Xbox does pretty much everything you'd want from a Media PC. Plus it's dirt cheap, AC3 and widescreen works without pain, you can play games and it looks like it belongs to your AV pile.
"He explained the concept behind FOSS. The word "free'' did not mean giving the software gratis. Rather, it denoted the freedom to control the computer because the seller of FOSS also provided the source code or the manner in which a particular software was constructed. "
Now there's an 180 if I've seen one. RMS saying it's OK to sell software? This is the guy who said programmers should work in mcdonalds so they can give away software for free?
I'm sure Indian programmers are just falling all over themselves to produce software for no pay. Ditto for Indian software companies. Now if you mean Free as in "Open", you might be talking business..
Ignorance may be a bliss, but it can be unhealthy as well.
Check out two international studies. Unscear report and UN report. UN also has pretty clueful page on chernobyl in general. We're talking about moderate increase in occurrence of cancer with some 10000-20000 cases attributed to the accident. Fatality is pretty low, thought, so casualties are some 100s.
Yeah, but all it would take is one meltdown and we suddenly have a disaster a few orders of magnitude larger than 9/11. That would bankrupt an insurance company instantly. It's not that the insurance companies are saying fission reactors are unsafe, just that if something went catastrophically wrong, they would be doomed. I don't think any company out there could survive a hit of $25 billion to their bottom line, which is probably a conservative figure for a large-scale (say, Chernobyl or worse) nuclear disaster.
Good grief. Insurance companies won't give you a life insurance if you're an alcoholic with severe overweight and 2 previous cardiac arrests under your belt. Why exactly do you think they'd insure any old reactor design without reviewing it's merits as well as the operating procedures of the company in charge?
In a properly designed reactor, meltdown results in some melted radioactive metal that'll end up in a lump at the basement after it cools down. Check out 3 mile island details.
If that's supposed to bankcrupt an insurance company..
(1) Name a musical instrument that plays frequencies at 20KHz. The highest note on a violin is 3.5KHz. The top of the piano scale is 4.1KHz. In an orchestra, the only instrument faster than 5KHz is the pipe organ.
Most of them. Electro notwithstanding, you don't hear too many pure sine waves. Instruments produce mixed waveforms that have multiple frequency components. So that 3.5kHz violin sound most definitely has 20kHz components.
Of course with proper filtering you can cut it at 18kHz and 99.8% people can't tell the difference. It's very important to *filter* the sound about to be recorded.. You can get crap result with 44kHz samplerate if you don't filter the signal, as you may end with nice harmonics from higher-frequency components withing audible range.
(2) I can hear up to 25,000Hz from medical tests, however, whether i want to hear such frequency is doubtful;
No you can't. Perfect hearing on children goes to about 22kHz, that good would be damn rare in adults. Not to say it wouldn't be too common in children either.
You *can* perceive vibrations up to about 100kHz, but that's completely different kettle of fish. So unless you can prove you're a freak of nature..
Really? Well check out bug 76831 Seems to me that sloooooow startup of this monstrosity is a long-standing problem. I have never noticed the problem with FB/TB, but maybe I've been just lucky.
Nuclear power was supposed to be the genie of infinite energy -- but that hope died with Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. How many people remember the NS Savannah?
shh! don't tell that to the guys building a new nuke plant in Finland. They might call it off and my power bill would be jacked up (again).
Apply Occam's Razor -- spammers astro-turfing on Slashdot? Or geeks that run technology networks adversely affected by overzealous blacklists run by people who insist on collateral damage?
You got a point. But let's take this further. Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. So the problem is admins misusing blacklists. If someone applies point-and-drool approach into email filtering as an ISP, is it really the fault of the blacklist?
I know the idea about having muscles burn energy by being there. Have to wonder how much does your base energy use really go up for a few extra kilos of muscle tissue.
In any case, excercise has some other benefits like getting some of the computer chair time tension off your back. And you can run away faster when someone tries to rob you. Plus you don't get winded in stairs..
Excercise does zilch. Honest. You have to move insane amounts for it to do a difference weight control-wise. Excercise is good for you in many other ways but to lose weight.. Doesn't work.
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I got one practical piece of advice for you. Buy a bicycle. Far less boring than jogging plus you can actually go to places with it.
Won't do much for your calorie burn, but neither will jogging. At least you'll be a bit more healthy because you're getting some excercise, plus those muscles require more energy even at rest.
You know, I use tabs all the time, but (*gasp*) use mouse to navigate between them. For me it's far more convenient. I get a tab-list of open web pages in the task bar and that's the way I like it.
Disclaimer, I have no knowledge of the DC-DC converter HP uses. But I design DC-DC supplies for living.
The inductor is not the most likely part to have given up the ghost. I'd check any capacitors, especially electrolytic (can) type. Those things can dry.
Personally, my diagnosis would be that there is something broken, further down the line, which causes excessive power consumption. The noise is probably subharmonic oscillation as others have pointed out. Excessive current drain would push the converter into so-called continous current mode, which suffers from the subharmonics, unless compensated for. Excessive battery drain would fit the theory as well.
There should be a component somewhere getting pretty hot, if this is the case. Unless you can find the broken chip by thumb-thermometer and/or you have an access to proper SMD tools, including oscilloscope plus preferably the electric diagram and layout for the 48S.. Not to mention lots of spare time on your hands, I'd start looking for a new calculator..
