Why do you yanks use the confusing term gas (aka Petrol or Gasoline). I thought you were talking about LPG at the beginning of your post (what the rest of the world means when the word gas is mentioned) eg A gas pipeline.
I have to agre with mjwx. Also as an Australian, whenever I have travelled and had CNN in the hotel, this fog of brain deadness eminates from the tv. Issues are not really discussed. A broken fire hydrant becomes a 24/7 reporting event. Your news is like your fast food; designed to be slightly sweet and swallowed with as few chews as possible. It's almost if someone wants to deliberately dumb the masses as much as possible.
From our hiring experience, the overqualified ones are usually too expensive and the ones out of uni often useless. (Note we have taken on many graduates as a small percentage are very good)
Remember, most businesses ethics are only governed by what their government has legislated. There are always execptions but this is the general rule. This is why the USA is having so many structural problems. By making being elected such an expensive exercise, a politician who's most important priority is re-election, needs funding from corporate sponsors. This creates an obigation to support those sponsors, which creates legislation to support corporates over the public interest which courts must enforce. The best thing to happen for American Politics is to break the obligation cycle. I'll leave that to others on how you would achieve that.
There are a couple of reasons your stuff is so cheap. Your wages for service workers is crap. It starts at 2.80/hr for waitresses who need tips to survive and is $7ish per hour for Cleaners. Australia is $15/hr for a min wage. Your cheap food is factory produced high fructose crap making you a nation of obese diabetics and you are now printing money Weimar style after outsourcing all your low IQ work to china and Mexico. Is it sustainable? Probobably not, but you have a uncanny ability to kick the can down the road.
The automotive environment is absoloutely brutal. It is really terrible and incredibly damaging. Imagine a car out in the Texan summer or northern winter. NiMH batters simply are not as robust as lead acid and they have a higher self discharge. Looking after NiHM batteries is much harder than lead acid ones.
Seriously, lead acid batteries are amazingly well suited to car battery duty and it will be hard to replace them.
Thats simply not true. NiMH batteries have been used in EV's and typically last 7+ years. EV use is much harsher than accessory supply use. Lead Acid batteries typically last 3-4 years. (Although as a side note, our company makes a 'battery zapper' that effectively doubles the life of a lead acid battery in heavy duty use such as trucks and busses by breaking down the high resitance oxides).
Yes it was and you're not looking hard enough.
I'm happy to see paper references.
You are suffering from paranoid delusions.
OK, so I was exceptionally grumpy this morning (sorry). But I do think beurocracy has a way of self perpetuation that has non sensical solutions.
ru kidding me? You are trying to make excuses for legislation that has no point. Go stick your finger in a PC fan blade. I've done it heaps of times and never suffered anything close to resembling an injury. This is a solution where there is no problem, and legislators justifying their existance.
Are you a government stooge? What could the car industry use instead of lead? Gee let me think for a nanosecond. How about NiMH with integrated charge management.
Lead free was not about the environment. I head never seen a paper that shows eutectic tin lead solder leaches lead. It was about the creation of beurocracy for its own sake. It was a solution for problem that didn't exist. Much like a lot of the new regulations released in europe. It's a squid.
Commercial availability of LiFePO4 came well after their more well known cobolt cousins. Given the battery chemistry would have been chosen many years ago in a design review meeting, it was likely the safer option was not ready for design in.
Not all lithium batteries are equal. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries for example are reasonably safe. You can over charge them, put a nail through them plus they last 10 years, but they don't have as high an energy density as found in cobalt based cells which are more typically used in laptops and cellphones. Lithium will still catch fire though is exposed to water!
Gun laws do nothing in making it harder for "fucking lunatics" to posess. There in lies the logical fallacy. It makes it for "fucking normal people" harder to posess, which is incidentily the root of the problem. It would have taken one normal individual to stop this idiot.
