I use MediaMall's PlayOn media server to watch Hulu and Netflix on my PS3 and Xbox360. It also streams to my PopcornHour box. It costs $30. I am in no way affiliated with them, I just love the product.
If you're in IT, start looking for another gig. It seems (from anecdotal evidence from several people) that IT hasn't been that battered by the recession.
Trust me, you wouldn't, unless you were unemployed and had no other prospects. I almost went to work for Google several years ago, but I would've had to take a $65K/yr pay cut and basically live at the Googleplex (you're not forced, but it's fairly indoctrinated that you better be there most of the time). Nuts to that.
"You're honor, I have no idea how it got on there. I live in a neighborhood full of kids always pulling pranks like this. I apologize, and will check my plate more often in the future" should get you out of the shit at least once. Second time is gonna suck though.
Also, how fast are you accellerating with that power? You can't brake much faster than that and still have most of the power show up in the battery.
The Tesla can.
I'm aware, hence why I ordered a roadster =)
The Roadster though, unlike the Toyota hybrids, uses Li-Ion chemistry for it's batteries (higher energy density then NiMh). There's a large amount of circuitry onboard the 1,000 pound battery "pack" (or ESS, as Tesla calls it) that's sole purpose is to baby the cells and to allow them to charge and discharge without damage. Hybrids don't have this "problem", as any kinetic energy they don't recover through regenerative braking can simply be pulled from more fuel.
All depends on location good sir/mam. My recently built (only 1.5 years old) townhouse in a western suburb of Chicago had a 100amp entrance, which I immediately upgraded to 300amps. I already had an electrician come out and drag a 90amp circuit from my panel to the garage to support the 220V 70A charger my Tesla Roadster will require. The electrification of transportation will be a process that takes about a decade. This is more then enough time for us to work out power distribution to homes, as well as the internal home distribution to the vehicles.
To this day, lead is still used in Avgas (100LL aka low lead). The GA community is in the process of phasing it out, as only so much 100LL is made every year and it's not in high demand, so it could disappear pretty quickly (most newer aircraft run on either Jet A, regular vehicle gas, or diesel).
How many times you can charge/discharge a storage medium without it degrading is no way related to thermodynamics. Now if they claimed %100 efficiency, you'd have something to complain about.
Very true, although doing it at night is probably much safer as long as absolutely no one is around. Nothing says "I'm doing something wrong" like a large red beam coming from a non-descript vehicle pointed at a red light/speed camera.
Get ready for me to expose my plate to a massive power spike or microwave radiation long enough to burn the RFID chip off. "Oh, officer, I had no idea those things could die" Next plate, repeat.
I can only be pleased that the current economic downturn is going to cause local and state governments to cut their law enforcement payroll/costs, not because law enforcement is unnecessary, but because in most cases the wrong enforcement is overemphasized (traffic, non-violent drug offender, etc).
I doubt you're going to have a lot of cops patrolling red light cameras. It would totally destroy the economics of putting them there in the first place (i.e. saving on paying an officer to patrol there).
Yeah, that's going to work. Are you going to pay the taxes to employ enough human officers to enforce speeding across the entire US road system?
No, I'm going to require the legislature and hold my public officials to the responsibility of enacting laws that can be enforced with the human element. If you're trying to pass a law where you need large forces of automated equipment or systems to monitor people, you've obviously failed as a citizen, and need to renounce your US citizenship and GTFO. People should be policed by people.
So what you really need is a plate you homebrew out of the same material used in the Amazon Kindle (epaper?), except in color and not black and white. Connected to your GPS device preloaded with the location of red light cameras, your plate only transitions to fake plate when within $distance of red light camera intersection, and transitions back to regular plate after leaving the area of said intersection. And if you don't think it's possible now, give it 2-3 years. It's closer then you think.
Or, if you're technically-inclined, a CO2 laser in a nearby van. If done during the day, no one should be the wiser as you burn/set fire to the camera housing.
This is something the ACLU is working on. Granted, not something they should have to work on (since the 1st Amendment should trump any turd of a bill Congress puts together), but it's indeed something they're working on.
I've heard the trick is to put the vehicle in a trust. Makes it a bit more difficult to enforce automated red light/speeding ticketing systems. YMMV and IANAL.
What you've just described is a mutual company. State Farm Auto Insurance works in this very way, as in I get a check at the end of the year if they took in more then they paid out in claims. Personally, I think healthcare should be universal. People claim it doesn't work and is quite expensive. It doesn't work and is expensive if you don't have the right processes and systems in place. Otherwise, it can be a very efficient system serving the citizens of whatever country it's in.
So you put a small motor in the lamp head that vibrates the snow off, similar to how a cellphone vibrates. You still make out like a bandit on energy savings.
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I use MediaMall's PlayOn media server to watch Hulu and Netflix on my PS3 and Xbox360. It also streams to my PopcornHour box. It costs $30. I am in no way affiliated with them, I just love the product.
http://www.themediamall.com/playon
If you're in IT, start looking for another gig. It seems (from anecdotal evidence from several people) that IT hasn't been that battered by the recession.
