Drive another 20 miles away from the city and you will see more stars than 90+% of the first world's population has seen in their life. One of the most amazing things I have experienced in my life is stargazing in the desert southwest.
Yeah, it's "doable" except for the fact that when you work at those kinds of power the leads have to be huge and the connections perfect and well greased or things go boom. Oh and charging your car for one hours drivetime isn't what most people would consider reasonable so more like you'd need 300A x4 at 480V which gets into crispy end user territory.
Yeah but since 100% of world manufacturing capacity for PV is booked for the next couple years it might make sense to install them in areas where they will generate the most power.
Exactly, my company is involved in the largest ever commercial solar project but we get almost no press because solar farm installed on the roof of 200 malls isn't as sensational as the largest building in the US going mostly solar even though the 259MW of capacity if the project is fully built would be 2.5x the size of the largest single site solar power plant in existance today.
I know here in Cleveland the payoff period for solar cells even with net metering is longer than the warranty, but then half the cost is in installation and with this project they were going to be replacing the windows anyways so it's just the net installation cost difference between the normal replacement and the solar units that needs to be counted.
Heck I looked into solar hot water but because of the hard freeze you either need a drainback system or a triple heat exchange system and both have costs greater than their expected lifetime payoff. For me it would make WAY more sense to give my buddy a low interest loan to install a solar hot water heater and other projects since he lives in Austin which is a much better environment for such things.
Kowloon is 43,000/km^2 which is amazing considering Manhattan is 27,600/km^2, I'm not sure I can image a place almost 60% denser than Manhattan (though it's a bit denser if you take out the 5% that's central park).
For serious work I agree, that's why my work phone is a EVO Shift 4G. However for checking email, google navigation, and entering appointments, which is what my wife uses hers for, it's quite sufficient.
Dude, inverter. Ours is always available during car trips for powering or recharging all sorts of electronic gizmo's. If you're going camping the whole idea is to leave society behind (though I will admit I'll be watching the basketball game Friday from the cabin on my phone).
Looks like you can get a VM phone provisioned with an IMEI from the Sprint pool if you use AirRave, apparently there's a new version of the AirRave coming out this year that doesn't have that requirement.
Optimus V, 3.2" 320*480, processor isn't the fastest but the only slowdown I've noticed is when the stupid javascript heavy ads make angry birds a bit sluggish.
1W is the EIRP limit for indoor use so it's largely going to depend on what kind of antenna you put in front of that small amp, but in general you won't be able to easily exceed the limit. That said the rules also state that the manufacturer must not enable easy end user modification or reconfiguration to non-tested setups. The reason is that if you put the wrong kind of antennae or amp in front of a certified device you can easily end up with a device that spews garbage all over the spectrum.
Except no carrier I'm aware of has their own Android app store, Sprint gives me a Sprint channel which highlights their offerings but all the apps that are available on the Google run app store can be downloaded or bought. I can't imagine even Verizon would want the work of screening tens of thousands of apps if Google is already doing the work.
Eh, most stations that do sports use 720p because of the motion aspect (actually almost all the programming on my local's that are in HD are 720p, 1080i is mostly movies).
My wife got a LG Optimus V with Virgin for $150 and it's a *way* better phone than the curve (it might be better than my 9700 if you don't need to write a lot).
Virgin Mobile (Sprint) offers unlimited text and data and 300 minutes for $25 plus sales tax (no other fees) which is IMHO the best offer available right now. Overage minutes are only $.10 per so unless you use a stupid amount of voice minutes every month you don't even need to move up to the next higher plan. Now being able to use that plan obviously hinges on living in an area with good Sprint coverage, but if you do I'd say go for it. I was impressed enough with the coverage and speeds that my wife got that I move my business phone from T-Mobile (UMA was great for coverage holes!) and since I can roam onto Verizon at 1xRTT speeds even the fairly spare nationwide map isn't a problem when we travel.
Boomerang is the vehicle mounted system and it works very well in urban environments according to both army testing and in field after action reports, the first and second generation units were not perfect but were effective with the third generation being the widely deployed version. They're also fairly inexpensive, the fixed price contact (not cost plus) was under $9,100 per unit. I would guess that this system will be less effective due to the fact that the microphones won't be nearly as good and the fact that they will probably have less processing power than the vehicle mounted version due to power requirements.
They tend to use very large fireworks (aka IED's) for that purpose and they tend to be rather more effective at killing said soldiers than actually engaging them in a gunfight since our soldiers are better trained than the insurgents.
Dude you don't need to be convicted of a felony, or even a crime to have your rights revoked. In many states a simple psych eval is all that's needed to deny you your rights (psychology is a pseudo-science with many quacks willing to say whatever gets them paid). Another example is in Ohio where *any* drug conviction even a minor misdemeanor (same as a ticket and technically not a crime) bars your from owning a firearm until and unless you are able to beg your county prosecutor to reinstate your rights.
The straight DOM modification was the only test where FF4RC1 was significantly faster than Chrome 10 for me. FF was about twice as fast there but Chrome was 1.4x faster on the prototype test and 1.2x faster on the jquery version. Overall through the DOM manipulation tests Chrome 10 averaged about twice as high as FF4 and had instances up to 8x faster. That's pretty much what I've found in my day to day browsing experience as well.
It's actually a pretty damn good phone too. Bought one for the wife and it convinced me that Android, and Sprint's network around me are good enough that I'm switching my work phone to an EVO Shift 4G on Sprint.
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Drive another 20 miles away from the city and you will see more stars than 90+% of the first world's population has seen in their life. One of the most amazing things I have experienced in my life is stargazing in the desert southwest.
I guess my question is why is he debugging on a Gingerbread phone when the *vast* majority of devices on the market are on 2.1 or 2.2?
