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Comment: Re:All my old photos are faded (Score 1) 350

by Chuq (#39962735) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos?

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)

Comment: Re:It's only Tasmania... (Score 1) 195

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.)

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Aussie politician threatens to contact employers of satirical article "likers"-> 2

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Chuq writes "Tasmanian Liberal candidate for Bass, Andrew Nikolic, was the subject of a satirical article by NewExaminer on Facebook. Nikolic didn’t like it, which is understandable. However he then went to considerable lengths to identify the people who liked the article, find out their employers (via their Facebook profiles) and "name and shame" them on a follow-up post on his own page.
Andrew Nikolic has a history of poorly handling conflicting views on his Facebook page, resulting in creation of another page, "Andrew Nikolic blocked me"."

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Comment: Re:Question? (Score 1) 373

by Chuq (#39900441) Attached to: Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard

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).

Comment: Re:15-30 minutes (Score 1) 373

by Chuq (#39900363) Attached to: Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard

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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUICgOM6_gw&sns=em

Comment: Re:Still not practical (Score 1) 373

by Chuq (#39900337) Attached to: Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard

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.

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