So where are you going? Out into the deep woods? Because most of the places people drive to today are electrified. Remember that I said 'moderately in the future' and 'superchargers are common'. IE even if there's not a charge point now, there will be in the future.
Just driving inland on the eastern side of Australia.The towns are in the range 100km to 150km apart. With the example 30 minutes for 300km range trying to drive that 300km would have the car flat between towns.That is why I said breaks would have to be changed. When I head south 230km would get me to a town with the next town a further 130km. Do the 30 minute charge then the next town to stop at is again 230km as 300km would not get to the next town after that. With the next charge a possible 110km down the road because after that are small towns where petrol stations and motel have been closing and some places are not much more than a pub, a church, grain silo and a couple of houses. Then one more stop after that for charging.
With the initial charge you mentioned and planing for the 30 minute stops it would be doable with stops needing to be more planned than "i want a break lets stop here".
Once down to wanting the 30 min for 300km charges would be stopping in as little as 230km to charge. Starting with a full charge would stop to charge 3 times. Starting with a 30 minute charge would stop to charge 4 times. Making it a 2 day trip instead of 1 day would save 1 charge later in the trip at the cost of a motel room for the night.
It was a round trip of 28km to the local shop for the bottle of vegemite I got the other day. For those trips an electric car with a range of a few hundred km would not think twice.
From some of the comments with the article what I am thinking is some electric vehicle owners are slow to say how long it takes to charge their car. Not that ev drivers don't know the difference. As we eventually would like an electric vehicle people saying how long a charge and real world range would be are nice things to know.
I am aware a person is supposed to take a break. That 13 hours includes rest and meal breaks so a single driver can have enough of a rest to do the trip. With multiple people to drive would drop that to 11 hours or less.
One trip we do the figures you gave would lengthen the time of the trip. The 500km range you mention would get us to our destination with no where to charge which would require a rethink of how the trip is done. The 1,000km each way trip I am doing these days would certainly require a rethink of where we stop. Without some care the 30 minute charge for 300km range would have the car flat between towns. If that is actual and not marketing it us useful information. Would mean stopping at towns we normally ignore. Like petrol consumption figures I would like to know what people are getting and not what the brochures says which seem to have a habit of not matching reality.
If I wanted to believe the manufacture fuel figures I would get 950km from a tank. This particular vehicle it is more like 800km for full to empty. I don't think we have ever had a vehicle where real world fuel consumption matched what the manufacturer said which leaves me jaded and curious what people actually get.
The point is you don't sit around and do 'nothing'. Since my wife got her Leaf she's never spent time just standing around waiting at the pump. Come home, pop the flap, plug it in walk inside. Stop thinking of filling up an electric car in the same terms of 'filling up' a gasoline one.
Depends what you are doing. If you are driving around the city then then plug it in for the night. At the moment I am regularly doing 2,000km trips. Having rest and meal breaks it is taking 13 hours each way. If trying to use an electric vehicle for that then any long charge times is sitting around and doing nothing while you wait for the car to charge.
How far was the trip and how long did you have to wait for the car to charge. With petrol or diesel I do 1,000km in 13 hours. Nearly all of my driving at the moment is such trips. How long would it take including charging time with the electric vehicle?
That option is only for wifi. There is no option to set ethernet as unmetered and the ms faq explicitly says ethernet can not be set unmetered. I found the same using usb tether which I use in preference to wifi hot spot. Both win 8.1 and 10 will happily set a wifi hot spot on a metered mobile phone connection as unmetered.
Unfortunately I am inclined to agree with this. Like the post you are responding to I try to ignore the ads and block a lot when I can. I still find sometimes when I want something and think of a brand to later realise it is a brand I saw from advertising. Same with product placement in stores.
In Australia friends don't let friends get used by PigPuddle. They instead send them here http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ and give them every opportunity to become an informed customer.
That is fine for friends but it does not help with parents. The names Telecom and Telstra have been around all their lives. It is the known brand. It is a big player so it must be better than any they have not heard of.
Even so parents eventually learn. It took less then 1 month before mum started realising that with the 1500/256 400 meg plan she was on actually gave her less freedom on the net than the no quota dialup plan she was using previously. With contract payout value she is not moving anywhere soon.
I found a way of getting the point across. Put it in terms of youtube videos. Point out with bigpond they might be able to watch a couple of youtube videos + their normal usage with bigpond compared to hundreds or thousands depending on which other isp.
