in my city we have a municipal water and power agency that's part of city govt. at first I was against it because they're not as customer focused (their customer service is open 9-5, for example). but I think this would work really well for internet. they don't provide internet per se. you still have to sign up with att or comcast, and there is an add-on for last mile. but then you can choose which internet and cable provider you want, so there would be lots of options. perhaps the city could provide basic internet as well. maybe basic 13-channel tv, kinda like OTA but over pipes.
idk I think it's a cool idea.
agreed, i came here to post this. I looked for total onboard energy storage (kw-hr) but couldn't find it. I think the most relevant question is the equivalent amount of jet fuel it could hold (or diesel since the direct equivalent is a little turboprop plane).
we can do some fermi estimation. the article says that the plane has two engines with combined power of 60kW, and has a flight time of 45 min - 1 hr. if you fly for an hour at full power, that's 216 MJ. More likely the batteries are sized assuming the plane is on average running on just a fraction of full power. (waves hands->) let's say 130MJ battery capacity which is 1 gallon of fuel.
so the e-plane carries 1 gallon-equivalent of energy. Yes, energy density is the main challenge here!
+1 funny, I chuckled. although incorrect. on my phone I could send either a text message or an email, and my recipient could handle a text message or an email. yet in many cases I choose to send text messages. why??? they're simple, they're fast, they're "always on" at the OS level.
very wise I like this approach.I would adjust the first part. excel can work with 1 million rows. The cap is like 1.02 million or something. For older computers, if your computer is new enough to run Win7 then it should be able to handle 100k rows easily
i like that iMessage works across devices, including not just ipad but macs. macs can recieve imessages at any time, not just when an ichat window is open. so it's finally a viable messaging system that is baked into the OS. from my computer I can send messages to any iphone or any other mac. it's actually really powerful.
For me, playing a game is like starring in an awesome movie. You are playing the main character, and you are making the events of the movie unfold. Bioshock Infinite is a great example here. also, you can chill out about the cutscene costs, in the past these were made separately but now they're rendered on the fly using the game engine. so it's not like they filmed movie clips.
How about stop coding on the cheap, release the game when it is ready, and release a "release-quality" version. Not an early beta. Not a late beta. Not a "preview". A quality version.
the problem is, coders generally want to get paid. you know, like work a job and get a salary. If you can find a bunch of coders and artists who will make a game on contingency, and get a cut of the eventual receipts, then this could work. but I won't work there.
free simple to use. note that it has to be simple to use and simple to maintain / expand. Because if this guy bails then the techno illiterati at the organization will have to do both.
the best part of excel is that a lot of VBA becomes total crap but worst case you can just go to adding rows in a spreadsheet tab. it has a very simple fallback position.
this sounds like it won't be front facing or customer facing, just a quick and dirty way to track information in house.
maybe the "last mile" is a utility, and internet companies like comcast and att and charter step in at the main hub and compete for business
actually, my last building signed up with WiLine, a bay area provider that I think used a microwave dish on top of the building for communication. It got around teh comcast etc. I paid $20/mo for 20 up / 20 down. that was the set price, not promotional, and there wasn't a contract. super satisfied.
I assume that if the submitter is planning on building a MySQL and django database system for this charity where nobody else has tech experience, he will commit to moving to Senegal and working for the charity to maintain this db for the next decade+ while the db is in use. All for free.
alternatively, he could build a tool nobody knows how to use, migrate critical data to it, then bail.
my advice from being in similar positions? Just use excel. you can make a VBA form if you feel strongly about it. a single excel file can hold a million records on each tab and it's easy to pull data and summaries. If you're feeling fancy, you can write VBA reports as well. then you can gracefully step away with a clear conscience and let other people handle it.
you say you don't want a ms license. Is this because of the cost or politics? you're running windows anyway. Just dig up some excel 2007 or 2010 licenses or buy off ebay. this way you don't need to do the subscription model that ms is doing now. you say you only have a few computers anyway.
another example: if you have kaiser insurance, you better have your kaiser card and hope to the seven gods that they take you to a kaiser hospital or else you're going to pay out the nose.
there's so many nuances here. You may have instructions on standard of care or existing issues (such as "I'm diabetic"). Also I'm 100% sure that they will treat you differently/better if they know you're insured.
you never know where you'll go. there's still places that only take cash, and don't take CCs at all. you need to be ready for the lowest common denominator. Also, see the discussion elsewhere in this thread about having ID and insurance info in case you're hit by a car.
true. a mobile wallet definitely provides benefit to consumers. but the greatest benefit would come if we replaced a real wallet with a mobile wallet, and i don't think this is possible. I think the best solution would be if Apple or Amazon provided the service. This isn't a technological point of sale problem, but a network money transfer problem.
