So... the two regular production Chip computers I have sitting here on my desk don't exist? BTW, when do you think you will actually be able to buy the new Pi model? Can you even buy the Pi Zero which was announced months ago?
If you have a Chamberlain or Liftmaster garage door opener, you can buy this gateway for $37 which tells if the door is open or closed and can move the door plus other functions on Android and iPhone... probably easier than DIY (unless you like tinkering). http://www.amazon.com/Chamberl...
Tesla has over 3000 charging stations. Plugshare has more than 50,000 charging stations. In addition, most EV owners plug in at home for convenient overnight charging. Electricity is everywhere and everyone has access at home ( unlike gas stations which require a large investment and rely on trucks to deliver fuel).
Every day there is a company touting a new revolutionary battery technology. None of these have come to fruition. As Elon Musk said, "send me a sample and we'll evaluate it". Lot's of research making claims they can't back up. We may be waiting a long time for a breakthrough in batteries
I've taken a few multi thousand mile trips in my Tesla at a total cost of $4 for electricity. Are you telling me that this was all a dream and the thousands of worldwide Supercharger stations don't exist?
I don't expect that anyone drinks out of the monitoring wells... they are for, well, monitoring. However, groundwater is mobile. It flows through different layers of the, well, ground and eventually ends up downhill somewhere (i.e. NYC metropolitan area). (Interesting fact is that surface water flows such as rivers are only about 10% of fresh water flows. The rest are underground.) It's pretty obvious that the water will move to a place where someone has drilled a drinking water well... it's only a matter of time. Best to take care of this at the source.
From a linked article... some actual numbers: According to initial reports, the radioactivity levels are quite high and the leaked materials contain tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope. At one location, levels shot up 65,000 percent from from 12,300 picocuries per liter to over 8,000,000 picocuries per liter.
The usual denial from the power plant operator (nothing to worry about here...): Despite the size of the leak, Entergy, the company that owns the plant, has argued the radioactive materials only leaked into the groundwater and should not impact drinking water sources. (Not sure how radioactivity leaking into groundwater is not a concern for drinking water.)
The Governor seems to be concerned and has called for an investigation: Cuomo has called on Entergy to shut down the Indian Point facility while the full scope of the problem is assessed.
Further denials... yes, it's leaking but "no problem": “While elevated tritium in the ground onsite is not in accordance with our standards, there is no health or safety consequence to the public,” Entergy said in a statement late Saturday.
Old nuclear plant has had problems before: This isn’t the first problem with tritium leaks at Indian Point, which supplies around 30 percent of the electricity used in New York City. The plant had three emergency shutdowns in December, and there have been a number of leaks in recent years.
Hundreds of billions spent on climate research? ROTFL Only the fossil fuel industry (and their lackeys and various other paranoid conspiracy nutcases) deny climate change.
I think it is well established the Exxon is not "neutral" in any sense of the word on climate change. They directly fund deniers and have been doing this for years. Their financial interest is in continuing to burn more fossil fuels. Follow the money.
Thank you for reading the Declaration. From you attitude, I can sense that I am wasting my time but someone else may find this useful. You are right. It doesn't say that entitled little shits have the right to claim money from an employer who doesn't want them. However, it does say: 4. Servitude is prohibited and working for inadequate wages is servitude. 5. No cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment... like not being able to earn enough money for food or shelter. 22. This is very pertinent: "Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality." Here, also not being able to earn enough money for food and shelter is a violation. 23. "(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. 25. (Probably most relevant) "(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
I think that Yelp's (and many other companies) substandard wages are in violation of these rights.
Most wall wart chargers can be easily certified and these are available off the shelf from multiple suppliers so that doesn't mean anything. The battery itself can also be "certified". The problem is when you put the battery into a poorly designed and built "hoverboard" (i.e. no current limits, temperature sensors, random wires that can be shorted together, etc.) you can end up with the situation where these things have burned down houses.
In my house, if the hot tub heater, electric dryer, and baseboard heaters are all on at once, that's 25 kW. And that only takes 100 amps of my 200 amp service. Electric car can take another 10 kW. This project is for the military who will pay big bucks for underperforming, inefficient kit. This is just the military-industrial complex sucking your tax dollars... business as usual.
Airplanes for free? I thought that they cost tens of millions of dollars each and hundreds of millions for airports and more for air traffic control systems. Somebody has to pay for that.
It's not clear from the article, but the "complicated installation procedure" makes reference to a bunch of Windows anti-virus software and shows how it goes from RTF to EXE to DLLs which would seem to imply that this is Windows only (as usual). Anybody know?
I wish them good luck but they are a long way (and several difficult problems) from generating energy. Reminds me of the early hype for fission reactors... "Too cheap to meter" which turns out to mean "Too expensive to matter"
It's really a very simple device. Make a nanopore (very small hole) and run the DNA/RNA through it (all this takes is a few simple chemical steps to get the DNA/RNA to unfold). Measure the change in electrical potential as the DNA/RNA goes through the hole one base at a time (kind of like reading a string of different colored beads). The expensive part is the proprietary software to analyze the data... but that should get cheaper over time.
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I got two of the regular production models shipped to me months ago. (BTW, can you actually buy a Pi Zero anywhere today?)
4GB on board memory is better than an empty memory slot.
Pi doesn't do composite VGA at all.
It's comparable, not exactly the same as the Pi range. Better in some ways. Costs less.
So... the two regular production Chip computers I have sitting here on my desk don't exist?
BTW, when do you think you will actually be able to buy the new Pi model? Can you even buy the Pi Zero which was announced months ago?
