Must be able to handle loads with power factors from 0.7â"1, leading and lagging in an islanded mode Must be in a rectangular metal enclosure of no more than 40 in3 Will be taking in 450 V DC power in series with a 10 resistor Must output 240 V, 60 Hz AC single phase power Must have a total harmonic distortion + noise on both voltage and current of 5%
It seems contradictory that they're worried about power factor, and also want to force contestants to output nice clean sine waves. Best way to get a PF of 1.0 with cheap switching power supplies, is to send them a square wave... Sucks for induction motors, but works for most everything else, including motors with brushes.
And with a simple 450VDC input you could split it over multiple circuits in series, through requiring some legwork to boost it to the exact voltage, and even it out across circuits with different load-levels, but far less than running it all through a transformer.
Such a device could be extremely efficient. I wonder what their needs are, that such a device isn't sufficient.
There's a bit of a difference in that one in every four women actually will be raped in their life, and a sizeable percent of those getting those threats already have been.
Not "raped" but "sexually assaulted". Rape laws have gone awry to the point that damn near everything is just classified as a "sex crime" now, so even a technical issue like statutory rape comes with the same stigma as being a major pedophile, and you really can't even get real statistics on the actual numbers of violent rapes.
But don't take my word for it... The same study that claims 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted, claims 1 in 7 MEN have been sexually assaulted, too.
You do realize how commonly women are raped and abused by men
You do realize how commonly men are beaten and murdered, don't you?
they might happen to be more sensitive to the implicit or explicit threats
Oops, you're lowering the castle defenses now... Didn't you hear your sisters in arms giving you your marching orders? You're not supposed to admit that women are more sensitive to abuse... You're supposed to tow the party line, claiming that the only cause is evil men are being more verbally abusive to women.
I'm tall, 182 centimeters, and I still once had a guy literally pick me up and carry me back to his apartment when I tried to walk away from him.
Men are stronger than women, no question. Carrying a knife will even things out quite nicely, though. Clawing out eyes works pretty good, too.
In the list of people who are treated special, can we exclude female body builders and throw in any and all physically small or frail men? If physical abilities are the only determinant, we've gotta have a few categories, including the linebackers you mentioned. Female midgets must get the best treatment of all.
Why would anybody want to wait for a day or two for a piece of plastic when they can access the data instantly online?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a USPS van full of Blu-ray discs...
Movies on The Pirate Bay don't appeal to me, because of the low quality of the rips. The idiots that put them together don't even know they should strictly stick to picture dimension that are multiples of 16, let alone selecting the best perceptual encoding options, making a good trade-off of efficiency and compatibility, using a proper rescaling alg., or better yet, not rescaling at all.
Streaming services don't really appeal to me, because of the DRM, Netflix's refusal to support Linux systems, despite how commonly such are used as TV-connected DVRs, and the inability to make an offline copy for later viewing, instead having to waste the bandwidth every-time you want to watch it, the ability for them to quietly discontinue carrying a movie, and needing to have your subscription in-force, forever, to be able to re-watch any movie you liked.
I guarantee I get infinitely more utility out of those little plastic discs than anybody gets out of your much more expensive streaming service, and probably more than copyright infringers, too, saving on disc space upgrades, not wasting time hunting for slightly less popular or older titles, and more.
Will Israel promise that if Hamas puts all its rocket launchers, military command and control, and military supplies neatly organised in easily identifiable military bases, Israel won't simply send a missile to figuratively cook all those eggs being put in one basket?
That's idiotic. The idea was to get them away from civilian homes, so when Israel does have to retaliate and destroy them, innocent bystanders aren't killed in the process. Promising not to shoot back would be crazy, and your statement massively misses the point...
Will Israel remove the embargo being imposed of Gaza so that Hamas can buy better weapons that they can use to precisely target Israel military installations rather than have to make do with using cheap mortar and rockets that is just as likely to hit civillian targets as Israeli military installations?
You'd have to first explain why Hamas has a military need to attack Israeli military bases in the first place, as opposed to, say, Israeli tanks and aircraft while they are in Palestine. Or why they need to attack at all, since they two are not at war with each other, and Israel could wipe them out in a matter of days if they ever did declare one.
FiOS is 1/8th mile away from my house but they won't bring it the last couple hundred feet.
Sounds like you need to strike up a deal with one of your neighbors, to sign-up for FIOS and host a WiFi AP aimed towards your house for you. Give them free internet access (throttled when you're maxing it out) or just a few dollars more than the bill, and you'll both come out ahead.
For me, a real sign of the death of Slashdot is the predictability of the trolls.
This statement just reeks of "noob".
