Ethanol has lower energy content per volume, so you can't directly compare costs. Plus E85 gets subsidized and tax breaks from the government, so it is hard to say if it is sustainable.
I don't think it is much of a conversion for E85. Maybe a different fuel tank and some sensors / adjustments to the carb for a different air / fuel mix. The number I read was $100 but I don't know how easy it is to do it yourself.
Lots of stories on E85 popping up recently. Fleets have been running LPG and LNG for a long time.
Good many pages out there on LNG and LPG conversion, but it is all do it yourself. I don't think you can buy LPG LNG cars for personal use, but maybe for commercial use. LNG you can fill in your own house if you get an extra compressor.
Right. It costs about $100 to make a vehicle flex fuel that can run E85, 85% Ethanol. Of course you can make arguments that biomass to ethanol is not an efficient route, but if all the US had the option of not using gas, it may make things interesting. Corn harvesting and distillation of EtOH takes a lot of energy.
Another thing I would like to see more of is LPG or LNG conversion for autos. You can still run internal combustion, but now you have a big tank in the trunk. You can always switch back to gas (or E85). LPG and LNG burn cleaner but still produce CO2. Problem is, it costs a little more, maybe $1000 per car, but it is another option.
Flexible fuels would basically provide competition for gas.
They are working on H2 production at nuclear plants. There are a variety of cycles that would allow for something much more efficient than nuke->heat->steam->turbine->electricity->electrolo sys. Problem is we are still scared of nuke plants. The rising good solution, build more plants at existing sites. You already have a lot of the infrastructure and permiting / social battle complete.
Tapwave Zodiac looks pretty nice, but it looks like just PDA, multimedia, and gaming, not PDA and camera and phone and MP3 and multimedia and word/office and pdf viewer and web browser like the Treo.
And how did I get moderated troll on my previous post in this thread? Crazy. You have not seen troll...Idiots.
The 700W has had problems with stability. Some people report reboots with the 650, but that is probably aftermarket stability (and usually not happening during phone calls). The 700W has reports of dropped calles due to software.
The 700W also has a low res screen. Something about MS not supporting anything but 240x240, while the 650 and 700p should do 320x320.
I have heard that the 700W and Windows in general is difficult to navigate. I love the zen of palm, and they have reworked most applications to work well with the 5way button. Easy one-button access to my required apps (no start / navigate garbage) then easy use just like my old palm 3...
650 did what I need, 700p should do that plus fix some problems (super low res camera now a low res camera). I still have a list of wants that nobody can do in a convergence device:
Stereo wireless mp3+mic Bigger screen More memory onboard (like 2 GB) 2 SD cards (wifi, GPS and memory?)
Does nobody get the reference to Jack Nickelson vs. Tom Cruise in "A few Good Men"?? 1992 was not that long ago, or am I getting old? Kids today, no respect for their elders...
Thanks to the crappy BT implementation on my Treo, I doubt I will be able to use this without an upgrade.
Even the new Treo probably has limitations on this.
There should be a BT independant way of getting stero and mic wireless to my earhole, just plug a little BT box in my Treo and go. I could use it on a ipod or home stereo if I wanted, no BT headaches...
Great idea, lets all lay down our arms, hold hands and sing songs about peace and love.
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Mac Fanboy? Our military has a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for wasted expenditures, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what the military knows. That military spending, while tragic and excessive, probably saved lives. And existence or pork projects, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want the military on that wall, you need the military on that wall. The military uses words like honor, code, loyalty. The military uses these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think.
Diet cherry is a decent drink, and if you get stuck drinking diet coke, add some lemon juice to cut the after taste. Eventually you will get hooked enough that you can drink it straight.
You have to get over the hump and drink diet crap for a few weeks to get enough in you to turn that switch on.
They also have low-cal add-ins that you dump in a drink, so you can add your own flavor to diet coke or diet 7 up if you want. Not great, but a lot of variety.
For non-caffinated, try koolaid or some of crystal lite drinks.
For any math stuff, you should use LaTeX or some frontend like LyX.
Word is a disaster, and MathType is awful. Wjy reproduce that garbage?
Maybe OO could use some LyX Matheditor code to create eps objects for equations. This is basically what I do with tgif, where I have nice eps equation images. Click on them, it opens Lyx to edit, save and close lyx and the equation is exported to ps, converted to eps, then uploaded into tgif again. Basically, tgif allows you to add the lyx file onto the eps image and some scripting for click action.
