While the dollar as deity is interesting I usually use it as a way to insult all deities, even the ones I do not know about. I prefer to be an equal opportunities asshole.
You could also have a secure server in Switzerland so it can attract customers and nukes while the data is in a secure server in another continent... There are probably a lot of nuclear bunkers in the US. Norad is the best, but it is occupied atm (and an interesting target in and of itself).
Burying that much plastic as a coffin is not eco-friendly. With most 3d printer "ink"-plastic it should be feasible to re-melt the stuff into base material and that would qualify for cradle2cradle, and therefore it would be eco-friendly.
I have a feeling the people who decide what will be banned in china will only decide what is banned for OTHER Chinese people. They will have all the "Free Tibet" sites available for themselves.
The image is clearly not of a car with this battery. Assuming this is a 240V DC 2.5mm2 cable. This can carry 16 amps safely. So it implies a power of 4 KW. In 6 minutes it could transfer about 0.4 KWh. For comparison: the Chevrolet Volt has a battery pack of 16 KW. 40 times as much. Tests are talking about 76 km (47 miles for the idiots) all electric distance. 1/40th of that would be 1.9 km (1.175 miles). This is not enough to get the car anywhere useful (any distance a default person can't walk) Ergo: this is not the battery pack they are talking about. It's just a picture of another electric car of theirs being charged.
When and if these batteries are implemented they would probably not be charged at max speed at home. Overnight charging isn't a big problem for most. The fast charging would have to be done in commercial charge stations on the road, where time is of the essence. These stations would need their own high voltage supply and their own transformers and rectifiers. All very possible at points where roads and power lines cross.
I thought there was a software patent cold war, where M$ and *Nix both have some software patents the other broke and they could enforce. I thought that both sides would not enforce because they would lose to much on the whole (major parts of their OS and user experience). When I saw Vista I thought: Hey I have seen this in KDE 3.x . When I saw KDE 4 later I thought: Hey I saw this in Vista. Both sides steal, but this does mean neither side will go to court. Microsoft can and will threaten to go to court for a great many things. They will not follow up on it. It would cost them to much.
Or you could go the other way: A 5KW subwoofer, a hardcore lovers' car, a jet engine @ 5 cm. Just a couple of hours will prevent you from hearing anything else for a long time, except for the beep.
But really, for most "normal" users, the best thing they can do is get a keyboard without a keypad on the right. Having to move the arm back and forth those four extra inches to reach the mouse is far more damaging than any of the typing.
I always learned a main cause for RSI was small, repetitive movements. The extra 4 inches would help to prevent it, if I am correct. I am no doctor and have no true experience on the matter, but I have read a lot to try to prevent it.
That Trackman is great. I have had it for years now. I had a MarbleMouse before that. I upgraded it to the trackman for the extra buttons, not because it broke. Non-Logitech keyboards and mouse tend to live for a month or so with me (although I haven't looked at other good brands). There is one caveat: Some people find trackballs to be great, others can't stop cursing them. Not because they break or glitch or so, but because they work so differently. If you have the possibility you should try to test one for a month or so before you fork out $50 and decide to throw it away after a little while.
Efficient or not Diesel exhaust contains a lot of particulate matter. The stuff accumulates in the lungs where it is far more damaging to human health than gasoline's non-particulate components.
If you have followed the mess the Chinese created, you'd guess the US probably wouldn't blow it up. They are still (and rightfully) angry about it. They could, however, allow it to stay in one piece and disable it some other way. Extremely powerfull and very directed EM radiation would fry all it's circuits for example.
In a way it is. Everything is. The cosmic background radiation simply has so much redshift it's shifted to microwave (redshift of over 1000). WMAP has made a picture. Note that this glow isn't from the Big Bang itself. The universe was so hot (over a billion K) it wasn't transparent yet. There were no protons and neutrons, only a superheated quark soup. The signal WMAP captured was from about 400.000.000 years later: when the universe expanded and cooled enough to get transparent.
A couple of years back I burned my fingers on a quite new WD 160GB drive (I had a nice blister...) in 2005. After that I decided to place a cooling fan in front of it. I wouldn't have expected the drive to last for years after that incident, but it did. I replaced it last summer for a Green 1TB due to size. A disk surviving this abuse made me a WD fan, although I have read the Google paper on harddisks.
There is a big difference here: he probably uses hard raid. You use soft raid. Most raid controllers have a limit to the recovery time, in some cases this cannot be changed manually. MDADM doesn't have this check. The NON-Raid Edition green drives have an unlimited recovery time. If the controller recovery time is exceeded the controller will drop the disk.
His methods may not be perfect, but the intentions may have been good. The true loss would have been the next time. If he hadn't said anything to shock the friend into realizing what backups are good for it may happen again in a few years. That would have made him a good friend in your eyes? WHAT? The better method may be to support first, try to recover and tell him how to prevent it in the future.
No. An analog receiver could work with way worse signals. The image wouldn't be good but there would be an image, while the digital receiver would state something like: "no signal". Many a farmer in my area was appalled by that. As many educated people have stated: the frequency is the change that caused the dishes to be smaller.
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While the dollar as deity is interesting I usually use it as a way to insult all deities, even the ones I do not know about. I prefer to be an equal opportunities asshole.
You could also have a secure server in Switzerland so it can attract customers and nukes while the data is in a secure server in another continent...
There are probably a lot of nuclear bunkers in the US. Norad is the best, but it is occupied atm (and an interesting target in and of itself).
Well, the cold would not be the worst of your problems anymore.
