Many companies are transitioning to general purpose software as the features expand. High debt software is often replaced with an off the shelf solution with a much lower cost.
As examples, at home, I no longer use Photoshop. Gimp is the replacement. Open Office replaced MS Office. Natulus replaced Nero or EZ CD Creator. Ubuntu replaced Windows on most machines. I don't pay for expensive upgrades when possible. Many small companies are making the same move.
Only one machine has the MS Debt software for the few things that just have to have it. I no longer upgrade high debt software on the various desktops and laptops we use.
When I travel, I don't use TSA locks. I don't use locks at all. I tie the clasp with mason line and apply a folded over mailing label over the knot with my name and photo on it along with "Packed and sealed by owner" printed on it. I carry extra string and seals in my shirt pocket for the occasional bag inspection at the xray. To date, I have never had a bag missing the seal at my destination.
There are two sources of heat in modern semiconductor CPU's.
One is leakage, the heat generated by current times resistance squared in transistors that are off.
The higher current that is related to the clock speed is the heat generated by transistors that are turned on using the same current times resistance squared.
To keep the on current at a bare minimum, transistors are paired with one on and one off so the current through the pair should be zero except for leakage. The current flows when they are clocked and the capacitance (stored voltage) of the wire between transistors and gate capacitance of the MOSFET it drives supplies current during switching.
How does this no heat switch avoid the current of switching the capacitance between the switches. From what I can tell is this part is able to handle higher temperatures. I do not see it as a no power (no heat generated) device.
Silicon Nitride has much higher resistance than most metals. Due to the resistance and temperature resistance, it is often used as hot surface ignition in gas appliances. Current through the switches will create heat. It is unavoidable.
At it's current speed of 0.000.5 GHZ clock speed, I can believe the current power consumption is very low. How does this stack up to an Atom CPU clocked at 0.000.5 GHZ?
First rule of covert ops.. Never reveal what you know. You may know of all his travels overseas, email, social network contacts, family, criminal record, purchases of fireworks supplies, online sites visited, etc. Officially to you, you are boring.
There is software for laptop locking that does this if not accessed in 7 days. It is designed to brick stolen laptops. It it is not connected to the corportate server for a week, it locks. Even if stolen with the password, simply never connecting to work will cause this.
Simply taking the laptop and waiting for trial would make it impossible to unlock without taking it to the corporate IT department.
So just when did you get to vote for or against the DMCA? Lobby groups can push laws past you that you have no chance of stopping. Remember soap, ballot box, 2nd amendment. This has reached the 3rd option.
I should mention that with side curtain and seat installed airbags, your big hazard is airbags. Normal cutting locations by window posts may place your cut right through an airbag charge. They pose a much higher risk then a hybrid battery pack and wiring simply due to the locations.
I saw a video of a generator set that was tested to see if the primary safety equipment could save a generator from intentional attempts to cause damage. The youtube video of the test is still online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyWngDco3g
"The same problem exists, to us, for cars like the Prius. Lots of very high voltage cables running through parts of the car we would usually cut through to get someone out."
I see you missed the Prius training film on the HV system. I have never seen a firefighter cut through the center of the floor of the car to ever get anyone out. The HV cable goes under the center of the floor of the car in place of the driveline from between the rear wheels (battery pack) and the inverter in the engine compartment. The battery cutout usually has the power cut off before the air bags deploy.
Unless you do rescues through the trunk and seat backs, the center of the floor, or through the engine, your chance of contact is slim.
Cutting the pillars, roof, doors, fenders, etc are all away from the battery circuit. Do some research. Seldom does a firefighter ever need to pull the battery service plug. It is never under the seat. Only one Honda has the switch behind the rear seat back requiring the removal of the seat back cushion. Many models simply require removal of the 12 volt battery negative lead. This disables the relay at the battery disconnecting it.
