I'm surprised people are not more excited about this. If it is possible at a decent price, it all but eliminates congestion. Imagine the number of "roads in the sky" that can be immediately created. No need to build new roads. Further, because it is new technology, a central control system to ensure no crashes can be created from scratch. Unlike self driving cars that need to integrate with unpredictable human drivers, a fully automated system takes humans out of the equation. Lastly it is just cool. Jetsons here we come.
He is a little high but not much. 150-160F is very likely in texas or about 65C. I've seen local news "bake" things inside cars to demonstrate just how dangerous leaving a child in a car is in texas.
So true, I live near an intersection that gets a fair number of red light runners. It is also a major speed trap. The other day as I am about to go after the light turning green, I spot a guy definitely not stopping and it is way past pink. Guy goes thru, I proceed. As I am headed up the road I immediately see a motorcycle cop with a radar gun, who had to see the guy run the red. But he did not pursue. He was holding the gun waiting for the next speeder. I'm thinking somehow the speeding tickets are more profitable or less trouble, not sure which. Problem is the red light runner is the one who is going to kill somebody.
Depends where you live in TX. If you live in a high cost real estate area you get it up the ?. I pay 15 grand a year in prop taxes + 8.25% sales tax. It is more than 7.6% of my income. High cost real estate areas subsidize the education system of the entire state thru a law often referred to as robin hood. If I remember right about 40% of the prop tax I pay for schools in austin is redirected to the state low cost areas. One of the problems with relying on prop taxes is if your income goes down, your tax burden goes up. I plan on moving when I retire as I just can't see dropping that kind of coin for prop tax.
For one, the IRS. They love their paper for all but simple tax filing. I recently had a minor issue and they would accept FAX, or paper snail mail corrections. FAX? who does FAX anymore. Paper meant I had to print out a new copy of the corrected form from pdf and then mail it. Two pieces of paper.
Well fairly recently I picked up a Bach piece done by Bell that was well done. Classical, not pop. I'm glad I got it on CD and not vinyl. Vinyl would have more media noise. But yeah, I totally understand you gotta be pretty and famous, not you can sing requirement of today's entertainers. I blame music videos.
Given the average pop singer of today can't sing on key and must be auto-tuned, I'm sure they are not doing direct to disk. I do have a couple of direct to disk albums from the 80's. They sound good, but I'll still take a well done CD/SACD/blu-audio disk any day. Something I notice about the direct's is the little booboos like somebody dropping a pen or page turning. Adds a real sense of being there.
Interesting that the main US Falls plant delivers 2.5GW today The Lewiston "peaker" plant adds another 240MW. Amazing the amount of power from this very old power source from the falls. And that is just the US production.
http://www.livescience.com/576... describes growing a mouse pancreas in a rat for diabetes research. There are many good applications of this type of research but I can also see it going very wrong.
I too am an introvert and can do well for short periods. But, can you sustain it? A week long vacation with a group of extroverts? I know for me that I would be way to exhausted after the first day while the extroverts would literally be high off the energy of the group.
I don't know exactly what sort of electricity subsidy they are looking for, but if Penn gives them free juice, free land (and probably wave all prop taxes for infinity) then it may well be cheaper than china. Corp's are brilliant playing state governments. Remember Dell in N.C. Foxconn is only going to do this if they make more money in Pa than CN. And the only way that is going to happen is if Pa bends over big time. As to shipping, ROFL, I've seen concrete pavers made in china at Lowe's. And they were cheaper than domestically made ones.
Yes because it is not 300 bucks, it is 500. They come in 2 packs only. Further they expire after one year, so its 500/year. Further still many people buy more than just 2, since it is more about having one within easy reach. So often people buy 4 (2 pair) so now we are talking a grand a year difference. Some people just don't have a grand to spare so they were doing without. Lastly, if FDA said it was good enough, its as good as the name brand.
I hope Mylan learns their lesson that gouging has consequences sometimes. Can you see ANYONE buying the Mylan epipen now even if they lower the price back to what it was?
This. Many years ago I took a relatively high end 3 head cassette deck (around 500 bucks which was a fortune back in the 70's) and hooked it up to a spectrum analyzer to get distortion and response curves. Lets just say anything above about 8KHz was a disaster. Yes relatively flat if you kept the levels at about -30db, but then the noise floor was right below. At reasonable input levels of -10 or -5 db, it was anything but flat. Wow and flutter was not good either. There was a reason why pro's used reel to reel for master tapes.
I quickly scanned the article. My impression was they will screw them together in mesa, and all the pieces will be imported. By "finishing" the product in mesa they avoid customs on all the pieces. Before, they actually screwed them together in NC, Oregon, etc, the places they were used, and probably had to pay import taxes on the components. So net, no new US jobs, probably fewer since centralizing the finishing will optimize the process.
