Look, I'm not going to lie; it's hella better to be doing this making $150k than to be slaving away in some shitty clerk job as a $30k wage-slave. But just because he doesn't break a sweat in front of you doesn't mean your boss isn't working.
Oh he was breaking a sweat all right, but it wasn't work that had him all sweaty. My boss inherited his business after his father passed. It was fully established and while he did grow it a bit, 99% of the work was done by us, his employees. He never spoke to customers, handled major problems, or brought in new business. He simply signed the checks and did his own thing. Up until 2 years ago he was a playboy who lived in a different state (yes he didn't live anywhere near work) and came in once, MAYBE twice a month to raise hell just to remind us who signs our checks. Then his wife caught him cheating and it all blew up in his face. We also found out he had to go to rehab for drug abuse, probably in a last ditch effort to save his marriage. That explained his mood swings when he came in for his visits. Now that he is divorced and lives close to work (wife got the house) he is in almost every day. I'll give him credit. Must have been tough to go from playboy to being responsible. He even brought in his cousin to bring in some big jobs and really wants to grow the company. So kudos on his recovery. But for years he was a spoiled child, not a boss.
And yes, I know what its like to be in your shoes. I ran the family business with my mother for 15 years after my father got sick. I was only in high school at the time. I worked my ass off all those years putting in long hours, working weekends while my friends partied. I even lost a steady long time girlfriend after she had enough of me cancelling plans last minute because someone fucked up.
And I will agree with you 100% its better to be employed than to employ. We sold our manufacturing portion of the business and it was like a huge burden was removed. And it was just in time as competitors were going to China and it was getting harder and harder to turn a profit while the cost of business went up and up. We still have a business but we are selling it as I type this. I cant wait until the deal is finalized and we get our lives back.
wealth noun 1. an abundance of valuable possessions or money
Maybe I worded it bad. In my first paragraph I stated you are wealthy if you have assets, bought and paid for, that generate income ( a business or real estate were my examples). That is real net worth as the assets have value.
So single people can save and avoid debt, big deal. That single woman may be able to save her pennies but what happens when she starts a family? Will she continue to work or become a stay-at-home mother? Of course she can stay single or simply not have children. What if she has an injury which causes a disability and is unable to work? There goes her wealth as her net worth is based on her income producing ability. The only asset she has is herself. There is nothing external to her that makes money.
Musicians who became wealthy are those who took their money and invested it. Look at wealthy rappers like Sean Combs (Diddy), Jay-Z and Dr. Dre. They put their money into businesses and reaped the rewards. They are wealthy as they not only have a ton of money, but have assets to back it up (record labels, clothing lines, liquor brands etc.) Investment is key.
My family has commercial property that was bought and paid for and generating income through rentals. As long as people need commercial real estate, we will be making money. Its not millions, not even hundreds of thousands. But its plenty of money for my mother to live on quite comfortably and still be able to put money in the bank. Are we rich? Well not me directly but my mother is. Though I do help out a lot and get paid for it. It's my side job. Even if she can no longer walk, she will still have rent checks coming in every month. That is true wealth. And she plans to invest in even more real estate further down the line. That is how you become rich.
Define "rich". Lets get the definition strait here. The only number they threw out in over $100,000 which is pretty vague. Anyone making under 200k/year is not rich. They are in my opinion, comfortable. You are only really rich when you have true wealth such as owning/running a profitable business or real estate that generates income. You are not rich if you are a low level employee who depends on a wage to survive, even if you are making 100k to 200k/year.
You think my boss works? Of course not. He comes in when he pleases maybe 4 or 5 hours a day. Takes whatever day off he pleases. Takes multiple vacations per year for one or two weeks at a time. His business is firmly rooted in the industry and will continue to make money. He is *RICH*. Not the poor schlubs (like me) working 50+ hours a week and certainly not the low wage help getting 10-12 an hour. He is like one of those wealthy English aristocrats they speak of. A top dog calling the shots who's hard working underlings produce his wealth for him. I believe he makes around 500-800k/year and has over a million in the bank (accidently saw his bank statement when I worked on his PC).
