In other words, this charger draws over a thousand amps. I don't know about your house, but the cable feeding my meter isn't that big by a factor of >5. So trickle charge a battery bank in the charging unit during the day, dump the current from the batteries into the car when you plug it in.
The 220v charger takes 6-8 hours. That's why people don't drive electric cars. They spend more time on the charger than on the road. So you put it on charge when you get home at night, and/or when you get to work. A 250 mile charge will typically last about a week, several days at least, it's longer than my own car which has a range of only 240 miles.
when.... the disruption of the internet trumps the part about human casualties! It pretty much happens every christmas. Anyone else noticed that? It's just god smiting the heretics.
It has nothing to do with the size of the trains or space for passengers.
It's physically impossible because when you're carrying groups of people instead of individuals, you have to stop at every station to let people on and off. The problem is the stations, not the trains.
The more stations you have, the more start/stops required, the more start/stops the slower the average speed of the vehicle and the poorer the performance. The fewer the stations the further you have to travel to use the train and the more difficult it is to make use of. With rail, there's a fundamental compromise inherent in the system between performance and usefulness which means only a small percentage of the population can make use of it, typically about 10-15%.
As a replacement for cars, all vehicles which transport groups rather than individuals are a dead end. Read the link in my parent post.
1: People hitting the brakes causes a standing wave as other posts mention. I do this for fun BTW, a second tap on the brakes does it.
2: It takes longer to exit a road than it does to travel down it. If cars travel 2 seconds apart and it takes 5 seconds to park your car it's obvious that congestion is going to develop. It's lack of high bandwidth parking which causes congestion rather than lack of roads.
1) No sudo required to burn CDs or DVDs. It just works, out of the box using gnomebaker. 2) It's.Net WTF? 3) XP is only even close in terms of performance when it's using the "classic" interface. 4) Again, wireless worked out of the box, All I had to do was give it the ESSID and encryption key. System->Administration->Networking. 5) 20,000 packages in the Debian/Ubuntu respository alone. How many Windows packages are there? 6) You have a slight point about windows video codecs, but there are reasons for that and I'm using totem with all my videos, no problems, no choppiness.
Ubuntu is no lightweight contender, it's a capable, powerful and flexible. Moreover it's easy enough for my mother to use, something that can't be said for Windows.
I suppose it's worth noting that doing the things that cause you anxiety repeatedly, lowers that anxiety over time.
Alternatively reward yourself every time you complete a task. Write down the reward beside the task. Pavlovian response, eventually you'll start enjoying stuff. It works even if you know you're conditioning yourself.
It may not quite be a OSX killer, but it really is easier to set up, easier to use, easier to administer, more consistent and prettier than Windows. It's an elegant desktop.
It simply works out of the box and has 20,000 packages available at the click of Applications -> Add/Remove.
1: You can pretty much rip off a GUI as much as you like, nobody's won a court case to prevent competitors copying them.
2: Take a lesson doesn't mean copy. If I wanted Aqua I'd just buy an Apple.
However a great looking GUI along with a genuinely intuitive user interface, which is API compatible with an Apple Mac is a compelling proposition. In fact I reckon it has more potential than Gnome or KDE. The ability to write a GNUStep app and then just re-build on a Mac (and viceversa) vastly increases the market for both systems.
An electric vehicle has almost no parts which require servicing; no valves, no spark plugs, no oil to change, no air filter, no piston rings. Basically it'll last as long as the chassis is structurally sound and the bodywork remains reasonable. The only bits which'll wear out are the consumables, the battery and bearings. With a battery which can last for 20 years, there's no real reason the vehicle shouldn't do a million miles with bugger all servicing.
The battery:
"In addition to high power the Altairnano NanoSafe batteries deliver:
Long life - potentially up to 20+ year life
Very fast charge - rechargeable in minutes
Extremely wide operating temperature range from -50C/-60F to +75C/165F
Inherent safety - no risk of thermal runaway"
It needs users to go "wow I want that" and for developers to go "wow I want to do that". Take a lesson from Apple and Microsoft here, make it look and sound good.
I'm writing this on a laptop, using the wireless card. My camera and MP3 player just worked as well. And the package manager says there are 20244 applications available completely free and at the click of a button, it couldn't be easier, not even on Windows or a Mac.
You're basically talking FUD. It isn't necessary any longer to compile a kernel, it hasn't been necessary for years and there is as I said, free software available at the click of a button to do anything you can imagine with a computer.
The worth of a watchmaker will increase. Many of these types of articles are intended to increase the supply of applicants for a particular sector. It reduces the cost to the business of finding new staff. If they simply advertised in a conventional way they would have to pay higher market rates.
Linux is ready for the desktop. It has been for a while. Ubuntu is elegant and easy to use, all of the admin a user would need is available through easy to use GUI apps in System -> Administration and installing anything you need is as trivial as Applications -> Add/remove.
It is really clearer and easier to use than Windows.
Yeah, that's fine if you intend to get your daily fibre from nearby trees. If you'd prefer something with a bit more taste a Hinari Genie can grind, blend and juice.
It was the gig/jpg bug that did it for me. But then, evolution is also better integrated into Gnome so I can now access my contacts, calendars in other applications as well.
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It has nothing to do with the size of the trains or space for passengers.
It's physically impossible because when you're carrying groups of people instead of individuals, you have to stop at every station to let people on and off. The problem is the stations, not the trains.
