I have long hands and a typical mouse does not fit me at all. Silly putty is great for modifing the shape of my mouse to better fit my hand. So order up a convenient 5 pound blob and experience ergonomic nirvana.
I am for the FCC putting pressure on broadcast media to curb profanity. I believe that strong character based on Christian principles makes for better families and a better society. You may not like it but there are millions of tax paying, voting Americans that feel this way. America is NOT an amoral society.
You must be thinking how small minded I am.
I also agree that adults should not be prohibited by the government from hearing or viewing material based on whether or not it is labeled obsene by others. Unless public broadcast are your only source of news and entertainment you are still free to hear and view anything you want.
This post will get modded 'Troll' simply because it expresses a differing viewpoint. Now who's small minded?
I work at a place with a large ammonia refrigeration system. (Ammonia is a toxic chemical with an extremely pungent smell. 3ppm is detectable by humans. If inhaled it can cause death by tissue damage to the lungs and contact with the liquid form will 'burn' the skin and eyes. We have a very rigorous OSHA mandated program for minimizing the risk of ammonia release)
A bug in a blast freezer control program sent a slug of vapor propelled liquid ammonia down a stretch of pipe bursting the end cap and sending ammonia steaming out into the plant. Fortunately the usually busy area was vacant. Had any person been standing in the area it most certainly would have killed them.
Simplicity is exactly what makes this project great. Like you, as a kid, I had many science experiment books that had plans for electric motors but they were all quite elaborate and beyond the ability & budget of any normal kid. Of course these projects eventually were provided as a kit in scince musems and such but it was not nearly as cool as making a working motor out of stuff you had lying around.
I am a mechanical engineer in a small town (pop < 3000) and a lover of science. I have been thinking about taking this motor project together with a few other nifty science project and showing the kids at the elemntary school the wonders of science, a la Beakman/Bill Nye. I know when I was in school I usually knew quite a bit more about whatever science topic we were studing that the teacher. You can't really expect a liberal arts teaching major to have a strong interest in this type of thing, generally. This is a great project to foster interest in science in otherwise uninterested kids.
Build an electric motor from a few items that you probably have around the home or office. I think Beakman did it first but instructions can be found here as well.
...if every state required forfeiture of the vehicle on the first DUI offense? 25 states have some sort of confiscation law now.
...if drunk drivers had to purchase a special DUI offender's license plate? Are drunk drivers any less of a public safety threat than sex offenders? Sex offender info is very public information, why not DUI offenders?
I had been watching the network news stories on Iraq since the war began. Then one day last week I turn on MTV and there is a reporter doing 2 minute piece interviewing young Iraqis in the music stores and arcdes. I learned more about Iraqi life in 2 minutes on MTV than countless hours on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc.
I was in Middle and High School when then Gov. Ned McWharter started an initiative to put 1,000,000 in TN class rooms c. 1992. I also had an aunt that was a teacher in public schools at the time. The computers were basically forced into the class room. The teachers hadn't a clue what to do with them. Thousands of TN children spent millions of hours playing solitare. I would say that in the schools I was in, solitare accounted for about 70% of all computing activity.
I knocked up my wife (then girlfriend) 3 months before HS graduation. I supported her and 1 then 2 children through 6 years of college. The wife didn't work outside of the home. I had very little outside help. I did have federal and state grants and loans. I went to an urban university and there were plenty of other students in a simliar situation.
I finished my degree (with a 2nd major - magna cum laude) by working hard (19, 21, & 20 hours the last 3 semesters), sacrificing sleep and leasure, and maintaining a vision of what I wanted my life to look like in 10 years. If guys like me can excell in college and support a family, there is no excuse for a single person to quit school because they can not afford it. If you want a college education in America you can get one. Period.
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Windows users can setup an Apple Color Postscript printer selecting 'File:' on the port selection screen.
Print any document using the new printer. Chage the file extension to 'ps' from 'prn' then use Ghostscript and GSView to view and convert the ps file to pdf.
Conditioning the power to a useable form would probably be a big problem. IAMENAEE (I am a mechanical engineer not electrical engineer) but the barrel of copper would essentitally act as a transformer with the single pass of transmission wires acting as the primary coil and the drum acting as a secondary. You would also have to deal with 3 phase power on the primary side. Maybe if the lines carrying each phase were physically separated enough you could position the drum to work off a single phase. I would assemble a bank of lead-acid batteries, rectify the stolen electricity and use it to charge the batteries. Then invert the DC power from the batteries or possibly use the DC directly for lights, a radio or some other application. Without getting out the ole physics book I'd have to guess that only very small amounts of useable power could be generated from this setup. This is almost certainly illegal and without a doubt quite stupid.
