There is generally enough for 2 good brakes from the vacuum reservior if the engine is turned off, unless it is an old car with a leaky reservior. I have had this happen to me. You can test it by pressing the break pedal several times after the next time you shut your car off. If it is immediately hard to press, you've got a bad reservoir.
It works that way, but with the engine in 1st and the torque converter, you have to have a lot of speed, like 30 miles an hour to start the car. Whereas in a manual, you can get the car going a couple miles of hour, put it in 5th, pop the clutch and start it. My brother used used to have to push start his manual Mustang himself regularly with leg power. I've push started a friend's old automatic Cougar with my truck before.
Toyota and Lexus cars with keyless ignitions, from before this accident occurred, could be turned off at any time by pressing and holding the ignition button for at least 2 seconds. This has been documented in their manuals at the time too. I'm pretty certain I would have tried this if I was flying down the highway at 130mph and the first quick stab at the button didn't turn the car off. But maybe I'm expecting too much from a CHP officer in a high tech car?
There are scripts to watch the backend and restart it when it died. Knoppmyth had a problem with that (not sure about all distros) about 5 years ago. You might be able to search their forums and use the same scripts.
I had this problem, and as I recall the easier answer was rather than deleting the channel in both MythTv and SD, instead mark it as visible=false in MythWeb.
FYI SchedulesDirect is a volunteer not for profit retransmission of the Zap2it schedules feed. Z2I used to provide this feature as an experimental courtesy. But then they got tired of the support and expense and ended it. This threatened MythTV's relevance as one of the big maintenance headaches was updating the screen scraper scheduling software when schedule websites changed their format. They were generally against TOS of those sites as well. It is then that SD was organized by several people in the MythTV community to negotiate with and provide the Z2I service. The fact that SD is non profit, volunteer, and run by geeks, probably explains your satisfaction with it.
And how much could that $15,000 have earned her in interest in 5 years if invested at moderate risk (i.e. not T-bills, but not growth stocks either)?
Not sure where you were going with the 4% over 5 years is $2,000, since she didn't take out a loan for either car. But if she took out a loan for the $20k car and not the $5k car, then in your example it about looks like the cars had about equal TCO (ignoring the difference between the $5000 cash for the old car and the down payment for the new car.
They have timers for electric tank water heaters for just the case you say, where you use hot water only during certain times, and it keeps the heater off when you are gone. I've never seen one for a gas tank water heaters since the savings would be much less and the mechanics would be much harder.
There are electric tankless water heaters for putting next to each spigot, they are called point of use. But you don't do this with gas tankless water heaters for several reasons. The gas ones are designed to replace one house sized water heater. If you have a home with 2 house sized water heaters on each side of the house, perhaps you'd need 2 gas tankless, but I can't imagine more.
If it is condensing tankless, it is condensing because the heat transfer is that good. It will be equal in efficiency converting gas to hot water as a condensing tank water heater, and it will be more efficient converting gas to hot water as a non-condensing tank water heater.
I've never heard of a gas tankless heat exchanger springing a leak, though I'm sure it has happened. Some brands of the electric tankless had problems with their heat exchangers. Regarding compressors, neither have a compressor. Are you talking about the fan on assisted combustion gas tankless? Those are known to have problems on some brands, along with the control board. But some of the problems have been due to incorrect exhaust, and intake on the condensing ones.
What tankless are you talking about? The nat gas ones I've looked at may be speced to have their own 15 amp service, but the actual draw is around 3 amps or less, unless they are running their emergency freeze protection electric heater, which wouldn't have to run during hot water production. Now the electric tankless might draw 20 amps for a point of use ones. But electric whole house tankless need more like 50-100 amps to themselves when running.
Since his bill went down by only $10 a month, he almost certainly has a gas tankless heater with electronic controller. Even the biggest residential gas tankless heaters use less than 100 watts electricity, only while in operation, and only a few watts on standby. So the electrical use is pennies a year. Electrical tankless water heaters for the whole house are the ones that can require a panel upgrade. They use 5,000 to 20,000 watts when they are in operation. But if your electrical service can support them, switching from electric standby to electric tankless can save you big coin.
