Actually, it is the President of the United States of America we are talking about, not the President of the People. The number of individual votes is irrelevant. If we had a decent education system with USA history, some sort of civics actually taught and some sort of training in logical thought, you'd know that.
The low voltages and high currents are exactly the reason for the on-board power supplies. Distribution and regulation are very difficult if not impossible at such low voltages where the needed current is high and resistance/impedance varies even slightly from trace to trace.
This is also the reason for so called high-tension lines from power plants. High voltage at lower current is less sensitive to distribution path variations and has less loss over a given impedance/distance than does a lower voltage/higher current scheme.
If you think about it, hierarchical power distribution schemes have existed since AC. They are simply more efficient than monolithic schemes.
"The term, an apparent reference to the stans of central Asia, is described as insensitive and offensive not just to "new citizens" but also to the Native Americans from whose language the word Dakota derives from"
Sorry but the Constitution and BoR mostly concern the limits on the "state", not what rights individuals have. I as an individual have rights that are not regulateable by any law. That is what inalienable rights are.
Whether you believe it or not, contracts between individuals can do just about anything that individuals can agree to do. Contracts between the "state" and individuals ARE regulateable and indeed are regulated.
Now we could get into an argument about semantics and say that because I agreed to let this other guy hit me in the face, that I'm not really being "assaulted", in the strict definition of the word. That merely provides an example of the power that individuals have. I can change the meaning of a fist in the face where as the gov cannot.;-)
We can consider the definition of slavery if you wish, and my right to "sell myself into it". Consider that I could decide to work for housing, food, and a few perks if the choice also meant that my child could go to college. Am I a slave, or have I changed the definition of slavery to suit myself?
The range of rights available to the individual ranges all the way up the the right to sacrifice myself or any part of myself for ANY REASON THAT I SEE FIT. This includes the obvious choices of blood and organ donation, risk my life to save another, and the right to die on a battlefield for the purpuse of furthering my ideals.
To sum it up, if you can choose to die for an idea, you can choose to do just about anything.;-)
Both points are irrelevant when considering consumer goods where low cost and narrow margins rule. Any customization of the drives and interfaces will increase costs unless said customizations would lead to increased volume in sales.
Since there is nothing to be gained by dropping error correction, and it will reduce the versatility of the drives, it will only cost more. There is no performance requirement that cannot be met by current drives so any changes will only add to costs without providing any true benefit.
The interfaces that exist are already standardized, already in silicon, the required bridges already exist, and the consumer already has an installed base of compatible gear. So, any current hardware will have an advantage over any new stuff that will arguably have fewer features and less flexibility than that which is currently available and it will cost more.
Think about it. Which would you buy, a device that can only store video and music(in an admittedly degraded form), requires yet another interface for your PC, and costs more than an equivalent device that can also be used for any sort of digital data storage and is already supported in both hardware and software with your current setup?
I know that I won't take that step backward.
Can you imagine any music or video consumer saying this:
Let's all buy vinyl records. Forget CDs since the error correction, speed, and versatility costs so little! I want some more expensive music! It's OK that I won't be able to make bit-for-bit copies and that the sound is degraded by wear, dust, fingerprints, and yes it is even degraded by simple copying. It's OK that I'd have to spend $120 for a decent turntable when CD players only cost $30!
Both are plenty fast. Both have small connectors. Both have power over the link. Both are already supported just about everywhere.
It's a moot point anyway
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Since the concept of private property has for the most part been eliminated from American life.
Think about it, ever since the advent of "property taxes", you have no real property rights, all you really do is lease from the gov.
Don't believe me? Try not paying your property taxes and watch what happens. Do you get compensation from the gov after they sieze your "property"? No, and according to the concept of property and the Constitution, you should. That is the end of the idea that you actually own something here in the USA.
Oh well, I had one mod point left and was going to knock offtopic the parent of this branch, but found it interesting enough to indulge and post instead.
