For this attack is great if you have to identify the model/gyroscope and have done testing to get a value of the resonant frequencies of the gyroscope before hand and send a sound loud enough to disable it.
And Thinkgeek sells or used to sell a TV remote control that had programmed the IR "OFF" code to just about every television system that had ever been sold, and it would blast them all out at essentially the same time.
If drones become too annoying then people will refine this tech, making the packaging smaller, the directionality better, and the number of frequencies that it can hop-through more extensive and faster to switch through.
Trust me, with so many other sites to waste one's time on, getting first-post is not the achievement that it once was. Not that it was much of an achievement to begin with...
Isn't that what the motor run capacitor is supposed to help with?
I've repaired both automotive and residential HVAC systems and I've worked on light-duty commercial air compressors. I've never needed more than a 50A breaker, and I'm using reasonably quick-acting breakers.
If you look at vehicles like the AM General HMMWV you find that each wheel is connected to a control arm setup that places it low relative to where that control arm is mounted to the chassis. That has the effect of suspending the vehicle's center of mass from a higher point. This vehicle has a similar design.
The downside of this, which is also the downside of the HMMWV, is that the load carrying capacity is dramatically different than conventional suspensions and drivetrains, so that passengers and cargo have to be packaged weirdly to make it all work.
Actually I have. We did a road-trip into and through California when I was about 22 and we were all poor; we slept in the car at the rest-stop along the I-10 that's located in the San Gorgonio Pass and the San Gorgonio wind farm. No problems sleeping with the car windows down; couldn't hear turbines but could hear plenty of strong wind.
Besides, out in the bay where the turbines are visible near the horizon aren't going to amount to a hill-of-beans for houses so far from the project, other than that they're visible.
I have enough roof space for probably 40,000W of panels.
You have a big roof! Wish I had that much room!
I have a nearly 1000sqft detached workshop with a flat roof and parapet walls in addition to a large portion of my house having a flat roof with parapet walls. If I don't put any panels on the south-facing sloped roof I still probably have 2500sqft of flat roof with direct sun exposure for the bulk of the day, concealed behind the parapets.
The thing causing me to hold back is the electric utility. I want grid-tie with intentional islanding and battery storage if the grid loses power, and I don't want to get hammered with utility company fees like they're trying to get out of us if we go that route. I'd also like to get reimbursed a fair rate for the power I'd supply back to the grid during peak usage, but they're not interested in doing that either.
In fairness, the electric utility isn't completely wrong in wanting a fair shake.
For example, are you asking for net-metering where they pay you retail for your power, or are you asking for wholesale rates when you sell them back your power? The former is not reasonable, the latter is totally reasonable.
I'm not unhappy to make back less than the going rate for a given time of day, but they want to pay-back the rate during the peak of the day that they charge in the middle of the night to time-of-use customers. So they take power from me during the hottest, highest-demand and highest-customer-cost part of the day and pay me something like 1/8 of what they charge.
They also want to charge a separate fee, that they don't charge to non-solar properties, to tie me to the grid, and it's not insubstantial. Their crap-reimbursement plus high fee for simply being tied to the grid (and it's not permissible to not be tied to the grid) means that it costs the same to have solar as to not have solar.
If they charge every customer the grid-tie fee and then put actual charges for their electric use on properly I bet that many customers would find that half of their monthly bill was simply for the grid-connection.
That's my problem; they're intentionally screwing-over solar customers because they don't want anyone to be able to do without them. Eventually a tipping-point will come where we don't need them; storage capacity will make that so. They're attempting to swim against the oncoming flood.
Generally grid-tie systems need to shut down automatically when the power goes out, this is for the safety of the linemen working on the downed lines.
I don't disagree, that's why I want a controller that can detect when the grid is down and island the property from the grid, so that linemen aren't working on energized lines coming from my house.
When The Gamers and The Gamers: Dorkness Rising made on a shoestring budget with amateur actors are better than anything from Uwe Boll, maybe it's time for him to just stop...
Tucson, AZ, where 4 months out of the year the temperature is above 100F and the humidity above 40% so if you don't have an air-conditioner using direct-expansion gas (not a "swamp-cooler" or "mister") you will bake. They don't make any that run on DC. Even if they did, that would be a LOT of solar cells!
