A thermostat still provides a simple "I'm too hot" and "I'm too cold" control.
You turn on the car after it has been sitting in the sun. It is hot as hell. You open all the windows, but mostly you just want ice cold air ASAP. So far, no problem, the thermostat will be pumping the car full of the coldest air it has. But like 5 minutes into your journey, the car is still far from the ideal temperature, but you really can't stand any more ice cold air blowing on you, so you turn the mixer so that the air temperature isn't so arctic. A thermostat would not do this - it would just keep pumping cold air until the car came to temperature. You could put a separate mix control thermostat in the ductwork, but now the controls are quickly approaching the complexity that you are bemoaning in the first place.
Multi-zone would indeed help the passenger, but now you are talking multiple air handlers/fans/baffles, which is certainly going to cost more. I've seen this in luxury cars, but it's not something that I would spend money on.... I'd just tell my passenger to close the damn vent!:)
This is a difficult problem, though. Do you want the thermostat to control the temperature of the car or the temperature of the air coming out of the vent blowing all over you? Will you automatically adjust things when the passenger, who is sitting in the shady side, closes their vent? Sometimes a simple "I'm too hot" or "I'm too cold" knob is the way to go.
Data protection in the private sphere is one of the few areas where the EU has its shit together.
But I don't think this is "having their shit together" - I think this is good intentions gone wrong. I'm waiting for an industrious individual to set up a site which compares the US and EU versions of Google search terms and makes things that people are trying to hide more obvious. By singling out search results, they are making it clear which data is more important. It is rare to get human-curated data like this. It is similar to the way Google links to the DMCA requests in their search results - that is the first place a pirate should click if they are looking for buried treasure.
Troop transports are useless without some kind of fire support. This can be surface ships or air support, but if they sail right up to the beach they are sitting ducks for ground forces. Subs need not worry about troop transports, only capital ships. Even China cannot send so many troop transports that these alone would overwhelm semi-competent ground forces. Even if the transports somehow made it ashore, the guys sitting in tanks and armored personnel carriers would have a field day, as would artillery crews and machine gun nests.
Now if China were to somehow control the air such that they could bring in attack helicopters and ground support aircraft, that would probably seriously diminish the submarine's effectiveness. On the other hand, give the Japanese some credit. If there are no capital ships lurking around for the subs to sink, that opens the door to speed boats to attack any landing craft. Even with command of the air, it would be very difficult to scrub the seas of fast attack craft that only need enough armament to sink (or simply disable) a troop transport.
Why 3 years? N. Korea: 3 years Vietnam: 9 years (and that's if you ignore the lower-level 10 years prior) Iraq: 9 years Afghanistan: 13 years, so far
I saw your use of the word "eventually", but that is so ambiguous... "eventually" the sun will consume the earth. And the US has been in wars lasting longer than 3 years that did not result in a draw, loss, or return to pre-war borders/conditions: Civil War, World War II, Bosnian War
And there have been short wars which did result in a draw, loss, or return to pre-war borders/conditions: War of 1812, Lebanon in the 80s
Japan could never prevent a Chinese invasion using conventional forces.
Why not? Japan has a substantial air force - over 300 fighters, along with AWACS. They also have one of the most advanced sub fleets in the world, and theater air defense via Aegis cruisers.
I guess I assumed that they used an average, but my dark Google arts give me:
"The average man drives 16,550 miles per year, while the average woman drives 10,142 miles."
So for some - probably nefarious - reason Edmunds overstates mileage.
But would you look at that number: 16,550. I presume they are using average as "mean". That just seems impossible, doesn't it? But then I remember visiting my friend down south, where everything was a 40 mile drive. Everything. I'm probably just spoiled living in a metro area.
I'd be happy to pay an external cost to the gasoline. But I won't do it unless it is also applied to the guy in the Prius driving 40 miles each way to work. I use so little gasoline that I'm not worth your time to reply. My cars will literally rot out before they wear out.
The TCO estimates also use 15,000 miles/year as their base. Some people are fortunate enough to choose a place to live that is close to their job (or vice versa). My wife puts a whole 3500 miles on her Camry each year and I put around 7000 on the Sienna. They simply don't make hybrids or electrics that are cost effective for us.
It's still not a "problem", though - since CAFE standards have really kicked in and average sedan mileage starts to approach hybrid mileage. Fleet mileage is the only important number, and a Prius-sized "regular" car is all the way up to around 37 MPG this coming year. Every year, the incentive to go hybrid gets weaker as the CAFE standards get tighter.
Google's services are nice, but have several limitations: - Library supports music only - Library is limited to 20,000 songs - I'm just as tied to a proprietary solution as I am with iTunes.
