Waste heat energy, like pretty much all inefficiencies.
That's the interesting part - the heat is only "wasted" outside of the heating season. During the heating season, it just contributes to home heating energy and reduces your heating tab, slightly. So, depending on your climate, only 30-40% of the energy may go to waste, not the full 60%.
I had a watch that was charged using induction, it allowed it to recharge without having a connection or contacts exposed.
I have a mechanical watch that's "charged" using a pendulum that moves when I move my arm and winds the mainspring. Perhaps such a system could be adapted to things like iPods that often get used on a person of in a vehicle.
Didn't the EV1 get 100 miles per charge on old batteries?
Those batteries were heavy. This is a lighter bettery pack designed for short-distance trips. For longer trips, the generator picks up the slack. Chemical fuels are still a lot lighter per given unit of energy than batteries.
Don't worry, the coastal elite will leave you alone too.
I'm from NJ and NYC. We have our own reputation, I guess. My point was that there are decent and intelligent people to be found almost everywhere and when we move or travel, we should leave our preconceptions at the door.
Having grown up there, I'd say the actual downside is that Austin is surrounded by Texans.
Dude, Texans aren't worse than people anywhere else. In fact, as long as you're not killing anyone, they're probably more likely to leave you alone and not complain than "sophisticated" Easterners and Californians. Every place has its reputation, but everywhere you get cool people and sucky people. Try to find the cool ones and ignore the others. Life's too short to do otherwise.
Just went golfing yesterday. I for one saw the glass as half full.
(a) I'd rather be skiing
(b) Try golfing when it's 100F and humid as hell for the 50th consecutive day in summer. Anything above 80F makes me feel like I'm gonna die and sweat like a pig.
(c) Try golfing when your golf course is underwater.
They knew about the dangers of the product for a long time without revealing them
Dude, that's the behavior of the US legal system that's to blame for that. The first thing they tell a kid when he gets his license is "if you get into an accident, never apologize and admit fault - that'll just make the other more likely to sue."
Plus the prohibitionist history of the US government (justifiably) put them in fear of a nationwide tobacco prohibition.
When someone can accurately predict what tomorrow's forecast is going to be, then maybe I'll considering listening to what either side has to say.
Long-term *trends* are a lot easier to predict than short term fluctuations. Your doctor is likely to say "you'll likely be alive a year from now" then "you won't get a cold tomorrow."
why don't the tobacco companies merge with the oil companies then if they're so similar.
Oil is a global environmental problem with far reaching implications for the Earth even after (ab?)use is stopped. Tobacco is primarily a local or personal problem - if abused. I *like* smoking the occasional cigarette - the tobacco cos are providing a service useful to me. Otherwise I'd have to grow my own tobacco, and I don't really have the land for it:/
A new Hitler has risen, and we are so busy looking elsewhere that we either haven't noticed or don't care.
Actually worse than Hitler. Hitler actually brought prosperity to the non-Jewish, non-dissident, non-... part of Germany before WW II. All Kim Jong Il has done is supervise the slow starvation of his country. I bet that if North Korean troops saw what was south of the border, he'd have a mutiny on his hands within a month.
Sure there is. Convince S. Korea to open their borders and let the N. Korean troops enter. Chances are, after seeing how good the South had it for the past 50 years, the N. Korean people will force Kim Jong Il to assume his rightful place in the world - in front of a firing squad.
The HR VP made a decision to hire only out of top tier universities, and then they found out Stanford Business School does not have HR graduates
Did they really? How fucking stupid can such a decision be? I know plenty of people who went to Rutgers (state university in NJ) for undergrad. and are *extremely* bright. Their parents just didn't have $100,000+ to blow on a top-tier private or out-of-state education, at least not without selling their home or dipping into retirement. Not did the kids want to leave school $100k in debt.
When I moved to Poland, back in 1994 I think, it was all automatic (dial a number on the phone, it would connect you).
Urban exchanges were automatic. Some rural ones weren't. If you looked in the phone book, their area code was listed as a phone number in the nearest city followed by CR (Centrala Rechna - Hand Exchange).
The only thing that blew up was the fancy new monitor that had come with the expensive and utterly overpowered RS/6000 just purchased by the library.
Speaking of library computers, where I went to school (small school in SE PA) was using dumb terminals in the library connected to a VAX for their catalog system well into the 2000s - they still did as of my 5th reunion in May 06 actually! The wierd thing was that if you wanted to check e-mail and all of the public lab computers were taken, if you power cycled the terminal quickly, you'd get a command prompt. If you then typed C , you'd be able to telnet into the mail system. This worked fine until they made SSH mandatory in 2000 or so.
