Same deal in NZ. Taxis, motorcycles etc. Could be a good idea to allow High-Occupancy-Vehicles, too.
Between free parking and faster travel, I now use a motorbike for most of my daily transit. One less car.
The reason it is ignored is that it is a relatively easy engineering problem. Either use more copper or higher voltages (which with correct latching/shuttered connectors are completely safe). 25kW = 500VDC at 50A which is a similar cable size to 3 phase cables here, which we have a 30m extension cord of out the back that is easy enough to throw over your shoulder and carry around. There are also other approaches such as IPT (inductive power transfer).
The assumption from when I was working on EVs at university was that you can use another bank of these batteries to charge the bank in the car however. Use solar/cheap off-peak power/wind/whatever to charge the home/office storage battery bank over the day then dump the charge from one to the other in a short space of time. Same could apply for the electrical gas station equivalents.
Yeah, but as a counter-point, it is next to impossible to do anything with the waterfalls even when they are on your land due to the Resource Management Act, we have a pretty reasonable sized river running through our land and couldn't do squat with it.
The 'bailout' money that a lot of people are referring to is a package that was put forward a while back to encourage alternative energy vehicles. The fact that the bigger American auto makers are clamoring for it now as a bailout does not automatically mean that a company that is doing exactly what the money was originally intended to encourage should be shut out.
Normally over here when you run over your cap you can have your account set up to either send you an e-mail then continue at its normal speed, billing you for the extra (NZ$2/GB for me) or for your access to be throttled back to 64kbit.
It is surprising how adequate the 64kbit throttling actually is to use. It still has good latency and on several occasions I have continued playing FPS games without even noticing that the limit had been imposed until I tried to load 8 tabs at once in firefox...
An ISP cutting you off once you hit that cap would be pretty unreasonable I think, assuming you didn't hit the cap and keep going at 700MB a day for another 2 weeks...
The problem is that you have ISPs using the broken business model of everyone paying the same amount even though usage patterns differ wildly. I wonder if everyone would be so dismissive of paying for what they actually use if this website's readership didn't mostly reside in the 'using more than they pay for' bracket...
In New Zealand, you pay for the bandwidth you use. This is on a monthly allocation basis or a pay as you go basis. I don't understand why everyone is so negative towards the idea of paying for what you actually use of a service. I have a 100GB/month plan at uncapped ADSL2+ speed and I'm perfectly happy. For all intents and purposes it might as well be unlimited...
We have similar net connections in NZ and I don't see the problem. It is never a case of not being able to get what you want, it is a case of having to pay for it. Sure if you want to pay $30 a month you will get 10GB a month, but for myself I get 100GB a month at ADSL2+ unthrottled speeds (although only this speed within the country reliably) for around $80 a month.
I pay a premium because I use the service more. It costs them to provide bandwidth, which I should be paying for if I am using it. Also the ISP I am with doesn't complain about P2P, they just explain that it is given lower priority than all other traffic and leave it at that. They also publish their total bandwidth utilisation so you can see when the shaping is occurring. Works well all up.
Someone needs to RTFA before they assume that everybody on Google's payroll is a PC jockey... I'm pretty sure that given they build their own server hardware that they have a few people who have discovered 'real world stuff'...
The Neuros OSD network video player unit uses it in a way that does that. The proprietary codecs are loaded onto the DSP, while the OS itself sits on an ARM core and handles the rest of the stuff.
It may be that it is more convenient as you say, but it is probably easier to get hold of a codec for a specific DSP and just treat the entire thing as a black box.
Yeah, I've talked to a few people who have seen Liam Finn play and a couple quite liked it, but there were also quite a few people who said he was trying to do too much by himself and was a little manic. Maybe it's part of that too?
That is very much dependent on the particular band. A local NZ band, Blindspott, was always incredibly good live, very similar sound to their CDs (which are also very nicely mastered). Most recently I went to an Iron Maiden concert in Brisbane and it was fantastic. Their playing was spot on and sounded perfect. That said I've also been to a bunch that sounded terrible...
