Agreed! There is nothing here that would make me give up my Moviepass! AMC is just pissed that they don't control Moviepass and that they didn't think of it first!
The same thing happened at Burbank airport in California decades ago. Runway 7/25 shifted to runway 8/26 when the actual magnetic bearing passed through the midpoint between the two. I fly out of there and it took me ages not to get it wrong...
One other side of the fast charge issue is the power requirement required to do so. A "five minute charge" will require a very high peak power demand and that is extremely expensive to deliver as most power companies charge based on peak demand. There will need to be some sort of battery buffering or the like to provide sufficient power at a reasonable cost...
I remember Jerry with great warmth and respect. We chatted many times during the BBS years on many topics, and I was an avid reader of his columns He will be hugely missed!
A Heathkit H8 with 4K of memory, programmed in Octal. Later on it got a H19 display/keyboard and some floppy drives, followed by 64K of memory and a Z80 processor card...
The problem with Rob's assessment is that his efficiency numbers, expect for power transmission, are way off the mark. It is MUCH better than he purports! DC to AC conversion is roughly 90% or more efficient these days so you are not saving much by using DC at home rather than AC. It is simply not worth it to limit yourself so much by having only DC appliances.
The professor's mistake was not picking one or two of the students who did not participate in the incidents (there had to be some) and giving them passing grades...
If the data is as good as it is for accidents, it will be all but worthless... We use Waze in Los Angeles and it will frequently just show "accident" with no indication of exactly where it is, what side of the freeway, and what kind of accident... And more often than not, when you actually get in the area, the data is stale and the accident is long gone but still showing...
This is not exactly new technology. Our 2001 Acura MDX used the exact same method. One problem with it was that it tended to become non responsive when it was hit with sunlight... Other than that it worked well.
The elephant in the room is that German, and European drivers in general, are better and more skilled that American drivers, and thus better prepared to drive at such speeds. A good percentage of American drivers are dangerous at 65 and the danger goes up by the square of the speed...
Toyota despises electric cars and has publicly stated this on many occasions. They plan to sell exactly the number of RAV4EVs that they need to meet CARB requirements (about 2,600) and not one more than that! Toyota believes (foolishly) that the future is hydrogen...
It is unfortunate because the Fiat E is actually an excellent electric car! Far better than the gas version, in fact!
They used a previous generation vehicle as the mule, which was much less desirable, did not offer Quick Charge capability, screwed with the $7,500 federal tax refund on leases, and generally did everything they could to insure that they would not sell one more than the minimum 2,600 they needed to fill CARB requirements. It is no secret that Toyota hates EVs and will do anything they can to squash them!
I'm sorry but this has existed in one form or other on hundreds of different cameras for many decades! Simply adding one more camera to the list (iPhone) does not make it a new and patentable device! Clearly this is prior art and the patent should have been rejected by the patent office.
I have to disagree. I have a huge Insteon system and find it to be totally reliable. Actually, the larger the system the more reliable it is as every unit acts as a repeater and thus, the more units you have the more robust the system is.
An incredibly stupid idea that is not only illegal in most states but also an invitation for liability lawsuits and potential accidents...
Hoepfully saner heads will prevail and this "feature" will never see the light of day!
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I have no interest in drinking the over-priced and over-hyped Apple Cool-aid...
Agreed! There is nothing here that would make me give up my Moviepass! AMC is just pissed that they don't control Moviepass and that they didn't think of it first!
We will never be able to undo all the damage Trump has done and will do!
The upper limit for FM used in television broadcasting is 15 KHz.
The same thing happened at Burbank airport in California decades ago. Runway 7/25 shifted to runway 8/26 when the actual magnetic bearing passed through the midpoint between the two. I fly out of there and it took me ages not to get it wrong...
One other side of the fast charge issue is the power requirement required to do so. A "five minute charge" will require a very high peak power demand and that is extremely expensive to deliver as most power companies charge based on peak demand. There will need to be some sort of battery buffering or the like to provide sufficient power at a reasonable cost...
I remember Jerry with great warmth and respect. We chatted many times during the BBS years on many topics, and I was an avid reader of his columns He will be hugely missed!
All of the Firefox add-ons I use (17 of them) are either already compliant or will be by the deadline... Thus, I see it as a non-issue...
A Heathkit H8 with 4K of memory, programmed in Octal. Later on it got a H19 display/keyboard and some floppy drives, followed by 64K of memory and a Z80 processor card...
The problem with Rob's assessment is that his efficiency numbers, expect for power transmission, are way off the mark. It is MUCH better than he purports! DC to AC conversion is roughly 90% or more efficient these days so you are not saving much by using DC at home rather than AC. It is simply not worth it to limit yourself so much by having only DC appliances.
The professor's mistake was not picking one or two of the students who did not participate in the incidents (there had to be some) and giving them passing grades...
If the data is as good as it is for accidents, it will be all but worthless... We use Waze in Los Angeles and it will frequently just show "accident" with no indication of exactly where it is, what side of the freeway, and what kind of accident... And more often than not, when you actually get in the area, the data is stale and the accident is long gone but still showing...
I love walking in to people like that on purpose and then saying, "Oh... Sorry..." I secretly hope they drop their damn phone!
Actually, the controls were added because of a California state law requirement for them, not because Goggle thought they were necessary...
This is not exactly new technology. Our 2001 Acura MDX used the exact same method. One problem with it was that it tended to become non responsive when it was hit with sunlight... Other than that it worked well.
The elephant in the room is that German, and European drivers in general, are better and more skilled that American drivers, and thus better prepared to drive at such speeds. A good percentage of American drivers are dangerous at 65 and the danger goes up by the square of the speed...
I have yet to ever have an Asus mobo fail on me after many years and many boards
Toyota despises electric cars and has publicly stated this on many occasions. They plan to sell exactly the number of RAV4EVs that they need to meet CARB requirements (about 2,600) and not one more than that! Toyota believes (foolishly) that the future is hydrogen... It is unfortunate because the Fiat E is actually an excellent electric car! Far better than the gas version, in fact!
Never forget that a good portion of "Bond Managers" are idiots when ti comes to the real world...
They used a previous generation vehicle as the mule, which was much less desirable, did not offer Quick Charge capability, screwed with the $7,500 federal tax refund on leases, and generally did everything they could to insure that they would not sell one more than the minimum 2,600 they needed to fill CARB requirements. It is no secret that Toyota hates EVs and will do anything they can to squash them!
I'm sorry but this has existed in one form or other on hundreds of different cameras for many decades! Simply adding one more camera to the list (iPhone) does not make it a new and patentable device! Clearly this is prior art and the patent should have been rejected by the patent office.
Oracle was involved. Need we go any further?!
Yep, my 2001 Acura has it too. They use wheel sensor data for speed and a gyro compass for azimuth. It works very well.
I have to disagree. I have a huge Insteon system and find it to be totally reliable. Actually, the larger the system the more reliable it is as every unit acts as a repeater and thus, the more units you have the more robust the system is.
An incredibly stupid idea that is not only illegal in most states but also an invitation for liability lawsuits and potential accidents... Hoepfully saner heads will prevail and this "feature" will never see the light of day!