so if there is a natural disaster i'm not supposed to worry about finding food, medical help and anything else to survive but immediately start surfing the internet?
Geez, get your priorities straight, you are supposed to have enough stockpiled what you need in your mom's basement to last for years already so you don't have to even go upstairs. Of course your first priority is to help maintain the integrity of the post-apocalypse Intertubes!
In the video they show a barrel cactus being used, and the person is reluctant (in a funny staged way) to touch it. When he does he gets pricked by a thorn.
In my experience Netflix has far less selection and Amazon had the desired content available for streaming. We probably would have kept Netflix, but they made it impossible to subscribe only to the DVDs only category and Netflix's web site redesign was done by morons that made it hard to do things.
I propose to solve the naming conundrum for the satellites of Pluto. Presumably as they are somewhat close to white in hue, just call them Snow White 1, Snow White 2, etc. Since Pluto is merely a dwarf planet, this seems fitting. If one is found to be reddish in hue, it can be called "The Poison Apple".
You are probably familiar with the usual laser safety warning: Do not look into the laser with your remaining eye.
Obviously light in that wavelength range is problematic.
We do that at the NCAR Mesa Lab too. It used to be the various Crays that were the heat source, but now it is the IBM Power 6 cluster. They had to install 3,000 gallons of chilled water storage inside the computing center to ensure enough chilled water was present to cool the cluster until it could be shut down if the chillers were lost (i.e. power failure and the backup generators didn't kick work). When the new NWSC compute facility in Wyoming opens, the Mesa Lab will have to do with ordinary natural gas heat.
I was really disappointed with the oscilloscope kit. I took pains to build it carefully, but the high voltage supply kept dying, so I could never really use the scope. I even sent it in for repair and it worked for all of a few weeks before it died for the same reason again. The only thing I kept from it were the probes and I repurposed part of the case as a anti-squirrel guard for a bird feeder.
I've seen bright LED holiday lights that used a half wave rectifier scheme and they flickered badly at 60 Hz. I refused to use those types inside on the tree because it would drive me batty with them flickering in my peripheral vision. The better ones use a full wave rectifier and you get 120 Hz flickering, which may be tolerable for most people. The intensity of the light source affects the frequency at which the flicker will disappear, and this will also vary for different people. When I built a "dawn simulator" alarm clock using a bunch of white LEDs, I ended up doing the PWM dimming at about 200 Hz to avoid the flickering at lower light levels.
The HexBright project appears to be proceeding, he posts videos showing progress on the prototype testing and mentioned in March that he was going to have a production run of 100 units made to test the manufacturing details. He has asked for people to provide the information on their desired colors, etc.
Apparently it is a 10 minute process to convert from road to flying mode. You'll need a team to keep the cop at bay until you can take off, assuming you have about 540 feet available for the take off roll.
Why bother with siphoning fuel when you can just nick a suitable plate and put it on your vehicle to fill up? Discard the plate and nick another the next time you need fuel.
Man...I'm so tired of something changing in CA, and the rest of the country gets fscking stuck with it.
Could be a big contributing factor as to why CA was ranked as the most hated state in a recent survey I saw some where. Heck, surveys probably cause cancer too.
I thought his comment about believing that other persons were also tracking this type of information about their activities and then finding out that they weren't was very interesting. Did he just project this onto the others based on his own behaviors, or did they throw out a quick comment about how that might be interesting but then promptly forgot about it?
One of the diagrams in the article at gizmag shows a 30 mVA transformer to handle the output of the module. I guess you could light a few LEDs with that one!
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Is it really too hard to put a link to the details? Wave Glider Description
Don't follow the link, or you'll be sorry.
so if there is a natural disaster i'm not supposed to worry about finding food, medical help and anything else to survive but immediately start surfing the internet?
Geez, get your priorities straight, you are supposed to have enough stockpiled what you need in your mom's basement to last for years already so you don't have to even go upstairs. Of course your first priority is to help maintain the integrity of the post-apocalypse Intertubes!
Yeah, I ditched Amarok for Clementine also. I found it did the simpler stuff I wanted from a music player in a straight forward manner.
