Well its rare to find a 30amp general circuit in a us home, its also rare to find a device you would want to plug into such a circuit. Almost nothing sold into the consumer market uses 30amps at 110volts.
So, you are correct, you seldom see these outlets in a home, although I've seen them in Garage/Shops in custom built homes.
Almost all houses are wired with 15 amp circuits with 14/2+Grnd wiring these days. Just seldom a call for much more as things get more energy efficient.
Dryers and Ranges are different situations. In every house these are special circuits, 220, two phase, separately breakered, seldom exposed (they are behind the device away from children with paperclips), and not meant for consumer electronics.
Voip does not come anywhere NEAR your maximum bandwidth.
Video, MIGHT, for really high def video, but it uses virtually none of your upload bandwidth. Still I've watched hour long HD movies on the net with never a glitch on comcast.
In most locations, you really have one and only one choice for broadband. Who ever has wires in your subdivision or along your road is the only choice.
Except you forgot the bit that said: if the head end controller gets swamped and "your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible".
So full bandwidth downloads that take more than 15 minutes are likely to get you throttled regardless of what method you use, http, bit torrent, or ftp.
But even setting your bittorrent download rate at modest speeds to be a good neighbor can bet you "Somehow Identified" when they need to shed load.
Its not clear from TFA what throttling means. The proper way is to drop packets randomly, which will signal congestion to the sender, which will slow down. My bet is Comcast does not do this.
Grounded North American plugs generally don't bend that easily.
Some bending is designed in, so that a sharp sideways yank on the cord will bend the blades and allow the cord to disengage the outlet without tearing out the outlet and potentially shorting it.
The sooner we outlaw two prong plugs in North America the better.
I am saying you will be able to slow it down and bring it to a stop, (probably stalling the engine in the process), by heavy break pressure. (Pressure well within the capability of a 100 pound scared-to-death woman).
Because of ABS, you will also be able to steer during the process.
Brakes will get hot, just like descending a steep mountain road, but they will be sufficient to stop the car and stall the engine with the automatic transmission in forth or fifth gear as all Toyotas use, and probably even in second or third.
But you will still be able to stop the car with a lot of pressure, something a full grown highway patrol officer should be able to do.
Really people, stop with these redundant posts about how power assists work, and read the FHSA regs. Brakes MUST WORK in the absence of power assist. Its the law.
Complaining about needing widget sets and window managers is complaining about modularity.
Well you had me till the above sentence.
X is fine.
But the modularity of the widets, window managers, GTK, decorations, Desktops, display managers, etc culminaing in KDE or XFCE4 or Gnome ends up as a mind numbing separation of roles that no one really understands any more, and a construct that has outlived its usefulness.
Several of those layers could, and arguably should be flattened into something that we recognize as as Gnome or KDE.
These days the user interface is held hostage by too many layers under separate development, separate release cycles, and occasionally shoddy integration.
When it works well, its very nice, but it is still pretty fragile if you ask me.
It is an afterthought in that it is stacked on top of the rest of the system rather than integrated
Which, of course, is precisely why it has been able to survive, whereas display systems embedded in other platforms died with that platform.
It is perfectly aligned with the best practices of unix, and a design largely retained by OSX (as if that confers any special blessing).
There are as many performance gains to be realized by this method as there are drawbacks. With the advent of high performance GPUs, its only a matter of time before the entire X server is moved into the hardware on the video card, (where some say it belongs). Such compartmentalization would be harder if not impossible if it were embedded in the OS.
You are also correct that any criticisms of the past are largely without foundation with current x servers, it has been optimized and extended more than any other component of the unix ecosystem.
You can certainly record where a pet has been on a small collar attached GPS, but unless it includes a transmitter you are not going to know where it is NOW.
Transmitters have to be licensed, or limited to very short range. Transmitters need batteries.
Battery life is 24 hours. Good enough to find your ill-trained dog at the end of the hunt, but not useful for tracking a lost or stolen pet.
With a cell plan, you could get by with lower power, because it only has to report its presence every once in a while, but you still end up funding a cell plan for a dog.
I don't see this as an economically viable solution to finding a lost or stolen pet. Further, it just exacerbates the problems of dogs running at large in urban areas. Perhaps this is why Canada banned these devices.
Ultra Long range RFIDs make more sense for this kind of work. You would need a directional antenna on a hand held device to pulse the tag, and it would respond, not with coordinates, but the device could map this for you.
I'm pretty sure the was no "meant" involved in the evolution of cats.
You are correct in one respect, namely that domesticated cats are a relatively new concept. In Roman times cats were tolerated in cities simply because they did keep the mice population down. They weren't pets. This may not have been the case in other civilizations.
You don't lose power assisted braking or steering as long as the engine is turning. If you turn an engine off as it is running full throttle I guarantee it will diesel along for a while, enough time to slow the car even without power assisted braking.
Power assist brakes have to be able to stop a car even with the engine is not turning. FHSA rules.
There have been other deaths as well, including a fatal accident near San Diego this August that took the lives of California Highway patrol officer Mark Saylor, his wife, daughter and brother-in-law.
