I don't know if you can find this as a project "in a box", but... As a 50 year plus resident of Alaska and someone that used to be involved with the oil industry and later alternative energy, I have always been fainated by the possibilities of the Sterling engine since first learing of it.
Most seem to think of the Sterling as a "heat" engine, I've always looked at it as more of a tempurature differential situation. Not that difficult to find, even in Winter.
You might also check out "Micro Combined Heat & Power", micro-CHP. A varient of the Sterling engine principals.
We may have long dark Winters, but come Summer and you have 18 to 24 hours of sun shining on your building, you want to have someplace to put that heat and save it for Winter. Or at least use the energy from it for something useful and save your money for next Winter's heating bill.
they are all the result of product liability claims. Somebody has actually done each one of those things and successfully sued the manufacturer. Now you know why Jay Leno never ran out of material for Jay Walking.
We've seen time & time again, give the brain some input and it will sort out what it means and how to use it. Just look at that relatively recent post here on Slashdot about "seeing" with the tongue.
Hook to actuators to one group of nerve endings and the feedbacks to some different nerve ends and five'll get you ten, the brain will sort it out.
I always thought it was closer to 2.4 centimetres per inch & 6 ft per fathom:-) Is that 5280 per statue mile, or nautical mile? Let's not leave out that they still weigh a lot of stuff, including themselves, in stones in the British Isles. We also have tons, tonnes, long tons, short tons, metric tons. We also have avoirdupois and troy pounds in fairly common use and several other pounds in less common use. We weigh stones (precious) in karats. Surveyors measure the land in rods. And the list goes on... pennyweights, grains...
We aren't the only ones in this world hanging on to traditions that probably don't make sense to the author of the article.
I saw that episode too. They were checking out explosive decompression and people being sucked out small holes.
There was a case of a 747 flying over the Pacific some years back. It lost a door at altitude an the people sitting next to the opening got pulled out. I think there were at least 6. Last I read, they were figuring at least 2 went through the engine. They may have been pulled out more from venturi affect than de-compression.
I had forgotten about this, assuming I actually heard about it at the time.
I think that with current technology, such as imap, the definition of "abandoned mail" needs updating.
I personally think that after a certain period of no access, ISPs should be allowed (maybe even required) to purge the email. I don't think the government should EVER have free access to it. I don't care how long it's been.
I think 6 months is probably to short a time, but I do think there should be a time set. I would also be willing to consider some sort of provision for access in the case of concern over the welfare of the account holder, again w/ appropriate safeguards.
I have a good friend, and Linux supporter, that is an Electrical Engineer. He does things like lay out the wiring for new subdivisions and commercial buildings. He does not have use for 3D doing what he does, but has been using 3D on Suse and Debian for years. Al the while lamenting the lack of availability of some decent 2D CAD under Linux, or anything else for that matter.
Game design is not the only reason around for decent CAD software. A lot of real work in the real world is done with it.
Have you tried an Outbound MailHop service such as the one from DynDNS? I am just looking into it for what I am attempting to set up, but it seems like a possibility.
I have a couple of friends and acquaintances that have it as well. I have done everything short of slapping them upside the head, They are absolutely convinced the only way they will ever be able to do their email or find anything on the internet is through AOL.
If Amazon's GPU clusters are this cheap and easy & can be used for this, what other encryption can they be used to break? My PGP encrypted hard disk for $9.95?
Then again, maybe my concerns are unfounded. Maybe someone can explain where I missed the boat?
The W3 Blog says thing are pretty preliminary at this point. They say they have about 97 tests worked out so far and about another 900 in the wings. This puts IE the winner with less than 10% of the results in?
I had some success using barry & opensync w/ the blackberry I used to use.
SyncML is available for the Nokia N900 (Mameo), over USB only. There are other Mameo based phones out there, they may have have SyncML capabilities as well. It sounds as though a USB limitation might be preferable for your purposes anyway.
If it can email it to your supervisor, it can send things other places as well.
I hadn't thought about this aspect of it before, but the Xerox copiers in my office will scan to an email & do ocr if requested. It is likely perfectly capable of being programmed to do exactly this already, just take a minor upgrade of the software. This is assuming it isn't already doing this.
And while we're at it, I'm not a fan of these wide screens either. My primary use of my computer is for work, not watching movies. I want screen real-estate.
I tend to agree with you, I see mention of "vessels", not cameras. The press is claiming it's a "de facto" ban on photography. Unless it's being enforced as a ban actually keeping photographers more than 20 meters back and not just the boats they're riding in, I have no sympathy for them.
I'm fairly certain a 200 or 300 MM Image Stabilized lens should cover the 65 ft perfectly adequately.
http://jbrout.python-hosting.com/wiki
Cross platform. Claims to have been tested on GNU/Linux and Windows XP/2K.
Been meaning to try it as my own photo collection is starting to get a little unwieldy, but haven't done so yet.
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I don't know if you can find this as a project "in a box", but ... As a 50 year plus resident of Alaska and someone that used to be involved with the oil industry and later alternative energy, I have always been fainated by the possibilities of the Sterling engine since first learing of it.
Most seem to think of the Sterling as a "heat" engine, I've always looked at it as more of a tempurature differential situation. Not that difficult to find, even in Winter.
You might also check out "Micro Combined Heat & Power", micro-CHP. A varient of the Sterling engine principals.