This one seems pretty comparable:
http://getchip.com/
Built in WiFi, Bluetooth, 4GB memory... $9
If you have a Chamberlain or Liftmaster garage door opener, you can buy this gateway for $37 which tells if the door is open or closed and can move the door plus other functions on Android and iPhone... probably easier than DIY (unless you like tinkering).
http://www.amazon.com/Chamberl...
There is the Chip computer at $9 with WiFi and Bluetooth (and included 4GB memory).
http://getchip.com/
Tesla has over 3000 charging stations. Plugshare has more than 50,000 charging stations. In addition, most EV owners plug in at home for convenient overnight charging. Electricity is everywhere and everyone has access at home ( unlike gas stations which require a large investment and rely on trucks to deliver fuel).
Every day there is a company touting a new revolutionary battery technology. None of these have come to fruition. As Elon Musk said, "send me a sample and we'll evaluate it". Lot's of research making claims they can't back up. We may be waiting a long time for a breakthrough in batteries
The usual abbreviation for Internal Combustion Engine is ICE.
I've taken a few multi thousand mile trips in my Tesla at a total cost of $4 for electricity. Are you telling me that this was all a dream and the thousands of worldwide Supercharger stations don't exist?
I don't expect that anyone drinks out of the monitoring wells... they are for, well, monitoring.
However, groundwater is mobile. It flows through different layers of the, well, ground and eventually ends up downhill somewhere (i.e. NYC metropolitan area).
(Interesting fact is that surface water flows such as rivers are only about 10% of fresh water flows. The rest are underground.) It's pretty obvious that the water will move to a place where someone has drilled a drinking water well... it's only a matter of time.
Best to take care of this at the source.
From a linked article... some actual numbers:
According to initial reports, the radioactivity levels are quite high and the leaked materials contain tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope. At one location, levels shot up 65,000 percent from from 12,300 picocuries per liter to over 8,000,000 picocuries per liter.
The usual denial from the power plant operator (nothing to worry about here...):
Despite the size of the leak, Entergy, the company that owns the plant, has argued the radioactive materials only leaked into the groundwater and should not impact drinking water sources.
(Not sure how radioactivity leaking into groundwater is not a concern for drinking water.)
The Governor seems to be concerned and has called for an investigation:
Cuomo has called on Entergy to shut down the Indian Point facility while the full scope of the problem is assessed.
Further denials... yes, it's leaking but "no problem":
“While elevated tritium in the ground onsite is not in accordance with our standards, there is no health or safety consequence to the public,” Entergy said in a statement late Saturday.
Old nuclear plant has had problems before:
This isn’t the first problem with tritium leaks at Indian Point, which supplies around 30 percent of the electricity used in New York City. The plant had three emergency shutdowns in December, and there have been a number of leaks in recent years.
How do you stop the Internet from being abusive?
Hundreds of billions spent on climate research?
ROTFL
Only the fossil fuel industry (and their lackeys and various other paranoid conspiracy nutcases) deny climate change.
What is warming-cooling climate change?
I think it is well established the Exxon is not "neutral" in any sense of the word on climate change. They directly fund deniers and have been doing this for years. Their financial interest is in continuing to burn more fossil fuels.
Follow the money.
Thank you for reading the Declaration.
From you attitude, I can sense that I am wasting my time but someone else may find this useful.
You are right. It doesn't say that entitled little shits have the right to claim money from an employer who doesn't want them.
However, it does say:
4. Servitude is prohibited and working for inadequate wages is servitude.
5. No cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment... like not being able to earn enough money for food or shelter.
22. This is very pertinent: "Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality." Here, also not being able to earn enough money for food and shelter is a violation.
23. "(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
25. (Probably most relevant) "(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
I think that Yelp's (and many other companies) substandard wages are in violation of these rights.
The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (signed by US and most countries on earth) would beg to differ.
http://www.un.org/en/universal...
Most wall wart chargers can be easily certified and these are available off the shelf from multiple suppliers so that doesn't mean anything.
The battery itself can also be "certified".
The problem is when you put the battery into a poorly designed and built "hoverboard" (i.e. no current limits, temperature sensors, random wires that can be shorted together, etc.) you can end up with the situation where these things have burned down houses.
In my house, if the hot tub heater, electric dryer, and baseboard heaters are all on at once, that's 25 kW. And that only takes 100 amps of my 200 amp service. Electric car can take another 10 kW.
This project is for the military who will pay big bucks for underperforming, inefficient kit.
This is just the military-industrial complex sucking your tax dollars... business as usual.
Airplanes for free?
I thought that they cost tens of millions of dollars each and hundreds of millions for airports and more for air traffic control systems.
Somebody has to pay for that.
It's not clear from the article, but the "complicated installation procedure" makes reference to a bunch of Windows anti-virus software and shows how it goes from RTF to EXE to DLLs which would seem to imply that this is Windows only (as usual).
Anybody know?
Sorry to reply to myself... I should have said "Yes, weight matters in flight."
No, weight matters in flight.
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k...
I wish them good luck but they are a long way (and several difficult problems) from generating energy.
Reminds me of the early hype for fission reactors... "Too cheap to meter" which turns out to mean "Too expensive to matter"
It's really a very simple device. Make a nanopore (very small hole) and run the DNA/RNA through it (all this takes is a few simple chemical steps to get the DNA/RNA to unfold). Measure the change in electrical potential as the DNA/RNA goes through the hole one base at a time (kind of like reading a string of different colored beads).
The expensive part is the proprietary software to analyze the data... but that should get cheaper over time.
But we only want to get the airliner from the gate to the runway.