Portable devices use piss for power, by virtue of being portable.
Using the microwave for enough time to warm up a TV dinner uses far more power than fully charging everything portable I own. Well, I have more laptops than normal folks so maybe that doesn't quite hold true. but the point remains.
Say 5 minutes at full tilt in a 1000W microwave = 300kJ. A 50Wh laptop battery has 180kJ A mobile phone's 1Ah li-ion batt has 13kJ, etc. So I could completely charge my phone 23 times for the same amount of juice. (well, somewhat less, the charging has some loss).
Avg car battery is something like 3MJ on the other hand, which is almost an hour of microwaving food on high.
Now bring in things like electric stoves, ovens, clothes dryers, such cases...
Kinda pointless up north. My city has 8h of daylight for most of December and part of January, for example. If you split it around noon, it would come up at 8:15am and be down by 3:45pm on the 21st, and we're only 300mi north of Seattle.
Most of Canada has DST, but my region doesn't. Well. Sort of. We're ahead of the sun by 1h year round. (So in the above case, sun is up at 9:15 and down at 4:45).
Never saw much use for DST myself, seems like something you'd trick kindergarteners with.
A new party is fairly useless without proportional representation at this stage, I'd think.
Option #3 is still effective though. Revolution. Unfortunately the bulk of the American populous is far too ignorant and sedate for anything like that to happen. Just keep the reality TV rolling, and they'll be happy.
I suppose GLONASS is just as susceptible to the things the TFA mentions (jamming, interference). AFAIK the system is essentially functional (again) now, but I recall there are a few bald spots occasionally. There used to be a website, live, showing a map of earth and glonass signal quality / available sats accordingly.
There are dual mode receivers out there, but not being a uh, consumer item I guess, they cost more.
A lot of people think of GPS as only positioning, but a lot of embedded things pull time through GPS (either PPS for real time, or 10MHz for use as a timebase).
I'm sure there are plenty of things with sloppy code that doesn't exactly fail gracefully when losing GPS, especially for long time periods.
I was cleaning the basement the other day and came across an old compass of mine. It got me thinking, I wonder if future generations are even going to be able to operate the things.
I don't have a problem with the school saying we're only doing e-text books. That's fine.
But they should let people use them how they will. Full blown laptop, ipod, kindle, or go and get them printed off at kinkos, etc.
I don't like the forced single supplier thing. What if the only way to file taxes next year was with an ipad? Don't worry, the govn't already bought you one. They even appended the $400 for the ipad to your tax form for this year, so you don't have to. Wasn't that nice of them.
Yugoslavian disintegration became a clusterfuck because of international interference, not in spite of it.
Especially Kosovo, what a joke. NATO comes in on false accusations of genocide. The UN passes a resolution that it will not be given independence, and a few years later it becomes independent.
Unfortunately it's hard to run a legitimate country by drug, weapons, and human trafficking (which was what the terrorist KLA, now leaders, did prior to independence), so the place has over 50% unemployment. Fuck yeah.
Funny how that works. I had an old Thinkpad (forget the model now, 600?). It was made in US IIRC. Then I got a T21, Made in the UK (I thought that was a bit odd?). T23 was Mexican, IIRC. X24? Korea. T42... China.
And then the whole division was sold to the Chinese around then. Evolution I guess. And that's only going back fifteen years or so.
I was sort of half asleep on the drive home, but the radio made it sound like some moron installed a trojan (presumably hot_pic_of_me.jpg.exe), which then scraped internal networks (that should have had better access control, no doubt) for anything interesting. It was pretty vague but that's about what I picked up from it.
Sounds like amateur night anyhow. Maybe they've got HBGary running their security.
Why did you think handset manufacturers and telcos have been putting facebook type apps on phones? So you get a data plan, so they can stick it to you.
...weeks before Canada introduced the Canadian DMCA...
Christ, I leave the basement for a month and this is what happens? I thought someone else was watching out for this. They always told me girlfriends were dangerous.
Hmmm. I searched and it looks like it's just a bill. Nothing has passed?
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Chernobyl style reactor (RBMK) - the first one I'm aware of is at Leningrad, sod turned 1970. (It's still running, btw).
The design has it's roots in the 1950's though. They had a graphite moderated one back then, it was just much smaller scale.
So... it's ancient. Just because the particular one at chernobyl was younger doesn't mean much.
Portable devices use piss for power, by virtue of being portable.
Using the microwave for enough time to warm up a TV dinner uses far more power than fully charging everything portable I own. Well, I have more laptops than normal folks so maybe that doesn't quite hold true. but the point remains.
Say 5 minutes at full tilt in a 1000W microwave = 300kJ.
A 50Wh laptop battery has 180kJ
A mobile phone's 1Ah li-ion batt has 13kJ, etc. So I could completely charge my phone 23 times for the same amount of juice. (well, somewhat less, the charging has some loss).
