Comment Re:iOmess 6 (Score 1) 197
Regarding the alarm bug... I notice that user is in Australia, and we started daylight saving at 2am last night... related?
Regarding the alarm bug... I notice that user is in Australia, and we started daylight saving at 2am last night... related?
Mars Rover Bicuriosity will be visiting Uranus next year.
... when they have finished demolishing the current govt (as polls predict they will)
Polls from when? They've been 50-50 for at least the past month.
Wikia afilliated? No, it is it's own separate, private company. It was founded by people who are involved with Wikipedia but that's the extent of it.
Because the asker asked two different questions:
"What is the best option for bulk printing the photos to a physical format?" (note: physical printing specified)
"We all know how fast technology advances, as well as how fast sites come and go; I want a way to have these pictures for my son when he is older..." (note: best method is not necessarily physical printing)
There seems to be a period of photos, mid 70s or so, where EVERYTHING color faded out to crappy brown
Yeah, that's because everyone was using Instagram back then.
The same level of protection could be achieved by having both a digital copy online, and a digital copy on physical media in your house somewhere.
If it wasn’t for Tasmania, Tony Abbott would have been your PM for the last 2 years.
Check out: http://www.tas.liberal.org.au/default.cfm?action=people&type=1
(For those who don’t get it, no, that page isn’t broken - there are no Tas Liberals in the House of Representatives – we supply 4 Labor and 1 Independent. Without them, Abbott would have had a majority in 2010.)
Technically he's not a politician, but he is a fairly high profile candidate for a seat where the incumbent is not that popular!
You have to remember that in your scenario where everyone is driving EVs, you are assuming that fast charging will replace refueling. In practice, 80% of refueling is replaced with recharging at home overnight; so the "gas station replacements" are now 1/5 as busy, not taking into account some (perhaps most) of those 20% will prever to use battery swapping (which takes 60 seconds, 120 if you count from the time you drive off the road to the time you drive back onto it).
This is the third time I've had to post this video in this article.
The main issue I see with this is how to make sure that while you're away someone doesn't unplug the charger, plug it into their own car, charge for a few minutes, and drive off. I haven't seen the spec, but including the ability (if not making it mandatory) that when unplugging the charger the transaction ceases sounds like a good idea. That opens its own problems to pranking, but I'd think most people would prefer not having a fully-charged car to having a fully-charged car and also paying for someone else's fully-charge car.
Like this?
Merely changing battery packs has big issues. What if you get a bad set that was electrically abused and won't hold a charge for very long?
Change it again?
Predicted next question: what about if the next one is just as bad?
Answer: The EV infrastructure company has some SLA with the customer. If they need to swap battery more than X times over Y period, their account gets a credit. (I think with Better Place it is 52 times a year - I'm not sure how they handle specific use cases, such as someone who travels over 150km a day every day.). The point is that there is a financial incentive to get rid of poor performing batteries and keep the "fleet" fresh.
I'm going to be a pure cynic here, but when we start seeing tons of cables sticking out at parking lots, we will start seeing vandals either cutting them (which was common with pay phone connectors), or making some device to short out leads just so they can see the arcs fly.
The way Better Place handles it is that you swipe your card over the terminal to reveal the socket, you provide the lead, while charging it locks in place and you need to swipe your card again to unlock it.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.