As you can have Infrared targeting you can have radio frequency (RF) targeting. It's not a matter of communications being encrypted so the enemy can't tap into your data; if your equipment leaks RF you are a target.
Early 1980's with a DEC VAX connected to VT100 terminals via rs-232 cables running under a suspended floor system. Most of the terminals were on little roll-around carts. I had pulled a floor panel to run new cable, a manager says "what does this do?" and grabs an rs-232 line and gives it a hard tug (don't know why). Two offices over an engineer's terminal/cart takes off while he's typing, rolls about five feet and slams into a wall. I replaced a damaged connector and everything was ok. The manager thought it was funny, the engineer didn't.
What if sufficient power can be generated in one area to cover local requirements and to supply excess power to other areas in time of need? Example, the east coast could power the west coast in the mornings and the reverse in the evenings. Not a complete solution, but it would help.
I worked at GE when Jack Welch came out with his "hire and fire as needed" policy. Jobs were scarce and corporations were deep into "lean and mean" and "smarter not harder", which really meant "brittle, overworked, understaffed and never mind customer care". A year or so later the economy turned and there were more jobs than people to fill them. Thats when Jack started talking about encouraging "employee loyality". Sorry Jack, you get what you give and you get employee loyality when times are good by investing corporate loyality when times are bad. As soon as they could the best and brightest left, in effect "smart sizing" the division.
Send your money to American farmers or send your money to Saudi Arabia. With the first one the money stays inside the country and that helps the economy, we are less dependent on foreign oil supplies, fewer tankers spilling crude oil on the beaches, less tailpipe polution. Which do you choose, and why?
After living with undiagnosed ADD for 36 years I started taking ritalin. I went from having an attention span of 10 seconds or less to being able to focus on a project for an hour or more at a time. 36 years of feeling stupid, of compensating, of making mistakes, of being unreliable. 36 years of thinking of myself as selfish and lazy and dumb as dirt. Ritalin isn't perfect, but it helps enough that I'm still taking it 8 years later.
Continuing research indicates that ADD and ADHD have a clearly defined organic cause (google for it). Once, depression was also considered a purely 'psychological' problem and is now known to have an organic basis and be treatable with medications.
ADD is a subtle and relatively new condition, and the treatments are evolving rapidly. If you were treated, or mistreated, 5 or 10 years ago, that's too bad. Nevertheless, today the understanding andctreatments available are different and improving rapidly. You should not hold your personal history out as a reason to avoid an entire area of diagnosis and treatment to someone. Correctly treating ADD can be enormously beneficial; a truely life changing event.
Treating my ADD has worked for me. Some argue that what is called ADD is a 'natural' condition and treating it is a mistake. Perhaps, but all I can say is that my life has vastly improved since I started taking Ritalin. I may not be who nature intended me to be, but I am who I have consciously choosen to be.
As new treatments become available I will try them, and use what works for me.
If you are expressing your opinion without bothering to research the matter, well, you have that right, but answer me this: If you had to bear the responsibility for the results of your words would you choose them more carefully?
