All of those run about 80 bucks minimum order. More than I want to pay for one or two boards.
Now, Olimex will do up a single small double sided, masked and silk screened board for 26 bucks. They'll panelize it for free too, so you can use a decent free tool like Eagle, which is limited in the PCB size, and still get the whole board.
Just be sure to have them ship it via regular mail, otherwise UPS will charge you about 75 bucks brokerage fees for bringing it into the country.
Wine yeasts are generally produced to make good wine, I wonder if strains of yeasts could be produced to jack the percentages up significantly higher? If you could hit 25% just with a couple of fermentation stages it might make a big difference in the amount of energy required to get a useable product.
The corn (or whatever, you can make alcohol out of damn near any crop) is spread out over thousands of square miles. Nothing short of a fairly difficult biological attack would have much impact, and even that could be repelled by making sure that a wide variety of crops are used.
Oil would be easier to attack, its much more plausible to attack a few hundred wellheads than 10,000 square miles of farmland.
Currently all our experimental fusion reactors end up radioactive from neutron bombardment. The quantity of this material is equal to or greater than that produced by fission reactors, but it requires careful storage only for several decades rather than thousands of years.
I think the grandparent post was probably refering to this type of waste not being useful for weapons. Although it would probably work quite well for some nice dirty bombs.
Evidently the problem is that the amount of energy that is available from using high level nuclear waste as a heat source is not great enough to offset the cost of construction, maintainance and operation of a power plant.
Technicly it can be done (probably easily), but the cost of the power generated is higher than the current disposal/storage cost, so it doesn't get done.
It would be interesting to see how the cost compares to low yeild sources like OTECs, which would have a much larger construction cost and environmental impact than a station using high level nuclear waste (heck, you could probably get people to pay you to take the waste of their hands, further increasing the profitability of the venture).
What? Use what we've already got in an efficent manner? Heretic! You must Consume! The only stable business model is growth, there are no other options! Consume!
I agree, we need to invest in genetic engineering with a focus on making humans more hardy. Future generations should be vastly smarter, with a lifespan of around 30,000 years, and have knobby joints and beak-like lips. They should be dedicated to protecting the weaker, unmodified revision of the species. Ideally the required changes should be patchable into unmodifed humans, perhaps via a retrovirus which can be delivered via some kind of edible root.
Asian languages don't use a lot of the "superfluous" words you find in English like definite articles, pronouns, etc. Also, a lot more of the content is picked up by context and left "unwritten".
Contextual English possible. But make speaker sound Asian.
One band with many transmitters all operating on the same frequency covering the same area without interferance is possible. However it requires very directional receiving antennas
It seems like a different kind of signal encoding could make it possible to have many transmitters on the same frequency band. I think the amount of processing power at the receiver goes up pretty quickly as the signal gets more complex.
But if in a new system transmission power is limited in areas where there is a high density of nodes (each node could dynamicly reduce its broadcast power if the horizon gets too large) the number number of signals to discriminate could be kept small.
Ott is like the Bose of lighting. Its good, but you can get the same technical quality for less money with another brand. Styling is important too though.
An anonymous body, or an urn full of ashes just doesn't cut it for most people.
I just don't understand that. I mean, if its a situation where no body was found, its reasonable to consider that someone might not be dead (ie, uncle george may not have gotten on that plane that went down), but if the body was identified at the morgue by next of kin or whatever, why do people need to see the body for it to fully register?
That was my favorite too. I still have pages of documentation on what could be found on each planet and where all the warps are.
Originally I had to play it on an Epson QX-16, which has an odd keyboard or video interrupt mapping. To get most games to work one had to hack the video routines in the game to use the right interrupts.
I remember it being so slow that the price of the fuel would be up over 6000 and I would still be puttering around mining and trying to find colony worlds instead of going after that alien home planet.
I finally was able to play it on a blazingly fast 386/16 and nearly finished the game before it hit 3000.
and bring oil down to $10-12 per gallon which will have a nice knock-on effect on the world economy.
Again, this is bad?
Sounds to me like the big looser is the Iraqi government. By most accounts the Iraqi people are being abused and would benefit from new leadership. The world would benefit if Iraqi oil becomes more available.
The US would not be doing this if it were not in our economic and political interests to do so. We get better oil prices, probably a permanent military base or two in Iraq, we (evidnetly) stabalize the political situation in the middle east, which is good for everybody there and here, and the Iraqi people get a chance to fix their (currently) broken government.
