Would you pay $100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive that is up to 6x faster than a WD Raptor?
No, but I would pay a pretty penny, though, for a durable, portable, aircraft-black-box-reliable storage device. One that will last my lifetime, take lots of damage, and never fail (well, almost never). I am amazed at how unreliable HD's are and how blase folks are about having to replace them every few years. I'd much rather have a small, slow, wickedly reliable storage device than a huge, fast, unreliable one.
Maybe I should upgrade to General, just for the fun of it.
Go for Extra! I went from a Tech+ to Extra in one sitting (Tech+ -> General -> Advanced -> Extra. This was before they eliminated a couple of the license classes). I really like being able to chase DX into the 'extra-only' portions of the band. Often rare DX transmits there to keep the pileups managable.
I agree that the navaids are 'straight' 5wpm, I like Farnsworth much better.
If you can see the sky, you can get the internet. Services like Iridium and Globalstar have made that possible.
As long as the ground stations are still operating. I'm sure thy have redundancy, but a natural disaster at a ground station site could certainly cripple their capacity, if not access altogether (a huge tropical airmass like the one that stayed over the midwest and dumped feet of rain would certainly impede comms to the bird).
Do these services have the capacity to handle the tremendous load of official emergency traffic as well as health and welfare traffic? In a localized disaster area, everyone will be trying to hit the same bird.
Ah - an excellent point. It'd make sense to use an electric pump since you could then optimize the block temp by varying the pump speed. No need for a thermostat.
I hate DST with a passion fueled by the very fires of hell. My question is why mess with the actual wall clock time, when instituting national 'summer hours' would be easier? After all, what you're trying to do is modify human behavior.
On whatever date, all stores/gov't offices switch to summer hours - open an hour earlier in the summer. The clocks are left alone, there's no double 2am problem, TV schedules stay the same, life goes on as before without the need to futz with clocks.
As has been mentioned, this isn't exactly a new invention or particularly innovative. As we've all seen from the patent office's behavior, something can be seen as innovative and blindingly obvious at the same time.
Many posters have commented on the amount of power needed to run Peltier's - remember that in the not-too-distant future cars will have 48-52V electrical systems with alternators capable of much higher power output. Car's electrical systems are already taxed given the recent proliferation of nav systems, DVD players, laptop power outlets, etc., so the move to more powerful electrical systems is underway.
Here are a few of the things that become possible with that kind of available power:
Engines with electrically-actuated valve trains - no more camshaft, timing belt, rocker arms, pushrods, etc.
Electrically powered power steering (as is done on my Mini Cooper S), eliminating that belt.
Electrically powered A/C system
The alternator either integrated in the block, or bolted directly to the crank. Imagine that - an engine with no belts!
Wouldn't it be interesting to develop a cooling element that combined the Peltier effect and the Piezoelectric effect? Anchor one end and let the other flap, apply pulsed DC to it and you get cooling and a fan!
Alcohol has a much LOWER boiling point than water, hence the cold feeling when you pour it on your hands.
I don't think a particular liquid's boiling point has anything to do with how cold it feels on your hands. That sounds a lot more like an effect of thermal conductivity and/or specific heat at low temperatures and evaporative cooling at higher temps (like on your skin). Water at 25 degrees C has a thermal conductivity of about 0.607 W/m * K. Ethanol comes in at 0.169 W/m * K. I would expect water to feel 3.6 times 'colder' than ethanol at the same temperature.
I've had good luck making a bootable CD that emulates a floppy. Stick freedos on it along with your flash utility and firmware, voila! The system's none the wiser.
Most people would say 0%, but rape is also a type of seed-bearing plant, so rape is a good thing for getting rapeseed (canola) oil. For this assertion to be useful, there must be a way to distinguish from the plant and the crime.
In fact, 3 of the first 5 are ambiguous or subject to interpretation:
1.00 is icecream cold?
1.00 is earth a planet?
1.00 Is it hot during the summer?
Is ice cream cold cold relative to liquid nitrogen? no.
Earth is also a collection of organic and non-organic substances that plants grow in.
Hot, relative to what? At the north pole, it's never 'hot'.
...back in the '80s. For example, IIRC if you press one key along the top and one along the left side they will emulate the key at the intersection of their column and row, respectively. This is a side-effect of doing row/column strobe keyboard addressing.