The trolling (and gaming of mod and m2) was VASTLY higher in the early/. days. At certain points, it really was crushing any legitimate discussions. You have no idea how good you've got it, on that account.
At this point, it's pretty clear that if you don't already have it, you won't be getting it.
Not true here. It was quite a while after their announced buildout freeze that FIOS became available here. A neighboring city had it for a while, and since then, it has expanded a few cities away, and filled-in all the coverage gaps, too.
Frankly, I hate FIOS, because they immediately take away nice cheap DSL as an option. Why the hell does my mother need to pay $65/month for the slowest FIOS package, when she's never watched an online video in her life, still has no interest in Netflix, and wouldn't care whether it came in 480i or 4k? But nice cheap DSL is no longer an option for her, because we have FIOS.
Time Warner is awesome, offering a $15/month basic internet access plan even though they've got no competition in that space anymore, but if they get bought out by Comcast, we're screwed.
Depending on where you live (state taxes?), that's at best a cool $350-$365 after payroll taxes (259-270 Euros) per week for a family of two to four.
Really? And would that $10.10/hr magically become more or less money with a family of 1, or a family of 10?
And actually, with a family of 4 on $20,000/year, you probably wouldn't be paying ANYTHING in state or federal income taxes in most states, so it would be $404/week take-home.
And more relevant than abstract cash figures:
"If you have a [full-time] job in this country, (thereâ(TM)s a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."
No they don't... They're getting extensive use in forklifts, surpassing battery-electrics even at the currently crazy fuel-cell prices.
Now Unleaded Gasoline fuel cells... Those could use some money. Range booster for EVs or hybrids, an instant doubling of fuel efficiency over ICEs, practically no maintenance, and a future where fuel conversion efficiency isn't limited by Carnot.
Russia supplies much of Europe's fossile fuels, specifically oil and gas
The US has a glut of natural gas and is aching to export it. Terminals are being built, if they were rushed, the pipe to Russia could be shut-off, ore at least made largely insignificant, in a hurry.
And whatever energy resources the west doesn't buy, will be purchased by some other nation (eg. China) at a less-profitable price and via a round-about route.
[Grabs PA microphone] This is the captain. We're having a little problem, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode. [Hangs up microphone]
It seems to be. Not exactly a definitive study of the subject, but plenty of user reports out there, even from quite a few years back, saying QAM-256. And would you really doubt that cable companies will do anything to squeeze double the channels into the available space?
How do they get 40Mbps in a 6MHz channel? That sounds like it would be above the Shannon limit unless the SNR is ridiculously good.
QAM-64 needs a SNR above 23, while QAM-256 needs a SNR above 28.
Modern cable systems are fiber-optic to the neighborhood, and only there do they switch to coax for a relatively short distance, so the SNR is actually very high.
Wake me when we surpass the highest-ever recorded temperature on earth, set in Death Valley about a century ago.
Most "records" are BS that only gets reported because a computer is tracking all this data, and can very easily spit out a record for SOMETHING, whenever desired, with no effort. Nobody would keep track of how much it rained on Tuesdays in April, but a computer will be happy to spit out that "record"-setting event, and news-models are so desperate for many hours of cheaply acquired content, daily, that they'll tell you about this new "record".
When Death Valley hits 135 ÂF, wake me up. Until then, fuck off with your BS "records" all the god-dammed time...
that they can't ruin your credit score because they never extended credit
Do you pay up-front for your service BEFORE they give it to you? If not (hint: no you don't), they're extending credit to you, EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
I like the pre-paid model, and it works well for any predictable bill like "unlimited"-anything plans. But for something billed based on consumption (electric, gas, water, etc.) it's somewhat impractical.
In a cable system, each 6MHz channel also gives around 20Mbps.
No, thanks to the higher S/N ratio of cable versus OTA broadcasts, less error correction is needed, and much more aggressive and efficient modulation can be used that provides more bits per symbol. So in the same 6MHz, they might be able to fit 40Mbps of content, not just 20Mbps. See:
Cable companies still compress the video to hell and back, because 2X as many channels isn't good enough for them... They want MORE, MORE, MORE. It's so bad that 1080i broadcast over cable often looks worse than a 480i DVD.
I'm not going to resort to lying, or begging or pleading to get my service canceled.
I will make one call, give them maybe 30 minutes max, and if they don't cancel my service, no problem... I'm just not paying my next bill. Problem solved.
I don't care how skilled a women is, she ain't gonna be fighting worth a damn in 5 inch 'fuck-me-heels' with her ass and boobs falling out of her costume.