The more stations you have, the more start/stops required, the more start/stops the slower the average speed of the vehicle and the poorer the performance. The fewer the stations the further you have to travel to use the train and the more difficult it is to make use of. With rail, there's a fundamental compromise inherent in the system between performance and usefulness which means only a small percentage of the population can make use of it, typically about 10-15%.
As a replacement for cars, all vehicles which transport groups rather than individuals are a dead end. Read the link in my parent post.
CD burning on Ubuntu is trivial.
/dev/hdc
I have no idea why he requires sudo, but I have no problem using GnomeBaker to burn CDs without sudo.
The permissions look correct to me, out of the box. I've never touched them.
cdrom:x:24:haldaemon,colin
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2006-12-27 14:07
1: People hitting the brakes causes a standing wave as other posts mention. I do this for fun BTW, a second tap on the brakes does it.
2: It takes longer to exit a road than it does to travel down it. If cars travel 2 seconds apart and it takes 5 seconds to park your car it's obvious that congestion is going to develop. It's lack of high bandwidth parking which causes congestion rather than lack of roads.
Never. It's physically impossible.
Light rail moves groups of people. Cars move individuals.
http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/prt.html
1) No sudo required to burn CDs or DVDs. It just works, out of the box using gnomebaker. .Net WTF?
2) It's
3) XP is only even close in terms of performance when it's using the "classic" interface.
4) Again, wireless worked out of the box, All I had to do was give it the ESSID and encryption key. System->Administration->Networking.
5) 20,000 packages in the Debian/Ubuntu respository alone. How many Windows packages are there?
6) You have a slight point about windows video codecs, but there are reasons for that and I'm using totem with all my videos, no problems, no choppiness.
Ubuntu is no lightweight contender, it's a capable, powerful and flexible. Moreover it's easy enough for my mother to use, something that can't be said for Windows.
Ehm. Base it on relative numbers rather than absolute numbers. Clearly you haven't done percentages in your math class yet.
I suppose it's worth noting that doing the things that cause you anxiety repeatedly, lowers that anxiety over time.
Alternatively reward yourself every time you complete a task. Write down the reward beside the task. Pavlovian response, eventually you'll start enjoying stuff. It works even if you know you're conditioning yourself.
It may not quite be a OSX killer, but it really is easier to set up, easier to use, easier to administer, more consistent and prettier than Windows. It's an elegant desktop.
It simply works out of the box and has 20,000 packages available at the click of Applications -> Add/Remove.
1: You can pretty much rip off a GUI as much as you like, nobody's won a court case to prevent competitors copying them.
2: Take a lesson doesn't mean copy. If I wanted Aqua I'd just buy an Apple.
However a great looking GUI along with a genuinely intuitive user interface, which is API compatible with an Apple Mac is a compelling proposition. In fact I reckon it has more potential than Gnome or KDE. The ability to write a GNUStep app and then just re-build on a Mac (and viceversa) vastly increases the market for both systems.
5 Passengers and a load as well...
http://phoenixmotorcars.com/models/fleet.html
An electric vehicle has almost no parts which require servicing; no valves, no spark plugs, no oil to change, no air filter, no piston rings. Basically it'll last as long as the chassis is structurally sound and the bodywork remains reasonable. The only bits which'll wear out are the consumables, the battery and bearings. With a battery which can last for 20 years, there's no real reason the vehicle shouldn't do a million miles with bugger all servicing.
The battery:
"In addition to high power the Altairnano NanoSafe
batteries deliver:
Long life - potentially up to 20+ year life
Very fast charge - rechargeable in minutes
Extremely wide operating temperature range
from -50C/-60F to +75C/165F
Inherent safety - no risk of thermal runaway"
Base part of their salary on the helpdesk software statistics.
Sexiness. It isn't at the moment.
It needs users to go "wow I want that" and for developers to go "wow I want to do that". Take a lesson from Apple and Microsoft here, make it look and sound good.
I guess Slashdot editors have resigned themselves to the inevitable fact that it's unnecessary to actually read an article before commenting.
Say I give:
$100
$100 book tokens.
$100 gold coins.
$100 theatre tickets.
etc. Is it simply the value that matters or does the item itself matter?
Ubuntu is remarkably good. Much better than Windows.
NextStep/OSX though...
Gnustep is already available for Linux. We essentially already have OSX for Linux.
http://www.gnustep.org/
Nah, it's a patent for usenet.
I'm writing this on a laptop, using the wireless card. My camera and MP3 player just worked as well. And the package manager says there are 20244 applications available completely free and at the click of a button, it couldn't be easier, not even on Windows or a Mac.
You're basically talking FUD. It isn't necessary any longer to compile a kernel, it hasn't been necessary for years and there is as I said, free software available at the click of a button to do anything you can imagine with a computer.
You're out of date mate.
The worth of a watchmaker will increase. Many of these types of articles are intended to increase the supply of applicants for a particular sector. It reduces the cost to the business of finding new staff. If they simply advertised in a conventional way they would have to pay higher market rates.
Linux is ready for the desktop. It has been for a while. Ubuntu is elegant and easy to use, all of the admin a user would need is available through easy to use GUI apps in System -> Administration and installing anything you need is as trivial as Applications -> Add/remove.
It is really clearer and easier to use than Windows.
Hmm, a year or so ago at an old employer I implemented a 2TB fileserver using ReiserFS.. Whoops...
Yeah, that's fine if you intend to get your daily fibre from nearby trees. If you'd prefer something with a bit more taste a Hinari Genie can grind, blend and juice.
It was the gig/jpg bug that did it for me. But then, evolution is also better integrated into Gnome so I can now access my contacts, calendars in other applications as well.