The Lexus they were driving, borrowed from a dealer, raced out of control at 100 miles an hour before hitting another vehicle, crashing into an embankment and bursting into flames.
The car was clearly new to him (borrowed), and he could have mistaken the pedals, but since he died in the crash no one will know. They had time to make a phone call to 911 claiming no brakes?
A highway patrol officer should know how to take the car out of gear, hit the brake, pull the parking break and kill the ignition. Or even just selecting a lower gear.
The fact that non of those things were done, or they didn't work suggest to me that it was indeed the floor mats trapping the pedal when they floored it to test acceleration.
But still, full brakes will at least slow down a car under full acceleration.
You can not take an idea available in the market on one device, bolt it to another, and claim patent-ability. Not when such an application would be obvious to anyone skilled in the craft. I can't believe they are going to try to hang their hat on that. Will they have the moxie to take on Microsoft to court over Microsoft's Courier? http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/09/23/microsoft_courier/
I don't think this is a patent fight as much as a NDA violation fight.
My bet is they are claiming dual screens are a big deal. (Which is not true. Lots of devices have two screens, and some of them (cell phone) can probably read ebooks).
They do not specifically suggest in their press release that any patents are being violated: http://egether.com/release/52/
B&N licenses patents that are valid, as do all the other reader manufacturers. Other than that, since they weren't the first on the scene, you can assume they are simply following the market here.
There is nothing unique in the Nook OTHER than two screens.
But its not clear if it was sufficiently restrictive to prevent B&N From developing their own device.
There is probably nothing patentable in the Nook that B&A are not already licensing. The only unique thing about the Nook is two screens. My old Razr had that.
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Well its rare to find a 30amp general circuit in a us home, its also rare to find a device you would want to plug into such a circuit. Almost nothing sold into the consumer market uses 30amps at 110volts.
So, you are correct, you seldom see these outlets in a home, although I've seen them in Garage/Shops in custom built homes.
Almost all houses are wired with 15 amp circuits with 14/2+Grnd wiring these days. Just seldom a call for much more as things get more energy efficient.
Dryers and Ranges are different situations. In every house these are special circuits, 220, two phase, separately breakered, seldom exposed (they are behind the device away from children with paperclips), and not meant for consumer electronics.
You set your max up and download speeds to stay under 70%.
If your bittorrent client doesn't support that, go get another one.
Voip does not come anywhere NEAR your maximum bandwidth.
Video, MIGHT, for really high def video, but it uses virtually none of your upload bandwidth. Still I've watched hour long HD movies on the net with never a glitch on comcast.
What torrent software do you run that does not allow you to set your total uplink speed?
Glib response, but unfortunately not true.
In most locations, you really have one and only one choice for broadband. Who ever has wires in your subdivision or along your road is the only choice.
Except you forgot the bit that said:
if the head end controller gets swamped and "your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible".
So full bandwidth downloads that take more than 15 minutes are likely to get you throttled regardless of what method you use, http, bit torrent, or ftp.
But even setting your bittorrent download rate at modest speeds to be a good neighbor can bet you "Somehow Identified" when they need to shed load.
Its not clear from TFA what throttling means. The proper way is to drop packets randomly, which will signal congestion to the sender, which will slow down. My bet is Comcast does not do this.
Grounded North American plugs generally don't bend that easily.
Some bending is designed in, so that a sharp sideways yank on the cord will bend the blades and allow the cord to disengage the outlet without tearing out the outlet and potentially shorting it.
The sooner we outlaw two prong plugs in North America the better.
In the US, our NEMA sockets are designed so that a plug for a 30A socket can't plug into a 15A socket or vice versa.
The part after the "OR" is wrong.
15amp devices can be plugged into a 20 or 30 amp circuit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electrical_outlet_with_label.jpg
Devices requiring 30amps would have one "blade" be a T connector. See photo.
Nowdays the code is requiring Arc Fault Circuit Interceptors, (AFCI) which are even more sensitive to sparking.
GFCI sense current to ground. AFCI can detect short circuits between two hots (on opposite legs of the 240 volt entrance), or one leg and neutral.
Neutral tends to be tied to ground at the main panel, which is why GFCI works for most cases.
I am saying you will be able to slow it down and bring it to a stop, (probably stalling the engine in the process), by heavy break pressure. (Pressure well within the capability of a 100 pound scared-to-death woman).
Because of ABS, you will also be able to steer during the process.
Brakes will get hot, just like descending a steep mountain road, but they will be sufficient to stop the car and stall the engine with the automatic transmission in forth or fifth gear as all Toyotas use, and probably even in second or third.
Prove me wrong.
But you will still be able to stop the car with a lot of pressure, something a full grown highway patrol officer should be able to do.
Really people, stop with these redundant posts about how power assists work, and read the FHSA regs. Brakes MUST WORK in the absence of power assist. Its the law.
Complaining about needing widget sets and window managers is complaining about modularity.
Well you had me till the above sentence.
X is fine.