I'm not saying there's not benefit to mobile wallets. but what I'm saying is that the greatest benefit from mobile wallets would be if you didn't need to carry regular wallets, but that's not the case for a variety of reasons and it makes mobile wallets less compelling.
I was on mile 4 of a long bike ride when my rear tire failed. Not the tube (I carry a spare), the actual tire. I had decided not to bring my wallet with me, but I did have my phone.
I highly recommend you always bring driver's license or other ID and insurance cards with you, in case paramedics need to scrape you off the pavement and take you to the hospital. this happened to me just 6 months ago, although in a car accident not a bike accident. one second I'm behind the wheel and the next second in the emergency room. no serious injuries thank goodness but glad I had the ID with me. obv behind the wheel the license is mandatory anyway, but the health insurance card was vital and I'm sure influenced the type of care i recieved (i.e. they knew it would be reimbursed).
even if you have a mobile wallet, you'll still need your plastic CCs as well. and debit card. also, wallets have driver license, insurance cards, etc. and cash. so there's no way to replace your regular wallet with your phone. so what's the benefit to consumers?
The reason being is I am not a heavy gamer. I wanted a nice OS platform that was more a media center with a dvr, netflix, skype ready, voice activated system that could play games too but did a little of everything.
this is the exact point why i got a ps4. i already have an apple tv. what i wanted was a game system so I could play games. not be a new destination for all my multimedia needs. sony gets this - ps4 is a great game system but doesn't try to be much more.
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in my city we have a municipal water and power agency that's part of city govt. at first I was against it because they're not as customer focused (their customer service is open 9-5, for example). but I think this would work really well for internet. they don't provide internet per se. you still have to sign up with att or comcast, and there is an add-on for last mile. but then you can choose which internet and cable provider you want, so there would be lots of options. perhaps the city could provide basic internet as well. maybe basic 13-channel tv, kinda like OTA but over pipes. idk I think it's a cool idea.
agreed, i came here to post this. I looked for total onboard energy storage (kw-hr) but couldn't find it. I think the most relevant question is the equivalent amount of jet fuel it could hold (or diesel since the direct equivalent is a little turboprop plane).
we can do some fermi estimation. the article says that the plane has two engines with combined power of 60kW, and has a flight time of 45 min - 1 hr. if you fly for an hour at full power, that's 216 MJ. More likely the batteries are sized assuming the plane is on average running on just a fraction of full power. (waves hands->) let's say 130MJ battery capacity which is 1 gallon of fuel.
so the e-plane carries 1 gallon-equivalent of energy. Yes, energy density is the main challenge here!
+1 funny, I chuckled. although incorrect. on my phone I could send either a text message or an email, and my recipient could handle a text message or an email. yet in many cases I choose to send text messages. why??? they're simple, they're fast, they're "always on" at the OS level.
very wise I like this approach.I would adjust the first part. excel can work with 1 million rows. The cap is like 1.02 million or something. For older computers, if your computer is new enough to run Win7 then it should be able to handle 100k rows easily
i like that iMessage works across devices, including not just ipad but macs. macs can recieve imessages at any time, not just when an ichat window is open. so it's finally a viable messaging system that is baked into the OS. from my computer I can send messages to any iphone or any other mac. it's actually really powerful.
For me, playing a game is like starring in an awesome movie. You are playing the main character, and you are making the events of the movie unfold. Bioshock Infinite is a great example here. also, you can chill out about the cutscene costs, in the past these were made separately but now they're rendered on the fly using the game engine. so it's not like they filmed movie clips.
