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Comment: Re:Thats great.. (Score 2) 187

by mirix (#43706089) Attached to: Injured Man Is First Person Saved By a Police Drone In Canada

So that would be 80Wh, or more properly 288kJ. So it could run a 60W bulb for a little more than an hour... (well, discharge rate affects the actual capacity - higher rates of discharge will reduce the total output to less than that).
So this thing is more inline with a laptop battery for capacity.

288kJ happens to be roughly equal to about 8ml of diesel, just for fun... So even with the poor efficiency of combustion engines, there's just no comparison.

Comment: Re:So what? (Score 1) 121

by mirix (#43670651) Attached to: China's Allwinner Outsold Intel, Qualcomm In Tablet Processors In 2012

Do you know if they do packaging as well?

Often it seems outfits have fabs in western countries, but then send the bare dies off to the orient to be packaged (in epoxy, with pins and stuff- wire bonding the pins to the die, etc. I don't mean onto reels or into tubes / trays, though I imagine that is done at the same place).

Comment: Re:Drive conservatively! (Score 1) 374

by mirix (#43638705) Attached to: Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate

On my ancient Audi, there was a switch on the back of the instrument cluster. +5, +10, -5, -10% calibration for the fuel economy meter.

I'd imagine modern cars have a calibration factor in EEPROM somewhere, possibly adjustable through the OBD port. Suppose it depends on the car, though.

Quick google shows this is the case on modern audi/vw, no idea about other marques, though...

Comment: Re:"Horsepower Deprived 1970's" (Score 1) 374

by mirix (#43638239) Attached to: Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate

During 72-75 or so, they added most of the emissions control systems, and removed lead from gas. So they had to reduce compression, giving some power losses.

However, they also made the horsepower measurement system a little more realistic during this time, so that accounts for a lot of the loss.. prior to 72 or 73, they did the testing on the engines with no/different accessories, different headers/exhaust, etc.

Comment: Re:fertiliser (Score 1) 218

by mirix (#43531635) Attached to: Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years

The principal chemicals in groundwater and soil are three pesticides, ethylene dibromide (EDB), 1,2-dichloropropane (DCP), and 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP), which were used as soil fumigants, as well as the solvent carbon tetrachloride.

Doesn't look like it was the fertilizer that caused the problems, fertilizer company or not.

Comment: Re:we've had a few (Score 3, Informative) 242

by mirix (#43520229) Attached to: USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W

Old military electronics always had wires laced (maybe they still do this, haven't been into any new equipment).

It's laced with a heavy waxed cloth, similar to extra wide tooth floss. Originally cotton, probably something synthetic now. There would be loops every inch or two down the wire bundle, connected to each other. I'm having a hard time explaining that for some reason.

Do you mean something like this?
Here's a picture

Comment: Re:The TL;DR (Score 1) 210

by mirix (#42855667) Attached to: Super Bowl Blackout Caused By Defective Protective Relay

"Often?" None of the modern cars I've owned have had a mechanically-driven fuel pump: It is always in the fuel tank (with the fuel), with wires going to it, connected to some manner of switch or relay. (I've owned antique cars with mechanical fuel pumps, but they don't count for any meaningful quantity of "often.")

Diesel. Even modern ones are mechanically driven... Which is over half of vehicles in some places, which I'd call 'often'.

Comment: Re:Racism is a cause, (Score 1) 474

by mirix (#42795141) Attached to: Racism In Online Ad Targeting

Maybe centuries old traditions of religion and family life are not based on stupid superstitions as many people educated beyond the level of their intelligence seem to think these days, but on the experience of what works and what doesn't that evolved over many centuries?

Jesus christ... I don't even know where to begin. Not sure how shit like this gets a +5.

Comment: Re:Don't follow the Canadian example (Score 1) 125

Oh boo hoo. The big bad communists made us spend all our money on weapons.

Then, after the boogeyman went away... the US still spends more money than anyone else, in fact an amount similar to everyone else combined.

Who will you blame for that?

Under the terms of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the world's only ABM system has been deployed around Moscow.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? The soviets pick their most populous city to defend - Meanwhile, the US picks a base in the middle of nowhere, North Dakota. Need I remind you who left the treaty, also.

Comment: Nothing to see here (Score 3, Insightful) 101

by mirix (#42689135) Attached to: Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears

Sounds like the system is working as it is supposed to. Inspectors found problem, problem will be rectified.

Now had they not found anything, and it fell apart like that bridge a few years back, then that's news.

The facility doesn't sound terribly 'secret', not any more at least...

Comment: Re:Sorry to see Symbian go (Score 1) 102

by mirix (#42687581) Attached to: Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line

I see your E72 as a primary phone, and raise you my E71. Getting a bit long in the tooth at this point, though...

To me, hardware keyboard, world class reception, and a battery that lasts a week is more important than most other stuff.

I've been considering getting an android for random computing on, though. (But I'd keep the nokia for calls and text).

I would like to urinate in an OVULAR, porcelain pool --

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