A LM6000 aero derivative gas turbine will start up in 10-15 minutes. There really isn't much need for stop gap systems like compressed air unless your meteorologists are really bad.
There are plenty of garbage incineration plants around, the biggest complaint are all the heavy metals and toxins that get released that are not found in natural gas. They can be scrubbed, but it is relatively difficult and expensive to do it really well.
Fundamentally, it isn't any different from desktop OSes. Practically though, most pc software available today is designed to run on a broad range of systems because of developer experience and a slightly more stable platform for which to code.
Android is moving very fast now, and the hardware (phones) it runs on is moving equally fast. It should be easy for developers to maintain some form of backwards compatibility, but most don't have the resources to buy and test on 14 different phones, whereas a program that runs on Windows on a Dell will usually run on Windows on a Gateway without any effort.
Assuming the recent Apple lawsuit doesn't set Android back several years, I'm hoping these issues will largely become irrelevant in a year or two. If it doesn't, well, we'll just have to wait and find out.
Wind power, in our foreseeable future, will never be able to provide enough electricity for most industrial countries, therefore storage of wind power isn't really necessary. The natural gas powered turbines are the storage/take up the slack mechanism.
The only time I see wind power storage necessary is if there is no grid to connect to and the area served doesn't have backup generation capabilities. That probably isn't going to happen on the scale needed to drive massive energy storage technology.
I have an Android phone (HTC Hero). Where do I go to install Goggles, Buzz, or say the USAA Mobile App? Short answer: I can't because don't have Android 1.6 or greater. HTC and Sprint have not released an update for the Hero yet, although they say it is coming. Have you checked out the reviews for many Android apps? You'll see people chiming in that it works on the Drood but not on the Hero.
Yes, I am aware that every OS has versions, and some are incompatible, but the whole point of the article is that there are so many versions of Android it is harder to keep track. There are devices currently shipping that have Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.,1 with no unified strategy to get everyone on the same playing field.
Compared the iPhone, which has had several OS releases, everyone gets the opportunity to install the new software at the same time. Again, I realize that original iPhone owners don't get the benefits of hardware GPS and 3G/3GS only apps, but the control Apple has, irregardless of philosophical objections, allows them to have a fairly static platform for which to develop.
Overall I think the Android platform has a lot going for it, but if I have to keep buying a new phone every year to stay on top of the software updates or wait for custom ROMs, I will eventually get tired and move to something else.
I've asked the same question and the response was basically "insurance is the problem, not the answer". Yes, while I agree health care costs seem outrageous in the US, until they are brought under control, health insurance is necessary if you don't want to go bankrupt when you get sick.
It's been mentioned other places, but the new Sprint Everything plans include free roaming (data included) which means you get the entire Sprint network as well as the Verizon one. Many phones have an option to force roaming, so you aren't constantly plagued with a bad Sprint signal.
So how is it that my company only pays ~$850 a year for my basic medical coverage (dental and vision is not included in that) yet someone who doesn't work for a big company has to pay 10x more?
I completely agree that the costs of health care need to be reduced, but until they are, any major illness for anyone not independently wealthy is likely to end in bankruptcy. All that money that isn't collected? Those costs are passed onto those of us who have insurance, which is just one part of the bigger problem.
What are we to do about health care then? The free market and corporations have no interest in serving the entire population, as seen by the number of people who don't have, or can't afford health insurance. Case in point, a friend has 3 income sources and makes a reasonable $40-50k a year. Independent health care plans would cost her over $1000 a month! Where can someone like that go to get coverage?
I have flown in and out of the US a couple times, and taken a car to Canada, and no TSA/border patrol agent has used an RFID scanner on my passport that I was aware of. I even went so far as to ask at the airport why they were using the optical scanner instead of the RFID and the guy said it was faster and easier to use the traditional optical scanners. Now they may scan the RFID anyway, and do the optical scan to see if they match, but considering most non-US passports don't have RFID I'm not sure it's going to make any difference if it is deactivated or not.
Have you checked out shoes by Inov-8? Many models have relatively thin heel padding, great flexibility, and comparatively few marketing gimmicks like the big name shoe companies. Take a look at the F-Lite 230 or F-Lite 250.
