but you have to wire it yourself, and bypass some fuses.
As I said, my 600W inverter will power my laptop if it's wired directly into the battery, but pulls too much juice to do it through the cigarette lighter.
You are right, a 200W inverter would work, if the cigarette lighter would sustain that, but my epxerience has been that they don't put out enough juice to power my laptop, but easily power my wifes.
I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 (looks just like the one pictured, on fire), and that sucker pulls 90 watts just sitting there, and over 110 when watching a movie!
It's a couple years old.
My wife just got a Dell E1505, and it's a faster machine, but only pulls 28 watts sitting there and 35 watching a movie.
Unless you wire it right into the car battery, I can't even run my laptop with my 600 watt inverter, the inverter just can't get enough juice from the cigarette lighter.
The E1505 can run right off the cigarette lighter with a $20 100 watt inverter that just hangs out of the cigarette lighter.
So I can totally see how my laptop would be MUCH more likely to catch fire than hers. Hmm, time to upgrade.
I ~highly~ recommend everyone watch "The Future of Food", documenting the inner workings of Monsanto, the goal of which is to quite literally one day control the entire food supply of planet earth.
After watching the documentary, I have to say, the don't have far to go...
If Joss Whedon fell in love with the Half-Life universe (`verse for all you browncoats) and chose to write the script for a Half-Life movie, I'd go see it in a heartbeat.
I agree it's messed up and short sighted. Nonetheless, they are taking away our manufacturing jobs at an alarming rate, and India is getting our service jobs at an even more alarming rate.
My friend just got back from a 10 day business trip in China, and he had one piece of advice:
"Learn to speak chinese, because these people are going to take over the world!"
It's not the Europeans we have to worry about, it's the Chinese and the Indians (from India, not the reservation!) that are going to rule the world.
They aren't "held back" by the same morality and environmental issues we are. When they want to build the largest dam in the world (which is an engineering marvel that will put out as much electricity as 15 nuclear power plants combined), they just do it, and don't worry about the environmental, social, or historical implications.
China has 35 people for every one of ours, so they could invade with nothing but chopsticks and probably win. But they also have huge natural resources and are progressing very, very fast. Their navy will be as big as ours by 2012 (though not as advanced).
Be afraid, be very afraid. (I say that only partly in jest)
Oh, yeah, and they're bringing the bird flu with them...:}
I guess what we have to remember though is that is 134HP for a car that doesn't have to deal with the weight of an engine, transmission, or driveline. The hydrogen also weighs much less than a full tank of gas.
Electric cars can be very snappy. I think this technology shows a lot of promise.
The real question for me is how many solar panels you'd need to perform enough electrolysis to power it for 50 miles per day (most cars travel less than 50 miles per day).
Honda already has a charging station for this car that works via natural gas, but I don't think that's optimal. It may be much cleaner overall, but it still isn't a renewable energy source.
I was looking forward to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (10+ years from now), but didn't think much of it until I read about Honda's new hydrogen fuel cell. It puts out 100KW of power!
It's incredible to me that a fuel cell that is smaller than a common household gas generator puts out 20 times as much power.
You could power your entire neighborhood with one of these in a power outage.
I'm simply trying to point out the difference between a vulnerability that could, theoretically, be used for arbitrary code execution, and one that IS being used daily for arbitrary code execution, drive-by installations, etc.
The point being that MS calls a vulnerability critical as a last resort, and Mozilla call a vulnerability critical if it even has the potential to theoretically become critical.
Mozilla is the one being honest, but if you look at the sheer numbers and not the descriptions of the vulnerabilities, it often appears that FF has 3 times as many "critical" vulnerabilities as IE, when just the opposite may be true.
I've been applying patches to windows and linux servers long enough (5+ years) to know that NO software is, or ever will be, entirely safe or secure.
What I take issue with is saying that FF has just as many and just as bad bugs or vulnerabilites as IE, and that they just haven't been found yet because FF is too small of a target.
I fundamentally agree with the way FF is developed and handled, and fundamentally disagree with the way security is handled and information stifled at MS.
