I bought several strings a couple of years ago. They were $4-5/string, and that was at the day-after-Christmas half-off sale.
They had two kinds. One was the usual LED red, green, and amber, and strings that were a color I'd never seen in LED's before: a "candelight" color, maybe 2800K.
They appeared to be a standard light string with LEDs that fit in the sockets.
Assume the vehicle in question even had power brakes and steering (I have several that don't) the only thing that goes away is the power assist.
The brakes still work.
The steering still works.
In fact, the brakes don't really require that much extra effort. The steering can get pretty heavy, but that's because power steering racks tend to be closer ratio than manual. In fact, the hot autocross setup for some cars is to swap the power rack into the manual steering car.
Re:Is it an open protocol?
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Replacing TCP?
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Acutally, there are likely to be a mountain of patent issues. Not sure how legitimate these will turn out to be.
Peter's paper was originally presented at the same conference where Digital Fountain also presented approximately the same thing. (Building on the LT codes that they had been shipping for years)
I'm quite sure that DF has a stack of patents on their version.
I just looked at smart.com. According to Smart's own site, they'll be doing an SUV version of the ForFour for the US market in '06.
They're mocking us.
The For2 is a cute, scale model of a Mercedes A-class. Yawn.
But I'd buy a Roadster if I could title it in California, especially the Brabus version. It's not that fast (0-60 in 9.8s), but it's very, very nimble and still gets 50-60mpg. I commute 40 miles over mountain highways...that's the perfect commuter car for me.
So do you have 15 ATAs lined up in a row, with analog patch cords to your PBX, or does Vonage have a real business service that they don't advertise? (say, SIP or IAX directly to a VoIP PBX?)
I ask because I'm about to build an Asterisk box, and I really want 4 trunks and a dozen DIDs for a small office, delivered over IP.
It's 5:4, the "ideal" ratio. Kind of nice, actually. (but then I'm a photographer, and 4:3 is unnatural to me: 5:4 is normal, though there's that fiddling small format stuff that's all 3:2)
Lots of displays are 1280x1024...it's SXGA. I have a Dell LCD in that size at the office, and the pixels are square.
I'm not in a position to pull the appropriate bits of Part 15, but the bottom line is that unlicensed transmitters 'may not cause intentional interference'
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Maria Elena's is still there, and I suspect is most of the reason for the name of this chipset (easy trip from Intel Santa Clara for lunch).
The chipset doubtless sank into the mud like the rest of town.
To the siblings point, yes it floods. If you've ever been there, you'd know that sea level is a vague concept out there.
I've done four installs with a just-slightly-pre-RC1 netinst snapshot, and in all cases the installer produced a working system with a functional KDE desktop (yes, working X out of the box).
The X settings were pretty conservative, but they were functional.
This was such a shock to me that I really believed I'd burned too much karma and was likely to be hit by a bus on the way home.
I can actually recommend using the native installer instead of Knoppix to do a Debian install now.
Domain.com is now owned by DomainBank, but it used to be Bill Woodcock (of zocalo.net)'s personal domain.
Apparently there was a good bit of fun getting it registered in the first place, with the template coming back with "No, you're supposed to fill in the domain name *you* want."
Bill would from time to time reply to some of the mail he'd get, but this was many, many years ago, in the early days of the net.
I imagine he dropped the domain because it stopped being fun about a decade ago.
This is only about the difference between the time it takes for the sun to reach the same point in the sky each day, and the the time it takes for the stars to appear at the same point in the sky. These times differ by the ~4 min. daily.
This is correct. My post explains why this is true. Because the earth revolves around the sun, in addition to rotating on its axis, there is a difference of 1 day/year, which translates to 4 minutes/day. It happens that since the rotation of the earth is in the opposite direction of the earth's orbit, the day is subtracted The sidereal day is shorter, and there are (roughly) 366.25 sidereal days in a year.
Leap year, however, involves the correction for the fact that the solar day is slightly greater than 24 hrs. (only slightly). This requires the leap year to correct for the overage.
I don't even know how leap years get into this. Leap years have nothing to do with the length of the day. They have to do with the length of the year. One year is 365.25 (roughly) days, so every four years we throw in an extra day to make up for that.25. Now, as someone in another irrelavent discussion of leap years mentioned, the real number is 365.2425 solar days, so we don't have leap years on the century unless the year is also divisible by 400. (which is why 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 and 2100 are not.)
