MS was also forced to take the "bailout" and lets not forget, the government made a TON on the stock from the strong banks (JPM, MS, GS) and since the money has been more than returned, that profit the government made has now been wasted, instead of returned to the general fund.
The way the news covered it made it sound like they handed out cash, and that's just not the case.
The GM "bailout" however needs the stock price to double before the next shares are sold for the government to break even, but those are union jobs, so we won't hear about that....
This kind of Hardware stuff is what I do most of the time. First, yes do get a dev board and free tools (Xilinx or Altera) to play with (just like you would play with software by compiling and trying).
Second, pick a language, I use mostly VHDL.
I like:
"VHDL for Logic Synthesis" Rushton
"VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies" Cohen
Also google "VHDL Math tricks of the trade" (pdf) you'll need that to stay sane if you actually do algorithms
So are you just a cheapskate or are you truly concerned about giving them your information?
I ask because if you go to the store and buy Turbo Tax, you don't have to give them your information and send it anyplace. That's what I do / have been doing for a long time. I'm paying them to guarantee me that they have interpreted the tax code properly, I'm totally fine with that.
I like some open source stuff, but I need a company to stand behind something that can royally screw me over if it's wrong.
Hundreds of dollars per month. You are either purposely making stuff up, or horribly bad at math.
I suppose you could be spouting off someone else's fake numbers, which would just make you ignorant.
Anyway, lets do some math:
24KWh battery (Nissan leaf, and we'll give you the entire battery, just for grins).
I'll even grant you a ridiculous number for power cost (average wholesale energy cost in TX $0.045 / KWh) we're talking peak so lets go with $0.10 / KWh
24KWh*$0.10/KWh*30days = $72.00 Oh and by the way you can't drive your car now, because it's going to take 6 hours to charge back up.
Nissan said the cost for the battery is $18K (not $9k as widely reported) http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/15/nissan-leaf-profitable-by-year-three-battery-cost-closer-to-18/
So to break even is 20 years (or 10 if you assume the cost ends up dropping to $9K).
Neat that's to break even, no where near an order of magnitude.... And now you can't drive your car because it's an expensive battery...
"They" you realize capital gains tax rates can be taken advantage of by everyone. Oh and by the way the two lowest "normal" tax brackets get to pay 0% for capital gains. So let's not get silly and talk about capital gains in a "they" manner, EVERYONE may take advantage of that.
You'd be correct, except you're not. Sprint (and anyone who really cares about time sync) doesn't use "cheap, low power" GPS time synchronization. They use relatively expensive rubidium backed gps trained oscillators which give a stability of 5x10^-11 seconds / month stability without gps lock. All these systems need is to have been synchronized to gps at some point, once they have that they are good to go for a long time as long as they don't lose power. They aren't using some ghetto cell phone gps clock.
They use stuff more like this: http://www.spectracomcorp.com/ProductsServices/TimingSynchronization/GPSTimeFrequencyReferences/SecureSyncSynchronizationSystem/tabid/1304/Default.aspx
Most important part of your comment is "it's WiFi, not clean drinking water."
I'm sick and tired of people (including some polititians) acting like high speed internet access, or free TV ($50 coupons for a converter box, what the?) is a fundamental right. It's crazy, you have a right to have the opportunity to work to make money to buy these things. Free internet access does not make a better society, that's crazy.
Care to state an example of a "whacked out law"? Oh, that's right you're just blowing smoke up everyone's ass pretending like you know anything about Texas or our laws.
You fail to understand the issue. Lightsquared's transmitters could screw up GPS service for EVERYONE. The FCC waived their own rules to allow this, rollout. If you RTFA (I know I know, this is slashdot) you would see the large distances a single transmitter can jam GPS devices at.
I've read all three of your comments. You do realize that cars don't turn the alternator off right? You'd have to actually wire that up yourself. The alternator / battery is what also runs every electrical thing in the car (you realize there's a computer, and oh my, an ignition system that requires lots of juice). Wind drag and weight are what predominately reduce mileage, you've made both of these worse with your modifications. 2-2.5% is not a significant enough change to make any claim, the wear on your tires will actually cause WAY more error than that as time goes on (more worn tires register more distance than reality).
It's much more likely that your numbers are just wrong, and that any change in your driving habits when you decided to start being "green" make up for any true change in mileage. Pull all that crap off your car and you'll probably do even better.
