Icy/snow roads: check Incompetent/corrupt government: check at city and state level no salt for that amount of snow/ice: check
Nah. The disaster here is bad drivers ed not properly preparing people for driving in diverse conditions, which should be must given the wide variety of climate found in the continuous continental US.
Nah. That is not the problem. The problem is crappy drivers ed and people coming away with the inability to deal adverse driving conditions. From the time I spent living in Amarillo, TX, I would see similar issues with them and rain. I see no reason one should not be expected to have a basic understanding of driving in diverse conditions given wide climate differences housed in the continuous continental US.
For that amount so snow? From a northern perspective this is all entirely laughable as that is not a amount of snow you take any actual for, even salt or plowing the street.
I see this as much more of a comment on drivers ed there is sorely lacking.
Actually EVs are still massively more expensive to operate. I can pick up a perfectly usable and reliable vehicle most places in the US for sub 1k USD easily. This massively offsets the question of fuel cost.
Why would some one want a vehicle like this instead of renting when long distance is needed? Emergencies. It offers one a lot more flexibility when they need it. Renting can be very expensive and one should not plan on using it for if they they can possibly avoid it.
Basically in my opinion, you are speaking as a rich privileged ass hole who has never had to make sure they are mobile because they are not sure life will take them as they had not had a chance to begin building out their non-mobile infrastructure yet, at which time they are a lot more fixed to an area and can plan as such. Being able to be mobile if one is poor or lower middle class is very much key if one wishes to raise themselves up the later.
Then we will use diesel then. While electric will supplant hydrocarbon driven engines largely, there will still be a need for them as electricity has the issue of it can't be a transported effectively. Once one gets away from the grid, powering electric vehicles becomes a very notable issue. This will eventually be fixed, but until hydrogen fuel cell tech is perfected, this will continue to be true.
Gasoline or more likely diesel engines will basically be around till we perfect hydrogen fuel cell tech and create a usable method for transporting hydrogen. The reason for this is electric vehicles currently can only go where there are electric lines powerful enough to power them. You can't effectively transport the fuel with you.
If you really want vertical space, you an always rotate a wide screen monitor and then have the OS/display server rotate the display. It was worked nicely with xrandr for a long while now and most drivers for Windows support it as well. I assume it works nicely for Apple too.
> Municipal distances would be a problem, but eight miles is achievable with consumer-grade ham radio hardware.
Uhm. It has to be small and unnoticable. This excludes any sort of powerful transmitter. Further complicating this is the device being indoors, having a crappy antenna, being powered by USB(providing a notable limit on signal power). The claim of miles I put at in the realm of pure horse shit with out proof to back it up. Similar range as a WAP in a similar environment is much more likely.
I personally want something like it for coding at bars. Slap a small ARM machine underneath a keyboard, attach it to a sling, and then carry it with you to a bar. Then take a seat, order a drink, start coding or what ever, and when some one asks you who you are you tell them you are "Mr. Johnson".
I agree. However, I could agree to dismantling of POTS if they FIRST also lessen regulations on a swath of HAM for use by the public, and also legalize packet radio over CB, Family band, and other public use frequencies. We have the technology to radio for help in times of emergency -- Indeed HAM operators are sometimes on the scene in disasters before paramedics arrive. They already play a role in Earthquakes and other times when infrastructure is threatened. Lower the barrier for the common man to have greater ability to communicate first then I'll reconsider my stance on our keeping wired POTS going.
We have the technology for radios to negotiate to noise free channels automatically -- hell, my cheap wifi router does this. The cellular system exists, but we need a similar mesh network for the common people. The EM spectrum belongs to We the People, give us back some damn air waves instead of charging us for all of them. It's the information age, yet outdated packet radio laws remain repressive to progress. Problem is that the government can't just throw a kill switch on public powered wireless devices -- Like they can on the Internet (and probably telephone too).