To put in perspective the entry level plans have measly bandwidth quotas from 200mb to 600mb per month. Then to add further insult to injury any additional usage is charged at $150 per GB.
You missed out the bit in the book that comes in the self install kit about software updates.
Section - usage traps and how to avoid them.
"You should be aware just what your operating system and other software might do automatically. Windows XP, for example, is designed to check for updates on a regular basis - then download them without asking you. (And recent updates have been more than 150MB!) You may want to check your software user guides, and see how to turn this feature off."
Very small monthly quota and a suggestion to turn little features like windows update off.
Caller ID is not always useful. It works well when the person calling you is not using an unlisted number and the telco is passing the caller id info through to you. It does not work well when the people you want to talk to have an unlisted number so caller id says 'private' or the telcos can not get their act together about passing call id info between their networks and caller id says 'unavailable'.
Both could mean legitimate calls. Both could mean telemarketer scum. You don't know unless you answer the phone anyway.
I use an old 33.6k voice modem and vgetty. Doubles as both answering machine and dialin server. There is a 7 second window to start leaving a message. If no audio is detected in that 7 seconds it assumes it is a data call and tries initiating a data connection. For a little while that 7 seconds got dropped to 2 when the telemarketers starting getting worse than normal. After a couple of them got an earfull of modem noises the telemarketers dropped off for several weeks.
It is still better than some of the Australian broadband plans that are 150 meg or 200 meg quota a month. That pitiful quota also includes uploads and you get hit with an excess bill when you go over quota.
It is not a straight price conversion. When I have compared American prices with Australian prices I have found it to be convert USD to AUD then add anything up to a few hundred dollars and you might have the Australian price.
Just a quick look and the prices I found
office pro varying from $750 AUD to $850 AUD
office ultimate $999 AUD
Just to be picky, the comment with the summary says the solar cycle is due to start in 2010 or so. In the first paragraph of the article it says Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011.
Why not check out 10m now for the sporadic E? There has been plently of E layer propation around Australia. I have been watching http://propnet.org/ which shows there has been some good E layer propagation around North America as well.
10 is not as dead as a lot of people seem to think. It also makes a great local band.
I read somewhere that a 30 minute program has only 22 minutes of content. Three commercial breaks is pretty much the standard. Sitcoms are written in 3 acts to support this. I have never actually measured the amount of "content" but my gut tells me it's less than 22 minutes.
Sounds about right. I just check 2 episodes of sg1 I recorded because they were on just before midnight. Each in a 1 hour time slot. 1st was 42 minutes of program and the other 41 minutes. Futurama episodes are shown in a 30 minute time slot and only seem to be 20 minutes long. With the 2nd episode of sg1 there was 12 min 11 sec of ads in the program plus the usual rubbish before and after. With the longest ad break nearly 4 minutes.
Small sample bit it fits with what I have noticed. The 3 minute ad breaks get annoying
Using google to search for windows media player "calling home" gives over 11,000 hits. Ranging from indifference to people either explaining about it or asking how to stop it. People certainly noticed and where not happy about it. Just that nothing changed.
Exactly. Lots of folks don't realize we're in the bottom of the solar cycle. It's freaking dead on 10 meters (28 MHz) right now - I made a PSK-31 contact a month ago on 10m only because some other guy 40 miles from me was as curious as I was as to how dead it really was.
Maybe it depends where you are. Around Australia has been opening up with some sporadic E and back scatter. Same around America. Has been some good propagation across the Pacific. There have been a few threads on qrz about all the openings. East coast Australia, California, Texas, Florida talking to each other in the same qso.
Might not be as good as even last year but there is still fun to be had.
assume that no driver can see you, ride as if you were invisible.
My version is assume they are all out to kill you.
It is quite scary they way a car driver can pull up at the stop sign on the side road, look directly at you then continue through the stop sign cutting you off. Headlight off, headlight on, dark coloured clothes, light coloured clothes the cars drivers just don't see you.
But then look at the number of car drivers pull out in front on a semi because they did not see it. If they don't even see large trucks what chance do motorcycles have?
However, However, retail licenses (which still cost less than $400) can be transeferred to a new computer (reactivation) after being removed from the first computer.
Pick your country. In Austalia I have recently seen a retail xp pro for nearly $500.
