I was able to program all my devices onto it, and it learned the commands for a daewoo 5800 dvd player. I haven't found a need to touch any of my original remotes. Also, you can have it "learn" the special menus. A neat thing you can do is program any key for any device. So if you want to control the amp with the cd player selected, you can program it to. It fits really well in the hand, costs under 20 dollars, and its available at shopko.
I did a considerable amount of shopping for a low-cost universal remote, and this has the best price/performance ratio of them all. Why spend $700. I highly recommend this one.
No, I did not mean to imply a comparison between the number 1.5kw and what an actual VW engine was.
Briefly reviewing my numbers, 1.5 kw does seem quite low, and I must have been thinking of something else. You would probably need a minimum 5 kw, and even then it probably would be more golf cart than car. To have the VW act like a typical car you would need to have 15kw.
I probably remembered the decimal place wrong, i.e 1.5kw versus 15kw, as it has been a while since I had the calculator out.
I knew if I was wrong, some slashdotter would correct me, which has been the case:)) It was either that or I was thinking of some wind assist:))
I have given much thought to this, and in fact have done the math. Though it is a hassle to repeat here.
I came up with a general number -- 1.5 kilowatts, this is about the amount of energy you would need to propel a small car (like a volkswagon beetle, old variety). This is about the same as a small gasoline engine could provide.
While it looks like a lens like this might be able to provide the power, there are a number of issues that need to be addressed.
One is continual focus of the lens. The position of the sun changes, as does the direction you drive, so you need to be able to quickly move the mirror. If the mirror has to swing around too much, you will lose energy to whatever you are powering pretty quickly.
Another is clouds. You need to have a backup plan (coal?:) ) if you have an overcast day. This will vary from place to place though.
Along the same lines, the sun is quite low in the horizon during the winter (at least for northern latitudes) and you will have difficulty getting meaningful energy/focusing consistently from solar energy. Also don't forget, you need to drive at night.
Ideally, you would have a fuel cell as backup. But fuel cell technology is a _long_ way from being practical.
As good as this lens is, I am pretty sure that it would fall short of the necessary 1.5 kw to work.
But I continually think about a solar car, and plan on building one someday, even if I have to create the practical tech to make it work.
As an aside, fuel cells by themselves are not that efficient as some have made them out to be - about 30% to 45% (at least the common ones I know about). The high efficiency would come from cogeneration (such as steam) that uses the waste heat from the fuel cell for power. In an arrangement like this, efficiency can be around 80%.
There are a number of factors that can lead to an apparent psychotic episode, not all of which might be schizophrenia.
Also, there may be symptoms of other conditions (like OCD, ADD) that may be present.
This is important because you want to treat the _primary_ condition and not one of the apparent symptoms of the psychotic episode.
Having the wrong medication (i.e. being treated for schizophrenia when it is something else) can be very unpleasant and actually do more harm than help.
It is difficult to say specifically without knowing more about the circumstances surrounding your sister's difficulties. Age of diagnosis also plays a role.
If she is older, she could develope techniques for dealing with some of the symptoms. If this is happening when she is younger, she wants to avoid being defined by her illness.
Do not give up hope, as there is progress being made in this area.
But it is important that she has unconditional support from those around her, to help her adapt to the symptoms. Her biggest success will come from her being proactive in her own treatment.
So the Earth's gravitons are pushing at me, and mine at the Earth, so we repel? It must be all the gravitons from space and the atmosphere pushing me down against the Earth then.
Maybe to take advantage of unique promotional offers, special "member" content deals, opportunity to buy the deluxe version, discounts on merchandise, and news about regular updates.
Right, it's one thing to lose that theatre-cam pirate copy, and quite another to lose all your important documents and back up data. Reminiscent of a bad eighties commercial;
This is your data; 10110010010101011110010010
This is your data on bad firmware; 1011.....01....11110000........01.... Get it????
Yeah, the elfen chic Liv is pretty hot. I hear she is married now though.
ebay, who owns payal now, will fold an auction if it feels the temperature outside is wrong.