Yeah, it's "doable" except for the fact that when you work at those kinds of power the leads have to be huge and the connections perfect and well greased or things go boom. Oh and charging your car for one hours drivetime isn't what most people would consider reasonable so more like you'd need 300A x4 at 480V which gets into crispy end user territory.
Yeah but since 100% of world manufacturing capacity for PV is booked for the next couple years it might make sense to install them in areas where they will generate the most power.
Exactly, my company is involved in the largest ever commercial solar project but we get almost no press because solar farm installed on the roof of 200 malls isn't as sensational as the largest building in the US going mostly solar even though the 259MW of capacity if the project is fully built would be 2.5x the size of the largest single site solar power plant in existance today.
I know here in Cleveland the payoff period for solar cells even with net metering is longer than the warranty, but then half the cost is in installation and with this project they were going to be replacing the windows anyways so it's just the net installation cost difference between the normal replacement and the solar units that needs to be counted.
Heck I looked into solar hot water but because of the hard freeze you either need a drainback system or a triple heat exchange system and both have costs greater than their expected lifetime payoff. For me it would make WAY more sense to give my buddy a low interest loan to install a solar hot water heater and other projects since he lives in Austin which is a much better environment for such things.
Kowloon is 43,000/km^2 which is amazing considering Manhattan is 27,600/km^2, I'm not sure I can image a place almost 60% denser than Manhattan (though it's a bit denser if you take out the 5% that's central park).
For serious work I agree, that's why my work phone is a EVO Shift 4G. However for checking email, google navigation, and entering appointments, which is what my wife uses hers for, it's quite sufficient.
Everything has a wall wart and I don't think my cars alternator is going to notice the few watts of inefficiency =)
Dude, inverter. Ours is always available during car trips for powering or recharging all sorts of electronic gizmo's. If you're going camping the whole idea is to leave society behind (though I will admit I'll be watching the basketball game Friday from the cabin on my phone).
Inflation adjusted it's not much more expensive than the original Gameboy ($180 in 2011 dollars) and that sold 120M units.
Looks like you can get a VM phone provisioned with an IMEI from the Sprint pool if you use AirRave, apparently there's a new version of the AirRave coming out this year that doesn't have that requirement.
Optimus V, 3.2" 320*480, processor isn't the fastest but the only slowdown I've noticed is when the stupid javascript heavy ads make angry birds a bit sluggish.
1W is the EIRP limit for indoor use so it's largely going to depend on what kind of antenna you put in front of that small amp, but in general you won't be able to easily exceed the limit. That said the rules also state that the manufacturer must not enable easy end user modification or reconfiguration to non-tested setups. The reason is that if you put the wrong kind of antennae or amp in front of a certified device you can easily end up with a device that spews garbage all over the spectrum.
Except no carrier I'm aware of has their own Android app store, Sprint gives me a Sprint channel which highlights their offerings but all the apps that are available on the Google run app store can be downloaded or bought. I can't imagine even Verizon would want the work of screening tens of thousands of apps if Google is already doing the work.
Verizon LTE that just launched is built in the 700MHz spectrum.
Eh, most stations that do sports use 720p because of the motion aspect (actually almost all the programming on my local's that are in HD are 720p, 1080i is mostly movies).
My wife got a LG Optimus V with Virgin for $150 and it's a *way* better phone than the curve (it might be better than my 9700 if you don't need to write a lot).
Virgin Mobile (Sprint) offers unlimited text and data and 300 minutes for $25 plus sales tax (no other fees) which is IMHO the best offer available right now. Overage minutes are only $.10 per so unless you use a stupid amount of voice minutes every month you don't even need to move up to the next higher plan. Now being able to use that plan obviously hinges on living in an area with good Sprint coverage, but if you do I'd say go for it. I was impressed enough with the coverage and speeds that my wife got that I move my business phone from T-Mobile (UMA was great for coverage holes!) and since I can roam onto Verizon at 1xRTT speeds even the fairly spare nationwide map isn't a problem when we travel.
Boomerang is the vehicle mounted system and it works very well in urban environments according to both army testing and in field after action reports, the first and second generation units were not perfect but were effective with the third generation being the widely deployed version. They're also fairly inexpensive, the fixed price contact (not cost plus) was under $9,100 per unit. I would guess that this system will be less effective due to the fact that the microphones won't be nearly as good and the fact that they will probably have less processing power than the vehicle mounted version due to power requirements.
They tend to use very large fireworks (aka IED's) for that purpose and they tend to be rather more effective at killing said soldiers than actually engaging them in a gunfight since our soldiers are better trained than the insurgents.
Dude you don't need to be convicted of a felony, or even a crime to have your rights revoked. In many states a simple psych eval is all that's needed to deny you your rights (psychology is a pseudo-science with many quacks willing to say whatever gets them paid). Another example is in Ohio where *any* drug conviction even a minor misdemeanor (same as a ticket and technically not a crime) bars your from owning a firearm until and unless you are able to beg your county prosecutor to reinstate your rights.
On Windows it uses the Windows encryption services so your login password is effectively your master password.
The straight DOM modification was the only test where FF4RC1 was significantly faster than Chrome 10 for me. FF was about twice as fast there but Chrome was 1.4x faster on the prototype test and 1.2x faster on the jquery version. Overall through the DOM manipulation tests Chrome 10 averaged about twice as high as FF4 and had instances up to 8x faster. That's pretty much what I've found in my day to day browsing experience as well.
It's actually a pretty damn good phone too. Bought one for the wife and it convinced me that Android, and Sprint's network around me are good enough that I'm switching my work phone to an EVO Shift 4G on Sprint.