Not sure why this is rated as funny. This is how I use bittorrent. I find it more convenient doing it this way on the headless machine that is connected to the net compared to using one of the other machines to manage any downloads.
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So where are you going? Out into the deep woods? Because most of the places people drive to today are electrified. Remember that I said 'moderately in the future' and 'superchargers are common'. IE even if there's not a charge point now, there will be in the future.
Just driving inland on the eastern side of Australia.The towns are in the range 100km to 150km apart. With the example 30 minutes for 300km range trying to drive that 300km would have the car flat between towns.That is why I said breaks would have to be changed. When I head south 230km would get me to a town with the next town a further 130km. Do the 30 minute charge then the next town to stop at is again 230km as 300km would not get to the next town after that. With the next charge a possible 110km down the road because after that are small towns where petrol stations and motel have been closing and some places are not much more than a pub, a church, grain silo and a couple of houses. Then one more stop after that for charging.
With the initial charge you mentioned and planing for the 30 minute stops it would be doable with stops needing to be more planned than "i want a break lets stop here".
Once down to wanting the 30 min for 300km charges would be stopping in as little as 230km to charge. Starting with a full charge would stop to charge 3 times. Starting with a 30 minute charge would stop to charge 4 times. Making it a 2 day trip instead of 1 day would save 1 charge later in the trip at the cost of a motel room for the night.
It was a round trip of 28km to the local shop for the bottle of vegemite I got the other day. For those trips an electric car with a range of a few hundred km would not think twice.
From some of the comments with the article what I am thinking is some electric vehicle owners are slow to say how long it takes to charge their car. Not that ev drivers don't know the difference. As we eventually would like an electric vehicle people saying how long a charge and real world range would be are nice things to know.
I am aware a person is supposed to take a break. That 13 hours includes rest and meal breaks so a single driver can have enough of a rest to do the trip. With multiple people to drive would drop that to 11 hours or less.
One trip we do the figures you gave would lengthen the time of the trip. The 500km range you mention would get us to our destination with no where to charge which would require a rethink of how the trip is done. The 1,000km each way trip I am doing these days would certainly require a rethink of where we stop. Without some care the 30 minute charge for 300km range would have the car flat between towns. If that is actual and not marketing it us useful information. Would mean stopping at towns we normally ignore. Like petrol consumption figures I would like to know what people are getting and not what the brochures says which seem to have a habit of not matching reality.
If I wanted to believe the manufacture fuel figures I would get 950km from a tank. This particular vehicle it is more like 800km for full to empty. I don't think we have ever had a vehicle where real world fuel consumption matched what the manufacturer said which leaves me jaded and curious what people actually get.
The point is you don't sit around and do 'nothing'. Since my wife got her Leaf she's never spent time just standing around waiting at the pump. Come home, pop the flap, plug it in walk inside. Stop thinking of filling up an electric car in the same terms of 'filling up' a gasoline one.
Depends what you are doing. If you are driving around the city then then plug it in for the night. At the moment I am regularly doing 2,000km trips. Having rest and meal breaks it is taking 13 hours each way. If trying to use an electric vehicle for that then any long charge times is sitting around and doing nothing while you wait for the car to charge.
How far was the trip and how long did you have to wait for the car to charge. With petrol or diesel I do 1,000km in 13 hours. Nearly all of my driving at the moment is such trips. How long would it take including charging time with the electric vehicle?
That option is only for wifi. There is no option to set ethernet as unmetered and the ms faq explicitly says ethernet can not be set unmetered. I found the same using usb tether which I use in preference to wifi hot spot. Both win 8.1 and 10 will happily set a wifi hot spot on a metered mobile phone connection as unmetered.
Unfortunately I am inclined to agree with this. Like the post you are responding to I try to ignore the ads and block a lot when I can. I still find sometimes when I want something and think of a brand to later realise it is a brand I saw from advertising. Same with product placement in stores.
That is exactly what it says. The bigpond section of whirpool is always fun to read seeing who has been hit with a 4 digit monthly net bill.
Jesus H. Christ! Just 200 megabytes a month? Sounds like you guys would welcome Comcast or Verizon.
Look for yourself http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/isp.cfm/Telstra-BigPond/1.html
Even on their highest speed cable plan the quota starts at 200 meg a month.