EVE is a pay-per-month MMO. In this case, DRM is not needed because you are already tied to their game servers and their locally stored account information. Instead of breaking the DRM on those games you have people trying to create 3rd party game servers. In those cases they lack the community which is a large part of the value of the MMO.
thats 85% going from socket to battery terminals. It basically takes the place of normal switch mode supply. And ultimately you have to factor in the efficiency of generation and transmission over the efficiency of a petrol/diesel engine, which emphasizes even more.
Check out some of the devices made by Wampfler. I can't really remember as it was a few years ago now that I was working with these type of things, but the University of Auckland in New Zealand has some quite impressive projects underway in this area. One of the things I worked on while there was a pickup for charging a parked EV. We managed to get about 1.2kW continuous over a 60mm air gap with >80% efficiency. Pretty impressive stuff.
http://www.wampfler.com/index.asp?vid=12&id=10&plid=12&e1=2&lang=E
As a summer intern post-graduate EEE student at the University of Auckland, I was working on Inductive Power Transfer systems with efficiencies of 75-85% with power transfer of around 1400W continuous under max load. Maybe you are thinking about conventional 50-60Hz electric toothbrush style inductive power transfer?
I didn't think that the 'danger' aspect of the game would really appeal to me, but it gives you an amazing sense of consequence for your actions. I got bored with WoW and the repetitive PvE/BG grind where the worst that can happen is that you don't make progress (although arenas are a good start). In EVE, when they say you can lose a months worth of work in minutes, they mean it. Thats what makes the game unbelievably thrilling to play.
I can understand why that may be a little bit too risky to cope with for some people though...
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Same deal in NZ. Taxis, motorcycles etc. Could be a good idea to allow High-Occupancy-Vehicles, too. Between free parking and faster travel, I now use a motorbike for most of my daily transit. One less car.
Once EVs with regenerative braking become common, it will be leeching.
Once EVs with regenerative braking become the norm, then this will be effectively stealing energy from the drivers.
Not exactly helping the situation there...
The reason it is ignored is that it is a relatively easy engineering problem. Either use more copper or higher voltages (which with correct latching/shuttered connectors are completely safe). 25kW = 500VDC at 50A which is a similar cable size to 3 phase cables here, which we have a 30m extension cord of out the back that is easy enough to throw over your shoulder and carry around. There are also other approaches such as IPT (inductive power transfer).
The assumption from when I was working on EVs at university was that you can use another bank of these batteries to charge the bank in the car however. Use solar/cheap off-peak power/wind/whatever to charge the home/office storage battery bank over the day then dump the charge from one to the other in a short space of time. Same could apply for the electrical gas station equivalents.
Yeah, but as a counter-point, it is next to impossible to do anything with the waterfalls even when they are on your land due to the Resource Management Act, we have a pretty reasonable sized river running through our land and couldn't do squat with it.
33 million cycles of the bus clock, so for 33MHz PCI bus 33M cycles = 1s.
The 'bailout' money that a lot of people are referring to is a package that was put forward a while back to encourage alternative energy vehicles. The fact that the bigger American auto makers are clamoring for it now as a bailout does not automatically mean that a company that is doing exactly what the money was originally intended to encourage should be shut out.
Normally over here when you run over your cap you can have your account set up to either send you an e-mail then continue at its normal speed, billing you for the extra (NZ$2/GB for me) or for your access to be throttled back to 64kbit.
It is surprising how adequate the 64kbit throttling actually is to use. It still has good latency and on several occasions I have continued playing FPS games without even noticing that the limit had been imposed until I tried to load 8 tabs at once in firefox...
An ISP cutting you off once you hit that cap would be pretty unreasonable I think, assuming you didn't hit the cap and keep going at 700MB a day for another 2 weeks...