It would be foolish to ignore that the government has an Internet Kill Switch, vast spying infrastructures, and a pro-censorship anti-discourse agenda whereby government agents actually plan to expose porn habits to silence dissent, while considering migrating any communication medium to IP based services. Furthermore -- The price of bits does not reflect the cost to distribute them. Cellular plans make a mockery of POTS long distance fees, and though it's never been cheeper to move bits the prices aren't going down nearly as fast as in foreign markets with actual competition. We need less regulation of the public sector and more regulation of the private sector's price fixed oligopoly before I'd ever advocate for tossing POTS out. Additionally: Unwarranted metadata collection is too powerful a tool already -- If Snoden can infiltrate PRISM, so can spies from enemy states.
Beware: When those in power advocate change, the changes suggested never give those they have power over more freedom.
You are strongly over estimating how well finding noise free channels when it comes to 802.11 works. If you look in any large dense city you will notice it very much sucks and so does the available bandwidth.
Your idea with HAM falls into the same problem as it relies on so little number of channels. What is really needed to make it work is a new and notably wider chunk of spectrum dedicated to a digital protocol that
BTW you don't wan't packet radio specifically as well. You want some sort of digital mode as that allows both voice and data.
Problem is in chicago, in fact starting now until april the red line becomes a homeless shelter. they get on and dont get off all night long so they have a warm place to sleep.
As some one who takes the Red line on a daily basis and is nocturnal, this is not limited to the winter.
Well, everybody else is saying tracking.. but there are legitimate reasons to use fare cards. One is that you gain the ability to have unlimited ride passes- pay a flat fee and ride the train for free all month. Hard to do that with tokens. Also, many cities charge variable amounts depending on how far you go on the train. You swipe your card to go in, and swipe again when you leave, and it charges based on distance. That way, short trips can be cheaper. It's also possible to have different prices for different services- like NYC charging a higher fare for an express bus or for the AirTrain to JFK.
As some one who has a monthly pass, it is fucking awesome. On a related note it is also not possible to do transfers via token.
The other stuff from my experience sucks ass and makes driving a very viable option if one has easy access to parking, from my experience dealing with Metra here in Chicago.
I am really surprised so much in the way of audio electronics in computers lacks a bandpass filter to prevent interference from stuff outside of the audible spectrum.
You mean that? This is still not a high tech device nor from a design standpoint is this even ground breaking, maybe the first time it has been applied to this exact problem, but recovering heat like this is a fairly standard method if one has something they can apply it to.
The entire left wing/right wing is a bunch of horse shift false dichotomy when used in any manner outside state v. federal balance of power. It contributes nothing of value to a discussion and only serves to pull at memetic strings that serve to prevent rational discussion.
In general if you are using conservative/liberal/left/right one is saying something that involves completely talking out of ones ass as they are relying on memes instead of reasoning.
You seem to be assuming that Obama is also not truly bad. Remember the gun control push at the beginning of this year? Or how about the fact he is just another politician who refuses to stay out of peoples sex lives(yes he has no issues with gays, but he has yet to support polyamory and it is still legal to discriminate against those who like kinky sex). Or how about his attacks on those who embarrass the federal government by blowing the whistle on their lies? Or how about the fact he is in the pocket of Hollywood?
Saying he is better than the ass hat he ran against to win the last to elections and is thusly a okay person is crap reasoning. When the options you are presented with are which day of the week you get beaten on you are not really being presented with a option. The proper choice is to say fuck it and fight back. The beginning of this means voting for none of the above.
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When I here the Wii balance board mentioned, that is what I think of.
Icy/snow roads: check
Incompetent/corrupt government: check at city and state level
no salt for that amount of snow/ice: check
Nah. The disaster here is bad drivers ed not properly preparing people for driving in diverse conditions, which should be must given the wide variety of climate found in the continuous continental US.
That is actually fairly common for Chicago as well. Interestingly enough we don't salt much either when it happens.
Nah. That is not the problem. The problem is crappy drivers ed and people coming away with the inability to deal adverse driving conditions. From the time I spent living in Amarillo, TX, I would see similar issues with them and rain. I see no reason one should not be expected to have a basic understanding of driving in diverse conditions given wide climate differences housed in the continuous continental US.
