Just as a side note - I worked in a petrol station, and didn't, and still don't believe mobile phones can set off blazing fires just by being used. However my manager did have a story of someone dropping their phone, and the battery pack leaping off (as quite a few phones do, I've noticed), and shorting through some petrol spilt on the ground. I think this particular case was at a station that didn't have the automatic vapour saving devices, so there was a fair bit of petrol vapour around, and it was hot . ..
It's a shame people were told that mobile phones blow up (petrol stations, gas canisters, whatever) just through The Awesome Power Of Microwaves, as it's discredited all the much more normal ways you can hurt yourself (and others) with the battery pack. (3rd party or genuine)
I worked for a department store in the UK (Currys, to us Brits), and the chain sells warranties like there's no tomorrow. For everything - including water filters and mice.
A warranty on a computers costs between £100-200 last time I checked, and you basically pay this money to promise not to put anything inside the computer, or take the lid off. They don't actually sticker seal it or anything, but you're supposed to go back and pay an extra £30-70 to have anything else fitted by a "professional". Look what happened to Gary Glitter I say (although he deserved it, the paedophile). I wouldn't want to hand my computer in just to let a load of people browse through my computer.
Why not instead just insure? My laptop is insured for everything up to being thrown down the stairs or being left on the bus. It's certainly cheaper than an extended warranty and covers more things.
I love Nero burning ROM. What a brilliant name, with an icon of the Colosseum afire too.
Personally, when I got a job due to my knowledge of C++ and ended up coding in VB, I started making functions of AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs and SomeoneSetUpUsTheBomb. I gave up though as they're difficult to spell and remember. They were only called twice and still played hell.
I learnt from this two things.
(a) It's not big (b) It's not clever
But it's so funny when you're working and you're bored shitless.
Although I don't know about this particular fuel cell as it mentions more concentrated meths, one made by PolyFuel received air clearance and I think was mentioned on/. itself.
One of my friends lives across the road from me, and to supplement his student loan, works for Microsoft. My server for the house to my ISP runs linux and his ran Win2k. We both decided to buy some Bluetooth dongles to bridge our houses and also to save cables following our laptops around. It took me 3-4 days to get the BlueZ BT stack working on linux. It took him 2 weeks to get his server to run Win2k, with WinXp running under VMWare to allow him to share his internet connection with his LAN and his BT apps.
Not long after he has switched to Redhat 8.0 and is now my grasshopper. Needs some pictures before I submit it to M$ though I think;)
I work in a petrol station, where the terminals have all been upgraded. But before that we (the cashiers) had two terminals each. One which was the till, with an LCD for display, and another for taking the fuel transactions off the pumps. This used a conventional green-on-black CRT for display, which displayed 16 boxes (of the pumps) and their status by embossing them or highlighting, inverting etc. The time and date were at the top. The boxes got really nicely burnt out, unsurprising, considering this was a 24 hour station, open 364 days of the year.
Once I tried turning off one of the monitors to admire the screenburn. When I turned it back on I couldn't get the display timing to lock, and just saw a highly corrupted picture that cycled. The monitor wouldn't work again until it had been switched off for half an hour.
I don't know if turning it off affected its lifespan, but it was definitely buggered until it cooled.
No, that's untrue. When I used my amiga it took standard disks, except they were double density and not HD. They held 880k of data when formatted, unlike DOS (760k?).
The only differences were in the software.
Mac disk drives back then apparently used a completely different method - spinning the disk at different rates or something. Then they changed to HD like everyone else. But I could certainly read PC formatted disks on the Amiga using the CrossDOS drivers.
For those who didn't know Richard Harris (Dumbledore) died a few weeks earlier. And now Daniel Radcliff has grown a whole foot, he might actually be too tall for the rest of the films anyway.
I'm sure some fast editing and CG will solve it (Gladiator & Oliver Reed)
I was told in school (by the latin teacher) that latin was very good for programming as it teaches you lots of structure and attention to detail. Any find it helps with programming? My method to doing latin (and ancient greek. and programming for that matter) is to look everything up and lump it all together and find out from the teacher (or compiler) if it was wrong (or when in the case of the compiler).
Mind you I enjoyed latin. Not quite so sure about the greek though.
If all you want to do is power a computer from a car battery then just visit the DIY in-car mp3 player websites. There's pages on how to make a DC-DC inverter (not DC-AC-DC) that is designed to power ATX motherboards (so it provides 12V, -12V, +5V etc.)
I hate to be the first person in an Ask Slashdot thread to say search on google, but that's where you'll find them. Unfortunately right now I can't connect to google for some reason, but I'll post the URL to the supply I'm thinking of (and attempting to build incidentally)
As a student of Kevin Warwick, now having had him as a lecturer for two years, I would like to say that, yes, he is a bit of a prat. But he's a nice guy. The Department of Cybernetics is one of maybe two in the country, and it is a bit publicity orientated. My AI lecturer just asked me if I was going to try to market my neural network project, and I don't think he was joking.