I installed a pilot ignition Bosch myself about 10 years ago. It was $800 plus about $300 in installation parts. Had no big problems so far, besides getting used to how they operate. My understanding with the old pilot and hydro-ignition units were that they'd outlast the tank on a tank water heater, they just don't have as good of control of the hot water temp. Some of the electronic ones that have very tight temp control and very low minimum flow/BTU rates have had electronic gremlins. Hopefully they're getting better.
The minimum operating flow/BTU was sometimes too low for low flow showerheads and hot ground water in Houston and the burner would go out. So you'd have to turn it off and back on to get hot water again. Now during a month or 2 of summer, we'll turn on the sink hot water very slowly while we shower.We've never had the actual cold water sandwich (during normal operation) affect that is somewhat regularly complained about. I especially doubt it would be a problem if you have temp regulating spigot valves on your tub/showers.
I've had all Androids since G1. It was my first phone after a BB Pearl. While the first Androids weren't as polished as the iPhone, they were far better than BBs, and they were far from being crapola.
You see no way, it doesn't mean someone else couldn't find a way, or through some unforseen number of circumstances be able to collude with others.
For a year I was one of 4 people that hired the election judges and alternates for a very large county in Texas (technically we suggested the judges to the party leaders which 99% of the time would accept our recommendation). We discovered an early voting election judge was voting for their preferred candidate once per day. One day he got unlucky and a clerk saw him inserting a ballot into a box for the second day and called us asking if this was legal. Obviously it wasn't and we had him removed. But the county commissioners decided not to refer the case to the county prosecutor for prosecution due to political reasons.
Not to say there aren't many, many risks in e-voting, but physical voting is far from immune from error and malice.
Real men build their HTPCs from componenets and install MythTV. What's a Mac Mini? Though I'll be the first to admit I'm not man enough to keep mine up with any consistency. It's been down over a year and I haven't had time to fix it this last time.
This is extremely unusual. You are saying that on all 3 flights, the airline requested volunteers to give up their seats, you didn't volunteer and they did not get enough other volunteers, and they had to pay you cash compensation because they were unable to find you a seat?
I don't have a problem with sales tax, but I do have a problem with how most government entities write their code. You should look into it and read the actual code of your state, county, and city and some of their administrative determinatinons and private letter rulings sometime. I bet just the code will be over 1,000 pages of dense legalease, and the determinations and letters probably number in the hundreds of thousands of pages
It is not very hard in theroy, if this magical database were already in existance, and it had a well defined and standardized schema that took into account all 50 states, 3,000 counties, 19,000 cities and towns, thousands of specal taxing districts, fed gov, and US protectorates tax pecularities. And same jurisdictions would probably need to rewrite at least some of their tax laws because almost every area has a few abserd special cases.
I take it you haven't read some of the more highly rated posts in this story like Dynedain's. For example, your food item can be taxed differently based on whether it is a juice or a carbonated beverage (what if it is both!), whether it is for immediate consumption on or off premises or groceries (if you buy a bottled drink at Subway for takeout is it a grocery or "immediate consumption"), whether you get your sandwich toasted at Subway or not.
My SO is a sales tax accountant and I hear her stories. Taxation must be one of the most byzantine productions our governments meddle in. I used to think like you, why there wasn't just a standardized database that this stuff could be looked up in and most of the regular auditing and procedural law decision requests could be ended. There are companies that try to do this, but it is a big ugly process requiring tens of millions of man hours to comply with yearly in the USA and failures happen all the time.
Got a flight number to look at the accident review? I'm not following what you are saying.
The Boeing autothrottle moves the throttles, the engine responds (or doesn't if it is failing). The autothrottle doesn't detect the power level of the engine and move the throttle to that position, nor do I think it should, that is backaswards from how throttles function in general.
If an engine failed, and the pilots got confused about which engine had failed just because the autopilot moved the throttles around, even though it theoretically would have disengaged, and the pilots were getting a lot of feedback from the controls about which side of the plane had no thrust, it sounds like classic pilot error to me.
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There is generally enough for 2 good brakes from the vacuum reservior if the engine is turned off, unless it is an old car with a leaky reservior. I have had this happen to me. You can test it by pressing the break pedal several times after the next time you shut your car off. If it is immediately hard to press, you've got a bad reservoir.