Avg car battery is something like 3MJ on the other hand, which is almost an hour of microwaving food on high.
Now bring in things like electric stoves, ovens, clothes dryers, such cases...
Kinda pointless up north. My city has 8h of daylight for most of December and part of January, for example. If you split it around noon, it would come up at 8:15am and be down by 3:45pm on the 21st, and we're only 300mi north of Seattle.
Most of Canada has DST, but my region doesn't. Well. Sort of. We're ahead of the sun by 1h year round. (So in the above case, sun is up at 9:15 and down at 4:45).
Never saw much use for DST myself, seems like something you'd trick kindergarteners with.
Yeah. The email is pretty retarded and childish.
But, being in Sweden I can't see the company being able to do SFA to the kid.
A new party is fairly useless without proportional representation at this stage, I'd think.
Option #3 is still effective though. Revolution.
Unfortunately the bulk of the American populous is far too ignorant and sedate for anything like that to happen. Just keep the reality TV rolling, and they'll be happy.
Unless the price of diesel is damn near double that of gas, you're still coming out ahead...
Yeah I lost my train of thought there.
I suppose GLONASS is just as susceptible to the things the TFA mentions (jamming, interference). AFAIK the system is essentially functional (again) now, but I recall there are a few bald spots occasionally.
There used to be a website, live, showing a map of earth and glonass signal quality / available sats accordingly.
There are dual mode receivers out there, but not being a uh, consumer item I guess, they cost more.
A lot of people think of GPS as only positioning, but a lot of embedded things pull time through GPS (either PPS for real time, or 10MHz for use as a timebase).
I'm sure there are plenty of things with sloppy code that doesn't exactly fail gracefully when losing GPS, especially for long time periods.
Anyway, another aspect to think about.
I was cleaning the basement the other day and came across an old compass of mine. It got me thinking, I wonder if future generations are even going to be able to operate the things.
I don't have a problem with the school saying we're only doing e-text books. That's fine.
But they should let people use them how they will. Full blown laptop, ipod, kindle, or go and get them printed off at kinkos, etc.
I don't like the forced single supplier thing. What if the only way to file taxes next year was with an ipad? Don't worry, the govn't already bought you one. They even appended the $400 for the ipad to your tax form for this year, so you don't have to. Wasn't that nice of them.
It's not that hard to move the water, especially in a low-g environment such as the moon.
It's a bit harder to pump ice, though...
I hope there is an opt out and get a tuition discount option.
Does apple give kickbacks or bulk rate on things like this? Perhaps an apple holy warrior happens to be in charge.
Not in the "GNU/Linux" sense, which most people mean when they say linux, no.
In that sense, BSD is more linux than android is, and it isn't. If that makes sense.
Nine orders of magnitude. 1ps is a billionth of a millisecond. (you forgot micro...). I know, brainfart, but 10^9 makes it that much more ridiculous.
I don't think mice are smart enough for that sort of business. Rats, on the other hand, been trained to sniff out land mines, and even TB.
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Modulator-demodulator. Handy for putting a few bits over an analog line.
Yugoslavian disintegration became a clusterfuck because of international interference, not in spite of it.
Especially Kosovo, what a joke. NATO comes in on false accusations of genocide. The UN passes a resolution that it will not be given independence, and a few years later it becomes independent.
Unfortunately it's hard to run a legitimate country by drug, weapons, and human trafficking (which was what the terrorist KLA, now leaders, did prior to independence), so the place has over 50% unemployment. Fuck yeah.
Funny how that works. I had an old Thinkpad (forget the model now, 600?). It was made in US IIRC. ... China.
Then I got a T21, Made in the UK (I thought that was a bit odd?).
T23 was Mexican, IIRC.
X24? Korea.
T42
And then the whole division was sold to the Chinese around then. Evolution I guess. And that's only going back fifteen years or so.
That exists, sort of.
But it's a little too pokey to be wasting those precious bits on fucking farmville.
Just because I don't have and don't like cancer doesn't mean cancer isn't amazingly effective.
Marketing is similar. An effective scourge, but a scourge nonetheless.
Eh? I thought the terminator ran on a 6502.
I was sort of half asleep on the drive home, but the radio made it sound like some moron installed a trojan (presumably hot_pic_of_me.jpg.exe), which then scraped internal networks (that should have had better access control, no doubt) for anything interesting. It was pretty vague but that's about what I picked up from it.
Sounds like amateur night anyhow. Maybe they've got HBGary running their security.
Why did you think handset manufacturers and telcos have been putting facebook type apps on phones? So you get a data plan, so they can stick it to you.
...weeks before Canada introduced the Canadian DMCA...
Christ, I leave the basement for a month and this is what happens? I thought someone else was watching out for this. They always told me girlfriends were dangerous.
Hmmm. I searched and it looks like it's just a bill. Nothing has passed?
No thumbs = no parity.
One thumb = odd,
Two thumbs = even.
Seems pretty straight forward to me.