Actually they do make one with an AC/DC dual voltage motor. Lennox sells one. It's ridiculously expensive without even including the panels, but it was an option that we looked into a couple of years ago when we had to relace a 2.5 ton unit that had failed. The replacement alternating current model has a 30A circuit breaker on a 240VAC circuit, so it can draw a max of 7200 Watts. This 8000W system would be enough to power that air conditioner and have some to spare.
I have enough roof space for probably 40,000W of panels. The thing causing me to hold back is the electric utility. I want grid-tie with intentional islanding and battery storage if the grid loses power, and I don't want to get hammered with utility company fees like they're trying to get out of us if we go that route. I'd also like to get reimbursed a fair rate for the power I'd supply back to the grid during peak usage, but they're not interested in doing that either. I'm hoping that Solar City wins their lawsuit against the utility so that I can feel comfortable proceeding at some point down the road with this.
AC has one significant advantage in that it generates much less heat on the wire, and the higher voltages, within reason, allow for smaller wires to do the same work, as wire size need is a function of amps.
Yeah, that seems like a rather silly argument if that was the principal reason for not buying an otherwise appealing property. Humans have had methods to raise water for literally thousands of years. Adapting one to an unpowered well shouldn't be that difficult or expensive.
The line losses are a NIMBY problem, people don't want power plants near their houses.
The fuel-source problem is people not being willing to pay for more expensive renewables, or in electing politicians that oppose them while continuing to subsidize fossil-fuels.
Those things can be fixed only if people as groups are willing to accept these differences and their costs, or if someone decides to put solar panels, at increasing personal expense given the utility companies' objections, on their property.
So, "its work to continue," is a misnomer then. It's more accurate to state that other organizations with similar objectives will continue to pursue them even though this organization has bowed-out. It's not like the closing of this organization is directly causing its resources and specific pursuits to be applied post-mortem.
I suppose I should add, even in those circumstances it would be demoralizing to rely entirely on this drink for complete nutritional sustenance, and at least one real, substantial, solid meal per day would be needed. Soldiers on-patrol or on-alert that simply can't stop to have a meal would probably be the only ones that would 'benefit' from this.
I can only think of specific applications when this might be worthwhile, like where one has to remain mobile for some time and carry one's supplies in an area with very little water available, but that's a pretty unusual set of circumstances. You almost have to be a refugee or a forward-deployed soldier to involuntarily enter those conditions, and only militaries would have the supply capability to afford to intermittently replenish stock at that price.
One also doesn't have to use facebook. I don't even have a facebook account, nor do I plan to ever have a facebook account.
On the other hand, for Google's integrated stuff for Android to work properly, ie, contacts list, mail, documents/drive, calendar, etc, one has to have a Google account. Before Plus, that Google account was essentially private. Plus felt like an unwelcome intrusion that was one messed up privacy setting away from publishing stuff that wasn't meant for more than my own personal interoperability.
Fact of the matter is, most people that want a social network for personal communication have signed up for one already, and they've probably gone with Facebook because it's the biggest, and being the biggest makes it easiest to justify choosing it. Google's attempts to foist Plus on us felt a lot like how Microsoft forced Internet Explorer on us by bundling it with Windows 95 OSR2 and later versions of Windows.
You think there's only one alternative? I think there are several. First, forget about pensions; 401k plans are much better and have replaced them for most workers.
How are defined-contribution plans better than defined-benefit plans?
If the 401k plan wasn't tied to the specific company I might be able to see your argument, but given that it's tied to the employer and all of the things that employer could do (ie, ride the company off the rails) I don't see how it could be considered better.
I've wanted the country-of-origin to be prominently displayed on the front of the packaging for a long time. Certainly there are some things that I will buy that are imports, but I think that the average consumer doesn't even check country-of-origin, and it's all the more insidious when long-running American brands are offshored while still masquerading as being American.
