I drive an EV 50-100 miles a day, every day. There are options. I don't have solar panels yet, but only because the power bill didn't jump enough to worry about when I switched from gas to electric. (That will come, though...)
I was sent a message encrypted by https://www.virtru.com/ and it wasn't a problem to open it on my end, no account required. I liked the idea and took about 5 minutes to get it setup on my end so I could send encrypted email, too. It's about the simplest setup I've seen yet, and only downside is a couple of second lag opening an email (time it takes to decrypt)
Agreed. I had their service for many years (10+) with no issues until the one time I did. Turns out being a long-time satisfied customer of theirs doesn't mean they will go to bat for you. They were happy to lose me as a customer over $125 of faulty (doa) merchandise a vendor refused to accept for return. The convenience of PayPal is not worth losing the protections your bank's fraud department would normally give you.
$1 for the CFLs or the LEDs? I was talking about LEDs. Have tried some from Home Depot about the same price range, and found they work, but won't dim down quite as far as the Feit.
I bought about 30 of the Feit Electric 40W equivalent bulbs at Costco last year ($10-$12 each). Although rated for 7 years, I've had to return 4 of them in the roughly 9 months I've had them (failure to light). Luckily Costco is good about this, but I'd sure hate to spend $60 on a bunch of bulbs and have them go TU after a year or two. (Who wants to save the box and receipts for 20 years)
On the up side, the electric bill is down about $15 a month, so perhaps they will pay for themselves before Costco stops taking returns on them...
Glad I'm not the only one who wondered why OSC is so revered. I loved the Ender short story, and read quite a few of this guy's novels thinking they would be just as thought provoking, but each book I read made me like him less and less.
I guess I was thinking of near relativistic velocities. (Hence the accelerated for a long enough time clause) Not going to do the math right now, but if it's going fast enough it doesn't have to be that big. There's a lot of room for a running start out there in space...
One small rock accelerated for a long enough time then steered at a large ship (or moon or planet) would pretty much be the end of it. Can't really imagine much combat going on when it's a mutually assured destruction scenario any way you look at it. Most mass entertainment scenarios make sure that the attacking force needs to capture (not destroy) what they are attacking to make sure this doesn't come up.
I suppose lots of tiny enclaves (small hollowed out asteroids) on both sides could duke it out with small ships. Still can't imagine a large enough industrial base to keep things going very long, though. Anything big enough to build ships would just be destoryed.
I don't know... geosynchronous satellites go about 7000mph, and we have dozens (hundred?) of them up there. Seems like interplanetary missions should be going at least an order of magnitude faster. (Yeah, the economics of it all)
They mention it works under water. How does it hold up on dusty surfaces, though? I would assume it would get clogged with dust grains like normal tape does, and lose its stickiness after a use or two... (But then again Geckos can walk over a dusty floor, then up a wall, so I'm not sure) Anyone got an answer?
Actually, I have two of them. It plays discs (of course), Netflix, Pandora, Youtube, etc... But also will connect to networked machine via SMB. It's a pretty simple file browser, but it plays most anything I throw at it...
I've always felt that once I've bought a device it's mine to do with as I please. If I want to disassemble it, format it, load a copy of CP/M on it or cut it in half with a skill saw, that's my business. But I certainly don't feel entitled to warranty support after I've gone out of the reasonable bounds of what the company expected me to do with the product. They never sold the phone as a general purpose device that I can load whatever I want to on it, they shouldn't have to support it as such. I'll gladly demand my right to enough rope to hang myself with, but only with the understanding that that is exactly what I'm getting.
I've been thinking of something like this factory, on a boat equipped with fishing nets processing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Wonder how much oil is in there?
Sounds like this might be a chance for a reevaluation of Newtonian Gravity and General Relativity. Since that's a lot of work, perhaps we should chalk it up to a Halo of Dark matter just outside this planet's orbit which is holding it back from falling into that star. (Or perhaps a whole bunch of Dark Energy between the planet and star holding it up)
"The 339 kilogram atmospheric probe, built by Hughes Aircraft Company at its El Segundo, California plant, measured about 1.3 meters across. Inside the heat shield, the scientific instruments were protected from ferocious heat during entry. The probe had to withstand extreme heat and pressure on its high speed journey at 47.8 km/s.
The probe was released from the main spacecraft in July 1995, five months before reaching Jupiter, and entered Jupiter's atmosphere with no braking beforehand. It was slowed from the probe's arrival speed of about 47 kilometers per second to subsonic speed in less than 2 minutes."
Re:Google shopping results for "solar powered shed light" gives a lot of good solutions. Anywhere from $30-$100, fluorescent or xenon, indoor outdoor...
I do the IT for a cad shop, and we've run the range of video cards, settling on these Quadros (the sub $1000 models). I'd be very curious if this mod just gives the cheap card some of the accelerations the real card has, or if it can actually keep up in the real world. Not just running canned demos, but actually plugging away in Autocad all day long...
A benchmark of a couple of cards would be handy. (but for the price of a video card, I suppose I could find out myself)
For a 50ft cable, that sound like a pretty good price to me. I've paid $30 for the same type of cable in the 8-10' range. (and have seen the same going for over $100 with gold plated contacts, etc)
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I drive an EV 50-100 miles a day, every day.
There are options.
I don't have solar panels yet, but only because the power bill didn't jump enough to worry about when I switched from gas to electric. (That will come, though...)
Spoken like the bridge and tunnel crowd.
Not everybody has two hours to kill each day watching cars not moving on the freeway.
I was sent a message encrypted by https://www.virtru.com/ and it wasn't a problem to open it on my end, no account required.