And the rest of the Department is not against going on the radio to tell Warwick he's completely insane. The fact that the electrodes he's having fired into his arm have never been removed from live animals (let alone humans) before adds a little zest to the whole operation. Aside from gangrene and other infections that could get in from the hole in his arm he now has that could destroy his use of his hand.
And there are a lot of uses for this implant if it works. Admittedly most were thought up afterwards, but there are uses. It's just a little overmarketed. He's a bit weird but he's not as serious as some people think he is. I think he's just trying to shock people to get their attention
Do I read this right? 65dB sounds pretty horrendous to me. Surely fuel cells aren't supposed to sound that bad?
For this price, buy a lot of car batteries and a transformer. Charge it up, ensure it's topped up, and it'll go much cheaper without any CO poisioning or danger of blowing up and taking your office block with you. It's certainly kinder to the environment, and if you want to be extra good, get a green tariff from your electricity suppliers. Which you should have done anyway if you're going to get this picky over how clean it is.
Nice to see fuel cells turning up, but I honestly don't believe theat this is actually a commercial application of them. Overpriced and underspecced. Apart from the amount of power it supplies. But you could daisychain UPSes for half the price.
I recall the Equinox on this topic. The way we know these things are coming is due to, guess what? More satellites. If they get broken how do we know?
Not just satellites get damaged. IIRC the power blackout in Canada 11 years ago was due to the currents induced in the power grid by the changing magnetic flux blowing the system
After having a quick browse through their website, I noticed that they base the possibility of cloning on the fact that Dolly the sheep was cloned successfully. This isn't quite true, as Dolly 2 is aging quite a bit faster than she should be and will probably die before her "parent". Okay, have yourself cloned, but soon your clone would seem older than you.
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Well, there's the kernel bugzilla. It's not used much, but I've posted a few kernel bugs on there, and got quick responses from the the developers.
Just as a side note - I worked in a petrol station, and didn't, and still don't believe mobile phones can set off blazing fires just by being used. However my manager did have a story of someone dropping their phone, and the battery pack leaping off (as quite a few phones do, I've noticed), and shorting through some petrol spilt on the ground. I think this particular case was at a station that didn't have the automatic vapour saving devices, so there was a fair bit of petrol vapour around, and it was hot . . .
It's a shame people were told that mobile phones blow up (petrol stations, gas canisters, whatever) just through The Awesome Power Of Microwaves, as it's discredited all the much more normal ways you can hurt yourself (and others) with the battery pack. (3rd party or genuine)
I worked for a department store in the UK (Currys, to us Brits), and the chain sells warranties like there's no tomorrow. For everything - including water filters and mice.
A warranty on a computers costs between £100-200 last time I checked, and you basically pay this money to promise not to put anything inside the computer, or take the lid off. They don't actually sticker seal it or anything, but you're supposed to go back and pay an extra £30-70 to have anything else fitted by a "professional". Look what happened to Gary Glitter I say (although he deserved it, the paedophile). I wouldn't want to hand my computer in just to let a load of people browse through my computer.
Why not instead just insure? My laptop is insured for everything up to being thrown down the stairs or being left on the bus. It's certainly cheaper than an extended warranty and covers more things.
seeing as astonishingly, nobody's mentioned it:
I love Nero burning ROM. What a brilliant name, with an icon of the Colosseum afire too.
Personally, when I got a job due to my knowledge of C++ and ended up coding in VB, I started making functions of AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs and SomeoneSetUpUsTheBomb. I gave up though as they're difficult to spell and remember. They were only called twice and still played hell.
I learnt from this two things.
(a) It's not big
(b) It's not clever
But it's so funny when you're working and you're bored shitless.
Although I don't know about this particular fuel cell as it mentions more concentrated meths, one made by PolyFuel received air clearance and I think was mentioned on /. itself.
Their website is here. Only catch is I don't think their laptops do firewire.
One of my friends lives across the road from me, and to supplement his student loan, works for Microsoft. My server for the house to my ISP runs linux and his ran Win2k. We both decided to buy some Bluetooth dongles to bridge our houses and also to save cables following our laptops around. It took me 3-4 days to get the BlueZ BT stack working on linux. It took him 2 weeks to get his server to run Win2k, with WinXp running under VMWare to allow him to share his internet connection with his LAN and his BT apps.
;)
Not long after he has switched to Redhat 8.0 and is now my grasshopper. Needs some pictures before I submit it to M$ though I think
I work in a petrol station, where the terminals have all been upgraded. But before that we (the cashiers) had two terminals each. One which was the till, with an LCD for display, and another for taking the fuel transactions off the pumps. This used a conventional green-on-black CRT for display, which displayed 16 boxes (of the pumps) and their status by embossing them or highlighting, inverting etc. The time and date were at the top. The boxes got really nicely burnt out, unsurprising, considering this was a 24 hour station, open 364 days of the year.
