I don't know about newer cars but on older cars the power steering is driven off the engine via a belt so as long as the car is moving and the transmission is in gear then you should still have power steering regardless of the state of the ignition.
Some cell phones will produce a noise on nearby speakers a second or two before they actually ring. Maybe you hear this but just don't realise what it is?
It is explained by the fairly well substantiated fact that humans are poor judges of exact time and memory is often faulty.
No doubt, anyone in any kind of support role has had customers make wild claims about how long ago something happened.
Personally I think a lot of it is simply confirmation bias combined with the fact that we probably pick up on subtle (but real and physical) clues subconsciously. That said, when my wife "gets a feeling" about something or someone I've learned to take it seriously. I'm not personally the least bit psychic but I have had a few interesting coincidences though. Once, many years ago I was looking up an author in the "new fangled" electronic card catalog and it turned out that the name of the author I was going to look up was actually the example used in the search screen. Better still, the topic I was reading about was serendipity!
It makes sense to the consumer. It doesn't make sense to the advertiser, who will see their spots stripped out in "edited" versions that will make their appearance on bittorrent about half an hour after the content is made available.
That already happens.
If a person is going to the trouble of recording, encoding and uploading a video anyway then they might as well cut the commercials as well. If the broadcasters just put out their own versions complete with commercials on BT or whatever I'm not convinced that many people would bother downloading, editing, and re-uploading just to get rid of them. End users might still skip past them (like many do already) but better commercials could largely fix that.
and how eventually cameras will not have a "shutter" as we know it but will simply keep track of how each pixel was illuminated at each moment in time.
I believe most non-SLR digital cameras already do without a physical shutter. I've always thought that for these cameras it might be useful to break up a typical exposure into multiple shorter exposures and just stack the resulting images using the differences between frames to detect noise and blur due to camera shake etc.
Agreed. Twice I went through RMA hell with Seagate and won't be back anytime soon. Both had really odd problems too, for example one would work fine in PIO mode but not at all in DMA/UDMA mode. WTF? At least other brands fail in straight forward ways (clicking, noisy, bad sectors etc).
For as long as there have been people they have been forming groups in order to advance their own interests at the expense of others. That's part of human nature and I don't see it changing any time soon.
Agreed, and in any situation where I absolutely cannot have downtime I really wouldn't want to just blindly trust a kernel update not to break something. You're still going to need a backup server "just in case".
My laptop battery/charging system just started flaking out. Basically, the battery meter always shows the state of charge as it was when I first booted the machine up. It will operate on battery just fine but I have no way of knowing how much charge I have left. After some experimenting it's also clear that it's not charging when it's turned on but does charge when off. This is on an old Thinkpad that is probably 8+ years old so it's not surprising that something has died.
More importantly, if your car starts accelerating uncontrollably as if the throttle is stuck all the way open, for the love of god grab the key and TURN OFF THE ENGINE
You do realize that the car in question didn't have a key right? It had a push button start/stop, and worse, it behaves differently when the car is parked than when it is moving. Furthermore it was a rental so the driver probably hadn't read through the manual either.
It's entirely possible there is more than one issue. Unfortunately once a problem gets a certain amount of media attention it seems like everyone comes out of the woodwork claiming to have "the exact same problem" while describing completely different symptoms. After a while it can be hard to tell who has an actual problem and who is just trying to get attention. I'm sure most here remember the IBM "Deathstar" drives and a few probably even remember the US Robotics "pausing problem". If we must have a car analogy, Audi is the reason why modern cars have interlocks that prevent you from starting the car or shifting into gear without putting a foot on the brake.
You sound like one of those people who refuses to wear a seatbelt because there's a chance they'll drive into a lake and drown. Sure it's possible to get into an accident through no fault of your own but the vast majority of the time multi-car accidents involve two or more people who screwed up to some degree.
Its no secret that when the economy goes south, management philosophy becomes much more "conservative" which means that managers revert back to a stragey of cracking the whip to get results rather than more modern philosophies involving team dynamics, encouraging self-regulation by employees, and so forth.