I will almost buy in to your idea that quad 1080p would suffice for everything. (And I think 2x 1080p is actually 4x the information).
I have a 30 inch dell LCD coming, 2560x1600, which is close to your 3840x2160 limit. I will see if it is the ultimate or close to it.
And they are putting 1080p DLP into high end samsung, so 1080p projectors should be coming down in the next few years. I can't wait. I have put off home HD, just wait a decade or two and they finally get it sorted.
I get BSOD on my XP laptop after about 40% of the recoveries from hibernate. Cost of doing business with XP.
My linux laptop never crased on hibernate, and that is a version from 5 years ago, but the power cord connector died. They need to super engiener those things...
The Tzero showed a trailer with a traditional internal combustion engine and fuel tank (maybe some storage as well) so that you could go longer than your commute.
Immediately we should force all cars to be E85 ready (like $100 more per car) and maybe even include hookups / sensors required for LPG and LNG conversion. That way you could easily run gas, ethanol/gas mix, propane, or natural gas.
For LPG LNG I think the tanks add most of the expense. Basic kits are like $2,000, but it would be nice to have the option to easily drop a tank in the trunk if you want to swap over to LP or LNG without a total rework of the car...
"...no protocol or method of communication using the Internet is safe from this..."
So POTS was safe?
So your mail is safe?
So you can't be bugged?
Hell, your machine is not Tempest proof, so they could park a van out front and watch as you surf pron.
Court orders can get surveillance on you no matter what.
Anything you do online you should assume anyone could have access to. If you are trying to be clandestine, sending an email is not the right way to do it.
They have had POTS devices that you snap on for encryption for years overseas, but they are totally illegal here. That scares me a bit, but you can always just talk in some sort of encryption / code and hope for the best.
You don't like it? Build your own internet and make your own rules. Or don't use this internet. Or find some way around that you think is secure. If they want to listen to you, they will.
Forgot to say bluetooth and the camera / video is pretty cool.
BT could be better (wireless mp3 would be better) but it is a neat trick.
Camera at 640x480 sucks, but having video and camera is nice. With 1GB card you can do like 3000 photos or 4 hours of crap video. 700p coming soon should have a 1+MP camera finally to help some on this side.
The treo 650 is awesome. You can navigate all without the stylus if you need, and you get palm PDA aps.
My treo 650 does all that crap. The 700p is coming soon.
- slimline and actually fashionable design (
Got it, I like the Treo look
- integrated aerial
I assume you mean antenna, the treo is integrated to the body, but it sticks out. Not sure what you want...
- 4-6 day battery life
Works that long if not talking much and not searching for a signal. Using PDA only I have gotten a week, If not swap a new battery without loss
- medium sized colour screen
320x320, I want bigger but it works
- adequate sized buttons for SMS
Thumbs are actually fine for the treo, and pretty quick too.
- speakerphone feature
Ok, but not great.
- compatible with ordinary (wired) handsfree
Yep, wired MP3 stereo or wired mic as well. Look on treocentral for a cool mic / headphone combo unit with integrated volume / hangup button and retractable spool.
- robust and preferably semi-hardened against water and dust
Mine got run over. The screen is mangled and I can only read 60%, but it works. Touch screen is fine...
- FAST and bug free software
650 could be faster, but I have not had a reset in months.
- price reflecting the functionality and manufacture cost, not the desirability of the device as ugly as the crackberry poptart, decent style, metal housing, no moving parts, good bat life.
Treo 650 or 700p is the way to go. The camera is ok on the 650, but could be better.
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Ethanol has lower energy content per volume, so you can't directly compare costs. Plus E85 gets subsidized and tax breaks from the government, so it is hard to say if it is sustainable.
I don't think it is much of a conversion for E85. Maybe a different fuel tank and some sensors / adjustments to the carb for a different air / fuel mix. The number I read was $100 but I don't know how easy it is to do it yourself.
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20060521-102936
Lots of stories on E85 popping up recently. Fleets have been running LPG and LNG for a long time.
Good many pages out there on LNG and LPG conversion, but it is all do it yourself. I don't think you can buy LPG LNG cars for personal use, but maybe for commercial use. LNG you can fill in your own house if you get an extra compressor.
Right. It costs about $100 to make a vehicle flex fuel that can run E85, 85% Ethanol. Of course you can make arguments that biomass to ethanol is not an efficient route, but if all the US had the option of not using gas, it may make things interesting. Corn harvesting and distillation of EtOH takes a lot of energy.