For that amount so snow? From a northern perspective this is all entirely laughable as that is not a amount of snow you take any actual for, even salt or plowing the street.
I see this as much more of a comment on drivers ed there is sorely lacking.
Shutdown for 2 or 3 inches of snow? From a Chicago perspective the idea of even rolling plows for that is considered a bit laughable.
Actually EVs are still massively more expensive to operate. I can pick up a perfectly usable and reliable vehicle most places in the US for sub 1k USD easily. This massively offsets the question of fuel cost.
Why would some one want a vehicle like this instead of renting when long distance is needed? Emergencies. It offers one a lot more flexibility when they need it. Renting can be very expensive and one should not plan on using it for if they they can possibly avoid it.
Basically in my opinion, you are speaking as a rich privileged ass hole who has never had to make sure they are mobile because they are not sure life will take them as they had not had a chance to begin building out their non-mobile infrastructure yet, at which time they are a lot more fixed to an area and can plan as such. Being able to be mobile if one is poor or lower middle class is very much key if one wishes to raise themselves up the later.
Then we will use diesel then. While electric will supplant hydrocarbon driven engines largely, there will still be a need for them as electricity has the issue of it can't be a transported effectively. Once one gets away from the grid, powering electric vehicles becomes a very notable issue. This will eventually be fixed, but until hydrogen fuel cell tech is perfected, this will continue to be true.
Aye.
Gasoline or more likely diesel engines will basically be around till we perfect hydrogen fuel cell tech and create a usable method for transporting hydrogen. The reason for this is electric vehicles currently can only go where there are electric lines powerful enough to power them. You can't effectively transport the fuel with you.
If you really want vertical space, you an always rotate a wide screen monitor and then have the OS/display server rotate the display. It was worked nicely with xrandr for a long while now and most drivers for Windows support it as well. I assume it works nicely for Apple too.
> Municipal distances would be a problem, but eight miles is achievable with consumer-grade ham radio hardware.
Uhm. It has to be small and unnoticable. This excludes any sort of powerful transmitter. Further complicating this is the device being indoors, having a crappy antenna, being powered by USB(providing a notable limit on signal power). The claim of miles I put at in the realm of pure horse shit with out proof to back it up. Similar range as a WAP in a similar environment is much more likely.
I personally want something like it for coding at bars. Slap a small ARM machine underneath a keyboard, attach it to a sling, and then carry it with you to a bar. Then take a seat, order a drink, start coding or what ever, and when some one asks you who you are you tell them you are "Mr. Johnson".
I agree. However, I could agree to dismantling of POTS if they FIRST also lessen regulations on a swath of HAM for use by the public, and also legalize packet radio over CB, Family band, and other public use frequencies. We have the technology to radio for help in times of emergency -- Indeed HAM operators are sometimes on the scene in disasters before paramedics arrive. They already play a role in Earthquakes and other times when infrastructure is threatened. Lower the barrier for the common man to have greater ability to communicate first then I'll reconsider my stance on our keeping wired POTS going.
We have the technology for radios to negotiate to noise free channels automatically -- hell, my cheap wifi router does this. The cellular system exists, but we need a similar mesh network for the common people. The EM spectrum belongs to We the People, give us back some damn air waves instead of charging us for all of them. It's the information age, yet outdated packet radio laws remain repressive to progress. Problem is that the government can't just throw a kill switch on public powered wireless devices -- Like they can on the Internet (and probably telephone too).
It would be foolish to ignore that the government has an Internet Kill Switch, vast spying infrastructures, and a pro-censorship anti-discourse agenda whereby government agents actually plan to expose porn habits to silence dissent, while considering migrating any communication medium to IP based services. Furthermore -- The price of bits does not reflect the cost to distribute them. Cellular plans make a mockery of POTS long distance fees, and though it's never been cheeper to move bits the prices aren't going down nearly as fast as in foreign markets with actual competition. We need less regulation of the public sector and more regulation of the private sector's price fixed oligopoly before I'd ever advocate for tossing POTS out. Additionally: Unwarranted metadata collection is too powerful a tool already -- If Snoden can infiltrate PRISM, so can spies from enemy states.
