Eagle is OK software. Its old, and the interface takes some getting used to (this is typical of CAD programs though), but its got some decent parts libraries and a scripting language. I would put it on par with a good offering from the Open Source community (*Eagle is not open source), its a bit hard to work with and never updated, but it gets the job done, and just about every boardhouse supports it.
But Protel is in a different league. When you need the high-end features that Protel offers, its one of very few realistic options. Unfortunately, those features are expensive to develop, and not in wide demand, so the product is priced accordingly.
Here's an honest question - why, in the self-proclaimed land of the free, is there such insane lawmaking? Don't Americans mind??
Well, we Americans who know about it mind, but the vast majority don't know or don't know what to do about it.
Sure, we can e/snail mail a representative, but there really isn't any feedback from that process. It feels about as effective as throwing a penny in a fountain and making a wish. Mostly people just bitch about it to each other while the big companies bath senators in money.
Just in case anyone hasn't gotten around to reading the books yet: shadow square wire is a very thin, very strong wire that can cut through just about anything (except a General Products hull of course).
the "space elevator" needs to be a tapered rope, with the ground (actually the "top" in this case) needing to be the thickest.
The ground is not the point with the highest tension. The ground is one of the ends, where the tension is lowest. The point of greatest tension is many miles up, somewhere just earth-side of the middle of the cable (IIRC).
I and my classmates did the same thing. We found that it took about the same amount of time (or longer depending on how much beer was involved) but we learned the material better, since we had to know it well enough to explain it clearly.
If you insert the files into freenet, you don't have to worry about mislabeling them. Just put the keys to the file into a job that frequently requests the files from various entrypoints into the network to be sure they stick around.
You can always take more acid. It won't make the trip stronger, but it will make it longer (as a general rule).
I once took 4 good blotter hits, tripped for about 5ish hours, then took 5 more and held that level for several more hours before falling asleep. The next day we went tubing on the river, and everything had a trippy look to it for the next 6 or 8 hours, for a total effective time of about 16 hours.
While I'm not an astronomer, so I can't really guess at how useful a moon based 'scope would be, the sci-fi fan in me loves the idea. I'd much rather see a continiously manned research station on the moon than a there-and-back Mars mission. Preferably the installation would be somewhere on the moon where it would be visible from Earth with a decent telescope, but not to the naked eye (too many people who are used to the idea of the moon as untouched would object to a naked-eye visible base. After all those people die off it can be expanded to visibility so it can inspire hordes of children to excel in their studies (or at least sit outside and moon-gaze while they get stoned)).
I haven't checked the rear, it does have a tow-ball on it though, so its possible its got something short there.
When the car was given to me the original 2bbl carb was falling apart (missing pieces and seemed to have some clogged parts), so I had a local shop install some parts I had lying around from another project, an Edelbrock RPM Performer intake and 1705 carb. After that and some new plug wires it was driveable again. At the time I was out of work, and so couldn't afford to do anything else to it. Its still got a hesitation problem at low throttle, its hard to get through an intersection without accelerating harder than normal. Opening the throttle just a little bit while stopped just makes it bog down (or stalls it out in cold weather). Occasionally within about 2 minutes of starting it I'll get a detonation of the fuel in the intake and carb when I accelerate (the air cleaner is soot-blackened from it). It could use a valve job (it smokes just a bit) but I don't know if thats related. I've fiddled with the accelerator pump and choke settings, to no avail.
I've asked about these issues on usenet a few times, but no one has been able to offer any suggestions.
Obviously its got issues, but while I've got a fair bit of skill with the mechanics of taking it apart and putting it back together, I don't have the knowledge to diagnose problems like these. Unfortunately I recently moved away from the people I know who race, and haven't become acquanted with any more.
My '71 Impala with a 350cid V8 and 4bbl carb gets about 10mpg when I can manage to avoid lead-footing it. If I'm engaging in 'spirited' driving it can dip as low as 8.
Its been my daily driver for about a year, but I've just recently switched to a '95 Geo Prizm that gets about 32ish mpg. It doesn't really have any capability for agressive driving, but it sure makes corners more fun.