I don't think you understand what a "theory" is. It's not proven, just like the "theist theory" you claim doesn't hold. You can't prove that God doesn't exist, just like you (or Dr. Hawking) can't prove that a Big Bang occured (or didn't occur). I might theorize that God created the earth to look like it's 100,000 (or pick a number) years old. You can't disprove my theory, just like I can't prove it.
Theories are like butts, everyone has them and they all stink. ...Now sure, some theories can be proven through testing and scientific rigor, but the origins of the universe (or species) sure as hell ain't one of them.
First, pick a realistic frequency range, decide what other stuff you care about.
Don't forget about probes, nice ones can be expensize, don't spend your budget then find out you need $500 in probes. Again, this depends on your frequency range.
Then, a good place to start is ebay, remember, old and working is the same as new and working +5lbs per decade of age. (old test equipment is heavy!)
Some of the new Agilent scopes are sweet, we've rented some at my office (esp if you pony up for the 15" LCD) personally, having one that requires a computer is a PITA. Decent Agilents
It's not there. As mentioned in all of the comments above, the "hacker" was disappointed by not finding anything. You can find all the email online, there's nothing illegal there.
The assertion that there is something illegal has been created in a sort of slashdot liberal love-fest, that ignores facts.
Fundemental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
HA
hahahahaha, oh man you can't be serious. We all know how effective the government has been at all of those things....
All of the new Hugesnet installs have bi-directional to the satelight, so then you don't have to use the phone line. I think the up is 64kbps.
All of the Wifi sharing ideas are going to be against the TOS of the company that is being "shared"
But I'm willing to place a large bet that it cannot handle the 220V 30A requirement for the charger (to achieve the "as little as 3.5hours" listed on the website.
You'll note that that is not listed on the website(that I can find), however it was noted in either Autoweek or Car & Driver
Unless your off-grid system is way over designed, I'm not sure how you're going to handle the constant drain on your system (from a lower amp system). ...Sorry your horse isn't as high as you thought it was.
Now you're just making crap up.
1. Solder is VERY strong when applied properly. Now, the X360 is Rohs compliant which means it uses AgTn solder instead of TnPb, and that leads to more failures in all modern electronics, I digress.
2. There is not a chance in hell that people are melting the solder, you realize solder melts at over 200deg C right? Rohs compatible electronics have to be able to withstand 260 deg C for reflow.
3. The only issue with board warpage is it causes the weaker Rohs joints to crack, not causing tracks to peel off, again it's not that hot.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't guess...
Well, first off, it's not possible that your machine is less than 65W at the wall unless it's a laptop, which is hardly a fair comparison.
Also, TDP is not really a good measure of power efficiency. TDP has to do with how systems need to be designed to get the most out of a chip. This basically means under ~95% load the chip is going to use 65W so the system needs to be designed to handle that. At idle it will use considerably less, so chips with the same TDP can have substantially different real world power usage (especially at idle).
I'm not interested in talking about all of your comment, at least most of it is somewhat well-reasoned.
pro-Choice is about leaving it up to people concerned. pro-Life is a wish to return to the back alley abortions days.
I see this arguement constantly, "we can't legislate against it because it will force people into "back alley abortions".
WAKE UP PEOPLE in what alternate reality do you base laws on what people "are going to do anyway"? I mean by that logic we should get rid of all of the laws against normal murder, because hey, since we can't just walk people into a "deathspital" and have them killed, we have to go and do it in an alley. That's a slippery slope if I've ever seen one.
Or, lets see, people are going to steal stuff, but since it's against the law they actually have to break in and steal it, and sometimes they, or the people they are stealing from get hurt. Lets just make stealing legal, that way people can just go someplace and say "I'm stealing this" and be given it, and no one gets hurt.
If you believe things like "total capacity" you obviously don't understand that people on any website *green*.com have an agenda and will not look at the whole picture. Sure if you look at the entire grid, on average there's plenty of power for plug ins.
Now, lets look at the biggest weenie state on green issues California, this week they are being told to stop running Air Conditioning and don't use major appliances. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295667,00.html
I'm sure they could really use plug in cars to help that out, so now I've got no power, and no transportation, brilliant.
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BTW, I had some camel in Austrailia, Gross.. Way way gamey.
It's another stickfigure comic ala xkcd
http://thedoghousediaries.com/
They have me laughing on the floor often...