Trust me, you wouldn't, unless you were unemployed and had no other prospects. I almost went to work for Google several years ago, but I would've had to take a $65K/yr pay cut and basically live at the Googleplex (you're not forced, but it's fairly indoctrinated that you better be there most of the time). Nuts to that.
"You're honor, I have no idea how it got on there. I live in a neighborhood full of kids always pulling pranks like this. I apologize, and will check my plate more often in the future" should get you out of the shit at least once. Second time is gonna suck though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Also, how fast are you accellerating with that power? You can't brake much faster than that and still have most of the power show up in the battery.
The Tesla can.
I'm aware, hence why I ordered a roadster =)
The Roadster though, unlike the Toyota hybrids, uses Li-Ion chemistry for it's batteries (higher energy density then NiMh). There's a large amount of circuitry onboard the 1,000 pound battery "pack" (or ESS, as Tesla calls it) that's sole purpose is to baby the cells and to allow them to charge and discharge without damage. Hybrids don't have this "problem", as any kinetic energy they don't recover through regenerative braking can simply be pulled from more fuel.
You could always take a trickle of power from the EEstor cap to keep it warm if you really needed to.
All depends on location good sir/mam. My recently built (only 1.5 years old) townhouse in a western suburb of Chicago had a 100amp entrance, which I immediately upgraded to 300amps. I already had an electrician come out and drag a 90amp circuit from my panel to the garage to support the 220V 70A charger my Tesla Roadster will require. The electrification of transportation will be a process that takes about a decade. This is more then enough time for us to work out power distribution to homes, as well as the internal home distribution to the vehicles.
Too bad you can't get modded above +5.
I know my Toyota Camry Hybrid will draw up to 100 amps from the battery pack before the gas engine kicks in to assist. That's a lot of power.
To this day, lead is still used in Avgas (100LL aka low lead). The GA community is in the process of phasing it out, as only so much 100LL is made every year and it's not in high demand, so it could disappear pretty quickly (most newer aircraft run on either Jet A, regular vehicle gas, or diesel).
So the piston only does one stroke, but that stroke will take you to the moon? =)
How many times you can charge/discharge a storage medium without it degrading is no way related to thermodynamics. Now if they claimed %100 efficiency, you'd have something to complain about.
It's like the Borg. Feed it some shitty code so it chokes on it and dies.
Very true, although doing it at night is probably much safer as long as absolutely no one is around. Nothing says "I'm doing something wrong" like a large red beam coming from a non-descript vehicle pointed at a red light/speed camera.
Get ready for me to expose my plate to a massive power spike or microwave radiation long enough to burn the RFID chip off. "Oh, officer, I had no idea those things could die" Next plate, repeat.
I can only be pleased that the current economic downturn is going to cause local and state governments to cut their law enforcement payroll/costs, not because law enforcement is unnecessary, but because in most cases the wrong enforcement is overemphasized (traffic, non-violent drug offender, etc).
I doubt you're going to have a lot of cops patrolling red light cameras. It would totally destroy the economics of putting them there in the first place (i.e. saving on paying an officer to patrol there).
Yeah, that's going to work. Are you going to pay the taxes to employ enough human officers to enforce speeding across the entire US road system?
No, I'm going to require the legislature and hold my public officials to the responsibility of enacting laws that can be enforced with the human element. If you're trying to pass a law where you need large forces of automated equipment or systems to monitor people, you've obviously failed as a citizen, and need to renounce your US citizenship and GTFO. People should be policed by people.
So what you really need is a plate you homebrew out of the same material used in the Amazon Kindle (epaper?), except in color and not black and white. Connected to your GPS device preloaded with the location of red light cameras, your plate only transitions to fake plate when within $distance of red light camera intersection, and transitions back to regular plate after leaving the area of said intersection. And if you don't think it's possible now, give it 2-3 years. It's closer then you think.
Or, if you're technically-inclined, a CO2 laser in a nearby van. If done during the day, no one should be the wiser as you burn/set fire to the camera housing.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426792619
This is something the ACLU is working on. Granted, not something they should have to work on (since the 1st Amendment should trump any turd of a bill Congress puts together), but it's indeed something they're working on.
Good point. A lot easier just to copy another plate as described in TFA.
I've heard the trick is to put the vehicle in a trust. Makes it a bit more difficult to enforce automated red light/speeding ticketing systems. YMMV and IANAL.
What you've just described is a mutual company. State Farm Auto Insurance works in this very way, as in I get a check at the end of the year if they took in more then they paid out in claims. Personally, I think healthcare should be universal. People claim it doesn't work and is quite expensive. It doesn't work and is expensive if you don't have the right processes and systems in place. Otherwise, it can be a very efficient system serving the citizens of whatever country it's in.
So you put a small motor in the lamp head that vibrates the snow off, similar to how a cellphone vibrates. You still make out like a bandit on energy savings.