In Australia friends don't let friends get used by PigPuddle. They instead send them here http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ and give them every opportunity to become an informed customer.
That is fine for friends but it does not help with parents. The names Telecom and Telstra have been around all their lives. It is the known brand. It is a big player so it must be better than any they have not heard of.
Even so parents eventually learn. It took less then 1 month before mum started realising that with the 1500/256 400 meg plan she was on actually gave her less freedom on the net than the no quota dialup plan she was using previously. With contract payout value she is not moving anywhere soon.
I found a way of getting the point across. Put it in terms of youtube videos. Point out with bigpond they might be able to watch a couple of youtube videos + their normal usage with bigpond compared to hundreds or thousands depending on which other isp.
To put in perspective the entry level plans have measly bandwidth quotas from 200mb to 600mb per month. Then to add further insult to injury any additional usage is charged at $150 per GB.
You missed out the bit in the book that comes in the self install kit about software updates.
Section - usage traps and how to avoid them.
"You should be aware just what your operating system and other software might do automatically. Windows XP, for example, is designed to check for updates on a regular basis - then download them without asking you. (And recent updates have been more than 150MB!) You may want to check your software user guides, and see how to turn this feature off."
Very small monthly quota and a suggestion to turn little features like windows update off.
Maybe it depends where you are. I just found vista ultimate for $754 AUD which at the current exchange rate is $655 USD.
Caller ID is not always useful. It works well when the person calling you is not using an unlisted number and the telco is passing the caller id info through to you. It does not work well when the people you want to talk to have an unlisted number so caller id says 'private' or the telcos can not get their act together about passing call id info between their networks and caller id says 'unavailable'.
Both could mean legitimate calls. Both could mean telemarketer scum. You don't know unless you answer the phone anyway.
I use an old 33.6k voice modem and vgetty. Doubles as both answering machine and dialin server. There is a 7 second window to start leaving a message. If no audio is detected in that 7 seconds it assumes it is a data call and tries initiating a data connection. For a little while that 7 seconds got dropped to 2 when the telemarketers starting getting worse than normal. After a couple of them got an earfull of modem noises the telemarketers dropped off for several weeks.
Why not have a cron job that does apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade?
It is still better than some of the Australian broadband plans that are 150 meg or 200 meg quota a month. That pitiful quota also includes uploads and you get hit with an excess bill when you go over quota.
Just a quick look and the prices I found
office pro varying from $750 AUD to $850 AUD
office ultimate $999 AUD
Just to be picky, the comment with the summary says the solar cycle is due to start in 2010 or so. In the first paragraph of the article it says Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011.
10 is not as dead as a lot of people seem to think. It also makes a great local band.
Try again and this time don't drop the leading digit on the address.
Not quite, HF is 3MHz to 30MHz.
Sounds about right. I just check 2 episodes of sg1 I recorded because they were on just before midnight. Each in a 1 hour time slot. 1st was 42 minutes of program and the other 41 minutes. Futurama episodes are shown in a 30 minute time slot and only seem to be 20 minutes long. With the 2nd episode of sg1 there was 12 min 11 sec of ads in the program plus the usual rubbish before and after. With the longest ad break nearly 4 minutes.
Small sample bit it fits with what I have noticed. The 3 minute ad breaks get annoying
Using google to search for windows media player "calling home" gives over 11,000 hits. Ranging from indifference to people either explaining about it or asking how to stop it. People certainly noticed and where not happy about it. Just that nothing changed.
Maybe it depends where you are. Around Australia has been opening up with some sporadic E and back scatter. Same around America. Has been some good propagation across the Pacific. There have been a few threads on qrz about all the openings. East coast Australia, California, Texas, Florida talking to each other in the same qso.
Might not be as good as even last year but there is still fun to be had.
My version is assume they are all out to kill you.
It is quite scary they way a car driver can pull up at the stop sign on the side road, look directly at you then continue through the stop sign cutting you off. Headlight off, headlight on, dark coloured clothes, light coloured clothes the cars drivers just don't see you.
But then look at the number of car drivers pull out in front on a semi because they did not see it. If they don't even see large trucks what chance do motorcycles have?
Pick your country. In Austalia I have recently seen a retail xp pro for nearly $500.
Not sure why this is rated as funny. This is how I use bittorrent. I find it more convenient doing it this way on the headless machine that is connected to the net compared to using one of the other machines to manage any downloads.