Big huge people don't handle "lean times" [...] nearly as well as little, wiry ones.
I dunno, if you quite feeding big, muscular people, they don't just keel over dead, they start breaking down muscle for energy, eventually turning into little wiry people.
But building muscle requires lots of raw materials, and if you aren't getting much food, you just won't get big.
Current projectors use a broad band light bulb and separate the spectrum into three componenets. They cant be highly narrowing the bandwidth of the of these components or they would be throwing away most of the light.
Right, the projector filters the bulb to three fairly precise bands, throwing out the rest of the light. If someone made LED's in the right colors and bright enough, they would be much more efficent for projector bulbs.
The question of which is more useful would come down to "Do you need to figure out how far you can go on a tank, or how much you need to get there?"
Most modern cars here in the US get about 300-350 miles to a tank. So its generally not necessary to know the the fuel usage rate of the car unless you are trying to run on a budget with very thin margins.
We call impliments up to about 16 inches a ruler. A 36 inch impliment is usually called a yardstick.
Anything between those ranges is a broken yardstick:)
Of course, there are folding rulers too, those can be any expanded length, as long as they and up in that 16 inch range when folded. I've never seen a folding yardstick.
Unfortunately, this is only true if you are running your bulbs extra-bright so you can watch in an undimmed room. In a dark room the screen is no brighter than a white screen, and so requires the same brightness of bulb.
Simplest and best would be to try to recreate an Earth atmosphere
I think it would be much cooler to put a miniature, electric (or nuclear) powered regenerator into the abdomen and redirect blood headed to the lungs through it. Convert the CO2 back into O2 and simple sugars (or something). Then you can use lungs in the regular atmosphere, and switch to recycling when outside. As a bonus, you could go longer between meals with the recycler, essentially running partially on electric power.
Additionally, at below around 3psi atmospheric pressure, it becomes difficult for the body to generate enough pressure differential to move gasses in and out of the lungs effectively. So in a 1 or 2 psi pure oxygen environment, you'd still suffocate, because you can't move oxygen into and co2 out of the lungs quickly enough.
I believe this can be solved with a forced air respirator though.
Contrary to sibling posts, you are, in general, correct. Human skin tension provides enough counterpression to prevent any catastrophic sci-fi effects like boiling blood. There were some experiments to this effect a few decades ago where volunteers would subject a forearm to hard vacuum with no ill effects (just a bit of reddening and puffyness that was attributed mostly to the padded cuff around the arm that was used to seal the chamber).
Of course there was also NASA research into space activity suits that used spandex-like material to provide counterpressure suitable for extra-vehicular work. Something similar would probably also work well on Mars. One of the cool (literally) features of that is that one's sweat can still evaporate through the material, simplifing cooling requirements.
Of course there is still the radiation damage issue in space or on Mars. Thin or nonexistant atmosphere means more radiation (cosmic and solar) and more secondary radiation (particle showers from primary radiation interaction with the ground). Spandex would be pretty poor radiation protection, but perhaps a combination of nanotechnology materials that provide better fabrics and drugs or genetic manipulations to improve radiation repair mechanisms can take care of that issue.
What if the sun goes super nova? What if a giant asteroid crashes into the earth?
It doesn't even have to be a stellar event, one good super volcano like the one currently 'overdue' at Yellowstone would be quite enough. Evidence shows that humanity may have been nearly wiped out by such a volcano 80k years or so ago (down to no more than a few thousand people worldwide).
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Eagle is OK software. Its old, and the interface takes some getting used to (this is typical of CAD programs though), but its got some decent parts libraries and a scripting language. I would put it on par with a good offering from the Open Source community (*Eagle is not open source), its a bit hard to work with and never updated, but it gets the job done, and just about every boardhouse supports it.
But Protel is in a different league. When you need the high-end features that Protel offers, its one of very few realistic options. Unfortunately, those features are expensive to develop, and not in wide demand, so the product is priced accordingly.
