Finally, if you expect to be "on the phone" while being in the machine room, a regular noise-cancelling headphone won't help you. You'll get much of the machine room noise fed back to you because telephones have "sidetone" (which feeds back what you say into the mouthpiece back into your earpiece -- it helps to regulate the speech volume of the telephone user).
I'd be really suprised if you can't get a decent passive noise cancelling electret mic on a headphone. We pilots have them on our headsets (passive or active noise cancelling), and it allows us to be heard over an incredibly noise piston engine and propellor. And yes, we have side tone in our in-plane intercomms - I often turn on the intercomm even when I'm alone in the plane so that I can hear myself muttering to myself. "mixture rich, check carb heat, throttle back, trim back, maintain altitude until I've slowed down to 70..." (Yes, I've been a licensed pilot for 5 years and I still say these things to myself)
I believe the noise cancelling mechanism on aviation headset microphones is something as holes on the back of the microphone diaphram that allows the ambient noise to "push" on the back as well as the front, while your talking only "pushes" on the front of the diaphram. But I could be wrong about that.
According to the article:
The result, reported today in the journal Science, shows that flies with a mutation in a gene the scientists called INDY, for I'm Not Dead Yet, had average life spans of 71 days rather than the normal 37 days.
Wouldn't it be ironic if they produced the gene therapy or wonder drug to turn off this gene in humans, and all it did was increase our life span by 44 days?
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I'm sure Motorola will have a benchmark that shows that the 500MHz G4 is faster.:-)
From the article:
He urged users not to click on any attachment "until this dies down."
How about urging people NEVER to click on attachments, unless you've explicitly asked for them? Oh forgot - if we did that, the anti virus companies would go out of business, so we can't do that.
The Replay TV costs about $200 more than the equivalent TiVo. Guess how much a lifetime subscription to TiVo's listing service costs - that's right, $200. So Replay TV's service wasn't free, just hidden in the hardware costs.
BTW: I'm not getting the lifetime subscription to TiVo, because I honestly don't think the technology is going to stand still, and in 20 months time of paying per month, there is likely to be something better than TiVo on the market.
I got my TiVo yesterday, and immediately added a second 30Gb drive (thanks to the Hack Tivo FAQ). Worked great. I got to watch Star Trek Voyager this morning for the first time since they moved it to midnight. Now if only I can keep my step daughter from filling the damn thing with General Hospital and Real World.
I love this technology, and I'm especially glad that the market leader is using Linux and turning a blind eye to people making their own hardware upgrades. However, I'm sticking to the monthly subscription until I know it isn't going to be eclipsed by tomorrow's technology.
Do you go up in flames every time you touch the door handle of your car? How about when you touch the case of your PC?
I'm no electrical engineer, so please enlighten me. The article says that you could get a full ampere going through you if you come anywhere near the skin. Is one amp enough to be dangerous, or is it on the same order as the examples you give?
Shut off the fucking array until you can get the other PCU online.
The article also said that because the PCUs were designed in such a hurry, there is no mechanism to tell anybody when a PCU goes offline. So how do you shut down the array if you don't know that the PCUs are dead? Also, how quickly does the residual charge bleed off? Quickly enough that the arcing danger can be waited out if somebody is outside when it happens?
The chance you'll brush into a high-voltage portion of the solar array through your own negligence and have it harm something conductive on your suit have got to be so small as to not increase the danger level more than a few thousandths of a percent!
Read the article again, Chester. The whole damn station's skin is going to get charged up, so that even getting close to something as "unlikely" to be necessary to a spacewalk as, say, the airlock, will expose you to an arc. And those arcs aren't just wussy little things that are going to harm something conductive in the suit, they are at near lethal levels.
I don't know about you, but I don't like the thought that anytime I contact the skin of the station during a space walk, I could very easily be killed.
Coining the phrase "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity" is one of the two memorable things that Spiro Agnew accomplished while he was Vice President. The other was managing to get forced to resign his office during the middle of the Watergate scandal for something totally unrelated to Watergate.