Say what you like about Heinlein and his social ideas, but fundamentally he was a freedom lover who wanted nothing so much as to see humanity grow up and move beyond the nest.
First time I hear rooting for fascism described as freedom loving. Starship troopers, remember? Verhoeven's film poked fun at the book in a pretty hilarious way..
Never mind, he has some good stuff too, such as Job.
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Xbox does pretty much everything you'd want from a Media PC. Plus it's dirt cheap, AC3 and widescreen works without pain, you can play games and it looks like it belongs to your AV pile.
Now there's an 180 if I've seen one. RMS saying it's OK to sell software? This is the guy who said programmers should work in mcdonalds so they can give away software for free?
Did a realism-bug bite him or something?
I'm sure Indian programmers are just falling all over themselves to produce software for no pay. Ditto for Indian software companies. Now if you mean Free as in "Open", you might be talking business..
Ignorance may be a bliss, but it can be unhealthy as well.
Check out two international studies. Unscear report and UN report. UN also has pretty clueful page on chernobyl in general. We're talking about moderate increase in occurrence of cancer with some 10000-20000 cases attributed to the accident. Fatality is pretty low, thought, so casualties are some 100s.
Ok, there's always the last 0.1%. Most adults are hard pressed with 18kHz.
Most of them. Electro notwithstanding, you don't hear too many pure sine waves. Instruments produce mixed waveforms that have multiple frequency components. So that 3.5kHz violin sound most definitely has 20kHz components.
Of course with proper filtering you can cut it at 18kHz and 99.8% people can't tell the difference. It's very important to *filter* the sound about to be recorded
No you can't. Perfect hearing on children goes to about 22kHz, that good would be damn rare in adults. Not to say it wouldn't be too common in children either.
You *can* perceive vibrations up to about 100kHz, but that's completely different kettle of fish. So unless you can prove you're a freak of nature..
Really? Well check out bug 76831 Seems to me that sloooooow startup of this monstrosity is a long-standing problem. I have never noticed the problem with FB/TB, but maybe I've been just lucky.
Quess who makes it to the axis of evil in 2004?
Who says bureaucrats don't have a sense of humor?
Helicopters can and will land gracefully without power. Assuming you have a good pilot, of course.
You got a point. But let's take this further. Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. So the problem is admins misusing blacklists. If someone applies point-and-drool approach into email filtering as an ISP, is it really the fault of the blacklist?
It takes more than 1 complaint. And the less complaints there are, the shorter the duration of blacklisting. Starting from hours.
And other RBLs require usually multiple reports from multiple sources. And you have fairly straightforward way of getting de-listed, too.
What's with the current boo-hoo over blacklists? Do we have some kind of spammer astroturf going here?
Don't forget ankles. They're most likely part to bust if you jog and you're overweight.
As for biking, helmet is a must. Geeky, maybe. As one roomie said, he'd rather die than wear one of those things. Truer words never said.
I know the idea about having muscles burn energy by being there. Have to wonder how much does your base energy use really go up for a few extra kilos of muscle tissue.
In any case, excercise has some other benefits like getting some of the computer chair time tension off your back. And you can run away faster when someone tries to rob you. Plus you don't get winded in stairs..
Excercise does zilch. Honest. You have to move insane amounts for it to do a difference weight control-wise. Excercise is good for you in many other ways but to lose weight.. Doesn't work.
I got one practical piece of advice for you. Buy a bicycle. Far less boring than jogging plus you can actually go to places with it.
Won't do much for your calorie burn, but neither will jogging. At least you'll be a bit more healthy because you're getting some excercise, plus those muscles require more energy even at rest.
You know, I use tabs all the time, but (*gasp*) use mouse to navigate between them. For me it's far more convenient. I get a tab-list of open web pages in the task bar and that's the way I like it.
I don't think gestures, pie menus or fine-grained control of javascript is that interesting to "average" user.
Pop-up killer with painless opt-in and tabbed browsing is something you can demonstrate in seconds!
Then again, /. crowd seems to be highly resistant to the idea of linux build geared for average users..
Disclaimer, I have no knowledge of the DC-DC converter HP uses. But I design DC-DC supplies for living.
The inductor is not the most likely part to have given up the ghost. I'd check any capacitors, especially electrolytic (can) type. Those things can dry.
Personally, my diagnosis would be that there is something broken, further down the line, which causes excessive power consumption. The noise is probably subharmonic oscillation as others have pointed out. Excessive current drain would push the converter into so-called continous current mode, which suffers from the subharmonics, unless compensated for. Excessive battery drain would fit the theory as well.
There should be a component somewhere getting pretty hot, if this is the case. Unless you can find the broken chip by thumb-thermometer and/or you have an access to proper SMD tools, including oscilloscope plus preferably the electric diagram and layout for the 48S.. Not to mention lots of spare time on your hands, I'd start looking for a new calculator..
Say what you like about Heinlein and his social ideas, but fundamentally he was a freedom lover who wanted nothing so much as to see humanity grow up and move beyond the nest.
First time I hear rooting for fascism described as freedom loving. Starship troopers, remember? Verhoeven's film poked fun at the book in a pretty hilarious way..
Never mind, he has some good stuff too, such as Job.