Here's how ot works. Simple keyboards like those on calculators are arranged as a grid on wires, one wire for each column and row on the keyboard. At the intersection of each wire, there's a normally-open switch. The designer decides whether they want to strobe the rows and read the columns or vice versa. Let's assume a 4 row, 3 column keypad (like a telephone), and that you'll strobe the columns and read the rows. Assume that the columns are numbered 0-2 left to right, and the rows 0-3 top to bottom. That means you'll have to have 4 bit read and 3 bit write capability. To read the keyboard, a signal is applied to each column in turn, and the rows are read while the signal is present on each column. If the 5 button is pressed, row 1 will have the signal present only when column 1 is being strobed. By pressing several keys at once, it is possible to simulate the pressing of any key.
What if I need to run back out later, but before my scheduled $LEAVE_TIME and there's no charge?
The same could be said for gasoline-powered cars: "What if I need to run back out later, but before my scheduled $LEAVE_TIME and there's no gas?" Just because you now have the luxury of filling your tank at home it doesn't absolve you of having to plan ahead.
I meant to say that using the delayed charge would be cheaper than the instant gratification charge. (Conversely charging during peak hours would be much more expensive). That would be the incentive to do it off hours.
I agree slashdotters would hack the charger, but that tiny minority of the population would have no effect on the grid.
You can get 7,500 HP from a 500ci engine, but it'll only last about 5 seconds. Oh yeah, and you need to be burning nitromethane at a rate of 85 gal/min (1.5 gal/sec, 20 gal/mile) with a huge supercharger that takes 400 HP to turn. Here are some examples.
Not to be too pedantic, but Newtons are a unit of force, Joules are units of energy. It may be that you want a unit of power, which is the Watt. See this handy chart.
So would there be a market for celebrity voice work for the Harley Davidson sound saying, "Potato, Potato, Potato"? I can see it now - "My electric bike has the James Earl Jones sound." "Oh yeah, mine has Arnold!"
How about when half the country comes home from work and plugs their cars in to charge up?
The charger could be programmed to come on at a random time between when you hook up and ($LEAVE_TIME - $CHARGE_TIME). If you can tell the charger when you next need the car fully charged, it can either wait until demand is low or charge it more slowly. Maybe the power companies could use the same technology they proposed to control water heaters during times of peak demand.
If you look at the diagram on this page, there seems to be what looks like a date on the upper right side. It seems to say "Halteose fur AS/12/44". Any ideas what that means?
Also, the associated article states that the bomb appears to be a hybrid fission/fusion device, which was far more advanced than the two fission-only devices used on Japan.
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A company cannot be allowed to profit from deceit."
Because Congress has the monopoly on profiting from deceit.
Would you pay $100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive that is up to 6x faster than a WD Raptor?
No, but I would pay a pretty penny, though, for a durable, portable, aircraft-black-box-reliable storage device. One that will last my lifetime, take lots of damage, and never fail (well, almost never). I am amazed at how unreliable HD's are and how blase folks are about having to replace them every few years. I'd much rather have a small, slow, wickedly reliable storage device than a huge, fast, unreliable one.
... it doesn't seem that donations are earmarked for this particular cause.
With an unrecoverable read rate of 1 in 10^14, it would only take 200 full disk reads to encounter an unrecoverable read, statistically speaking.
As disks continue to get larger, it seems more important that read reliability increase as well.
Maybe I should upgrade to General, just for the fun of it.
Go for Extra! I went from a Tech+ to Extra in one sitting (Tech+ -> General -> Advanced -> Extra. This was before they eliminated a couple of the license classes). I really like being able to chase DX into the 'extra-only' portions of the band. Often rare DX transmits there to keep the pileups managable.
I agree that the navaids are 'straight' 5wpm, I like Farnsworth much better.
73 de k4det
If you can see the sky, you can get the internet. Services like Iridium and Globalstar have made that possible.
As long as the ground stations are still operating. I'm sure thy have redundancy, but a natural disaster at a ground station site could certainly cripple their capacity, if not access altogether (a huge tropical airmass like the one that stayed over the midwest and dumped feet of rain would certainly impede comms to the bird).
Do these services have the capacity to handle the tremendous load of official emergency traffic as well as health and welfare traffic? In a localized disaster area, everyone will be trying to hit the same bird.
Ah - an excellent point. It'd make sense to use an electric pump since you could then optimize the block temp by varying the pump speed. No need for a thermostat.
I hate DST with a passion fueled by the very fires of hell. My question is why mess with the actual wall clock time, when instituting national 'summer hours' would be easier? After all, what you're trying to do is modify human behavior.
On whatever date, all stores/gov't offices switch to summer hours - open an hour earlier in the summer. The clocks are left alone, there's no double 2am problem, TV schedules stay the same, life goes on as before without the need to futz with clocks.
