Best thing I ever did was for desk against a wall. I used large hooks, think like bike hooks or shelf brackets with a turn up at the end. Placed several along the back of a desk, ran cables in there so I wasn't kicking them. Allows an EZ crawl under the desk looking up to see all the cables. Hard to describe but worked really well.

Between each J hook, i placed a power strip that has the large spacing for wall warts. So it alternated J hook, power. All the power strips went to another power strip on the end of the desk. So only one cable to connect to the wall. (most items were small draw so no issue overloading the 15 amp circuit.

I think what Sasayki is getting at, is what i'm thinking. Shouldn't the maximum penalty be for those that are committing commercial, for profit pirating?

If somebody photocopies a book, and gives it to a family member, that very well may break copyright, and be worthy of a fine. (though to copy a whole book may cost more than purchasing a 2nd copy...but stay with me here)

But shouldn't the 2nd guy, who prints a real book (covers and binding and all) selling them retail. Get a more severe punishment? But if we hand out the maximum penalty the the non-commercial, non-profiting, person.....we no longer have a more sever punishment for the 2nd guy.

Do any lawyer types know the intent of these laws? Weren't they written with the intent of being used on commercial copyright infringement?

Just a guess, but there is likely a fuel line...but the input is currently under water. Other comments have said that the fuel tanks must be at/below ground per city regulations.

If you say put the redundant input higher, how high? the 17th floor?

Slightly above water level is the correct location, but that might not be easy to figure out until flooding occurs.

You're right, you'll need good batteries, and even basic lead acid the cost adds up when you need a dozen of them.

The motor's aren't super cheap either, they are fairly large motors.

The one part that is easy to over look for cost is the controller, I think they are almost as much as the motor. Start adding up all these 4 figure parts. and it's easy to hit that 5 figure mark.

Stuff like a 144VDC controller, easily $1500 http://www.evparts.com/products/street-vehicle/controllers--dot/72-to-348-volt-street-vehicle-controllers/ct2232.htm
Motor: $1200-$2000 http://www.evparts.com/products/street-vehicle/motors--dot/96-to-192-volt-street-vehicle-motors/

And that's just getting started, look at the price of cable large enough for that voltage/current, and the price is easily over $1/foot

Sure, someone will come along with cheaper options, but just saying not hard to hit the price this guy hit.

You're right something like this is more for the fun of it. Though $14k is fairly normal price for a DIY conversion. At least that's what I gather from reading about it, never tried a conversion myself.

i think jtownatpunk was getting at the 'news' part of 'news for nerds'

If this is no different than the electric cars people have been building for years, it's not hardly news. What technical item is present in this conversion that makes it significant?

That said I agree it's cool, and I also wish the $$$ where more in favor of doing something like this. It's just not news that you can spend $10k-20k and have an EV conversion with a 30 mile range. Something like this should be on HAD, where "sure it's been done before, but this guy did it slightly differently."

A friend lived near the airport. His house was upgraded from double pane with storms to some better double/triple pane without storms. The new windows where supposed to be better at blocking the sound of the planes.

Summary of the story, the new "better" windows didn't work as good as the old windows with storm windows at blocking noise.

So if' you've already upgraded the windows, add storms to the outside. It's an easy thing to install, and they typically are under $100 a window. Install can be as easy as hold it up, and put a few screws in.

Added bonus, it can help reduce heating/cooling costs. (not enough savings to pay for them, but it won't hurt!)

If windows aren't the problem add more/better insulation, there aren't any limits if you don't need to see through it.

If they purchased TomTom, They wouldn't need to write an app, TomTom already has an iOS app.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tomtom-u.s.a./id343289842

Must not be to many iOS users here...(saying that with an Android device in hand)

Advantage incandescent: the cheapest store brand bulb will have acceptable color output, and lumens.

Purchasing anything LED or CFL that isn't a high dollar name brand is a risk that you'll be stuck with crappy color output, or a very dim light. The Wattage equivalent rating is a joke on some of those bulbs.

And while some will say the lifetime of those traditional cheap bulbs will be less, I've never noticed. I have however noticed the CFL bulbs that don't have anywhere near the rated lifetime.

You'd be surprised that some city buses do have live links. (well limits of cellular data of course) GPS reporting of location to home base and other data.

I don't see why transactions couldn't be live, and in the case of a data link down (big tree/building) just cache the transaction and upload results when link is back up.
It would be smart that there be enough storage to cache the entire day, so if the antenna gets broken off the bus can still run.

The flaw would be that when there is no data there is no way to validate the account has money, but that would be the rare exception. I guess someone could plot out what pickup points had poor/no cell service, or use a cell jammer, but that's taking this to a whole new level.

I'll feed the AC....

What is everyone addiction to setting the homepage? I can see defaulting to a company intraweb or some portal. But WTF if someone feels they are more productive with some random web app or other data source or even google as their home page why lock them out of it?

I guess some sort of Kiosk, but there are better special built kiosk apps that work better than IE. (though they may use IE to render)

Maybe I'm missing the point.

I think you're not taking into account the disconnect that marketing has with the technical groups. Maybe not by design, perhaps even against it, but that's the way the real world is.

I'm sure a dozen people or more will come up with valid counter examples. The above is a general statement and honestly more of a guess, am I wrong?

Would you please provide such a link? One to the actual regulation, not the speculation on the EV1(those are EZ to find)

Perhaps I needed to spend more time on it, but my only hits on Google are other forums, no more reputable than /.

I was hoping to find something on a .gov type site, though it's likely in a legal jargon that is hard to read (and could be the reason Google isn't coming up with a hit on that type of site, since I don't know the legal wording for such a regulation)

Would you be able to provide a link to backup the statement about this regulation requiring spare parts?

There are still many old interchanges that have entrance/exit on the left side of the road. Until that's changed people will be passing on the right.