Sometimes standardization is a way to slow down a technology. I know this used to happen in the IETF, where competitors would send engineers to add endless features, producing a huge unwieldy mess.
I wouldn't be too upset. It's like taking a penny from a penny tray at the convenience store, except it's just a tiny fraction of a penny, and from a much bigger tray.
Trackpoint logging. I like to have precise logs of trips. I'm not sure why that is useful yet, but the pack rat in me just likes collecting them. One possibility is to be able to contribute to projects like OpenStreetMap, so that we can finally have high quality vector maps unburdened by nasty legal restrictions. A further advantage of user-driven maps is that they can provide "unofficial" data such as hiking trails.
It may not be a complete solution, but this site sells various pre-made battery packs along with the matching chargers. The only thing you would need to do is attach a connectorized power cable to your GPS' battery contacts.
I've given up on waiting. I'm thinking of building either a big NiMH pack out of D cells (10Ah at least), or just get a big sealed lead-acid. The former is light but expensive, the latter is heavy but dirt cheap. Run times close to a day!
I'm not affiliated with them at all, not even as a customer. I ran into that site when it came up as a Google ad; so I guess their Google ad dollars paid off in a way. However- their pitch was very vague, without details of flavor decomposition like some folks posted above, without distinction between pre-ground and whole beans, and yet their product seemed way overpriced. (I currently buy from coffeebeandirect.com, which seem reasonably priced and quick). Therefore, that was a dig at their site, not praise.
The solid/liquid phase transition line for water moves toward lower temperatures as pressure goes up, so ice shouldn't be able to form at 300C regardless of pressure. Other than the title there is no mention of this "hot ice." The relevant quote mentions something more reasonable, namely, the supercritical fluid phase:
and it is not even clear if any of the water could be in liquid form, although deep inside where the pressure goes up, there could be a region where the water is in a quasi-liquid state. "It could pass through a strange region where it's not quite solid and not quite liquid," she says.
Do you know a good place to buy SLAs or NiMH cells online? I know of batteryspace.com but their SLAs are small (up to 20Ah). They sell pretty beefy NiMH cells, though- 10Ah for $8, or $80 for a 12V pack.
I think you're on to something, they are even measuring their data storage in units of Bible (Old and New Testament):*
The ATLAS computing system will be designed to analyse the data produced by the ATLAS detectors. The amount of data will be huge. To get a feeling, note that the English version of the Bible (Old and New Testament) can be stored on a floppy disk of 1.4 Megabytes. The annual ATLAS data volume would need 700 million such disks.
Micah hacks the computer system so Nathan can win. Peter controls the radiation power, and the ending is a cliffhanger into the next and final episode.
I was just about to sit down and watch it, you insensitive clod!
I can see how he could mean "Linux the free software project developed by enthusiastic hobbyists in their free time, when they are not at their real jobs." Of course, that was never in the definition of a FOSS project; it's just that some projects do get developed that way.
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Sometimes standardization is a way to slow down a technology. I know this used to happen in the IETF, where competitors would send engineers to add endless features, producing a huge unwieldy mess.
I wouldn't be too upset. It's like taking a penny from a penny tray at the convenience store, except it's just a tiny fraction of a penny, and from a much bigger tray.
Trackpoint logging. I like to have precise logs of trips. I'm not sure why that is useful yet, but the pack rat in me just likes collecting them. One possibility is to be able to contribute to projects like OpenStreetMap, so that we can finally have high quality vector maps unburdened by nasty legal restrictions. A further advantage of user-driven maps is that they can provide "unofficial" data such as hiking trails.
It may not be science fiction, but this one definitely has the good stuff!
It may not be a complete solution, but this site sells various pre-made battery packs along with the matching chargers. The only thing you would need to do is attach a connectorized power cable to your GPS' battery contacts.
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I did it with my eTrex and I can last all day
The problem with Lithium chemistries is they don't last long, i.e. they have a low number of recharge cycles. Guess what the hybrid car industry uses?
I've given up on waiting. I'm thinking of building either a big NiMH pack out of D cells (10Ah at least), or just get a big sealed lead-acid. The former is light but expensive, the latter is heavy but dirt cheap. Run times close to a day!
I'm not affiliated with them at all, not even as a customer. I ran into that site when it came up as a Google ad; so I guess their Google ad dollars paid off in a way. However- their pitch was very vague, without details of flavor decomposition like some folks posted above, without distinction between pre-ground and whole beans, and yet their product seemed way overpriced. (I currently buy from coffeebeandirect.com, which seem reasonably priced and quick). Therefore, that was a dig at their site, not praise.
"Stop it! Stop this jibber-jabber!"
I guess it's time to welcome our new plutocratic neonoble overlords.
You're right, I guess I should have consulted the latest available phase diagram! Water is so strange.
How will your computer work?
Wow, the evil Harry Fox and OLGA debacle. That brings a tear to my eye.
Do you know a good place to buy SLAs or NiMH cells online? I know of batteryspace.com but their SLAs are small (up to 20Ah). They sell pretty beefy NiMH cells, though- 10Ah for $8, or $80 for a 12V pack.
"Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'"
Can I get back to you in 20 years? :^)
* OK, it's a stretch, but it's all in good fun.
Well, it's not like patents are secret, and there can't be that many. Don't people have some idea of what these patents are?
You might be thinking of trademarks.
Micah hacks the computer system so Nathan can win. Peter controls the radiation power, and the ending is a cliffhanger into the next and final episode.
I was just about to sit down and watch it, you insensitive clod!
I can see how he could mean "Linux the free software project developed by enthusiastic hobbyists in their free time, when they are not at their real jobs." Of course, that was never in the definition of a FOSS project; it's just that some projects do get developed that way.
I think the guy confused it with the year we are supposed to run out of IPv4 addresses.
In short, not releasing new bugs in their patches.
It looks like Slashdot's resident armchair engineers made a pretty good call. That's what the top entrant used.