Face it, no woman can fight a man worth a damn, in any case. Biology just simply precludes it as an option. If you think I'm wrong, you've never really fought an adult man. In a fight between a female Olympic athlete, and an over-weight, middle-aged male office worker, I'll bet good money on the man, every time.
Not to get too dark, but that's a key point in nearly every military rape story... Woman was trained to fight, thought she could handle herself... Is horrified to find men are incredibly strong and she can't do a thing to help herself when she, for the first time, really needs to.
no -40 F rated sleeping bag from Walmart is gonna keep you comfortable even at +30 F, that rating is all just bullshit.
No problem there, I avoid Walmart for a great many reasons.
heads covered, and breathing through a small opening
Instead of a "narrow passage" I've found that throwing a light and thin breathable sheet over your face does a superb job of holding a small amount of heat and warming incoming air, without restricting breathing like anything any heavier. (a T-shirt works, in a pinch)
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It seems contradictory that they're worried about power factor, and also want to force contestants to output nice clean sine waves. Best way to get a PF of 1.0 with cheap switching power supplies, is to send them a square wave... Sucks for induction motors, but works for most everything else, including motors with brushes.
And with a simple 450VDC input you could split it over multiple circuits in series, through requiring some legwork to boost it to the exact voltage, and even it out across circuits with different load-levels, but far less than running it all through a transformer.
Such a device could be extremely efficient. I wonder what their needs are, that such a device isn't sufficient.
Not "raped" but "sexually assaulted". Rape laws have gone awry to the point that damn near everything is just classified as a "sex crime" now, so even a technical issue like statutory rape comes with the same stigma as being a major pedophile, and you really can't even get real statistics on the actual numbers of violent rapes.
But don't take my word for it... The same study that claims 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted, claims 1 in 7 MEN have been sexually assaulted, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12...
You do realize how commonly men are beaten and murdered, don't you?
Oops, you're lowering the castle defenses now... Didn't you hear your sisters in arms giving you your marching orders? You're not supposed to admit that women are more sensitive to abuse... You're supposed to tow the party line, claiming that the only cause is evil men are being more verbally abusive to women.
Men are stronger than women, no question. Carrying a knife will even things out quite nicely, though. Clawing out eyes works pretty good, too.
In the list of people who are treated special, can we exclude female body builders and throw in any and all physically small or frail men? If physical abilities are the only determinant, we've gotta have a few categories, including the linebackers you mentioned. Female midgets must get the best treatment of all.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a USPS van full of Blu-ray discs...
Movies on The Pirate Bay don't appeal to me, because of the low quality of the rips. The idiots that put them together don't even know they should strictly stick to picture dimension that are multiples of 16, let alone selecting the best perceptual encoding options, making a good trade-off of efficiency and compatibility, using a proper rescaling alg., or better yet, not rescaling at all.
Streaming services don't really appeal to me, because of the DRM, Netflix's refusal to support Linux systems, despite how commonly such are used as TV-connected DVRs, and the inability to make an offline copy for later viewing, instead having to waste the bandwidth every-time you want to watch it, the ability for them to quietly discontinue carrying a movie, and needing to have your subscription in-force, forever, to be able to re-watch any movie you liked.
I guarantee I get infinitely more utility out of those little plastic discs than anybody gets out of your much more expensive streaming service, and probably more than copyright infringers, too, saving on disc space upgrades, not wasting time hunting for slightly less popular or older titles, and more.
That's idiotic. The idea was to get them away from civilian homes, so when Israel does have to retaliate and destroy them, innocent bystanders aren't killed in the process. Promising not to shoot back would be crazy, and your statement massively misses the point...
You'd have to first explain why Hamas has a military need to attack Israeli military bases in the first place, as opposed to, say, Israeli tanks and aircraft while they are in Palestine. Or why they need to attack at all, since they two are not at war with each other, and Israel could wipe them out in a matter of days if they ever did declare one.
Nope. Second-step in the sign-up process is selecting between an extra $5/month charge, or buying one for $99. Go take a look, yourself.
Whatever price Verizon says it'll give you for FIOS, add $5/mo for the router rental that's forced on you, for absolutely no reason.
You don't watch Game of Thrones, do you?
Hint: The worse guy almost always wins.
Sounds like you need to strike up a deal with one of your neighbors, to sign-up for FIOS and host a WiFi AP aimed towards your house for you. Give them free internet access (throttled when you're maxing it out) or just a few dollars more than the bill, and you'll both come out ahead.
This statement just reeks of "noob".
The trolling (and gaming of mod and m2) was VASTLY higher in the early /. days. At certain points, it really was crushing any legitimate discussions. You have no idea how good you've got it, on that account.
