Concur. Anyone who disagrees should pull up a flight simulator and try that Dulles-Heathrow route once without the time acceleration turned on*. It's worse than riding cross country in the back seat of a station wagon.
Is this in reaction to the two pilots that were busy "training" and overflew the airport +30 minutes?
-ellie
* Remember, the passengers are going to get upset if you get bored and fly the plane upside down for a while.;)
Please don't think I support ethanol as a Panacea. Unfortunately, Joe Iowa is so far in debt and heavy metal he realistically can't grow anything else. Maybe the next generation of farmers can see that, but this generation just won't happen.
Just to make sure I understand... We grow grain with petroleum based fertilizers, harvest it with diesel powered combines, diesel truck it over asphalt highways, and then feed it to cows on treadmills to make electricity. Then we diesel truck the manure off and bury it in a landfill.
Yes, that make perfect sense.
Here is a crazier idea! Let the cows WALK to gather GRASS instead. Then use the corn for ethanol! Why we insist on feeding 75% of our grain production to ruminants baffles me.
I finish my Tilapia http://www.youtube.com/elizabethagreene in fresh-from-the-tap water, feeding only duckweed for one week, and nothing for two days prior to processing. It helps the flavor a lot vs. straight from the growout tank. In the growout tank I supplement the duckweed with a commercial catfish feed. The catfish feed has a large portion of chicken "other" in it. I assume this is the source of the off flavor.
Maybe that was the OP's intent. To make magnetic art that could only be "seen" by destroying the disk and chucking iron filings onto it. That would be a pretty neat trick.
Perhaps I'm confused on the definition of reliable. An SSR of comparable quality will have a MTBF several times higher than a similarly rated electromechanical relay. With that out of the way, your observation on the different failure modes reinforces the point of my post.
With modern cars, many of the analog disconnects have slowly been replaced with electronic devices. Are the electronic components bless reliable than their mechanical counterparts? Probably not. The difference is, after an accident you can look at a throttle cable and see that it had frayed causing the accelerator to jam. You cannot as easily look at a throttle position sensor and "see" that it developed a intermittent short indicating wide open throttle and the Idle air control opened up to compensate for a rich mixture causing uncontrolled acceleration. You cannot "see" a device dying and flooding the CAN bus causing the ECU to ignore a throttle closed signal.
On that note, does anyone know where we can pick up a dump of a toyota ECU Rom?
Spinrite may "write" 00000000 to a specific location on the disk, but that 00000000 is actually encoded as something else when it is written to the disk to maintain a minimum number of bit transitions. In the Telecom world, B8ZS is commonly used for encoding. AFAIK, the HDD manufacturer's algorithms are proprietary.
It is also worth mentioning that a hard drive head does not read a binary signal from the platter. It reads an analog waveform and converts it to digital via the encoding and ECC algorithms the OP is trying to bypass.
-ellie
Scott Moulton of http://myharddrivedied.com/ is the smartest HDD guy I know. If you absolutely have to have a solution, talk to him.
I was thinking the same thing. Where this would be really handy would be in applications that paint their own windows and don't expose the gui handles for AutoIt to latch on to. Specifically, this would work great for Great Plains or online poker clients.:)
There was one called the Pepperpad. It was ~$700 and ran a java gui on top of montavista linux. It was end-of-lifed and replaced with an x86 compatible chip. It was slow, and a marketplace of apps never really surfaced for it.
It depends on what he wants to do. The first programming language a person learns really isn't that important. The big thing is to get them into the idea of making computers do what they want.
How about starting with Alice http://www.alice.org/ for a while, and then a step up to Java? Stanford has an intro to Java class on Youtube that is pretty easy to follow, especially if you have the basic ideas down.
> Could this discovery be developed to make cryogenically preserving people work?
No, but it is another step in that direction.
> As it is right now, the cells rupture during the freezing process
This isn't completely correct. The current state of the art causes significant dehydration of cells, and very few of them actually rupture during freezing. With vitrification, this damage is reduced even further as tissues become super-viscuous (like glass) instead of freezing.