I believe if both browsers went to exactly 50% market share overnight, FF would be more prepared to protect it's users at 30, 90, 180, and 365 day security audits. FF patches are issued much faster, and the dangerous baggage of OS integration and bloat is avoided.
In every single case, with every type of user, anyone who I've convinced to switch from IE to FF has had their spyware problem completely go away. This involves everyone from business owners to grandma's.
Anecdotal as it may be, I have lots of evidence that FF is safer, and no evidence that IE is safer.
One of the complications in this argument is when comparing "critical bugs", the definitition of what is and is not critical is made by the vendor.
MS has been shown repeatedly to classify something as critical only when it is only moments away from causing the entire collapse of society as we know it (sarcasm intentional), whereas Mozilla calls it like it is: if a bug in any way can lead to a remote exploit with local code execution it is termed critical.
When independent security firms use an unbiased metric to determine how critical a bug is, MS has many, many, many more critical bugs that take on average about 10 times longer to get fixed, if they get fixed at all.
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but you have to wire it yourself, and bypass some fuses.
As I said, my 600W inverter will power my laptop if it's wired directly into the battery, but pulls too much juice to do it through the cigarette lighter.
You are right, a 200W inverter would work, if the cigarette lighter would sustain that, but my epxerience has been that they don't put out enough juice to power my laptop, but easily power my wifes.
I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 (looks just like the one pictured, on fire), and that sucker pulls 90 watts just sitting there, and over 110 when watching a movie!
It's a couple years old.
My wife just got a Dell E1505, and it's a faster machine, but only pulls 28 watts sitting there and 35 watching a movie.
Unless you wire it right into the car battery, I can't even run my laptop with my 600 watt inverter, the inverter just can't get enough juice from the cigarette lighter.
The E1505 can run right off the cigarette lighter with a $20 100 watt inverter that just hangs out of the cigarette lighter.
So I can totally see how my laptop would be MUCH more likely to catch fire than hers. Hmm, time to upgrade.
I ~highly~ recommend everyone watch "The Future of Food", documenting the inner workings of Monsanto, the goal of which is to quite literally one day control the entire food supply of planet earth.
After watching the documentary, I have to say, the don't have far to go...
The lunar soil is almost 50% oxygen, so it wouldn't be hard to get enough "air" for a really good explosion.
Meteors also contain all sorts of stuff from all over the place.
Too true. BSG is hot, hot, hot! I can't wait until the next season begins.
Ron Moore vs. Joss Whedon is a win-win decision. You can't go wrong.
If Joss Whedon fell in love with the Half-Life universe (`verse for all you browncoats) and chose to write the script for a Half-Life movie, I'd go see it in a heartbeat.
Serenity and Firefly were brilliant.
Knock knock
Who's there?
A kid with ADD
A kid with ADD who?
Let's go ride bikes.
Yeah, that was a mistake. It's about 4.5. My bad.
It was a mistake. It's 5, not 35.
I agree it's a short-sighted plan, but by the time the repercussions catch up with them, American's will be sneaking into Mexico to look for work! :}
I agree it's messed up and short sighted. Nonetheless, they are taking away our manufacturing jobs at an alarming rate, and India is getting our service jobs at an even more alarming rate.
I don't espouse it or believe it's right, I'm just saying that's the way it is.
America is heading more in that direction in the last 6 years and it makes me sick.
5, not 35. My bad.
My friend just got back from a 10 day business trip in China, and he had one piece of advice:
:}
"Learn to speak chinese, because these people are going to take over the world!"
It's not the Europeans we have to worry about, it's the Chinese and the Indians (from India, not the reservation!) that are going to rule the world.
They aren't "held back" by the same morality and environmental issues we are. When they want to build the largest dam in the world (which is an engineering marvel that will put out as much electricity as 15 nuclear power plants combined), they just do it, and don't worry about the environmental, social, or historical implications.