Yet developed countries that restrict access to firearms have a much lower death rate because it makes it harder for lunatics to poseses them. You argument is demostatably wrong by the statistics. See bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States
I've used exchange in a small company (20 users) for 12 years (since SBS4.5), and can't even remember the last time I had a problem with it. It just works (tm)
The cornerstone of of any creative work:-
CAD
Photo / Video Editing
Document Creation / Coding (to a lesser extent)
still require KVM:-
Tactile Keyboard (touch typing requires the feeling of the edge of keys for long term typing)
Mouse (because it more precise than fingers which occlude the display)
Large Hi Res MultipleMonitors.
+ USB to interface with odd devices such as cameras, serial busses (RS232, RS485, CAN Bus, MIDI, etc etc), tablet inputs etc.
So while it does not need to be a big black box under your desk, the 'Personal Computer' will be with us for a while yet, until the boffins can tap replace the KVM/IO configuration.
The QI chargers frequency shift between 110khz and 205khz depending on power demand. This stomps over the common RFID frequencies of 125khz and 134.2khz which also use near field coupling to communicate with tags commonly used in animal and asset identification. These systems already have a hard time dealing with ambient noise from motors, power lines etc..Having deliberate frequency changing leaky coupled chargers is going to cause massive interference headaches for hundreds of thousands of existing LF RFID operators.
Why couldn't they have limited the carrier from 150 to 250khz instead???
You're on the money. The new art in patents, is to bags the idea but with not enough info to reproduce the item. Patents should come with source code, schematics, mechanical drawings that actually allow the thing to be replicated.
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Why do you yanks use the confusing term gas (aka Petrol or Gasoline). I thought you were talking about LPG at the beginning of your post (what the rest of the world means when the word gas is mentioned) eg A gas pipeline.
And what is wrong with socialised health care?
The rest of the modern world uses it.
I have to agre with mjwx.
Also as an Australian, whenever I have travelled and had CNN in the hotel, this fog of brain deadness eminates from the tv. Issues are not really discussed. A broken fire hydrant becomes a 24/7 reporting event.
Your news is like your fast food; designed to be slightly sweet and swallowed with as few chews as possible.
It's almost if someone wants to deliberately dumb the masses as much as possible.
Back in the day, most engineers wish IBM had gone with motorollas 68000 rather than the address hobbled 8086 series. Oh how we hated paging 640k hell.
You would be the exception. Most people a have a pride level where they don't accept much below their last paid position.
From our hiring experience, the overqualified ones are usually too expensive and the ones out of uni often useless. (Note we have taken on many graduates as a small percentage are very good)
Suck all the air out of the room. Problem Solved!
Remember, most businesses ethics are only governed by what their government has legislated. There are always execptions but this is the general rule. This is why the USA is having so many structural problems. By making being elected such an expensive exercise, a politician who's most important priority is re-election, needs funding from corporate sponsors. This creates an obigation to support those sponsors, which creates legislation to support corporates over the public interest which courts must enforce.
The best thing to happen for American Politics is to break the obligation cycle. I'll leave that to others on how you would achieve that.
There are a couple of reasons your stuff is so cheap.
Your wages for service workers is crap. It starts at 2.80/hr for waitresses who need tips to survive and is $7ish per hour for Cleaners. Australia is $15/hr for a min wage.
Your cheap food is factory produced high fructose crap making you a nation of obese diabetics and you are now printing money Weimar style after outsourcing all your low IQ work to china and Mexico.
Is it sustainable? Probobably not, but you have a uncanny ability to kick the can down the road.
...or straight up binary.
Unless you're keying the bits with a set of telegraph keys attached to your CPU's data bus, it's cheating!
I hear Chuck Norris just twitches his left eye while sleeping to encode binary updates to the BSD kernal.
My god, I just used "it's" instead of "its". Slashdot is indeed making me dumber, just as I had suspect.
I think you meant 'suspected'
You do realise all Senators and Officials will be on a white list, so will never see a notice, so why would they care.
