So you're saying "other than a $100B industry, not so much?" What does it take to impress you?
The "space economy" was estimated at about $180 billion in 2005, according to a report by the Space Foundation released in 2006. More than 60 percent of space-related economic activity came from commercial goods and services.
You'd have to have a module at the end of a tether that's several hundred m long. If the tether's too short, the coriolis force would make it a very unsettling place to be. So if you want a station that has both freefall and simulated-gravity environments, you end up with a very large station.
They're low on fuel, and in a very low orbit over the moon. Once they run out of fuel, the moon's uneven gravitational field will ensure they'll crash soon anyway. Better to make it a controlled crash; I'd rather not have them crash into the Apollo 11 landing site.
The Spectrum made audible noises when running. Not via the speaker AFAICT, actual noise made by the chips themselves. I've never head that with other devices.
Generally you want the emergency number to be difficult to dial by accident. In the past, some national telecoms agencies made sure that no other numbers had the same first digit as the emergency number. This is being eroded now; in.nl, some idiot provider decided to make voicemail reachable via 1233 when emergency is 112.
When I see mapping applications on a mobile phone I always wonder how much it costs when you use it on a regular basis.
My 2003 Palm TX has most of Europe stored on a 1GB SD card so it'll work without a data connection, but I see Google Maps will download the required data every time.
I would bet that if people believed these reports, some relatively inexpensive measures could be taken to prevent a much more expensive catastrophe
The Netherlands expect to spend over E100B until the year 2100 on combating the consequences of rising sea levels. Doable for a rich country, but not exactly cheap.
the 1/4 inch audio jack is a 19th century phone switchboard plug
Which just goes to show how persistent a bad standard can be. The 1/4" jack was made to be easy to insert to the detriment of everything else including electrical safety. The design guarantees that the (live) tip of the plug touches the (neutral) sleeve of the socket every time you insert or remove it, resulting in a loud bang when you insert or remove a jack somewhere in your audio system. The XLR plug avoids this by making sure the neutral side of plug and socket always connect first, but people still design new "professional" audio equipment using jacks.
Apple Extended Keyboard II FTW via an ADB-USB converter. Unfortunately I recently found out that the cheap USB keyboard-mouse switch I bought won't work with the ADB-USB converter, so I'll have to find another KVM. Anyone have a tip? I had a nice Belkin KVM, but had to toss it after it fried two laptops.
I think you'll find that solar panels will actually heat up the ground and the air above them, because they have a far lower albedo than the ground you place them on.
The IP softphones I've used have problems with audio lag, dropouts, terrible sound quality (not helped by crappy headset microphones) and shitty UIs. A physical phone omits some of these problems, but you have to spend $$$ to get an implementation that's as good as POTS.
If you'd read my post you'd have seen that I didn't buy the 6G. I had expected to get my 1G back with a new battery.
And yes, I'm considering replacing it with something else. Thing is, I actually like iTunes and smart playlists that automatically fill my iPod with criteria like 'not played in the last 4 weeks'. I don't want to go back to manual music management. Current front runner is a second-hand iPod Nano 5G.
These days F1 technology is very much driven by road vehicle manufacturers & environmental concerns.
Nah, it's driven by the teams' desire to lower costs. "The most uncompromising cars possible" led to budgets in excess of $100M per year per team, which was unsustainable.
For TL tubes, you can get dimmable electronic ballasts which convert the power grid frequency to something in the 10 kHz range. I have one hanging over the dining room table, and it's wonderfully silent and flicker-free. The only drawback is the price (~$40).
I got my iPod nano 1G replaced with a 6G in the battery recall program, and it feels like a downgrade.
- The interface defaults to the useless album art screen, so that's one extra action every time you want to do anything.
- A touchscreen is way inferior to the clickwheel. It's now impossible to operate the iPod without looking at it, even for simple things like skipping a track. So I attached a remote controller which halves its battery life.
- the touchscreen also means that you have to press the button to wake up the screen before you can do anything. Two actions before you get to a useful screen.