Disclaimer: I am sponsored by Inov-8, but I've run in almost every major brand of shoe and I've found these the most comfortable on my feet.
I think you have that backwards. The 2nd gen Touch has a speaker, but no mic. You can buy the "Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic" and you then have a mic.
And how exactly would the eTrex unit you linked to help? It doesn't have a base map. It doesn't have a cell phone either. That unit is good for back woods use and geocaching.
Google maps does route finding, but I don't know if it will to dynamic route finding or turn by turn directions. From the demo, all they showed was watching your position on the map. Not the most useful, but I'm sure it will do more than that, if not now, then soon.
Oh, and those people that got stuck in the snow, they weren't lost, they got stuck. They needed to be able to call a tow truck. The best mapping software in the world wouldn't have helped them. They needed to be better prepared for the trip they were making, and needed to be smart about where to go once it started snowing. Maybe they should have gotten a SPOT device, that would have saved one life.
I think the parent was referring to a GPS offers mapping/route finding capabilities. Knowing where you are isn't that helpful if you don't have a map to tell you where to go...
Do you know how big solar towers have to be to make usable amounts of electricity? A 200 megawatt plant will have a 25,000 acre "farm" with a tower twice as tall as any man made structure today! Sure, you can grow stuff in your solar farm since you essentially making a huge greenhouse, but that is a huge amount of land required.
One large reason why we don't use more nuclear power in the US is because of the NRC has made it extremely risky to build and operate a plant. In the past, a power company had to apply for a permit to build a plant. Once they finished building it, they had to apply for another permit to operate the plant. Just because the plant was built, didn't mean you automatically got to use it. That's a huge amount of capital investment that you have no guarantee that you can even use.
Things are changing though, and currently (soon?) power companies will be able to apply for the build and operate permits at the same time, making it a much less risky proposition. Because of this Entergy and Dominion Energy are both looking at building new nuclear plants here in the US.
Oh, I agree it's a major limitation and PITA. I've got a Mac and I have to run a virtual machine to get it to work. I'm hoping TiVo gets their act together and offers a native Mac solution sometime before I upgrade to the next best thing. At least I can stream photos and music from the Mac.
Actually, you can with a Series 2 TiVo. You have to have a Windows based computer to run the TiVo Desktop software (the Mac version won't stream, yet) and you dump your video files to a specific folder in mpeg2 format. Then, on the Tivo you can browse the host computer and pick what you want to watch. Depending on file size/resolution you can watch as is streams or wait a bit to cache enough of the file on the TiVo.
I've never used any of the Myth stuff, so I can't say if it's any easier or harder.
I had a 2003 Saab 9-3 and the stereo was like that. Most interesting was the turn signal. Most cars you can hear the relay clicking, but not in the Saab, they actually play a tick-tock type noise through the front stereo speakers. It was all linked together with a fiber optic network that was also tied to the Onstar unit.
I don't know about neighboring counties, but I would be curious to see if anything changed. But, using your logic, if I put a "BEWARE OF DOG" sign in my front yard and my neighbors house gets broken into, am I responsible for causing a crime at his house?
Speaking of South Park, I saw previews for that episode and I've got to go watch that episode on Tivo tonight.
Firearms can be a deterrent, as shown by the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw. In 1982 they enacted a law requiring heads of households to keep at least one firearm in their homes. From 1982 to 1997 there were only two murders, both with knives. Residential burglary went down, as well as other violent crime rates.
If you were a criminal and knew that there was a good chance the home owner was armed, wouldn't you look for a different county?
In my experience, anything under 80 gigs can be powered from any laptop, once you get above that you need a desktop or extra power supply. Most of the smaller, slower, drives pull.5A which seems to be the limit for older laptops. Some of the newer laptops can supply the full 1A that the bigger drives want.
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A LM6000 aero derivative gas turbine will start up in 10-15 minutes. There really isn't much need for stop gap systems like compressed air unless your meteorologists are really bad.