I worked my way through college installing sprinkler systems for lawns and landscapes. We used a 16' metal trailer with an expanded steel deck, a steel pipe rack, and several metal lockers. On one job we parked the trailer under high voltage powerlines and got a sizeable shock if we touched the trailer with damp boots or sweaty hands.
I have also head of people filling a 55 gallon drum with coils of copper wire and stealing power from high-tension wires.
If you wanted to build a very simple boiler for a specific purpose and you had at your disposal the designs of scores of similar boilers and could converse with the designers of those boilers, then go for it.
I know that the equipment selection does not work. It is fixed in CVS.
<p>Concerning quality code... I 'get' reuseabilty, modularization, configurability, consistency, and levels of abstraction. Mostly from reading about good software development practives and browsing sucesfull OSS projects similar to mine. Also I double majored in math. That seems to help.</P>
<p>I tend to keep one eye on quality of code and the other on getting code working. I leave some code weak then go back and tighten it up when I have time. As I gain experience, maybe I will be able to write quality code on the fly</p>
Keep in mind that NASA was not putting men in space as they developed the shuttle. The last Apollo astronaut launched in 1972 and the first shuttle launch occured in 1981. Are we willing to put another hold on human space flight for 9 years to develop new vehicles and technologies? What about the ISS?
Currently it takes most of NASA's budget to operate the shuttle. Ending the shuttle program would free lots of engineers, scientist, and dollars to develop the next generation of vehicles.
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I have long hands and a typical mouse does not fit me at all. Silly putty is great for modifing the shape of my mouse to better fit my hand. So order up a convenient 5 pound blob and experience ergonomic nirvana.
NPR's coverage of this announcment included a comment that MS would still have to pay the money now even if they did appeal.
I'm not so sure that Slashdot mom won't use whatever slashdot teenager load on the home PC.
I am for the FCC putting pressure on broadcast media to curb profanity. I believe that strong character based on Christian principles makes for better families and a better society. You may not like it but there are millions of tax paying, voting Americans that feel this way. America is NOT an amoral society.
You must be thinking how small minded I am.
I also agree that adults should not be prohibited by the government from hearing or viewing material based on whether or not it is labeled obsene by others. Unless public broadcast are your only source of news and entertainment you are still free to hear and view anything you want.
This post will get modded 'Troll' simply because it expresses a differing viewpoint. Now who's small minded?
I work at a place with a large ammonia refrigeration system. (Ammonia is a toxic chemical with an extremely pungent smell. 3ppm is detectable by humans. If inhaled it can cause death by tissue damage to the lungs and contact with the liquid form will 'burn' the skin and eyes. We have a very rigorous OSHA mandated program for minimizing the risk of ammonia release)
A bug in a blast freezer control program sent a slug of vapor propelled liquid ammonia down a stretch of pipe bursting the end cap and sending ammonia steaming out into the plant. Fortunately the usually busy area was vacant. Had any person been standing in the area it most certainly would have killed them.
Simplicity is exactly what makes this project great. Like you, as a kid, I had many science experiment books that had plans for electric motors but they were all quite elaborate and beyond the ability & budget of any normal kid. Of course these projects eventually were provided as a kit in scince musems and such but it was not nearly as cool as making a working motor out of stuff you had lying around.
I am a mechanical engineer in a small town (pop < 3000) and a lover of science. I have been thinking about taking this motor project together with a few other nifty science project and showing the kids at the elemntary school the wonders of science, a la Beakman/Bill Nye. I know when I was in school I usually knew quite a bit more about whatever science topic we were studing that the teacher. You can't really expect a liberal arts teaching major to have a strong interest in this type of thing, generally. This is a great project to foster interest in science in otherwise uninterested kids.
Where did you get the idea? Other comments indicate that this did not originate with Beakman so I'm curios to trace the origin of this concept.
Build an electric motor from a few items that you probably have around the home or office. I think Beakman did it first but instructions can be found here as well.
Actually this is already being done in Ohio. See my earlier post in this thread.
It turns out that at one state actually has these DUI license plates...Ohio.
...if every state required forfeiture of the vehicle on the first DUI offense? 25 states have some sort of confiscation law now.