This tends to correct itself. This was tried a couple years ago and it's use has died out. Research showed the moment someone heard the commercial siren, they automatically tuned out the commercial and gave attention to the road looking for the emergency vehicle and most often did not even register the commercial message. When the source was identified as the radio, the most often response was to turn it off and continue to see if there was a real siren in the area. I have not heard a siren in a commercial in several years now.
The easy way to impliment this is to simply compress the program audio like they do CD's for FM broadcast. With no headroom for explosive commercials and CSI explosions, all program material will be uniformly loud.
Be careful of what you ask for. You could get sound that is as uniform at your local clear channel top 40 station. They solved the loud commercial problem long ago.
If you consider the music commercials too, they are as uniformly loud as the shock jocks.
I remember that. It is what pretty much killed the DAT recorder. It limited the distribution of the SONY Diskman MO recorder. The 2 generation copy limit even on content you created yourself pretty much limited it's applicaion. The computer with recordable Data CD's with no DRM quickly overcame both encumbered technologies.
The RIAA won against the DAT. One studio had one, but never used it because it was useless for it's primary application. You could make a nice recording, but you could not do anything usefull with the digital recording except play it back in analog to a reel to reel. The DAT was skipped and the masters were cut on reel to reel tape.
Hard disk recording without DRM took over in the studio.
Due to the Ernie Ball story and the high cost of software, when I stopped loading Windows on home built beige boxes, I started using Ubuntu instead. Now I no longer pay for extra copies of AV software, media players, etc. The net result due to the Software Repository for Ubuntu, I buy less applications and games. I find I don't need CD or DVD burning or ripping software from a retailer.
All I can say is Thank You BSA. You have saved me a bundle. I've gone legal and never looked back.
The largest issue with bendable displays and a difraction grating is color shifts with viewing angle. Anyone besides me work with diffraction gratings and thin film Dichroic filters?
The color is very vibrant and accurate, providing the viewing angle is controlled. This works with a projector because the angle between the light source and lens is fixed. This does not work for a direct view computer screen. The problems compound with a bendable direct view display.
I wouldn't mind if they did not exclude the AM band. Finance, Politics, and other info is sadly missing from the FM band except for NPR, and that only provides bias on one side.
I find it funny how devices with radio only include FM. I have a scanner, a MP3 player, and an FRS radio with radio, but missing the AM band entirely. We don't need a mandate for more devices to carry the same redundant service. I have plenty of devices already. If you want FM, a cheap one can be picked up for under $20. I have some of them lying around somewhere, unused.
Your patent is pretty much already done with prior art. The DMX512 with relay outputs and a programmable console such as any of the inteligent consoles with soft patch in them preceeds your patent.
I guess the last lighting installation I did is in violation of your patent simply by using off the shelf components.
A lighting console with softpatch takes care of reassigning switches and addressable dimmer/relay packs takes care of the addressable outlets.
Just an FYI, My 2002 was bought for 18,000 in 2003. It's a long drop from the 24,000 retail new with the full option package with the GPS, etc. I hope to find another bargin when I need to replace mine. At 40,000 the payback is longer.
Not mentioned is the resale value. The wife's 2002 Dodge Carivan and the 2002 Prius were bought the same year and for the same price. The resale price is not important to me as I intend to drive it until the wheels fall off. Being many years past the last car payment is a nice feeling. I think I made payments for 36 months.
I don't understand those who have to have car payments every month forever. It isn't worth it.
A secondary coil or dual resonant tuning would be required. The frequency for vehicle detection and RFID are several orders of magnatude different in frequency. Induction loop vehicle sensors are most often 10-50 KHZ.
RFID tags use either LF: 125-134.2 kHz and 140-148.5 kHz, 13.56 Mhz, or UHF 868-928 MHz frequencies.
Before even considering a solid state AC unit, look up the BTU of heat removed per Watt of power used. The efficiency is not there or even close. The solid state modules are used where small, low BTU, and weight are primary considerations.