, the horizontal wiring to the workstations was, God help me, silver satin cable. Telephone wire.
I remember some sort of proprietary network setup that used small boxes hooked up to the parallel ports to share printers and files over phone cable. This was in a NYC museum in 1998 or so. Slow as hell and difficult to find parts for. I was 18 at the time and really didn't know better, so I somehow obtained parts inexpensively to extend the network when what I really *should* have done is junked the setup and gone to Ethernet over Cat 5. Oh well, they still paid me quite a bit for a weekend's work fixing their other computer problems, and they were happy, so no one's really complaining...
I travelled around Poland at the tender age of 17 in the mid-90s. From what I heard from my uncle who worked at Warsaw Polytechnic, the entire country had a link composed of 10 64kbps lines to the rest of Europe. And boy did it show - I had a UNIX account on NJ Superlink at the time. Whenever I telnetted to check my e-mail (t.g. for cybercafe), a keystroke would echo back to me with a lag time of 2-3 sec.
Furthermore, a lot of the rural phone system was still very old-fashioned. A different uncle's phone # was "42" in a certain small town in the Beskidy Mountains. The exchange itself wasn't automatic - you'd pick up the phone and give the number you wanted to the operator, who'd connect you (or call you back after 5 min. if you wanted long distance).
While I've chopped patch patch cables in half and turned 'em into crossovers, this one place I toured got a good deal on pre-made crossovers and chopped & spliced them into patch cables for over 50 PCs;
Why not just hack off the ends and crimp new ends onto one end? Once you've done a few, this should take less time than splicing wires together and insulating the connections? And ends are literally a dollar a dozen if you get them in bulk.
Not a huge hack, but migration from one mail system to another in a firm I was working for took longer than expected, and we were using the same hardware for old and new. So our interim mail server was an HP laptop running Redhat and a POP3 server. It ended up serving for around a week, after which it wasn't quite the same. It had run very hot (due to lack of power management?) and possibly had gotten a bit drain-bramaged in the process.
The fire marshall came in and said "you can't have those low-voltage wires run through that conduit, that conduit is designed for high voltage wiring."
Better than what a certain electrician did in an office that was being renovated. The Ethernet wiring was already installed. He decided, for some reason known only to himself, to pull BX cable (the heavy, metal-armored electrical cable) through the same conduits and cable grommets as the Ethernet cabling. Sans lube. Needless to say that a lot of new Ethernet cable got pulled to replace the sliced up cables! (He also had actually removed some cable grommets where the cabling went through studs to make more room for the BX cable since he was too freakin' lazy to drill extra holes!)
Network closet shared with an A/C unit. First time I went in there, I couldn't open the door - I had to force it and it opened with a hiss. Turns out that the A/C system was installed without return ductwork and was sucking all of its intake air through a window that was open approximately two inches.
Rather than censor teh Intarweb, here's a better idea. Let these punk-ass kids have their fifteen minutes of fame. Then videotape their fifteen hours of community service and put that on YouTube.
Nah, just repost the video on a page with their real names. When a prospective employer googles their names in 20 years, they'll regret thsat they had ever made the video.
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That's the interesting part - the heat is only "wasted" outside of the heating season. During the heating season, it just contributes to home heating energy and reduces your heating tab, slightly. So, depending on your climate, only 30-40% of the energy may go to waste, not the full 60%.
-b.
I have a mechanical watch that's "charged" using a pendulum that moves when I move my arm and winds the mainspring. Perhaps such a system could be adapted to things like iPods that often get used on a person of in a vehicle.
-b.
Those batteries were heavy. This is a lighter bettery pack designed for short-distance trips. For longer trips, the generator picks up the slack. Chemical fuels are still a lot lighter per given unit of energy than batteries.
-b.
I'm from NJ and NYC. We have our own reputation, I guess. My point was that there are decent and intelligent people to be found almost everywhere and when we move or travel, we should leave our preconceptions at the door.
-b.
Dude, Texans aren't worse than people anywhere else. In fact, as long as you're not killing anyone, they're probably more likely to leave you alone and not complain than "sophisticated" Easterners and Californians. Every place has its reputation, but everywhere you get cool people and sucky people. Try to find the cool ones and ignore the others. Life's too short to do otherwise.
-b.
