I think you're ascribing entirely too much unity to the Democrats. Also, that brief supermajority only holds up if both of the independent senators play ball, so it's not that unchecked.
It's not like Obama had a Democratic House AND Senate his first 2 year or anything, or a lot of goodwill all over the world....
He didn't. He had a majority in both the House and Senate, but only had a fillibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate for a total of 181 days (and the Senate was only in session for 94 of those days), from August 25, 2009 until February 4, 2010 and again from June 28, 2010 until July 16, 2010.
Being more serious, DC-DC converters have a significant overhead, making them very inefficient at low (30% of capacity or so) loads , so it's more efficient to have a dedicated 12V battery for the small loads than it is to run the converter constantly.
Regenerative braking. Rather than turning to friction-produced heat on the pads/rotors, the energy you're dumping when braking is instead being put back in the battery, with the upshot being there's massively less wear on the brake components, at least presuming you allow the regen to operate rather than slamming the brakes constantly.
Tesla apparently expects the original pads on the Model S to last for at least 100k miles, as opposed to the 30k or so you'd get on a non-electric/non-hybrid car.
Yes, but a whole lot less. No oil changes, no air filter (except maybe the cabin air filter), no transmission, no spark plugs, and probably longer coolant lifespan.
I said "lack of", not "complete lack of". ICE still requires a considerable amount of regular maintenance (oil change, air filter, transmission fluid, spark plugs, etc.) that electric doesn't and that means less high-margin work for the dealership.
Tesla could probably sell their cars just fine if they contracted with the local dealerships. Why they don't... I do not know.
$$$$$$$
Dealerships don't work for free. They would either need to add at least $3k to the price of a bottom-end Model S or Tesla would have to eat that cost.
Also, I wouldn't rule out the dealers saying no to electrics on the basis of the lack of maintenance revenue. The stealerships wouldn't be able to charge Tesla drivers obscene rates for oil changes and such.
A two party system with a third one being the official opposition right now... Yeah Right (Slow Clap).
Which is increasing looking like a one-time temporary thing, unfortunately. Modulo the Bloc voters they took and appear to be keeping, NDP support is about back where it was before the Crush and seems likely to stay there unless Trudeau does something dumb.
But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
Well yeah. The stock heatsink is intended to keep it within the manufacturer's thermal envelope under normal use conditions.
If you go outside the "normal use conditions" (overclocking, high ambient temperature, etc.) or want to get under the normal envelope (for potentially increased component longevity, etc. or want a unit with a bigger, slower spinning fan so it's quieter), a better cooler may be necessary.
That's nothing to do with HDMI. That's Cleartype at work. It's supposed to make text more readable under normal circumstances by boosting the luminance at the cost of colour accuracy, despite looking weird up close.
It's on by default in Windows Vista and later, but it can be disabled.
How does HDMI suck at text? Other than the DRM crap, HDMI moves the exact same RGB TDMS signal (though with the potential for YCbCr signals) that DVI uses.
A 9V battery can (briefly) supply several amps of current if shorted. Even just a small fraction of that going along the wrong path can wreck your heart rhythm.
Back in the 1980's a group of Russians was raking in truckloads of money by selling home-heating fuel oils in gas stations they own, in New Jersey
That'll work for a diesel engine of that era, but a modern direct injected turbodiesel is less forgiving about lousy cetane numbers and will run like crap.
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I think you're ascribing entirely too much unity to the Democrats. Also, that brief supermajority only holds up if both of the independent senators play ball, so it's not that unchecked.
It's not like Obama had a Democratic House AND Senate his first 2 year or anything, or a lot of goodwill all over the world....
He didn't. He had a majority in both the House and Senate, but only had a fillibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate for a total of 181 days (and the Senate was only in session for 94 of those days), from August 25, 2009 until February 4, 2010 and again from June 28, 2010 until July 16, 2010.
Only wimps use backups: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
For powering 12V stuff, obviously.