We have not necessarily survived our inventions, yet. While it looks like the risk of thermonuclear anihilation has passed, I don't for a moment think that the last city ever to be blasted by a nuclear bomb is Nagasaki.
Other than that, we have bio-weapons and who knows what else we will invent.
When I was a teenager I found a watch at the bottom(on the drain grate) of the local university olympic high diving with deeeep deep end pool. Other than the mostly rotten band, leather, plastic, or rubber I couldn't tell as it disintegrated when I touched it, it was just fine and still ticking.
You guessed it. It was a Timex.
I sent them a letter describing the situation along with a picture of the watch(sans strap). They replied with a note saying "Thanks, if we decide to use your anecdote, we will be in touch." along with a check for $5.00 for a new band.
Yes, thirty years later, I still have it and it still works.
It is a Peltier device. It's real. It works. One side gets hot, the other cold. It's just a solid state heat pump. Do your own googles, try "thermoelectric" if "peltier" doesn'te net enough, for further info.
Actually, the Moon rotates at the same rate that it revolves around the Earth. That is why we always see the same side. Try it yourself. Start facing one direction and walk around something in a circle, while always facing the same direction. You will note that the side that is facing the center of your "orbit" changes. Now try walking around again, always facing the center. After making one complete "orbit" you will note that you have also made one complete turn.
Anyway, if the Moon were to be relocated to geosync orbit so that the period of the orbit was 24H, then the rotational rate of the Moon would also have to be sped up to 1 turn per day as well, otherwise, the cable would end up wound around as described above. Try it yourself just like above...
My brother was USN flight surgeon in Gulf War 1 and got his picture in Life magazine while attached to the Marines and thus was photographed while tending to a wounded Iraqi soldier. He said the worst he saw of allied casualties were minor accidental injuries, no war wounds.
It was a big surprise while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store thumbing through the pages and then there's your bro' in full color and 3/4 of a page.
If it runs through your heart. Running through your heart also means in one hand, up your arm, across your chest, down the other arm and out your hand.
The "problem" is getting the current to flow through your relatively nonconductive or highly resistive skin. This is why the famous CPR/defib paddles are energized with relatively higher voltages, so that the current can penetrate the skin. The low voltage "solution" is sweaty palms and sharp contact points. Can you say nervous? Can you say stamped metal case edges or PCB component pins?
Creative geek suicide: cut the tip of each index finger so that each bleeds well. Open the hood of your car. Press the cut on one finger to the ground terminal of the car battery. Take a nice, deep, *last* breath and do the same with the other finger and the positive terminal. I'm sure it will be an interesting experience. Not many have ever been conscious while having no heartbeat, even for a short time.
Besides the threat of death, there is also a completely different one, that of injury. Someday, you will short something. The power supply will be strong enough to keep pumping. Something will get hot. You will get burned and flinch. Your elbow will slam into the corner of the case/power supply/whatever and you will scream.
I have a delivery system that can reach from almost anywhere in the world to almost anywhere else.
It's called a shipping container. After that, call your favorite UPS, FedX, hell even the USPS will deliver a decent sized package.
Duh.
Even if the lowly customs officer scans the box and detects radiation upon receipt what does he do? What kind of damage would a 10KT warhead do at the dockside in Los Angeles?
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Actually, it is the President of the United States of America we are talking about, not the President of the People. The number of individual votes is irrelevant. If we had a decent education system with USA history, some sort of civics actually taught and some sort of training in logical thought, you'd know that.
I've already slapped a FP down and boosted an insightful today.
The low voltages and high currents are exactly the reason for the on-board power supplies. Distribution and regulation are very difficult if not impossible at such low voltages where the needed current is high and resistance/impedance varies even slightly from trace to trace.
This is also the reason for so called high-tension lines from power plants. High voltage at lower current is less sensitive to distribution path variations and has less loss over a given impedance/distance than does a lower voltage/higher current scheme.
If you think about it, hierarchical power distribution schemes have existed since AC. They are simply more efficient than monolithic schemes.
