Best option I like is using NiMH batteries like the Sony eneloop or similar. Still not nearly as long battery life as Li batteries, but you can easily carry spares on a long trip. Most devices can have their internal batteries replaced, although Apple products are the hardest to service.
As coins sold by this machine are instantly available on the public key it provides as a QR code, It would by loaded up with private keys preloaded with certain amounts.
That certainly sounds like a design flaw to me, unless the keys are not located on the machine but rather at a central "bank" facility and this machine is just a remote interface.
The software to accept bitcoins, the machinery, etc is still a work in progress. My company is going to be accepting it shortly. It is the next project on our list to get to. One of the reasons we have not done so already is the shopping cart lacks the facilities. There are companies making integration easier though and we will work with one of them to add the support/module needed so that other businesses like ours can easily support the acceptance of bitcoins.
May I ask why exactly you want the capability to accept BitCoin? Do you expect increased sales? Losing sales to competition that does accept BitCoin? Just want the novelty? I'm curious as I don't see bitcoin as much more than a geek novelty at this point and at worst potentially disastrous (See the MT Gox hack as an example).
Not sure if your post was in response to TheLink, but he/she certainly seems to understand how the Fed and Treasury are devaluing the US dollar by "printing money".
The DOD in-house R&D is generally top notch. Its the contractors, who usually get the contract by bribing the right congressman, who are absolutely bleeding the DOD dry. The F35 is a perfect example of this.
I've seen economists say that you can't buy an annuity on the free market that would give you as good a return as Social Security.
It's one of those things that the government can do more efficiently than private enterprise.
Perhaps, but the problem is that the govt is going broke supporting SS and is passing the cost back to the taxpayers. So once you account for the higher taxes caused by SS, then you really aren't getting something for nothing.
"No matter how much you pay into the system, whether you earn the average wage over a lifetime ($43,100 in 2010 dollars) or if you're in a two-income household where one earns a high wage and the other earns an average wage, you get back substantially more than you pay in. But those on the high end of the wage scale pay proportionally more in taxes than the average wage earner, not surprisingly."
How many people _actually_ shoot more than 10 frames/minute on a regular/continuous basis? Really. Think about your personal usage. The likelyhood is that the answer is Z-Eee-Arrr-Oooh. ZERO. or close to it. Those who do are serious about their video, and are much more picky about things than simple capture rates.
Probably not many. I'd still recommend the fastest that you camera can support, because the improved read speed will be noticeable when flipping through the pictures on the camera or offloading onto the PC.
Yeah, there's about one hundred vehicles in Ann Arbor right now running a multi-manufacturer pilot test of the car-to-car communications. Many of the cars have warning systems that use the info passed between cars to alert driver of a danger. This is useful whether or not we end up with self-driving cars. So, yes, both manufacturers the DOTs around the world want to hang onto the spectrum. It could help save lives, improve traffic flow and road utilization, and give manufacturers a set of new features they can sell to improve their profits. How horrible!
We can debate if this is the best use of spectrum. I think it is a pretty good use, and it will need to be protected and used in a coordinated way to make these vehicle applications feasible and effective. Maybe you'd rather have faster Facebook updates or see better video on demand on your smartphone or something? Would you think that's a lot more important than avoiding a massive pile up in a white-out snowstorm or fog? Manufacturers won't announce dates or specific models yet, but it could be fairly close. But it won't happen if poor spectrum management makes it technically infeasible.
Interesting. The big question isn't really whether it's an appropriate use of the spectrum, but perhaps whether they really needs such a large chunk of the spectrum. There is already 555 MHz allocated for this general use band, so this represents 1/3 of the current bandwidth. Note that this is larger than the band allocated for 5GHZ 802.11 right now. This change is to shrink this very underused band and allow it to be used more productively. So products may be affected, but they won't get shutdown entirely. "Private Land Mobile" has multiple chunks allocated in the FCC spectrum, that do not have corresponding allocations in the intentional table so it would be stupid for auto makers to use those frequencies anyway.
It's interesting that no-one has ever tried to retaliate against them using the COPPA law, which makes it illegal to track and retain information on underage kids.
I don't suppose you can give a single example of an auto or planned product that's actually using this spectrum? The auto makers are opposing it simply because they want to hang onto the spectrum.
What's with the releases every couple months? What's with the bloat? Why don't they address speed and stability bugs that have been open for two years?
Oh wait. This is a Chrome thread. Google gets a pass. Never mind.
They're trying real hard to keep up with the bloat and stability issues of Mozilla? Google Chrome wanted to add features rapidly like Mozilla, and Mozilla envied the rapid release of Chrome. Not sure who's winning that battle. IE10 maybe, but it depends on your definition of 'winning' (no, not the Charlie Sheen drug induced euphoria definition).