No time schemes are based on, nor are concerned with the "astral day" of 23:56, etc.
It's called "Sidereal Time", and astronomers use it all the time, because it's much more convenient for their purposes. Lick Observatory even has a grandfather clock in the hall that runs on Sidereal Time.
Click here to calculate your local apparent Sidereal Time.
When will HP cut its losses and move over completely to intel's Opteron clone?
HPQ actually makes a couple of Opteron-based ProLiants. There's a great marketing document that describes the boxes. It basically says "Itanium Is The Future...we just make these for those customers who don't know any better."
Jeez, we were talking about running NAT/Routing on an iPaq with a Merlin/Ricochet card and an 802.11b card long enough ago that we scrapped the nickname ("The Grenade") because of 9/11.
Linksys ultimately built just such a device (more like a WAP-11 with a PCMCIA slot), and Ricochet Networks sold it for a while.
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I bought several strings a couple of years ago. They were $4-5/string, and that was at the day-after-Christmas half-off sale.
They had two kinds. One was the usual LED red, green, and amber, and strings that were a color I'd never seen in LED's before: a "candelight" color, maybe 2800K.
They appeared to be a standard light string with LEDs that fit in the sockets.
We'll soon be inundated by those things here in Southern California.
Nope, but you'll be surrounded by Suburbans-in-drag that *look* just like them.
We're obviously a nation of weaklings.
Assume the vehicle in question even had power brakes and steering (I have several that don't) the only thing that goes away is the power assist.
The brakes still work.
The steering still works.
In fact, the brakes don't really require that much extra effort. The steering can get pretty heavy, but that's because power steering racks tend to be closer ratio than manual. In fact, the hot autocross setup for some cars is to swap the power rack into the manual steering car.
-Z
Actually, since both the 970 and the A64 use HyperTransport, you might not be far off the mark.
Doesn't explain the lack of ethernet, though...unless MS wanted that unbundled so they could go wireless.
I've always wondered about this in the context of Berkeley and Santa Cruz's "Nuclear Free Zones".
'You! With the solar panel! Don't you know this is a Nuclear Free Zone!'
So the victim of this slashdotting has replaced his page with links to a mirror at is-a-geek.com and the Coral Cache.
Guess what's in the Coral Cache now?
Which is really interesting,because it worked fine in Firefox. Maybe it's all Flash?
You, uh, didn't look too hard for one, did you?
Flymo
-Z
Acutally, there are likely to be a mountain of patent issues. Not sure how legitimate these will turn out to be.
Peter's paper was originally presented at the same conference where Digital Fountain also presented approximately the same thing. (Building on the LT codes that they had been shipping for years)
I'm quite sure that DF has a stack of patents on their version.
This may get interesting.
(Disclaimer: DF laid me off in 2003)
I just looked at smart.com. According to Smart's own site, they'll be doing an SUV version of the ForFour for the US market in '06.
They're mocking us.
The For2 is a cute, scale model of a Mercedes A-class. Yawn.
But I'd buy a Roadster if I could title it in California, especially the Brabus version. It's not that fast (0-60 in 9.8s), but it's very, very nimble and still gets 50-60mpg. I commute 40 miles over mountain highways...that's the perfect commuter car for me.
Not on any of the paddle-shift cars I've driven. (Ferrari, Aston Martin) Tiptronics don't count, those are really automatics with fancy switches.
Neutral is below first, reverse is either a button on the steering wheel (Enzo) or below first.
I *think* you can always get neutral by pulling both paddles simultaneously.
So do you have 15 ATAs lined up in a row, with analog patch cords to your PBX, or does Vonage have a real business service that they don't advertise? (say, SIP or IAX directly to a VoIP PBX?)
I ask because I'm about to build an Asterisk box, and I really want 4 trunks and a dozen DIDs for a small office, delivered over IP.
It's 5:4, the "ideal" ratio. Kind of nice, actually. (but then I'm a photographer, and 4:3 is unnatural to me: 5:4 is normal, though there's that fiddling small format stuff that's all 3:2)
Lots of displays are 1280x1024...it's SXGA. I have a Dell LCD in that size at the office, and the pixels are square.
Good guess, but wrong.