Try and apply a few seconds of thought before posting, ok?
If they were going to blast it into pieces, they would have to do it after the de-orbit burn. So you'd have 120 tonnes of shrapnel that had about 20 minutes before they hit the upper atmosphere, and would be below anything in a stable orbit.
After all, Russia has already crashed one object on Earth, a satellite onto Canada in 1978, so why should this time be any different?
Because in that case it was a single satelite that they lost control of and the orbit decayed with no input from them. In this case they're going to send up a Progress supply rocket to dock with it and deorbit it at the best possible time in terms of hitting the Pacific.
I don't know if they've modified the plan, but originally they were going to send up a crew to undock all the pieces and maybe even plant charges to blast the pieces into smaller pieces, so that there wouldn't be one great big mass hitting the atmosphere, but a bunch of small ones. More surface area == more complete burning.
Still, I wouldn't particularly want to be on a cruise ship in the Pacific on that day.
You know, not *everything* is about oddly coloured crustaceans.
In this case, it was a guy who drummed along to Salsa music. And we didn't have proper desks, but tables connected to the cube wall, so his drumming made my monitor wobble. And there were the loud conferences right outside my cubicle. And the people who sat on another coworkers table and made my monitor bounce even more. And the lousy ventilation that meant everybody had fans, most of which were improperly shielded so my monitor kept wobbling even when nobody was drumming or sitting on tables. And the ceiling ventilator that gave off a horrible high pitched screech all the time.
And that's not even starting in on the problems with the management and project direction...
...I was tempted to use a Glock 9mm on a few of my more obnoxious cow orkers. That's why I went to work at a place with real offices, with doors and windows.
The V-1 was NOT radio-controlled. They set a direction and a distance, and it flew that direction and distance as best it could. Once it reached the distance, the engine cut out and it dove. If it undershot or overshot, they changed the distance setting for the next one. However, the only evidence they had for where it landed was news reports and spies, and the British used the BBC and turned (double agent) spies in order to make the Germans think they were overshooting when they were undershooting.
For sailing you need, what, speed and heading? GPS gives both.
I was watching the America's Cup races, and those boats have a lot more sensors and displays than just that. They seem to integrate position, ground speed and direction (from the GPS), wind speed and direction (from an anemometer and wind vane) and water speed (from sensors in the hull) in order to give you the speed and direction of the winds and the currents in order to help you plot a more efficient course.
As you already mentioned, depth soundings would probably be in there as well. Ideally you'd probably also want to recieve broadcast weather charts and forecasts as well - not much point making good speed towards your destination if there is a white squall between you and it.
There is a Linux user's group here, but I rarely get to the meetings
That's ok, I think nobody goes to LUGOR meetings because nobody goes to LUGOR meetings. I'm serious - people show up at a meeting, see that there are only about 10 people there, and never come back.
The "jet stream" is over a hundred miles per hour at times, and it is generally west to east. I don't remember if the analogous jet stream south of the equator blows the other way or not, but I suspect not.
Have you been peeking in my basement? I've got the C300A@450, and the K6/2-450, and a P2-3?? (got it used, not sure about the speed), but only the Celery is used for gaming.
Java is the language of choice for this challenge because Peter van der Linden works for Sun and has written a couple of books about Java, including the excellent "Just Java" and he wrote and maintained the FAQ for comp.lang.java.programmer. He happened to suggest a programmable microprocessor, and because of his work he happened to suggest a PicoJava processor, which makes Java an obvious choice.
(BTW: Before he got into Java, he also wrote an excellent book about C called "Deep C Secrets", also known as "The butt-ugly fish book" in honour of the Coelecanth on the cover.)
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Finally, if you expect to be "on the phone" while being in the machine room, a regular noise-cancelling headphone won't help you. You'll get much of the machine room noise fed back to you because telephones have "sidetone" (which feeds back what you say into the mouthpiece back into your earpiece -- it helps to regulate the speech volume of the telephone user).