The most insidious was when we went to an Ethan Allen store several years ago to buy some bedroom furniture. We had been looking at a particular set for a few months and finally decided to spend the many thousands of dollars to get everything. We were literally filling-out the triplicate form when I asked the saleslady, on a lark, about country-of-origin. They were imported. She backpedalled about how they'd trained the production staff (Vietnam if I remember right) and how the quality was just as good as the furniture coming out of their American plants. Tore the form in half and walked out. Part of what pissed me off so much was that they were charging the same as they charge for furniture made in the USA, so they were simply doing it for profit. No benefit to the consumer even in the form of lower prices, just profit.
Sears has stopped buying Craftsman-branded tools from American tool forges and is now making them in China and Taiwan. I'm wondering if the introduction of the "Evolv" line a few years ago was to test the waters with the manufacturer that they went with before migrating the bulk of the tool line to them. Either way, if I want a lifetime warranty hand tool made overseas I can get one a lot cheaper at Harbor Freight than at Sears, and with identical warranties, why would I continue to buy from Sears?
Maybe they've demonstrated the real economic cost of importing goods?
If imported products were inspected as thoroughly as they should be they would be a lot more expensive, possibly to the point that some manufacturing would return.
The whole point of the intermodal shipping container is that it drops into multiple forms of transport with ease. Specific shippers will put van-trailers on freight trains, but that's for speed for final delivery. Freight coming across this route, if by rail, would probably be packed into double-stacked intermodal shipping containers to maximize the volume for bulk delivery. Some final-delivery happens from China, but not most.
I find reviews for most durable goods that include the suggestion of purchasing more to be suspect unless the reviewer illustrates why they would need more than one. Makes me wonder if the seller has signed up with a fake reviewer service to try to bump up the ratings.
Then how are devs supposed to get sponsored vacations out of their benefactors?
I've noticed a trend- conferences that are paid-for by third-parties that sponsor the attendees, be they employers or charities or governments, are usually held in places where people want to go, while conferences that are paid for by the attendees themselves are usually held in less-desirable places or times (ie, winter in Minneapolis or summer in Phoenix). If the attendees are sponsored they go whole-hog, and if they pay themselves the venue tends to be the cheapest possible.
I wonder which Berlin is in November? I've never been there myself.
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For this attack is great if you have to identify the model/gyroscope and have done testing to get a value of the resonant frequencies of the gyroscope before hand and send a sound loud enough to disable it.
And Thinkgeek sells or used to sell a TV remote control that had programmed the IR "OFF" code to just about every television system that had ever been sold, and it would blast them all out at essentially the same time.
If drones become too annoying then people will refine this tech, making the packaging smaller, the directionality better, and the number of frequencies that it can hop-through more extensive and faster to switch through.
Trust me, with so many other sites to waste one's time on, getting first-post is not the achievement that it once was. Not that it was much of an achievement to begin with...
Isn't that what the motor run capacitor is supposed to help with? I've repaired both automotive and residential HVAC systems and I've worked on light-duty commercial air compressors. I've never needed more than a 50A breaker, and I'm using reasonably quick-acting breakers.
If you look at vehicles like the AM General HMMWV you find that each wheel is connected to a control arm setup that places it low relative to where that control arm is mounted to the chassis. That has the effect of suspending the vehicle's center of mass from a higher point. This vehicle has a similar design.
The downside of this, which is also the downside of the HMMWV, is that the load carrying capacity is dramatically different than conventional suspensions and drivetrains, so that passengers and cargo have to be packaged weirdly to make it all work.
Actually I have. We did a road-trip into and through California when I was about 22 and we were all poor; we slept in the car at the rest-stop along the I-10 that's located in the San Gorgonio Pass and the San Gorgonio wind farm. No problems sleeping with the car windows down; couldn't hear turbines but could hear plenty of strong wind.
Besides, out in the bay where the turbines are visible near the horizon aren't going to amount to a hill-of-beans for houses so far from the project, other than that they're visible.
I have enough roof space for probably 40,000W of panels.
You have a big roof! Wish I had that much room!
I have a nearly 1000sqft detached workshop with a flat roof and parapet walls in addition to a large portion of my house having a flat roof with parapet walls. If I don't put any panels on the south-facing sloped roof I still probably have 2500sqft of flat roof with direct sun exposure for the bulk of the day, concealed behind the parapets.
