At the very beginnings of electricity, it was stored in Leiden Jars, a form of capacitor. In the 1930's, the accumulator, a form of capacitor, was sometimes used to power early radios. Apparently, you used to carry these back to the shop to have them charged up.
There are plenty of small things that people might want to conceal, for good reasons or bad. There's a market in fake rocks for hiding spare keys, for example.
What about
an invisible keyhole
hiding a door
concealed IR light source for surveillance hardware
I have a number of sets of earplugs up to 30 dB noise reduction. (I got the most drastic ones at a very loud Christian rock event!). You can control your own volume level.
While 30 dB will not make you comfortable if there's a shuttle launch next to you, it will help at a concert. And, according to this page 43 dB is available. Motorcyclists use these, apparently.
OTOH, field studies indicate that you may not get more than half the claimed protection, depending on frequency. That page is pretty technical, but interesting reading.
It's the claims, not the general description, that are the enforceable part of the patent. (There are 276 of them.)
But, in the tail end is this little note:
An Appendix containing a listing of control programs for controlling the transmission of information between an RF receiver and a destination processor and controlling the operation of an interface switch in accordance with the invention is attached. The programs are written in the C programming language. The program for controlling the transmission of information from the RF receiver to the destination processor appears at pages 1-9 and the program for controlling the operation of the interface switch appears at pages 10-12. The Appendix contains subject matter which is copyrighted. A limited license is granted to anyone who requires a copy of the program disclosed therein for purposes of understanding or analyzing the invention, but no license is granted to make a copy for any other purposes including the loading of a processing device with code in any form or language.
So some work was really done to justify this patent as an invention.
Too many Hollywood movies dude! Cars don't really explode, either. Hollywood likes explosions. Hollywood cars explode in mid-air while falling off cliffs. Real cars sometimes burn, but idjits who pull people out of cars for fear of explosions are more dangerous.
Or, you break into (or own) a store that makes number plates.
Background for Norte Americanos: UK number plates are not made and issued by the government, but are purchased aftermarket from various local providers. In my youth (pre-1969) it was possible to openly buy the components, base plate and letters and numbers, sans paperwork. An official explanation is at href="http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/FAQ/#plate _made_up">this FAQ. Since there are therefore legitimate wholesale transactions in number plate components... the rest is an exercise for the crooked, the cynical, and the anarchistic.
The obvious strategy is to clone the plates of an unmarked police car or similar official vehicle.
Aren't class, order, genus, and family entirely arbitrary? Shouldn't we now classify living things entirely with genetics?
It's called cladistics. But "mammals" are pretty much a "clade", so that part's not arbitrary.
I always thought that the hidden message of B5 was remedial 20th Century history for the Slashdot generation (and others who weren't listening.) People who thought 1984 was out-of-date, and didn't twig to "Ministry of Truth". People who never heard of the Reichstag Fire or the Beerhall Putsch.
Ignore the spaceships and the funky haircuts on the aliens. Who is G'Kar? Who's asking you "What do you want?" in that seductive tone of voice. Who's being held in who's cellars, out of sight and out of mind? And remember, B5 had come and gone before any of us heard of Abu Ghraib!
Death hasn't been defined by heart beat for a long time. Most transplanted vital (non-paired) organs come from donors who are legally dead but have a beating heart, or did at the point of donation.
The living donor concern doesn't seem any different. If your brain is dead, the body takes artificial maintenance to keep the heart beating, but that's no big deal.
Did you RTFA? The objective is to make convenience store parking lots not teen hangouts. (Playing grand opera has previously been tried, and works.) How is that a "way for parents to avoid spending time with their kids"?
Since it's a known frequency and pattern, some modification of the noise-cancelling headset should be countermeasure. iPod app, anyone?
Finding that the same stuff is seen across a modest locality is important, since it rules out explanations that would produce those things in only very small areas.
The critical test for TV is ice hockey - a fast black puck on a bright white surface. Watch closely, and NTSC is full of artifacts.
In fact, any time-sliced representation will have artifacts. Movie films at 24 fps (chopped three times) certainly do - watch closely any fast moving or especially rotating object. Wheels do it every time, of course.
Why do shuttle SRBs have joints? So they can be shipped from Utah. Why are they shipped from Utah? Because they're built by Morton Thiokol. Why? Because Orrin Hatch wouldn't have voted for the shuttle appropriations otherwise.
And the proximate cause of the Challenger accident was -- the SRBs have joints.
run it from a thermoelectric generator...
peltier device working backwards the current/voltage characteristic is a perfect match...
You do realize that you've just described something rather like a perpertual motion machine? It's not quite, but to use a hot-to-warm difference to create an equal warm-to-cold difference is pushing it a bit.
