Batteries come in all kinds of qualities and cycle ratings. Lead acid batteries (still really common) also have cycle curves that are based heavily on temperature and DoD (depth of discharge) - most offgrid set ups are trying to keep worst case DoD below 20-30% (aka SoC 70-80%) to keep total cycles up above 3000. There's usually a nice knee in the curve there: http://www.rpc.com.au/pdf/rayl... (page 11).
The LFP/LiFePO4 lithium batteries that are gaining in popularity achieve that kind of cycle life but with DoD around 70-80% (again, less DoD = more cycles).
There's also Nickel Iron batteries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery) - hard to buy new at the moment because they fell out of favour (heavy per Wh) but known to last more than 50 years with no cycle memory - some manufacturers starting to build them again for this kind of application (i.e static applications where weight doesn't matter).
You can pay much more or less than $800/kWh depending on quality and what kind of DoD you're going to run (i.e how long you want your batteries to last).
The religion says that conceal-carry would lead to the Wild West all over again, with gunfights in the streets everywhere. The facts say that conceal-carry leads to more timid, less aggressive criminals who'd rather not end up in a gunfight, have no idea which person is armed, and cannot effectively choose vulnerable targets. The religion says that arming targeted ships would result in many more armed conflicts at sea. I believe the facts will be the same as they've proven to be for conceal-carry, only more so, since we can arm every ship that goes through dangerous areas and not just a fraction of them.
Have you got anything at all to back up this statement?
The Kindle 2 and 3 do have different slot spacings. The devices themselves are actually different sizes despite having the same size screens. You can't put a leather case from a Kindle 2 on a Kindle 3 anyway.
The above is based on observations I've made on the Kindle 2 & 3 + matching leather cases that my partner and I have.
I'm guessing someone somewhere had actually though through making them physically different for this reason, but when it came to manufacturing them that little gem of an idea got lost somewhere.
350ppm isn't arbitrary it's the maximum safe amount of CO2 we can stabilise at in the atmosphere to ensure we don't experience catastrophic global warming. http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
You can't tax CO2 emissions accurately if you can't quantify the damage caused by CO2. So far I haven't seen a single estimate of the damage caused by CO2 that's more than speculation.
Do you need to accurately quantify it?
We're all pretty well aware CO2 is too concentrated in the atmosphere already, and we should be aiming to get back under 350ppm (see http://www.350.org/mission for a _really_ brief overview).
Why not just aim a tax roughly at getting back to 350ppm?
Until you learn to read kindly shut the fuck up. He was simply making a joke about the spelling, he used FireFox as an example... most people (that read slashdot) would know FireFox has a spell checker, I doubt as many know about Opera's spell checker (whether it was there first or not).
I'm glad someone said "get them to pay for it them self".
I've paid for mine myself ever since I've had one (I'm 21 and have probably had a phone for 5-6 years). My mother simply enforced a rule of the plan must be pre-paid (once I use up my credit the phone is disabled) other than that the choice was completely up to me. I was free to spend as much of my money as I wanted on my phone. I've got what I think is a healthy phone use (I'd never send a text message to someone I could email almost as easily or especially not someone in the room).
Parents just need to make kids responsible. Kids ask for it, give it to them, explain the situation fully and be done with it.
This entire situation is just because parents these days suck. Talk to your kids.
I dunno where the issue lies exactly but a bios patch on my Compaq laptop (low specs) fixed these issues for me. I suspect it's something to do with checking one of it's security things and having a lag/failure in the test.
I used Dvorak for a few months. I found it tedious to learn but great once I started to adjust.
I had to rearrange the keys a few times because I found at some point I learned that the key labelled s was an o in Dvorak etc.
I gave up like many other people because I could not justify maintaining skills with both Dvorak and Qwerty. Interestingly after switching back to Qwerty I have now actually learnt to genuinely type without looking at the keyboard. I'm not really much faster than when I started but I am more reliable because I'm looking at the screen and just touch typing. I don't touch type conventionally I just let my hands "roam" and hope they are over the correct key when I press one... seems to work most of the time.
I would recommend changing your home qwerty keyboard around so you can't look at it. Most keyboards I have pulled apart have a different "f" and "j" key slot, a nice arrangement that works with these different slots is "DON'T BE SLACK", just a little reminder for when you do look at the keyboard:)
There may only be one provider for the physical line but ARIA is suggesting removing the connection at the ISP. No where in the article does it say that you can't just switch ISP.
