Because they seem to confuse the WRT54G with the WRT54GL. According to wikipedia "The WRT54GL is technically a reissue of the version 4 WRT54G". (Shame, as v3 had even more RAM and flash.). I have one and I love it, as a router. But if I were to run it as a server, one of the USB-equipped devices listed as running the same custom-firmwares would be a better choice...
The precise reason I stopped watching Mythbusters. So, here you have this "1 hour" show, which is 40 minutes long. Fair enough, as I downloaded it with the commercials cut away. But as they after every break have to get people up to date, or inform new viewers who recently joined, and in general don't feel like producing actual content rather than "tease, show, repeat", there really wasn't more than 25 minutes worth of material.
(Funny, how the US habit of shortening european shows to make space for commercials, would also be needed to make US shows watchable with less commercials... Apart from NatGeo and Discovery being on cable and not subject to the same rules regarding commercials...)
While I still think we should use paper ballots (what exactly does e-voting gain us?)
e-voting gains the ability to know the results instantaneously the moment voting ends, and saves lots of man-hours counting them. The former is pointless, as any hand-over of power never happens until days/weeks/months later, and neither are worth eliminating the possibility of a recount.
Machine-readable paper-ballots seems to be a decent compromise. Instant results with recount possibilities. A smallish number of humans can double-check some samples to ensure the machine results are correct, and trigger larger manual recounts if there is reason to believe the machines malfunctioned or were tampered with.
At least you're not living in Dubai. They have taken (or rather not done anything about) lack of address to a new (or very old) level, by having little boxes where you're supposed to draw a map of where you live when you order something... (or at least so a number sources dated 2008 claim, so they just *might* have fixed that by now for what I know...)
So why does a friend of mine, living in one of the largest cities in Tanzania have to pay several hundred USD a month for a 1-2 mbit DSL connection, with a 20gb cap. Going past that limit costs 10 USD per gigabyte. Not exactly an "isolated area".
Actually, you'd have to set it 24 hours when crossing the 180th. The (theoretical) timezone-limits for +12 and -12 are only 7.5 degrees each, compared to 15 degrees for the all others. Of course in real life, it only crosses land i Russia and Fiji, and they bend the dateline around themselves to avoid this, so this should only happen at sea.
wouldn't a gyro holding that whole box be "somewhat" large and heavy? they seem to mention something in the beginning of the video that they were really close to the carrying capacity of the balloon...
But I guess some sort of stabilizer probably (hopefully at least) made it quite high on their list of improvements for their next launch...
This site had pretty much already done it... http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstats.htm . A bit too much data for every singly conflict to relocate find the exact page and location at the moment, but his total for the 20th century clocks in at around 190-200 million. Sure WW2 has the highest per year number. But what's really worse, killing 10 million a year for 5 years, or 1.5 million a year for the remaining 95 years? (He also calculates that about 4.5% of all deaths during the 20th century was "man-made")
Something along the lines of a medic alert tag with this functionality that I could semi-permanently attach to something like his shoe (and with a longer recharge cycle) would be more useful for me.
What about building the device into the shoes themselves, and harvest the energy of him running? That way the device gets power when it is actually needed, and he might not even suspect his shoes are transmitting...
But that would probably "classify" them as "phones", and thus either be terribly expensive, or be bundled with rip-off phone plans. Just look at the features of the Nokia Internet Tablets (N800/N810) vs an equally feature-rich "smartphone", and you'll notice that the N810 is roughly half the price simply because it's not a top-of-the-line "phone", and therefore has to be prices according to actual specs as an ultra-mobile "computer" and not "super-fancy phone"...
I guess that unless you built the nuclear plant next to a regular steam turbine plant, it wouldn't be economical to transport/handle the "waste" compared to just using the methods of pre-heating that is already taking place in a steam plant.
Now, if you could design a heat-pump to operate cost-effectively at those temperatures (and pressures) it might be an interesting idea.
Or just use it in a large scale central heating system, even if you have to use a couple of heat-exchangers serially to keep the customer-delivered water radiation-free
(I'm currently studying steam/heating/cooling, but it doesn't include the economical side of it...)/P
The "United Mexican States" is of course one of multiple countries that fulfill the description as "united states of America"... Mexico (and Brazil), consists of "states" that are (fairly) "united" and is located in "America"...;-) But I'm rambling...
"Women, however, were not affected by chatting to a handsome man."
"But when the task was repeated with a group of female volunteers, they did not get the same results. Memory scores stayed the same, whether they had chatted to a man or a woman."
Cut'n'paste voice was done in the movie Contact (1997) with Bill Clinton to make it appear he was speaking about something he actually never did.
