1. Only if you use non-dimmer compatible CFLs. These are findable at the local walmart (at least my local one, YMMV) and are easily identified by "DIMMER COMPATIBLE!!!!" on the packaging.
2. No, they do not use that power, by definition. The power is sent through the lines and sent back. There is still transmission loss on that power and it increases plant load, but still less than an equivalent incandescent. a 100W equivalent CFL draws 23W, so 46VA (which gives us 40VAR) using his PF=0.5 figure. Let's be generous and say the grid loss is 50%. That brings the real power use to 23+(40*50%)=43W in actual power used and power company having to push out 46VA.
Compared to a normal 100W incandescent, you're still drawing less than half.
Compared to this new trick, we're drawing about 3/4s the power.
20 minutes for 2 miles on a school bus doesn't sound too out of line to me. Remember that the bus likely has a bunch of stops in that 2 miles. When I was in grade school, the 12 mile bus ride took over an hour.
I see/hear garage (also garaging and garaged) used all the time (and firefox's spellcheck recognizes all three too), with the meaning of "to put in long-term storage", such as putting away your bicycle when the snow starts.
I'm in Canada and on several recent movies, the advertisements are unskippable (same UOP flags), same as the FBI warning (which is of minor annoyance itself. they should at least do some decent localization and make it an RCMP warning).
10 seconds? Practically every DVD I've seen recently abuses the no-skip thing to force the god damn advertisements, which I've seen last over 10 minutes.
Check the whois info on your own link. I doubt Asus randomly decided to host the server in a completely different place and register the site with a completely different registar. Not to mention asus.co.uk is listed as registered by a private non-trading individual.
Not Asus' site, unless they decided to host uk.asus.com and asus.co.uk in completely different countries (asus.com's server is in Taiwan, whereas asus.co.uk is somewhere in the UK) and register them with completely different registrars (asus.com is through Network Solutions, whereas asus.co.uk is through 1&1).
Asus.co.uk is not Asus' UK site (which is uk.asus.com).
Additionally, asus.co.uk is registered through a completely different registrar than asus.com (1&1, whereas asus.com comes from Network Solutions), and the contact info for each are different, which makes me suspect something is hinky.
I disagree about warfare against dictatorships. While that may eventually deal with the root cause, it causes too much collateral damage and is very expensive.
The optimal move would be warfare against dictators and remove the root cause directly with minimal to nil collateral damage and substantially lower cost.
Though there are the obvious problems with this;
a. It's substantially trickier.
b. It's very vulnerable to abuse towards your (the attacking country or leaders thereof) own interests, rather than those of the people living under the dictatorship.
many, in fact, are quite healthy reactions to the normal disappointments and unpleasantnesses that creep into our lives from time to time.
Yes, but you when get locked in that state long after the original cause has passed (e.g. still being bitter about something that happened 20 years ago), it is likely to be a problem.
Think of it like an Alderson loop. The majority of people stay in the loop for awhile, but are able to exit the loop and continue on, but some get stuck in that state indefinitely and need help (ranging from a friend to talk it over with to professional counselling to medication, depending on the particulars) to break out of it.
you'd most likely get less than half the mileage out of your car if you used E100 (100% ethanol).
Only if you insist on using it in a distressing inefficient manner. Ethanol has one major advantage over gasoline, and that is the octane rating, which is about 116 for pure ethanol, compared to 91 for premium gasoline. That means you can run it at much higher compression ratios (read : high boost forced induction) without worrying about knocking, and more compression translates into a more efficient burn, which in addition to boosting mileage (at appropriate settings, the mileage is the same as it is on gas), boosts power and torque considerably. Take a look at the Saab 9-5.
Exactly. Neither of those is the main method of getting games, and additionally, they're not trying to be. They're simply a way of getting smaller simpler games, but not the big A-list titles.
According to the EIA, average household electricity use is about 10,000 KW-hr and about 1300 gallons of gasoline, which is equivalent to 14,300 KW-hr, though cut that by about half to adjust for electrics being more efficient than gasoline engines.
I don't see (official) online distribution pushing out hard copies for awhile yet, and that goes double for consoles (which is what this story is about).
The primary item is the available connectivity and the sheer size of modern games. For example, I'll take fallout 3, disc size, 5.52GB. Taking a standard fare 768kbps connection, that's about 16 hours. Compared to 1 hour (or less) for me to drive to town, buy the game, and come home. And don't forget that 5.52GB comes out of the ever so trendy transfer cap that call the cool ISPs are implementing.
For consoles, there's also the issue of space. Anything you download is going to get stored on the internal drive, which is mostly tiny (the PS3 has only 80GB). And PS3 games average in the 10-20GB range. Even with the special 160GB one (which I don't think is being made anymore), that's still only 8-16 games.
All taxes (and social security now) just go into the general fund. It's not direct fuel tax -> roads. It all goes into one big mass which is divvied up in the budget. The necessary funds will simply come from another tax (or more likely several taxes) increased (or not, depending on actual revenues and expenses at this future point) to make up the shortfall.
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1. Only if you use non-dimmer compatible CFLs. These are findable at the local walmart (at least my local one, YMMV) and are easily identified by "DIMMER COMPATIBLE!!!!" on the packaging.
2. No, they do not use that power, by definition. The power is sent through the lines and sent back. There is still transmission loss on that power and it increases plant load, but still less than an equivalent incandescent. a 100W equivalent CFL draws 23W, so 46VA (which gives us 40VAR) using his PF=0.5 figure. Let's be generous and say the grid loss is 50%. That brings the real power use to 23+(40*50%)=43W in actual power used and power company having to push out 46VA.