Its probably not possible to achieve all these goals without war, so thats probably what will happen.
Speaking of the former, shouldn't we still be trying to find him?
What makes you think we aren't?
Not everything that the military does is reported by the media you know.
The media reports mostly what they think the sheeple want to hear, and the sheeple what to hear mostly what the the most popular, developing stories are. Wash, rinse, repeat.
There could be lots of reasons. If Saddam is removed from power, the US will probably need to maintain a large presence in the area while rebuilding the country (from war and from Saddams less-than-stellar rule). Course, with all those military guys running around for a few years while thats going on, we'll need a big base with airstrips and whatnot. And as long as we are putting in a sympathetic govenrment, we'll secure rights to keep that base in operation for the next 100 years or so so we can quit begging turkey for a place to stage our military.
Why would we want a permanent base there? Control. Just in case.
Maybe we can pass a law that requires all legal fees for the successful defense of patent suits to come out of the patent offices budget. So if a patent holder sues someone and looses because the patent was invalid, the patent offices pays for the defense.
Ya know, I don't think we can know either way, but it wouldn't suprise me if psycodelic plants played a part. This mutation could have been a random mutation, or it could have been that early human societies appriciated the kinds of things that came from creative bursts, but weren't particularly inclined to perform them on their own. Under the influence of psycodelics, perhaps they were better able to be creative, which set up a selection pressure for more creative individuals (people that explore more effective arrow heads and story telling techniques or instance).
The website says they have to be within 45 degrees of the equator. If the center of mass of the thing is in geosyn orbit coming up to 45 degrees, wouldn't it have to go up to 45 on the other side of the equator too (tracing the well known figure 8 pattern for geosync sats).
If so, wouldnt' that put one hell of an angle on the ribbon when the top is at the other end of the orbit? I'm sure that would look cool as hell from earth, but it sure seems like it would require some complicated engineering to keep the ribbon under the same tension.
My taxes are not complicated. I use a 1040, I start at the top and follow all the paths by hand, and calculate all the permutations. I take the best number. Now I plug my data into the turbotax website, they get me $400 more back. There was no way to get this by following the stuff referenced in the 1040. I know, I exausted all the paths in the 1040. You just had to *know* that there were other forms you could file. Its not just one big flowchart, there are multiple starting points, and there isn't a nice guide to them. I'm not willing to spend my limited free time becoming an expert so I can get back another 400 bux. I'll pay someone else 30 bux to do it.
Of course, you can comment your code as well - but in the legal senses, having a "plain language" description leaves the document subject to interpretation on the part of the reader
That depends on the comments I think. If its the infamous '// assign the integer value 6 to the variable i' kind of comment, its not useful at all. But *real* comments arent' like that.
I agree very much that for the actual implimentation part of the law we should have some sort of structured, logical language, an example of which one of the other responders to the grandparent post gave. But the *how* of the code doesn't explain the *why*.
For instance, here is the aformentioned example:
Only [(a natural born citizen) OR (a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution)] shall be eligible to the office of President. Any person eligible to that office shall [(have attained to the age of thirty five years) AND (been fourteen Years a resident within the United States)].
The comment would explain why these particular constraints where chosen, and the goals in chosing them. For instance, why choose a nice round number like 35 for the age, and then pull out something like 14 for resident? Why not another nice round number like 15?
Computer programmers make mistakes. If you rely only on the code, its not always obvious what the programmer meant to say. If he has included good comments, the implimentation errors can be much more obvious.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that lawyers always write laws that mean what they intended them to mean, and are applied in the way that they were intended to apply.
A listing of goals of the law would also make it easier to tweak or repeal laws that are not having the intended effects.
The usage of a logical language for law definition has some interesting imlications for automation. If laws were written in a way that allowed them to unambigiously be parsed by computers, it might make lawyering much easier. Computers could search for ambigious or conflicting rules and bring them up for review. Small claims processing could probably be much more efficent, perhaps in many cases not even requiring the attention of a judge.
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All of those run about 80 bucks minimum order. More than I want to pay for one or two boards.
Now, Olimex will do up a single small double sided, masked and silk screened board for 26 bucks. They'll panelize it for free too, so you can use a decent free tool like Eagle, which is limited in the PCB size, and still get the whole board.