There are plenty of garbage incineration plants around, the biggest complaint are all the heavy metals and toxins that get released that are not found in natural gas. They can be scrubbed, but it is relatively difficult and expensive to do it really well.
Fundamentally, it isn't any different from desktop OSes. Practically though, most pc software available today is designed to run on a broad range of systems because of developer experience and a slightly more stable platform for which to code.
Android is moving very fast now, and the hardware (phones) it runs on is moving equally fast. It should be easy for developers to maintain some form of backwards compatibility, but most don't have the resources to buy and test on 14 different phones, whereas a program that runs on Windows on a Dell will usually run on Windows on a Gateway without any effort.
Assuming the recent Apple lawsuit doesn't set Android back several years, I'm hoping these issues will largely become irrelevant in a year or two. If it doesn't, well, we'll just have to wait and find out.
Wind power, in our foreseeable future, will never be able to provide enough electricity for most industrial countries, therefore storage of wind power isn't really necessary. The natural gas powered turbines are the storage/take up the slack mechanism.
The only time I see wind power storage necessary is if there is no grid to connect to and the area served doesn't have backup generation capabilities. That probably isn't going to happen on the scale needed to drive massive energy storage technology.
I have an Android phone (HTC Hero). Where do I go to install Goggles, Buzz, or say the USAA Mobile App? Short answer: I can't because don't have Android 1.6 or greater. HTC and Sprint have not released an update for the Hero yet, although they say it is coming. Have you checked out the reviews for many Android apps? You'll see people chiming in that it works on the Drood but not on the Hero.
Yes, I am aware that every OS has versions, and some are incompatible, but the whole point of the article is that there are so many versions of Android it is harder to keep track. There are devices currently shipping that have Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.,1 with no unified strategy to get everyone on the same playing field.
Compared the iPhone, which has had several OS releases, everyone gets the opportunity to install the new software at the same time. Again, I realize that original iPhone owners don't get the benefits of hardware GPS and 3G/3GS only apps, but the control Apple has, irregardless of philosophical objections, allows them to have a fairly static platform for which to develop.
Overall I think the Android platform has a lot going for it, but if I have to keep buying a new phone every year to stay on top of the software updates or wait for custom ROMs, I will eventually get tired and move to something else.
I've asked the same question and the response was basically "insurance is the problem, not the answer". Yes, while I agree health care costs seem outrageous in the US, until they are brought under control, health insurance is necessary if you don't want to go bankrupt when you get sick.
Pirates wouldn't need a jet propulsion boat, they just need a rope cutter on their propeller shaft.
But can you tell the difference between an Cortland and a McIntosh apple by looking at them? How about organic vs. non-organic produce.
It's been mentioned other places, but the new Sprint Everything plans include free roaming (data included) which means you get the entire Sprint network as well as the Verizon one. Many phones have an option to force roaming, so you aren't constantly plagued with a bad Sprint signal.
So how is it that my company only pays ~$850 a year for my basic medical coverage (dental and vision is not included in that) yet someone who doesn't work for a big company has to pay 10x more? I completely agree that the costs of health care need to be reduced, but until they are, any major illness for anyone not independently wealthy is likely to end in bankruptcy. All that money that isn't collected? Those costs are passed onto those of us who have insurance, which is just one part of the bigger problem.
What are we to do about health care then? The free market and corporations have no interest in serving the entire population, as seen by the number of people who don't have, or can't afford health insurance. Case in point, a friend has 3 income sources and makes a reasonable $40-50k a year. Independent health care plans would cost her over $1000 a month! Where can someone like that go to get coverage?
I have flown in and out of the US a couple times, and taken a car to Canada, and no TSA/border patrol agent has used an RFID scanner on my passport that I was aware of. I even went so far as to ask at the airport why they were using the optical scanner instead of the RFID and the guy said it was faster and easier to use the traditional optical scanners. Now they may scan the RFID anyway, and do the optical scan to see if they match, but considering most non-US passports don't have RFID I'm not sure it's going to make any difference if it is deactivated or not.
In LeMans, every second counts. Check out the movie "Truth In 24" to see what goes into winning. It is (was?) a free download on iTunes.