RIAAs own report says they are using automated queries of song title, artist name, and track numbers. I doubt they are paying people to type those hits manually into the reporting form at state of 2.4 million a month.
No other federal agency is forced to make such an investment.
Why only the Postal Service and no other agency? To make sure Fedex profits stayed high?
Mostly to ensure that USPS would be able to pay benefits down the road. In some ways it makes sense if you expect them to continue to shrink in the future and not have as large of a revenue base in the future. Otherwise, they'd be like all the other companies that screw people out of their retirement when they go bankrupt.
USPS isn't self funding.... Congress has to pass a tax for it to operate. USPS runs off TAXES on every stamp you buy!!! That is why it is unfair to private companies.
(That is the way "old people" view USPS... As a tax and not a paid service)
1) Pre-funding the retirement is a lot better than the companies that don't fund it and screw their employees when they go under. It also has an advantage as the USPS is shrinking its employee base (mostly by contracting out jobs and routes to avoid paying outrageous benefits for smei-skilled labor) 2) Overall mail volume is dropping 2-3% per year. Advertising still accounts for over 1/2 of the revenue. 3) Overall revenue is declining about the same rate as the mail volume.
Rather than charge, which would discourage real users from reporting websites they could implement simple measures to stop the automated reporting that they are being spammed with. 2.4 million reports a month from RIAA alone is nearly one a second. Rate limiting to a few complains a day per IP could help, or even simple CAPTCHAs. That would perhaps force a human to look at the content instead of using an automated tool to search for song titles and then spamming reports for any hits containing the artist and track number.
You stated that "old power supplies with a switch are not switchers", and I simply showed that assumption to be wrong. Your later reply that having a 120/240 switch doesn't mean it's a switching type supply makes much more sense.
I don't see where they have any obligation other than reducing their exposure to a lawsuit that accuses them of facilitating copyright infringement. In truth, Google probably only announced this so they can say they're doing something. I doubt they expected RIAA to start spamming their reporting system with millions of reports using an automated reporting tool.
Even more, from when or where did arise an obligation for Google to demote the sites with "large amount of piracy"? Will RIAA pay the extra cost? Or is somehow RIAA turning "pinky" (that is: suggesting that the "hand of free market needs guidance")?
From the article that you didn't bother to read before offering an unimformed opinion.
"Last August, Google indicated that it would start lowering the search-result rankings of Websites with high numbers of “valid” copyright removal notices. “This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily—whether it’s a song previewed on NPR’s music website, a TV show on Hulu or new music streamed on Spotify,” Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of Engineering, wrote in a corporate blog posting at the time. slashdot (http://s.tt/1A3pv)"
Of course one issue is whether the copyright removal requests that RIAA is claiming Google received were in fact valid requests. That RIAA seems to have those numbers might imply that RIAA was the ones submitting all those requests. It's been demonstrated before that RIAA has been submitted take-down notices for stuff they don't have any jurisdiction over.
As this is chemical, and not combustion, (yes yes, sealed chamber...) it should not take up as nearly as much land as required by current plants. Also, just think of all the job creation all those small power plants will require!!!
Any chemist will tell you that combustion is a chemical reaction. What's interesting about this process is that oxidized iron is used to provide oxygen to "burn" the coal instead of injecting air into the combustion chamber. Not using air lowers the overall gaseous output you need to deal with and the output is a bit cleaner as you don't have to scrub some of the crap like NOX out. You still get sulfur compounds and the heavy metals you'd see with traditional burning.
Hell, even the lithium battery for my cordless drill has these basic smarts built in. Cutoff on any cell reaching it's upper voltage limit during charging, hitting the lower limit during discharge, or thermal limit during either charge or discharge. It also has cell leveling to keep all cells at a similar state of charge to maximize the overall useable capacity of the battery string.
You gotta love Dell who decided to make their PC power supplies a proprietary pinout but use the standard ATX power supply connector. Many unsuspecting folks tried to replace either the power supply of the motherboard, only to smoke the motherboard because the pinout was non-standard.
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Best option I like is using NiMH batteries like the Sony eneloop or similar. Still not nearly as long battery life as Li batteries, but you can easily carry spares on a long trip. Most devices can have their internal batteries replaced, although Apple products are the hardest to service.
As coins sold by this machine are instantly available on the public key it provides as a QR code, It would by loaded up with private keys preloaded with certain amounts.
That certainly sounds like a design flaw to me, unless the keys are not located on the machine but rather at a central "bank" facility and this machine is just a remote interface.