I don't see what the big problem is, this is no where near as harsh as RIAA. Furthermore if you like the song, pay for it! And don't tell me "I want to try before I buy", you can do this in most record stores I've been to, there are a multitude of options available for previewing songs on music sites and for smaller bands you often get them actively putting their songs up for free.
I've got ad blocking software in my browser so I see (almost) none while online. I watch almost no TV now, listen to radio that has no commercial ads and live in a city (Canberra Australia) that has very few (if any?) billboards etc.
It's great! I stopped watching TV and have actually made choices that I don't think I would have otherwise, I've become more creative in visual and musical arts and I'm enjoying life more. I recommend it to everyone.
You don't have to be bitter to point out that advertising is ruling many peoples choices and as such lives.
I haven't downloaded anything that would be termed illegal (by the likes of RIAA etc) for a few years now and I'm changing off my current 5gb cap because after I update, my Windows XP and Vista machine, ubdate kubuntu, sync a website I work on (about 90mb each time, 3-4 times a month) and watch a bunch of free content on you tube etc I seem to always go over about half way through the month.
5gb is ridiculously small for many users these days.
"I'm 6'5" and I don't fit in your "smaller 1300cc OR SMALLER" car, unless it is a motor cycle, which isn't really car, and is impractical for a family."
I'm 6'4" and I have more than two inches to spare above my head and a few clicks for putting the seat back in a 1500cc Ford Laser (which is an old model that also came in 1300cc) that I drive quite often. I can comfortably get 4 people in the car and 5 at a squeeze for most families around here that's fine.
Not all 1300cc cars are the same size.
But that said, I drive a motorbike normally, it's more fun.
I had a really long reply but I lost it all because I double-right-clicked it out of emacs and then selected text while switching back to this window... damn you linux and your insane copy buffers!
And you thought power failures were the only reasonable way to lose work...
The DET (Department of Education and Training in ACT, Australia) struck some deal up with MS to let them run a number of 2003 licences on one box for the cost of one (I have no link, I was working in a school at the time and was actually talking to people who were managing this, not just reading it off the web).
Their plan was to virtualize in just this way... you want DNS? Ok that's one VM. What about AD? Ok another...etc etc. I think 7 was about the magic number. I don't know how far they got with this (I've quit since).
It may be obvious to the average n00b but unfortunately the average n00b is smarter than many people working for government organisations.
Oh how I wish I had finished reading the description of that image before I clicked the link.
It kills my firefox install (kubuntu):(
Had to xkill to get back control.
Before I start, I'm not a Windows fanboy, I use primarily Linux at home (Kubuntu to be precise).
Quote: "no one gets confused or complains when their Mac won't run some Windows app, an Ubuntu system is the same."
You've obviously never met someone who's used only windows and switches to anything else for the first time. I worked in a school for two years, while there I was repeatedly asked why application XYZ wasn't installed on the mac laptops the school had. They have quite a surprised look on their face when I inform them that without emulation software there is no way to run windows applications on mac's (and then I have to explain what emulation software is and why we didn't have it... but that's a longer story).
Same goes for Linux. Principal hears "school ABC is running their Terminal Services network on Linux and having less problems than we are, why aren't we doing that too?!?!". After getting in contact with the school and finding out exactly what they were doing I found out they didn't even have Terminal Services, and they only had one Linux box. The PDC was Linux with a bunch of fat XP clients. But that's not the point is it? The point is that roughly half of the uneducated users I have every met don't have the slightest clue that there's any more difference between OS X and XP than there is between XP and 2000, so why on earth would they expect that their applications wont all run Linux?
For further proof just look at Linux is NOT Windows. If everyone knows that Windows applications will not run on Linux why did that ever need to be written?
I live in Australia, I suppose it is possible users are better educated elsewhere in the world, but I doubt it.
Apparently Zonk didn't look into the article much.
Check out This video as can be found on one of Zonk's links.
The idea is NOT to collect all the data of the world centrally, it is to link to the pre-existing data and display it in a useful way. The software looks incredibly innovative, I doubt there is anything similar for two reasons (1) Google wouldn't' have bought it (2) TV stations here in Australia would be showing trends with the software just as they now show various parts of the earth with Google Earth.
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Batteries come in all kinds of qualities and cycle ratings. Lead acid batteries (still really common) also have cycle curves that are based heavily on temperature and DoD (depth of discharge) - most offgrid set ups are trying to keep worst case DoD below 20-30% (aka SoC 70-80%) to keep total cycles up above 3000. There's usually a nice knee in the curve there: http://www.rpc.com.au/pdf/rayl... (page 11).
