Those cables must have been laid by amateurs. The lengths cable-layers normally go to accurately chart their cables and avoid areas where people anchor are quite impressive.
But all of the buyers of obscure stuff don't need to be funky stuff seekers. One funky stuff seeker could introduce the funky stuff they find to the others that might buy funky stuff, but not actively seek it out.
Unfortunately the people that set speed limits have to account for people that can't drive, and cars that can't go fast.
If you have a good driver who takes into account road conditions (leaves, sand, bumps, puddles, etc. that might affect traction, the direction the pavement is banked at an intersection, pavement & tire temp, and so on) and has a well maintained vehicle (suspension and tires in good condition), they can safely go *much* faster than the idiot driving an un-maintained mobile junk yard.
So, they have to post the limit based on the lowest common denominator.
Can a typical household handle such a load, or may be we may have to visit an electricity pumps to recharge. Either way does not seem bad at all.
Why not have a charging station in the garage with one of these units inside? It can be charging at a rate the house wiring can handle all the time, with the capability to quickly dump that juice into the car. Hell, integrate it into the house electrical system as a whole-house UPS while you're at it.
I wonder if you could somehow use the current through the cable in conjunction with the earth's magnetic field to counteract the wind and other forces they bring up as problematic.
Except spending two hours stealing $200 worth of copper and driving it across town to the scrap dealer/fence means they're making well over 10x per hour what they'd make installing the same copper.
One where you could sleep over the economic crisis.
Uh huh... economy slows down a little, and then all the productive people (who are the only ones that can afford the procedure) remove themselves from the economy. Yup, that'll work...
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Except that Comcast provides content, Internet service AND owns the wires. Your theoretical company would only *maintain* wires owned by someone else.
In other words, they have no agenda for discriminating against competing service providers, so it would be easier to provide a competing Internet service.
Meanwhile, consoles plug into the TV. My TV uses 250 watts of juice. YMMV depending more on your brand of TV the console is plugged into than the actual console.
No kidding. The console is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of what it's plugged into. If my console used 200W, it would cost me about $0.028 to run for an hour. The A/V would cost $0.307/hr at full bore (or maybe $0.15/hr if I didn't want the neighbours calling the police).
The interference won't be powerful enough to interfere with the speaker cable (unless maybe it's a REALLY small speaker). It's the un-amplified analog lines that feed the amp that pick it up. Use shielded interconnects, or even optical SPDIF, and the problem should go away. Probably won't help your clock radio, though:)
In my experience it's been improperly- or un-shielded line level interconnects that pick this interference up, and not the receiver/amp itself. Once I switched to optical interconnects, the problem went away.
Yes, you can be a "hero" in an MMO. The problem is it takes such a massive ongoing investment in time. When I played Dark Age of Camelot, I ended up as one of those people. The problem was, I spent countless hours in game spellcrafting, AND countless hours outside of the game working on the crafting calculator that was the source of most of my renown. I had fun, but I had to quit... I didn't want TWO jobs.
An offline RPG lets you be the hero on your own schedule.
You make an interesting point. In the USA, he who controls the media essentially controls the country. The initial stages of a revolution would be better spent taking over the media outlets rather than direct attacks on the government.
Please, folks, remember when you go to vote that both Obama and Biden have taught constitutional law so they at least know that programs such as this one violate the First and Fourth amendments.
If they're such experts, why do they keep trying to violate the 2nd?
It's fairly easy to see that ABS can increase your stopping distance a little.
Find an empty stretch of road, get up to about 40mph, and then put the brake to the floor. (don't slam it, but do it quickly and smoothly) Right when the ABS kicks in, you should feel the deceleration lessen a bit, since it's no longer braking full time any more.
That said, I'll trade 10-20ft of stopping distance for the ability to steer any day.
I've had idiots at the lake almost hit me because they didn't see me on an 11ft long BRIGHT RED waverunner sitting on top of the water. Running something like this thing mostly submerged is just asking to be killed.
But I do think that if companies A, B, C, D, and E have all lost your information, and then some ID theft that costs you $100k is perpetrated with that information, that all of them should have to pitch in $20k to fix the problem (since you probably can't tell which company's breach is directly responsible).
If they don't like it, they don't need to hold onto the information.
Now you mention it, I think we did keep an inventory list for everyone, as well. Plus a "we're not responsible for your stuff" waiver.
Yeah we were anal about it, but the reality was, everyone either didn't care, or was glad we were doing it. Remember, this was 10 years ago, so those gaming rigs cost dearly. As a bonus, their stuff was engraved, in case it was ever stolen from somewhere else:)
We had to hire a generator rental company to provide power. We couldn't find any place that enough juice to one room to run 50 PCs. (at least, not without seriously violating code)
Some friends of mine did this ~10 years ago, and I helped out a bit.
Either you (or possibly your venue) will need insurance. You might need to hire a police officer (check laws for this one).
We had a checkpoint at the door. We had an engraving pen there, and all CPUs and monitors were *required* to have your driver's license number engraved on them to be brought in, and we didn't allow any equipment to leave without checking. All other equipment (kb/mouse/headphones/etc.) was "at your own risk." We also offered to engrave anything else they had if they wanted us to, but didn't require a check to remove it.
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Those cables must have been laid by amateurs. The lengths cable-layers normally go to accurately chart their cables and avoid areas where people anchor are quite impressive.
Recent flash memory advances would probably dramatically increase the bandwidth potential of IPoAC :)
But all of the buyers of obscure stuff don't need to be funky stuff seekers. One funky stuff seeker could introduce the funky stuff they find to the others that might buy funky stuff, but not actively seek it out.