It's not hard to envision a scenario where the RIAA called somebody up at ebay and said, "Hey, look, we have found a couple of illegal mp3s on freenet and we are going to sue you because you are helping sponser illegal filesharing."
ebay being ebay folded like a cheap card table.
I haven't been on freenet for a while so I do not know what is on there. But it works for your favorite *AA
Too bad its not open source, as there are other wicked fast processor cores available. For example Xilinx can license you to put a PowerPC in its FPGA cores.
You can find the code easily. There are a couple of other clones, but I have not heard much about them. Another one is BlackARM developed in Sweden a couple of years ago.
I think these projects would be ok as long as they are instruction compatible, but not an internal clone. In which case ARM would pull out their lawyer dogs.
But there are a couple of other open source cores available, which IMHO would be smarter to use because you could do more with them without the fear of legal reprisal from ARM.
If you are designing an embedded system, you might could get by using such a core. The thing ARM has going for it is that commercial support and toolkits are available, which can be handy if you have a complex application that needs a lot of debugging. And there is a lot of third party support that you are not going to find with your homegrown core.
That being said, you could save a fair amount of money using an open core. But if you need to get something important out the door quickly (like a toy for christmas) you go with the commercial solution. Unless you have the necessary in-house resources to troubleshoot problems.
You bring up an interesting point. The reason this might be valuable is because ARM processors are known for their low current and energy saving features.
Almost always when you max out the clock speed on a chip the current drain rises quickly.
From the article it can be surmised that this chip runs at a cool 2 watts running full out, and.31 Watt standby (somebody clarify this). If this holds true, it probably beats anything else at the same clock speed.
As as aside, there are cell phones that use a dual ARM core, one doing control duty and another doing DSP work.
Sorry, but if you're going to wage an illegal war and invade another country, don't go blaming others when you lose some people.
This is the problem I have with the war in Iraq. Every day we "lose some people" to rebels who think that it is ok to attack our soldiers.
Regardless of what justification there may or may not have been for the war (I think WMD certainly wasn't it), if we are going to fight a war, we need to fight a war.
Which means we defeat those who are attacking us. Obviously, we have not communicated to the other side that they are defeated.
I think that the argument that there are foreign forces travelling to Iraq just to engage our troops a cogent one.
Still, when they get to Iraq, they need a support structure to exist in, which means that the natives are helping out.
The very problem with this war is we are as I said in my parent post, trying to help the Iraqi people. You can not do this with a war. You use war to defeat people. The Iraqi people have yet to be defeated. Maybe if they were they wouldn't give help to all the rebel fighters there.
There was a 'man on the street interview' on the news where a someone said we need to reduce the place to rubble. I think this might be an argument to consider.
I know this is anathema to many people. But a police action is what the UN is for (and what we left behind when we decided to 'go at it alone').
I agree that this is a horrendous concept, and would lead to the entire Arab world angry at us. But one could argue they are already angry at us. But there really is no morality in war, just the goal of defeating your opponent. And why the argument against the 'cycle of violence' doesn't hold any water. If you are worried about the 'cycle of violence,' you don't fight a war in the first place.
So much as the prisoners being civilians, we do not know what circumstances that led to the arrest of 'these civilians.' Otherwise, they are the collateral damage of war. Crass, but true. That's just the way war is.
I hope people are mindful of this when they vote in November.
I think this entire situation would be different if it was not for Arab oil.
I was not speaking of the Americna army, but rather third world interests that are going to buy for "bang to to the buck".
The US army actually deploys comparatively few mines compared to other armies.
It really is about cost for those buying mines (other than NATO).
I remember seeing pictures of a particular deadly mine manufactured in China. Made out of plastic, explosive, and one simple integrated circuit, it was an example of efficiency of design and deadliness.
All your points are well made, though I agree with some more than others.
It is not counterintuitive to use "smart ammunition" that does what you want it to do and not more.