So true, I have a robots to minimize indexing some old stuff, nearly everyone ignores it and indexes away. If it is on the web, somebody is going to find it.
Note even the panels on my roof ship the juice to the inverter at around 300VDC so they don't have to put really big wires from the roof to the inverter. I think you are underestimating the cost and difficulty of working with sub 10 gauge copper needed for high amperage circuits. As to DC appliances, it is chicken and egg. If you are a manufacturer of say washing machines, why would you spend the design effort to build a mass production DC version when there are no houses that use it. Conversely, if you are a builder, who would buy your DC house that costs 20% more to have the extra DC plugs everywhere? Even getting the required extra inspections may be nontrivial for the nonstandard DC outlets. I imagine that city code inspector is going to look at it and go WTF.
The problem with DC is up/down converting it. The power company uses 12.5KV to run for relatively short distances and it goes up from there. Transmission lines run at a few mil volts. For A/C a relatively simple transformer does the conversion. For DC, it gets very expensive. And it is all about IR losses, and the higher V is, the lower I is.
No, the people who own the robots will consume the stuff. I don't think there will be much need for the rest of us since we produce nothing of value and are not owners, so the robots will dispose of the non-owners.
My mother lived alone for decades after my father died. She was very social and very happy. She did meals on wheels, tutored at a disadvantaged school, worked, played piano for people at a nursing home, active in the church, worked at a job etc. She was neither lonely or unhappy living alone, she loved it. She did this until 90. Totally agree with parent, this social science approach where everyone is the same is just wrong.
What kills me about all this stuff is the assumption cars are replaced ever week. The AVERAGE age of a car on the road is over 10 years now. The AVERAGE age. So that means some people are driving 20 year old cars. Do we make everybody buy a new one, even if they cannot afford it? The first thing all these standard dips should think about is how is the new stuff going to interact with cars that don't have it for the next 20 years.
You mean like trump making the exxon guy sec of state? Welcome to the new USA or as I like to call it now BRA, Banana Republic of America. And the mnemonic so fits our tic-tac prez elect.
Except the senior exec is not making 150/hr, they are making 1500/hr. 150/hr is only 300K/yr. 1500 is more like senior (actually a tad low for the really top brass) for 3M/yr. Some of these chiefs get upwards of 30M/yr or 15K/hr.
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I'm surprised people are not more excited about this. If it is possible at a decent price, it all but eliminates congestion. Imagine the number of "roads in the sky" that can be immediately created. No need to build new roads. Further, because it is new technology, a central control system to ensure no crashes can be created from scratch. Unlike self driving cars that need to integrate with unpredictable human drivers, a fully automated system takes humans out of the equation. Lastly it is just cool. Jetsons here we come.
He is a little high but not much. 150-160F is very likely in texas or about 65C. I've seen local news "bake" things inside cars to demonstrate just how dangerous leaving a child in a car is in texas.
So true, I live near an intersection that gets a fair number of red light runners. It is also a major speed trap. The other day as I am about to go after the light turning green, I spot a guy definitely not stopping and it is way past pink. Guy goes thru, I proceed. As I am headed up the road I immediately see a motorcycle cop with a radar gun, who had to see the guy run the red. But he did not pursue. He was holding the gun waiting for the next speeder. I'm thinking somehow the speeding tickets are more profitable or less trouble, not sure which. Problem is the red light runner is the one who is going to kill somebody.
Depends where you live in TX. If you live in a high cost real estate area you get it up the ?. I pay 15 grand a year in prop taxes + 8.25% sales tax. It is more than 7.6% of my income. High cost real estate areas subsidize the education system of the entire state thru a law often referred to as robin hood. If I remember right about 40% of the prop tax I pay for schools in austin is redirected to the state low cost areas. One of the problems with relying on prop taxes is if your income goes down, your tax burden goes up. I plan on moving when I retire as I just can't see dropping that kind of coin for prop tax.
For one, the IRS. They love their paper for all but simple tax filing. I recently had a minor issue and they would accept FAX, or paper snail mail corrections. FAX? who does FAX anymore. Paper meant I had to print out a new copy of the corrected form from pdf and then mail it. Two pieces of paper.
Well fairly recently I picked up a Bach piece done by Bell that was well done. Classical, not pop. I'm glad I got it on CD and not vinyl. Vinyl would have more media noise. But yeah, I totally understand you gotta be pretty and famous, not you can sing requirement of today's entertainers. I blame music videos.
Given the average pop singer of today can't sing on key and must be auto-tuned, I'm sure they are not doing direct to disk. I do have a couple of direct to disk albums from the 80's. They sound good, but I'll still take a well done CD/SACD/blu-audio disk any day. Something I notice about the direct's is the little booboos like somebody dropping a pen or page turning. Adds a real sense of being there.