See this on Fox News today:
"The term, an apparent reference to the stans of central Asia, is described as insensitive and offensive not just to "new citizens" but also to the Native Americans from whose language the word Dakota derives from"
Gaaak! All they really need is a proofreader.
Sorry but the Constitution and BoR mostly concern the limits on the "state", not what rights individuals have. I as an individual have rights that are not regulateable by any law. That is what inalienable rights are.
;-)
;-)
Whether you believe it or not, contracts between individuals can do just about anything that individuals can agree to do. Contracts between the "state" and individuals ARE regulateable and indeed are regulated.
Now we could get into an argument about semantics and say that because I agreed to let this other guy hit me in the face, that I'm not really being "assaulted", in the strict definition of the word. That merely provides an example of the power that individuals have. I can change the meaning of a fist in the face where as the gov cannot.
We can consider the definition of slavery if you wish, and my right to "sell myself into it". Consider that I could decide to work for housing, food, and a few perks if the choice also meant that my child could go to college. Am I a slave, or have I changed the definition of slavery to suit myself?
The range of rights available to the individual ranges all the way up the the right to sacrifice myself or any part of myself for ANY REASON THAT I SEE FIT. This includes the obvious choices of blood and organ donation, risk my life to save another, and the right to die on a battlefield for the purpuse of furthering my ideals.
To sum it up, if you can choose to die for an idea, you can choose to do just about anything.
See my post above "Uh, hello? Is anybody out there?" about loss of performance, increased costs and no ofsetting gains.
Both points are irrelevant when considering consumer goods where low cost and narrow margins rule. Any customization of the drives and interfaces will increase costs unless said customizations would lead to increased volume in sales.
Since there is nothing to be gained by dropping error correction, and it will reduce the versatility of the drives, it will only cost more. There is no performance requirement that cannot be met by current drives so any changes will only add to costs without providing any true benefit.
The interfaces that exist are already standardized, already in silicon, the required bridges already exist, and the consumer already has an installed base of compatible gear. So, any current hardware will have an advantage over any new stuff that will arguably have fewer features and less flexibility than that which is currently available and it will cost more.
Think about it. Which would you buy, a device that can only store video and music(in an admittedly degraded form), requires yet another interface for your PC, and costs more than an equivalent device that can also be used for any sort of digital data storage and is already supported in both hardware and software with your current setup?
I know that I won't take that step backward.
Can you imagine any music or video consumer saying this:
Let's all buy vinyl records. Forget CDs since the error correction, speed, and versatility costs so little! I want some more expensive music! It's OK that I won't be able to make bit-for-bit copies and that the sound is degraded by wear, dust, fingerprints, and yes it is even degraded by simple copying. It's OK that I'd have to spend $120 for a decent turntable when CD players only cost $30!
Who has heard of USB 2?
Firewire?
Both are plenty fast.
Both have small connectors.
Both have power over the link.
Both are already supported just about everywhere.
Since the concept of private property has for the most part been eliminated from American life.
Think about it, ever since the advent of "property taxes", you have no real property rights, all you really do is lease from the gov.
Don't believe me? Try not paying your property taxes and watch what happens. Do you get compensation from the gov after they sieze your "property"? No, and according to the concept of property and the Constitution, you should. That is the end of the idea that you actually own something here in the USA.
Later...
Language and colors
Oh well, I had one mod point left and was going to knock offtopic the parent of this branch, but found it interesting enough to indulge and post instead.
Hahaha, nice try.
Now, why don't you answer the question?
Why the special/uncharacteristic behavior or false front in court?
Really seriously,
We have not necessarily survived our inventions, yet. While it looks like the risk of thermonuclear anihilation has passed, I don't for a moment think that the last city ever to be blasted by a nuclear bomb is Nagasaki.
Other than that, we have bio-weapons and who knows what else we will invent.