And the reality is those living comfortably are working their asses off as in order to justify their 100k+ salary. No employer wants to pay big money unless they feel they are getting their moneys worth. That may mean large work loads, 50+ hour work weeks, unpaid overtime and coming in on weekends to finish up backlogged work. At 100k+ you aren't hourly unless you are union or very lucky. Salary demands a certain number of hours per week to justify your pay grade and some of that includes unpaid overtime. Its not the same for everyone but everyone I know working in tech put in long hours for their 100k plus salaries.
The "poor" people they speak of have social safety nets in the form of health care, food stamps and rent subsidy and/or low income housing. But I believe they are being unfair as I know plenty of "poor" people who are struggling just to buy food and pay rent. A friend of mine had a tough life growing up, mother threw him out when he was 16, father doesn't give a damn about him, etc. No college and not the sharpest tool in the shed but he is an honest, good hearted person who is a hard worker. He works two minimum wage part time jobs for 60 hours a week with no days off as the two shifts overlap each other. He rents and shares a room at a "frat house". Place is more like a flophouse complete with drug dealer and rowdy parties which he winds up playing bouncer so the cops don't raid the place. Its a rough life for him but he works and doesn't give up. Many others are in the same boat making shit pay and having to work multiple jobs because employers don't want to pay benefits to full timers.
Depends on where you live. Around the corner from my friends house there was a guy who went through a tough divorce. He would lay naked on a lounge chair, drinking, in full view of his neighbors and anyone in the bay as his house was on the water. Neighbors called the cops who told them he is on his own private property and they could do nothing about it. Either they didn't want to take the call or it was true. This is on Long Island in Nassau County so YMMV.
Been running m0n0wall for about 5 years on an Alix board and for many years before that on a P3 500. Never had to reboot it once. When my WAP54g started to flake out I replaced it with an Ubiquiti UniFi UAP which blows the old Linksys WAP54g away. The old 54g could barely push a signal 2 floors down to the kitchen, living room, and the basement was a dead zone. Now I have a strong signal throughout the house. It has a boat load of features and is 70 bucks on newegg.
I did not know about the APU.1C, thanks for posting that. The only thing is m0n0wall is not SMP aware, though it will run on an SMP system like the APU.1C. You are better off running pfSense which has SMP and 64 bit support. That board should have no issues pushing over 100Mbps while running multiple services and VPN encryption. My only concern is the use of Realtek gigabit chips. I wish there were Intel nics on there.
Soekris Engineering makes some pretty solid hardware but it comes at a price. The net 6501 has up to 2GB ram, single core Atom 1.6Ghz, 4 intel Gigabit ports, SATA, mSATA/USB, mPCIe and up to 2 PCIe x1 slots for actual PCIe cards. A top of the line 6501-70 and case will run you $470 without any accessories (storage, power supply, etc.). Before the 6501 came out I was going to buy a net 5501 but I couldn't justify the price so I went with the Alix.
Sounds like Google is testing the waters of demand for glass. It would be interesting to see the actual number of glass units sold. My guess it they are using this as an indicator if they should continue to push glass in its current form, abandon the project or make a big change.
The problem is cost. The best process is sintering using either a laser or electron beam. Additive systems using a welding head are nowhere near accurate and very dirty in terms of smoke and soot. Sintering has its own can of worms including a cheap source of powdered or granular metals.
To sinter with a laser you need a laser and a box to put it inside of filled with an inert gas like nitrogen or argon. Nitrogen is cheap but people would have to buy or rent gas cylinders and keep up on getting new filled cylinders from a gas or welding supply company. Not exactly user friendly. Now for the laser: A 500 watts cheap, compact, continuous wave laser would be needed but from my research, they don't exist. The ideal laser source would be a fiber laser. They are simply a cluster of LED's and the fiber that couples them together is the laser gain medium. The fibers then feed into a delivery fiber and off to the workpiece or yet another coupler to add more LED clusters. A CO2 laser would also work but they are bulky, inefficient and need a lot of cooling. I work with both NdYAG and fiber lasers so I know the industry. And the industry for fiber lasers is a patent minefield. So good luck getting a cheap 500+W fiber laser. Our 4kW IPG YLS-4000 ran us almost $300,000 including chiller, fibers and beam delivery head. From the laser you need a galvo scanner to scan the beam around the powder surface. The galvo scanner might actually be an easy hack using cheap galvanometers.