The software to accept bitcoins, the machinery, etc is still a work in progress. My company is going to be accepting it shortly. It is the next project on our list to get to. One of the reasons we have not done so already is the shopping cart lacks the facilities. There are companies making integration easier though and we will work with one of them to add the support/module needed so that other businesses like ours can easily support the acceptance of bitcoins.
May I ask why exactly you want the capability to accept BitCoin? Do you expect increased sales? Losing sales to competition that does accept BitCoin? Just want the novelty? I'm curious as I don't see bitcoin as much more than a geek novelty at this point and at worst potentially disastrous (See the MT Gox hack as an example).
Translation: you're super pissed that the dollar is holding its value regardless of the US debt.
Want a tissue?
p.s. You have no idea how currency works.
The US dollar has been declining in value compared to foreign currency for a very long time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index
Not sure if your post was in response to TheLink, but he/she certainly seems to understand how the Fed and Treasury are devaluing the US dollar by "printing money".
The DOD in-house R&D is generally top notch. Its the contractors, who usually get the contract by bribing the right congressman, who are absolutely bleeding the DOD dry. The F35 is a perfect example of this.
I've seen economists say that you can't buy an annuity on the free market that would give you as good a return as Social Security.
It's one of those things that the government can do more efficiently than private enterprise.
Perhaps, but the problem is that the govt is going broke supporting SS and is passing the cost back to the taxpayers. So once you account for the higher taxes caused by SS, then you really aren't getting something for nothing.
"a vast majority of people get considerably more out of Social Security and Medicare then they put in."
Citations needed.
http://www.bankrate.com/financing/retirement/social-security-benefits-vs-taxes/
"No matter how much you pay into the system, whether you earn the average wage over a lifetime ($43,100 in 2010 dollars) or if you're in a two-income household where one earns a high wage and the other earns an average wage, you get back substantially more than you pay in. But those on the high end of the wage scale pay proportionally more in taxes than the average wage earner, not surprisingly."
Also see page 1 of http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/social-security-medicare-benefits-over-lifetime.pdf
How many people _actually_ shoot more than 10 frames/minute on a regular/continuous basis?
Really. Think about your personal usage.
The likelyhood is that the answer is Z-Eee-Arrr-Oooh. ZERO. or close to it. Those who do are serious about their video, and are much more picky about things than simple capture rates.
Probably not many. I'd still recommend the fastest that you camera can support, because the improved read speed will be noticeable when flipping through the pictures on the camera or offloading onto the PC.
Yeah, there's about one hundred vehicles in Ann Arbor right now running a multi-manufacturer pilot test of the car-to-car communications. Many of the cars have warning systems that use the info passed between cars to alert driver of a danger. This is useful whether or not we end up with self-driving cars. So, yes, both manufacturers the DOTs around the world want to hang onto the spectrum. It could help save lives, improve traffic flow and road utilization, and give manufacturers a set of new features they can sell to improve their profits. How horrible!
We can debate if this is the best use of spectrum. I think it is a pretty good use, and it will need to be protected and used in a coordinated way to make these vehicle applications feasible and effective. Maybe you'd rather have faster Facebook updates or see better video on demand on your smartphone or something? Would you think that's a lot more important than avoiding a massive pile up in a white-out snowstorm or fog? Manufacturers won't announce dates or specific models yet, but it could be fairly close. But it won't happen if poor spectrum management makes it technically infeasible.
Interesting. The big question isn't really whether it's an appropriate use of the spectrum, but perhaps whether they really needs such a large chunk of the spectrum. There is already 555 MHz allocated for this general use band, so this represents 1/3 of the current bandwidth. Note that this is larger than the band allocated for 5GHZ 802.11 right now. This change is to shrink this very underused band and allow it to be used more productively. So products may be affected, but they won't get shutdown entirely. "Private Land Mobile" has multiple chunks allocated in the FCC spectrum, that do not have corresponding allocations in the intentional table so it would be stupid for auto makers to use those frequencies anyway.
It's interesting that no-one has ever tried to retaliate against them using the COPPA law, which makes it illegal to track and retain information on underage kids.
I don't suppose you can give a single example of an auto or planned product that's actually using this spectrum? The auto makers are opposing it simply because they want to hang onto the spectrum.
What's with the releases every couple months? What's with the bloat? Why don't they address speed and stability bugs that have been open for two years?
Oh wait. This is a Chrome thread. Google gets a pass. Never mind.
They're trying real hard to keep up with the bloat and stability issues of Mozilla? Google Chrome wanted to add features rapidly like Mozilla, and Mozilla envied the rapid release of Chrome. Not sure who's winning that battle. IE10 maybe, but it depends on your definition of 'winning' (no, not the Charlie Sheen drug induced euphoria definition).