Another thing I would like to see more of is LPG or LNG conversion for autos. You can still run internal combustion, but now you have a big tank in the trunk. You can always switch back to gas (or E85). LPG and LNG burn cleaner but still produce CO2. Problem is, it costs a little more, maybe $1000 per car, but it is another option.
Flexible fuels would basically provide competition for gas.
They are working on H2 production at nuclear plants. There are a variety of cycles that would allow for something much more efficient than nuke->heat->steam->turbine->electricity->electrol
You can even steal from yourself, although it is more like unethical publication.
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http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/Self%
Even if you are the author, you may not own the copyright. This is true for journals and major publishers, so you are not supposed to recycle text.
Tapwave Zodiac looks pretty nice, but it looks like just PDA, multimedia, and gaming, not PDA and camera and phone and MP3 and multimedia and word/office and pdf viewer and web browser like the Treo.
And how did I get moderated troll on my previous post in this thread? Crazy. You have not seen troll...Idiots.
The 700W has had problems with stability. Some people report reboots with the 650, but that is probably aftermarket stability (and usually not happening during phone calls). The 700W has reports of dropped calles due to software.
The 700W also has a low res screen. Something about MS not supporting anything but 240x240, while the 650 and 700p should do 320x320.
I have heard that the 700W and Windows in general is difficult to navigate. I love the zen of palm, and they have reworked most applications to work well with the 5way button. Easy one-button access to my required apps (no start / navigate garbage) then easy use just like my old palm 3...
650 did what I need, 700p should do that plus fix some problems (super low res camera now a low res camera). I still have a list of wants that nobody can do in a convergence device:
Stereo wireless mp3+mic
Bigger screen
More memory onboard (like 2 GB)
2 SD cards (wifi, GPS and memory?)
That is like saying Mandrake/Mandriva is a KDE version of RedHat, which is was many moons ago.
Things change. Things fork and grow.
Does nobody get the reference to Jack Nickelson vs. Tom Cruise in "A few Good Men"?? 1992 was not that long ago, or am I getting old? Kids today, no respect for their elders...
Thanks to the crappy BT implementation on my Treo, I doubt I will be able to use this without an upgrade.
Even the new Treo probably has limitations on this.
There should be a BT independant way of getting stero and mic wireless to my earhole, just plug a little BT box in my Treo and go. I could use it on a ipod or home stereo if I wanted, no BT headaches...
Great idea, lets all lay down our arms, hold hands and sing songs about peace and love.
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Mac Fanboy? Our military has a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for wasted expenditures, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what the military knows. That military spending, while tragic and excessive, probably saved lives. And existence or pork projects, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want the military on that wall, you need the military on that wall. The military uses words like honor, code, loyalty. The military uses these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think.
I have a Treo 650 and love it. I just wish someone could get wireless stereo and mic functionality working.
Bluetooth current versions apparently have crappy bandwidth and can't handle decent stereo, so it will be years for BT to handle this simple request.
There are wireless options for ipod (just headphones really) but to really get the use out of a convergence device, you need a mic as well.
Someone out there must be working on this, but I have not found it...
Diet cherry is a decent drink, and if you get stuck drinking diet coke, add some lemon juice to cut the after taste. Eventually you will get hooked enough that you can drink it straight.
You have to get over the hump and drink diet crap for a few weeks to get enough in you to turn that switch on.
They also have low-cal add-ins that you dump in a drink, so you can add your own flavor to diet coke or diet 7 up if you want. Not great, but a lot of variety.
For non-caffinated, try koolaid or some of crystal lite drinks.
For taking your ppt slides and easily presenting, you could use a palm and a SD adapter.
I have a Treo 650 that can edit ppt slides as well, so you could make minor changes before the presentation and dump it out on your SD card.
I have not tried the SD VGA for my Treo, but I assume it would work.
For any math stuff, you should use LaTeX or some frontend like LyX.
Word is a disaster, and MathType is awful. Wjy reproduce that garbage?
Maybe OO could use some LyX Matheditor code to create eps objects for equations. This is basically what I do with tgif, where I have nice eps equation images. Click on them, it opens Lyx to edit, save and close lyx and the equation is exported to ps, converted to eps, then uploaded into tgif again. Basically, tgif allows you to add the lyx file onto the eps image and some scripting for click action.
I will almost buy in to your idea that quad 1080p would suffice for everything. (And I think 2x 1080p is actually 4x the information).
I have a 30 inch dell LCD coming, 2560x1600, which is close to your 3840x2160 limit. I will see if it is the ultimate or close to it.