Being more serious, DC-DC converters have a significant overhead, making them very inefficient at low (30% of capacity or so) loads , so it's more efficient to have a dedicated 12V battery for the small loads than it is to run the converter constantly.
I'm curious as to how this one happens.
Regenerative braking. Rather than turning to friction-produced heat on the pads/rotors, the energy you're dumping when braking is instead being put back in the battery, with the upshot being there's massively less wear on the brake components, at least presuming you allow the regen to operate rather than slamming the brakes constantly.
Tesla apparently expects the original pads on the Model S to last for at least 100k miles, as opposed to the 30k or so you'd get on a non-electric/non-hybrid car.
Yes, but a whole lot less. No oil changes, no air filter (except maybe the cabin air filter), no transmission, no spark plugs, and probably longer coolant lifespan.
I said "lack of", not "complete lack of". ICE still requires a considerable amount of regular maintenance (oil change, air filter, transmission fluid, spark plugs, etc.) that electric doesn't and that means less high-margin work for the dealership.
Tesla could probably sell their cars just fine if they contracted with the local dealerships. Why they don't... I do not know.
$$$$$$$
Dealerships don't work for free. They would either need to add at least $3k to the price of a bottom-end Model S or Tesla would have to eat that cost.
Also, I wouldn't rule out the dealers saying no to electrics on the basis of the lack of maintenance revenue. The stealerships wouldn't be able to charge Tesla drivers obscene rates for oil changes and such.
Oh, that's hilarious.
The exception is an exceedingly narrow definition of what constitutes "unreasonable".
If you're in Alberta, you can't vote for the Bloc. They don't run candidates outside of Quebec.
A two party system with a third one being the official opposition right now... Yeah Right (Slow Clap).
Which is increasing looking like a one-time temporary thing, unfortunately. Modulo the Bloc voters they took and appear to be keeping, NDP support is about back where it was before the Crush and seems likely to stay there unless Trudeau does something dumb.
But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
Well yeah. The stock heatsink is intended to keep it within the manufacturer's thermal envelope under normal use conditions.
If you go outside the "normal use conditions" (overclocking, high ambient temperature, etc.) or want to get under the normal envelope (for potentially increased component longevity, etc. or want a unit with a bigger, slower spinning fan so it's quieter), a better cooler may be necessary.
That's nothing to do with HDMI. That's Cleartype at work. It's supposed to make text more readable under normal circumstances by boosting the luminance at the cost of colour accuracy, despite looking weird up close.
It's on by default in Windows Vista and later, but it can be disabled.
How does HDMI suck at text? Other than the DRM crap, HDMI moves the exact same RGB TDMS signal (though with the potential for YCbCr signals) that DVI uses.
adulterants are used, such as aluminum
That's adjuvant, not adulterant, regardless of what spellcheck thinks.
CBS owns the rights to anything Trek, so you need to convince them to allow it.
McCoy was alive in 2364 and Chekov is 18 years younger than him.
No reason Chekov couldn't still be alive, though limited to piloting a desk.
Chekov is 18 years younger than McCoy in TOS. The gap is shrunk to 14 years in the Abramsverse.
They would have to be pulling off a 9/11 worth of deaths every month to even catch up with the current rate of motor vehicle fatalities.
Because the states are busy trying to outdo all the others in being "Pro-business".
Free climbing is not allowed, but the penalties issued for violating those rules don't even amount to a weregild, so they get freely ignored.
How do you forget to clip on?.
"working 12- or 16-hour days"
"haven't taken days off in weeks"
Exhaustion results in errors.
A 9V battery can (briefly) supply several amps of current if shorted. Even just a small fraction of that going along the wrong path can wreck your heart rhythm.
Back in the 1980's a group of Russians was raking in truckloads of money by selling home-heating fuel oils in gas stations they own, in New Jersey
That'll work for a diesel engine of that era, but a modern direct injected turbodiesel is less forgiving about lousy cetane numbers and will run like crap.