I think the distinction needs to be made between a smart weapon for the purpose of killing a specific target and a smart weapon for the purpose of protecting the adjacent citzenry.
The former is an obvious priority, while the latter is not. If a civillian is in the way of your enemy, and you are going to kill your enemy no matter what, oh well.
Anarchy is not only a problem for the victims of the war crimes, but an even bigger problem for an army. If you don't control your soldiers and their action, you will probably lose the war. Anarchy is the best sign for bad moral and discipline, or in other words an ineffective army.
This is debatable, however clear it may seem from our perspective and the way we control our army.
I find the easiest way to counter the arguments you and others may make is not by parsing the logic, but rather point to the reality.
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia is the first to come to mind, with horrific atrocities (the killing fields) seeming to be a shared goal of all those that belong to the Khmer Rouge.
The leader, Pol Pot, arguably was never brought to justice. He died in relative comfort.
The coup d'tat in Chile is another example. Agusto Pinochet and the "carvan of death" tortured and killed thousands of people. Pinochet has never faced any real justice for his crimes.
I think that you confuse true anarchy with sponsored terrorism. Both these examples show that an immoral army can have enough cohesion to perform atrocities breaking "the laws of war" and do so in the face of numerous treaties in place to prevent such actions.
It is a bit tricky if you should really call fighting a terrorist organizations like al-quaeda for a war, al-quaeda have more in common with a criminal organizations than a true army.
I was not speaking from our perspective, but the perspective of alqaeda, in which they have declared war on us Americans.
I agree they have more in common with a criminal organization than an army. I also think that it is important that the distinction perhaps should be made, as it is needed to determine how we should respond to them. In other words, if they are criminals (and I think that this is the proper road) they need to be named, hunted down, and brought to justice. I think the humiliation of a public trial on american soil would do more service than throwing the term "war on terror" around. I realize this is easier said than done, but if we had directed our militarty efforts to the border of Afganistan rather than Iraq, Osama bin Laden could very well be in custody.
If they are an army, then we fight them like an army. Meaning we drop bombs on them no matter where they are until they are dead or taken out, wherever they are hiding. This might would motivate countries (like Saudi Arabia) not to offer refuge to alqaeda, and instead to capture and behead them. It seems though that they receive a wink and a nod from many in the Arab world.
One alternative to both, as difficult as it may seem, is to stop buying oil from Arab interests. This would certainly mean an economic hardship here in America, and other countries would buy up the balance. So there is a question if this would even work if we could do it, and move to an "hydrogen economy".
Anyway, from alqaeda's perspective, they are fighting a war against us.
It is such a sad story how the "war on terror" lost the plot that I will stop there.
It has become unnecessarily convoluted, and you are right in choosing to end there, as there is not enough room (or time) for all the necessary discussion.
I think that "aimless" wars, like the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs" serve no purpose other than a convenient sound bite or justification for some political philosophy, and do more harm on the collective psyche than achieving practical results.
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The setup room is quiet.
It's either that or you lost your hearing from all the noise sometime in the past.
I use Philips universal remote
I was able to program all my devices onto it, and it learned the commands for a daewoo 5800 dvd player. I haven't found a need to touch any of my original remotes. Also, you can have it "learn" the special menus. A neat thing you can do is program any key for any device. So if you want to control the amp with the cd player selected, you can program it to. It fits really well in the hand, costs under 20 dollars, and its available at shopko.
I did a considerable amount of shopping for a low-cost universal remote, and this has the best price/performance ratio of them all. Why spend $700. I highly recommend this one.
At least the kid will get the help he needs now.
Like a smaller camcorder.
Solution: offer movies-on-demand at the same time they play in theaters.
Would this mean that I could use the camcorder at home to record the movie??
just wondering.....wait, I think I hear a knock on the door....does anybody here know who the FDI is???
No, I did not mean to imply a comparison between the number 1.5kw and what an actual VW engine was.