And they are putting 1080p DLP into high end samsung, so 1080p projectors should be coming down in the next few years. I can't wait. I have put off home HD, just wait a decade or two and they finally get it sorted.
I get BSOD on my XP laptop after about 40% of the recoveries from hibernate. Cost of doing business with XP.
My linux laptop never crased on hibernate, and that is a version from 5 years ago, but the power cord connector died. They need to super engiener those things...
The Tzero showed a trailer with a traditional internal combustion engine and fuel tank (maybe some storage as well) so that you could go longer than your commute.
Immediately we should force all cars to be E85 ready (like $100 more per car) and maybe even include hookups / sensors required for LPG and LNG conversion. That way you could easily run gas, ethanol/gas mix, propane, or natural gas.
For LPG LNG I think the tanks add most of the expense. Basic kits are like $2,000, but it would be nice to have the option to easily drop a tank in the trunk if you want to swap over to LP or LNG without a total rework of the car...
"...no protocol or method of communication using the Internet is safe from this..."
So POTS was safe?
So your mail is safe?
So you can't be bugged?
Hell, your machine is not Tempest proof, so they could park a van out front and watch as you surf pron.
Court orders can get surveillance on you no matter what.
Anything you do online you should assume anyone could have access to. If you are trying to be clandestine, sending an email is not the right way to do it.
They have had POTS devices that you snap on for encryption for years overseas, but they are totally illegal here. That scares me a bit, but you can always just talk in some sort of encryption / code and hope for the best.
You don't like it? Build your own internet and make your own rules. Or don't use this internet. Or find some way around that you think is secure. If they want to listen to you, they will.
Kaffe and GCJ are open source Java implementations, but I don't know how active or good they are.
Real men write FORTRAN...
Forgot to say bluetooth and the camera / video is pretty cool.
BT could be better (wireless mp3 would be better) but it is a neat trick.
Camera at 640x480 sucks, but having video and camera is nice. With 1GB card you can do like 3000 photos or 4 hours of crap video. 700p coming soon should have a 1+MP camera finally to help some on this side.
The treo 650 is awesome. You can navigate all without the stylus if you need, and you get palm PDA aps.
Word, Excel, PDF and it beats me a chess.
My treo 650 does all that crap. The 700p is coming soon.
- slimline and actually fashionable design (
Got it, I like the Treo look
- integrated aerial
I assume you mean antenna, the treo is integrated to the body, but it sticks out. Not sure what you want...
- 4-6 day battery life
Works that long if not talking much and not searching for a signal. Using PDA only I have gotten a week, If not swap a new battery without loss
- medium sized colour screen
320x320, I want bigger but it works
- adequate sized buttons for SMS
Thumbs are actually fine for the treo, and pretty quick too.
- speakerphone feature
Ok, but not great.
- compatible with ordinary (wired) handsfree
Yep, wired MP3 stereo or wired mic as well. Look on treocentral for a cool mic / headphone combo unit with integrated volume / hangup button and retractable spool.
- robust and preferably semi-hardened against water and dust
Mine got run over. The screen is mangled and I can only read 60%, but it works. Touch screen is fine...
- FAST and bug free software
650 could be faster, but I have not had a reset in months.
- price reflecting the functionality and manufacture cost, not the desirability of the device
as ugly as the crackberry poptart, decent style, metal housing, no moving parts, good bat life.
Treo 650 or 700p is the way to go. The camera is ok on the 650, but could be better.
My Treo 650 works for days without charge doing limite phone / pda / mp3s.
It definitely should handle a whole day of MP3s and phone. If not, you can swap a new battery and not lose anything if you need to.
Does all that other crap too, word, pdf, mp3, crappy camera, videos, 2 GB SD card,
No wifi, no stereo wireless MP3...
Had it all for a year so far.
There are tons of people on the streets of NYC sellng bootleg videos, watches, purses, and crappy sunglasses.
I have heard that a lot of that sketchy money goes to support terrorism.
It seems like they should be able to just arrest these guys using traditional laws, if that were the case.
PDAs run around 320x320, and this WIDO thing gives them fast download speeds.
People that don't make felxible web pages are idiots. Everything should be tested in lynx
Georgia tech's student paper web page, the technique, uses a neat way of rendering columns.
You end up with 3-4 colums of text and a "next" click box for the next rendering.
I just realized, it is a pain to read paragraphs in my 1400x900 maximized browser. Columns make sense.
Dynamic rendering makes more sense.