It just might work with the "cold" - really warm - end of the generator cooled by airflow through a honkin' set of cooling fins, while the car's moving. There would be some wide-reaching redesigns - generally the electronics keeps well away from the hot parts of the exhaust. But the catalytic convertor is notoriously hot.
I easily found a commercial 19 W module that runs between a 450F/230C hot side and an 85F/30C cold side. The graphs on the spec sheet show lower efficiency with a cold side as warm as 100C. 3 inches square. And they take PayPal!!! $154 US. I'm actually tempted to buy one and mount it on my muffler just for geek value.
I'd expect you'd be lucky to get 50% total efficiency. That may be in the commercial domain, ask an economist.
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C:\Windows\pagefile.sys is a very high traffic file. Now, you can manage that with a separate drive ... but few people do.
At the very beginnings of electricity, it was stored in Leiden Jars, a form of capacitor. In the 1930's, the accumulator, a form of capacitor, was sometimes used to power early radios. Apparently, you used to carry these back to the shop to have them charged up.
Given the tenor of the discussion, I thought it stood for Silly Luxury Instrument.
Reminds me of the User Friendly Sunday comic that announced the combined product "Windows CEMENT ... hard as a rock and thick as a brick."
What about
There must be dozens more.
One live site
And a number of "targets" where you supply your own hardware,
Or a little after, maybe.
They also impact your ability to spell, it seems.
While 30 dB will not make you comfortable if there's a shuttle launch next to you, it will help at a concert. And, according to this page 43 dB is available. Motorcyclists use these, apparently. OTOH, field studies indicate that you may not get more than half the claimed protection, depending on frequency. That page is pretty technical, but interesting reading.
I have never recieved a telegram. I'm only 46.
But, in the tail end is this little note:
So some work was really done to justify this patent as an invention.
God Hates Shrimp?
Too many Hollywood movies dude! Cars don't really explode, either. Hollywood likes explosions. Hollywood cars explode in mid-air while falling off cliffs. Real cars sometimes burn, but idjits who pull people out of cars for fear of explosions are more dangerous.
Background for Norte Americanos: UK number plates are not made and issued by the government, but are purchased aftermarket from various local providers. In my youth (pre-1969) it was possible to openly buy the components, base plate and letters and numbers, sans paperwork. An official explanation is at href="http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/FAQ/#plate _made_up">this FAQ. Since there are therefore legitimate wholesale transactions in number plate components ... the rest is an exercise for the crooked, the cynical, and the anarchistic.
The obvious strategy is to clone the plates of an unmarked police car or similar official vehicle.
A couple of years ago, the TV message was "the Internet is evil." Now the TV message is "The Internet is evil ... details on our web site."
Aren't class, order, genus, and family entirely arbitrary? Shouldn't we now classify living things entirely with genetics?
It's called cladistics. But "mammals" are pretty much a "clade", so that part's not arbitrary.
Ignore the spaceships and the funky haircuts on the aliens. Who is G'Kar? Who's asking you "What do you want?" in that seductive tone of voice. Who's being held in who's cellars, out of sight and out of mind? And remember, B5 had come and gone before any of us heard of Abu Ghraib!
The living donor concern doesn't seem any different. If your brain is dead, the body takes artificial maintenance to keep the heart beating, but that's no big deal.
Since it's a known frequency and pattern, some modification of the noise-cancelling headset should be countermeasure. iPod app, anyone?
Finding that the same stuff is seen across a modest locality is important, since it rules out explanations that would produce those things in only very small areas.
In fact, any time-sliced representation will have artifacts. Movie films at 24 fps (chopped three times) certainly do - watch closely any fast moving or especially rotating object. Wheels do it every time, of course.
And the proximate cause of the Challenger accident was -- the SRBs have joints.
Politics kills, vote carefully.
You do realize that you've just described something rather like a perpertual motion machine? It's not quite, but to use a hot-to-warm difference to create an equal warm-to-cold difference is pushing it a bit.
It just might work with the "cold" - really warm - end of the generator cooled by airflow through a honkin' set of cooling fins, while the car's moving. There would be some wide-reaching redesigns - generally the electronics keeps well away from the hot parts of the exhaust. But the catalytic convertor is notoriously hot.
I easily found a commercial 19 W module that runs between a 450F/230C hot side and an 85F/30C cold side. The graphs on the spec sheet show lower efficiency with a cold side as warm as 100C. 3 inches square. And they take PayPal!!! $154 US. I'm actually tempted to buy one and mount it on my muffler just for geek value.
I'd expect you'd be lucky to get 50% total efficiency. That may be in the commercial domain, ask an economist.
Why, you insufferable pedant! You're right, of course.