:)) It was either that or I was thinking of some wind assist :))
Briefly reviewing my numbers, 1.5 kw does seem quite low, and I must have been thinking of something else. You would probably need a minimum 5 kw, and even then it probably would be more golf cart than car. To have the VW act like a typical car you would need to have 15kw.
I probably remembered the decimal place wrong, i.e 1.5kw versus 15kw, as it has been a while since I had the calculator out.
I knew if I was wrong, some slashdotter would correct me, which has been the case
I have given much thought to this, and in fact have done the math. Though it is a hassle to repeat here.
:) ) if you have an overcast day. This will vary from place to place though.
I came up with a general number -- 1.5 kilowatts, this is about the amount of energy you would need to propel a small car (like a volkswagon beetle, old variety). This is about the same as a small gasoline engine could provide.
While it looks like a lens like this might be able to provide the power, there are a number of issues that need to be addressed.
One is continual focus of the lens. The position of the sun changes, as does the direction you drive, so you need to be able to quickly move the mirror. If the mirror has to swing around too much, you will lose energy to whatever you are powering pretty quickly.
Another is clouds. You need to have a backup plan (coal?
Along the same lines, the sun is quite low in the horizon during the winter (at least for northern latitudes) and you will have difficulty getting meaningful energy/focusing consistently from solar energy. Also don't forget, you need to drive at night.
Ideally, you would have a fuel cell as backup. But fuel cell technology is a _long_ way from being practical.
As good as this lens is, I am pretty sure that it would fall short of the necessary 1.5 kw to work.
But I continually think about a solar car, and plan on building one someday, even if I have to create the practical tech to make it work.
As an aside, fuel cells by themselves are not that efficient as some have made them out to be - about 30% to 45% (at least the common ones I know about). The high efficiency would come from cogeneration (such as steam) that uses the waste heat from the fuel cell for power. In an arrangement like this, efficiency can be around 80%.
There are a number of factors that can lead to an apparent psychotic episode, not all of which might be schizophrenia.
Also, there may be symptoms of other conditions (like OCD, ADD) that may be present.
This is important because you want to treat the _primary_ condition and not one of the apparent symptoms of the psychotic episode.
Having the wrong medication (i.e. being treated for schizophrenia when it is something else) can be very unpleasant and actually do more harm than help.
It is difficult to say specifically without knowing more about the circumstances surrounding your sister's difficulties. Age of diagnosis also plays a role.
If she is older, she could develope techniques for dealing with some of the symptoms. If this is happening when she is younger, she wants to avoid being defined by her illness.
Do not give up hope, as there is progress being made in this area.
But it is important that she has unconditional support from those around her, to help her adapt to the symptoms. Her biggest success will come from her being proactive in her own treatment.
There goes a few million /.ers fantasies
Not only that, but I feel *violated*.
Next, we will find out that she really doesn't own a motorcycle, or it's brand is "schwinn".
I wonder if it was her husband Igor's idea to perpetrate "the mortorcycle trip that takes YOU!"
So the Earth's gravitons are pushing at me, and mine at the Earth, so we repel? It must be all the gravitons from space and the atmosphere pushing me down against the Earth then.
This only works for however long the LSD lasts.
What advantages to people see in Domainkeys over SPF that are actually useful, and what standard should people implement?"
The only additional standard this needs is a "caliber".
Looks like just one more reason to get top dollar when I auction my account ;)
Slashdot I hate you!!!!!
Everytime slashdot runs the freakin' gmail story it DRIVES UP the price.
Just when things begin to cool off, THERE IS another slashdot story!!
Either stop it, or I start posting Soviet Russia jokes again -- YOUR CHOICE!
So, given that, why would I want to install Helix
Maybe to take advantage of unique promotional offers, special "member" content deals, opportunity to buy the deluxe version, discounts on merchandise, and news about regular updates.
What more could you want???
Right, it's one thing to lose that theatre-cam pirate copy, and quite another to lose all your important documents and back up data. Reminiscent of a bad eighties commercial;
This is your data;
10110010010101011110010010
This is your data on bad firmware;
1011.....01....11110000........01....