(a) I'd rather be skiing
(b) Try golfing when it's 100F and humid as hell for the 50th consecutive day in summer. Anything above 80F makes me feel like I'm gonna die and sweat like a pig.
(c) Try golfing when your golf course is underwater.
-b.
Kind of ironic that the Alfred P. Sloan chair was endowed by a chairman of GM, no?
-b.
Dude, that's the behavior of the US legal system that's to blame for that. The first thing they tell a kid when he gets his license is "if you get into an accident, never apologize and admit fault - that'll just make the other more likely to sue."
Plus the prohibitionist history of the US government (justifiably) put them in fear of a nationwide tobacco prohibition.
-b.
Long-term *trends* are a lot easier to predict than short term fluctuations. Your doctor is likely to say "you'll likely be alive a year from now" then "you won't get a cold tomorrow."
-b.
Oil is a global environmental problem with far reaching implications for the Earth even after (ab?)use is stopped. Tobacco is primarily a local or personal problem - if abused. I *like* smoking the occasional cigarette - the tobacco cos are providing a service useful to me. Otherwise I'd have to grow my own tobacco, and I don't really have the land for it :/
-b.
Actually worse than Hitler. Hitler actually brought prosperity to the non-Jewish, non-dissident, non-... part of Germany before WW II. All Kim Jong Il has done is supervise the slow starvation of his country. I bet that if North Korean troops saw what was south of the border, he'd have a mutiny on his hands within a month.
-b.
Sure there is. Convince S. Korea to open their borders and let the N. Korean troops enter. Chances are, after seeing how good the South had it for the past 50 years, the N. Korean people will force Kim Jong Il to assume his rightful place in the world - in front of a firing squad.
-b.
Did they really? How fucking stupid can such a decision be? I know plenty of people who went to Rutgers (state university in NJ) for undergrad. and are *extremely* bright. Their parents just didn't have $100,000+ to blow on a top-tier private or out-of-state education, at least not without selling their home or dipping into retirement. Not did the kids want to leave school $100k in debt.
-b.
Oops, that should be *Reczna* (actually the e should have a mark below it as well).
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The latter.
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Urban exchanges were automatic. Some rural ones weren't. If you looked in the phone book, their area code was listed as a phone number in the nearest city followed by CR (Centrala Rechna - Hand Exchange).
-b.
Speaking of library computers, where I went to school (small school in SE PA) was using dumb terminals in the library connected to a VAX for their catalog system well into the 2000s - they still did as of my 5th reunion in May 06 actually! The wierd thing was that if you wanted to check e-mail and all of the public lab computers were taken, if you power cycled the terminal quickly, you'd get a command prompt. If you then typed C , you'd be able to telnet into the mail system. This worked fine until they made SSH mandatory in 2000 or so.
-b.
I remember some sort of proprietary network setup that used small boxes hooked up to the parallel ports to share printers and files over phone cable. This was in a NYC museum in 1998 or so. Slow as hell and difficult to find parts for. I was 18 at the time and really didn't know better, so I somehow obtained parts inexpensively to extend the network when what I really *should* have done is junked the setup and gone to Ethernet over Cat 5. Oh well, they still paid me quite a bit for a weekend's work fixing their other computer problems, and they were happy, so no one's really complaining...
-b.
Furthermore, a lot of the rural phone system was still very old-fashioned. A different uncle's phone # was "42" in a certain small town in the Beskidy Mountains. The exchange itself wasn't automatic - you'd pick up the phone and give the number you wanted to the operator, who'd connect you (or call you back after 5 min. if you wanted long distance).
-b.
Why not just hack off the ends and crimp new ends onto one end? Once you've done a few, this should take less time than splicing wires together and insulating the connections? And ends are literally a dollar a dozen if you get them in bulk.
-b.
-b.
Better than what a certain electrician did in an office that was being renovated. The Ethernet wiring was already installed. He decided, for some reason known only to himself, to pull BX cable (the heavy, metal-armored electrical cable) through the same conduits and cable grommets as the Ethernet cabling. Sans lube. Needless to say that a lot of new Ethernet cable got pulled to replace the sliced up cables! (He also had actually removed some cable grommets where the cabling went through studs to make more room for the BX cable since he was too freakin' lazy to drill extra holes!)
-b.
-b.
Agreed 100%. It's also the parents' problem, though. A good arse-paddling (by dad, of the kid) may be in order here in addition to fixing the window.
-b.
Nah, just repost the video on a page with their real names. When a prospective employer googles their names in 20 years, they'll regret thsat they had ever made the video.
-b.