It's not ironic at all. The democrats weren't the ones that started the recount process, it was a third party candidate after reading a study that showed a marked discrepancy in votes between paper districts and e-voting districts. Regardless of the outcome of a recount, if a recount is what it takes for people to finally accept the results of the election then that's a good thing.
Yet coincidentally Stein only selected states which could make a difference for Hillary. The Democrats made it clear to Hillary that forcing a recount would just look bad for them but nothing prevents them from using Stein as their stalking horse and apparently Stein is happy to go along with it.
To clarify, I think far better of him than that, but I'm somewhat surprised he would be eager to fight for a group who treats him that way.
They still share a common interest in defeating Trump or at least Lessig believes so. Sanders supported Clinton even knowing that she and the Democrats had cheated in the primary election against him. Like nations, politicians have interests instead of friends.
And now you can get an Eneloop Pro AA in 2500 mAh capacities, with far lower leakage & more lifetime cycles than anything from those days. And D-cells go up to 11,000 mAh.
The low discharge NiMH cells are pretty good and they have a higher capacity than any NiCd cell but they are still not as rugged and do not last as long as industrial (but not consumer) NiCd cells. The low discharge and high temperature NiCd cells which use a thicker and tougher separator seem to last forever.
In my classroom, I have 1980s D size Radio Shack NiCad batteries that are 1.2V 1200 Mah. My students are asked to compare them to modern NiMh AA batteries rated at 1.2V 2600 Mah. We then compare them to roughly AA sized LiPo batteries that are 3.7V 2000Mah batteries. To compensate for battery size, we calculate volume as well as wattage.
The bottom line is that if you have not noticed the steady progress of battery technology over the years, you are at fault.
The battery progress in this case is obscured by marketing. Consumer D size NiCd batteries were almost always C size batteries installed into a D size case (the same goes for most NiMH D cells produced now) which was easy to verify by just feeling the weight. Even in the 1980s, you could buy true 4000 mAH D cells if you knew where to find them and were willing to pay the price.
The standard AA sized NiCd cell in the 1980s was about 500 mAH and paste style high capacity cells up to 900 mAH were available even then.
is a microphone. Both headphones and microphone share the same mechanism (using a voice coil). The microphone is more sensitive (as it generates small alternative current when the sound makes the diaphragm vibrate) ; and headphones do the opposite, its diaphragm vibrates when the device injects positive or negative current. Even a bigger speaker is sensitive enough to act as a microphone.
This is only true for *dynamic microphones* which are tiny voice coil speakers. Most microphones are electret microphones which are a variation of the condender microphone and nothing like speakers but in consumer gear they are increasingly being replaced by MEMS microphones.
I remember way back when, when Apple shifted Macs from 68000-based processors to the Power PC. Instantly, the fastest 68000-based Mac was the 68000 emulation mode of the Power PC. And native was faster still.
As with a lot of semiconductor products they produced, Motorola did not make the effort necessary to compete using the later 68k processors so it is not surprising that emulation on a faster processor would yield good results. To be fair to Motorola, the 68k ISA was even less friendly to high performance designs than x86.
Step 1: Spend ludicrous amounts of money on manufacture. Step 2a: Buy all the required IP. Step 2b: Ignore IP laws and buy all the required lawyers. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Chapter 11.
Buy enough politicians and it will be profitable whether you go bankrupt or not.
The explanations are plausible (exploitation of more of those weird quantum mechanical effects). If it works out, we get to cheat Newton, basically stealing momentum from the universe's underlying framework. Or the simulation engine, if that's what it is.
We only get to cheat Newton up to the point where the maintainer notices, fixes the exploit, and rolls the simulation back unless the maintainer works for their equivalent of Oracle, Adobe, or Microsoft in which case it may never be fixed.
Why don't laptop screens come in a 9x12-ish format? Because they are built to accommodate the keyboard, not the screen.
Most do not have the resolution of paper anyway and what if you use 11x17 or larger?
Why do most people who own a rotatable desktop monitor still view it in landscape mode? Because all the software including the OS is built to work in the landscape form factor.
Because fucking Dell went to considerable effort to hide the fact that my last set of monitors were TN instead of IPS so when I turn them 90 degrees, they look terrible off axis.
You can write on it. Being able to write on a computer screen has been available for 20 years, yet few people who have the capability actually use it, and very few people have the capability in the first place.
And writing on the screen is low resolution. And every application is different. And it works in a different way with every electronic format.
I still use and buy books, I still use and work with paper documents. Yet I have... I dunno... thousands of books worth of documents stored on Hard Drives and backups. The ratio of paper documents to digital documents is enormous.
I still print out datasheets and service documents, mark them up, and stick them in a 3-ring binder.
I still use a paper notebook to write notes when I get a call. I still print out papers that I need for a meeting. Why? Because it is easier than to look through files and find the correct one.
It is also a good habit to use a notebook for recording data as you work to provide a permanent record of procedures and results. Where it matters, use a permanently bound notebook, page numbers, and write in ink.
Then look at the people who print out a document, redline it with a pen, then type the redlines into the softcopy file they just printed out.