The thing causing me to hold back is the electric utility. I want grid-tie with intentional islanding and battery storage if the grid loses power, and I don't want to get hammered with utility company fees like they're trying to get out of us if we go that route. I'd also like to get reimbursed a fair rate for the power I'd supply back to the grid during peak usage, but they're not interested in doing that either.
In fairness, the electric utility isn't completely wrong in wanting a fair shake.
For example, are you asking for net-metering where they pay you retail for your power, or are you asking for wholesale rates when you sell them back your power? The former is not reasonable, the latter is totally reasonable.
I'm not unhappy to make back less than the going rate for a given time of day, but they want to pay-back the rate during the peak of the day that they charge in the middle of the night to time-of-use customers. So they take power from me during the hottest, highest-demand and highest-customer-cost part of the day and pay me something like 1/8 of what they charge. They also want to charge a separate fee, that they don't charge to non-solar properties, to tie me to the grid, and it's not insubstantial. Their crap-reimbursement plus high fee for simply being tied to the grid (and it's not permissible to not be tied to the grid) means that it costs the same to have solar as to not have solar. If they charge every customer the grid-tie fee and then put actual charges for their electric use on properly I bet that many customers would find that half of their monthly bill was simply for the grid-connection. That's my problem; they're intentionally screwing-over solar customers because they don't want anyone to be able to do without them. Eventually a tipping-point will come where we don't need them; storage capacity will make that so. They're attempting to swim against the oncoming flood.
Generally grid-tie systems need to shut down automatically when the power goes out, this is for the safety of the linemen working on the downed lines.
I don't disagree, that's why I want a controller that can detect when the grid is down and island the property from the grid, so that linemen aren't working on energized lines coming from my house.
There was a NIMBY problem when a whole bunch of rich twats wouldn't accept a windfarm in the bay that they lived adjacent to. No nuclear at all.
When The Gamers and The Gamers: Dorkness Rising made on a shoestring budget with amateur actors are better than anything from Uwe Boll, maybe it's time for him to just stop...
Tucson, AZ, where 4 months out of the year the temperature is above 100F and the humidity above 40% so if you don't have an air-conditioner using direct-expansion gas (not a "swamp-cooler" or "mister") you will bake. They don't make any that run on DC. Even if they did, that would be a LOT of solar cells!
Actually they do make one with an AC/DC dual voltage motor. Lennox sells one. It's ridiculously expensive without even including the panels, but it was an option that we looked into a couple of years ago when we had to relace a 2.5 ton unit that had failed. The replacement alternating current model has a 30A circuit breaker on a 240VAC circuit, so it can draw a max of 7200 Watts. This 8000W system would be enough to power that air conditioner and have some to spare.
I have enough roof space for probably 40,000W of panels. The thing causing me to hold back is the electric utility. I want grid-tie with intentional islanding and battery storage if the grid loses power, and I don't want to get hammered with utility company fees like they're trying to get out of us if we go that route. I'd also like to get reimbursed a fair rate for the power I'd supply back to the grid during peak usage, but they're not interested in doing that either. I'm hoping that Solar City wins their lawsuit against the utility so that I can feel comfortable proceeding at some point down the road with this.
AC has one significant advantage in that it generates much less heat on the wire, and the higher voltages, within reason, allow for smaller wires to do the same work, as wire size need is a function of amps.
Yeah, that seems like a rather silly argument if that was the principal reason for not buying an otherwise appealing property. Humans have had methods to raise water for literally thousands of years. Adapting one to an unpowered well shouldn't be that difficult or expensive.
The line losses are a NIMBY problem, people don't want power plants near their houses.
The fuel-source problem is people not being willing to pay for more expensive renewables, or in electing politicians that oppose them while continuing to subsidize fossil-fuels.
Those things can be fixed only if people as groups are willing to accept these differences and their costs, or if someone decides to put solar panels, at increasing personal expense given the utility companies' objections, on their property.
So, "its work to continue," is a misnomer then. It's more accurate to state that other organizations with similar objectives will continue to pursue them even though this organization has bowed-out. It's not like the closing of this organization is directly causing its resources and specific pursuits to be applied post-mortem.
Hitchbot is a robot. Hitchbot has no gender.
No, but technically, neither did you.