Which is called "bluetooth".
That's not the functionality I want. I'm looking for something like Sonos or Airplay offers. I can put a Sonos box (expensive) or Airport Express (cheap) in each room where I want music. Then I can select which rooms I want to play the music (say, deck and living room) and the music will be in sync so that you don't get a weird echo effect. MagicPlay was supposed to be an open-source version of this but I don't see any activity.
iTunes has the additional fun feature at parties where I can give anyone with Wifi access to the iTunes library and they can vote for music while iTunes is in DJ mode. It's not critical, but it is fun. I have an Android app that lets me do this from my phone.
I agree that the interface is lacking, and I'd even be willing to run multiple (compatible) solutions. I just can't find anything with the same capabilities. I really, really would like to switch. I was hoping that "MagicPlay" would help fill the gap, but I never heard another word after the initial flurry of announcements a year ago.
You jest, but I would love to have something available in the open source world that can: - Hold all of my media - Curate it (rankings, playlists, etc.) - Make it available on my various mobile devices and computers - Make it available on my TV - Let me play it over remote, synchronized speakers. - Change ratings from my mobile devices
Right now I can't do all of those things, and so I end up stuck in iTunes. I run Subsonic, which does a lot of that, but does not allow per-file rankings and does not play over remote speakers. Well, technically I got a single set of remote speakers to work using an open source airplay tool, but it loses the synchronization and is a PITA to switch target speakers. I run Plex, which is great and has some good mobile tools - but does not have remote speaker or curator tools on par with iTunes. Things move fast, so maybe I'm just not keeping up - but I would love to ditch iTunes. It forces me to keep an old Mac running 24/7. Yes, I could move it to a newer PC but I already have the Mac, so...
The only way flag-burning would be banned is through a constitutional amendment, which itself would probably be so narrow that it would only include flag desecration. I don't buy the "slippery slope" argument here.
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I prefer the less-ambiguous "prime enough".
A thermostat still provides a simple "I'm too hot" and "I'm too cold" control.
You turn on the car after it has been sitting in the sun. It is hot as hell. You open all the windows, but mostly you just want ice cold air ASAP. So far, no problem, the thermostat will be pumping the car full of the coldest air it has. But like 5 minutes into your journey, the car is still far from the ideal temperature, but you really can't stand any more ice cold air blowing on you, so you turn the mixer so that the air temperature isn't so arctic. A thermostat would not do this - it would just keep pumping cold air until the car came to temperature. You could put a separate mix control thermostat in the ductwork, but now the controls are quickly approaching the complexity that you are bemoaning in the first place.
Multi-zone would indeed help the passenger, but now you are talking multiple air handlers/fans/baffles, which is certainly going to cost more. I've seen this in luxury cars, but it's not something that I would spend money on.... I'd just tell my passenger to close the damn vent! :)
This is a difficult problem, though. Do you want the thermostat to control the temperature of the car or the temperature of the air coming out of the vent blowing all over you? Will you automatically adjust things when the passenger, who is sitting in the shady side, closes their vent? Sometimes a simple "I'm too hot" or "I'm too cold" knob is the way to go.
LOL, awesome. "Evolution is a Religion and Not Science" is one of the headings on the "Evolution" page :)
Data protection in the private sphere is one of the few areas where the EU has its shit together.
But I don't think this is "having their shit together" - I think this is good intentions gone wrong. I'm waiting for an industrious individual to set up a site which compares the US and EU versions of Google search terms and makes things that people are trying to hide more obvious. By singling out search results, they are making it clear which data is more important. It is rare to get human-curated data like this. It is similar to the way Google links to the DMCA requests in their search results - that is the first place a pirate should click if they are looking for buried treasure.
"Syncing data between devices"? It's 2014 - this is a solved problem.
In order to make money from kids they solve a whole bunch of interesting engineering and logistical challenges.
On the other hand, in 20 years or so there won't be a single valid patent :)
Troop transports are useless without some kind of fire support. This can be surface ships or air support, but if they sail right up to the beach they are sitting ducks for ground forces. Subs need not worry about troop transports, only capital ships. Even China cannot send so many troop transports that these alone would overwhelm semi-competent ground forces. Even if the transports somehow made it ashore, the guys sitting in tanks and armored personnel carriers would have a field day, as would artillery crews and machine gun nests.
Now if China were to somehow control the air such that they could bring in attack helicopters and ground support aircraft, that would probably seriously diminish the submarine's effectiveness. On the other hand, give the Japanese some credit. If there are no capital ships lurking around for the subs to sink, that opens the door to speed boats to attack any landing craft. Even with command of the air, it would be very difficult to scrub the seas of fast attack craft that only need enough armament to sink (or simply disable) a troop transport.