This is a valid use case. Proofing on paper is vastly different than proofing on the screen, especially if for something that is final output to paper. You're not only looking at spelling, grammar, word choice, etc. you're looking at layout, font, flow, margining, and all the other things that go into it. Add to that the tactile response of a good pen...
Yes you could use a stylus and tablet... but it's not the same. Eye fatigue is higher with screens as well. -nB
I do this all the time with schematics printed on 11 x 17 because:
1. I lack a display device as good as an inkjet print on 11 x 17. 2. Electronic readers which allow changes are both slow and featureless. 3. With paper, I can have as many full sized pages open as I like. 4. Paper is portable and can be saved almost indefinitely.
You can use a solar panel as an infrared LED. It will produce light and heat, and may melt snow.
I do not know why this would not work but I could not find anything online saying why other than the series connected reverse protection diodes (not the shunt diodes) which are commonly used. The minimum power would be higher than the output power but maybe that is not enough for snow removal.
Let's see...
Forward Biased Panel Power 200 J/sm^2 Heat of Fusion of Water 330 J/g Snow Density of 300 kg/m^3
The number I come up with is about 1 hour per centimeter of snow meaning at least a day for the typical snow storm where I live but I suspect given the cold conditions that higher current could be used to safely increase that by 2 to 4 times.
Are you aware that efficient solar cells use Cadmium, Tellurium, Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium, among others?
The solar cells are going to be made and use those materials anyway whether they are part of a safety glass shingle or not. Last time I checked, there was no shortage of solar cells or the material to make the glass.
There is a version that has electric resistive warmers in it for melting snow - remember that SolarCity installs panels in New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, which are no strangers to snow.
The solar cell junction is a diode. Couldn't they forward bias it to generate heat? Maybe it would not be powerful enough.
Do you mean the glass? No, not really. Tempered glass and laminated tempered glass are not expensive. If they are produced in large lots, then most of the cost is in the materials.
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Because everyone should be forced to go along with what California wants......
That is how it works at the local level in California with the urban centers controlling the state. Why shouldn't the same apply to the nation?
It's not ironic at all. The democrats weren't the ones that started the recount process, it was a third party candidate after reading a study that showed a marked discrepancy in votes between paper districts and e-voting districts. Regardless of the outcome of a recount, if a recount is what it takes for people to finally accept the results of the election then that's a good thing.
Yet coincidentally Stein only selected states which could make a difference for Hillary. The Democrats made it clear to Hillary that forcing a recount would just look bad for them but nothing prevents them from using Stein as their stalking horse and apparently Stein is happy to go along with it.
To clarify, I think far better of him than that, but I'm somewhat surprised he would be eager to fight for a group who treats him that way.
They still share a common interest in defeating Trump or at least Lessig believes so. Sanders supported Clinton even knowing that she and the Democrats had cheated in the primary election against him. Like nations, politicians have interests instead of friends.
And now you can get an Eneloop Pro AA in 2500 mAh capacities, with far lower leakage & more lifetime cycles than anything from those days. And D-cells go up to 11,000 mAh.
The low discharge NiMH cells are pretty good and they have a higher capacity than any NiCd cell but they are still not as rugged and do not last as long as industrial (but not consumer) NiCd cells. The low discharge and high temperature NiCd cells which use a thicker and tougher separator seem to last forever.
In my classroom, I have 1980s D size Radio Shack NiCad batteries that are 1.2V 1200 Mah. My students are asked to compare them to modern NiMh AA batteries rated at 1.2V 2600 Mah. We then compare them to roughly AA sized LiPo batteries that are 3.7V 2000Mah batteries. To compensate for battery size, we calculate volume as well as wattage.
The bottom line is that if you have not noticed the steady progress of battery technology over the years, you are at fault.
The battery progress in this case is obscured by marketing. Consumer D size NiCd batteries were almost always C size batteries installed into a D size case (the same goes for most NiMH D cells produced now) which was easy to verify by just feeling the weight. Even in the 1980s, you could buy true 4000 mAH D cells if you knew where to find them and were willing to pay the price.
The standard AA sized NiCd cell in the 1980s was about 500 mAH and paste style high capacity cells up to 900 mAH were available even then.
Would a diode put a stop to this?
Yes sort of but that is not the way to go about it. Adding a headphone amplifier would neatly solve the problem.
is a microphone. Both headphones and microphone share the same mechanism (using a voice coil). The microphone is more sensitive (as it generates small alternative current when the sound makes the diaphragm vibrate) ; and headphones do the opposite, its diaphragm vibrates when the device injects positive or negative current. Even a bigger speaker is sensitive enough to act as a microphone.
This is only true for *dynamic microphones* which are tiny voice coil speakers. Most microphones are electret microphones which are a variation of the condender microphone and nothing like speakers but in consumer gear they are increasingly being replaced by MEMS microphones.
Leave a web crawler running.
I remember Clancy's comment on the relationship between Russia and China.
"I can assure you that my country will not meekly submit to an invasion of our soil."