RIAAs own report says they are using automated queries of song title, artist name, and track numbers. I doubt they are paying people to type those hits manually into the reporting form at state of 2.4 million a month.
No other federal agency is forced to make such an investment.
Why only the Postal Service and no other agency? To make sure Fedex profits stayed high?
Mostly to ensure that USPS would be able to pay benefits down the road. In some ways it makes sense if you expect them to continue to shrink in the future and not have as large of a revenue base in the future. Otherwise, they'd be like all the other companies that screw people out of their retirement when they go bankrupt.
Correction: Advertising was about 1/4 of their revenue.
USPS isn't self funding.... Congress has to pass a tax for it to operate. USPS runs off TAXES on every stamp you buy!!! That is why it is unfair to private companies.
(That is the way "old people" view USPS... As a tax and not a paid service)
Bullshit.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/uspsabout.htm
That $96 million in taxes is to compensate them for delivering free mail for the legally blind. Pretty tiny compared to $66-billion in revenues.
I happen to have a link handy. only has stats up to 2011, but still very enlightening.
http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/welcome.htm#H2
1) Pre-funding the retirement is a lot better than the companies that don't fund it and screw their employees when they go under. It also has an advantage as the USPS is shrinking its employee base (mostly by contracting out jobs and routes to avoid paying outrageous benefits for smei-skilled labor)
2) Overall mail volume is dropping 2-3% per year. Advertising still accounts for over 1/2 of the revenue.
3) Overall revenue is declining about the same rate as the mail volume.
Rather than charge, which would discourage real users from reporting websites they could implement simple measures to stop the automated reporting that they are being spammed with. 2.4 million reports a month from RIAA alone is nearly one a second. Rate limiting to a few complains a day per IP could help, or even simple CAPTCHAs. That would perhaps force a human to look at the content instead of using an automated tool to search for song titles and then spamming reports for any hits containing the artist and track number.
You stated that "old power supplies with a switch are not switchers", and I simply showed that assumption to be wrong. Your later reply that having a 120/240 switch doesn't mean it's a switching type supply makes much more sense.
http://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/flash/JA804A_130116-130220.pdf
Scroll down to page 10 where it shows a large diode between the APU battery and the main bus/main battery.
I don't see where they have any obligation other than reducing their exposure to a lawsuit that accuses them of facilitating copyright infringement. In truth, Google probably only announced this so they can say they're doing something. I doubt they expected RIAA to start spamming their reporting system with millions of reports using an automated reporting tool.
Even more, from when or where did arise an obligation for Google to demote the sites with "large amount of piracy"? Will RIAA pay the extra cost?
Or is somehow RIAA turning "pinky" (that is: suggesting that the "hand of free market needs guidance")?
From the article that you didn't bother to read before offering an unimformed opinion.
"Last August, Google indicated that it would start lowering the search-result rankings of Websites with high numbers of “valid” copyright removal notices. “This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily—whether it’s a song previewed on NPR’s music website, a TV show on Hulu or new music streamed on Spotify,” Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of Engineering, wrote in a corporate blog posting at the time.
slashdot (http://s.tt/1A3pv)"
Of course one issue is whether the copyright removal requests that RIAA is claiming Google received were in fact valid requests. That RIAA seems to have those numbers might imply that RIAA was the ones submitting all those requests. It's been demonstrated before that RIAA has been submitted take-down notices for stuff they don't have any jurisdiction over.
As this is chemical, and not combustion, (yes yes, sealed chamber...) it should not take up as nearly as much land as required by current plants. Also, just think of all the job creation all those small power plants will require!!!
Any chemist will tell you that combustion is a chemical reaction. What's interesting about this process is that oxidized iron is used to provide oxygen to "burn" the coal instead of injecting air into the combustion chamber. Not using air lowers the overall gaseous output you need to deal with and the output is a bit cleaner as you don't have to scrub some of the crap like NOX out. You still get sulfur compounds and the heavy metals you'd see with traditional burning.
Exactly! Wish I had points to mod you up.
Hell, even the lithium battery for my cordless drill has these basic smarts built in. Cutoff on any cell reaching it's upper voltage limit during charging, hitting the lower limit during discharge, or thermal limit during either charge or discharge. It also has cell leveling to keep all cells at a similar state of charge to maximize the overall useable capacity of the battery string.
You gotta love Dell who decided to make their PC power supplies a proprietary pinout but use the standard ATX power supply connector. Many unsuspecting folks tried to replace either the power supply of the motherboard, only to smoke the motherboard because the pinout was non-standard.