Red Planet (2000) had a realistic computer generated voice. (At least realistic enough for a speaking computer on a space ship, as it doesn't need to express emotions...)
As for shows like Pokemon clones, I guess it's simply quicker/cheaper to re-record near-identical lines several times, than having someone stitch together various clips all the time.
That's probably because only geeks care about the extra desktop-real estate gained by reducing the size of window-decorations... Most people use programs at near full-screen size anyway. (Probably partly because of the excessive bloat in window-decoration and toolbars almost requires it to be usable at "normal" resolutions these days. Trying BeOS a few years ago, gave me the feeling of almost doubling the resolution of my laptop, so effective/minimalistic were the windows. And that was compared to "classic" in XP!)
I think I've seen the same documentary. I don't remember it suggesting that the US interstates were a bad copy as much as the germans insistence of unlimited speeds essentially required them to build them properly to avoid constant repairs to keep them up to standards. I also remember reading about some US construction guy claiming it wasn't any problem for his crew to build a road lasting 50-100 years, but if he put that offer on the table to the politicians, they would give the job to someone else who would offer to build the road for half the price, despite the resulting road desperately needing repairs within a decade. When it comes to roads, all evidence points to high construction costs saving money in the long term. (Now, if only someone could teach the meaning of that word ("long term") to politicians...)
Or maybe it's because some stuff is just so much cheaper in the US for no apparent reason? Like a video camera I want to buy that is nearly 50% more expensive over here. VAT only explains half the difference, but what causes the rest? (And yes, I checked the price for the PAL version in the US!)
However, Dvorak also comes in one-handed versions. While regular dvorak might not be any faster than QWERTY, I wouldn't be surprised of the one-hand version (which exist for both the left and right hand) would be significantly faster for most typing tasks than using a single hand on QWERTY... Does anyone know any research about that?
Until Sony permitted playback of hires h264 video in official firmware, that was one of my main reasons for running custom firmware. Also, running games from memorystick rather than UMD seems to save a lot of battery. Nowadays I mostly use mine for watching movies while flying, or waiting in airports.
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Because they seem to confuse the WRT54G with the WRT54GL. According to wikipedia "The WRT54GL is technically a reissue of the version 4 WRT54G". (Shame, as v3 had even more RAM and flash.). I have one and I love it, as a router. But if I were to run it as a server, one of the USB-equipped devices listed as running the same custom-firmwares would be a better choice...
The precise reason I stopped watching Mythbusters. So, here you have this "1 hour" show, which is 40 minutes long. Fair enough, as I downloaded it with the commercials cut away. But as they after every break have to get people up to date, or inform new viewers who recently joined, and in general don't feel like producing actual content rather than "tease, show, repeat", there really wasn't more than 25 minutes worth of material.
(Funny, how the US habit of shortening european shows to make space for commercials, would also be needed to make US shows watchable with less commercials... Apart from NatGeo and Discovery being on cable and not subject to the same rules regarding commercials...)
While I still think we should use paper ballots (what exactly does e-voting gain us?)
e-voting gains the ability to know the results instantaneously the moment voting ends, and saves lots of man-hours counting them. The former is pointless, as any hand-over of power never happens until days/weeks/months later, and neither are worth eliminating the possibility of a recount.
Machine-readable paper-ballots seems to be a decent compromise. Instant results with recount possibilities. A smallish number of humans can double-check some samples to ensure the machine results are correct, and trigger larger manual recounts if there is reason to believe the machines malfunctioned or were tampered with.
At least you're not living in Dubai. They have taken (or rather not done anything about) lack of address to a new (or very old) level, by having little boxes where you're supposed to draw a map of where you live when you order something... (or at least so a number sources dated 2008 claim, so they just *might* have fixed that by now for what I know...)
So why does a friend of mine, living in one of the largest cities in Tanzania have to pay several hundred USD a month for a 1-2 mbit DSL connection, with a 20gb cap. Going past that limit costs 10 USD per gigabyte. Not exactly an "isolated area".
Actually, you'd have to set it 24 hours when crossing the 180th. The (theoretical) timezone-limits for +12 and -12 are only 7.5 degrees each, compared to 15 degrees for the all others. Of course in real life, it only crosses land i Russia and Fiji, and they bend the dateline around themselves to avoid this, so this should only happen at sea.
wouldn't a gyro holding that whole box be "somewhat" large and heavy? they seem to mention something in the beginning of the video that they were really close to the carrying capacity of the balloon...
But I guess some sort of stabilizer probably (hopefully at least) made it quite high on their list of improvements for their next launch...
