Sorry you bought into Carrier's proprietary crap but no, most systems do NOT require some proprietary protocol to function. I just looked at the manufacturer of my HVAC and only their two most expensive systems require some stupid smart thermostat, all the others work with any standard single or two stage thermostat over the same control wires that have been used for going on a century.
Demand control for high drain devices are fine and most users never even notice because the cycle periods where they are shaving peak load are short enough that it makes no difference to the conditions in the house under control (ie if your heat pump runs 15 minutes from now or RIGHT NOW makes little difference to the temp in the house since even relatively crappy houses have enough insulation that delta t is less than one degree per hour). The tradeoff is that we get to build fewer transmission lines and peaking plants which means lower bills for everyone.
and it also wouldn't be much of a surprise if on-site/near-site illicit dumping by individual operators looking to avoid paying for collection would be pretty common
Uh, restaurants get paid for their grease, this might not be the case right now since soybeans had a good year last year and crude is so cheap that biodiesel isn't going to be in high demand, but over the last 10+ years it's been the case. That's why people working on B90 conversions have to be sure to ask the restaurants before they take grease for their vehicle.
Ah so they're amatorizing equipment they already need over a few instances to intentionally inflate the cost of those instances, so basically cop math.
$1500 to clean a backup, is this an all week job or are they waiting to take those calls on holiday weekends where a crew of 5 is getting triple overtime?!?
We'll just get the feds to do all the monitoring and share their information because they don't have to listen to the local ordinance. It's like the local departments that use the federal civil forfeiture rules when their city or state tells them they can't steal from their citizens anymore. I wish federal courts would start smacking departments that do this hard, both collectively and individual officers and higher.
That's easy enough to avoid, have the circuit be ultra lower powered and use a piezo generator off the trigger or hammer to power it or use a small solar cell with a tiny capacitor (though that could fail if the gun was stored in a safe and brought out at night so the piezo would be preferable)
Guess you haven't heard of steer by wire, sure today it's limited to luxury brands that want to remove the mechanical linkage between wheel and drivetrain to improve cabin sound deadening but soon it will spread to more vehicles as a way to save weight (and possibly cost since many cars already include everything needed for steer by wire which makes the mechanical linkage redundant and therefore expendable).
Wow you're a horses ass, the second part is the important part for 99.999+% of Android users, they're releasing it to AOSP so that flows into all the other providers source tree.
No, this is a fix to AOSP which is the base tree for the OEM's, the OEM's might have additional bugs but they'll also need to apply these fixes to their own code tree, test, and push out the fixes (or not as is their want, though the big OEM's are now at least paying lip service to monthly security patches but it seems to really only be for flagship and flagship-1 and some midrange hero devices while a lot of their product range sits unpatched)
That's only true for Nexus devices, for devices with locked bootloaders and stock ROMs without root and no first party root ROM then you need to exploit a bug to gain root and then either gain permanent root or install a slotted second level bootloader that can bootstrap a rooted ROM image.
That means end users will be able to use these to root their devices for the next 12-18 months since the patches won't be applied by most OEM's before then. On the downside it means you can be spearfished through an MMS.
Magnesium alloys require 1700-2100C to ignite, of you've already got a fire that hot the car is already a total loss and the only additional damage might be deformed cement that a normal gas and steel fire might not have damaged, blacktop is shot either way.
Uh, no. The affected VW's wouldn't have passed 1984 emissions standards, in fact they would have been over by about 50%. By completely turning off emissions equipment during non-testing mode VW went from barely above regulations to untuned Mercedes 300 levels (obviously not in soot production but almost every other metric).
2nd generation Chevy Volt (Vauxhall Ampera) does 87km per charge so if your commute is 120km round trip you could do all electric, otherwise it wold be ~40km at 5.6 L/100 km.
I'm selfishly hoping that they have to scrub the launch on the 19th, I'm going to be in the Orlando area on the 20th and 21st so a delay that allowed me to watch the launch would be awesome.
Whatever, there's only been one better vehicle for wealth creation than the NYSE in the last 1,000 years and that was the Dutch East India company. If you invest in a broad basket of stocks you'll get an average 7% return pretty reliably. If you're less than 5 years from your expected retirement you probably need to diversify the first decades spending money into bonds and cash equivalents. This is investing 101. If your friends withdrew their money in 2000 or 2008 then they were suckers. Let the money ride and live on other sources (bond dividends, cash equivalents, or if you have to continued wages). Panicking and pulling it out at or near the bottom is how not to invest 101. People who think the stock market is somehow rigged against them are people without a rational/analytical mind who do things on emotion, which is how you get crushed in the stock market. The market is somewhat tilted against the small investor in that you are going to have some of your profits taken by rent seekers, midtown isn't built kisses afterall, but if you invest in low load mutual funds (or better index funds) you will get your returns pretty much without fail over the long term.
Your employer doesn't allow you to send your direct deposit to multiple accounts or you're living paycheck to paycheck and hence have no reserve savings?
Yes, but $500 a month invested in the stock market at 7% average returns would be worth $610,000 at the end of the 30 years so you're up a half million. It only works if you're disciplined, but if you're not then it's unlikely you'll be able to handle the 15 year mortgage payments anyways.
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The VAST majority of thermostats in North America are 24V with millivolt and line voltage (like yours) being a tiny fraction of installs.
I assume he can also preheat/precool the vacation home so it's comfortable when he arrives.