The $64,000 problem with working cryopreservation today is Cryoprotectant toxicity. The chemicals that make it feasible to vitrify tissue are toxic at high temperatures.
The current understanding is that the ischemia (time without circulation) by itself isn't that damaging. The real damage is called reperfusion injury. When blood flow resumes, the byproducts of anaerobic metabolism and the associated free radicals start circulating in mass and causing havoc.
Both Alcor and Suspended Animation's perimortem cryopreservation protocols include medications believed to help reduce reperfusion injury.
Disclaimer: I am a funded Option 2 member of the Cryonics Institute.
As it turns out, my comment was premature. The site that is supposed to replace the eOpen site is broken. You can manage agreements or keys, but downloads aren't working.
$64 Moebius Question: Is it broken because of slashdot or slashdotted because it is broken?
There has been a notification in BIG RED LETTERS on the eOpen site since October saying they were going to shut it down on 12-7. Maybe someone didn't get the memo about the upcoming stampede?
Goodwill has an online auction site and regularly has microscopes listed. You see a lot of department-store quality stuff, but occasionally a great deal comes up. I got a 400x stereo microscope for $50.
Failing that, the new Bioic Eye (Wal Mart, $100) has selectable magnification levels.
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Concur. Anyone who disagrees should pull up a flight simulator and try that Dulles-Heathrow route once without the time acceleration turned on*. It's worse than riding cross country in the back seat of a station wagon.
Is this in reaction to the two pilots that were busy "training" and overflew the airport +30 minutes?
-ellie
* Remember, the passengers are going to get upset if you get bored and fly the plane upside down for a while. ;)
Let me introduce you to the Haber Process.
My comment about landfilling manure was incorrect. I was thinking about anaerobic manure lagoons and got the concepts switched around.
mea culpa.
-ellie
Please don't think I support ethanol as a Panacea. Unfortunately, Joe Iowa is so far in debt and heavy metal he realistically can't grow anything else. Maybe the next generation of farmers can see that, but this generation just won't happen.
You make an excellent point, and I don't have an answer to it.
It is possible to grow corn and other ethanol feedstock without dead dinosaur fuels, but would that be solving the right problem?
-e
Just to make sure I understand... We grow grain with petroleum based fertilizers, harvest it with diesel powered combines, diesel truck it over asphalt highways, and then feed it to cows on treadmills to make electricity. Then we diesel truck the manure off and bury it in a landfill.
Yes, that make perfect sense.
Here is a crazier idea! Let the cows WALK to gather GRASS instead. Then use the corn for ethanol! Why we insist on feeding 75% of our grain production to ruminants baffles me.
-ellie
/me wishes she was making this up.
/me started a farm this year, and is raising grass fed beef in addition to pastured poultry and rabbits. Don't ask about the Tilapia in the garage.
I finish my Tilapia http://www.youtube.com/elizabethagreene in fresh-from-the-tap water, feeding only duckweed for one week, and nothing for two days prior to processing. It helps the flavor a lot vs. straight from the growout tank. In the growout tank I supplement the duckweed with a commercial catfish feed. The catfish feed has a large portion of chicken "other" in it. I assume this is the source of the off flavor.
This is incorrect. 75% of the grain grown in the US is fed to ruminants; ruminants that evolved to eat grass, not grain.
Don't people usually drive more slowly in those neighborhoods because they are looking for drugs?
Maybe that was the OP's intent. To make magnetic art that could only be "seen" by destroying the disk and chucking iron filings onto it. That would be a pretty neat trick.
Perhaps I'm confused on the definition of reliable. An SSR of comparable quality will have a MTBF several times higher than a similarly rated electromechanical relay. With that out of the way, your observation on the different failure modes reinforces the point of my post.
