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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Typo Boy - Jan 24, 2007 1:17:42 pm PST #357 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

EEStor's system--called an Electrical Energy Storage Unit, or EESU--is based on an ultracapacitor architecture that appears to escape the traditional limitations of such devices. The company has developed a ceramic ultracapacitor with a barium-titanate dielectric, or insulator, that can achieve an exceptionally high specific energy--that is, the amount of energy in a given unit of mass.

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A lot of people are very skeptical about their claims, though.

Me among them. If it turns out not to be a scam - terrific. But there is a real reluctance on the part of the company to make information public. They come across to me like a company out to sell stock, rather than a company out to sell product; may events prove me wrong.


Dana - Jan 24, 2007 1:31:09 pm PST #358 of 25496
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I know I should know how to either do this or find the answer, but I'm tired and stressed.

I have an image contained within a DIV. How do I center it? I've found text-align, but there's no text in the DIV. I can do it either by aligning the image, or all content in the DIV -- either would work.

Edit: This is using a link to an external CSS.


esse - Jan 25, 2007 3:25:03 am PST #359 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

In 'holy crap that's really cool' news, this dude modded his Honda Civic del Sol into a replica of an x-wing. Dude. That makes my day.


Gudanov - Jan 25, 2007 5:43:50 am PST #360 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

I think there have been some advances lately in ultracapacitors where carbon nanotubes have been used to drastically increase the surface area and therefore the energy storage density.

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Doesn't sound like what EESU is doing, but ultracapacitors do show promise as a better alternative to batteries for electric cars.


Typo Boy - Jan 25, 2007 6:06:35 am PST #361 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Oh we are going to get ultracapacitor battery replacements at some stage. Phillip K. Dick even saw it coming when he coined the term Batacitor. My skepticism is over this company will be the one to do it. Supercapacitors are a perfect technology for a scam - because everyone is expecting the breakthrough. But it would be wonderful if EESTOR was the breakthrough, and not a scam.


tommyrot - Jan 25, 2007 6:10:37 am PST #362 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Someone hacked my boss's eBay account. They have listing dozens and dozens of stuff for sale within a very short time. My boss changed his password but the naughty person is apparently still logged in, as more stuff keeps showing up for sale.

Anyone know the best way to deal with this? For some reason, the live chat thing isn't working for him. He did notify eBay of the fraud and immediately got some sort of form letter back.


Sue - Jan 25, 2007 6:12:10 am PST #363 of 25496
hip deep in pie

Can he access the auctions that dude is putting up and take them down or put a fraud warning on them?


tommyrot - Jan 25, 2007 6:13:46 am PST #364 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Can he access the auctions that dude is putting up and take them down or put a fraud warning on them?

So far he's been unable to figure out how to kill the auctions. But the fraud warning thing is a good idea.


amych - Jan 25, 2007 6:15:03 am PST #365 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Batacitor

Dick was crazy/brilliant/crazy as always, but the marketing weenies are going to want a name that shouts "Batcave" a little less.


tommyrot - Jan 25, 2007 6:59:32 am PST #366 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So eBay resolved my boss's problem.

The guy listed 21 auctions in 25 minutes to my boss's eBay account. They were all for television DVDs. All were for 24 hours and had buy-it-now prices. One was for Buffy Seasons 1-7 (eta: listed as new) with a buy-it-now price of about $70. That's all seven seasons for that price. The retail price for that is $200 or so.

Interesting. And I'm glad that didn't happen to me.