I was diagnosed 7 years ago, at age 38, with ADD. Ritalin 30mg/3 times a day, sustained release, works very well for me. This isn't a starting dose, just what I eventually worked up to. I went from a 10 second attention span to being able to focus on a single project for hours at a time. Heaven. I am neither more nor less intelligent / creative than I was, just able to apply my abilities more effectively. After 7 years I have found that skipping a dose is not as problematic as it was at the beginning, I've learned to carry a thought longer on my own, but I still do better with the medication. People with ADD/ADHD tend to have certain characteristics including an emotional hypersensitivity, and the ability to focus well in a single area. One reason people often don't think they have ADD/ADHD is that there is usually an area where they can focus for long periods of time, reading, painting, building something, etc. "If I can focus for an hour on writing a program I can't have ADHD, I must just be ". However the ability to focus in a single area doesn't carry over to other areas. If you have never been severely depressed, as I have, you cannot understand the enormous crushing weight of despair involved. People who haven't experience this simply don't understand. As with anything subjective and powerful it must be experienced to be understood. Until relatively recently depression was considered a purely 'mental' problem that should be treated with analysis, but now we know it has a bio-chemical basis, is often hereditary, and can, and should, be treated with medication. We know this from experience and research even though the medical root causes of depression are not yet entirely understood. You don't have to completely understand a condition, and we usually don't, to be able to effectively treat it. In a similar fashion, if you haven't experienced the frustration and confusion of ADD/ADHD you can't really understand what it is like. The enormous effort that goes into doing anyting, the frustations, failures, and knowledge you could do so much better 'if only'. Saying "Just focus" to someone with with ADD/ADHD is like saying "Just feel better" to someone who is depressed, or "Make more Insulin" to someone who is diabetic. It's more than just ignorant, it's cruel. An easy way to diagnose ADD/ADHD is simply to give someone who is suspected of having the condition a small dose of Ritalin. The drug is in and out of your system fairly quickly and the effects are often quite dramatic. For me it was like someone flipped a switch and turned on a part of my mind I had never been able to use before. Some say ritalin and other such medications are just a crutch. Perhaps, but if you have a broken leg a crutch can be the correct tool to use.
While in college I worked part time in a Radio Shack when they came out with the TRS-80s. They used cassette tape to save/load data/software. The cassette drive was a standard audio cassette player with a cable to plug into your computer. When they painted a white line through the volume button so that you would always know where to set it that solved a lot of problems...
This linked article talks about using recyclable sodium borohydride as a automotive fuel. The hydrogen is extracted using a catalyst with a liquid borax byproduct. A 300 mile range/tank is mentioned. There are issues and problems, but that's true of everything. Worth a look... http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/Cu ttingEdge/cuttingedge011214.html
1. Installing new software on XP modular... 2. This software requires files xyz 3. Insert XP modular cd 2 to load required files. 4. Required XP modular files loaded. 5. Resuming new software install.
In other words, just because it is modular doesn't mean you don't have it available to install, it just means it isn't installed by default and that it can be removed and/or replaced.
Valid points all, and I like the renewability of alcohol, always have. The issue here is the CO2, global warming is reaching a crisis point. I still believe that the exhaust products of water vapor and heat make hydrogen peroxide a subject for consideration. The issues as I see it are 1. storage decomposition 2. volitility. Is this correct?
Yeah, yeah, I'm asking for a serious response here. I don't know the energy density of hydrogen peroxide, but obviously you could feed it in small enough amounts to be used in a standard internal compustion engine. Or in any kind of engine that uses an expanding gas concept. The problem seems to be in storing the liquid and in preventing contamination. Ok, the idea isn't perfect, but maybe it has potential. I expecially like the fact that the exhaust is hot air and water vapor. Anyone want to give a little serious thought and make a reasoned response? If you're just going to whip off a spur of the moment shallow response to massage your ego, don't bother. I'll go first: Instead of a single large tank, how about a large numbe of smaller tanks to isolate the total quantity that could leak or get contaminated? Next?
Use a good quality plexiglass or lexan. It's not that expensive, even if you have to replace it every 5 or 10 years. My glasses have a high density optical plastic of some kind, maybe use that.
Ok, but a while back I read an article about a guy who makes rocket motorcycles using pure hydrogen peroxide with a silver catalyst. Apparently pure hydrogen peroxide is actually pretty stable, and converts to water vapor and hot air when in contact with silver. The main problem was that the rocket engins were so powerful you could twist the throttle and be left (momentarily) hanging in the air as you watch your motorcycle leave. I don't know the economics of hydrogen peroxide manufacture and storage, but it's something to think about.
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"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
Never happen. People can't maneuver in 2 dimensions now. Add a third dimension = chaos.
You are correct; 2005 prius. I average 49mpg, my wife gets 51 mpg, my 16 year old son gets 36 mpg
Google "The Berkeley Utilities V2.0"; free DOS ports of Unix
As you can have Infrared targeting you can have radio frequency (RF) targeting. It's not a matter of communications being encrypted so the enemy can't tap into your data; if your equipment leaks RF you are a target.