How about stop coding on the cheap, release the game when it is ready, and release a "release-quality" version. Not an early beta. Not a late beta. Not a "preview". A quality version.
the problem is, coders generally want to get paid. you know, like work a job and get a salary. If you can find a bunch of coders and artists who will make a game on contingency, and get a cut of the eventual receipts, then this could work. but I won't work there.
google docs may work well... if everybody in senegal has reliable internet connections...
free simple to use. note that it has to be simple to use and simple to maintain / expand. Because if this guy bails then the techno illiterati at the organization will have to do both.
the best part of excel is that a lot of VBA becomes total crap but worst case you can just go to adding rows in a spreadsheet tab. it has a very simple fallback position.
this sounds like it won't be front facing or customer facing, just a quick and dirty way to track information in house.
maybe the "last mile" is a utility, and internet companies like comcast and att and charter step in at the main hub and compete for business
actually, my last building signed up with WiLine, a bay area provider that I think used a microwave dish on top of the building for communication. It got around teh comcast etc. I paid $20/mo for 20 up / 20 down. that was the set price, not promotional, and there wasn't a contract. super satisfied.
umm... I don't get it? who is building the competing parallel roads in this case?
+1 let's be realistic here.
I assume that if the submitter is planning on building a MySQL and django database system for this charity where nobody else has tech experience, he will commit to moving to Senegal and working for the charity to maintain this db for the next decade+ while the db is in use. All for free.
alternatively, he could build a tool nobody knows how to use, migrate critical data to it, then bail.
my advice from being in similar positions? Just use excel. you can make a VBA form if you feel strongly about it. a single excel file can hold a million records on each tab and it's easy to pull data and summaries. If you're feeling fancy, you can write VBA reports as well. then you can gracefully step away with a clear conscience and let other people handle it.
you say you don't want a ms license. Is this because of the cost or politics? you're running windows anyway. Just dig up some excel 2007 or 2010 licenses or buy off ebay. this way you don't need to do the subscription model that ms is doing now. you say you only have a few computers anyway.
another example: if you have kaiser insurance, you better have your kaiser card and hope to the seven gods that they take you to a kaiser hospital or else you're going to pay out the nose.
Also my insurance co blue shield ca requires advance notification of major procedures like MRI and hospitalization
Ever since better place went out of business nobody is talking about battery swap stations
the docs have zero interest in fiddling with your phone. it's not their job to hack your phone to suss out your ID.
there's so many nuances here. You may have instructions on standard of care or existing issues (such as "I'm diabetic"). Also I'm 100% sure that they will treat you differently/better if they know you're insured.
you never know where you'll go. there's still places that only take cash, and don't take CCs at all. you need to be ready for the lowest common denominator. Also, see the discussion elsewhere in this thread about having ID and insurance info in case you're hit by a car.
true. a mobile wallet definitely provides benefit to consumers. but the greatest benefit would come if we replaced a real wallet with a mobile wallet, and i don't think this is possible. I think the best solution would be if Apple or Amazon provided the service. This isn't a technological point of sale problem, but a network money transfer problem.
I was on mile 4 of a long bike ride when my rear tire failed. Not the tube (I carry a spare), the actual tire. I had decided not to bring my wallet with me, but I did have my phone.
I highly recommend you always bring driver's license or other ID and insurance cards with you, in case paramedics need to scrape you off the pavement and take you to the hospital. this happened to me just 6 months ago, although in a car accident not a bike accident. one second I'm behind the wheel and the next second in the emergency room. no serious injuries thank goodness but glad I had the ID with me. obv behind the wheel the license is mandatory anyway, but the health insurance card was vital and I'm sure influenced the type of care i recieved (i.e. they knew it would be reimbursed).
even if you have a mobile wallet, you'll still need your plastic CCs as well. and debit card. also, wallets have driver license, insurance cards, etc. and cash. so there's no way to replace your regular wallet with your phone. so what's the benefit to consumers?
The reason being is I am not a heavy gamer. I wanted a nice OS platform that was more a media center with a dvr, netflix, skype ready, voice activated system that could play games too but did a little of everything.
this is the exact point why i got a ps4. i already have an apple tv. what i wanted was a game system so I could play games. not be a new destination for all my multimedia needs. sony gets this - ps4 is a great game system but doesn't try to be much more.
honestly, no big deal if you can't update it. every 6 months just send out new updated ones. You can collect the old ones for reuse / refurbishment.