Electron beam sintering. As crazy as it sounds, EB sintering is probably the better way to go. You don't need shield gas and the purity of a vacuum leads to higher quality parts. The only issue is again cost and bulk. You need a vacuum chamber of sufficient size and a decent pumping system including a high vacuum pump, either turbo or diffusion. Though I bet you could build one the size of a larger mini fridge. The electron gun is simply a tungsten wire or ribbon and the beam is deflected using what is analogous to the deflection coils in a CRT. And we all (well mostly) should know we can scan in the 10's of kHZ so printing can be very fast. A 60kV power supply of about 5-10mA would suffice (about 600W). All you would need to do maintenance wise is keep a stock of filaments, keep the chamber door seals clean, ensure your vacuum pump oil level is good and have plenty of powdered metal. The expensive part is the vacuum system could cost well over 10 grand.
How many Land Rover owners actually off-road? Im guessing a small fraction of a percent. These cars are more of a luxury vehicle than practical offroader. The transparent hood is just a marketing gimmick to get people to buy a Land Rover. The main market for these cars are yuppies and soccer moms with money. They don't have to ford rivers, climb a steep hill or drive down muddy dirt roads after a monsoon to buy groceries, make it to their hair appointment or commute to work.
Wait.. Should I stop drinking Old English and start drinking 20/20 or sould I simply stop drinking altogether? Or should I drink both to work at a ren fair?
Stop feeding the trolls. All it does is give them a laugh as they prepare to reap the butthurt they have sewn. The best way to deal with a troll is to NOT REPLY and let them get modded down. No butthurt = no joy for them. Total defeat.
Thanks for that. It certainly was a pretty cool thing to see. I tried to convince my father to get a BUD but he would never pay for TV, not even cable.
The gas stations would have to have their own substations and high voltage service to do 30 second electric car charges. And a typical gas station has about 8 pumps. So 80MW to charge 8 cars in 30 seconds is going to be a killer unless you run a 120kV ~400A service to the gas station. Overhead lines would be a no go in many areas and underground lines are super expensive to lay. All that for a gas station.
A single 10.2 MW "pump" would require 430A @ 13.8kV. Or run 69kV to the pump and have an 86A circuit.
A bit more practical would be to aim for 5 minute charges. People can just chill in their cars and wait for them to charge in a few minutes, offer them free wifi while they wait. That would require 1.02MW per pump so a station of 8 pumps at full load would draw about 69A at 69kV which is a bit more practical. Of course they would still need a sizeable substation to step the voltage down to 480V or 600V 3 phase for the chargers. And then each pump would need a 1000-1200A breaker and multiple large cables. Imagine the cooling necessary for the switching bank in each of those pumps, they would be enormous. A better idea would be to build service stations on top of a pit filled with the substation and chargers. Liquid cool everything and a simple pump looking terminal up top with the charge cable would be the only thing visible. The footprint would also stay the same and cooling towers be located on the roof of the service stations shelter canopy. Or large ducts could be built to circulate air through the stations electric pit. The only concern would be flooding but that would be solved in the planning stages.
And then think about how large a 1.02MW charger cable would have to be. From a quick google the tesla batteries are 375 volts. So to pump 1.02MW @ 375V you have a charge current of 2720 Amps. The thickest cables for building service are 2000 MCM which is about the thickness of a baseball bat and needs to be bent with a hydraulic bender. Using special high temp jackets and such they are only rated to 1800A. They would have to make thinner flexible liquid cooled charger cables or invest in superconductors to make them practical. That or instead of a cable an arm that can be easily positioned via a spring or motor assist with heavy copper bus bars inside or liquid cooled conductors. It would look like an industrial robot arm and even grandma could maneuver it.
