What ever happened to thermal sand batteries? Basically you filled the tank with plain old sand, insulated it heavily, and then heated it WAY WAY up. The medium was readily available and then you could just get it hot and pull it back out later. I assume that it is not as thermally dense as these "flow" batteries but goodness it has to be way cheaper to find sand than vanadium.

The website linked off of the github page is openfish.top not .org. Might want to note that you could be sending people where they dont want to go.

ViaSat should immediately try and get a team working on a smaller and cheaper modem that can provide just better than dial up speeds. Many simple telemetry systems use things like Iridium SBD as a backup communications. If it wasn't super expensive (say $20 a month) for some slow (say 1Mbps down / 1Mbps up) speeds and the data cap was good (1GB for example) I could do a LOT with that. I pay Iridium $20 for 10KB - yes KILObytes - of SBD data that is SLOW slotted messages. If ViaSat offered continuous connections and reasonable prices I could pit them against my Cell offerings and would boot Iridium as my backup connection.

These guys are just butt hurt their primary market got wrecked and havent looked for a way to recycle their offerings to a different market. Complete lack of trying to come up with a new plan. They should sue to force Starlink to only offer fast plans and keep the slow M2M for themselves.

Thinking of other ways to play games while tiptoeing around 2c could they make it a policy that there is an additional "hosting fee" they charge developers? If you take their payment system you can earn credits towards paying off that fee quickly. Someone buys something? Ok a portion of the fees we take out reduces your yearly host. Take only outside payments? Expect to pay that hosting fee per year. You can apply as a "completely free" app to get that waived (no payments ANYWHERE) but yea that is hassle you have to do yearly. Not punishment just hassle. Seriously it is taken care of with a few in app purchases.

Next keeping on the 2C tiptoe could they make a policy that if you take outside payments that you MUST put the app store version first and cant charge a different price? Kinda like how "Login with Apple" has to be the top option for login system if you uses Facebook / Google / Github / etc? No discounting prices unless both appstore AND external are discounted. Law says NOTHING about pricing games. Just taking payments. Letter? Fulfilled. Spirit? Kinda trampled but HEY profits are protected baby. And one touching a payment is WAY easier than all that logging in and credit card popups just ID that thing and done.

Tragically I suspect that Apple will win somehow. As a Nebraskan I watched them beat up the "Right to Repair" legislation that really sucked. I wanted my state to lead the charge in that but no. We had to bend because threats from big business. Bet it happens in ND. Just watch.

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Having read the law seriously it is 2 pages Apple has a pretty easy fix but they REALLY dont want to do it for financial reasons. Here is the workaround for apple that I can see:

1. Allow for sideloading of apps - Fulfills 2a. You dont have to use our App Store if you dont want. Also they could make it a pain (have to hook it up to the computer and use USB to copy it, special SideLoader application (like TestFlight), or something. To me I dont see apples "We have to let in other stores [boo hoo hoo wail]" mantra.

2. Not stop publishers from doing only outside the app payments - Fulfills 2b. Devs got in trouble for doing paypal stores in their apps via browser popup. Fine let them. Yes it cuts down on the profits of your little 10 / 30 cut but you could do that only for folks that register in North Dakota.

I thought that was the whole POINT of Test Pilot. New features as things you could turn on and those that people like stuck. Why the heck do we need another "experiment" side of things?

Orrrrr. This guys has a number of companies and constituents in his district that are dependent on GPS being up and fully functional. Ag is huge on GPS these days. Planters, combines, sprayers, hell even the irrigation uses GPS. If there is one group you dont want to piss off it is farmers. They are a tight nit group and if you wrong one they tell 10. Bunch of other groups use GPS for timing and for surveying. It is super critical and most dont realize that. This guy could also suck at directions and needs Siri to tell him where to go.

Oh that would be interesting. And really the field is primed for that to come back. Make it an alternative interface to Gmail and it would really put a hurt on the others. I have longed for the "business over email" chain to die and go into Wave because then I could follow them. We will see but I think it will be yet another "us too" venture and will fail soon thereafter.

Those things look like a Kiva Robot knock off. Amazon bought Kiva a while back but those things look REALLY similar. Just compare the two of them

Also how do they keep the package from falling off?

This would be one solution but it wont work. No one is going to buy a tractor from some "open" manufacturer that they have never heard of or pay extra for the "open" tractor. There are a number of factors at work here. 1) Emissions ratings that the manufacturer must meet, 2) Vendor lock-in (and therefore fleet lock in), and 3) Pride. You see out here in the midwest folks are mighty proud of the color of their tractor. It can start an argument faster than vi vs emacs. To come into a market dominated by big players will be a challenge. Especially when there is both manufacturing AND mindshare hurdles to clear.

The easier solution was already mentioned in the summary: support the Right to Repair bill, in any state, if your state has made one. This doesn't overnight solve the problems and John Deere would probably just pull a TiVo and lock the software and it is business as usual. And expect pushback from the vendors when it comes to these new bills but it is the first step to taking back ownership rather than "licensing" your use of a tractor.

If this is going to be such a radical shift in the way that the browser functions why not create a new project? The Phoenix/Firebird project (its name before Firefox) was born out of the need for a lightweight browser that focused on one thing. They rewrote the browser from the Mozilla suite and made it fast. The model they brought along is still close to what we have today. Now they want to overhaul and break the system radically. Just like then.

At this point why dont they create a Firefox2 or a FirefoxNG browser with all of the new features, bring over the users automatically and essentially fork the dev? Just like with Seamonkey that kept the browser suite that was Mozilla going, we can keep the old FF1v44 version going. That way the old guys like us can backport the software improvements of FF2 and keep our old extensions. I have a feeling that many of the awesome extensions that exist solely on Firefox will die out because of the loss of functionality. Without those the browser starts to look a lot less appealing.

At this point they might as well just rename it PrivacyFox and go the way of Opera, just use Blink but strip out all the tracking. Crankshaft JS could use a bunch more devs.

Was there general consensus that both methods complemented each other or was it one of those "ours is best so we want it in"? Having looked at how they work each has its pluses and minuses but they couldn't have come up with one? Seems to me like they were sitting around going "yea these are so different there is no way to combine them to make one... and we dont want ours to be left out so fuck it, use em both."

I have caught a number of problems documenting my code. When you describe what it is supposed to do and you realize that it really doesn't do that then you can correct as such. I would say I have found more incorrect behavior rather then show stopping bugs. However if we had shipped the product with the code the way it was we would have probably called it a bug so it is probably the same either way.

AH! Had not considered the magnetics to be an isolation thing. Thanks Maud'Dave. Hopefully other will see this (or your other post). If I could post and mod I would rate this up.

I feel a bit foolish now.

Can someone explain to me what advantage a magnetic 8P/8C connector has over a non magnetic one? I have no idea where this would be used. My cables have that little lock tab not a magnet. Does it not need the little tab anymore (that always breaks off)?