When I was a teenager I found a watch at the bottom(on the drain grate) of the local university olympic high diving with deeeep deep end pool. Other than the mostly rotten band, leather, plastic, or rubber I couldn't tell as it disintegrated when I touched it, it was just fine and still ticking.
You guessed it. It was a Timex.
I sent them a letter describing the situation along with a picture of the watch(sans strap). They replied with a note saying "Thanks, if we decide to use your anecdote, we will be in touch." along with a check for $5.00 for a new band.
Yes, thirty years later, I still have it and it still works.
It is a Peltier device. It's real. It works. One side gets hot, the other cold. It's just a solid state heat pump. Do your own googles, try "thermoelectric" if "peltier" doesn'te net enough, for further info.
Actually, the Moon rotates at the same rate that it revolves around the Earth. That is why we always see the same side. Try it yourself. Start facing one direction and walk around something in a circle, while always facing the same direction. You will note that the side that is facing the center of your "orbit" changes. Now try walking around again, always facing the center. After making one complete "orbit" you will note that you have also made one complete turn.
Anyway, if the Moon were to be relocated to geosync orbit so that the period of the orbit was 24H, then the rotational rate of the Moon would also have to be sped up to 1 turn per day as well, otherwise, the cable would end up wound around as described above. Try it yourself just like above...
My brother was USN flight surgeon in Gulf War 1 and got his picture in Life magazine while attached to the Marines and thus was photographed while tending to a wounded Iraqi soldier. He said the worst he saw of allied casualties were minor accidental injuries, no war wounds.
It was a big surprise while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store thumbing through the pages and then there's your bro' in full color and 3/4 of a page.
Sucks real hard.
Not only that, but if you spin up the flash plugin, all you get is a set of links that then cause more flash loads.
In summary, a very lame site. I aborted after clicking the first link and seeing the "Transferring data..." status line.
I've seen the movie(in theater no less). I liked it, but I'm not going to torture myself trying to find my way through a website about it.
Please learn how to
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highlight text
hit Ctrl-T for a new tab
hit middle mouse button to paste text
hit Enter to go
It takes a lot less time than typing all that other stuff you suggested. Don't tell me about inferior hardware or software. Those are your choices.
Are you hinting at a tape file system?
see this site for some interesting flashlights. :-)
There were some good space battles in "The Gripping Hand" by Pournelle and Niven.
Realistic, true to the physics of the universe, etc. and spellbinding as well.
I haven't thought of SCTV in ages.
...what a crew!
Wow, wow, wow, those were some *good* times...
Tommy Shanks
Guy Caballero
Earl Camembert
Edna Boil
Phillis Gumble
If it runs through your heart. Running through your heart also means in one hand, up your arm, across your chest, down the other arm and out your hand.
The "problem" is getting the current to flow through your relatively nonconductive or highly resistive skin. This is why the famous CPR/defib paddles are energized with relatively higher voltages, so that the current can penetrate the skin. The low voltage "solution" is sweaty palms and sharp contact points. Can you say nervous? Can you say stamped metal case edges or PCB component pins?
Creative geek suicide: cut the tip of each index finger so that each bleeds well. Open the hood of your car. Press the cut on one finger to the ground terminal of the car battery. Take a nice, deep, *last* breath and do the same with the other finger and the positive terminal. I'm sure it will be an interesting experience. Not many have ever been conscious while having no heartbeat, even for a short time.
Besides the threat of death, there is also a completely different one, that of injury. Someday, you will short something. The power supply will be strong enough to keep pumping. Something will get hot. You will get burned and flinch. Your elbow will slam into the corner of the case/power supply/whatever and you will scream.
I have a delivery system that can reach from almost anywhere in the world to almost anywhere else.
It's called a shipping container. After that, call your favorite UPS, FedX, hell even the USPS will deliver a decent sized package.
Duh.
Even if the lowly customs officer scans the box and detects radiation upon receipt what does he do? What kind of damage would a 10KT warhead do at the dockside in Los Angeles?