...if drunk drivers had to purchase a special DUI offender's license plate? Are drunk drivers any less of a public safety threat than sex offenders? Sex offender info is very public information, why not DUI offenders?
I had been watching the network news stories on Iraq since the war began. Then one day last week I turn on MTV and there is a reporter doing 2 minute piece interviewing young Iraqis in the music stores and arcdes. I learned more about Iraqi life in 2 minutes on MTV than countless hours on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc.
Go with an industrial touch screen. We use Allen Bradley PanelViews in a wet, refrigerated, chlorinated washdown environment with minimal failure.
Got a web cam?
Got a thermometer?
I was in Middle and High School when then Gov. Ned McWharter started an initiative to put 1,000,000 in TN class rooms c. 1992. I also had an aunt that was a teacher in public schools at the time. The computers were basically forced into the class room. The teachers hadn't a clue what to do with them. Thousands of TN children spent millions of hours playing solitare. I would say that in the schools I was in, solitare accounted for about 70% of all computing activity.
I knocked up my wife (then girlfriend) 3 months before HS graduation. I supported her and 1 then 2 children through 6 years of college. The wife didn't work outside of the home. I had very little outside help. I did have federal and state grants and loans. I went to an urban university and there were plenty of other students in a simliar situation.
I finished my degree (with a 2nd major - magna cum laude) by working hard (19, 21, & 20 hours the last 3 semesters), sacrificing sleep and leasure, and maintaining a vision of what I wanted my life to look like in 10 years. If guys like me can excell in college and support a family, there is no excuse for a single person to quit school because they can not afford it. If you want a college education in America you can get one. Period.
Windows users can setup an Apple Color Postscript printer selecting 'File:' on the port selection screen.
Print any document using the new printer. Chage the file extension to 'ps' from 'prn' then use Ghostscript and GSView to view and convert the ps file to pdf.
Conditioning the power to a useable form would probably be a big problem. IAMENAEE (I am a mechanical engineer not electrical engineer) but the barrel of copper would essentitally act as a transformer with the single pass of transmission wires acting as the primary coil and the drum acting as a secondary. You would also have to deal with 3 phase power on the primary side. Maybe if the lines carrying each phase were physically separated enough you could position the drum to work off a single phase. I would assemble a bank of lead-acid batteries, rectify the stolen electricity and use it to charge the batteries. Then invert the DC power from the batteries or possibly use the DC directly for lights, a radio or some other application. Without getting out the ole physics book I'd have to guess that only very small amounts of useable power could be generated from this setup. This is almost certainly illegal and without a doubt quite stupid.
I worked my way through college installing sprinkler systems for lawns and landscapes. We used a 16' metal trailer with an expanded steel deck, a steel pipe rack, and several metal lockers. On one job we parked the trailer under high voltage powerlines and got a sizeable shock if we touched the trailer with damp boots or sweaty hands.
I have also head of people filling a 55 gallon drum with coils of copper wire and stealing power from high-tension wires.
If you wanted to build a very simple boiler for a specific purpose and you had at your disposal the designs of scores of similar boilers and could converse with the designers of those boilers, then go for it.
I know my skills and how not to exceed them.
I know that the equipment selection does not work. It is fixed in CVS.
<p>Concerning quality code... I 'get' reuseabilty, modularization, configurability, consistency, and levels of abstraction. Mostly from reading about good software development practives and browsing sucesfull OSS projects similar to mine. Also I double majored in math. That seems to help.</P>
<p>I tend to keep one eye on quality of code and the other on getting code working. I leave some code weak then go back and tighten it up when I have time. As I gain experience, maybe I will be able to write quality code on the fly</p>
Keep in mind that NASA was not putting men in space as they developed the shuttle. The last Apollo astronaut launched in 1972 and the first shuttle launch occured in 1981. Are we willing to put another hold on human space flight for 9 years to develop new vehicles and technologies? What about the ISS?
Currently it takes most of NASA's budget to operate the shuttle. Ending the shuttle program would free lots of engineers, scientist, and dollars to develop the next generation of vehicles.
tech-nol-o-gy n.
1. Term used to describe that which does not yet work.
For an excellent read on the history of NASA and US space policy check out MIT's 16.891j's OpenCourseware lecture notes.
I think Mr. Torvalds should tell SCO to pay him $699 for every mention of the word 'Linux' on thier web site and press releases or else STFU.