It works that way, but with the engine in 1st and the torque converter, you have to have a lot of speed, like 30 miles an hour to start the car. Whereas in a manual, you can get the car going a couple miles of hour, put it in 5th, pop the clutch and start it. My brother used used to have to push start his manual Mustang himself regularly with leg power. I've push started a friend's old automatic Cougar with my truck before.
Toyota and Lexus cars with keyless ignitions, from before this accident occurred, could be turned off at any time by pressing and holding the ignition button for at least 2 seconds. This has been documented in their manuals at the time too. I'm pretty certain I would have tried this if I was flying down the highway at 130mph and the first quick stab at the button didn't turn the car off. But maybe I'm expecting too much from a CHP officer in a high tech car?
There are scripts to watch the backend and restart it when it died. Knoppmyth had a problem with that (not sure about all distros) about 5 years ago. You might be able to search their forums and use the same scripts.
I had this problem, and as I recall the easier answer was rather than deleting the channel in both MythTv and SD, instead mark it as visible=false in MythWeb.
FYI SchedulesDirect is a volunteer not for profit retransmission of the Zap2it schedules feed. Z2I used to provide this feature as an experimental courtesy. But then they got tired of the support and expense and ended it. This threatened MythTV's relevance as one of the big maintenance headaches was updating the screen scraper scheduling software when schedule websites changed their format. They were generally against TOS of those sites as well. It is then that SD was organized by several people in the MythTV community to negotiate with and provide the Z2I service. The fact that SD is non profit, volunteer, and run by geeks, probably explains your satisfaction with it.
There is a way, though it is expensive and inconvenient. It involves using a Hauppauge HD-PVR and the IR blaster with your Uverse box. http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
And how much could that $15,000 have earned her in interest in 5 years if invested at moderate risk (i.e. not T-bills, but not growth stocks either)?
Not sure where you were going with the 4% over 5 years is $2,000, since she didn't take out a loan for either car. But if she took out a loan for the $20k car and not the $5k car, then in your example it about looks like the cars had about equal TCO (ignoring the difference between the $5000 cash for the old car and the down payment for the new car.
They have timers for electric tank water heaters for just the case you say, where you use hot water only during certain times, and it keeps the heater off when you are gone. I've never seen one for a gas tank water heaters since the savings would be much less and the mechanics would be much harder.
There are electric tankless water heaters for putting next to each spigot, they are called point of use. But you don't do this with gas tankless water heaters for several reasons. The gas ones are designed to replace one house sized water heater. If you have a home with 2 house sized water heaters on each side of the house, perhaps you'd need 2 gas tankless, but I can't imagine more.
If it is condensing tankless, it is condensing because the heat transfer is that good. It will be equal in efficiency converting gas to hot water as a condensing tank water heater, and it will be more efficient converting gas to hot water as a non-condensing tank water heater.
You figured it out. Combustion byproducts are corrosive, moreso if the intake air has contaminants.
I've never heard of a gas tankless heat exchanger springing a leak, though I'm sure it has happened. Some brands of the electric tankless had problems with their heat exchangers. Regarding compressors, neither have a compressor. Are you talking about the fan on assisted combustion gas tankless? Those are known to have problems on some brands, along with the control board. But some of the problems have been due to incorrect exhaust, and intake on the condensing ones.
What tankless are you talking about? The nat gas ones I've looked at may be speced to have their own 15 amp service, but the actual draw is around 3 amps or less, unless they are running their emergency freeze protection electric heater, which wouldn't have to run during hot water production. Now the electric tankless might draw 20 amps for a point of use ones. But electric whole house tankless need more like 50-100 amps to themselves when running.
Since his bill went down by only $10 a month, he almost certainly has a gas tankless heater with electronic controller. Even the biggest residential gas tankless heaters use less than 100 watts electricity, only while in operation, and only a few watts on standby. So the electrical use is pennies a year. Electrical tankless water heaters for the whole house are the ones that can require a panel upgrade. They use 5,000 to 20,000 watts when they are in operation. But if your electrical service can support them, switching from electric standby to electric tankless can save you big coin.
I installed a pilot ignition Bosch myself about 10 years ago. It was $800 plus about $300 in installation parts. Had no big problems so far, besides getting used to how they operate. My understanding with the old pilot and hydro-ignition units were that they'd outlast the tank on a tank water heater, they just don't have as good of control of the hot water temp. Some of the electronic ones that have very tight temp control and very low minimum flow/BTU rates have had electronic gremlins. Hopefully they're getting better.