A high BTU requirement and low power draw pretty much eliminates those modules from consideration. In environments where there is moisture, such as coolers and small camp refrigerators, condensation corrosion ensures they have a very short life.
They are sometimes used on spacecraft, mostly for weight reasons. The lack of moisture increases the life. The ISS uses a compressor and refrigerant for system cooling. For the size power, and BTU requirements, the compressor system was a better system, even though the compressor is additional weight.
The AC in the newer Prius cars is a sealed compressor refrigeration system driven by an electric motor. A Google search can show the study Toyota did when they decided to move away from a belt driven compressor. It raised reliability (no shaft seals and no clutch) and saved gas.
AC flame bait, or someone totally disconnected from reality.
Laptop batteries are maintained for long run time, not long life. They are deep cycled. Fully charged and then deeply discharged. Both reduce battery life. The battery in my car is rarely charged above 80% and never discharged below 50%.
Im still running on the original 8 year old battery and have over 135,000 miles on it. The AC is spreading FUD that plagued sales from when the Prius first hit the US market. The rate of battery replacements and costs ate both below the frequency and cost of a standard automatic transmission.
The study assumed several things and was way too narrow in scope.
I bought a 2002 Prius at 1 year of age. The purchase cost covered all maintenance for the first 100,000 miles. Some other cars do that too. I commute 30 miles one way to work. The study was limited to the first 5 years of a new car purchase. This covers the depreciation of driving it off the showroom floor which I have never purchased.
Now for some stats, I'm averaging 46 MPG. I have driven 135,000 miles. I'm well into the gas payback as this purchase was planned to be kept until the wheels fall off. The payback not covered in the study has been maintenance.
I have had to buy the usual replacement sets of tires. No savings there. Oil changes are less frequent. Some savings there. I have had to replace the small 12 volt battery twice, about the norm for a car that age.
Now compared to cars the same age I used to drive.. I have had no need to change any belts, hoses, starters, water pumps, brake pads, etc. The sum total of items failed has been the bulb in the dome light.
Due to the lack of a starter motor, this is won't ever be a repair bill. The car has only one belt, the AC belt. The new model eliminated that belt. There is no belt driven water pump. The electric pump has been very reliable. The regenerative breaking drastically reduces brake wear. At my 80,000 miles tire change I checked the brakes and had 80% remaining. They will need changed at about 200,000 miles. The car has a linear electric motor for the power steering assistance, not hydraulic. Hose and pump failure won't happen.
The mechanical portion of the transmission has less than 10 moving parts, none of which is a clutch, band, or disk, or friction part. A mechanical transmission failure is very unlikely. If the hybrid battery pack fails, it is less expensive than most transmission replacements. I will be unlikely to need to replace the entire pack. Replacing a failed 7.2 volt module from the 36 module pack is much more likely. The modules are recyclable. Finding a used one at the same age of the rest of the pack won't be too difficult.
I am well into the payback period and loving it. My wife's car of the same age has already been in for a couple repairs exceeding $300 each.
I bought the car knowing that low repair bills was part of the payback. I figured the payback for 100,000 miles at the time I bought it. The gas prices then was at the 2003 gas prices.
The short sighted report listed a 5 year ownership. It did not list a 100,000+ mile study. I did my study when gas was under $2/gallon. Over the life of my car ownership, the gas prices were higher as anticipated and the payback period started well before 100,000 miles. The Prius replaced another smaller 4 cylinder car, not a large gas hog.
If you counted the first five years of my car's ownership, the study would have been correct as the payback period was just being reached.
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It is also used in radio direction finding. Now it is applied to sound the same as radio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber/
Many companies are transitioning to general purpose software as the features expand. High debt software is often replaced with an off the shelf solution with a much lower cost.
As examples, at home, I no longer use Photoshop. Gimp is the replacement. Open Office replaced MS Office. Natulus replaced Nero or EZ CD Creator. Ubuntu replaced Windows on most machines. I don't pay for expensive upgrades when possible. Many small companies are making the same move.