With modern cars, many of the analog disconnects have slowly been replaced with electronic devices. Are the electronic components bless reliable than their mechanical counterparts? Probably not. The difference is, after an accident you can look at a throttle cable and see that it had frayed causing the accelerator to jam. You cannot as easily look at a throttle position sensor and "see" that it developed a intermittent short indicating wide open throttle and the Idle air control opened up to compensate for a rich mixture causing uncontrolled acceleration. You cannot "see" a device dying and flooding the CAN bus causing the ECU to ignore a throttle closed signal.
On that note, does anyone know where we can pick up a dump of a toyota ECU Rom?
Spinrite may "write" 00000000 to a specific location on the disk, but that 00000000 is actually encoded as something else when it is written to the disk to maintain a minimum number of bit transitions. In the Telecom world, B8ZS is commonly used for encoding. AFAIK, the HDD manufacturer's algorithms are proprietary.
It is also worth mentioning that a hard drive head does not read a binary signal from the platter. It reads an analog waveform and converts it to digital via the encoding and ECC algorithms the OP is trying to bypass.
-ellie
Scott Moulton of http://myharddrivedied.com/ is the smartest HDD guy I know. If you absolutely have to have a solution, talk to him.
This is a great idea. We'll use a kill switch, just like Jurassic Park! That worked out so well for them after all.
I was thinking the same thing. Where this would be really handy would be in applications that paint their own windows and don't expose the gui handles for AutoIt to latch on to. Specifically, this would work great for Great Plains or online poker clients. :)
-ellie
There was one called the Pepperpad. It was ~$700 and ran a java gui on top of montavista linux. It was end-of-lifed and replaced with an x86 compatible chip. It was slow, and a marketplace of apps never really surfaced for it.
It depends on what he wants to do. The first programming language a person learns really isn't that important. The big thing is to get them into the idea of making computers do what they want.
How about starting with Alice http://www.alice.org/ for a while, and then a step up to Java? Stanford has an intro to Java class on Youtube that is pretty easy to follow, especially if you have the basic ideas down.
-ellie
> Could this discovery be developed to make cryogenically preserving people work?
No, but it is another step in that direction.
> As it is right now, the cells rupture during the freezing process
This isn't completely correct. The current state of the art causes significant dehydration of cells, and very few of them actually rupture during freezing. With vitrification, this damage is reduced even further as tissues become super-viscuous (like glass) instead of freezing.
The $64,000 problem with working cryopreservation today is Cryoprotectant toxicity. The chemicals that make it feasible to vitrify tissue are toxic at high temperatures.
Interesting reading on this topic (not linkspam. :D )
http://www.21cm.com/
http://benbest.com/cryonics/cryonics.html
The current understanding is that the ischemia (time without circulation) by itself isn't that damaging. The real damage is called reperfusion injury. When blood flow resumes, the byproducts of anaerobic metabolism and the associated free radicals start circulating in mass and causing havoc.
Both Alcor and Suspended Animation's perimortem cryopreservation protocols include medications believed to help reduce reperfusion injury.
Disclaimer: I am a funded Option 2 member of the Cryonics Institute.
As it turns out, my comment was premature. The site that is supposed to replace the eOpen site is broken. You can manage agreements or keys, but downloads aren't working.
$64 Moebius Question: Is it broken because of slashdot or slashdotted because it is broken?
There has been a notification in BIG RED LETTERS on the eOpen site since October saying they were going to shut it down on 12-7. Maybe someone didn't get the memo about the upcoming stampede?
-ellie
Goodwill has an online auction site and regularly has microscopes listed. You see a lot of department-store quality stuff, but occasionally a great deal comes up. I got a 400x stereo microscope for $50.
Failing that, the new Bioic Eye (Wal Mart, $100) has selectable magnification levels.
-ellie
A couple of options.
A.) Change your name.
B.) Treat this like an SEO problem and drown it away in positive publicity.
As a Cryonicist http://cryonics.org/, I support this research. It is nice to see money being spent on something that doesn't go boom.