Compared to a normal 100W incandescent, you're still drawing less than half.
Compared to this new trick, we're drawing about 3/4s the power.
20 minutes for 2 miles on a school bus doesn't sound too out of line to me. Remember that the bus likely has a bunch of stops in that 2 miles. When I was in grade school, the 12 mile bus ride took over an hour.
Be sure to also mark the person(s) who invented fonts that fail to differentiate between I and l.
I see/hear garage (also garaging and garaged) used all the time (and firefox's spellcheck recognizes all three too), with the meaning of "to put in long-term storage", such as putting away your bicycle when the snow starts.
If you're defining "crappy" as "follows that crappy part of the DVD spec", yes. DVD player in question is a Panasonic from 2001.
Anything that uses the Intel GMA 500 video has hardware acceleration for video decoding. A few that have this are:
And anything built on Nvidia's ion platform, though those are fairly much non-existent so far.
I'm in Canada and on several recent movies, the advertisements are unskippable (same UOP flags), same as the FBI warning (which is of minor annoyance itself. they should at least do some decent localization and make it an RCMP warning).
10 seconds? Practically every DVD I've seen recently abuses the no-skip thing to force the god damn advertisements, which I've seen last over 10 minutes.
Check the whois info on your own link. I doubt Asus randomly decided to host the server in a completely different place and register the site with a completely different registar. Not to mention asus.co.uk is listed as registered by a private non-trading individual.
Do a whois on that site and compare to uk.asus.com.
Also compare the sites
http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=164&l3=0&l4=0&model=2912&modelmenu=1. Notice the complete lack of that link?
Not Asus' site, unless they decided to host uk.asus.com and asus.co.uk in completely different countries (asus.com's server is in Taiwan, whereas asus.co.uk is somewhere in the UK) and register them with completely different registrars (asus.com is through Network Solutions, whereas asus.co.uk is through 1&1).
Asus.co.uk is not Asus' UK site (which is uk.asus.com).
Additionally, asus.co.uk is registered through a completely different registrar than asus.com (1&1, whereas asus.com comes from Network Solutions), and the contact info for each are different, which makes me suspect something is hinky.
Are you honestly saying that Chrysler should get more government money to save their failing business? Isn't that Socialism?
That's not socialism. It's the next generation of trickle down economics.~
Sounds like a convenient way to legally fire or reassign someone.
I disagree about warfare against dictatorships. While that may eventually deal with the root cause, it causes too much collateral damage and is very expensive.
The optimal move would be warfare against dictators and remove the root cause directly with minimal to nil collateral damage and substantially lower cost.
Though there are the obvious problems with this;
a. It's substantially trickier.
b. It's very vulnerable to abuse towards your (the attacking country or leaders thereof) own interests, rather than those of the people living under the dictatorship.
many, in fact, are quite healthy reactions to the normal disappointments and unpleasantnesses that creep into our lives from time to time.
Yes, but you when get locked in that state long after the original cause has passed (e.g. still being bitter about something that happened 20 years ago), it is likely to be a problem.
Think of it like an Alderson loop. The majority of people stay in the loop for awhile, but are able to exit the loop and continue on, but some get stuck in that state indefinitely and need help (ranging from a friend to talk it over with to professional counselling to medication, depending on the particulars) to break out of it.
A phone that uses GPS to point to Mecca?
The iphone has an app (iSalat) that does this already.
you'd most likely get less than half the mileage out of your car if you used E100 (100% ethanol).
Only if you insist on using it in a distressing inefficient manner. Ethanol has one major advantage over gasoline, and that is the octane rating, which is about 116 for pure ethanol, compared to 91 for premium gasoline. That means you can run it at much higher compression ratios (read : high boost forced induction) without worrying about knocking, and more compression translates into a more efficient burn, which in addition to boosting mileage (at appropriate settings, the mileage is the same as it is on gas), boosts power and torque considerably. Take a look at the Saab 9-5.
Try "0.039 inch".
Exactly. Neither of those is the main method of getting games, and additionally, they're not trying to be. They're simply a way of getting smaller simpler games, but not the big A-list titles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7bEkk5GHwg
According to the EIA, average household electricity use is about 10,000 KW-hr and about 1300 gallons of gasoline, which is equivalent to 14,300 KW-hr, though cut that by about half to adjust for electrics being more efficient than gasoline engines.
I don't see (official) online distribution pushing out hard copies for awhile yet, and that goes double for consoles (which is what this story is about).
The primary item is the available connectivity and the sheer size of modern games. For example, I'll take fallout 3, disc size, 5.52GB. Taking a standard fare 768kbps connection, that's about 16 hours. Compared to 1 hour (or less) for me to drive to town, buy the game, and come home. And don't forget that 5.52GB comes out of the ever so trendy transfer cap that call the cool ISPs are implementing.
For consoles, there's also the issue of space. Anything you download is going to get stored on the internal drive, which is mostly tiny (the PS3 has only 80GB). And PS3 games average in the 10-20GB range. Even with the special 160GB one (which I don't think is being made anymore), that's still only 8-16 games.
All taxes (and social security now) just go into the general fund. It's not direct fuel tax -> roads. It all goes into one big mass which is divvied up in the budget. The necessary funds will simply come from another tax (or more likely several taxes) increased (or not, depending on actual revenues and expenses at this future point) to make up the shortfall.
I would question whether you're losing more going through the battery than you are gaining from running the engine at the optimal RPM.