Unfortunately the people that set speed limits have to account for people that can't drive, and cars that can't go fast.
If you have a good driver who takes into account road conditions (leaves, sand, bumps, puddles, etc. that might affect traction, the direction the pavement is banked at an intersection, pavement & tire temp, and so on) and has a well maintained vehicle (suspension and tires in good condition), they can safely go *much* faster than the idiot driving an un-maintained mobile junk yard.
So, they have to post the limit based on the lowest common denominator.
I would think the more well known and/or outrageous the person whose plates you're impersonating, the easier it would be to skate if caught.
Just say you had no idea someone had put those on... must have been a prank!
3-6 minutes charge time for 52 kWh.
Can a typical household handle such a load, or may be we may have to visit an electricity pumps to recharge. Either way does not seem bad at all.
Why not have a charging station in the garage with one of these units inside? It can be charging at a rate the house wiring can handle all the time, with the capability to quickly dump that juice into the car. Hell, integrate it into the house electrical system as a whole-house UPS while you're at it.
On the other hand, brand new equipment is much more likely to fail than middle-aged equipment at the bottom of the bathtub curve.
I wonder if you could somehow use the current through the cable in conjunction with the earth's magnetic field to counteract the wind and other forces they bring up as problematic.
Except spending two hours stealing $200 worth of copper and driving it across town to the scrap dealer/fence means they're making well over 10x per hour what they'd make installing the same copper.
One where you could sleep over the economic crisis.
Uh huh... economy slows down a little, and then all the productive people (who are the only ones that can afford the procedure) remove themselves from the economy. Yup, that'll work...
Except that Comcast provides content, Internet service AND owns the wires. Your theoretical company would only *maintain* wires owned by someone else.
In other words, they have no agenda for discriminating against competing service providers, so it would be easier to provide a competing Internet service.
Meanwhile, consoles plug into the TV. My TV uses 250 watts of juice. YMMV depending more on your brand of TV the console is plugged into than the actual console.
No kidding. The console is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of what it's plugged into. If my console used 200W, it would cost me about $0.028 to run for an hour. The A/V would cost $0.307/hr at full bore (or maybe $0.15/hr if I didn't want the neighbours calling the police).
I never answer my cell with my name. Just "hello?"
If it's someone who shouldn't have the number, "I'm sorry, you have a wrong number."
The interference won't be powerful enough to interfere with the speaker cable (unless maybe it's a REALLY small speaker). It's the un-amplified analog lines that feed the amp that pick it up. Use shielded interconnects, or even optical SPDIF, and the problem should go away. Probably won't help your clock radio, though :)
In my experience it's been improperly- or un-shielded line level interconnects that pick this interference up, and not the receiver/amp itself. Once I switched to optical interconnects, the problem went away.
Yes, you can be a "hero" in an MMO. The problem is it takes such a massive ongoing investment in time. When I played Dark Age of Camelot, I ended up as one of those people. The problem was, I spent countless hours in game spellcrafting, AND countless hours outside of the game working on the crafting calculator that was the source of most of my renown. I had fun, but I had to quit... I didn't want TWO jobs.
An offline RPG lets you be the hero on your own schedule.
You make an interesting point. In the USA, he who controls the media essentially controls the country. The initial stages of a revolution would be better spent taking over the media outlets rather than direct attacks on the government.
Please, folks, remember when you go to vote that both Obama and Biden have taught constitutional law so they at least know that programs such as this one violate the First and Fourth amendments.
If they're such experts, why do they keep trying to violate the 2nd?
It's fairly easy to see that ABS can increase your stopping distance a little.
Find an empty stretch of road, get up to about 40mph, and then put the brake to the floor. (don't slam it, but do it quickly and smoothly) Right when the ABS kicks in, you should feel the deceleration lessen a bit, since it's no longer braking full time any more.
That said, I'll trade 10-20ft of stopping distance for the ability to steer any day.
Exciting is right.
I've had idiots at the lake almost hit me because they didn't see me on an 11ft long BRIGHT RED waverunner sitting on top of the water. Running something like this thing mostly submerged is just asking to be killed.
But I do think that if companies A, B, C, D, and E have all lost your information, and then some ID theft that costs you $100k is perpetrated with that information, that all of them should have to pitch in $20k to fix the problem (since you probably can't tell which company's breach is directly responsible).
If they don't like it, they don't need to hold onto the information.
We didn't have any UPSs (aside from a few people that brought their own). The generator was one of those big trailer-based ones with filtered output.
Probably cleaner power than you get from the wall :P
Now you mention it, I think we did keep an inventory list for everyone, as well. Plus a "we're not responsible for your stuff" waiver.
Yeah we were anal about it, but the reality was, everyone either didn't care, or was glad we were doing it. Remember, this was 10 years ago, so those gaming rigs cost dearly. As a bonus, their stuff was engraved, in case it was ever stolen from somewhere else :)
Oh, forgot one other biggie!
We had to hire a generator rental company to provide power. We couldn't find any place that enough juice to one room to run 50 PCs. (at least, not without seriously violating code)
Some friends of mine did this ~10 years ago, and I helped out a bit.
Either you (or possibly your venue) will need insurance.
You might need to hire a police officer (check laws for this one).
We had a checkpoint at the door. We had an engraving pen there, and all CPUs and monitors were *required* to have your driver's license number engraved on them to be brought in, and we didn't allow any equipment to leave without checking. All other equipment (kb/mouse/headphones/etc.) was "at your own risk." We also offered to engrave anything else they had if they wanted us to, but didn't require a check to remove it.