China has 35 people for every one of ours, so they could invade with nothing but chopsticks and probably win. But they also have huge natural resources and are progressing very, very fast. Their navy will be as big as ours by 2012 (though not as advanced).
Be afraid, be very afraid. (I say that only partly in jest)
Oh, yeah, and they're bringing the bird flu with them...
Yeah, a friend pointed that out to me as well.
I guess what we have to remember though is that is 134HP for a car that doesn't have to deal with the weight of an engine, transmission, or driveline. The hydrogen also weighs much less than a full tank of gas.
Electric cars can be very snappy. I think this technology shows a lot of promise.
The real question for me is how many solar panels you'd need to perform enough electrolysis to power it for 50 miles per day (most cars travel less than 50 miles per day).
Honda already has a charging station for this car that works via natural gas, but I don't think that's optimal. It may be much cleaner overall, but it still isn't a renewable energy source.
Still, very promising.
I was looking forward to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (10+ years from now), but didn't think much of it until I read about Honda's new hydrogen fuel cell. It puts out 100KW of power!
It's incredible to me that a fuel cell that is smaller than a common household gas generator puts out 20 times as much power.
You could power your entire neighborhood with one of these in a power outage.
So how long before I can hook one of these up to my septic system and power my TDI Passat?
I'll be inviting friends over just so they can borrow my bathroom!
OK, once 30 years ago. I stand corrected.
I guess that gives us a 3.3% chance of having a new innovation out of Microsoft this year.
The scroll wheel was invented by Mouse Systems, not Microsoft.
Just because MS got a patent on it, doesn't mean they had anything to do with its creation.
See this article for more.
From what I can tell, MS has never innovated even once, but instead buys or steals ideas from others, or just buys the companies outright.
So the real question is:
"Who did Microsoft buy Access from?"
Yes, but that won't fit in my dashboard or in my ATV cargo-box.
The Municator would be ideal for a cheap car PC, or for a GPS mapping box I want to build for my ATV.
At $149 I'm ready to buy one and see how easy it is hack / alter.
This sounds like Rar, Par, and BitTorrent got merged in some freak transporter accident...
Par files (for use with QuickPar, etc) are great, saving all sorts of extra posting on binary newsgroups.
I'm simply trying to point out the difference between a vulnerability that could, theoretically, be used for arbitrary code execution, and one that IS being used daily for arbitrary code execution, drive-by installations, etc.
The point being that MS calls a vulnerability critical as a last resort, and Mozilla call a vulnerability critical if it even has the potential to theoretically become critical.
Mozilla is the one being honest, but if you look at the sheer numbers and not the descriptions of the vulnerabilities, it often appears that FF has 3 times as many "critical" vulnerabilities as IE, when just the opposite may be true.
I've been applying patches to windows and linux servers long enough (5+ years) to know that NO software is, or ever will be, entirely safe or secure.
What I take issue with is saying that FF has just as many and just as bad bugs or vulnerabilites as IE, and that they just haven't been found yet because FF is too small of a target.
I fundamentally agree with the way FF is developed and handled, and fundamentally disagree with the way security is handled and information stifled at MS.
I believe if both browsers went to exactly 50% market share overnight, FF would be more prepared to protect it's users at 30, 90, 180, and 365 day security audits. FF patches are issued much faster, and the dangerous baggage of OS integration and bloat is avoided.
In every single case, with every type of user, anyone who I've convinced to switch from IE to FF has had their spyware problem completely go away. This involves everyone from business owners to grandma's.
Anecdotal as it may be, I have lots of evidence that FF is safer, and no evidence that IE is safer.
One of the complications in this argument is when comparing "critical bugs", the definitition of what is and is not critical is made by the vendor.
MS has been shown repeatedly to classify something as critical only when it is only moments away from causing the entire collapse of society as we know it (sarcasm intentional), whereas Mozilla calls it like it is: if a bug in any way can lead to a remote exploit with local code execution it is termed critical.
When independent security firms use an unbiased metric to determine how critical a bug is, MS has many, many, many more critical bugs that take on average about 10 times longer to get fixed, if they get fixed at all.