Only one machine has the MS Debt software for the few things that just have to have it. I no longer upgrade high debt software on the various desktops and laptops we use.
Ernie Ball figured this out years ago and published his story online.
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html/
When I travel, I don't use TSA locks. I don't use locks at all. I tie the clasp with mason line and apply a folded over mailing label over the knot with my name and photo on it along with "Packed and sealed by owner" printed on it. I carry extra string and seals in my shirt pocket for the occasional bag inspection at the xray. To date, I have never had a bag missing the seal at my destination.
There are two sources of heat in modern semiconductor CPU's.
One is leakage, the heat generated by current times resistance squared in transistors that are off.
The higher current that is related to the clock speed is the heat generated by transistors that are turned on using the same current times resistance squared.
To keep the on current at a bare minimum, transistors are paired with one on and one off so the current through the pair should be zero except for leakage. The current flows when they are clocked and the capacitance (stored voltage) of the wire between transistors and gate capacitance of the MOSFET it drives supplies current during switching.
How does this no heat switch avoid the current of switching the capacitance between the switches. From what I can tell is this part is able to handle higher temperatures. I do not see it as a no power (no heat generated) device.
Silicon Nitride has much higher resistance than most metals. Due to the resistance and temperature resistance, it is often used as hot surface ignition in gas appliances. Current through the switches will create heat. It is unavoidable.
At it's current speed of 0.000.5 GHZ clock speed, I can believe the current power consumption is very low. How does this stack up to an Atom CPU clocked at 0.000.5 GHZ?
First rule of covert ops.. Never reveal what you know. You may know of all his travels overseas, email, social network contacts, family, criminal record, purchases of fireworks supplies, online sites visited, etc. Officially to you, you are boring.
Slow like in the original Napster, Bittorrent, Pirate Bay? Unless made illegal, the converts don't go back.
There is software for laptop locking that does this if not accessed in 7 days. It is designed to brick stolen laptops. It it is not connected to the corportate server for a week, it locks. Even if stolen with the password, simply never connecting to work will cause this.
Simply taking the laptop and waiting for trial would make it impossible to unlock without taking it to the corporate IT department.
So just when did you get to vote for or against the DMCA? Lobby groups can push laws past you that you have no chance of stopping. Remember soap, ballot box, 2nd amendment. This has reached the 3rd option.
I should mention that with side curtain and seat installed airbags, your big hazard is airbags. Normal cutting locations by window posts may place your cut right through an airbag charge. They pose a much higher risk then a hybrid battery pack and wiring simply due to the locations.
I saw a video of a generator set that was tested to see if the primary safety equipment could save a generator from intentional attempts to cause damage. The youtube video of the test is still online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyWngDco3g
"The same problem exists, to us, for cars like the Prius. Lots of very high voltage cables running through parts of the car we would usually cut through to get someone out."
I see you missed the Prius training film on the HV system. I have never seen a firefighter cut through the center of the floor of the car to ever get anyone out. The HV cable goes under the center of the floor of the car in place of the driveline from between the rear wheels (battery pack) and the inverter in the engine compartment. The battery cutout usually has the power cut off before the air bags deploy.
Unless you do rescues through the trunk and seat backs, the center of the floor, or through the engine, your chance of contact is slim.
Cutting the pillars, roof, doors, fenders, etc are all away from the battery circuit. Do some research. Seldom does a firefighter ever need to pull the battery service plug. It is never under the seat. Only one Honda has the switch behind the rear seat back requiring the removal of the seat back cushion. Many models simply require removal of the 12 volt battery negative lead. This disables the relay at the battery disconnecting it.
http://www.aa1car.com/library/hybrid_hazards.htm
This tends to correct itself. This was tried a couple years ago and it's use has died out. Research showed the moment someone heard the commercial siren, they automatically tuned out the commercial and gave attention to the road looking for the emergency vehicle and most often did not even register the commercial message. When the source was identified as the radio, the most often response was to turn it off and continue to see if there was a real siren in the area. I have not heard a siren in a commercial in several years now.
