True, but on the other hand, people tend to listen to MP3's dozens or hundreds of times, whereas episodes of telivision shows are typically watched only once or twice (the best get more views of course but nowhere near the repeats that music gets).
I'm kind of hoping the production companies will start selling directly to the cable companies, who will archive and on-demand deliver the shows to me when I request them.
That way I can get rid of this stupid DVR with its puny harddrive and just have access to every show available, whenever I want it.
They've already started. Try downloading some Paramount-owned content and leave it shared for a few days. Before too long you'll get a abuse notification from your provider.
For low-current devices (say, 1.5A and below) you don't need a DC-DC converter. Linear voltage regulators will do just fine, along with some good noise filters to remove any harddrive noise or hum from the line (a decent power supply will do this for you, cheap supplies will have more noise).
I'd guess you could do a project like this for under $50 pretty easily, or under $20 if it doesn't need to be pretty.
Now, you aren't going to run a powered subwoofer or other high current loads, but it should be fine for regular speakers and joysticks and the like.
While your points are all valid, they are somewhat off the mark in the context of the original question.
Nearly everything that runs on wall-wart power supplies requires less than 1 amp, and can be easily served by a 78 series regulator. A spare PC power supply can be modifed to act as a stand-alone 5v and 12v source, or a standard open-frame multi-voltage power supply can be obtained, e.g. from Cherokee (I have a pile of their smaller high quality switching power supplies that will handle 3, 5 and 12v at up to 75W, they were $4 each at Jameco).
Devices that require odd voltages from a wall-wart power supply will usually tolerate a standard 5, 9 or 12 volt supply (wall-warts are typically unregulated and often run several volts out of spec). You can also use a variable regulator to provide the precise voltage (these are basicly the same as the 78xx series, but you can use a resistor to set the exact voltage they supply).
Equipment that requires more than an a couple amps is probably best left on its own power supply.
It's possible that a spare PC power supply might even suffice, but be careful that you get one that doesn't detect and auto-off when a motherboard isn't plugged in.
You can install a power resistor to disable that feature, allowing the power supply to be used like any standard DC supply. Here are some basic instructions on how to do this. Supplies modded in this manner are useful as power supplies for CNC foam cutting.
One reason might be for power effiency. Wall-warts tend to waste a lot of power. If you had many of them it would be more efficent to replace them all with a single supply.
Of course, this would be after you've replaced your incandescent bulbs with CF's, turned down the thermostate, switched to LCD monitors, etc.
Any bets as to whether or not they self-destruct, crash or otherwise destroy the shiny new Enterprise F?
TNG was great, and I was as rabid a fan as any other, but IMO not a single one of the movies has captured what made the series great. They should have given up two movies ago.
It would be cool if the donaters would instead use it to fund some more fan-produced episodes. I would imagine that some talented amatures could go a long, long way on 3 million.
Production values would be more Red Dwarf/Dr Who than TNG/Enterprise, but honestly, if I have to choose between effects and a great story I'll pick the latter.
I'd also be interested to see how hard it is to sand off that picture, polish the surface and run it through a card printer to put the picture of the thief on it.
This technique, if it worked and while requiring access to a card printer and more effort, would be much harder to detect.
Now, if they used full-color holograms of the cardholders head...
Of course some lifestyles are superior to others: how could you possibly claim that the "lifestyle" of someone like Mother Teresa was not superior that of Hermann Goering? It doesn't make a bit of sense, unless you're willing to assert that morality is irrelevant to quality, which makes this argument even more silly.
You are going to have to be much more specific about what you mean by 'superior' and 'quality'. In order to make such a judgement, one must have a common scale to make the comparison. Depending on purpose this scale of morality could include any number of requirements. Of course, for a moral absolutist, there is only one.
I think the only difference between moral absolutists and relativists is that absolutists think they know which morals are approved by their god or gods. As an athiest that position is untenable, and I haven't run into any non-religious justifications for moral absolutism. If you happen to know of any, I'd be interested in a reference.
I'm no physicist, but it seems unlikely that a body such as Earth would develop more than one true spin axis. Some wobble or precession, sure, but not two distinct spin axies.
Hmm, I'm undecided on whether to taunt you for your poor spelling or congratulate you for eschewing spellings that deviate significantly from typical pronunciation, in which case it would be fair to taunt you for creating a homonym.
Either way it appears a taunting is justified.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Actually barking dogs are considered a public nuisance too, its just that you have to deal with all those animal rights people if you turn them off. Depending on your neighbors and your local law enforcement, its not hard to get a ticket for a barking dog.
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Precisely. And just as with the spatial slit experiments, one must graph the results of many such events to image the interference pattern.
Forget about the electroncs, here is what I want to know...
From the article:
"We have complete which-way information and no which-way information at the same time for the same electron," says Paulus.
I want to know if they can repeat this with tea?
True, but on the other hand, people tend to listen to MP3's dozens or hundreds of times, whereas episodes of telivision shows are typically watched only once or twice (the best get more views of course but nowhere near the repeats that music gets).
I'm kind of hoping the production companies will start selling directly to the cable companies, who will archive and on-demand deliver the shows to me when I request them.
That way I can get rid of this stupid DVR with its puny harddrive and just have access to every show available, whenever I want it.
The subscription options are endless of course.
They've already started. Try downloading some Paramount-owned content and leave it shared for a few days. Before too long you'll get a abuse notification from your provider.