- Some idiot has decided that when you're playing music from a playlist, you then can't easily navigate back to the playlist from the default (album art) screen. You have to go all the way back to Music->Playlist->select the list you're in->scroll down to wherever you are.
Instead of a labeler, find a label printer that attaches to a computer. If you do more than a couple of labels, the crappy keyboard and UI of a handheld labeler will drive you crazy.
But energy savings in terms of heating are often diminished or cancelled by the additional energy expenditures required for air conditioning during the summer.
What? How would installing a heat pump mean you need to use more air con in the summer?
Also, this only talks about heat pumps that use the outside air as their heat source. What about a heat pump that uses a ground loop?
Years ago, there was a story where they used motorbikes with wifi to connect villages to each other and the nearest city. This was in Cambodia before cheap mobile phones, they had a Fidonet-ish setup where outgoing email would be uploaded to the motorbike and stored there for delivery to the next village or to an Internet-connected computer in the city. The company that set this up.
TFA states that no, they won't be creating impulses in the water. Instead, they noticed that a. waves can travel on the surface, or at the thermocline. b. waves interact with and can be influenced by the seafloor. They propose to shape the seafloor so that the waves move from the surface to the thermocline. This means the wave is no longer visible at the sea surface.
We'd need a revolution in 3D printing to make printing an Analytical Engine feasible. A machine like the Analytical Engine puts significant stress on its gears and shafts. The current crop of metal printers use sintering, which does not yield a very strong part. You'd need a printer that can create parts that rival the strength of cast parts.
Everyone's focusing on the blah blah blah, but this is the big news: a laser cutter that can be bought for less than $1000! That would make it affordable to hobbyists. Being a 2D machine, it's also easy to prepare drawing files for. Much easier than making.stl files for a 3D printer or CNC machine. This means it's also affordable from a time perspective.
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So you're saying "other than a $100B industry, not so much?"
What does it take to impress you?
The "space economy" was estimated at about $180 billion in 2005, according to a report by the Space Foundation released in 2006. More than 60 percent of space-related economic activity came from commercial goods and services.
( from here and here)
You'd have to have a module at the end of a tether that's several hundred m long. If the tether's too short, the coriolis force would make it a very unsettling place to be.
So if you want a station that has both freefall and simulated-gravity environments, you end up with a very large station.
They're low on fuel, and in a very low orbit over the moon. Once they run out of fuel, the moon's uneven gravitational field will ensure they'll crash soon anyway. Better to make it a controlled crash; I'd rather not have them crash into the Apollo 11 landing site.
The Spectrum made audible noises when running. Not via the speaker AFAICT, actual noise made by the chips themselves. I've never head that with other devices.
Yes, but from the Google Maps FAQ:
Features that require a network connection - such as directions and Navigation - aren't available offline.
So how useful are offline maps if you can't use them for navigation?
What I want is to avoid paying a fortune in roaming charges when I'm on vacation across Europe.
Generally you want the emergency number to be difficult to dial by accident. In the past, some national telecoms agencies made sure that no other numbers had the same first digit as the emergency number. This is being eroded now; in .nl, some idiot provider decided to make voicemail reachable via 1233 when emergency is 112.
When I see mapping applications on a mobile phone I always wonder how much it costs when you use it on a regular basis.
My 2003 Palm TX has most of Europe stored on a 1GB SD card so it'll work without a data connection, but I see Google Maps will download the required data every time.
I would bet that if people believed these reports, some relatively inexpensive measures could be taken to prevent a much more expensive catastrophe
The Netherlands expect to spend over E100B until the year 2100 on combating the consequences of rising sea levels. Doable for a rich country, but not exactly cheap.
the 1/4 inch audio jack is a 19th century phone switchboard plug
Which just goes to show how persistent a bad standard can be. The 1/4" jack was made to be easy to insert to the detriment of everything else including electrical safety. The design guarantees that the (live) tip of the plug touches the (neutral) sleeve of the socket every time you insert or remove it, resulting in a loud bang when you insert or remove a jack somewhere in your audio system. The XLR plug avoids this by making sure the neutral side of plug and socket always connect first, but people still design new "professional" audio equipment using jacks.