Here's an honest question - why, in the self-proclaimed land of the free, is there such insane lawmaking? Don't Americans mind??
Well, we Americans who know about it mind, but the vast majority don't know or don't know what to do about it.
Sure, we can e/snail mail a representative, but there really isn't any feedback from that process. It feels about as effective as throwing a penny in a fountain and making a wish. Mostly people just bitch about it to each other while the big companies bath senators in money.
or even like shadow square wire.
Just in case anyone hasn't gotten around to reading the books yet: shadow square wire is a very thin, very strong wire that can cut through just about anything (except a General Products hull of course).
the "space elevator" needs to be a tapered rope, with the ground (actually the "top" in this case) needing to be the thickest.
The ground is not the point with the highest tension. The ground is one of the ends, where the tension is lowest. The point of greatest tension is many miles up, somewhere just earth-side of the middle of the cable (IIRC).
Figure it out and then explain it to each other.
I and my classmates did the same thing. We found that it took about the same amount of time (or longer depending on how much beer was involved) but we learned the material better, since we had to know it well enough to explain it clearly.
If you insert the files into freenet, you don't have to worry about mislabeling them. Just put the keys to the file into a job that frequently requests the files from various entrypoints into the network to be sure they stick around.
You can always take more acid. It won't make the trip stronger, but it will make it longer (as a general rule).
I once took 4 good blotter hits, tripped for about 5ish hours, then took 5 more and held that level for several more hours before falling asleep. The next day we went tubing on the river, and everything had a trippy look to it for the next 6 or 8 hours, for a total effective time of about 16 hours.
I hate trying to sleep after acid.
While I'm not an astronomer, so I can't really guess at how useful a moon based 'scope would be, the sci-fi fan in me loves the idea. I'd much rather see a continiously manned research station on the moon than a there-and-back Mars mission. Preferably the installation would be somewhere on the moon where it would be visible from Earth with a decent telescope, but not to the naked eye (too many people who are used to the idea of the moon as untouched would object to a naked-eye visible base. After all those people die off it can be expanded to visibility so it can inspire hordes of children to excel in their studies (or at least sit outside and moon-gaze while they get stoned)).
I haven't checked the rear, it does have a tow-ball on it though, so its possible its got something short there.
When the car was given to me the original 2bbl carb was falling apart (missing pieces and seemed to have some clogged parts), so I had a local shop install some parts I had lying around from another project, an Edelbrock RPM Performer intake and 1705 carb. After that and some new plug wires it was driveable again. At the time I was out of work, and so couldn't afford to do anything else to it. Its still got a hesitation problem at low throttle, its hard to get through an intersection without accelerating harder than normal. Opening the throttle just a little bit while stopped just makes it bog down (or stalls it out in cold weather). Occasionally within about 2 minutes of starting it I'll get a detonation of the fuel in the intake and carb when I accelerate (the air cleaner is soot-blackened from it). It could use a valve job (it smokes just a bit) but I don't know if thats related. I've fiddled with the accelerator pump and choke settings, to no avail.
I've asked about these issues on usenet a few times, but no one has been able to offer any suggestions.
Obviously its got issues, but while I've got a fair bit of skill with the mechanics of taking it apart and putting it back together, I don't have the knowledge to diagnose problems like these. Unfortunately I recently moved away from the people I know who race, and haven't become acquanted with any more.
My '71 Impala with a 350cid V8 and 4bbl carb gets about 10mpg when I can manage to avoid lead-footing it. If I'm engaging in 'spirited' driving it can dip as low as 8.
Its been my daily driver for about a year, but I've just recently switched to a '95 Geo Prizm that gets about 32ish mpg. It doesn't really have any capability for agressive driving, but it sure makes corners more fun.
In the case of credit collectors, just tell them they are not allowed to contact you again. Legally they must desist.
:)
Of course, if that might cause problems for the person they think they are talking to, but, well, either way, its not your problem any more
Big huge people don't handle "lean times" [...] nearly as well as little, wiry ones.