If a 2000 ma/hr (2 amp/hr) battery supplies 2 amps for a full hour then we need to put the same amount of current in reverse to fully charge it. So a 2 amp charger can charge a (dead) 2A/hr battery in 1 hour. To do it in 30 seconds we need a heck of a lot more current. So a little math reveals that to charge it in a minute we would need 2A*60min = 120A/min charge current. And for 30 seconds we would need 240 Amps. Though I bet most people won't be charging stone dead batteries.
30 amps could charge a dead battery in 4 minutes. And the power supply wouldn't be that large, though it would have to be table top and have some heavy gauge cables coming out of it. Another issue is a new charge connector would be needed to handle the current. We might have to go back to charge cradles with large contacts.
Depends on where the developer thinks the money is. Ask anyone on the street if they have heard of Ouya. My bet is almost no one will know who or what Ouya is. Then ask them if they have heard of Amazon. I'm guessing a very large percentage, probably over 90%.
Amazon has tons of money they can devote towards marketing for such a device. Far more than Ouya could dream of. So one could surmise that FireTV will have far more exposure and therefore has the potential to become a lucrative platform. It's certainly worth the risk.
I had a friend whose family had a house in the mountains. They had TVRO and a BUD, I think there were two boxes one was some kind of amplifier or power injector and the other was the actual tuner.
Every so often they had to have the dish realigned to the satellites or something like that. They would pay a satellite technician something like one hundred dollars to come in and perform the alignment. He would actually chase everyone out of the room to perform his magical feat of calibration. My friend hid a video camera to see what the guy was doing (back then it was a tough ordeal as they used VHS tapes and were enormous). Turns out they guy simply went into a menu and punched in some numbers that were available in the monthly guide. My friends father ripped the guy a new asshole after he found out he was taken for a ride.
The fun part about BUD TV was you could receive uplinks from reporters/camera crews in the field. So you see a reporter standing there playing with his tie, conversing, picking his nose etc. Then suddenly he would stiffen up and a few seconds later make his report, go silent, ask if he was finished and then walk off camera. The feed would either continue for some time or go blank.
When reversing I use my mirrors almost exclusively. Turning your head only gives you a nice view of the roof pillars. For some idiotic reason they teach you that in drivers ed. When I first took drivers ed in high school they make you stick your right arm behind the passenger seat headrest and turn your head to the right. That may work in some vehicles but with increased rollover protection in the form of thick roof pillars and the current trend of chopped roof look you have an obstructed rear view. Nevermind you can't see to your left and in front of you.
When I first learned to drive I started out in large vans and trucks (also pulling trailers) where rear view mirrors were non existent; all you had were your side mirrors. It also helped that my teacher was a retired truck driver with 25+ years behind the wheel of just about any kind of large on-road vehicle you can imagine. First rule: USE YOUR MIRRORS! Don't stop looking and always assume something or someone is in your way. Second rule: take it slow, there is no reason to rush. Third rule: always know your surroundings. Are there kids around? Are there any poles or obstacles along side you that you might forget? Anything behind you that you might forget? Is there a lot of foot traffic where you are parking? All of those things must be taken into account when driving anything, be it a smart car or a semi pulling a 20 meter long 100 ton lowboy.
I have no trouble backing up and I take my time. The number one issue when reversing are people who aren't paying attention and blindly walk or drive behind you. But you have to expect that when reversing. Simply go slow and use your mirrors. Another thing I like are convex "fish eye" mirrors. On trucks they are a must but I find they are a good addition to cars as well to help eliminate blind spots.
Even after taking everything into account there you can't avoid everything. I was hit when reversing out of a parking spot and the guy tried to blame me. Turns out he was fighting with his girlfriend when driving and didn't see me. He tried to blame it on me and intimidate me to pay cash on the spot. I told him either the cops are called or we part ways, no cash. He jumped in his car and sped off like a maniac. Assholes like those are always out there and you cant avoid them all.
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Nah. The resolution coupled with the extreme distance from the earths surface will not reveal anything of importance.
Look, I'm not going to lie; it's hella better to be doing this making $150k than to be slaving away in some shitty clerk job as a $30k wage-slave. But just because he doesn't break a sweat in front of you doesn't mean your boss isn't working.