I'd be really suprised if you can't get a decent passive noise cancelling electret mic on a headphone. We pilots have them on our headsets (passive or active noise cancelling), and it allows us to be heard over an incredibly noise piston engine and propellor. And yes, we have side tone in our in-plane intercomms - I often turn on the intercomm even when I'm alone in the plane so that I can hear myself muttering to myself. "mixture rich, check carb heat, throttle back, trim back, maintain altitude until I've slowed down to 70..." (Yes, I've been a licensed pilot for 5 years and I still say these things to myself)
I believe the noise cancelling mechanism on aviation headset microphones is something as holes on the back of the microphone diaphram that allows the ambient noise to "push" on the back as well as the front, while your talking only "pushes" on the front of the diaphram. But I could be wrong about that.
According to the article:
The result, reported today in the journal Science, shows that flies with a mutation in a gene the scientists called INDY, for I'm Not Dead Yet, had average life spans of 71 days rather than the normal 37 days.
Wouldn't it be ironic if they produced the gene therapy or wonder drug to turn off this gene in humans, and all it did was increase our life span by 44 days?
I'm sure Motorola will have a benchmark that shows that the 500MHz G4 is faster. :-)
Cmon, everybody knows that CmdrTaco can't spell to save his life. It's actually called CMOS 9S, as the title line of the article stated.
According to the article on The Reg, this technology is going to be used in a 10GHz PowerPC chip, and maybe a G3 or G4 follow on.
Maybe it should be "HGNURD"? Or, considering how much it's borrowed from the Linux kernel, "HUlinRD"?
From the article:
He urged users not to click on any attachment "until this dies down."
How about urging people NEVER to click on attachments, unless you've explicitly asked for them? Oh forgot - if we did that, the anti virus companies would go out of business, so we can't do that.
Sheesh.
I think there must be a big-endian/little-endian problem here.
TANSTAAFL.
The Replay TV costs about $200 more than the equivalent TiVo. Guess how much a lifetime subscription to TiVo's listing service costs - that's right, $200. So Replay TV's service wasn't free, just hidden in the hardware costs.
BTW: I'm not getting the lifetime subscription to TiVo, because I honestly don't think the technology is going to stand still, and in 20 months time of paying per month, there is likely to be something better than TiVo on the market.
I got my TiVo yesterday, and immediately added a second 30Gb drive (thanks to the Hack Tivo FAQ). Worked great. I got to watch Star Trek Voyager this morning for the first time since they moved it to midnight. Now if only I can keep my step daughter from filling the damn thing with General Hospital and Real World.
I love this technology, and I'm especially glad that the market leader is using Linux and turning a blind eye to people making their own hardware upgrades. However, I'm sticking to the monthly subscription until I know it isn't going to be eclipsed by tomorrow's technology.
Nope, it's white on bright yellow using Mozilla.
Do you go up in flames every time you touch the door handle of your car? How about when you touch the case of your PC?
I'm no electrical engineer, so please enlighten me. The article says that you could get a full ampere going through you if you come anywhere near the skin. Is one amp enough to be dangerous, or is it on the same order as the examples you give?
Shut off the fucking array until you can get the other PCU online.
The article also said that because the PCUs were designed in such a hurry, there is no mechanism to tell anybody when a PCU goes offline. So how do you shut down the array if you don't know that the PCUs are dead? Also, how quickly does the residual charge bleed off? Quickly enough that the arcing danger can be waited out if somebody is outside when it happens?
The chance you'll brush into a high-voltage portion of the solar array through your own negligence and have it harm something conductive on your suit have got to be so small as to not increase the danger level more than a few thousandths of a percent!
Read the article again, Chester. The whole damn station's skin is going to get charged up, so that even getting close to something as "unlikely" to be necessary to a spacewalk as, say, the airlock, will expose you to an arc. And those arcs aren't just wussy little things that are going to harm something conductive in the suit, they are at near lethal levels.
I don't know about you, but I don't like the thought that anytime I contact the skin of the station during a space walk, I could very easily be killed.
You first.