I suppose I should add, even in those circumstances it would be demoralizing to rely entirely on this drink for complete nutritional sustenance, and at least one real, substantial, solid meal per day would be needed. Soldiers on-patrol or on-alert that simply can't stop to have a meal would probably be the only ones that would 'benefit' from this.
I can only think of specific applications when this might be worthwhile, like where one has to remain mobile for some time and carry one's supplies in an area with very little water available, but that's a pretty unusual set of circumstances. You almost have to be a refugee or a forward-deployed soldier to involuntarily enter those conditions, and only militaries would have the supply capability to afford to intermittently replenish stock at that price.
It's a single-celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs.
One also doesn't have to use facebook. I don't even have a facebook account, nor do I plan to ever have a facebook account.
On the other hand, for Google's integrated stuff for Android to work properly, ie, contacts list, mail, documents/drive, calendar, etc, one has to have a Google account. Before Plus, that Google account was essentially private. Plus felt like an unwelcome intrusion that was one messed up privacy setting away from publishing stuff that wasn't meant for more than my own personal interoperability.
Fact of the matter is, most people that want a social network for personal communication have signed up for one already, and they've probably gone with Facebook because it's the biggest, and being the biggest makes it easiest to justify choosing it. Google's attempts to foist Plus on us felt a lot like how Microsoft forced Internet Explorer on us by bundling it with Windows 95 OSR2 and later versions of Windows.
You think there's only one alternative? I think there are several. First, forget about pensions; 401k plans are much better and have replaced them for most workers.
How are defined-contribution plans better than defined-benefit plans?
If the 401k plan wasn't tied to the specific company I might be able to see your argument, but given that it's tied to the employer and all of the things that employer could do (ie, ride the company off the rails) I don't see how it could be considered better.
I've wanted the country-of-origin to be prominently displayed on the front of the packaging for a long time. Certainly there are some things that I will buy that are imports, but I think that the average consumer doesn't even check country-of-origin, and it's all the more insidious when long-running American brands are offshored while still masquerading as being American.
The most insidious was when we went to an Ethan Allen store several years ago to buy some bedroom furniture. We had been looking at a particular set for a few months and finally decided to spend the many thousands of dollars to get everything. We were literally filling-out the triplicate form when I asked the saleslady, on a lark, about country-of-origin. They were imported. She backpedalled about how they'd trained the production staff (Vietnam if I remember right) and how the quality was just as good as the furniture coming out of their American plants. Tore the form in half and walked out. Part of what pissed me off so much was that they were charging the same as they charge for furniture made in the USA, so they were simply doing it for profit. No benefit to the consumer even in the form of lower prices, just profit.
Sears has stopped buying Craftsman-branded tools from American tool forges and is now making them in China and Taiwan. I'm wondering if the introduction of the "Evolv" line a few years ago was to test the waters with the manufacturer that they went with before migrating the bulk of the tool line to them. Either way, if I want a lifetime warranty hand tool made overseas I can get one a lot cheaper at Harbor Freight than at Sears, and with identical warranties, why would I continue to buy from Sears?
Maybe they've demonstrated the real economic cost of importing goods?
If imported products were inspected as thoroughly as they should be they would be a lot more expensive, possibly to the point that some manufacturing would return.
The whole point of the intermodal shipping container is that it drops into multiple forms of transport with ease. Specific shippers will put van-trailers on freight trains, but that's for speed for final delivery. Freight coming across this route, if by rail, would probably be packed into double-stacked intermodal shipping containers to maximize the volume for bulk delivery. Some final-delivery happens from China, but not most.
I find reviews for most durable goods that include the suggestion of purchasing more to be suspect unless the reviewer illustrates why they would need more than one. Makes me wonder if the seller has signed up with a fake reviewer service to try to bump up the ratings.
Then how are devs supposed to get sponsored vacations out of their benefactors?
I've noticed a trend- conferences that are paid-for by third-parties that sponsor the attendees, be they employers or charities or governments, are usually held in places where people want to go, while conferences that are paid for by the attendees themselves are usually held in less-desirable places or times (ie, winter in Minneapolis or summer in Phoenix). If the attendees are sponsored they go whole-hog, and if they pay themselves the venue tends to be the cheapest possible.
I wonder which Berlin is in November? I've never been there myself.