Oh he was breaking a sweat all right, but it wasn't work that had him all sweaty. My boss inherited his business after his father passed. It was fully established and while he did grow it a bit, 99% of the work was done by us, his employees. He never spoke to customers, handled major problems, or brought in new business. He simply signed the checks and did his own thing. Up until 2 years ago he was a playboy who lived in a different state (yes he didn't live anywhere near work) and came in once, MAYBE twice a month to raise hell just to remind us who signs our checks. Then his wife caught him cheating and it all blew up in his face. We also found out he had to go to rehab for drug abuse, probably in a last ditch effort to save his marriage. That explained his mood swings when he came in for his visits. Now that he is divorced and lives close to work (wife got the house) he is in almost every day. I'll give him credit. Must have been tough to go from playboy to being responsible. He even brought in his cousin to bring in some big jobs and really wants to grow the company. So kudos on his recovery. But for years he was a spoiled child, not a boss.
And yes, I know what its like to be in your shoes. I ran the family business with my mother for 15 years after my father got sick. I was only in high school at the time. I worked my ass off all those years putting in long hours, working weekends while my friends partied. I even lost a steady long time girlfriend after she had enough of me cancelling plans last minute because someone fucked up.
And I will agree with you 100% its better to be employed than to employ. We sold our manufacturing portion of the business and it was like a huge burden was removed. And it was just in time as competitors were going to China and it was getting harder and harder to turn a profit while the cost of business went up and up. We still have a business but we are selling it as I type this. I cant wait until the deal is finalized and we get our lives back.
wealth
noun
1. an abundance of valuable possessions or money
Maybe I worded it bad. In my first paragraph I stated you are wealthy if you have assets, bought and paid for, that generate income ( a business or real estate were my examples). That is real net worth as the assets have value.
So single people can save and avoid debt, big deal. That single woman may be able to save her pennies but what happens when she starts a family? Will she continue to work or become a stay-at-home mother? Of course she can stay single or simply not have children. What if she has an injury which causes a disability and is unable to work? There goes her wealth as her net worth is based on her income producing ability. The only asset she has is herself. There is nothing external to her that makes money.
Musicians who became wealthy are those who took their money and invested it. Look at wealthy rappers like Sean Combs (Diddy), Jay-Z and Dr. Dre. They put their money into businesses and reaped the rewards. They are wealthy as they not only have a ton of money, but have assets to back it up (record labels, clothing lines, liquor brands etc.) Investment is key.
My family has commercial property that was bought and paid for and generating income through rentals. As long as people need commercial real estate, we will be making money. Its not millions, not even hundreds of thousands. But its plenty of money for my mother to live on quite comfortably and still be able to put money in the bank. Are we rich? Well not me directly but my mother is. Though I do help out a lot and get paid for it. It's my side job. Even if she can no longer walk, she will still have rent checks coming in every month. That is true wealth. And she plans to invest in even more real estate further down the line. That is how you become rich.
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Define "rich". Lets get the definition strait here. The only number they threw out in over $100,000 which is pretty vague. Anyone making under 200k/year is not rich. They are in my opinion, comfortable. You are only really rich when you have true wealth such as owning/running a profitable business or real estate that generates income. You are not rich if you are a low level employee who depends on a wage to survive, even if you are making 100k to 200k/year.
You think my boss works? Of course not. He comes in when he pleases maybe 4 or 5 hours a day. Takes whatever day off he pleases. Takes multiple vacations per year for one or two weeks at a time. His business is firmly rooted in the industry and will continue to make money. He is *RICH*. Not the poor schlubs (like me) working 50+ hours a week and certainly not the low wage help getting 10-12 an hour. He is like one of those wealthy English aristocrats they speak of. A top dog calling the shots who's hard working underlings produce his wealth for him. I believe he makes around 500-800k/year and has over a million in the bank (accidently saw his bank statement when I worked on his PC).
