You would need some power regulation at the other end to clean it up incurring further loss of efficiency.
One way to manage this is to use two sets of conductors, one to deliver your 12 watts (24 volts and 0.5 amps) and a second set to measure the delivered voltage at the ROV side, this second set is used to provide voltage regulation feedback to the DC power supply at your side. Since the current in the measurement loop is tiny, the voltage delivered to the ROV is stable. A set of LiPo batteries and a 12 watt trickle should get you quite a long excursion I would think.
Almost right, in fact States can and some do proportion their electors in what is called the "Congressional District Method for distributing their electoral votes", but only a few small States choose to do so.
We could see gas stations disappear in our life time. (Well, maybe in your life time).
This is sort of what I was thinking. I'm not on the EV bandwagon but maybe the idea of a special place to pour explosive liquid fuel into a vehicle isn't the model of the future. Perhaps parking lots with charge stations are the way, where you can decide, almost every time you park, whether or not you need to top it off.
Still makes future road trips seem a little clumsy.
True but almost all the HTC stuff I've seen consists of taking a reference hardware design, wrapping it in a pretty case, and selling it cheap thorough every carrier they can get onboard. That's cool and I like some of the products, but it's not really innovative is it?
The airplane wants to fly, there is a simple "alternate law" procedure where the throttles are advanced to a known position (85% IIRC) and the nose is set to a known up pitch (I forget, 5 degrees maybe) and the damn thing will just fly. Everything else is just adding to the confusion. Aviate, navigate, communicate.
First, I fail to see the relationship between joysticks and tactile feedback, secondly it's very possible and often done for fly by wire systems to provide force feedback and other haptic ques. The failure is with the designers of the system who opted to omit such feedback, not intrinsic to fly by wire.
Yeah sure, the point was if you look up the thread a bit, that the magic electro SUV might have reasonable range and be able to keep up with a vette, but NOT BOTH AT THE SAME time - that's all. For that you need something you can stop and refill in 5 minutes, like, oh, a plain old car.
I had a radio controlled "Wild Wing" flying wing with Lithium Ion batteries that had a loiter time of well over an hour, how long I don't know as it always outlasted my patience or bladder.
Well the Top Gear when they were racing a Prius around a track, and following it in a BMW.... the Pruis got 14mpg and the BMW, dutifully shadowing it, got 17. Driving hard tends to be inefficient and I suspect that the theoretical 200 mile range would see a pretty drastic reduction if the SUV was actually racing a vette.
Interesting tap dance, but the bottom line is that the OEM EULA no longer has the wording in question (it offers to allow the return of the notebook, complete, to the OEM) and the manufacturer may or may not offer a machine bare, or with BeOS, or Linux, at their discretion.
This ruling is similar to requiring the removal of Crucial memory and installation of Kingston if that is the buyers wish. Maybe a cool idea but not something the OEM should be legally bound to do.
It seems to me that Mac buyers are buying the software, and a machine that happens to run it, not the other way round. And it's not every machine in the store. So it's a slightly different proposition.
Ah cool, I want my free Mac then, make it a 6 pack,
The question is, what is the net cost of the machine as mass market configured vs. blank HD? The difference might not be in the direction you like, and isn't going to equal the retail cost of a Windows 7 license for sure.
Prepping the drive for a system of known configuration is a simple drive imaging operation. The cost to the OEM is the sum of the license fees and other expenses associated with drive prep; if the Windows license is very cheap and the volume is high I can easily see where prepping many Windows 7 drives would be on par or cheaper than prepping a few with an alternative like FreeDOS on a per-drive basis.
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You would need some power regulation at the other end to clean it up incurring further loss of efficiency.
One way to manage this is to use two sets of conductors, one to deliver your 12 watts (24 volts and 0.5 amps) and a second set to measure the delivered voltage at the ROV side, this second set is used to provide voltage regulation feedback to the DC power supply at your side. Since the current in the measurement loop is tiny, the voltage delivered to the ROV is stable. A set of LiPo batteries and a 12 watt trickle should get you quite a long excursion I would think.