MS was also forced to take the "bailout" and lets not forget, the government made a TON on the stock from the strong banks (JPM, MS, GS) and since the money has been more than returned, that profit the government made has now been wasted, instead of returned to the general fund.
The way the news covered it made it sound like they handed out cash, and that's just not the case.
The GM "bailout" however needs the stock price to double before the next shares are sold for the government to break even, but those are union jobs, so we won't hear about that....
This kind of Hardware stuff is what I do most of the time. First, yes do get a dev board and free tools (Xilinx or Altera) to play with (just like you would play with software by compiling and trying).
Second, pick a language, I use mostly VHDL.
I like:
"VHDL for Logic Synthesis" Rushton
"VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies" Cohen
Also google "VHDL Math tricks of the trade" (pdf) you'll need that to stay sane if you actually do algorithms
So are you just a cheapskate or are you truly concerned about giving them your information?
I ask because if you go to the store and buy Turbo Tax, you don't have to give them your information and send it anyplace. That's what I do / have been doing for a long time. I'm paying them to guarantee me that they have interpreted the tax code properly, I'm totally fine with that.
I like some open source stuff, but I need a company to stand behind something that can royally screw me over if it's wrong.
...thanks a lot....Ass
Hundreds of dollars per month. You are either purposely making stuff up, or horribly bad at math.
I suppose you could be spouting off someone else's fake numbers, which would just make you ignorant.
Anyway, lets do some math:
24KWh battery (Nissan leaf, and we'll give you the entire battery, just for grins).
I'll even grant you a ridiculous number for power cost (average wholesale energy cost in TX $0.045 / KWh) we're talking peak so lets go with $0.10 / KWh
24KWh*$0.10/KWh*30days = $72.00 Oh and by the way you can't drive your car now, because it's going to take 6 hours to charge back up.
Nissan said the cost for the battery is $18K (not $9k as widely reported) http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/15/nissan-leaf-profitable-by-year-three-battery-cost-closer-to-18/
So to break even is 20 years (or 10 if you assume the cost ends up dropping to $9K).
Neat that's to break even, no where near an order of magnitude.... And now you can't drive your car because it's an expensive battery...
"They" you realize capital gains tax rates can be taken advantage of by everyone. Oh and by the way the two lowest "normal" tax brackets get to pay 0% for capital gains. So let's not get silly and talk about capital gains in a "they" manner, EVERYONE may take advantage of that.
You'd be correct, except you're not. Sprint (and anyone who really cares about time sync) doesn't use "cheap, low power" GPS time synchronization. They use relatively expensive rubidium backed gps trained oscillators which give a stability of 5x10^-11 seconds / month stability without gps lock. All these systems need is to have been synchronized to gps at some point, once they have that they are good to go for a long time as long as they don't lose power. They aren't using some ghetto cell phone gps clock. They use stuff more like this: http://www.spectracomcorp.com/ProductsServices/TimingSynchronization/GPSTimeFrequencyReferences/SecureSyncSynchronizationSystem/tabid/1304/Default.aspx
Most important part of your comment is "it's WiFi, not clean drinking water."
I'm sick and tired of people (including some polititians) acting like high speed internet access, or free TV ($50 coupons for a converter box, what the?) is a fundamental right. It's crazy, you have a right to have the opportunity to work to make money to buy these things. Free internet access does not make a better society, that's crazy.
I'll have that guitar riff in my head all afternoon now, thanks....
(and I didn't even click the link)
Care to state an example of a "whacked out law"? Oh, that's right you're just blowing smoke up everyone's ass pretending like you know anything about Texas or our laws.
You fail to understand the issue. Lightsquared's transmitters could screw up GPS service for EVERYONE. The FCC waived their own rules to allow this, rollout. If you RTFA (I know I know, this is slashdot) you would see the large distances a single transmitter can jam GPS devices at.
Is this the focus you want? (2012 model)
http://www.ford.com/electric/focuselectric/2012/?searchid=444987|32150650|210463862
Oh, under $30K well get it for near invoice and when our stupid gov't pays you $7500 you'll be close.
The Volt is a glorified taxpayer funded hybrid, if it takes gas it's not an electric.
I've read all three of your comments.
You do realize that cars don't turn the alternator off right? You'd have to actually wire that up yourself. The alternator / battery is what also runs every electrical thing in the car (you realize there's a computer, and oh my, an ignition system that requires lots of juice).
Wind drag and weight are what predominately reduce mileage, you've made both of these worse with your modifications.