And the reality is those living comfortably are working their asses off as in order to justify their 100k+ salary. No employer wants to pay big money unless they feel they are getting their moneys worth. That may mean large work loads, 50+ hour work weeks, unpaid overtime and coming in on weekends to finish up backlogged work. At 100k+ you aren't hourly unless you are union or very lucky. Salary demands a certain number of hours per week to justify your pay grade and some of that includes unpaid overtime. Its not the same for everyone but everyone I know working in tech put in long hours for their 100k plus salaries.
The "poor" people they speak of have social safety nets in the form of health care, food stamps and rent subsidy and/or low income housing. But I believe they are being unfair as I know plenty of "poor" people who are struggling just to buy food and pay rent. A friend of mine had a tough life growing up, mother threw him out when he was 16, father doesn't give a damn about him, etc. No college and not the sharpest tool in the shed but he is an honest, good hearted person who is a hard worker. He works two minimum wage part time jobs for 60 hours a week with no days off as the two shifts overlap each other. He rents and shares a room at a "frat house". Place is more like a flophouse complete with drug dealer and rowdy parties which he winds up playing bouncer so the cops don't raid the place. Its a rough life for him but he works and doesn't give up. Many others are in the same boat making shit pay and having to work multiple jobs because employers don't want to pay benefits to full timers.
Depends on where you live. Around the corner from my friends house there was a guy who went through a tough divorce. He would lay naked on a lounge chair, drinking, in full view of his neighbors and anyone in the bay as his house was on the water. Neighbors called the cops who told them he is on his own private property and they could do nothing about it. Either they didn't want to take the call or it was true. This is on Long Island in Nassau County so YMMV.
Can I smoke it?
I concur.
Been running m0n0wall for about 5 years on an Alix board and for many years before that on a P3 500. Never had to reboot it once. When my WAP54g started to flake out I replaced it with an Ubiquiti UniFi UAP which blows the old Linksys WAP54g away. The old 54g could barely push a signal 2 floors down to the kitchen, living room, and the basement was a dead zone. Now I have a strong signal throughout the house. It has a boat load of features and is 70 bucks on newegg.
I did not know about the APU.1C, thanks for posting that. The only thing is m0n0wall is not SMP aware, though it will run on an SMP system like the APU.1C. You are better off running pfSense which has SMP and 64 bit support. That board should have no issues pushing over 100Mbps while running multiple services and VPN encryption. My only concern is the use of Realtek gigabit chips. I wish there were Intel nics on there.
Soekris Engineering makes some pretty solid hardware but it comes at a price. The net 6501 has up to 2GB ram, single core Atom 1.6Ghz, 4 intel Gigabit ports, SATA, mSATA/USB, mPCIe and up to 2 PCIe x1 slots for actual PCIe cards. A top of the line 6501-70 and case will run you $470 without any accessories (storage, power supply, etc.). Before the 6501 came out I was going to buy a net 5501 but I couldn't justify the price so I went with the Alix.
Sounds like Google is testing the waters of demand for glass. It would be interesting to see the actual number of glass units sold. My guess it they are using this as an indicator if they should continue to push glass in its current form, abandon the project or make a big change.
The problem is cost. The best process is sintering using either a laser or electron beam. Additive systems using a welding head are nowhere near accurate and very dirty in terms of smoke and soot. Sintering has its own can of worms including a cheap source of powdered or granular metals.
To sinter with a laser you need a laser and a box to put it inside of filled with an inert gas like nitrogen or argon. Nitrogen is cheap but people would have to buy or rent gas cylinders and keep up on getting new filled cylinders from a gas or welding supply company. Not exactly user friendly.
Now for the laser: A 500 watts cheap, compact, continuous wave laser would be needed but from my research, they don't exist. The ideal laser source would be a fiber laser. They are simply a cluster of LED's and the fiber that couples them together is the laser gain medium. The fibers then feed into a delivery fiber and off to the workpiece or yet another coupler to add more LED clusters. A CO2 laser would also work but they are bulky, inefficient and need a lot of cooling. I work with both NdYAG and fiber lasers so I know the industry. And the industry for fiber lasers is a patent minefield. So good luck getting a cheap 500+W fiber laser. Our 4kW IPG YLS-4000 ran us almost $300,000 including chiller, fibers and beam delivery head.