Just be sure to have them ship it via regular mail, otherwise UPS will charge you about 75 bucks brokerage fees for bringing it into the country.
Wine yeasts are generally produced to make good wine, I wonder if strains of yeasts could be produced to jack the percentages up significantly higher? If you could hit 25% just with a couple of fermentation stages it might make a big difference in the amount of energy required to get a useable product.
The corn (or whatever, you can make alcohol out of damn near any crop) is spread out over thousands of square miles. Nothing short of a fairly difficult biological attack would have much impact, and even that could be repelled by making sure that a wide variety of crops are used.
Oil would be easier to attack, its much more plausible to attack a few hundred wellheads than 10,000 square miles of farmland.
and some (hopefully) solid waste.
I just about spit coffee on everything laughing at that.
"If you talk to God on the porcelain telephone it's alcoholism, if God talks to YOU on it, it's schizophrenia."
or bad mushrooms.
Currently all our experimental fusion reactors end up radioactive from neutron bombardment. The quantity of this material is equal to or greater than that produced by fission reactors, but it requires careful storage only for several decades rather than thousands of years.
I think the grandparent post was probably refering to this type of waste not being useful for weapons. Although it would probably work quite well for some nice dirty bombs.
Evidently the problem is that the amount of energy that is available from using high level nuclear waste as a heat source is not great enough to offset the cost of construction, maintainance and operation of a power plant.
Technicly it can be done (probably easily), but the cost of the power generated is higher than the current disposal/storage cost, so it doesn't get done.
It would be interesting to see how the cost compares to low yeild sources like OTECs, which would have a much larger construction cost and environmental impact than a station using high level nuclear waste (heck, you could probably get people to pay you to take the waste of their hands, further increasing the profitability of the venture).
What? Use what we've already got in an efficent manner? Heretic! You must Consume! The only stable business model is growth, there are no other options! Consume!
I agree, we need to invest in genetic engineering with a focus on making humans more hardy. Future generations should be vastly smarter, with a lifespan of around 30,000 years, and have knobby joints and beak-like lips. They should be dedicated to protecting the weaker, unmodified revision of the species. Ideally the required changes should be patchable into unmodifed humans, perhaps via a retrovirus which can be delivered via some kind of edible root.
Asian languages don't use a lot of the "superfluous" words you find in English like definite articles, pronouns, etc. Also, a lot more of the content is picked up by context and left "unwritten".
Contextual English possible. But make speaker sound Asian.
One band with many transmitters all operating on the same frequency covering the same area without interferance is possible. However it requires very directional receiving antennas
It seems like a different kind of signal encoding could make it possible to have many transmitters on the same frequency band. I think the amount of processing power at the receiver goes up pretty quickly as the signal gets more complex.
But if in a new system transmission power is limited in areas where there is a high density of nodes (each node could dynamicly reduce its broadcast power if the horizon gets too large) the number number of signals to discriminate could be kept small.
Ott is like the Bose of lighting. Its good, but you can get the same technical quality for less money with another brand. Styling is important too though.
An anonymous body, or an urn full of ashes just doesn't cut it for most people.
I just don't understand that. I mean, if its a situation where no body was found, its reasonable to consider that someone might not be dead (ie, uncle george may not have gotten on that plane that went down), but if the body was identified at the morgue by next of kin or whatever, why do people need to see the body for it to fully register?
That was my favorite too. I still have pages of documentation on what could be found on each planet and where all the warps are.
Originally I had to play it on an Epson QX-16, which has an odd keyboard or video interrupt mapping. To get most games to work one had to hack the video routines in the game to use the right interrupts.
I remember it being so slow that the price of the fuel would be up over 6000 and I would still be puttering around mining and trying to find colony worlds instead of going after that alien home planet.
I finally was able to play it on a blazingly fast 386/16 and nearly finished the game before it hit 3000.
war should stabalise the middle east
And thats a bad thing?
and bring oil down to $10-12 per gallon which will have a nice knock-on effect on the world economy.
Again, this is bad?
Sounds to me like the big looser is the Iraqi government. By most accounts the Iraqi people are being abused and would benefit from new leadership. The world would benefit if Iraqi oil becomes more available.