Except it doesn't seem to be a very usable site for drilling down into the various categories of keyboards.
In the video they show a barrel cactus being used, and the person is reluctant (in a funny staged way) to touch it. When he does he gets pricked by a thorn.
Who is going to suddenly start using Linux + GNOME3?
The users of the recently announced GNOME OS?
Because Amazon has far less selection?
In my experience Netflix has far less selection and Amazon had the desired content available for streaming. We probably would have kept Netflix, but they made it impossible to subscribe only to the DVDs only category and Netflix's web site redesign was done by morons that made it hard to do things.
In my day if we didn't like the movie we just slashed the seat. I miss the drive-in.
Spend a lot of money replacing automotive upholstery then?
They already did that with that iPhone prototype that was lost in a bar.
I propose to solve the naming conundrum for the satellites of Pluto. Presumably as they are somewhat close to white in hue, just call them Snow White 1, Snow White 2, etc. Since Pluto is merely a dwarf planet, this seems fitting. If one is found to be reddish in hue, it can be called "The Poison Apple".
You are probably familiar with the usual laser safety warning:
Do not look into the laser with your remaining eye.
Obviously light in that wavelength range is problematic.
Next they'll be patenting eye clamps so you can't shut your eyes and a tongue strap so you can't go "la la la la la" during the commercials.
Sounds like the aversion therapy used in Clockwork Orange to me.
We do that at the NCAR Mesa Lab too. It used to be the various Crays that were the heat source, but now it is the IBM Power 6 cluster. They had to install 3,000 gallons of chilled water storage inside the computing center to ensure enough chilled water was present to cool the cluster until it could be shut down if the chillers were lost (i.e. power failure and the backup generators didn't kick work). When the new NWSC compute facility in Wyoming opens, the Mesa Lab will have to do with ordinary natural gas heat.
AMD also doomed us all to a few more decades of x86 brain damage.
Instead of merely deacades of Itanium brain damage?
I was really disappointed with the oscilloscope kit. I took pains to build it carefully, but the high voltage supply kept dying, so I could never really use the scope. I even sent it in for repair and it worked for all of a few weeks before it died for the same reason again. The only thing I kept from it were the probes and I repurposed part of the case as a anti-squirrel guard for a bird feeder.
I've seen bright LED holiday lights that used a half wave rectifier scheme and they flickered badly at 60 Hz. I refused to use those types inside on the tree because it would drive me batty with them flickering in my peripheral vision. The better ones use a full wave rectifier and you get 120 Hz flickering, which may be tolerable for most people. The intensity of the light source affects the frequency at which the flicker will disappear, and this will also vary for different people. When I built a "dawn simulator" alarm clock using a bunch of white LEDs, I ended up doing the PWM dimming at about 200 Hz to avoid the flickering at lower light levels.
I tried watching the video and Flash crashed. Talk about a real glitch!
Only report the count of the number of people resident, you are not required to provide any other information.
The HexBright project appears to be proceeding, he posts videos showing progress on the prototype testing and mentioned in March that he was going to have a production run of 100 units made to test the manufacturing details. He has asked for people to provide the information on their desired colors, etc.
Apparently it is a 10 minute process to convert from road to flying mode. You'll need a team to keep the cop at bay until you can take off, assuming you have about 540 feet available for the take off roll.
Why bother with siphoning fuel when you can just nick a suitable plate and put it on your vehicle to fill up? Discard the plate and nick another the next time you need fuel.
Man...I'm so tired of something changing in CA, and the rest of the country gets fscking stuck with it.
Could be a big contributing factor as to why CA was ranked as the most hated state in a recent survey I saw some where. Heck, surveys probably cause cancer too.
Seriously, who keeps track of this kind of stuff?
I thought his comment about believing that other persons were also tracking this type of information about their activities and then finding out that they weren't was very interesting. Did he just project this onto the others based on his own behaviors, or did they throw out a quick comment about how that might be interesting but then promptly forgot about it?
One of the diagrams in the article at gizmag shows a 30 mVA transformer to handle the output of the module. I guess you could light a few LEDs with that one!