The automotive environment is absoloutely brutal. It is really terrible and incredibly damaging. Imagine a car out in the Texan summer or northern winter. NiMH batters simply are not as robust as lead acid and they have a higher self discharge. Looking after NiHM batteries is much harder than lead acid ones.
Seriously, lead acid batteries are amazingly well suited to car battery duty and it will be hard to replace them.
Thats simply not true. NiMH batteries have been used in EV's and typically last 7+ years. EV use is much harsher than accessory supply use. Lead Acid batteries typically last 3-4 years. (Although as a side note, our company makes a 'battery zapper' that effectively doubles the life of a lead acid battery in heavy duty use such as trucks and busses by breaking down the high resitance oxides).
Yes it was and you're not looking hard enough.
I'm happy to see paper references.
You are suffering from paranoid delusions.
OK, so I was exceptionally grumpy this morning (sorry). But I do think beurocracy has a way of self perpetuation that has non sensical solutions.
ru kidding me? You are trying to make excuses for legislation that has no point.
Go stick your finger in a PC fan blade. I've done it heaps of times and never suffered anything close to resembling an injury.
This is a solution where there is no problem, and legislators justifying their existance.
Are you a government stooge?
What could the car industry use instead of lead?
Gee let me think for a nanosecond. How about NiMH with integrated charge management.
Lead free was not about the environment. I head never seen a paper that shows eutectic tin lead solder leaches lead. It was about the creation of beurocracy for its own sake. It was a solution for problem that didn't exist. Much like a lot of the new regulations released in europe. It's a squid.
Commercial availability of LiFePO4 came well after their more well known cobolt cousins. Given the battery chemistry would have been chosen many years ago in a design review meeting, it was likely the safer option was not ready for design in.
Not all lithium batteries are equal. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries for example are reasonably safe. You can over charge them, put a nail through them plus they last 10 years, but they don't have as high an energy density as found in cobalt based cells which are more typically used in laptops and cellphones. Lithium will still catch fire though is exposed to water!
Is this the same Woz who was a buy on Facebook at any price?
Gun laws do nothing in making it harder for "fucking lunatics" to posess. There in lies the logical fallacy. It makes it for "fucking normal people" harder to posess, which is incidentily the root of the problem. It would have taken one normal individual to stop this idiot.
Yet developed countries that restrict access to firearms have a much lower death rate because it makes it harder for lunatics to poseses them. You argument is demostatably wrong by the statistics.
See bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States
Which is why in civilised countries, most campaign funding is public not corporate funded.
While the crude is sweet and light, nothing will happen.
I've used exchange in a small company (20 users) for 12 years (since SBS4.5), and can't even remember the last time I had a problem with it. It just works (tm)
The cornerstone of of any creative work:-
CAD
Photo / Video Editing
Document Creation / Coding (to a lesser extent)
still require KVM:-
Tactile Keyboard (touch typing requires the feeling of the edge of keys for long term typing)
Mouse (because it more precise than fingers which occlude the display)
Large Hi Res MultipleMonitors.
+ USB to interface with odd devices such as cameras, serial busses (RS232, RS485, CAN Bus, MIDI, etc etc), tablet inputs etc.
So while it does not need to be a big black box under your desk, the 'Personal Computer' will be with us for a while yet, until the boffins can tap replace the KVM/IO configuration.
The QI chargers frequency shift between 110khz and 205khz depending on power demand. This stomps over the common RFID frequencies of 125khz and 134.2khz which also use near field coupling to communicate with tags commonly used in animal and asset identification. .Having deliberate frequency changing leaky coupled chargers is going to cause massive interference headaches for hundreds of thousands of existing LF RFID operators.
These systems already have a hard time dealing with ambient noise from motors, power lines etc.
Why couldn't they have limited the carrier from 150 to 250khz instead???
You're on the money. The new art in patents, is to bags the idea but with not enough info to reproduce the item. Patents should come with source code, schematics, mechanical drawings that actually allow the thing to be replicated.