I liked the idea and took about 5 minutes to get it setup on my end so I could send encrypted email, too.
It's about the simplest setup I've seen yet, and only downside is a couple of second lag opening an email (time it takes to decrypt)
Agreed. I had their service for many years (10+) with no issues until the one time I did. Turns out being a long-time satisfied customer of theirs doesn't mean they will go to bat for you.
They were happy to lose me as a customer over $125 of faulty (doa) merchandise a vendor refused to accept for return.
The convenience of PayPal is not worth losing the protections your bank's fraud department would normally give you.
Actually pretty interesting numbers
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...
$1 for the CFLs or the LEDs? I was talking about LEDs. Have tried some from Home Depot about the same price range, and found they work, but won't dim down quite as far as the Feit.
I bought about 30 of the Feit Electric 40W equivalent bulbs at Costco last year ($10-$12 each).
Although rated for 7 years, I've had to return 4 of them in the roughly 9 months I've had them (failure to light).
Luckily Costco is good about this, but I'd sure hate to spend $60 on a bunch of bulbs and have them go TU after a year or two.
(Who wants to save the box and receipts for 20 years)
On the up side, the electric bill is down about $15 a month, so perhaps they will pay for themselves before Costco stops taking returns on them...
Thanks for that.
I disagreed with him, but couldn't think of an informational way to express that disagreement... You put it rather succinctly.
Glad I'm not the only one who wondered why OSC is so revered. I loved the Ender short story, and read quite a few of this guy's novels thinking they would be just as thought provoking, but each book I read made me like him less and less.
I guess I was thinking of near relativistic velocities. (Hence the accelerated for a long enough time clause)
Not going to do the math right now, but if it's going fast enough it doesn't have to be that big.
There's a lot of room for a running start out there in space...
One small rock accelerated for a long enough time then steered at a large ship (or moon or planet) would pretty much be the end of it.
Can't really imagine much combat going on when it's a mutually assured destruction scenario any way you look at it.
Most mass entertainment scenarios make sure that the attacking force needs to capture (not destroy) what they are attacking to make sure this doesn't come up.
I suppose lots of tiny enclaves (small hollowed out asteroids) on both sides could duke it out with small ships. Still can't imagine a large enough industrial base to keep things going very long, though. Anything big enough to build ships would just be destoryed.
I don't know... geosynchronous satellites go about 7000mph, and we have dozens (hundred?) of them up there.
Seems like interplanetary missions should be going at least an order of magnitude faster.
(Yeah, the economics of it all)
They mention it works under water. How does it hold up on dusty surfaces, though? I would assume it would get clogged with dust grains like normal tape does, and lose its stickiness after a use or two... (But then again Geckos can walk over a dusty floor, then up a wall, so I'm not sure) Anyone got an answer?
No, since they would record and post later, the only sensible solution is metal detectors at the gate.
Perhaps the TSA could join the production?
Actually, I have two of them. It plays discs (of course), Netflix, Pandora, Youtube, etc... But also will connect to networked machine via SMB.
It's a pretty simple file browser, but it plays most anything I throw at it...
It's the BD-590 I believe. Although I'm sure other models of theirs will probably do the job, too...
http://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video/video/LG-blu-ray-dvd-player-BD590.jsp
I've always felt that once I've bought a device it's mine to do with as I please. If I want to disassemble it, format it, load a copy of CP/M on it or cut it in half with a skill saw, that's my business.
But I certainly don't feel entitled to warranty support after I've gone out of the reasonable bounds of what the company expected me to do with the product.
They never sold the phone as a general purpose device that I can load whatever I want to on it, they shouldn't have to support it as such.
I'll gladly demand my right to enough rope to hang myself with, but only with the understanding that that is exactly what I'm getting.
I've been thinking of something like this factory, on a boat equipped with fishing nets processing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Wonder how much oil is in there?
Sounds like this might be a chance for a reevaluation of Newtonian Gravity and General Relativity.
Since that's a lot of work, perhaps we should chalk it up to a Halo of Dark matter just outside this planet's orbit which is holding it back from falling into that star.
(Or perhaps a whole bunch of Dark Energy between the planet and star holding it up)
Thanks, I read the article and wondered if it was just me.
Wonderful synopsis....
(From the Galileo Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_probe#Galileo.27s_atmospheric_entry_probe
"The 339 kilogram atmospheric probe, built by Hughes Aircraft Company at its El Segundo, California plant, measured about 1.3 meters across. Inside the heat shield, the scientific instruments were protected from ferocious heat during entry. The probe had to withstand extreme heat and pressure on its high speed journey at 47.8 km/s.
The probe was released from the main spacecraft in July 1995, five months before reaching Jupiter, and entered Jupiter's atmosphere with no braking beforehand. It was slowed from the probe's arrival speed of about 47 kilometers per second to subsonic speed in less than 2 minutes."
Not sure where you buy your bullets, but they cost about a buck a piece...
http://www.google.com/products?q=30-06+&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
Re:Google shopping results for "solar powered shed light" gives a lot of good solutions. Anywhere from $30-$100, fluorescent or xenon, indoor outdoor...
I do the IT for a cad shop, and we've run the range of video cards, settling on these Quadros (the sub $1000 models). I'd be very curious if this mod just gives the cheap card some of the accelerations the real card has, or if it can actually keep up in the real world. Not just running canned demos, but actually plugging away in Autocad all day long...
A benchmark of a couple of cards would be handy.
(but for the price of a video card, I suppose I could find out myself)
Nothing Stays....
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
For a 50ft cable, that sound like a pretty good price to me.
I've paid $30 for the same type of cable in the 8-10' range. (and have seen the same going for over $100 with gold plated contacts, etc)