized(or customized far less) 2800mAh cells.
I'd look for references, but I'm on a slow & unreliable wireless link right now.
*IE individual cells don't have the standard safety features of the 18650 battery, but that's because the battery itself provides the protections.
Let the car die a respectable death.
The roadster is very much a specialty car. It'll be hard to say how it'll look/perform if/when released in greater I agree with the others, if they 're-release it', it's going to be significantly changed, effectively a new model.
One thing they'll likely do is use their now more or less 'standard' model S 'skateboard' battery & drivetrain system.
Summary: Lots of improvements in a number of areas can make a big, big difference.
Since ~2008 I know they've increased the energy density of their 18650 cells by 20-30%, which would correspond to a 20-30% increase in range no matter what. After that it starts adding up quick.
I wonder if they might end up restarting roadster production. For a small car manufacturer that could even be fairly logical - produce as many as you can for a relatively short period of time(few years), then shut down production for a few years to let the demand recover and grow.
Perhaps more importantly, increasing the range of a car from 250 miles to ~400 also means that you could put a smaller battery pack in that costs nearly half as much, making it more affordable.
It also helps show the longevity of Battery Electronic Vehicles. Though it's only been two years since they stopped producing it, they're still producing not just maintenance parts, but serious upgrades.
So unless you were planning immolating yourself in front of Buckingham Palace as a protest for your country's policies, the quote is not really appropriate.
That would be an awfully odd place for me to do it, I'd be concerned that my message would be lost by doing it in a foreign country.
As for liberty/tyranny, it's always a balance that has to be constantly fought for. There's plenty of wannabe tyrants in the USA, UK, and pretty much every other country(including actual tyrants).
Having read your entire post, I'll say that I would have boiled down your post to what Free Censorship did. Well, I wouldn't mention North Korea.
"An attack on their dignity" - Mentioning the color blue is an attack on my dignity, you must never do that. Tying a noose is a reference to lynchings, even when you're a young boy from the north without a clue to that bit in history. Mentioning infidelity is an attack on the dignity of a politician.
Your dignity is a bit like the US 'right to seek happiness'. It doesn't mean that you can't be insulted.
I screwed up, working from memory.
Well, as they say, the tree of liberty needs to occasionally be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. It appears that their tree is in need of some watering.
Besides that, top gear's Stephen Fry:
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
And from Salman Rushdie:
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
Repeat guests? C'mon, really? You shop for hotels the same way the rest of us do - Either your employer tells you "you will stay here", or you use a price search and pick the lowest place that doesn't mention rats in the toilet.
Short of emergencies, 'free internet' is a requirement I shop for. If it's a working trip, internet would be a *reimbursable* expense for work, thus increasing the effective cost of the hotel, making it effectively more expensive than the one that includes wifi, thus they'll route their people elsewhere.
As for blocking wifi but not cell phones because it pisses customers off, if they put a faraday cage up they could put cellular boosters inside the hotels to transmit those frequencies out.
Of course, the number of personal hotspots that would pop up...
Not to bust your imagination, but to build on the idea I figure that the first 'fork lifts' were actually intended to move heavy equipment. Lots of generators and such have cuts in their support platforms to support movement by fork. Now, Initially I figure they moved equipment via crane and such, but moving industrial equipment without dealing with a huge high roof is a lot easier if you can come in from below, to to mention that you need a frame anyways even if you're using a crane - as equipment gets heavier the less likely any random point you might hook into will be able to support the equipment without damage. You just need less framing if you're doing it via clever cuts in the floor stand.
Go back to the 'old days' on non-standardization, I can see a company that uses heavy equipment having some device, a sort of proto-jack, to move their equipment around, then deciding, hey, we can use this jack to help move supplies around! Perhaps with something more expensive/better built than modern pallets, which are built to be cheap.
Since I don't know your specific situation, I could be completely misinterpreting what you mean. But it seems you have 0% "figure out the problem".
Yeah, you're off. Really, my solve rate was darn near 100%, but I hit the occasional spot where I was asking 'what the hell are they looking for me to produce?' - and the answer wasn't in the book.
I wasn't counting the problems where I already knew what to do, or could figure it out without outside assistance. That's practice, not learning. Of my learning, IE learning the symbols, the properties of various constants and such, the execution of various rules*, that was done as I said - mostly NOT using the book.
*Not enough time in the tests to re-derive them, had to memorize
Like I said, I could be completely misreading your situation, but from what you wrote, it sounds like if there isn't a template for how to solve every single problem type that you give up.
I'd hardly call what I did 'giving up'. I would work a problem until I not only had it solved, but I understood the solving method. It must of worked, seeing as how I pulled an A in a class where 90% of my grade was from closed book tests.
Can you self-publish and get any respect from college book departments? Professors might be fairly easy, but getting the okay from your department to use a non-certified publisher/reviewed book might be difficult. Can you sell enough in order to justify printing sufficient quantities such that printing costs alone don't swamp most of the price difference?
It's not easy. Especially if he was under contract with the publisher for it and they pulled some shenanigans in order to raise the price.
That being said, I'd love to pull in some charity minded professionals to write and deliberately open source sets of textbooks.
It's pissing me and the students off because they really do need to have a text.
How long is this going to be true with resources like Khan Academy, Purple math, and everything else out there?
I am currently pissed at my calculus text(Larson/Edwards 5thEd ETC). While I read the chapters, more than half the book is actually just problems to work out, and worse, the methods to solve said problems are often not in the text. So I'd place my actual learning at about 10% textbook(and I'm being generous), 30% lecture, 20% math tutoring/TA help, 40% internet.
When the teacher is assigning roughly 1/10th of the problems as homework in a manner that often resembles 'this looks good, I like this one', etc... It should be trivial for him to do up said problems on a handout. Well, I'd recommend he make the problems up himself, but you should get the point.
By now, every NE or OK, cop has some nice, labeled Colorado bud to plant on anyone who gives them trouble.
If they're doing it regularly it's just asking for an eventual FBI sting and ensuing shitstorm.
Also, Colorado should (if they don't already) have laws preventing the export of marijuana to other states where it is illegal. Want to grow for distribution in Colorado? Fine. Want to grow in the safety of Colorado to go profiteer in Nebraska? Jail.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think that would actually be illegal under the constitution. The states aren't allowed to get into trade wars with each other with prohibitions, taxes, duties, and such.
Yes, I know in this case that Nebraska doesn't want the stuff, but it's free to pass a general prohibition, it's not allowed to ban only weed from Colorado. Colorado isn't allowed to ban weed to Nebraska.
I think the difference here is that marijuana is illegal under federal law. It is not a law the states created, and so they are complaining about the disproportionate burden placed on them.
There's a really simple solution here: Do basically what Colorado did, and tell the feds that if they want to prohibit weed they can do it themselves.
but in Washington the legal weed costs about twice as much as what you'd find from a traditional dealer,
Yeah, when I saw the measures I said they were setting the tax too high. Part of the problem is higher expenses due to the Fed's threatening the banks and such.