You've never lived in country where steel, brick or concrete houses were the norm have you?
Personally I can get over how flimsy the American system of timber frames, pitch and felt waterproofing, and shingles/sidings seems. By comparison, external brick or tilt-up concrete will last for hundreds or years with no maintenance, corrugated zincalume steel or clay tiled rooves last 20 years without any maintenance. Steel frames are termite proof. None of them are expensive.
If you need a way out a a fire I suggest there's better alterntives than cutting holes out of your wall. Maybe like windows?
Because steam offeres excellent features (no-cd, multiple installs, on demand installs, auto updating, convenient purchasing, lower prices) in return for very mild DRM. From the customer perspective is an overwhelmingly positive experience.
Personally I think Arduino and RasPi will be complementary more often than they will compete. There is a lot of code I would not be willing to handle on a general purpose linux microcomputer, that I would rather trust to a dedicated microcontroller. On the flip side there is plenty of code you just cant run on a microcontroller, it just doesnt have the grunt. The two could team together quite well.
Exactly, most of those examples are edge cases, and those same people would go back to their desktop or laptop whenever they have to do anything more significant.
Tablets have some really great uses, no argument. It's just that those great uses are really limited.
"If the most capable and relevant people we have look at the findings".... Exactly, the initial call to ground the fleet was by the service engineers and the association that represents them. This is not a trivial matter raised by a baggage thrower.
The people who lie are usually the ones with the most to gain/lose. What do service engineers have to gain by grounding the fleet - not much. What would Airbus lose by having their brand new fleet grounded - a huge amount of public confidence.
The cost of the materials is a rough proxy for the amount of time and effort it took to build them, So a 100K house construction cost is probably 2 or 3 man years worth of effort.
I just did the math and taking into account interest fees, the contstruction/maerials costs are quite reasonable and comparable in terms of payback effort. Where it gets really disproportionate however is the land costs - these have been increasing at a far higher rate (10 - 15%) than wages (3 - 5%), and it's making the system unaffordable.
They use these motocross motorbikes goggles, and they work well. Sometimes a roller at each end so you can spool out a new section of clear film, other times they are just a stack of films.
I can see many situation where an exoskeleton would be a great benefit, but not this one. Why are we using a mechanical device to solve a signalling issue?
Surely with Paraplegics it would be easier and take far less power to electrically stimulate their existing muscles - either externally through TENS devices, or via implanted electrodes.
My pissy little 2.2kW solar system, consuming maybe 1/10 of my roof space, has generated over 1400kWh since August. I've cut my daily import consumption by more than half - from 20kWh to 9kWh - and that's still using airconditioning, two fridges, multiple PC's running all day and an electric tumble drier.
A bigger solar system or better engineered house with specific attention to energy efficiency would blow my efforts out of the water and easily have a nett export back to the grid.
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I dont agree. I bought a $300 netbook and I love it. the blend of power and portability is ideal for me.
With a keyboard built in, it is far superior for typing than a tablet, and if you stick it in a simple sleeve it's not that much bigger. Real world all-day battery life is better than any regular laptop. And with dual core and a low end 3D graphics card, it's powerfull enough to play some games on low res.
If I want something ultra-portable I'll just use my smartphone, and if I want something ultra-powerfull I'll use my desktop PC. The netbook fits in beween perfectly.
Personally I think tablets are a solution looking for a problem that doesnt exist.
Great. But how about they release a chipset that doesnt cost the earth in licensing fees, so that we can finally buy Bluetooth devices for less than $100.
I swear every time I look at mice and keyboards, proprietary 2.4GHz gear can be as low as $20 and you can get something very good for $50 or $60, but anything with Bluetooth is instantly $100 plus. It's the biggest barrier to adoption that I know.
You've included generation and transport in the EV case, but not with ICE. Factor in the refining and transport of fuel for the ICE and you will have a far differnt story.
The mutant males themselves are fit, it's the female ofspring that are unfit. So you set up a trap/cage where the two can reproduce easily, with a ground based food source suitable for the unfit females. The males then fly out out of the cage and go off to reproduce elsewhere, spreading the mutation., The unfit females stay put and reproduce in relative safety, without having to suck the blood of humans.