Something I've been seeing for a while is a trend toward a much more regimented workplace. I don't know whether to blaim the MBAs who seem to think that every aspect of the business can/should be programmed like a giant robot or the lawyers act like "individual initiative" is just code for "potential lawsuit" but it's getting ugly IMHO.
Basically yes, it starts oxidizing right away and releases energy in the process. Burning aluminum is just really fast oxidation. I was pointing out that turning aluminum oxide into aluminum is basically just energy storage, which you can see by burning it.
But only for definitions of "eventually" that have nothing to do with the original question of net heat in the atmosphere.
No, the vast majority of electricity use ends up as waste heat pretty quickly, electronics, lighting,motors, heating (obviously), cooling etc. Comparatively little is stored long term and doing that usually involves a lot of waste anyway.
You picked the ONE example where your system is sun->solar panels->electricity->heating toast. But there are MANY other uses for electricity that don't dissipate 100% of their energy in heat.
Such as? Every electrical device ultimately releases all of the energy it consumes as heat or in some form that eventually becomes heat. Take a fan for example. Some of the energy it consumes is dissipated in the motor directly as heat. Some is used to move air but that moving air eventually slows down due to friction... which generates heat. Even the noise from the fan gets converted into heat in your room.
If everyone everywhere stopped using incandescent bulbs and switched to LED's that (for the sake of argument) used exactly the same amount of electricity, what would the impact be on our environment?
If they used "exactly the same amount of electricity" then they would be putting exactly the same amount of heat out into the environment.
Well, it IS true in my state at least although I don't know where Shakrai lives. Given the stakes involved it really shouldn't be surprising that ccw holders tend to want to know about the laws that apply to them.
I believe the major reason why you'll find more diesel engine powered cars in Europe has to do with the stronger emissions regulations in the United States.
Not so much stronger as just different. Also gas is usually 2X or more expensive in Europe so a few mpg (or km/L) makes a bigger difference.
No need to move the weapons around. All you need is a lockable room/container to store the weapons in. The host port can supply their own lock for the duration of the stay.
Good info but I'd like to make a couple of points.
1. That 8 million number only refers to requests for gps data and only refers to Sprint, the smallest of the big 3. Add in ATT, and Verizon and you can probably multiply your numbers by at least 4.
2. This is only accounts for gps data requests. How about called numbers, sms messages, email, web browsing habits?
3. The point that the Sprint person was making was that when they made this information available on line the number of requests exploded. IMHO We're only seeing the begging of this.
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I don't know about newer cars but on older cars the power steering is driven off the engine via a belt so as long as the car is moving and the transmission is in gear then you should still have power steering regardless of the state of the ignition.
Some cell phones will produce a noise on nearby speakers a second or two before they actually ring. Maybe you hear this but just don't realise what it is?
No doubt, anyone in any kind of support role has had customers make wild claims about how long ago something happened.
Personally I think a lot of it is simply confirmation bias combined with the fact that we probably pick up on subtle (but real and physical) clues subconsciously. That said, when my wife "gets a feeling" about something or someone I've learned to take it seriously. I'm not personally the least bit psychic but I have had a few interesting coincidences though. Once, many years ago I was looking up an author in the "new fangled" electronic card catalog and it turned out that the name of the author I was going to look up was actually the example used in the search screen. Better still, the topic I was reading about was serendipity!
It seams to me that, baring legal issues, ISPs could run some sort of caching BT proxy or something similar.
That already happens.
If a person is going to the trouble of recording, encoding and uploading a video anyway then they might as well cut the commercials as well. If the broadcasters just put out their own versions complete with commercials on BT or whatever I'm not convinced that many people would bother downloading, editing, and re-uploading just to get rid of them. End users might still skip past them (like many do already) but better commercials could largely fix that.
and how eventually cameras will not have a "shutter" as we know it but will simply keep track of how each pixel was illuminated at each moment in time.
I believe most non-SLR digital cameras already do without a physical shutter. I've always thought that for these cameras it might be useful to break up a typical exposure into multiple shorter exposures and just stack the resulting images using the differences between frames to detect noise and blur due to camera shake etc.