2-2.5% is not a significant enough change to make any claim, the wear on your tires will actually cause WAY more error than that as time goes on (more worn tires register more distance than reality).
It's much more likely that your numbers are just wrong, and that any change in your driving habits when you decided to start being "green" make up for any true change in mileage. Pull all that crap off your car and you'll probably do even better.
I don't think you understand what a "theory" is. It's not proven, just like the "theist theory" you claim doesn't hold. You can't prove that God doesn't exist, just like you (or Dr. Hawking) can't prove that a Big Bang occured (or didn't occur). I might theorize that God created the earth to look like it's 100,000 (or pick a number) years old. You can't disprove my theory, just like I can't prove it.
...Now sure, some theories can be proven through testing and scientific rigor, but the origins of the universe (or species) sure as hell ain't one of them.
Theories are like butts, everyone has them and they all stink.
First, pick a realistic frequency range, decide what other stuff you care about.
Don't forget about probes, nice ones can be expensize, don't spend your budget then find out you need $500 in probes. Again, this depends on your frequency range.
Then, a good place to start is ebay, remember, old and working is the same as new and working +5lbs per decade of age. (old test equipment is heavy!)
Some of the new Agilent scopes are sweet, we've rented some at my office (esp if you pony up for the 15" LCD) personally, having one that requires a computer is a PITA.
Decent Agilents
Good luck.
It's not there. As mentioned in all of the comments above, the "hacker" was disappointed by not finding anything. You can find all the email online, there's nothing illegal there.
The assertion that there is something illegal has been created in a sort of slashdot liberal love-fest, that ignores facts.
Fundemental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
HA
hahahahaha, oh man you can't be serious. We all know how effective the government has been at all of those things....
All of the new Hugesnet installs have bi-directional to the satelight, so then you don't have to use the phone line. I think the up is 64kbps.
All of the Wifi sharing ideas are going to be against the TOS of the company that is being "shared"
Not sure how you're getting your off-grid power.
...Sorry your horse isn't as high as you thought it was.
But I'm willing to place a large bet that it cannot handle the 220V 30A requirement for the charger (to achieve the "as little as 3.5hours" listed on the website.
You'll note that that is not listed on the website(that I can find), however it was noted in either Autoweek or Car & Driver
Unless your off-grid system is way over designed, I'm not sure how you're going to handle the constant drain on your system (from a lower amp system).
Now you're just making crap up.
1. Solder is VERY strong when applied properly. Now, the X360 is Rohs compliant which means it uses AgTn solder instead of TnPb, and that leads to more failures in all modern electronics, I digress.
2. There is not a chance in hell that people are melting the solder, you realize solder melts at over 200deg C right? Rohs compatible electronics have to be able to withstand 260 deg C for reflow.
3. The only issue with board warpage is it causes the weaker Rohs joints to crack, not causing tracks to peel off, again it's not that hot.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't guess...
Also, TDP is not really a good measure of power efficiency. TDP has to do with how systems need to be designed to get the most out of a chip. This basically means under ~95% load the chip is going to use 65W so the system needs to be designed to handle that. At idle it will use considerably less, so chips with the same TDP can have substantially different real world power usage (especially at idle).
pro-Choice is about leaving it up to people concerned. pro-Life is a wish to return to the back alley abortions days.
I see this arguement constantly, "we can't legislate against it because it will force people into "back alley abortions".
WAKE UP PEOPLE in what alternate reality do you base laws on what people "are going to do anyway"? I mean by that logic we should get rid of all of the laws against normal murder, because hey, since we can't just walk people into a "deathspital" and have them killed, we have to go and do it in an alley. That's a slippery slope if I've ever seen one.
Or, lets see, people are going to steal stuff, but since it's against the law they actually have to break in and steal it, and sometimes they, or the people they are stealing from get hurt. Lets just make stealing legal, that way people can just go someplace and say "I'm stealing this" and be given it, and no one gets hurt.
That argument just doesn't make sense.
If you believe things like "total capacity" you obviously don't understand that people on any website *green*.com have an agenda and will not look at the whole picture. Sure if you look at the entire grid, on average there's plenty of power for plug ins.
Now, lets look at the biggest weenie state on green issues California, this week they are being told to stop running Air Conditioning and don't use major appliances. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295667,00.html
I'm sure they could really use plug in cars to help that out, so now I've got no power, and no transportation, brilliant.
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