Coining the phrase "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity" is one of the two memorable things that Spiro Agnew accomplished while he was Vice President. The other was managing to get forced to resign his office during the middle of the Watergate scandal for something totally unrelated to Watergate.
Try and apply a few seconds of thought before posting, ok?
If they were going to blast it into pieces, they would have to do it after the de-orbit burn. So you'd have 120 tonnes of shrapnel that had about 20 minutes before they hit the upper atmosphere, and would be below anything in a stable orbit.
After all, Russia has already crashed one object on Earth, a satellite onto Canada in 1978, so why should this time be any different?
Because in that case it was a single satelite that they lost control of and the orbit decayed with no input from them. In this case they're going to send up a Progress supply rocket to dock with it and deorbit it at the best possible time in terms of hitting the Pacific.
I don't know if they've modified the plan, but originally they were going to send up a crew to undock all the pieces and maybe even plant charges to blast the pieces into smaller pieces, so that there wouldn't be one great big mass hitting the atmosphere, but a bunch of small ones. More surface area == more complete burning.
Still, I wouldn't particularly want to be on a cruise ship in the Pacific on that day.
You know, not *everything* is about oddly coloured crustaceans.
In this case, it was a guy who drummed along to Salsa music. And we didn't have proper desks, but tables connected to the cube wall, so his drumming made my monitor wobble. And there were the loud conferences right outside my cubicle. And the people who sat on another coworkers table and made my monitor bounce even more. And the lousy ventilation that meant everybody had fans, most of which were improperly shielded so my monitor kept wobbling even when nobody was drumming or sitting on tables. And the ceiling ventilator that gave off a horrible high pitched screech all the time.
And that's not even starting in on the problems with the management and project direction...
...I was tempted to use a Glock 9mm on a few of my more obnoxious cow orkers. That's why I went to work at a place with real offices, with doors and windows.
The V-1 was NOT radio-controlled. They set a direction and a distance, and it flew that direction and distance as best it could. Once it reached the distance, the engine cut out and it dove. If it undershot or overshot, they changed the distance setting for the next one. However, the only evidence they had for where it landed was news reports and spies, and the British used the BBC and turned (double agent) spies in order to make the Germans think they were overshooting when they were undershooting.
For sailing you need, what, speed and heading? GPS gives both.
I was watching the America's Cup races, and those boats have a lot more sensors and displays than just that. They seem to integrate position, ground speed and direction (from the GPS), wind speed and direction (from an anemometer and wind vane) and water speed (from sensors in the hull) in order to give you the speed and direction of the winds and the currents in order to help you plot a more efficient course.
As you already mentioned, depth soundings would probably be in there as well. Ideally you'd probably also want to recieve broadcast weather charts and forecasts as well - not much point making good speed towards your destination if there is a white squall between you and it.
There is a Linux user's group here, but I rarely get to the meetings
That's ok, I think nobody goes to LUGOR meetings because nobody goes to LUGOR meetings. I'm serious - people show up at a meeting, see that there are only about 10 people there, and never come back.
The "jet stream" is over a hundred miles per hour at times, and it is generally west to east. I don't remember if the analogous jet stream south of the equator blows the other way or not, but I suspect not.
celery 300a @450
p2 400~450
K6/2-450
Have you been peeking in my basement? I've got the C300A@450, and the K6/2-450, and a P2-3?? (got it used, not sure about the speed), but only the Celery is used for gaming.
Java is the language of choice for this challenge because Peter van der Linden works for Sun and has written a couple of books about Java, including the excellent "Just Java" and he wrote and maintained the FAQ for comp.lang.java.programmer. He happened to suggest a programmable microprocessor, and because of his work he happened to suggest a PicoJava processor, which makes Java an obvious choice.
(BTW: Before he got into Java, he also wrote an excellent book about C called "Deep C Secrets", also known as "The butt-ugly fish book" in honour of the Coelecanth on the cover.)
From the site itself:
The Hack Furby Two-Fifty Challenge was issued in January 1999
Talk about timely coverage of contemporary issues!