"Even if China is involved?"
"Especially if China is involved."
Of course I "get it" Dr. Forbin.
I remember way back when, when Apple shifted Macs from 68000-based processors to the Power PC. Instantly, the fastest 68000-based Mac was the 68000 emulation mode of the Power PC. And native was faster still.
As with a lot of semiconductor products they produced, Motorola did not make the effort necessary to compete using the later 68k processors so it is not surprising that emulation on a faster processor would yield good results. To be fair to Motorola, the 68k ISA was even less friendly to high performance designs than x86.
And what do you do with all that salt? That's one of the problems with massive desalinization - you have LOTS of brine to deal with.
Duh, just throw it back in the sea.
But that will make the sea salty!
It is time car companies gave up and do what they do best. That is MAKE CARS!
The problem is that they are not very good at this either.
Am I the only one that doesn't even know that Facebook had news?
I still do not know that Facebook has news.
Yeah sure.
Step 1: Spend ludicrous amounts of money on manufacture.
Step 2a: Buy all the required IP.
Step 2b: Ignore IP laws and buy all the required lawyers.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Chapter 11.
Buy enough politicians and it will be profitable whether you go bankrupt or not.
The explanations are plausible (exploitation of more of those weird quantum mechanical effects). If it works out, we get to cheat Newton, basically stealing momentum from the universe's underlying framework. Or the simulation engine, if that's what it is.
We only get to cheat Newton up to the point where the maintainer notices, fixes the exploit, and rolls the simulation back unless the maintainer works for their equivalent of Oracle, Adobe, or Microsoft in which case it may never be fixed.
Why don't laptop screens come in a 9x12-ish format? Because they are built to accommodate the keyboard, not the screen.
Most do not have the resolution of paper anyway and what if you use 11x17 or larger?
Why do most people who own a rotatable desktop monitor still view it in landscape mode? Because all the software including the OS is built to work in the landscape form factor.
Because fucking Dell went to considerable effort to hide the fact that my last set of monitors were TN instead of IPS so when I turn them 90 degrees, they look terrible off axis.
You can write on it. Being able to write on a computer screen has been available for 20 years, yet few people who have the capability actually use it, and very few people have the capability in the first place.
And writing on the screen is low resolution. And every application is different. And it works in a different way with every electronic format.
I still use and buy books, I still use and work with paper documents. Yet I have ... I dunno ... thousands of books worth of documents stored on Hard Drives and backups. The ratio of paper documents to digital documents is enormous.
I still print out datasheets and service documents, mark them up, and stick them in a 3-ring binder.
I still use a paper notebook to write notes when I get a call. I still print out papers that I need for a meeting. Why? Because it is easier than to look through files and find the correct one.
It is also a good habit to use a notebook for recording data as you work to provide a permanent record of procedures and results. Where it matters, use a permanently bound notebook, page numbers, and write in ink.
Then look at the people who print out a document, redline it with a pen, then type the redlines into the softcopy file they just printed out.
This is a valid use case.
Proofing on paper is vastly different than proofing on the screen, especially if for something that is final output to paper.
You're not only looking at spelling, grammar, word choice, etc. you're looking at layout, font, flow, margining, and all the other things that go into it. Add to that the tactile response of a good pen...
Yes you could use a stylus and tablet... but it's not the same. Eye fatigue is higher with screens as well.
-nB
I do this all the time with schematics printed on 11 x 17 because:
1. I lack a display device as good as an inkjet print on 11 x 17.
2. Electronic readers which allow changes are both slow and featureless.
3. With paper, I can have as many full sized pages open as I like.
4. Paper is portable and can be saved almost indefinitely.
Paper will be obsolete when I can get an ANSI B sized tablet (11x17) with 300dpi resolution and probably not even then.
You can use a solar panel as an infrared LED. It will produce light and heat, and may melt snow.
I do not know why this would not work but I could not find anything online saying why other than the series connected reverse protection diodes (not the shunt diodes) which are commonly used. The minimum power would be higher than the output power but maybe that is not enough for snow removal.
Let's see ...
Forward Biased Panel Power 200 J/sm^2
Heat of Fusion of Water 330 J/g
Snow Density of 300 kg/m^3
The number I come up with is about 1 hour per centimeter of snow meaning at least a day for the typical snow storm where I live but I suspect given the cold conditions that higher current could be used to safely increase that by 2 to 4 times.
Are you aware of what glass is made of???
Are you aware that efficient solar cells use Cadmium, Tellurium, Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium, among others?
The solar cells are going to be made and use those materials anyway whether they are part of a safety glass shingle or not. Last time I checked, there was no shortage of solar cells or the material to make the glass.
There is a version that has electric resistive warmers in it for melting snow - remember that SolarCity installs panels in New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, which are no strangers to snow.
The solar cell junction is a diode. Couldn't they forward bias it to generate heat? Maybe it would not be powerful enough.
Cutting tempered glass is not going to be practical.
Do you mean the glass? No, not really. Tempered glass and laminated tempered glass are not expensive. If they are produced in large lots, then most of the cost is in the materials.