I'm not in a position to pull the appropriate bits of Part 15, but the bottom line is that unlicensed transmitters 'may not cause intentional interference'
Maria Elena's is still there, and I suspect is most of the reason for the name of this chipset (easy trip from Intel Santa Clara for lunch).
The chipset doubtless sank into the mud like the rest of town.
To the siblings point, yes it floods. If you've ever been there, you'd know that sea level is a vague concept out there.
-Z
Makes perfect sense.
All they're saying is that if 'g' were of the magnitude of this effect, then it would take a day for an apple to fall from a tree.
d=0.5*g*t^2
Pick a reasonable height for a tree, use 1 day for t, and solve for g.
Roughly, we're talking about something on the order of 10e-9 m/s^2
I've done four installs with a just-slightly-pre-RC1 netinst snapshot, and in all cases the installer produced a working system with a functional KDE desktop (yes, working X out of the box).
The X settings were pretty conservative, but they were functional.
This was such a shock to me that I really believed I'd burned too much karma and was likely to be hit by a bus on the way home.
I can actually recommend using the native installer instead of Knoppix to do a Debian install now.
Domain.com is now owned by DomainBank, but it used to be Bill Woodcock (of zocalo.net)'s personal domain.
Apparently there was a good bit of fun getting it registered in the first place, with the template coming back with "No, you're supposed to fill in the domain name *you* want."
Bill would from time to time reply to some of the mail he'd get, but this was many, many years ago, in the early days of the net.
I imagine he dropped the domain because it stopped being fun about a decade ago.
No.
.25. Now, as someone in another irrelavent discussion of leap years mentioned, the real number is 365.2425 solar days, so we don't have leap years on the century unless the year is also divisible by 400. (which is why 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 and 2100 are not.)
Actually, Yes.
This is only about the difference between the time it takes for the sun to reach the same point in the sky each day, and the the time it takes for the stars to appear at the same point in the sky. These times differ by the ~4 min. daily.
This is correct. My post explains why this is true. Because the earth revolves around the sun, in addition to rotating on its axis, there is a difference of 1 day/year, which translates to 4 minutes/day. It happens that since the rotation of the earth is in the opposite direction of the earth's orbit, the day is subtracted The sidereal day is shorter, and there are (roughly) 366.25 sidereal days in a year.
Leap year, however, involves the correction for the fact that the solar day is slightly greater than 24 hrs. (only slightly). This requires the leap year to correct for the overage.
I don't even know how leap years get into this. Leap years have nothing to do with the length of the day. They have to do with the length of the year. One year is 365.25 (roughly) days, so every four years we throw in an extra day to make up for that
No time schemes are based on, nor are concerned with the "astral day" of 23:56, etc.
It's called "Sidereal Time", and astronomers use it all the time, because it's much more convenient for their purposes. Lick Observatory even has a grandfather clock in the hall that runs on Sidereal Time.
Click here to calculate your local apparent Sidereal Time.
When will HP cut its losses and move over completely to intel's Opteron clone?
HPQ actually makes a couple of Opteron-based ProLiants. There's a great marketing document that describes the boxes. It basically says "Itanium Is The Future...we just make these for those customers who don't know any better."
Ah, here it is.
portfolio positioning
LANCity is long, long dead.
Rouzbeh is, last I heard, running the data products division at Terayon. (Oh, the irony!)
DOCSIS is a trainwreck of a standard, but it mostly works. It's a nightmare from a networking perspective, though.
And there's plenty of room for development in CM technology, especially in the PHY layer, to get better throughput from any given SNR.
You have no idea.
Back in the day, Terayon* hosted the big party at the Western Cable show. We had The Bangles play the party...with exactly that tagline.
*Terayon is (among other things) a cable modem vendor where I worked at the time, and where Rouzbeh works now.
This is not about the motion of the solar system or the motion of the sun.
The difference is that the earth is moving around the sun (the reference point for the solar day), which effectively subtracts a solar day per year.
Amazing how few folks actually recognize that one. Even some diehard Firesign fans don't know Bozos.
See you on the Funway...
Jeez, we were talking about running NAT/Routing on an iPaq with a Merlin/Ricochet card and an 802.11b card long enough ago that we scrapped the nickname ("The Grenade") because of 9/11.
Linksys ultimately built just such a device (more like a WAP-11 with a PCMCIA slot), and Ricochet Networks sold it for a while.