The problem is that you have ISPs using the broken business model of everyone paying the same amount even though usage patterns differ wildly. I wonder if everyone would be so dismissive of paying for what they actually use if this website's readership didn't mostly reside in the 'using more than they pay for' bracket...
In New Zealand, you pay for the bandwidth you use. This is on a monthly allocation basis or a pay as you go basis. I don't understand why everyone is so negative towards the idea of paying for what you actually use of a service. I have a 100GB/month plan at uncapped ADSL2+ speed and I'm perfectly happy. For all intents and purposes it might as well be unlimited...
We have similar net connections in NZ and I don't see the problem. It is never a case of not being able to get what you want, it is a case of having to pay for it. Sure if you want to pay $30 a month you will get 10GB a month, but for myself I get 100GB a month at ADSL2+ unthrottled speeds (although only this speed within the country reliably) for around $80 a month.
I pay a premium because I use the service more. It costs them to provide bandwidth, which I should be paying for if I am using it. Also the ISP I am with doesn't complain about P2P, they just explain that it is given lower priority than all other traffic and leave it at that. They also publish their total bandwidth utilisation so you can see when the shaping is occurring. Works well all up.
Someone needs to RTFA before they assume that everybody on Google's payroll is a PC jockey... I'm pretty sure that given they build their own server hardware that they have a few people who have discovered 'real world stuff'...
The Neuros OSD network video player unit uses it in a way that does that. The proprietary codecs are loaded onto the DSP, while the OS itself sits on an ARM core and handles the rest of the stuff.
It may be that it is more convenient as you say, but it is probably easier to get hold of a codec for a specific DSP and just treat the entire thing as a black box.
What was the venue? I'm Auckland based.
Yeah, I've talked to a few people who have seen Liam Finn play and a couple quite liked it, but there were also quite a few people who said he was trying to do too much by himself and was a little manic. Maybe it's part of that too?
That is very much dependent on the particular band. A local NZ band, Blindspott, was always incredibly good live, very similar sound to their CDs (which are also very nicely mastered). Most recently I went to an Iron Maiden concert in Brisbane and it was fantastic. Their playing was spot on and sounded perfect. That said I've also been to a bunch that sounded terrible...
EVE is a pay-per-month MMO. In this case, DRM is not needed because you are already tied to their game servers and their locally stored account information. Instead of breaking the DRM on those games you have people trying to create 3rd party game servers. In those cases they lack the community which is a large part of the value of the MMO.
Might be meaning solder top and bottom, assuming they are talking about thru-hole components that are wave soldered initially.
thats 85% going from socket to battery terminals. It basically takes the place of normal switch mode supply. And ultimately you have to factor in the efficiency of generation and transmission over the efficiency of a petrol/diesel engine, which emphasizes even more.
Check out some of the devices made by Wampfler. I can't really remember as it was a few years ago now that I was working with these type of things, but the University of Auckland in New Zealand has some quite impressive projects underway in this area. One of the things I worked on while there was a pickup for charging a parked EV. We managed to get about 1.2kW continuous over a 60mm air gap with >80% efficiency. Pretty impressive stuff. http://www.wampfler.com/index.asp?vid=12&id=10&plid=12&e1=2&lang=E
As a summer intern post-graduate EEE student at the University of Auckland, I was working on Inductive Power Transfer systems with efficiencies of 75-85% with power transfer of around 1400W continuous under max load. Maybe you are thinking about conventional 50-60Hz electric toothbrush style inductive power transfer?
I didn't think that the 'danger' aspect of the game would really appeal to me, but it gives you an amazing sense of consequence for your actions. I got bored with WoW and the repetitive PvE/BG grind where the worst that can happen is that you don't make progress (although arenas are a good start). In EVE, when they say you can lose a months worth of work in minutes, they mean it. Thats what makes the game unbelievably thrilling to play.
I can understand why that may be a little bit too risky to cope with for some people though...
Yeah, but a standard GPS output is 1 position per second, so a 1 second running average is what you have.