For low-current devices (say, 1.5A and below) you don't need a DC-DC converter. Linear voltage regulators will do just fine, along with some good noise filters to remove any harddrive noise or hum from the line (a decent power supply will do this for you, cheap supplies will have more noise).
I'd guess you could do a project like this for under $50 pretty easily, or under $20 if it doesn't need to be pretty.
Now, you aren't going to run a powered subwoofer or other high current loads, but it should be fine for regular speakers and joysticks and the like.
While your points are all valid, they are somewhat off the mark in the context of the original question.
Nearly everything that runs on wall-wart power supplies requires less than 1 amp, and can be easily served by a 78 series regulator. A spare PC power supply can be modifed to act as a stand-alone 5v and 12v source, or a standard open-frame multi-voltage power supply can be obtained, e.g. from Cherokee (I have a pile of their smaller high quality switching power supplies that will handle 3, 5 and 12v at up to 75W, they were $4 each at Jameco).
Devices that require odd voltages from a wall-wart power supply will usually tolerate a standard 5, 9 or 12 volt supply (wall-warts are typically unregulated and often run several volts out of spec). You can also use a variable regulator to provide the precise voltage (these are basicly the same as the 78xx series, but you can use a resistor to set the exact voltage they supply).
Equipment that requires more than an a couple amps is probably best left on its own power supply.
It's possible that a spare PC power supply might even suffice, but be careful that you get one that doesn't detect and auto-off when a motherboard isn't plugged in.
You can install a power resistor to disable that feature, allowing the power supply to be used like any standard DC supply. Here are some basic instructions on how to do this. Supplies modded in this manner are useful as power supplies for CNC foam cutting.
One reason might be for power effiency. Wall-warts tend to waste a lot of power. If you had many of them it would be more efficent to replace them all with a single supply.
Of course, this would be after you've replaced your incandescent bulbs with CF's, turned down the thermostate, switched to LCD monitors, etc.
Edison went all the way up to electrocuting horses
Acutally they did an elephant at one point. The video, presumably from an early Edison film camera, is available on most of the p2p services.
Many of us still believe that people have the right to publish books without government censorship or interference.
I think you have that right. Unless you don't have the copyright for that book of course.
Or is your problem with copyright itself?
I only object to the length of copyright. I'd like to see a reversion to the original terms.
Any bets as to whether or not they self-destruct, crash or otherwise destroy the shiny new Enterprise F?
TNG was great, and I was as rabid a fan as any other, but IMO not a single one of the movies has captured what made the series great. They should have given up two movies ago.
It would be cool if the donaters would instead use it to fund some more fan-produced episodes. I would imagine that some talented amatures could go a long, long way on 3 million.
Production values would be more Red Dwarf/Dr Who than TNG/Enterprise, but honestly, if I have to choose between effects and a great story I'll pick the latter.
the article lists the size of 120 watt panel as 14 feet by 10 feet.
:)
Actually, from the article text that would be a 2.5MW panel:
The flagship product, Nanosolar SolarPly, is a 14 feet x 10 feet solar electricity module delivering 120 watts per square inch at 110V
Clearly this company has just solved the world energy crisis. It should take about one square foot to power most households.
When it comes to saving on your power bill, what does work is converting almost every light in your house/apt to Compact Flourescent
My kingdom for a cheap X10 dimmable CF bulb!
I'd also be interested to see how hard it is to sand off that picture, polish the surface and run it through a card printer to put the picture of the thief on it.
This technique, if it worked and while requiring access to a card printer and more effort, would be much harder to detect.
Now, if they used full-color holograms of the cardholders head...
There's even software to correct for shaky camera work
Oh, thank GOD! Quick, somebody send a copy of this software to the people making Battlestar Glactica!
Of course some lifestyles are superior to others: how could you possibly claim that the "lifestyle" of someone like Mother Teresa was not superior that of Hermann Goering? It doesn't make a bit of sense, unless you're willing to assert that morality is irrelevant to quality, which makes this argument even more silly.
You are going to have to be much more specific about what you mean by 'superior' and 'quality'. In order to make such a judgement, one must have a common scale to make the comparison. Depending on purpose this scale of morality could include any number of requirements. Of course, for a moral absolutist, there is only one.
I think the only difference between moral absolutists and relativists is that absolutists think they know which morals are approved by their god or gods. As an athiest that position is untenable, and I haven't run into any non-religious justifications for moral absolutism. If you happen to know of any, I'd be interested in a reference.
I'm no physicist, but it seems unlikely that a body such as Earth would develop more than one true spin axis. Some wobble or precession, sure, but not two distinct spin axies.
And that is the suttle truth is it not?
Hmm, I'm undecided on whether to taunt you for your poor spelling or congratulate you for eschewing spellings that deviate significantly from typical pronunciation, in which case it would be fair to taunt you for creating a homonym.
Either way it appears a taunting is justified.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
And really, that is pretty brave. Brave or stupid. Often the only way to tell the difference is in hindsight.
Left on it's own, without the influence of the moon, our nice fairly stable planet would be rotating on three axes simultaneously
Just like Mercury, Venus and Mars?
So, what you're saying is that a human at the keyboard is an infinite source of random input?
Given the users I'm forced to deal with, I'd have to agree.
Although sometimes I'm tempted to make them non-infinite using decidedly violent methods.
Maybe they could use very very small trains and run them very very fast.
Actually barking dogs are considered a public nuisance too, its just that you have to deal with all those animal rights people if you turn them off. Depending on your neighbors and your local law enforcement, its not hard to get a ticket for a barking dog.