The minimum operating flow/BTU was sometimes too low for low flow showerheads and hot ground water in Houston and the burner would go out. So you'd have to turn it off and back on to get hot water again. Now during a month or 2 of summer, we'll turn on the sink hot water very slowly while we shower.We've never had the actual cold water sandwich (during normal operation) affect that is somewhat regularly complained about. I especially doubt it would be a problem if you have temp regulating spigot valves on your tub/showers.
Less sexy than the Nest, but equally capable and less pretentious http://www.bayweb.com/mktg/webthermostat.php
I've had all Androids since G1. It was my first phone after a BB Pearl. While the first Androids weren't as polished as the iPhone, they were far better than BBs, and they were far from being crapola.
You see no way, it doesn't mean someone else couldn't find a way, or through some unforseen number of circumstances be able to collude with others.
For a year I was one of 4 people that hired the election judges and alternates for a very large county in Texas (technically we suggested the judges to the party leaders which 99% of the time would accept our recommendation). We discovered an early voting election judge was voting for their preferred candidate once per day. One day he got unlucky and a clerk saw him inserting a ballot into a box for the second day and called us asking if this was legal. Obviously it wasn't and we had him removed. But the county commissioners decided not to refer the case to the county prosecutor for prosecution due to political reasons.
Not to say there aren't many, many risks in e-voting, but physical voting is far from immune from error and malice.
Real men build their HTPCs from componenets and install MythTV. What's a Mac Mini? Though I'll be the first to admit I'm not man enough to keep mine up with any consistency. It's been down over a year and I haven't had time to fix it this last time.
Actually now it is $650 for 1-2 hr delay / $1300 for more than 2 hrs - in cash plus you get to keep your ticket to travel on a later flight or get a refund on (which must be provided). http://airconsumer.dot.gov/publications/flyrights.htm#overbooking
This is extremely unusual. You are saying that on all 3 flights, the airline requested volunteers to give up their seats, you didn't volunteer and they did not get enough other volunteers, and they had to pay you cash compensation because they were unable to find you a seat?
What about the French? I've read they have breeder reactors that work well and reprocesse their fuel.
Don't most mobile companies charge for a paper bill now? And the web based bill you get costs just cents to create and distribute?
I don't have a problem with sales tax, but I do have a problem with how most government entities write their code. You should look into it and read the actual code of your state, county, and city and some of their administrative determinatinons and private letter rulings sometime. I bet just the code will be over 1,000 pages of dense legalease, and the determinations and letters probably number in the hundreds of thousands of pages
It is not very hard in theroy, if this magical database were already in existance, and it had a well defined and standardized schema that took into account all 50 states, 3,000 counties, 19,000 cities and towns, thousands of specal taxing districts, fed gov, and US protectorates tax pecularities. And same jurisdictions would probably need to rewrite at least some of their tax laws because almost every area has a few abserd special cases.
I take it you haven't read some of the more highly rated posts in this story like Dynedain's. For example, your food item can be taxed differently based on whether it is a juice or a carbonated beverage (what if it is both!), whether it is for immediate consumption on or off premises or groceries (if you buy a bottled drink at Subway for takeout is it a grocery or "immediate consumption"), whether you get your sandwich toasted at Subway or not.
My SO is a sales tax accountant and I hear her stories. Taxation must be one of the most byzantine productions our governments meddle in. I used to think like you, why there wasn't just a standardized database that this stuff could be looked up in and most of the regular auditing and procedural law decision requests could be ended. There are companies that try to do this, but it is a big ugly process requiring tens of millions of man hours to comply with yearly in the USA and failures happen all the time.
Got a flight number to look at the accident review? I'm not following what you are saying.
The Boeing autothrottle moves the throttles, the engine responds (or doesn't if it is failing). The autothrottle doesn't detect the power level of the engine and move the throttle to that position, nor do I think it should, that is backaswards from how throttles function in general.
If an engine failed, and the pilots got confused about which engine had failed just because the autopilot moved the throttles around, even though it theoretically would have disengaged, and the pilots were getting a lot of feedback from the controls about which side of the plane had no thrust, it sounds like classic pilot error to me.