From the laser you need a galvo scanner to scan the beam around the powder surface. The galvo scanner might actually be an easy hack using cheap galvanometers.
Electron beam sintering. As crazy as it sounds, EB sintering is probably the better way to go. You don't need shield gas and the purity of a vacuum leads to higher quality parts. The only issue is again cost and bulk. You need a vacuum chamber of sufficient size and a decent pumping system including a high vacuum pump, either turbo or diffusion. Though I bet you could build one the size of a larger mini fridge. The electron gun is simply a tungsten wire or ribbon and the beam is deflected using what is analogous to the deflection coils in a CRT. And we all (well mostly) should know we can scan in the 10's of kHZ so printing can be very fast. A 60kV power supply of about 5-10mA would suffice (about 600W). All you would need to do maintenance wise is keep a stock of filaments, keep the chamber door seals clean, ensure your vacuum pump oil level is good and have plenty of powdered metal. The expensive part is the vacuum system could cost well over 10 grand.
How many Land Rover owners actually off-road? Im guessing a small fraction of a percent. These cars are more of a luxury vehicle than practical offroader. The transparent hood is just a marketing gimmick to get people to buy a Land Rover. The main market for these cars are yuppies and soccer moms with money. They don't have to ford rivers, climb a steep hill or drive down muddy dirt roads after a monsoon to buy groceries, make it to their hair appointment or commute to work.
Wait .. Should I stop drinking Old English and start drinking 20/20 or sould I simply stop drinking altogether? Or should I drink both to work at a ren fair?
Stop feeding the trolls. All it does is give them a laugh as they prepare to reap the butthurt they have sewn. The best way to deal with a troll is to NOT REPLY and let them get modded down. No butthurt = no joy for them. Total defeat.
He just enjoys feeling superior to others. I would just leave the post hanging and not reply. Takes the wind right out of their sails.
I doubt he would drop a live grenade and then proceed to stand there and talk.
Helium is so good at leaking it is used to test for leaks using a mass spectrometer leak tester.
Thanks for that. It certainly was a pretty cool thing to see. I tried to convince my father to get a BUD but he would never pay for TV, not even cable.
As much as people might abhor his actions it really is an amazing interview.
Thanks John.
The gas stations would have to have their own substations and high voltage service to do 30 second electric car charges. And a typical gas station has about 8 pumps. So 80MW to charge 8 cars in 30 seconds is going to be a killer unless you run a 120kV ~400A service to the gas station. Overhead lines would be a no go in many areas and underground lines are super expensive to lay. All that for a gas station.
A single 10.2 MW "pump" would require 430A @ 13.8kV. Or run 69kV to the pump and have an 86A circuit.
A bit more practical would be to aim for 5 minute charges. People can just chill in their cars and wait for them to charge in a few minutes, offer them free wifi while they wait. That would require 1.02MW per pump so a station of 8 pumps at full load would draw about 69A at 69kV which is a bit more practical. Of course they would still need a sizeable substation to step the voltage down to 480V or 600V 3 phase for the chargers. And then each pump would need a 1000-1200A breaker and multiple large cables. Imagine the cooling necessary for the switching bank in each of those pumps, they would be enormous. A better idea would be to build service stations on top of a pit filled with the substation and chargers. Liquid cool everything and a simple pump looking terminal up top with the charge cable would be the only thing visible. The footprint would also stay the same and cooling towers be located on the roof of the service stations shelter canopy. Or large ducts could be built to circulate air through the stations electric pit. The only concern would be flooding but that would be solved in the planning stages.
And then think about how large a 1.02MW charger cable would have to be. From a quick google the tesla batteries are 375 volts. So to pump 1.02MW @ 375V you have a charge current of 2720 Amps. The thickest cables for building service are 2000 MCM which is about the thickness of a baseball bat and needs to be bent with a hydraulic bender. Using special high temp jackets and such they are only rated to 1800A. They would have to make thinner flexible liquid cooled charger cables or invest in superconductors to make them practical. That or instead of a cable an arm that can be easily positioned via a spring or motor assist with heavy copper bus bars inside or liquid cooled conductors. It would look like an industrial robot arm and even grandma could maneuver it.