Early 1980's with a DEC VAX connected to VT100 terminals via rs-232 cables running under a suspended floor system. Most of the terminals were on little roll-around carts. I had pulled a floor panel to run new cable, a manager says "what does this do?" and grabs an rs-232 line and gives it a hard tug (don't know why). Two offices over an engineer's terminal/cart takes off while he's typing, rolls about five feet and slams into a wall. I replaced a damaged connector and everything was ok. The manager thought it was funny, the engineer didn't.
What if sufficient power can be generated in one area to cover local requirements and to supply excess power to other areas in time of need? Example, the east coast could power the west coast in the mornings and the reverse in the evenings. Not a complete solution, but it would help.
Use a table.
I worked at GE when Jack Welch came out with his "hire and fire as needed" policy. Jobs were scarce and corporations were deep into "lean and mean" and "smarter not harder", which really meant "brittle, overworked, understaffed and never mind customer care". A year or so later the economy turned and there were more jobs than people to fill them. Thats when Jack started talking about encouraging "employee loyality". Sorry Jack, you get what you give and you get employee loyality when times are good by investing corporate loyality when times are bad. As soon as they could the best and brightest left, in effect "smart sizing" the division.
I didn't get ANY spam while BlueFrog was being ddosed.
Remember when you could (vax) mail escape codes to send the recipient's vt100 terminal into hardware-reset-until failure mode?
In college we did a neutron emission spectrograph on a small piece of a dollar bill; had lots of iron it it.
Send your money to American farmers or send your money to Saudi Arabia. With the first one the money stays inside the country and that helps the economy, we are less dependent on foreign oil supplies, fewer tankers spilling crude oil on the beaches, less tailpipe polution. Which do you choose, and why?
After living with undiagnosed ADD for 36 years I started taking ritalin. I went from having an attention span of 10 seconds or less to being able to focus on a project for an hour or more at a time. 36 years of feeling stupid, of compensating, of making mistakes, of being unreliable. 36 years of thinking of myself as selfish and lazy and dumb as dirt. Ritalin isn't perfect, but it helps enough that I'm still taking it 8 years later.
Continuing research indicates that ADD and ADHD have a clearly defined organic cause (google for it). Once, depression was also considered a purely 'psychological' problem and is now known to have an organic basis and be treatable with medications.
ADD is a subtle and relatively new condition, and the treatments are evolving rapidly. If you were treated, or mistreated, 5 or 10 years ago, that's too bad. Nevertheless, today the understanding andctreatments available are different and improving rapidly. You should not hold your personal history out as a reason to avoid an entire area of diagnosis and treatment to someone. Correctly treating ADD can be enormously beneficial; a truely life changing event.
Treating my ADD has worked for me. Some argue that what is called ADD is a 'natural' condition and treating it is a mistake. Perhaps, but all I can say is that my life has vastly improved since I started taking Ritalin. I may not be who nature intended me to be, but I am who I have consciously choosen to be.
As new treatments become available I will try them, and use what works for me.
If you are expressing your opinion without bothering to research the matter, well, you have that right, but answer me this: If you had to bear the responsibility for the results of your words would you choose them more carefully?
http://www.walterzorn.com/index.htm
haven't used it, but the demo is fast and interactive.
Start emailing the media, cnn, msnbc, newspapers, radio, etc.
Lets get as much attention to this as we can!
I was diagnosed 7 years ago, at age 38, with ADD. Ritalin 30mg/3 times a day, sustained release, works very well for me. This isn't a starting dose, just what I eventually worked up to. I went from a 10 second attention span to being able to focus on a single project for hours at a time. Heaven. I am neither more nor less intelligent / creative than I was, just able to apply my abilities more effectively. After 7 years I have found that skipping a dose is not as problematic as it was at the beginning, I've learned to carry a thought longer on my own, but I still do better with the medication.
People with ADD/ADHD tend to have certain characteristics including an emotional hypersensitivity, and the ability to focus well in a single area.