The US would not be doing this if it were not in our economic and political interests to do so. We get better oil prices, probably a permanent military base or two in Iraq, we (evidnetly) stabalize the political situation in the middle east, which is good for everybody there and here, and the Iraqi people get a chance to fix their (currently) broken government.
Its probably not possible to achieve all these goals without war, so thats probably what will happen.
Hey everybody, look, somebody who actually Gets It(tm).
Life is important, but what you do with it is more important.
Speaking of the former, shouldn't we still be trying to find him?
What makes you think we aren't?
Not everything that the military does is reported by the media you know.
The media reports mostly what they think the sheeple want to hear, and the sheeple what to hear mostly what the the most popular, developing stories are. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I don't know what this war is about
There could be lots of reasons. If Saddam is removed from power, the US will probably need to maintain a large presence in the area while rebuilding the country (from war and from Saddams less-than-stellar rule). Course, with all those military guys running around for a few years while thats going on, we'll need a big base with airstrips and whatnot. And as long as we are putting in a sympathetic govenrment, we'll secure rights to keep that base in operation for the next 100 years or so so we can quit begging turkey for a place to stage our military.
Why would we want a permanent base there? Control. Just in case.
Maybe we can pass a law that requires all legal fees for the successful defense of patent suits to come out of the patent offices budget. So if a patent holder sues someone and looses because the patent was invalid, the patent offices pays for the defense.
The most pathetic part of this is that most americans are incapable of lifting 80 pounds.
Ya know, I don't think we can know either way, but it wouldn't suprise me if psycodelic plants played a part. This mutation could have been a random mutation, or it could have been that early human societies appriciated the kinds of things that came from creative bursts, but weren't particularly inclined to perform them on their own. Under the influence of psycodelics, perhaps they were better able to be creative, which set up a selection pressure for more creative individuals (people that explore more effective arrow heads and story telling techniques or instance).
The website says they have to be within 45 degrees of the equator. If the center of mass of the thing is in geosyn orbit coming up to 45 degrees, wouldn't it have to go up to 45 on the other side of the equator too (tracing the well known figure 8 pattern for geosync sats).
If so, wouldnt' that put one hell of an angle on the ribbon when the top is at the other end of the orbit? I'm sure that would look cool as hell from earth, but it sure seems like it would require some complicated engineering to keep the ribbon under the same tension.
My taxes are not complicated. I use a 1040, I start at the top and follow all the paths by hand, and calculate all the permutations. I take the best number. Now I plug my data into the turbotax website, they get me $400 more back. There was no way to get this by following the stuff referenced in the 1040. I know, I exausted all the paths in the 1040. You just had to *know* that there were other forms you could file. Its not just one big flowchart, there are multiple starting points, and there isn't a nice guide to them. I'm not willing to spend my limited free time becoming an expert so I can get back another 400 bux. I'll pay someone else 30 bux to do it.
Software running with administrator rights can install those extensions.
Of course, you can comment your code as well - but in the legal senses, having a "plain language" description leaves the document subject to interpretation on the part of the reader
That depends on the comments I think. If its the infamous '// assign the integer value 6 to the variable i' kind of comment, its not useful at all. But *real* comments arent' like that.
I agree very much that for the actual implimentation part of the law we should have some sort of structured, logical language, an example of which one of the other responders to the grandparent post gave. But the *how* of the code doesn't explain the *why*.
For instance, here is the aformentioned example:
Only [(a natural born citizen) OR (a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution)] shall be eligible to the office of President. Any person eligible to that office shall [(have attained to the age of thirty five years) AND (been fourteen Years a resident within the United States)].
The comment would explain why these particular constraints where chosen, and the goals in chosing them. For instance, why choose a nice round number like 35 for the age, and then pull out something like 14 for resident? Why not another nice round number like 15?
Computer programmers make mistakes. If you rely only on the code, its not always obvious what the programmer meant to say. If he has included good comments, the implimentation errors can be much more obvious.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that lawyers always write laws that mean what they intended them to mean, and are applied in the way that they were intended to apply.
A listing of goals of the law would also make it easier to tweak or repeal laws that are not having the intended effects.
The usage of a logical language for law definition has some interesting imlications for automation. If laws were written in a way that allowed them to unambigiously be parsed by computers, it might make lawyering much easier. Computers could search for ambigious or conflicting rules and bring them up for review. Small claims processing could probably be much more efficent, perhaps in many cases not even requiring the attention of a judge.