Once I tried turning off one of the monitors to admire the screenburn. When I turned it back on I couldn't get the display timing to lock, and just saw a highly corrupted picture that cycled. The monitor wouldn't work again until it had been switched off for half an hour.
I don't know if turning it off affected its lifespan, but it was definitely buggered until it cooled.
There will always be a first post.
FP?
No, that's untrue. When I used my amiga it took standard disks, except they were double density and not HD. They held 880k of data when formatted, unlike DOS (760k?).
The only differences were in the software.
Mac disk drives back then apparently used a completely different method - spinning the disk at different rates or something. Then they changed to HD like everyone else. But I could certainly read PC formatted disks on the Amiga using the CrossDOS drivers.
For those who didn't know Richard Harris (Dumbledore) died a few weeks earlier. And now Daniel Radcliff has grown a whole foot, he might actually be too tall for the rest of the films anyway.
I'm sure some fast editing and CG will solve it (Gladiator & Oliver Reed)
I don't see why this is news. Surely everybody READS the privacy statements they sign up to when the a company brings one up? :)
I was told in school (by the latin teacher) that latin was very good for programming as it teaches you lots of structure and attention to detail. Any find it helps with programming? My method to doing latin (and ancient greek. and programming for that matter) is to look everything up and lump it all together and find out from the teacher (or compiler) if it was wrong (or when in the case of the compiler).
Mind you I enjoyed latin. Not quite so sure about the greek though.
You forgot achieving sentience. I found the Short Circuit series of films brought amateur electronics to the masses in a most educational fashion.
Narf.
This took me a long time to find as after all that google doesn't list it directly, but try here for what you're looking for.
If all you want to do is power a computer from a car battery then just visit the DIY in-car mp3 player websites. There's pages on how to make a DC-DC inverter (not DC-AC-DC) that is designed to power ATX motherboards (so it provides 12V, -12V, +5V etc.)
I hate to be the first person in an Ask Slashdot thread to say search on google, but that's where you'll find them. Unfortunately right now I can't connect to google for some reason, but I'll post the URL to the supply I'm thinking of (and attempting to build incidentally)
For another take on it, go here. For once, even the scientists actually working on this are slightly freaked out by the ethical implications.
As a student of Kevin Warwick, now having had him as a lecturer for two years, I would like to say that, yes, he is a bit of a prat. But he's a nice guy. The Department of Cybernetics is one of maybe two in the country, and it is a bit publicity orientated. My AI lecturer just asked me if I was going to try to market my neural network project, and I don't think he was joking.
And the rest of the Department is not against going on the radio to tell Warwick he's completely insane. The fact that the electrodes he's having fired into his arm have never been removed from live animals (let alone humans) before adds a little zest to the whole operation. Aside from gangrene and other infections that could get in from the hole in his arm he now has that could destroy his use of his hand.
And there are a lot of uses for this implant if it works. Admittedly most were thought up afterwards, but there are uses. It's just a little overmarketed. He's a bit weird but he's not as serious as some people think he is. I think he's just trying to shock people to get their attention
Do I read this right? 65dB sounds pretty horrendous to me. Surely fuel cells aren't supposed to sound that bad?
For this price, buy a lot of car batteries and a transformer. Charge it up, ensure it's topped up, and it'll go much cheaper without any CO poisioning or danger of blowing up and taking your office block with you. It's certainly kinder to the environment, and if you want to be extra good, get a green tariff from your electricity suppliers. Which you should have done anyway if you're going to get this picky over how clean it is.
Nice to see fuel cells turning up, but I honestly don't believe theat this is actually a commercial application of them. Overpriced and underspecced. Apart from the amount of power it supplies. But you could daisychain UPSes for half the price.
Widget
I haven't been able to get anything from them yet. Smacking F5 a lot has got me to almost downloading now.
Mirrors anyone?
Very nice screenshots though. Wasn't First Encounters supposed to allow you to fly over planet vistas though?
I recall the Equinox on this topic. The way we know these things are coming is due to, guess what? More
satellites. If they get broken how do we know?
Not just satellites get damaged. IIRC the power blackout in Canada 11 years ago was due to the currents
induced in the power grid by the changing magnetic flux blowing the system
After having a quick browse through their website, I noticed that they base the possibility of cloning on the
fact that Dolly the sheep was cloned successfully. This isn't quite true, as Dolly 2 is aging quite a bit
faster than she should be and will probably die before her "parent". Okay, have yourself cloned, but soon your
clone would seem older than you.
If they are real their research is shoddy.