Interesting that the main US Falls plant delivers 2.5GW today The Lewiston "peaker" plant adds another 240MW. Amazing the amount of power from this very old power source from the falls. And that is just the US production.
http://www.livescience.com/576... describes growing a mouse pancreas in a rat for diabetes research. There are many good applications of this type of research but I can also see it going very wrong.
I too am an introvert and can do well for short periods. But, can you sustain it? A week long vacation with a group of extroverts? I know for me that I would be way to exhausted after the first day while the extroverts would literally be high off the energy of the group.
I don't know exactly what sort of electricity subsidy they are looking for, but if Penn gives them free juice, free land (and probably wave all prop taxes for infinity) then it may well be cheaper than china. Corp's are brilliant playing state governments. Remember Dell in N.C. Foxconn is only going to do this if they make more money in Pa than CN. And the only way that is going to happen is if Pa bends over big time. As to shipping, ROFL, I've seen concrete pavers made in china at Lowe's. And they were cheaper than domestically made ones.
Yes because it is not 300 bucks, it is 500. They come in 2 packs only. Further they expire after one year, so its 500/year. Further still many people buy more than just 2, since it is more about having one within easy reach. So often people buy 4 (2 pair) so now we are talking a grand a year difference. Some people just don't have a grand to spare so they were doing without. Lastly, if FDA said it was good enough, its as good as the name brand.
I hope Mylan learns their lesson that gouging has consequences sometimes. Can you see ANYONE buying the Mylan epipen now even if they lower the price back to what it was?
This. Many years ago I took a relatively high end 3 head cassette deck (around 500 bucks which was a fortune back in the 70's) and hooked it up to a spectrum analyzer to get distortion and response curves. Lets just say anything above about 8KHz was a disaster. Yes relatively flat if you kept the levels at about -30db, but then the noise floor was right below. At reasonable input levels of -10 or -5 db, it was anything but flat. Wow and flutter was not good either. There was a reason why pro's used reel to reel for master tapes.
I quickly scanned the article. My impression was they will screw them together in mesa, and all the pieces will be imported. By "finishing" the product in mesa they avoid customs on all the pieces. Before, they actually screwed them together in NC, Oregon, etc, the places they were used, and probably had to pay import taxes on the components. So net, no new US jobs, probably fewer since centralizing the finishing will optimize the process.
So when an uninsured penniless motorist hits you and cripples you for life, you'll be good eh?
So true, I have a robots to minimize indexing some old stuff, nearly everyone ignores it and indexes away. If it is on the web, somebody is going to find it.
Note even the panels on my roof ship the juice to the inverter at around 300VDC so they don't have to put really big wires from the roof to the inverter. I think you are underestimating the cost and difficulty of working with sub 10 gauge copper needed for high amperage circuits. As to DC appliances, it is chicken and egg. If you are a manufacturer of say washing machines, why would you spend the design effort to build a mass production DC version when there are no houses that use it. Conversely, if you are a builder, who would buy your DC house that costs 20% more to have the extra DC plugs everywhere? Even getting the required extra inspections may be nontrivial for the nonstandard DC outlets. I imagine that city code inspector is going to look at it and go WTF.
The problem with DC is up/down converting it. The power company uses 12.5KV to run for relatively short distances and it goes up from there. Transmission lines run at a few mil volts. For A/C a relatively simple transformer does the conversion. For DC, it gets very expensive. And it is all about IR losses, and the higher V is, the lower I is.
No, the people who own the robots will consume the stuff. I don't think there will be much need for the rest of us since we produce nothing of value and are not owners, so the robots will dispose of the non-owners.
I am worried UBI will end up as a disaster. Part of working is purpose. People need purpose.
My mother lived alone for decades after my father died. She was very social and very happy. She did meals on wheels, tutored at a disadvantaged school, worked, played piano for people at a nursing home, active in the church, worked at a job etc. She was neither lonely or unhappy living alone, she loved it. She did this until 90. Totally agree with parent, this social science approach where everyone is the same is just wrong.
What kills me about all this stuff is the assumption cars are replaced ever week. The AVERAGE age of a car on the road is over 10 years now. The AVERAGE age. So that means some people are driving 20 year old cars. Do we make everybody buy a new one, even if they cannot afford it? The first thing all these standard dips should think about is how is the new stuff going to interact with cars that don't have it for the next 20 years.
You mean like trump making the exxon guy sec of state? Welcome to the new USA or as I like to call it now BRA, Banana Republic of America. And the mnemonic so fits our tic-tac prez elect.
Except the senior exec is not making 150/hr, they are making 1500/hr. 150/hr is only 300K/yr. 1500 is more like senior (actually a tad low for the really top brass) for 3M/yr. Some of these chiefs get upwards of 30M/yr or 15K/hr.