I just switched from Tracfone to Virgin Mobile in November when I needed to get a smartphone for work. I don't get signal in my apartment or at work or at my parents (then again, AT&T and Verizon only work at work because there's cell towers for both on top of the building) but I'm still happy pocketing the other $35/mo Verizon/ATT would charge for a similar plan and just hopping on wifi in the places that don't get Sprint's signal.
Last I knew, it was still heavily debated exactly how much of an effect humans have had on global warming compared to natural causes (IE: volcanic eruptions). Does it have an effect? Sure. Does it have a noticeable effect? Probably. Does it have a significant effect? Maybe. There's way too many variables to really be sure if humans are speeding up natural global warming by a significant amount (IE: accelerating it from millennia to centuries or centuries to decades). Not to say that these nutjobs aren't nutjobs, just that they're comment about "man-made" global warming bares some semblance to reality.
The only "point" of evolution is survival. Evolution does not lead towards more intelligent creatures unless intelligence itself better ensures survival. There are many cases of evolution leading to simpler or dumber creatures that have other traits that give them an edge in their environment. It's not a thinking, planning system.
Cutting jobs that aren't needed is one way to continue doing well by business standards. The longer people on the payroll, the more they cost - if you don't generate more for the company than you cost, why should they keep you on staff?
Power plants are generally more efficient than combustion engines, so it is relatively more green - just means its not from renewable green power. As new designs get built and more of the grid power comes from nuke/solar/wind/hydro that becomes even more the case.
It has two different power sources - batteries and an engine - I would assume either is capable of providing enough power for the basics on its own. I also don't see a plane this small flying at such an altitude that losing power would lead to loss of life support being a fatal issue before the pilot could descend.
I should add that commuter flights - twice a day, five days a week between two cities within the range of this thing and growing more popular in the South - might save as much as $32,000/yr per plane.
The article says it's a step above the Cessna 182. I couldn't find the price of a new Cessna but a used 2007 or 2008 Cessna 182 goes for around $310,000-$370,000. I would imagine a brand new one would approach the $500,000 figure. If all other costs of ownership are comparable, the fuel savings might be worth it for frequent short range flights.
Could you increase the range by mounting solar panels on the body of the craft? It wouldn't be enough to keep it flying indefinitely, but it might slow the rate of drain on the batteries.
For those that didn't read the article and were confused by New Jersey's new status as a city, what it actually means is New Jersey cities are in the #2, #3 and #5 spots of the top five list.
I bought a full height enclosed rack with cooling fans for $100 off Craigslist. It's on wheels so when I don't need to access it, it slides into a gap between the water heater and chest freezer. Just make sure all of the cables going in/out of it have enough slack for sliding it around a few feet.
Just like Europe of a half millennium ago was a backwater hellhole compared to even the ghetto of modern cities, but for some reason people still dress up and play the part for fun...
Sounds a little bit like a Renaissance fair, but obviously set in the early 1900s. I could see it being a nice theme cruise. Extra points if they design it to break in half and sink.
I'd consider backups to be one of those extra features... and even then, most platforms offer some sort of over-the-air backup app. B&N stores all books purchased through them on their servers and any epub books you sideload can be backed up with any backup app.
If the number of house fires increase exponentially in the future, like wind farms might, then it could cause climate change. If we erect wind farms on a huge scale, then they could collectively have an effect on the overall climate.
Except you can already get Nook for PC/Android/etc. The only market they don't have an app/program for that I would like to see is Linux and web-based.
I agree - it's been one of my big complaints about iProducts. My Android phone updates over the air, as does my Nook Color. If I plug them into a PC then I get an added bonus (easy file transfer mostly) but I could use either one heavily for years without ever needing to plug it into a PC and not really miss out on anything.
Many of the things being automated are just moving it to a centralized location. For example, lights on motion detectors, coffee pots on a timer, etc. Most of the time, the ability to start a pot of coffee brewing from your smartphone is only slightly more convenient than setting a timer in the morning.
That said, when I finally buy a house (in about 3 years), I plan on playing around with some home automation for much the same reason my home router is running on an Athlon II X2 with a quad-port NIC. For fun.
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I just switched from Tracfone to Virgin Mobile in November when I needed to get a smartphone for work. I don't get signal in my apartment or at work or at my parents (then again, AT&T and Verizon only work at work because there's cell towers for both on top of the building) but I'm still happy pocketing the other $35/mo Verizon/ATT would charge for a similar plan and just hopping on wifi in the places that don't get Sprint's signal.