This site had pretty much already done it... http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstats.htm . A bit too much data for every singly conflict to relocate find the exact page and location at the moment, but his total for the 20th century clocks in at around 190-200 million. Sure WW2 has the highest per year number. But what's really worse, killing 10 million a year for 5 years, or 1.5 million a year for the remaining 95 years? (He also calculates that about 4.5% of all deaths during the 20th century was "man-made")
Something along the lines of a medic alert tag with this functionality that I could semi-permanently attach to something like his shoe (and with a longer recharge cycle) would be more useful for me.
What about building the device into the shoes themselves, and harvest the energy of him running? That way the device gets power when it is actually needed, and he might not even suspect his shoes are transmitting...
But that would probably "classify" them as "phones", and thus either be terribly expensive, or be bundled with rip-off phone plans. Just look at the features of the Nokia Internet Tablets (N800/N810) vs an equally feature-rich "smartphone", and you'll notice that the N810 is roughly half the price simply because it's not a top-of-the-line "phone", and therefore has to be prices according to actual specs as an ultra-mobile "computer" and not "super-fancy phone"...
I guess that unless you built the nuclear plant next to a regular steam turbine plant, it wouldn't be economical to transport/handle the "waste" compared to just using the methods of pre-heating that is already taking place in a steam plant.
Now, if you could design a heat-pump to operate cost-effectively at those temperatures (and pressures) it might be an interesting idea.
Or just use it in a large scale central heating system, even if you have to use a couple of heat-exchangers serially to keep the customer-delivered water radiation-free
(I'm currently studying steam/heating/cooling, but it doesn't include the economical side of it...)/P
The "United Mexican States" is of course one of multiple countries that fulfill the description as "united states of America"... Mexico (and Brazil), consists of "states" that are (fairly) "united" and is located in "America"... ;-) But I'm rambling...
Dontlokatheritis: Failing to relocate blood towards the upper regions of the male body. May cause injury if exposed.
"Women, however, were not affected by chatting to a handsome man."
"But when the task was repeated with a group of female volunteers, they did not get the same results. Memory scores stayed the same, whether they had chatted to a man or a woman."
you would have to carry some device that could copy the pictures.
You mean, like, say, a netbook?
Cut'n'paste voice was done in the movie Contact (1997) with Bill Clinton to make it appear he was speaking about something he actually never did.
Red Planet (2000) had a realistic computer generated voice. (At least realistic enough for a speaking computer on a space ship, as it doesn't need to express emotions...)
As for shows like Pokemon clones, I guess it's simply quicker/cheaper to re-record near-identical lines several times, than having someone stitch together various clips all the time.
Ironically, "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."
Go back to? I don't think they ever chased them in the first place, as our legal system clearly isn't nearly as broken as a certain other place...
That's probably because only geeks care about the extra desktop-real estate gained by reducing the size of window-decorations... Most people use programs at near full-screen size anyway. (Probably partly because of the excessive bloat in window-decoration and toolbars almost requires it to be usable at "normal" resolutions these days. Trying BeOS a few years ago, gave me the feeling of almost doubling the resolution of my laptop, so effective/minimalistic were the windows. And that was compared to "classic" in XP!)
I think I've seen the same documentary. I don't remember it suggesting that the US interstates were a bad copy as much as the germans insistence of unlimited speeds essentially required them to build them properly to avoid constant repairs to keep them up to standards. I also remember reading about some US construction guy claiming it wasn't any problem for his crew to build a road lasting 50-100 years, but if he put that offer on the table to the politicians, they would give the job to someone else who would offer to build the road for half the price, despite the resulting road desperately needing repairs within a decade. When it comes to roads, all evidence points to high construction costs saving money in the long term. (Now, if only someone could teach the meaning of that word ("long term") to politicians...)
Or maybe it's because some stuff is just so much cheaper in the US for no apparent reason? Like a video camera I want to buy that is nearly 50% more expensive over here. VAT only explains half the difference, but what causes the rest? (And yes, I checked the price for the PAL version in the US!)
However, Dvorak also comes in one-handed versions. While regular dvorak might not be any faster than QWERTY, I wouldn't be surprised of the one-hand version (which exist for both the left and right hand) would be significantly faster for most typing tasks than using a single hand on QWERTY... Does anyone know any research about that?
And in china, if you're one in a million, there is a thousand people just like yo.
...to look like predator birds. (Laser equipped shark-paintings optional if primarily flying over water...)
Until Sony permitted playback of hires h264 video in official firmware, that was one of my main reasons for running custom firmware. Also, running games from memorystick rather than UMD seems to save a lot of battery. Nowadays I mostly use mine for watching movies while flying, or waiting in airports.