The easy way to impliment this is to simply compress the program audio like they do CD's for FM broadcast. With no headroom for explosive commercials and CSI explosions, all program material will be uniformly loud.
Be careful of what you ask for. You could get sound that is as uniform at your local clear channel top 40 station.
They solved the loud commercial problem long ago.
If you consider the music commercials too, they are as uniformly loud as the shock jocks.
I remember that. It is what pretty much killed the DAT recorder. It limited the distribution of the SONY Diskman MO recorder. The 2 generation copy limit even on content you created yourself pretty much limited it's applicaion. The computer with recordable Data CD's with no DRM quickly overcame both encumbered technologies.
The RIAA won against the DAT. One studio had one, but never used it because it was useless for it's primary application.
You could make a nice recording, but you could not do anything usefull with the digital recording except play it back in analog to a reel to reel. The DAT was skipped and the masters were cut on reel to reel tape.
Hard disk recording without DRM took over in the studio.
Due to the Ernie Ball story and the high cost of software, when I stopped loading Windows on home built beige boxes, I started using Ubuntu instead. Now I no longer pay for extra copies of AV software, media players, etc. The net result due to the Software Repository for Ubuntu, I buy less applications and games. I find I don't need CD or DVD burning or ripping software from a retailer.
All I can say is Thank You BSA. You have saved me a bundle. I've gone legal and never looked back.
The location is now correct for the Lincoln Memorial. The photo is still of what you see from the monument, not the monument itself.
The largest issue with bendable displays and a difraction grating is color shifts with viewing angle. Anyone besides me work with diffraction gratings and thin film Dichroic filters?
The color is very vibrant and accurate, providing the viewing angle is controlled. This works with a projector because the angle between the light source and lens is fixed. This does not work for a direct view computer screen. The problems compound with a bendable direct view display.
I think most any HomePlug or X10 module is also covered. Addressable and switches outlets.
I wouldn't mind if they did not exclude the AM band. Finance, Politics, and other info is sadly missing from the FM band except for NPR, and that only provides bias on one side.
I find it funny how devices with radio only include FM. I have a scanner, a MP3 player, and an FRS radio with radio, but missing the AM band entirely. We don't need a mandate for more devices to carry the same redundant service. I have plenty of devices already. If you want FM, a cheap one can be picked up for under $20. I have some of them lying around somewhere, unused.
Your patent is pretty much already done with prior art. The DMX512 with relay outputs and a programmable console such as any of the inteligent consoles with soft patch in them preceeds your patent.
I guess the last lighting installation I did is in violation of your patent simply by using off the shelf components.
A lighting console with softpatch takes care of reassigning switches and addressable dimmer/relay packs takes care of the addressable outlets.
Good luck defending your patent against the DMX512 1990 revised standard.
http://www.usitt.org/standards/DMX512.html
Just an FYI, My 2002 was bought for 18,000 in 2003. It's a long drop from the 24,000 retail new with the full option package with the GPS, etc. I hope to find another bargin when I need to replace mine. At 40,000 the payback is longer.
Not mentioned is the resale value. The wife's 2002 Dodge Carivan and the 2002 Prius were bought the same year and for the same price. The resale price is not important to me as I intend to drive it until the wheels fall off. Being many years past the last car payment is a nice feeling. I think I made payments for 36 months.
I don't understand those who have to have car payments every month forever. It isn't worth it.
A secondary coil or dual resonant tuning would be required. The frequency for vehicle detection and RFID are several orders of magnatude different in frequency. Induction loop vehicle sensors are most often 10-50 KHZ.