I would argue that #2 is becoming less relevant too.
Many industrial 3 phase motors are being driven by variable frequency drives for improved control and huge efficiency savings. The first stage of a VFD would be rectifying the 3 phase AC back to a DC bus (same as a UPS) so DC distribution would work fine for that too.
Nah, it's very easy to get individual electronic components to glow red hot due to excessive electrical current.
The actual chunk of silicon inside an IC is tiny, so if it shorts out you have a lot of energy in a small space = high temperature. The outgassing explodes the heat resistant plastic/resin encapsulation, and the silicon sits there glowing red hot.
In this case, it's not the whole phone that would be glowing red hot, just some of the exposed internals.
I've always though that at the very least, a split in the work times for general commerce and public retail would make a huge difference.
General commerce can be 8-9 until 4-5. Retail could be 10-11 until 6-7. I mean, seriously, who goes shopping first thing in trhe morning, and how many of us would really like to get to the shops after work!
Doing the processing on the server seems very slow to me - I can find a contact much faster by pressing the first few letters than waiting for the round-trip latency to siri.
Heaps of people have tried to demo siri to me and most of the time it was a gimick that failed badly - either was slower than manual methods or just innacurate.
Telstra still do it, my work ends up with many $500+ phone bills for the first few months after they bring someone new in to work's mobile plans - the users get given a smartphone and use a few hundred MB of data checking email, but sometime someone forgets to switch them to a $10 1GB plan and we get slugged for casual data rates. The cheeky bastards at Telstra know it is a mistake but do nothing to warn the users that their bill is going to be an order of magnitude larger.
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You've never lived in country where steel, brick or concrete houses were the norm have you?
Personally I can get over how flimsy the American system of timber frames, pitch and felt waterproofing, and shingles/sidings seems. By comparison, external brick or tilt-up concrete will last for hundreds or years with no maintenance, corrugated zincalume steel or clay tiled rooves last 20 years without any maintenance. Steel frames are termite proof. None of them are expensive.
If you need a way out a a fire I suggest there's better alterntives than cutting holes out of your wall. Maybe like windows?
Yeah the inside can just have a skim-coat of plaster, and then painted. In essence the same as internal brick or tilt-up concrete.
Because steam offeres excellent features (no-cd, multiple installs, on demand installs, auto updating, convenient purchasing, lower prices) in return for very mild DRM. From the customer perspective is an overwhelmingly positive experience.
Plus, the sales guy usually gets a commission for making his sale, even when those overinflated promises burn the dev team for the next 3-6 months.
No wonder there is usually animosity.
Personally I think Arduino and RasPi will be complementary more often than they will compete. There is a lot of code I would not be willing to handle on a general purpose linux microcomputer, that I would rather trust to a dedicated microcontroller. On the flip side there is plenty of code you just cant run on a microcontroller, it just doesnt have the grunt. The two could team together quite well.
Have you seen the price? You could buy a cheap tablet and a low end laptop for that!
Exactly, most of those examples are edge cases, and those same people would go back to their desktop or laptop whenever they have to do anything more significant.
Tablets have some really great uses, no argument. It's just that those great uses are really limited.
When you include a keyboard, your tablet is about the size of a netbook, with half the processing power. All that for only 3 times the price!
Seriously, leave tablets in the niche they are - handing them to your kids so they can play angry birds.
For anything remotely resembling work, tablets start to resemble netbooks.
"If the most capable and relevant people we have look at the findings" .... Exactly, the initial call to ground the fleet was by the service engineers and the association that represents them. This is not a trivial matter raised by a baggage thrower.
The people who lie are usually the ones with the most to gain/lose. What do service engineers have to gain by grounding the fleet - not much. What would Airbus lose by having their brand new fleet grounded - a huge amount of public confidence.
The cost of the materials is a rough proxy for the amount of time and effort it took to build them, So a 100K house construction cost is probably 2 or 3 man years worth of effort.
I just did the math and taking into account interest fees, the contstruction/maerials costs are quite reasonable and comparable in terms of payback effort. Where it gets really disproportionate however is the land costs - these have been increasing at a far higher rate (10 - 15%) than wages (3 - 5%), and it's making the system unaffordable.