I dunno, if you quite feeding big, muscular people, they don't just keel over dead, they start breaking down muscle for energy, eventually turning into little wiry people.
But building muscle requires lots of raw materials, and if you aren't getting much food, you just won't get big.
I help the Distributed Hardware Evolution Project because it produces results (robust error detecting logic circuits) that can be used by anyone.
Current projectors use a broad band light bulb and separate the spectrum into three componenets. They cant be highly narrowing the bandwidth of the of these components or they would be throwing away most of the light.
Right, the projector filters the bulb to three fairly precise bands, throwing out the rest of the light. If someone made LED's in the right colors and bright enough, they would be much more efficent for projector bulbs.
The military (and others I would guess) is working on a head mounted display that rasters the image directly on your retina with a low power laser.
Honda already has such a system in place in some of its plants. Uses a VGAish (1/2 vga?) resolution monochrome red display.
The question of which is more useful would come down to "Do you need to figure out how far you can go on a tank, or how much you need to get there?"
Most modern cars here in the US get about 300-350 miles to a tank. So its generally not necessary to know the the fuel usage rate of the car unless you are trying to run on a budget with very thin margins.
1 meter = 9.84251969 hands
Or, a little more convienantly, 4 inches, a bit over 10cm.
That looks more like 'que-ler' to me, how about 'kuller'?
If you want it phonetic you'll have to use a phonetic alphabet and account for regional variations.
We call it a ruler. Do you call it a yard meter?
:)
We call impliments up to about 16 inches a ruler. A 36 inch impliment is usually called a yardstick.
Anything between those ranges is a broken yardstick
Of course, there are folding rulers too, those can be any expanded length, as long as they and up in that 16 inch range when folded. I've never seen a folding yardstick.
Unfortunately, this is only true if you are running your bulbs extra-bright so you can watch in an undimmed room. In a dark room the screen is no brighter than a white screen, and so requires the same brightness of bulb.
Simplest and best would be to try to recreate an Earth atmosphere
I think it would be much cooler to put a miniature, electric (or nuclear) powered regenerator into the abdomen and redirect blood headed to the lungs through it. Convert the CO2 back into O2 and simple sugars (or something). Then you can use lungs in the regular atmosphere, and switch to recycling when outside. As a bonus, you could go longer between meals with the recycler, essentially running partially on electric power.
Additionally, at below around 3psi atmospheric pressure, it becomes difficult for the body to generate enough pressure differential to move gasses in and out of the lungs effectively. So in a 1 or 2 psi pure oxygen environment, you'd still suffocate, because you can't move oxygen into and co2 out of the lungs quickly enough.
I believe this can be solved with a forced air respirator though.
Contrary to sibling posts, you are, in general, correct. Human skin tension provides enough counterpression to prevent any catastrophic sci-fi effects like boiling blood. There were some experiments to this effect a few decades ago where volunteers would subject a forearm to hard vacuum with no ill effects (just a bit of reddening and puffyness that was attributed mostly to the padded cuff around the arm that was used to seal the chamber).
Of course there was also NASA research into space activity suits that used spandex-like material to provide counterpressure suitable for extra-vehicular work. Something similar would probably also work well on Mars. One of the cool (literally) features of that is that one's sweat can still evaporate through the material, simplifing cooling requirements.
Of course there is still the radiation damage issue in space or on Mars. Thin or nonexistant atmosphere means more radiation (cosmic and solar) and more secondary radiation (particle showers from primary radiation interaction with the ground). Spandex would be pretty poor radiation protection, but perhaps a combination of nanotechnology materials that provide better fabrics and drugs or genetic manipulations to improve radiation repair mechanisms can take care of that issue.
What if the sun goes super nova? What if a giant asteroid crashes into the earth?
It doesn't even have to be a stellar event, one good super volcano like the one currently 'overdue' at Yellowstone would be quite enough. Evidence shows that humanity may have been nearly wiped out by such a volcano 80k years or so ago (down to no more than a few thousand people worldwide).
Hmm, "We are the borg, respect our authoritae", South Trek? Star Park?