Why 3 years?
N. Korea: 3 years
Vietnam: 9 years (and that's if you ignore the lower-level 10 years prior)
Iraq: 9 years
Afghanistan: 13 years, so far
I saw your use of the word "eventually", but that is so ambiguous... "eventually" the sun will consume the earth. And the US has been in wars lasting longer than 3 years that did not result in a draw, loss, or return to pre-war borders/conditions: Civil War, World War II, Bosnian War
And there have been short wars which did result in a draw, loss, or return to pre-war borders/conditions: War of 1812, Lebanon in the 80s
Japan could never prevent a Chinese invasion using conventional forces.
Why not? Japan has a substantial air force - over 300 fighters, along with AWACS. They also have one of the most advanced sub fleets in the world, and theater air defense via Aegis cruisers.
I don't. My wife has one and I have another. I can't rule out buying a toy, however.
I guess I assumed that they used an average, but my dark Google arts give me:
"The average man drives 16,550 miles per year, while the average woman drives 10,142 miles."
So for some - probably nefarious - reason Edmunds overstates mileage.
But would you look at that number: 16,550. I presume they are using average as "mean". That just seems impossible, doesn't it? But then I remember visiting my friend down south, where everything was a 40 mile drive. Everything. I'm probably just spoiled living in a metro area.
I'd be happy to pay an external cost to the gasoline. But I won't do it unless it is also applied to the guy in the Prius driving 40 miles each way to work. I use so little gasoline that I'm not worth your time to reply. My cars will literally rot out before they wear out.
It still doesn't work out economically. A Prius plugin starts at around $30k. A Corolla is half that.
The TCO estimates also use 15,000 miles/year as their base. Some people are fortunate enough to choose a place to live that is close to their job (or vice versa). My wife puts a whole 3500 miles on her Camry each year and I put around 7000 on the Sienna. They simply don't make hybrids or electrics that are cost effective for us.
It's still not a "problem", though - since CAFE standards have really kicked in and average sedan mileage starts to approach hybrid mileage. Fleet mileage is the only important number, and a Prius-sized "regular" car is all the way up to around 37 MPG this coming year. Every year, the incentive to go hybrid gets weaker as the CAFE standards get tighter.
That's for a 6-week controlled experimental trial.
Well, when Africans go from subsistence to dying from overabundance of nutrients, we can move on to that problem.
The chutes also help them slow down after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
If by "giving" you mean "hurling at in a hostile or jocular manner".
Google's services are nice, but have several limitations:
- Library supports music only
- Library is limited to 20,000 songs
- I'm just as tied to a proprietary solution as I am with iTunes.
Which is called "bluetooth".
That's not the functionality I want. I'm looking for something like Sonos or Airplay offers. I can put a Sonos box (expensive) or Airport Express (cheap) in each room where I want music. Then I can select which rooms I want to play the music (say, deck and living room) and the music will be in sync so that you don't get a weird echo effect. MagicPlay was supposed to be an open-source version of this but I don't see any activity.
iTunes has the additional fun feature at parties where I can give anyone with Wifi access to the iTunes library and they can vote for music while iTunes is in DJ mode. It's not critical, but it is fun. I have an Android app that lets me do this from my phone.
I agree that the interface is lacking, and I'd even be willing to run multiple (compatible) solutions. I just can't find anything with the same capabilities. I really, really would like to switch. I was hoping that "MagicPlay" would help fill the gap, but I never heard another word after the initial flurry of announcements a year ago.
You jest, but I would love to have something available in the open source world that can:
- Hold all of my media
- Curate it (rankings, playlists, etc.)
- Make it available on my various mobile devices and computers
- Make it available on my TV
- Let me play it over remote, synchronized speakers.
- Change ratings from my mobile devices
Right now I can't do all of those things, and so I end up stuck in iTunes. I run Subsonic, which does a lot of that, but does not allow per-file rankings and does not play over remote speakers. Well, technically I got a single set of remote speakers to work using an open source airplay tool, but it loses the synchronization and is a PITA to switch target speakers. I run Plex, which is great and has some good mobile tools - but does not have remote speaker or curator tools on par with iTunes. Things move fast, so maybe I'm just not keeping up - but I would love to ditch iTunes. It forces me to keep an old Mac running 24/7. Yes, I could move it to a newer PC but I already have the Mac, so...
The only way flag-burning would be banned is through a constitutional amendment, which itself would probably be so narrow that it would only include flag desecration. I don't buy the "slippery slope" argument here.