They use these motocross motorbikes goggles, and they work well. Sometimes a roller at each end so you can spool out a new section of clear film, other times they are just a stack of films.
I thought the same thing, I've been using the integrated L2TP client on my android phone, and it's only Froyo.
Engineers != Sociopaths
Lacking in social skills is one thing, lacking morals and ethics is something completely different.
I can see many situation where an exoskeleton would be a great benefit, but not this one. Why are we using a mechanical device to solve a signalling issue?
Surely with Paraplegics it would be easier and take far less power to electrically stimulate their existing muscles - either externally through TENS devices, or via implanted electrodes.
Problem, bad info??
My pissy little 2.2kW solar system, consuming maybe 1/10 of my roof space, has generated over 1400kWh since August. I've cut my daily import consumption by more than half - from 20kWh to 9kWh - and that's still using airconditioning, two fridges, multiple PC's running all day and an electric tumble drier.
A bigger solar system or better engineered house with specific attention to energy efficiency would blow my efforts out of the water and easily have a nett export back to the grid.
I dont agree. I bought a $300 netbook and I love it. the blend of power and portability is ideal for me.
With a keyboard built in, it is far superior for typing than a tablet, and if you stick it in a simple sleeve it's not that much bigger. Real world all-day battery life is better than any regular laptop. And with dual core and a low end 3D graphics card, it's powerfull enough to play some games on low res.
If I want something ultra-portable I'll just use my smartphone, and if I want something ultra-powerfull I'll use my desktop PC. The netbook fits in beween perfectly.
Personally I think tablets are a solution looking for a problem that doesnt exist.
Great. But how about they release a chipset that doesnt cost the earth in licensing fees, so that we can finally buy Bluetooth devices for less than $100.
I swear every time I look at mice and keyboards, proprietary 2.4GHz gear can be as low as $20 and you can get something very good for $50 or $60, but anything with Bluetooth is instantly $100 plus. It's the biggest barrier to adoption that I know.
You've included generation and transport in the EV case, but not with ICE. Factor in the refining and transport of fuel for the ICE and you will have a far differnt story.
Easy.
The mutant males themselves are fit, it's the female ofspring that are unfit. So you set up a trap/cage where the two can reproduce easily, with a ground based food source suitable for the unfit females. The males then fly out out of the cage and go off to reproduce elsewhere, spreading the mutation., The unfit females stay put and reproduce in relative safety, without having to suck the blood of humans.
I would argue that #2 is becoming less relevant too.
Many industrial 3 phase motors are being driven by variable frequency drives for improved control and huge efficiency savings. The first stage of a VFD would be rectifying the 3 phase AC back to a DC bus (same as a UPS) so DC distribution would work fine for that too.
Nah, it's very easy to get individual electronic components to glow red hot due to excessive electrical current.
The actual chunk of silicon inside an IC is tiny, so if it shorts out you have a lot of energy in a small space = high temperature. The outgassing explodes the heat resistant plastic/resin encapsulation, and the silicon sits there glowing red hot.
In this case, it's not the whole phone that would be glowing red hot, just some of the exposed internals.
I've always though that at the very least, a split in the work times for general commerce and public retail would make a huge difference.
General commerce can be 8-9 until 4-5. Retail could be 10-11 until 6-7. I mean, seriously, who goes shopping first thing in trhe morning, and how many of us would really like to get to the shops after work!
Doing the processing on the server seems very slow to me - I can find a contact much faster by pressing the first few letters than waiting for the round-trip latency to siri.
Heaps of people have tried to demo siri to me and most of the time it was a gimick that failed badly - either was slower than manual methods or just innacurate.
Why the hell is a user interface on a PC rendered in HTML5????
Telstra still do it, my work ends up with many $500+ phone bills for the first few months after they bring someone new in to work's mobile plans - the users get given a smartphone and use a few hundred MB of data checking email, but sometime someone forgets to switch them to a $10 1GB plan and we get slugged for casual data rates. The cheeky bastards at Telstra know it is a mistake but do nothing to warn the users that their bill is going to be an order of magnitude larger.