Get it????
Yeah, the elfen chic Liv is pretty hot. I hear she is married now though.
ebay, who owns payal now, will fold an auction if it feels the temperature outside is wrong.
It's not hard to envision a scenario where the RIAA called somebody up at ebay and said, "Hey, look, we have found a couple of illegal mp3s on freenet and we are going to sue you because you are helping sponser illegal filesharing."
ebay being ebay folded like a cheap card table.
I haven't been on freenet for a while so I do not know what is on there. But it works for your favorite *AA
Yea right!! Do you imply everyone is so stupid to get spammed everyday and can't stop these "not so bright" spammers.
Well, we know that spammers can not be bright.
Therefore, only the couple of people making the tools that spammers buy are the bright ones.
If they were to have an "accident", that would end all of spamming! Think about it!
That is debatable.
From the sounds of it, Arm found a way to make this go away
It probably is academic though. Any significant competitor to ARM that used their instructions would bring a lawsuit.
Too bad its not open source, as there are other wicked fast processor cores available. For example Xilinx can license you to put a PowerPC in its FPGA cores.
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There is this.
You can find the code easily. There are a couple of other clones, but I have not heard much about them. Another one is BlackARM developed in Sweden a couple of years ago.
I think these projects would be ok as long as they are instruction compatible, but not an internal clone. In which case ARM would pull out their lawyer dogs.
But there are a couple of other open source cores available, which IMHO would be smarter to use because you could do more with them without the fear of legal reprisal from ARM.
If you are designing an embedded system, you might could get by using such a core. The thing ARM has going for it is that commercial support and toolkits are available, which can be handy if you have a complex application that needs a lot of debugging. And there is a lot of third party support that you are not going to find with your homegrown core.
That being said, you could save a fair amount of money using an open core. But if you need to get something important out the door quickly (like a toy for christmas) you go with the commercial solution. Unless you have the necessary in-house resources to troubleshoot problems.
Just my
How will it fare against, say a Xeon with HT or 2 Opterons?
It won't be able to heat up your house during winter like the Xeon with HT or 2 Opterons can.
This may not be so important during the summer months though.
You bring up an interesting point. The reason this might be valuable is because ARM processors are known for their low current and energy saving features.
Almost always when you max out the clock speed on a chip the current drain rises quickly.
From the article it can be surmised that this chip runs at a cool 2 watts running full out, and
As as aside, there are cell phones that use a dual ARM core, one doing control duty and another doing DSP work.
You forgot one;
5. Chicken of the she.
The password they used to get access to the crown jewels was ciscokid
Pretty 133t if you ask me.
Noted quantum physicist John Bell was a vegetarian, and couldn't stand the thought of mistreating an animal for the sake of an experiment.
In his take, the cat is either "hungry" or "not hungry". hence escaping the needless death of an animal.
BTW, find his biography on the web. It's very interesting to read.
Sorry, but if you're going to wage an illegal war and invade another country, don't go blaming others when you lose some people.
This is the problem I have with the war in Iraq. Every day we "lose some people" to rebels who think that it is ok to attack our soldiers.
Regardless of what justification there may or may not have been for the war (I think WMD certainly wasn't it), if we are going to fight a war, we need to fight a war.
Which means we defeat those who are attacking us. Obviously, we have not communicated to the other side that they are defeated.
I think that the argument that there are foreign forces travelling to Iraq just to engage our troops a cogent one.
Still, when they get to Iraq, they need a support structure to exist in, which means that the natives are helping out.
The very problem with this war is we are as I said in my parent post, trying to help the Iraqi people. You can not do this with a war. You use war to defeat people. The Iraqi people have yet to be defeated. Maybe if they were they wouldn't give help to all the rebel fighters there.
There was a 'man on the street interview' on the news where a someone said we need to reduce the place to rubble. I think this might be an argument to consider.
I know this is anathema to many people. But a police action is what the UN is for (and what we left behind when we decided to 'go at it alone').