Apple Extended Keyboard II FTW via an ADB-USB converter. Unfortunately I recently found out that the cheap USB keyboard-mouse switch I bought won't work with the ADB-USB converter, so I'll have to find another KVM. Anyone have a tip? I had a nice Belkin KVM, but had to toss it after it fried two laptops.
I think you'll find that solar panels will actually heat up the ground and the air above them, because they have a far lower albedo than the ground you place them on.
The IP softphones I've used have problems with audio lag, dropouts, terrible sound quality (not helped by crappy headset microphones) and shitty UIs. A physical phone omits some of these problems, but you have to spend $$$ to get an implementation that's as good as POTS.
If you'd read my post you'd have seen that I didn't buy the 6G. I had expected to get my 1G back with a new battery.
And yes, I'm considering replacing it with something else. Thing is, I actually like iTunes and smart playlists that automatically fill my iPod with criteria like 'not played in the last 4 weeks'. I don't want to go back to manual music management. Current front runner is a second-hand iPod Nano 5G.
These days F1 technology is very much driven by road vehicle manufacturers & environmental concerns.
Nah, it's driven by the teams' desire to lower costs. "The most uncompromising cars possible" led to budgets in excess of $100M per year per team, which was unsustainable.
For TL tubes, you can get dimmable electronic ballasts which convert the power grid frequency to something in the 10 kHz range. I have one hanging over the dining room table, and it's wonderfully silent and flicker-free. The only drawback is the price (~$40).
I got my iPod nano 1G replaced with a 6G in the battery recall program, and it feels like a downgrade.
- The interface defaults to the useless album art screen, so that's one extra action every time you want to do anything.
- A touchscreen is way inferior to the clickwheel. It's now impossible to operate the iPod without looking at it, even for simple things like skipping a track. So I attached a remote controller which halves its battery life.
- the touchscreen also means that you have to press the button to wake up the screen before you can do anything. Two actions before you get to a useful screen.
- Some idiot has decided that when you're playing music from a playlist, you then can't easily navigate back to the playlist from the default (album art) screen. You have to go all the way back to Music->Playlist->select the list you're in->scroll down to wherever you are.
Instead of a labeler, find a label printer that attaches to a computer. If you do more than a couple of labels, the crappy keyboard and UI of a handheld labeler will drive you crazy.
- rabbit's foot
- magic wand
- crystal ball
- hammer
- hand grenade
(from here)
But energy savings in terms of heating are often diminished or cancelled by the additional energy expenditures required for air conditioning during the summer.
What? How would installing a heat pump mean you need to use more air con in the summer?
Also, this only talks about heat pumps that use the outside air as their heat source. What about a heat pump that uses a ground loop?
Years ago, there was a story where they used motorbikes with wifi to connect villages to each other and the nearest city. This was in Cambodia before cheap mobile phones, they had a Fidonet-ish setup where outgoing email would be uploaded to the motorbike and stored there for delivery to the next village or to an Internet-connected computer in the city. The company that set this up.
TFA states that no, they won't be creating impulses in the water. Instead, they noticed that
a. waves can travel on the surface, or at the thermocline.
b. waves interact with and can be influenced by the seafloor.
They propose to shape the seafloor so that the waves move from the surface to the thermocline. This means the wave is no longer visible at the sea surface.
Remember the Shuttle? 3 engines that were fed using sideways fuel transfer from the ET?
We'd need a revolution in 3D printing to make printing an Analytical Engine feasible.
A machine like the Analytical Engine puts significant stress on its gears and shafts. The current crop of metal printers use sintering, which does not yield a very strong part. You'd need a printer that can create parts that rival the strength of cast parts.
ok, make that $1500. Still, a BIG price drop.
Bummer that it's US-only for now.
Everyone's focusing on the blah blah blah, but this is the big news: a laser cutter that can be bought for less than $1000! That would make it affordable to hobbyists. .stl files for a 3D printer or CNC machine. This means it's also affordable from a time perspective.
Being a 2D machine, it's also easy to prepare drawing files for. Much easier than making