Sorry you bought into Carrier's proprietary crap but no, most systems do NOT require some proprietary protocol to function. I just looked at the manufacturer of my HVAC and only their two most expensive systems require some stupid smart thermostat, all the others work with any standard single or two stage thermostat over the same control wires that have been used for going on a century.
Demand control for high drain devices are fine and most users never even notice because the cycle periods where they are shaving peak load are short enough that it makes no difference to the conditions in the house under control (ie if your heat pump runs 15 minutes from now or RIGHT NOW makes little difference to the temp in the house since even relatively crappy houses have enough insulation that delta t is less than one degree per hour). The tradeoff is that we get to build fewer transmission lines and peaking plants which means lower bills for everyone.
and it also wouldn't be much of a surprise if on-site/near-site illicit dumping by individual operators looking to avoid paying for collection would be pretty common
Uh, restaurants get paid for their grease, this might not be the case right now since soybeans had a good year last year and crude is so cheap that biodiesel isn't going to be in high demand, but over the last 10+ years it's been the case. That's why people working on B90 conversions have to be sure to ask the restaurants before they take grease for their vehicle.
Ah so they're amatorizing equipment they already need over a few instances to intentionally inflate the cost of those instances, so basically cop math.
$1500 to clean a backup, is this an all week job or are they waiting to take those calls on holiday weekends where a crew of 5 is getting triple overtime?!?
We'll just get the feds to do all the monitoring and share their information because they don't have to listen to the local ordinance. It's like the local departments that use the federal civil forfeiture rules when their city or state tells them they can't steal from their citizens anymore. I wish federal courts would start smacking departments that do this hard, both collectively and individual officers and higher.
That's easy enough to avoid, have the circuit be ultra lower powered and use a piezo generator off the trigger or hammer to power it or use a small solar cell with a tiny capacitor (though that could fail if the gun was stored in a safe and brought out at night so the piezo would be preferable)
Guess you haven't heard of steer by wire, sure today it's limited to luxury brands that want to remove the mechanical linkage between wheel and drivetrain to improve cabin sound deadening but soon it will spread to more vehicles as a way to save weight (and possibly cost since many cars already include everything needed for steer by wire which makes the mechanical linkage redundant and therefore expendable).
Wow you're a horses ass, the second part is the important part for 99.999+% of Android users, they're releasing it to AOSP so that flows into all the other providers source tree.
No, this is a fix to AOSP which is the base tree for the OEM's, the OEM's might have additional bugs but they'll also need to apply these fixes to their own code tree, test, and push out the fixes (or not as is their want, though the big OEM's are now at least paying lip service to monthly security patches but it seems to really only be for flagship and flagship-1 and some midrange hero devices while a lot of their product range sits unpatched)
Uh, good for you? I use MMS on a weekly basis, either for picture messages with the wife or for messages greater than 160 characters.
That's only true for Nexus devices, for devices with locked bootloaders and stock ROMs without root and no first party root ROM then you need to exploit a bug to gain root and then either gain permanent root or install a slotted second level bootloader that can bootstrap a rooted ROM image.
That means end users will be able to use these to root their devices for the next 12-18 months since the patches won't be applied by most OEM's before then. On the downside it means you can be spearfished through an MMS.
Magnesium alloys require 1700-2100C to ignite, of you've already got a fire that hot the car is already a total loss and the only additional damage might be deformed cement that a normal gas and steel fire might not have damaged, blacktop is shot either way.
Uh, no. The affected VW's wouldn't have passed 1984 emissions standards, in fact they would have been over by about 50%. By completely turning off emissions equipment during non-testing mode VW went from barely above regulations to untuned Mercedes 300 levels (obviously not in soot production but almost every other metric).
2nd generation Chevy Volt (Vauxhall Ampera) does 87km per charge so if your commute is 120km round trip you could do all electric, otherwise it wold be ~40km at 5.6 L/100 km.
I'm selfishly hoping that they have to scrub the launch on the 19th, I'm going to be in the Orlando area on the 20th and 21st so a delay that allowed me to watch the launch would be awesome.
Whatever, there's only been one better vehicle for wealth creation than the NYSE in the last 1,000 years and that was the Dutch East India company. If you invest in a broad basket of stocks you'll get an average 7% return pretty reliably. If you're less than 5 years from your expected retirement you probably need to diversify the first decades spending money into bonds and cash equivalents. This is investing 101. If your friends withdrew their money in 2000 or 2008 then they were suckers. Let the money ride and live on other sources (bond dividends, cash equivalents, or if you have to continued wages). Panicking and pulling it out at or near the bottom is how not to invest 101. People who think the stock market is somehow rigged against them are people without a rational/analytical mind who do things on emotion, which is how you get crushed in the stock market. The market is somewhat tilted against the small investor in that you are going to have some of your profits taken by rent seekers, midtown isn't built kisses afterall, but if you invest in low load mutual funds (or better index funds) you will get your returns pretty much without fail over the long term.
Yeah, and if you make more than $35k/year you're included in that global 1%, doesn't mean you've got the loose $ to buy a $1,500 watch.
A cyberattack on a bank isn't going to keep you from accessing your safety deposit box.
Your employer doesn't allow you to send your direct deposit to multiple accounts or you're living paycheck to paycheck and hence have no reserve savings?
Sorry forgot about the 1600 a month over the last 15 years, it's still a net gain of 322k in the investment scenario.
Yes, but $500 a month invested in the stock market at 7% average returns would be worth $610,000 at the end of the 30 years so you're up a half million. It only works if you're disciplined, but if you're not then it's unlikely you'll be able to handle the 15 year mortgage payments anyways.