The LFP/LiFePO4 lithium batteries that are gaining in popularity achieve that kind of cycle life but with DoD around 70-80% (again, less DoD = more cycles).
There's also Nickel Iron batteries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery) - hard to buy new at the moment because they fell out of favour (heavy per Wh) but known to last more than 50 years with no cycle memory - some manufacturers starting to build them again for this kind of application (i.e static applications where weight doesn't matter).
You can pay much more or less than $800/kWh depending on quality and what kind of DoD you're going to run (i.e how long you want your batteries to last).
In the US it is common if you need more than 400A 120/240V single phase...
400A!?!?!? Surely you mean 40A?
Given Huawei's checkered history with corporate espionage ... I'll wait for a better company.
Surely given their past history you'd expect that this technology actually came from a "better" company :)
Remember the milk has been doing this for a while:
http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2009/09/new-for-pro-remember-the-milk-for-android/
The religion says that conceal-carry would lead to the Wild West all over again, with gunfights in the streets everywhere. The facts say that conceal-carry leads to more timid, less aggressive criminals who'd rather not end up in a gunfight, have no idea which person is armed, and cannot effectively choose vulnerable targets. The religion says that arming targeted ships would result in many more armed conflicts at sea. I believe the facts will be the same as they've proven to be for conceal-carry, only more so, since we can arm every ship that goes through dangerous areas and not just a fraction of them.
Have you got anything at all to back up this statement?
The Kindle 2 and 3 do have different slot spacings. The devices themselves are actually different sizes despite having the same size screens. You can't put a leather case from a Kindle 2 on a Kindle 3 anyway.
The above is based on observations I've made on the Kindle 2 & 3 + matching leather cases that my partner and I have.
I'm guessing someone somewhere had actually though through making them physically different for this reason, but when it came to manufacturing them that little gem of an idea got lost somewhere.
Serious question...
Did you have to do anything special to get tags to work?
Are you only using Thunderbird or other clients as well?
Does it support unlimited tags?
350ppm isn't arbitrary it's the maximum safe amount of CO2 we can stabilise at in the atmosphere to ensure we don't experience catastrophic global warming. http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
You can't tax CO2 emissions accurately if you can't quantify the damage caused by CO2. So far I haven't seen a single estimate of the damage caused by CO2 that's more than speculation.
Do you need to accurately quantify it?
We're all pretty well aware CO2 is too concentrated in the atmosphere already, and we should be aiming to get back under 350ppm (see http://www.350.org/mission for a _really_ brief overview).
Why not just aim a tax roughly at getting back to 350ppm?
Just run two. Only one of them has to have real world data, the other one siphens IPs to your firewall software :)
You may also see something more like
[iiNet]: we've proven that your system sucks because of (a), (b) and (c)
[Comms Ministry]: great we'll integrate those fixes in the second revision, than's for playing
Learn to read he said "Don't" not "Why don't".
Until you learn to read kindly shut the fuck up. He was simply making a joke about the spelling, he used FireFox as an example... most people (that read slashdot) would know FireFox has a spell checker, I doubt as many know about Opera's spell checker (whether it was there first or not).
I'm glad someone said "get them to pay for it them self".
I've paid for mine myself ever since I've had one (I'm 21 and have probably had a phone for 5-6 years). My mother simply enforced a rule of the plan must be pre-paid (once I use up my credit the phone is disabled) other than that the choice was completely up to me. I was free to spend as much of my money as I wanted on my phone. I've got what I think is a healthy phone use (I'd never send a text message to someone I could email almost as easily or especially not someone in the room).
Parents just need to make kids responsible. Kids ask for it, give it to them, explain the situation fully and be done with it.
This entire situation is just because parents these days suck. Talk to your kids.
I dunno where the issue lies exactly but a bios patch on my Compaq laptop (low specs) fixed these issues for me. I suspect it's something to do with checking one of it's security things and having a lag/failure in the test.
I used Dvorak for a few months. I found it tedious to learn but great once I started to adjust.
:)
I had to rearrange the keys a few times because I found at some point I learned that the key labelled s was an o in Dvorak etc.
I gave up like many other people because I could not justify maintaining skills with both Dvorak and Qwerty. Interestingly after switching back to Qwerty I have now actually learnt to genuinely type without looking at the keyboard. I'm not really much faster than when I started but I am more reliable because I'm looking at the screen and just touch typing. I don't touch type conventionally I just let my hands "roam" and hope they are over the correct key when I press one... seems to work most of the time.