But the modularity of the widets, window managers, GTK, decorations, Desktops, display managers, etc culminaing in KDE or XFCE4 or Gnome ends up as a mind numbing separation of roles that no one really understands any more, and a construct that has outlived its usefulness.
Several of those layers could, and arguably should be flattened into something that we recognize as as Gnome or KDE.
These days the user interface is held hostage by too many layers under separate development, separate release cycles, and occasionally shoddy integration.
When it works well, its very nice, but it is still pretty fragile if you ask me.
It is an afterthought in that it is stacked on top of the rest of the system rather than integrated
Which, of course, is precisely why it has been able to survive, whereas display systems embedded in other platforms died with that platform.
It is perfectly aligned with the best practices of unix, and a design largely retained by OSX (as if that confers any special blessing).
There are as many performance gains to be realized by this method as there are drawbacks. With the advent of high performance GPUs, its only a matter of time before the entire X server is moved into the hardware on the video card, (where some say it belongs). Such compartmentalization would be harder if not impossible if it were embedded in the OS.
You are also correct that any criticisms of the past are largely without foundation with current x servers, it has been optimized and extended more than any other component of the unix ecosystem.
You can certainly record where a pet has been on a small collar attached GPS, but unless it includes a transmitter you are not going to know where it is NOW.
Transmitters have to be licensed, or limited to very short range. Transmitters need batteries.
Garmin makes a hunting dog tracker. But its range is 7 miles line of sight. https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=209&ra=true
Battery life is 24 hours. Good enough to find your ill-trained dog at the end of the hunt, but not useful for tracking a lost or stolen pet.
With a cell plan, you could get by with lower power, because it only has to report its presence every once in a while, but you still end up funding a cell plan for a dog.
I don't see this as an economically viable solution to finding a lost or stolen pet. Further, it just exacerbates the problems of dogs running at large in urban areas. Perhaps this is why Canada banned these devices.
Ultra Long range RFIDs make more sense for this kind of work. You would need a directional antenna on a hand held device to pulse the tag, and it would respond, not with coordinates, but the device could map this for you.
What is this "Meant" word you use?
I'm pretty sure the was no "meant" involved in the evolution of cats.
You are correct in one respect, namely that domesticated cats are a relatively new concept. In Roman times cats were tolerated in cities simply because they did keep the mice population down. They weren't pets. This may not have been the case in other civilizations.
So its your contention that it is impossible to panic stop a fast moving car?
Who knew?!?!
These were cars sold in the US. What Bolivia or Norway have for rules doesn't matter here. The cars were compliant with US regs.
Its not clear the drivers were.
You don't lose power assisted braking or steering as long as the engine is turning. If you turn an engine off as it is running full throttle I guarantee it will diesel along for a while, enough time to slow the car even without power assisted braking.
Power assist brakes have to be able to stop a car even with the engine is not turning. FHSA rules.
From the linked article:
There have been other deaths as well, including a fatal accident near San Diego this August that took the lives of California Highway patrol officer Mark Saylor, his wife, daughter and brother-in-law.
The Lexus they were driving, borrowed from a dealer, raced out of control at 100 miles an hour before hitting another vehicle, crashing into an embankment and bursting into flames.
The car was clearly new to him (borrowed), and he could have mistaken the pedals, but since he died in the crash no one will know. They had time to make a phone call to 911 claiming no brakes?
A highway patrol officer should know how to take the car out of gear, hit the brake, pull the parking break and kill the ignition. Or even just selecting a lower gear.
The fact that non of those things were done, or they didn't work suggest to me that it was indeed the floor mats trapping the pedal when they floored it to test acceleration.
But still, full brakes will at least slow down a car under full acceleration.
Dual screen design is patentable?
You mean like my Razr?
You can not take an idea available in the market on one device, bolt it to another, and claim patent-ability. Not when such an application would be obvious to anyone skilled in the craft.
I can't believe they are going to try to hang their hat on that. Will they have the moxie to take on Microsoft to court over Microsoft's Courier? http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/09/23/microsoft_courier/
I don't think this is a patent fight as much as a NDA violation fight.
My bet is they are claiming dual screens are a big deal. (Which is not true. Lots of devices have two screens, and some of them (cell phone) can probably read ebooks).
They do not specifically suggest in their press release that any patents are being violated: http://egether.com/release/52/
B&N licenses patents that are valid, as do all the other reader manufacturers. Other than that, since they weren't the first on the scene, you can assume they are simply following the market here.
There is nothing unique in the Nook OTHER than two screens.
That is hardly patentable.
http://egether.com/release/52/
These guys appear to be claiming violation of an NDA and that is a stretch.
The press release (not quoted by TFA) mentions an NDA:
http://egether.com/release/52/
But its not clear if it was sufficiently restrictive to prevent B&N From developing their own device.
There is probably nothing patentable in the Nook that B&A are not already licensing. The only unique thing about the Nook is two screens. My old Razr had that.
Trade secret ceases to exist the moment you show it to someone.
You can sue for patent infringement, but putting two screens on one device can hardly be patentable. Remember the Razr and about 400 other devices?
Once you tell a secret unprotected by a NDA, you have lost.