If a 2000 ma/hr (2 amp/hr) battery supplies 2 amps for a full hour then we need to put the same amount of current in reverse to fully charge it. So a 2 amp charger can charge a (dead) 2A/hr battery in 1 hour. To do it in 30 seconds we need a heck of a lot more current. So a little math reveals that to charge it in a minute we would need 2A*60min = 120A/min charge current. And for 30 seconds we would need 240 Amps. Though I bet most people won't be charging stone dead batteries.
30 amps could charge a dead battery in 4 minutes. And the power supply wouldn't be that large, though it would have to be table top and have some heavy gauge cables coming out of it. Another issue is a new charge connector would be needed to handle the current. We might have to go back to charge cradles with large contacts.
The majority of consumers don't read Slashdot.
Depends on where the developer thinks the money is. Ask anyone on the street if they have heard of Ouya. My bet is almost no one will know who or what Ouya is. Then ask them if they have heard of Amazon. I'm guessing a very large percentage, probably over 90%.
Amazon has tons of money they can devote towards marketing for such a device. Far more than Ouya could dream of. So one could surmise that FireTV will have far more exposure and therefore has the potential to become a lucrative platform. It's certainly worth the risk.
Sounds like someone missed their morning coffee. That or you need mental help.
I had a friend whose family had a house in the mountains. They had TVRO and a BUD, I think there were two boxes one was some kind of amplifier or power injector and the other was the actual tuner.
Every so often they had to have the dish realigned to the satellites or something like that. They would pay a satellite technician something like one hundred dollars to come in and perform the alignment. He would actually chase everyone out of the room to perform his magical feat of calibration. My friend hid a video camera to see what the guy was doing (back then it was a tough ordeal as they used VHS tapes and were enormous). Turns out they guy simply went into a menu and punched in some numbers that were available in the monthly guide. My friends father ripped the guy a new asshole after he found out he was taken for a ride.
The fun part about BUD TV was you could receive uplinks from reporters/camera crews in the field. So you see a reporter standing there playing with his tie, conversing, picking his nose etc. Then suddenly he would stiffen up and a few seconds later make his report, go silent, ask if he was finished and then walk off camera. The feed would either continue for some time or go blank.
When reversing I use my mirrors almost exclusively. Turning your head only gives you a nice view of the roof pillars. For some idiotic reason they teach you that in drivers ed. When I first took drivers ed in high school they make you stick your right arm behind the passenger seat headrest and turn your head to the right. That may work in some vehicles but with increased rollover protection in the form of thick roof pillars and the current trend of chopped roof look you have an obstructed rear view. Nevermind you can't see to your left and in front of you.
When I first learned to drive I started out in large vans and trucks (also pulling trailers) where rear view mirrors were non existent; all you had were your side mirrors. It also helped that my teacher was a retired truck driver with 25+ years behind the wheel of just about any kind of large on-road vehicle you can imagine. First rule: USE YOUR MIRRORS! Don't stop looking and always assume something or someone is in your way. Second rule: take it slow, there is no reason to rush. Third rule: always know your surroundings. Are there kids around? Are there any poles or obstacles along side you that you might forget? Anything behind you that you might forget? Is there a lot of foot traffic where you are parking? All of those things must be taken into account when driving anything, be it a smart car or a semi pulling a 20 meter long 100 ton lowboy.
I have no trouble backing up and I take my time. The number one issue when reversing are people who aren't paying attention and blindly walk or drive behind you. But you have to expect that when reversing. Simply go slow and use your mirrors. Another thing I like are convex "fish eye" mirrors. On trucks they are a must but I find they are a good addition to cars as well to help eliminate blind spots.
Even after taking everything into account there you can't avoid everything. I was hit when reversing out of a parking spot and the guy tried to blame me. Turns out he was fighting with his girlfriend when driving and didn't see me. He tried to blame it on me and intimidate me to pay cash on the spot. I told him either the cops are called or we part ways, no cash. He jumped in his car and sped off like a maniac. Assholes like those are always out there and you cant avoid them all.