I would recommend changing your home qwerty keyboard around so you can't look at it. Most keyboards I have pulled apart have a different "f" and "j" key slot, a nice arrangement that works with these different slots is "DON'T BE SLACK", just a little reminder for when you do look at the keyboard
There may only be one provider for the physical line but ARIA is suggesting removing the connection at the ISP. No where in the article does it say that you can't just switch ISP.
I don't see what the big problem is, this is no where near as harsh as RIAA. Furthermore if you like the song, pay for it! And don't tell me "I want to try before I buy", you can do this in most record stores I've been to, there are a multitude of options available for previewing songs on music sites and for smaller bands you often get them actively putting their songs up for free.
I live in Australia.
I've got ad blocking software in my browser so I see (almost) none while online. I watch almost no TV now, listen to radio that has no commercial ads and live in a city (Canberra Australia) that has very few (if any?) billboards etc.
It's great! I stopped watching TV and have actually made choices that I don't think I would have otherwise, I've become more creative in visual and musical arts and I'm enjoying life more. I recommend it to everyone.
You don't have to be bitter to point out that advertising is ruling many peoples choices and as such lives.
I haven't downloaded anything that would be termed illegal (by the likes of RIAA etc) for a few years now and I'm changing off my current 5gb cap because after I update, my Windows XP and Vista machine, ubdate kubuntu, sync a website I work on (about 90mb each time, 3-4 times a month) and watch a bunch of free content on you tube etc I seem to always go over about half way through the month.
5gb is ridiculously small for many users these days.
"I'm 6'5" and I don't fit in your "smaller 1300cc OR SMALLER" car, unless it is a motor cycle, which isn't really car, and is impractical for a family."
I'm 6'4" and I have more than two inches to spare above my head and a few clicks for putting the seat back in a 1500cc Ford Laser (which is an old model that also came in 1300cc) that I drive quite often. I can comfortably get 4 people in the car and 5 at a squeeze for most families around here that's fine.
Not all 1300cc cars are the same size.
But that said, I drive a motorbike normally, it's more fun.
I had a really long reply but I lost it all because I double-right-clicked it out of emacs and then selected text while switching back to this window... damn you linux and your insane copy buffers! And you thought power failures were the only reasonable way to lose work...
The DET (Department of Education and Training in ACT, Australia) struck some deal up with MS to let them run a number of 2003 licences on one box for the cost of one (I have no link, I was working in a school at the time and was actually talking to people who were managing this, not just reading it off the web). Their plan was to virtualize in just this way... you want DNS? Ok that's one VM. What about AD? Ok another...etc etc. I think 7 was about the magic number. I don't know how far they got with this (I've quit since). It may be obvious to the average n00b but unfortunately the average n00b is smarter than many people working for government organisations.
Oh how I wish I had finished reading the description of that image before I clicked the link. It kills my firefox install (kubuntu) :(
Had to xkill to get back control.
Before I start, I'm not a Windows fanboy, I use primarily Linux at home (Kubuntu to be precise).
Quote: "no one gets confused or complains when their Mac won't run some Windows app, an Ubuntu system is the same."
You've obviously never met someone who's used only windows and switches to anything else for the first time. I worked in a school for two years, while there I was repeatedly asked why application XYZ wasn't installed on the mac laptops the school had. They have quite a surprised look on their face when I inform them that without emulation software there is no way to run windows applications on mac's (and then I have to explain what emulation software is and why we didn't have it... but that's a longer story).
Same goes for Linux. Principal hears "school ABC is running their Terminal Services network on Linux and having less problems than we are, why aren't we doing that too?!?!". After getting in contact with the school and finding out exactly what they were doing I found out they didn't even have Terminal Services, and they only had one Linux box. The PDC was Linux with a bunch of fat XP clients. But that's not the point is it? The point is that roughly half of the uneducated users I have every met don't have the slightest clue that there's any more difference between OS X and XP than there is between XP and 2000, so why on earth would they expect that their applications wont all run Linux?
For further proof just look at Linux is NOT Windows. If everyone knows that Windows applications will not run on Linux why did that ever need to be written?
I live in Australia, I suppose it is possible users are better educated elsewhere in the world, but I doubt it.
Apparently Zonk didn't look into the article much.
Check out This video as can be found on one of Zonk's links.
The idea is NOT to collect all the data of the world centrally, it is to link to the pre-existing data and display it in a useful way. The software looks incredibly innovative, I doubt there is anything similar for two reasons (1) Google wouldn't' have bought it (2) TV stations here in Australia would be showing trends with the software just as they now show various parts of the earth with Google Earth.