Almost right, in fact States can and some do proportion their electors in what is called the "Congressional District Method for distributing their electoral votes", but only a few small States choose to do so.
I can watch over 8 hours of video, or use it for about 12-14 hours, without recharging or putting it to sleep.
We could see gas stations disappear in our life time. (Well, maybe in your life time).
This is sort of what I was thinking. I'm not on the EV bandwagon but maybe the idea of a special place to pour explosive liquid fuel into a vehicle isn't the model of the future. Perhaps parking lots with charge stations are the way, where you can decide, almost every time you park, whether or not you need to top it off.
Still makes future road trips seem a little clumsy.
My last commute would have made a 100 mile battery last over a month.
My XOOM has been a 12 hour tablet for a long time.
If only there were some way of separating my circle of friends into other smaller circles depending on the context of the relationship.
True but almost all the HTC stuff I've seen consists of taking a reference hardware design, wrapping it in a pretty case, and selling it cheap thorough every carrier they can get onboard. That's cool and I like some of the products, but it's not really innovative is it?
I would bet that somewhere, somehow, at sometime, someone in an organization the size of Google has obtained a license to use Java.
The airplane wants to fly, there is a simple "alternate law" procedure where the throttles are advanced to a known position (85% IIRC) and the nose is set to a known up pitch (I forget, 5 degrees maybe) and the damn thing will just fly. Everything else is just adding to the confusion. Aviate, navigate, communicate.
First, I fail to see the relationship between joysticks and tactile feedback, secondly it's very possible and often done for fly by wire systems to provide force feedback and other haptic ques. The failure is with the designers of the system who opted to omit such feedback, not intrinsic to fly by wire.
My understanding was that while the temperature is high the amount of heat stored in the system is relatively small. Relatively.
This is gonna make it tough for those Buckeys to reproduce.
Yeah sure, the point was if you look up the thread a bit, that the magic electro SUV might have reasonable range and be able to keep up with a vette, but NOT BOTH AT THE SAME time - that's all. For that you need something you can stop and refill in 5 minutes, like, oh, a plain old car.
I had a radio controlled "Wild Wing" flying wing with Lithium Ion batteries that had a loiter time of well over an hour, how long I don't know as it always outlasted my patience or bladder.
Well the Top Gear when they were racing a Prius around a track, and following it in a BMW .... the Pruis got 14mpg and the BMW, dutifully shadowing it, got 17. Driving hard tends to be inefficient and I suspect that the theoretical 200 mile range would see a pretty drastic reduction if the SUV was actually racing a vette.
I suspect that driving in such a way as to outrun a 'Vette might cut into that range figure quite a lot.
Interesting tap dance, but the bottom line is that the OEM EULA no longer has the wording in question (it offers to allow the return of the notebook, complete, to the OEM) and the manufacturer may or may not offer a machine bare, or with BeOS, or Linux, at their discretion. This ruling is similar to requiring the removal of Crucial memory and installation of Kingston if that is the buyers wish. Maybe a cool idea but not something the OEM should be legally bound to do.
I'm not surprised that eHarmony has what I think is the best success rate of them all.
Depends on what the customers are after; marriage != success for everyone .....
So rather than use the law to coerce an OEM into doing something they apparently don't want to do, why not buy from a vendor who does what you like?
Minor point - OSX is derived from BSD, not Linux.
It seems to me that Mac buyers are buying the software, and a machine that happens to run it, not the other way round. And it's not every machine in the store. So it's a slightly different proposition.
Ah cool, I want my free Mac then, make it a 6 pack,
The question is, what is the net cost of the machine as mass market configured vs. blank HD? The difference might not be in the direction you like, and isn't going to equal the retail cost of a Windows 7 license for sure.
Prepping the drive for a system of known configuration is a simple drive imaging operation. The cost to the OEM is the sum of the license fees and other expenses associated with drive prep; if the Windows license is very cheap and the volume is high I can easily see where prepping many Windows 7 drives would be on par or cheaper than prepping a few with an alternative like FreeDOS on a per-drive basis.
For an example of how well this works try driving in Bangalore or Manila.
Just make the data public so everyone is on an even footing, instead of creating a power imbalance.