RFID tags use either LF: 125-134.2 kHz and 140-148.5 kHz, 13.56 Mhz, or UHF 868-928 MHz frequencies.
Before even considering a solid state AC unit, look up the BTU of heat removed per Watt of power used. The efficiency is not there or even close. The solid state modules are used where small, low BTU, and weight are primary considerations.
A high BTU requirement and low power draw pretty much eliminates those modules from consideration. In environments where there is moisture, such as coolers and small camp refrigerators, condensation corrosion ensures they have a very short life.
They are sometimes used on spacecraft, mostly for weight reasons. The lack of moisture increases the life. The ISS uses a compressor and refrigerant for system cooling. For the size power, and BTU requirements, the compressor system was a better system, even though the compressor is additional weight.
The AC in the newer Prius cars is a sealed compressor refrigeration system driven by an electric motor. A Google search can show the study Toyota did when they decided to move away from a belt driven compressor. It raised reliability (no shaft seals and no clutch) and saved gas.
AC flame bait, or someone totally disconnected from reality.
Laptop batteries are maintained for long run time, not long life. They are deep cycled. Fully charged and then deeply discharged. Both reduce battery life. The battery in my car is rarely charged above 80% and never discharged below 50%.
Im still running on the original 8 year old battery and have over 135,000 miles on it. The AC is spreading FUD that plagued sales from when the Prius first hit the US market. The rate of battery replacements and costs ate both below the frequency and cost of a standard automatic transmission.
http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/f13/toyota-hybrid-150-000-mile-battery-life-15002/
The study assumed several things and was way too narrow in scope.
I bought a 2002 Prius at 1 year of age. The purchase cost covered all maintenance for the first 100,000 miles. Some other cars do that too. I commute 30 miles one way to work. The study was limited to the first 5 years of a new car purchase. This covers the depreciation of driving it off the showroom floor which I have never purchased.
Now for some stats, I'm averaging 46 MPG. I have driven 135,000 miles. I'm well into the gas payback as this purchase was planned to be kept until the wheels fall off. The payback not covered in the study has been maintenance.
I have had to buy the usual replacement sets of tires. No savings there. Oil changes are less frequent. Some savings there. I have had to replace the small 12 volt battery twice, about the norm for a car that age.
Now compared to cars the same age I used to drive.. I have had no need to change any belts, hoses, starters, water pumps, brake pads, etc. The sum total of items failed has been the bulb in the dome light.
Due to the lack of a starter motor, this is won't ever be a repair bill. The car has only one belt, the AC belt. The new model eliminated that belt. There is no belt driven water pump. The electric pump has been very reliable. The regenerative breaking drastically reduces brake wear. At my 80,000 miles tire change I checked the brakes and had 80% remaining. They will need changed at about 200,000 miles. The car has a linear electric motor for the power steering assistance, not hydraulic. Hose and pump failure won't happen.
The mechanical portion of the transmission has less than 10 moving parts, none of which is a clutch, band, or disk, or friction part. A mechanical transmission failure is very unlikely. If the hybrid battery pack fails, it is less expensive than most transmission replacements. I will be unlikely to need to replace the entire pack. Replacing a failed 7.2 volt module from the 36 module pack is much more likely. The modules are recyclable. Finding a used one at the same age of the rest of the pack won't be too difficult.
I am well into the payback period and loving it. My wife's car of the same age has already been in for a couple repairs exceeding $300 each.
I bought the car knowing that low repair bills was part of the payback. I figured the payback for 100,000 miles at the time I bought it. The gas prices then was at the 2003 gas prices.
The short sighted report listed a 5 year ownership. It did not list a 100,000+ mile study. I did my study when gas was under $2/gallon. Over the life of my car ownership, the gas prices were higher as anticipated and the payback period started well before 100,000 miles. The Prius replaced another smaller 4 cylinder car, not a large gas hog.
If you counted the first five years of my car's ownership, the study would have been correct as the payback period was just being reached.