Never denied that, just said that it's still up to debate how much is caused by humans.
Last I knew, it was still heavily debated exactly how much of an effect humans have had on global warming compared to natural causes (IE: volcanic eruptions). Does it have an effect? Sure. Does it have a noticeable effect? Probably. Does it have a significant effect? Maybe. There's way too many variables to really be sure if humans are speeding up natural global warming by a significant amount (IE: accelerating it from millennia to centuries or centuries to decades). Not to say that these nutjobs aren't nutjobs, just that they're comment about "man-made" global warming bares some semblance to reality.
How long before someone hacks it to play a giant game of tic-tac-toe?
The only "point" of evolution is survival. Evolution does not lead towards more intelligent creatures unless intelligence itself better ensures survival. There are many cases of evolution leading to simpler or dumber creatures that have other traits that give them an edge in their environment. It's not a thinking, planning system.
It seems that the more time I on Slashdot, the more I to leave out verbs.
Cutting jobs that aren't needed is one way to continue doing well by business standards. The longer people on the payroll, the more they cost - if you don't generate more for the company than you cost, why should they keep you on staff?
Power plants are generally more efficient than combustion engines, so it is relatively more green - just means its not from renewable green power. As new designs get built and more of the grid power comes from nuke/solar/wind/hydro that becomes even more the case.
It has two different power sources - batteries and an engine - I would assume either is capable of providing enough power for the basics on its own. I also don't see a plane this small flying at such an altitude that losing power would lead to loss of life support being a fatal issue before the pilot could descend.
No, hanger. He puts his plane in his closet next to his other clothes.
I should add that commuter flights - twice a day, five days a week between two cities within the range of this thing and growing more popular in the South - might save as much as $32,000/yr per plane.
The article says it's a step above the Cessna 182. I couldn't find the price of a new Cessna but a used 2007 or 2008 Cessna 182 goes for around $310,000-$370,000. I would imagine a brand new one would approach the $500,000 figure. If all other costs of ownership are comparable, the fuel savings might be worth it for frequent short range flights.
Could you increase the range by mounting solar panels on the body of the craft? It wouldn't be enough to keep it flying indefinitely, but it might slow the rate of drain on the batteries.
For those that didn't read the article and were confused by New Jersey's new status as a city, what it actually means is New Jersey cities are in the #2, #3 and #5 spots of the top five list.
I bought a full height enclosed rack with cooling fans for $100 off Craigslist. It's on wheels so when I don't need to access it, it slides into a gap between the water heater and chest freezer. Just make sure all of the cables going in/out of it have enough slack for sliding it around a few feet.
Just like Europe of a half millennium ago was a backwater hellhole compared to even the ghetto of modern cities, but for some reason people still dress up and play the part for fun...
Sounds a little bit like a Renaissance fair, but obviously set in the early 1900s. I could see it being a nice theme cruise. Extra points if they design it to break in half and sink.
I'd consider backups to be one of those extra features... and even then, most platforms offer some sort of over-the-air backup app. B&N stores all books purchased through them on their servers and any epub books you sideload can be backed up with any backup app.
If the number of house fires increase exponentially in the future, like wind farms might, then it could cause climate change. If we erect wind farms on a huge scale, then they could collectively have an effect on the overall climate.
Except you can already get Nook for PC/Android/etc. The only market they don't have an app/program for that I would like to see is Linux and web-based.
I agree - it's been one of my big complaints about iProducts. My Android phone updates over the air, as does my Nook Color. If I plug them into a PC then I get an added bonus (easy file transfer mostly) but I could use either one heavily for years without ever needing to plug it into a PC and not really miss out on anything.
I knew it was a bad idea to give you a DVD player with opposable thumbs.
Many of the things being automated are just moving it to a centralized location. For example, lights on motion detectors, coffee pots on a timer, etc. Most of the time, the ability to start a pot of coffee brewing from your smartphone is only slightly more convenient than setting a timer in the morning.
That said, when I finally buy a house (in about 3 years), I plan on playing around with some home automation for much the same reason my home router is running on an Athlon II X2 with a quad-port NIC. For fun.
"These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate."
Headline matches the summary.
Do you have a lot of very large turbine farms in your area? Then possibly, but unlikely.