Burying that much plastic as a coffin is not eco-friendly. With most 3d printer "ink"-plastic it should be feasible to re-melt the stuff into base material and that would qualify for cradle2cradle, and therefore it would be eco-friendly.
Somehow this made me think of:
Brian: "You are all individuals"
Audience chants: "We are all individuals"
One man says: "No I'm not!"
I have a feeling the people who decide what will be banned in china will only decide what is banned for OTHER Chinese people. They will have all the "Free Tibet" sites available for themselves.
The image is clearly not of a car with this battery.
Assuming this is a 240V DC 2.5mm2 cable. This can carry 16 amps safely. So it implies a power of 4 KW. In 6 minutes it could transfer about 0.4 KWh.
For comparison: the Chevrolet Volt has a battery pack of 16 KW. 40 times as much. Tests are talking about 76 km (47 miles for the idiots) all electric distance. 1/40th of that would be 1.9 km (1.175 miles). This is not enough to get the car anywhere useful (any distance a default person can't walk)
Ergo: this is not the battery pack they are talking about. It's just a picture of another electric car of theirs being charged.
When and if these batteries are implemented they would probably not be charged at max speed at home. Overnight charging isn't a big problem for most. The fast charging would have to be done in commercial charge stations on the road, where time is of the essence. These stations would need their own high voltage supply and their own transformers and rectifiers. All very possible at points where roads and power lines cross.
In 100base TX only 2 wirepairs were used. (The other wires are sometimes used for POE.)
In 1000base TX (Gigabit) however, all 4 pairs are used.
Check the bandwith on the Datastorm! To bad the video is gone.
I thought there was a software patent cold war, where M$ and *Nix both have some software patents the other broke and they could enforce. I thought that both sides would not enforce because they would lose to much on the whole (major parts of their OS and user experience).
When I saw Vista I thought: Hey I have seen this in KDE 3.x . When I saw KDE 4 later I thought: Hey I saw this in Vista.
Both sides steal, but this does mean neither side will go to court. Microsoft can and will threaten to go to court for a great many things. They will not follow up on it. It would cost them to much.
It's the only option for us...
who/what is god?
He is a /. admin
Or you could go the other way: A 5KW subwoofer, a hardcore lovers' car, a jet engine @ 5 cm. Just a couple of hours will prevent you from hearing anything else for a long time, except for the beep.
But really, for most "normal" users, the best thing they can do is get a keyboard without a keypad on the right. Having to move the arm back and forth those four extra inches to reach the mouse is far more damaging than any of the typing.
I always learned a main cause for RSI was small, repetitive movements. The extra 4 inches would help to prevent it, if I am correct. I am no doctor and have no true experience on the matter, but I have read a lot to try to prevent it.
That Trackman is great. I have had it for years now. I had a MarbleMouse before that. I upgraded it to the trackman for the extra buttons, not because it broke. Non-Logitech keyboards and mouse tend to live for a month or so with me (although I haven't looked at other good brands).
There is one caveat: Some people find trackballs to be great, others can't stop cursing them. Not because they break or glitch or so, but because they work so differently. If you have the possibility you should try to test one for a month or so before you fork out $50 and decide to throw it away after a little while.
Efficient or not Diesel exhaust contains a lot of particulate matter. The stuff accumulates in the lungs where it is far more damaging to human health than gasoline's non-particulate components.
Thats where particulate filters come in. They should be manditory.
peh, 70 miles to the gallon isn't the best in the timeframe they are probably talking about. See the Loremo. 120 mpg in the cheapest version.
And they have driven out power consumption! These must be great in netbooks and the sort!
If you have followed the mess the Chinese created, you'd guess the US probably wouldn't blow it up. They are still (and rightfully) angry about it.
They could, however, allow it to stay in one piece and disable it some other way. Extremely powerfull and very directed EM radiation would fry all it's circuits for example.
If you give a man a fish, you give him a meal for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you give him a meal for his whole life long.
And if you set him on fire he will be warm for his whole life long...
In a way it is. Everything is. The cosmic background radiation simply has so much redshift it's shifted to microwave (redshift of over 1000). WMAP has made a picture.
Note that this glow isn't from the Big Bang itself. The universe was so hot (over a billion K) it wasn't transparent yet. There were no protons and neutrons, only a superheated quark soup. The signal WMAP captured was from about 400.000.000 years later: when the universe expanded and cooled enough to get transparent.
A couple of years back I burned my fingers on a quite new WD 160GB drive (I had a nice blister...) in 2005. After that I decided to place a cooling fan in front of it. I wouldn't have expected the drive to last for years after that incident, but it did. I replaced it last summer for a Green 1TB due to size. A disk surviving this abuse made me a WD fan, although I have read the Google paper on harddisks.
There is a big difference here: he probably uses hard raid. You use soft raid. Most raid controllers have a limit to the recovery time, in some cases this cannot be changed manually. MDADM doesn't have this check. The NON-Raid Edition green drives have an unlimited recovery time. If the controller recovery time is exceeded the controller will drop the disk.
His methods may not be perfect, but the intentions may have been good. The true loss would have been the next time. If he hadn't said anything to shock the friend into realizing what backups are good for it may happen again in a few years. That would have made him a good friend in your eyes? WHAT?
The better method may be to support first, try to recover and tell him how to prevent it in the future.
No. An analog receiver could work with way worse signals. The image wouldn't be good but there would be an image, while the digital receiver would state something like: "no signal". Many a farmer in my area was appalled by that. As many educated people have stated: the frequency is the change that caused the dishes to be smaller.