Slashdot is dying because of Dice, nothing else.
Not true here. It was quite a while after their announced buildout freeze that FIOS became available here. A neighboring city had it for a while, and since then, it has expanded a few cities away, and filled-in all the coverage gaps, too.
Frankly, I hate FIOS, because they immediately take away nice cheap DSL as an option. Why the hell does my mother need to pay $65/month for the slowest FIOS package, when she's never watched an online video in her life, still has no interest in Netflix, and wouldn't care whether it came in 480i or 4k? But nice cheap DSL is no longer an option for her, because we have FIOS.
Time Warner is awesome, offering a $15/month basic internet access plan even though they've got no competition in that space anymore, but if they get bought out by Comcast, we're screwed.
Really? And would that $10.10/hr magically become more or less money with a family of 1, or a family of 10?
And actually, with a family of 4 on $20,000/year, you probably wouldn't be paying ANYTHING in state or federal income taxes in most states, so it would be $404/week take-home.
And more relevant than abstract cash figures:
"If you have a [full-time] job in this country, (thereâ(TM)s a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
No they don't... They're getting extensive use in forklifts, surpassing battery-electrics even at the currently crazy fuel-cell prices.
Now Unleaded Gasoline fuel cells... Those could use some money. Range booster for EVs or hybrids, an instant doubling of fuel efficiency over ICEs, practically no maintenance, and a future where fuel conversion efficiency isn't limited by Carnot.
The US has a glut of natural gas and is aching to export it. Terminals are being built, if they were rushed, the pipe to Russia could be shut-off, ore at least made largely insignificant, in a hurry.
And whatever energy resources the west doesn't buy, will be purchased by some other nation (eg. China) at a less-profitable price and via a round-about route.
[Grabs PA microphone]
This is the captain. We're having a little problem, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
[Hangs up microphone]
Quick and dirty... I get ~48Mbit/sec.
It seems to be. Not exactly a definitive study of the subject, but plenty of user reports out there, even from quite a few years back, saying QAM-256. And would you really doubt that cable companies will do anything to squeeze double the channels into the available space?
QAM-64 needs a SNR above 23, while QAM-256 needs a SNR above 28.
Modern cable systems are fiber-optic to the neighborhood, and only there do they switch to coax for a relatively short distance, so the SNR is actually very high.
But (like 16-VSB) QAM-256 will put them at around 38Mbps.
Wake me when we surpass the highest-ever recorded temperature on earth, set in Death Valley about a century ago.
Most "records" are BS that only gets reported because a computer is tracking all this data, and can very easily spit out a record for SOMETHING, whenever desired, with no effort. Nobody would keep track of how much it rained on Tuesdays in April, but a computer will be happy to spit out that "record"-setting event, and news-models are so desperate for many hours of cheaply acquired content, daily, that they'll tell you about this new "record".
When Death Valley hits 135 ÂF, wake me up. Until then, fuck off with your BS "records" all the god-dammed time...
Do you pay up-front for your service BEFORE they give it to you? If not (hint: no you don't), they're extending credit to you, EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
I like the pre-paid model, and it works well for any predictable bill like "unlimited"-anything plans. But for something billed based on consumption (electric, gas, water, etc.) it's somewhat impractical.
No, thanks to the higher S/N ratio of cable versus OTA broadcasts, less error correction is needed, and much more aggressive and efficient modulation can be used that provides more bits per symbol. So in the same 6MHz, they might be able to fit 40Mbps of content, not just 20Mbps. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cable companies still compress the video to hell and back, because 2X as many channels isn't good enough for them... They want MORE, MORE, MORE. It's so bad that 1080i broadcast over cable often looks worse than a 480i DVD.
I'm not going to resort to lying, or begging or pleading to get my service canceled.
I will make one call, give them maybe 30 minutes max, and if they don't cancel my service, no problem... I'm just not paying my next bill. Problem solved.
Face it, no woman can fight a man worth a damn, in any case. Biology just simply precludes it as an option. If you think I'm wrong, you've never really fought an adult man. In a fight between a female Olympic athlete, and an over-weight, middle-aged male office worker, I'll bet good money on the man, every time.
Not to get too dark, but that's a key point in nearly every military rape story... Woman was trained to fight, thought she could handle herself... Is horrified to find men are incredibly strong and she can't do a thing to help herself when she, for the first time, really needs to.
No problem there, I avoid Walmart for a great many reasons.
Instead of a "narrow passage" I've found that throwing a light and thin breathable sheet over your face does a superb job of holding a small amount of heat and warming incoming air, without restricting breathing like anything any heavier. (a T-shirt works, in a pinch)