We may have long dark Winters, but come Summer and you have 18 to 24 hours of sun shining on your building, you want to have someplace to put that heat and save it for Winter. Or at least use the energy from it for something useful and save your money for next Winter's heating bill.
they are all the result of product liability claims. Somebody has actually done each one of those things and successfully sued the manufacturer. Now you know why Jay Leno never ran out of material for Jay Walking.
What could possibly be creepier than too wake up and find the Burger King in bed w/ me?
We've seen time & time again, give the brain some input and it will sort out what it means and how to use it. Just look at that relatively recent post here on Slashdot about "seeing" with the tongue.
Hook to actuators to one group of nerve endings and the feedbacks to some different nerve ends and five'll get you ten, the brain will sort it out.
I always thought it was closer to 2.4 centimetres per inch & 6 ft per fathom :-) Is that 5280 per statue mile, or nautical mile? Let's not leave out that they still weigh a lot of stuff, including themselves, in stones in the British Isles. We also have tons, tonnes, long tons, short tons, metric tons. We also have avoirdupois and troy pounds in fairly common use and several other pounds in less common use. We weigh stones (precious) in karats. Surveyors measure the land in rods. And the list goes on... pennyweights, grains ...
We aren't the only ones in this world hanging on to traditions that probably don't make sense to the author of the article.
I saw that episode too. They were checking out explosive decompression and people being sucked out small holes. There was a case of a 747 flying over the Pacific some years back. It lost a door at altitude an the people sitting next to the opening got pulled out. I think there were at least 6. Last I read, they were figuring at least 2 went through the engine. They may have been pulled out more from venturi affect than de-compression.
I had forgotten about this, assuming I actually heard about it at the time. I think that with current technology, such as imap, the definition of "abandoned mail" needs updating. I personally think that after a certain period of no access, ISPs should be allowed (maybe even required) to purge the email. I don't think the government should EVER have free access to it. I don't care how long it's been. I think 6 months is probably to short a time, but I do think there should be a time set. I would also be willing to consider some sort of provision for access in the case of concern over the welfare of the account holder, again w/ appropriate safeguards.
The Net, Sandra Bullock, is a candidate, Mission Impossible, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, etc, etc ...
They all have problems, generally glaring. I still enjoy watching them. It just takes "willing suspension of disbelief".
I have a good friend, and Linux supporter, that is an Electrical Engineer. He does things like lay out the wiring for new subdivisions and commercial buildings. He does not have use for 3D doing what he does, but has been using 3D on Suse and Debian for years. Al the while lamenting the lack of availability of some decent 2D CAD under Linux, or anything else for that matter. Game design is not the only reason around for decent CAD software. A lot of real work in the real world is done with it.
Why should my ISP bill go up?
Have you tried an Outbound MailHop service such as the one from DynDNS? I am just looking into it for what I am attempting to set up, but it seems like a possibility.
I have a couple of friends and acquaintances that have it as well. I have done everything short of slapping them upside the head, They are absolutely convinced the only way they will ever be able to do their email or find anything on the internet is through AOL.
a friend explained to me when I was off track. Oh well.
If Amazon's GPU clusters are this cheap and easy & can be used for this, what other encryption can they be used to break? My PGP encrypted hard disk for $9.95? Then again, maybe my concerns are unfounded. Maybe someone can explain where I missed the boat?
Or is it just because Microsoft won't let 'em downgrade to XP any longer?
The W3 Blog says thing are pretty preliminary at this point. They say they have about 97 tests worked out so far and about another 900 in the wings. This puts IE the winner with less than 10% of the results in?
how they avoid paying taxes to the state of Washington. http://crosscut.com/2008/02/02/microsoft/11167/Microsoft-s-$528-million-Washington-tax-break/ They probably have tactics for avoiding federal taxes as well. I think all large companies do.
I had some success using barry & opensync w/ the blackberry I used to use. SyncML is available for the Nokia N900 (Mameo), over USB only. There are other Mameo based phones out there, they may have have SyncML capabilities as well. It sounds as though a USB limitation might be preferable for your purposes anyway.
If it can email it to your supervisor, it can send things other places as well. I hadn't thought about this aspect of it before, but the Xerox copiers in my office will scan to an email & do ocr if requested. It is likely perfectly capable of being programmed to do exactly this already, just take a minor upgrade of the software. This is assuming it isn't already doing this.
Has anyone looked at the definitions of Data Center Tiers? http://www.dntp.com/news/pdfs/Data%20Center%20Tier_Classification.pdf You could put your desktop computer in a 2 car garage w/ an Internet connection and it would qualify as a 500 sq/ft Tier 1. Jim G
And while we're at it, I'm not a fan of these wide screens either. My primary use of my computer is for work, not watching movies. I want screen real-estate.
You do know where MS-DOS/PC-DOS came from, right?
I tend to agree with you, I see mention of "vessels", not cameras. The press is claiming it's a "de facto" ban on photography. Unless it's being enforced as a ban actually keeping photographers more than 20 meters back and not just the boats they're riding in, I have no sympathy for them. I'm fairly certain a 200 or 300 MM Image Stabilized lens should cover the 65 ft perfectly adequately.
http://jbrout.python-hosting.com/wiki Cross platform. Claims to have been tested on GNU/Linux and Windows XP/2K. Been meaning to try it as my own photo collection is starting to get a little unwieldy, but haven't done so yet.
Those 35 disappointed users must have forgotten how several of the merchants that signed up to give the Bing discounts could afford to do so. Show up with a Bing cookie and the price went up. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/24/0112201/Bing-Cashback-Can-Cost-You-Money