Agreed. Twice I went through RMA hell with Seagate and won't be back anytime soon. Both had really odd problems too, for example one would work fine in PIO mode but not at all in DMA/UDMA mode. WTF? At least other brands fail in straight forward ways (clicking, noisy, bad sectors etc).
In this economy I could use the extra $$.
I guess we can assume their customer service will be even more useless than usual now.
For as long as there have been people they have been forming groups in order to advance their own interests at the expense of others. That's part of human nature and I don't see it changing any time soon.
Agreed, and in any situation where I absolutely cannot have downtime I really wouldn't want to just blindly trust a kernel update not to break something. You're still going to need a backup server "just in case".
My laptop battery/charging system just started flaking out. Basically, the battery meter always shows the state of charge as it was when I first booted the machine up. It will operate on battery just fine but I have no way of knowing how much charge I have left. After some experimenting it's also clear that it's not charging when it's turned on but does charge when off. This is on an old Thinkpad that is probably 8+ years old so it's not surprising that something has died.
You do realize that the car in question didn't have a key right? It had a push button start/stop, and worse, it behaves differently when the car is parked than when it is moving. Furthermore it was a rental so the driver probably hadn't read through the manual either.
It's entirely possible there is more than one issue. Unfortunately once a problem gets a certain amount of media attention it seems like everyone comes out of the woodwork claiming to have "the exact same problem" while describing completely different symptoms. After a while it can be hard to tell who has an actual problem and who is just trying to get attention. I'm sure most here remember the IBM "Deathstar" drives and a few probably even remember the US Robotics "pausing problem". If we must have a car analogy, Audi is the reason why modern cars have interlocks that prevent you from starting the car or shifting into gear without putting a foot on the brake.
You sound like one of those people who refuses to wear a seatbelt because there's a chance they'll drive into a lake and drown. Sure it's possible to get into an accident through no fault of your own but the vast majority of the time multi-car accidents involve two or more people who screwed up to some degree.
Something I've been seeing for a while is a trend toward a much more regimented workplace. I don't know whether to blaim the MBAs who seem to think that every aspect of the business can/should be programmed like a giant robot or the lawyers act like "individual initiative" is just code for "potential lawsuit" but it's getting ugly IMHO.
Basically yes, it starts oxidizing right away and releases energy in the process. Burning aluminum is just really fast oxidation. I was pointing out that turning aluminum oxide into aluminum is basically just energy storage, which you can see by burning it.
No, the vast majority of electricity use ends up as waste heat pretty quickly, electronics, lighting,motors, heating (obviously), cooling etc. Comparatively little is stored long term and doing that usually involves a lot of waste anyway.
Ever see aluminum burn?
Such as? Every electrical device ultimately releases all of the energy it consumes as heat or in some form that eventually becomes heat. Take a fan for example. Some of the energy it consumes is dissipated in the motor directly as heat. Some is used to move air but that moving air eventually slows down due to friction ... which generates heat. Even the noise from the fan gets converted into heat in your room.
If they used "exactly the same amount of electricity" then they would be putting exactly the same amount of heat out into the environment.
So it must be true!
Well, it IS true in my state at least although I don't know where Shakrai lives. Given the stakes involved it really shouldn't be surprising that ccw holders tend to want to know about the laws that apply to them.
Presumably some people will also donate their extra cartridges when their printers die.
Not so much stronger as just different. Also gas is usually 2X or more expensive in Europe so a few mpg (or km/L) makes a bigger difference.
No need to move the weapons around. All you need is a lockable room/container to store the weapons in. The host port can supply their own lock for the duration of the stay.
Good info but I'd like to make a couple of points.
1. That 8 million number only refers to requests for gps data and only refers to Sprint, the smallest of the big 3. Add in ATT, and Verizon and you can probably multiply your numbers by at least 4.
2. This is only accounts for gps data requests. How about called numbers, sms messages, email, web browsing habits?
3. The point that the Sprint person was making was that when they made this information available on line the number of requests exploded. IMHO We're only seeing the begging of this.