Beware: When those in power advocate change, the changes suggested never give those they have power over more freedom.
You are strongly over estimating how well finding noise free channels when it comes to 802.11 works. If you look in any large dense city you will notice it very much sucks and so does the available bandwidth.
Your idea with HAM falls into the same problem as it relies on so little number of channels. What is really needed to make it work is a new and notably wider chunk of spectrum dedicated to a digital protocol that
BTW you don't wan't packet radio specifically as well. You want some sort of digital mode as that allows both voice and data.
This is Chicago... they are all Democrats that did this.
Problem is in chicago, in fact starting now until april the red line becomes a homeless shelter. they get on and dont get off all night long so they have a warm place to sleep.
As some one who takes the Red line on a daily basis and is nocturnal, this is not limited to the winter.
Well, everybody else is saying tracking.. but there are legitimate reasons to use fare cards. One is that you gain the ability to have unlimited ride passes- pay a flat fee and ride the train for free all month. Hard to do that with tokens. Also, many cities charge variable amounts depending on how far you go on the train. You swipe your card to go in, and swipe again when you leave, and it charges based on distance. That way, short trips can be cheaper. It's also possible to have different prices for different services- like NYC charging a higher fare for an express bus or for the AirTrain to JFK.
As some one who has a monthly pass, it is fucking awesome. On a related note it is also not possible to do transfers via token.
The other stuff from my experience sucks ass and makes driving a very viable option if one has easy access to parking, from my experience dealing with Metra here in Chicago.
Nah. The surprising bit is the lack of bandpass filters.
I am really surprised so much in the way of audio electronics in computers lacks a bandpass filter to prevent interference from stuff outside of the audible spectrum.
Let me know when a used one is in my working-class budget range, and we'll talk.
What is your working-class budget?
I see plenty of working class people in shiny $30K F250's. The average car price in the USA is around $30K.
Those people are called idiots.
From my experience vehicle shopping, once the price goes over 2k the utility to price ratio goes shit.
http://wiki.gekgasifier.com/w/page/6123834/Tower%20of%20Total%20Thermal%20Integration
You mean that? This is still not a high tech device nor from a design standpoint is this even ground breaking, maybe the first time it has been applied to this exact problem, but recovering heat like this is a fairly standard method if one has something they can apply it to.
My comment was in regards to that made by JaredOfEuropa.
These machines have always been easy to make, repair, and run.
Recent commercial manufacture in the US is the only interesting new point.
Did you even bother reading the comment I replied to? JaredOfEuropa was claiming that this is high tech and hard to implement.
Nothing about this machine is vaguely high tech or new. Linked to is a basic how to put together by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA208249
And during WW2, the were used in the US, UK, FR, and DE for were attached to vehicles to provide a fuel source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator#Origins
The entire left wing/right wing is a bunch of horse shift false dichotomy when used in any manner outside state v. federal balance of power. It contributes nothing of value to a discussion and only serves to pull at memetic strings that serve to prevent rational discussion.
In general if you are using conservative/liberal/left/right one is saying something that involves completely talking out of ones ass as they are relying on memes instead of reasoning.
You seem to be assuming that Obama is also not truly bad. Remember the gun control push at the beginning of this year? Or how about the fact he is just another politician who refuses to stay out of peoples sex lives(yes he has no issues with gays, but he has yet to support polyamory and it is still legal to discriminate against those who like kinky sex). Or how about his attacks on those who embarrass the federal government by blowing the whistle on their lies? Or how about the fact he is in the pocket of Hollywood?
Saying he is better than the ass hat he ran against to win the last to elections and is thusly a okay person is crap reasoning. When the options you are presented with are which day of the week you get beaten on you are not really being presented with a option. The proper choice is to say fuck it and fight back. The beginning of this means voting for none of the above.