I agree that this is a horrendous concept, and would lead to the entire Arab world angry at us. But one could argue they are already angry at us. But there really is no morality in war, just the goal of defeating your opponent. And why the argument against the 'cycle of violence' doesn't hold any water. If you are worried about the 'cycle of violence,' you don't fight a war in the first place.
So much as the prisoners being civilians, we do not know what circumstances that led to the arrest of 'these civilians.' Otherwise, they are the collateral damage of war. Crass, but true. That's just the way war is.
I hope people are mindful of this when they vote in November.
I think this entire situation would be different if it was not for Arab oil.
I was not speaking of the Americna army, but rather third world interests that are going to buy for "bang to to the buck".
The US army actually deploys comparatively few mines compared to other armies.
It really is about cost for those buying mines (other than NATO).
I remember seeing pictures of a particular deadly mine manufactured in China. Made out of plastic, explosive, and one simple integrated circuit, it was an example of efficiency of design and deadliness.
All your points are well made, though I agree with some more than others.
It is not counterintuitive to use "smart ammunition" that does what you want it to do and not more.
I think the distinction needs to be made between a smart weapon for the purpose of killing a specific target and a smart weapon for the purpose of protecting the adjacent citzenry.
The former is an obvious priority, while the latter is not. If a civillian is in the way of your enemy, and you are going to kill your enemy no matter what, oh well.
Anarchy is not only a problem for the victims of the war crimes, but an even bigger problem for an army. If you don't control your soldiers and their action, you will probably lose the war. Anarchy is the best sign for bad moral and discipline, or in other words an ineffective army.
This is debatable, however clear it may seem from our perspective and the way we control our army.
I find the easiest way to counter the arguments you and others may make is not by parsing the logic, but rather point to the reality.
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia is the first to come to mind, with horrific atrocities (the killing fields) seeming to be a shared goal of all those that belong to the Khmer Rouge.
The leader, Pol Pot, arguably was never brought to justice. He died in relative comfort.
The coup d'tat in Chile is another example. Agusto Pinochet and the "carvan of death" tortured and killed thousands of people. Pinochet has never faced any real justice for his crimes.
I think that you confuse true anarchy with sponsored terrorism. Both these examples show that an immoral army can have enough cohesion to perform atrocities breaking "the laws of war" and do so in the face of numerous treaties in place to prevent such actions.
It is a bit tricky if you should really call fighting a terrorist organizations like al-quaeda for a war, al-quaeda have more in common with a criminal organizations than a true army.
I was not speaking from our perspective, but the perspective of alqaeda, in which they have declared war on us Americans.
I agree they have more in common with a criminal organization than an army. I also think that it is important that the distinction perhaps should be made, as it is needed to determine how we should respond to them. In other words, if they are criminals (and I think that this is the proper road) they need to be named, hunted down, and brought to justice. I think the humiliation of a public trial on american soil would do more service than throwing the term "war on terror" around. I realize this is easier said than done, but if we had directed our militarty efforts to the border of Afganistan rather than Iraq, Osama bin Laden could very well be in custody.
If they are an army, then we fight them like an army. Meaning we drop bombs on them no matter where they are until they are dead or taken out, wherever they are hiding. This might would motivate countries (like Saudi Arabia) not to offer refuge to alqaeda, and instead to capture and behead them. It seems though that they receive a wink and a nod from many in the Arab world.
One alternative to both, as difficult as it may seem, is to stop buying oil from Arab interests. This would certainly mean an economic hardship here in America, and other countries would buy up the balance. So there is a question if this would even work if we could do it, and move to an "hydrogen economy".
Anyway, from alqaeda's perspective, they are fighting a war against us.
It is such a sad story how the "war on terror" lost the plot that I will stop there.
It has become unnecessarily convoluted, and you are right in choosing to end there, as there is not enough room (or time) for all the necessary discussion.
I think that "aimless" wars, like the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs" serve no purpose other than a convenient sound bite or justification for some political philosophy, and do more harm on the collective psyche than achieving practical results.