Have you checked out shoes by Inov-8? Many models have relatively thin heel padding, great flexibility, and comparatively few marketing gimmicks like the big name shoe companies. Take a look at the F-Lite 230 or F-Lite 250.
Disclaimer: I am sponsored by Inov-8, but I've run in almost every major brand of shoe and I've found these the most comfortable on my feet.
I think you have that backwards. The 2nd gen Touch has a speaker, but no mic. You can buy the "Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic" and you then have a mic.
And how exactly would the eTrex unit you linked to help? It doesn't have a base map. It doesn't have a cell phone either. That unit is good for back woods use and geocaching.
Google maps does route finding, but I don't know if it will to dynamic route finding or turn by turn directions. From the demo, all they showed was watching your position on the map. Not the most useful, but I'm sure it will do more than that, if not now, then soon.
Oh, and those people that got stuck in the snow, they weren't lost, they got stuck. They needed to be able to call a tow truck. The best mapping software in the world wouldn't have helped them. They needed to be better prepared for the trip they were making, and needed to be smart about where to go once it started snowing. Maybe they should have gotten a SPOT device, that would have saved one life.
I think the parent was referring to a GPS offers mapping/route finding capabilities. Knowing where you are isn't that helpful if you don't have a map to tell you where to go...
Do you know how big solar towers have to be to make usable amounts of electricity? A 200 megawatt plant will have a 25,000 acre "farm" with a tower twice as tall as any man made structure today! Sure, you can grow stuff in your solar farm since you essentially making a huge greenhouse, but that is a huge amount of land required.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/02/66694
One large reason why we don't use more nuclear power in the US is because of the NRC has made it extremely risky to build and operate a plant. In the past, a power company had to apply for a permit to build a plant. Once they finished building it, they had to apply for another permit to operate the plant. Just because the plant was built, didn't mean you automatically got to use it. That's a huge amount of capital investment that you have no guarantee that you can even use.
Things are changing though, and currently (soon?) power companies will be able to apply for the build and operate permits at the same time, making it a much less risky proposition. Because of this Entergy and Dominion Energy are both looking at building new nuclear plants here in the US.
Oh, I agree it's a major limitation and PITA. I've got a Mac and I have to run a virtual machine to get it to work. I'm hoping TiVo gets their act together and offers a native Mac solution sometime before I upgrade to the next best thing. At least I can stream photos and music from the Mac.
Actually, you can with a Series 2 TiVo. You have to have a Windows based computer to run the TiVo Desktop software (the Mac version won't stream, yet) and you dump your video files to a specific folder in mpeg2 format. Then, on the Tivo you can browse the host computer and pick what you want to watch. Depending on file size/resolution you can watch as is streams or wait a bit to cache enough of the file on the TiVo.
I've never used any of the Myth stuff, so I can't say if it's any easier or harder.
Comcast gives you OnDemand for free, as long as you subscribe to the premium channel. I suppose it's a matter of market and company more so than HBO.
I had a 2003 Saab 9-3 and the stereo was like that. Most interesting was the turn signal. Most cars you can hear the relay clicking, but not in the Saab, they actually play a tick-tock type noise through the front stereo speakers. It was all linked together with a fiber optic network that was also tied to the Onstar unit.
I don't know about neighboring counties, but I would be curious to see if anything changed. But, using your logic, if I put a "BEWARE OF DOG" sign in my front yard and my neighbors house gets broken into, am I responsible for causing a crime at his house?
Speaking of South Park, I saw previews for that episode and I've got to go watch that episode on Tivo tonight.
Firearms can be a deterrent, as shown by the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw. In 1982 they enacted a law requiring heads of households to keep at least one firearm in their homes. From 1982 to 1997 there were only two murders, both with knives. Residential burglary went down, as well as other violent crime rates.
If you were a criminal and knew that there was a good chance the home owner was armed, wouldn't you look for a different county?
In my experience, anything under 80 gigs can be powered from any laptop, once you get above that you need a desktop or extra power supply. Most of the smaller, slower, drives pull .5A which seems to be the limit for older laptops. Some of the newer laptops can supply the full 1A that the bigger drives want.