One reason people often don't think they have ADD/ADHD is that there is usually an area where they can focus for long periods of time, reading, painting, building something, etc. "If I can focus for an hour on writing a program I can't have ADHD, I must just be ". However the ability to focus in a single area doesn't carry over to other areas.
If you have never been severely depressed, as I have, you cannot understand the enormous crushing weight of despair involved. People who haven't experience this simply don't understand. As with anything subjective and powerful it must be experienced to be understood. Until relatively recently depression was considered a purely 'mental' problem that should be treated with analysis, but now we know it has a bio-chemical basis, is often hereditary, and can, and should, be treated with medication. We know this from experience and research even though the medical root causes of depression are not yet entirely understood. You don't have to completely understand a condition, and we usually don't, to be able to effectively treat it.
In a similar fashion, if you haven't experienced the frustration and confusion of ADD/ADHD you can't really understand what it is like. The enormous effort that goes into doing anyting, the frustations, failures, and knowledge you could do so much better 'if only'. Saying "Just focus" to someone with with ADD/ADHD is like saying "Just feel better" to someone who is depressed, or "Make more Insulin" to someone who is diabetic. It's more than just ignorant, it's cruel.
An easy way to diagnose ADD/ADHD is simply to give someone who is suspected of having the condition a small dose of Ritalin. The drug is in and out of your system fairly quickly and the effects are often quite dramatic. For me it was like someone flipped a switch and turned on a part of my mind I had never been able to use before.
Some say ritalin and other such medications are just a crutch. Perhaps, but if you have a broken leg a crutch can be the correct tool to use.
While in college I worked part time in a Radio Shack when they came out with the TRS-80s. They used cassette tape to save/load data/software. The cassette drive was a standard audio cassette player with a cable to plug into your computer. When they painted a white line through the volume button so that you would always know where to set it that solved a lot of problems...
This linked article talks about using recyclable sodium borohydride as a automotive fuel. The hydrogen is extracted using a catalyst with a liquid borax byproduct. A 300 mile range/tank is mentioned. There are issues and problems, but that's true of everything. Worth a look...u ttingEdge /cuttingedge011214.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/C
1. Installing new software on XP modular ...
2. This software requires files xyz
3. Insert XP modular cd 2 to load required files.
4. Required XP modular files loaded.
5. Resuming new software install.
In other words, just because it is modular doesn't mean you don't have it available to install, it just means it isn't installed by default and that it can be removed and/or replaced.
Valid points all, and I like the renewability of alcohol, always have. The issue here is the CO2, global warming is reaching a crisis point. I still believe that the exhaust products of water vapor and heat make hydrogen peroxide a subject for consideration. The issues as I see it are 1. storage decomposition 2. volitility. Is this correct?
Yeah, yeah, I'm asking for a serious response here. I don't know the energy density of hydrogen peroxide, but obviously you could feed it in small enough amounts to be used in a standard internal compustion engine. Or in any kind of engine that uses an expanding gas concept. The problem seems to be in storing the liquid and in preventing contamination. Ok, the idea isn't perfect, but maybe it has potential. I expecially like the fact that the exhaust is hot air and water vapor. Anyone want to give a little serious thought and make a reasoned response? If you're just going to whip off a spur of the moment shallow response to massage your ego, don't bother. I'll go first: Instead of a single large tank, how about a large numbe of smaller tanks to isolate the total quantity that could leak or get contaminated? Next?
Use a good quality plexiglass or lexan. It's not that expensive, even if you have to replace it every 5 or 10 years. My glasses have a high density optical plastic of some kind, maybe use that.
1/4 of all coral reefs are dead. The rest are dying, all due to pollution and global warming. You do not have my sympathy.
Ok, but a while back I read an article about a guy who makes rocket motorcycles using pure hydrogen peroxide with a silver catalyst. Apparently pure hydrogen peroxide is actually pretty stable, and converts to water vapor and hot air when in contact with silver. The main problem was that the rocket engins were so powerful you could twist the throttle and be left (momentarily) hanging in the air as you watch your motorcycle leave. I don't know the economics of hydrogen peroxide manufacture and storage, but it's something to think about.