Here are a few of the things that become possible with that kind of available power:
Alcohol has a much LOWER boiling point than water, hence the cold feeling when you pour it on your hands.
I don't think a particular liquid's boiling point has anything to do with how cold it feels on your hands. That sounds a lot more like an effect of thermal conductivity and/or specific heat at low temperatures and evaporative cooling at higher temps (like on your skin). Water at 25 degrees C has a thermal conductivity of about 0.607 W/m * K. Ethanol comes in at 0.169 W/m * K. I would expect water to feel 3.6 times 'colder' than ethanol at the same temperature.
I've had good luck making a bootable CD that emulates a floppy. Stick freedos on it along with your flash utility and firmware, voila! The system's none the wiser.
The crew have begun to get off the shuttle.
Crew is plural? If it were me, I would've used "The crew has begun to get off the shuttle."
Hey Brian! Congrats on the upgrade! See you on the bands (maybe 2m - I'm in FM17fr.)
73 de k3det
...given the vagaries of English. For example:
Is rape a good thing?
Most people would say 0%, but rape is also a type of seed-bearing plant, so rape is a good thing for getting rapeseed (canola) oil. For this assertion to be useful, there must be a way to distinguish from the plant and the crime.
In fact, 3 of the first 5 are ambiguous or subject to interpretation:
- 1.00 is icecream cold?
- 1.00 is earth a planet?
- 1.00 Is it hot during the summer?
Is ice cream cold cold relative to liquid nitrogen? no.Earth is also a collection of organic and non-organic substances that plants grow in.
Hot, relative to what? At the north pole, it's never 'hot'.
I have a schedule that doesn't require me to wake up every day.
You actually sleep through Wed, Thu, and Sat and get up at 6PM the other days? Must be nice!
...back in the '80s. For example, IIRC if you press one key along the top and one along the left side they will emulate the key at the intersection of their column and row, respectively. This is a side-effect of doing row/column strobe keyboard addressing.
Here's how ot works. Simple keyboards like those on calculators are arranged as a grid on wires, one wire for each column and row on the keyboard. At the intersection of each wire, there's a normally-open switch. The designer decides whether they want to strobe the rows and read the columns or vice versa. Let's assume a 4 row, 3 column keypad (like a telephone), and that you'll strobe the columns and read the rows. Assume that the columns are numbered 0-2 left to right, and the rows 0-3 top to bottom. That means you'll have to have 4 bit read and 3 bit write capability. To read the keyboard, a signal is applied to each column in turn, and the rows are read while the signal is present on each column. If the 5 button is pressed, row 1 will have the signal present only when column 1 is being strobed. By pressing several keys at once, it is possible to simulate the pressing of any key.
... make sure you install a huge fire axe near the main power cord in case this thing decides it doesn't need us anymore!
What if I need to run back out later, but before my scheduled $LEAVE_TIME and there's no charge?
The same could be said for gasoline-powered cars: "What if I need to run back out later, but before my scheduled $LEAVE_TIME and there's no gas?" Just because you now have the luxury of filling your tank at home it doesn't absolve you of having to plan ahead.
I meant to say that using the delayed charge would be cheaper than the instant gratification charge. (Conversely charging during peak hours would be much more expensive). That would be the incentive to do it off hours.
I agree slashdotters would hack the charger, but that tiny minority of the population would have no effect on the grid.
You can get 7,500 HP from a 500ci engine, but it'll only last about 5 seconds. Oh yeah, and you need to be burning nitromethane at a rate of 85 gal/min (1.5 gal/sec, 20 gal/mile) with a huge supercharger that takes 400 HP to turn. Here are some examples.
It still takes x Newtons of energy...
Not to be too pedantic, but Newtons are a unit of force, Joules are units of energy. It may be that you want a unit of power, which is the Watt. See this handy chart.
So would there be a market for celebrity voice work for the Harley Davidson sound saying, "Potato, Potato, Potato"? I can see it now - "My electric bike has the James Earl Jones sound." "Oh yeah, mine has Arnold!"
How about when half the country comes home from work and plugs their cars in to charge up?
The charger could be programmed to come on at a random time between when you hook up and ($LEAVE_TIME - $CHARGE_TIME). If you can tell the charger when you next need the car fully charged, it can either wait until demand is low or charge it more slowly. Maybe the power companies could use the same technology they proposed to control water heaters during times of peak demand.
Thank you! I knew there was a good answer. Ain't slashdot great?
If you look at the diagram on this page, there seems to be what looks like a date on the upper right side. It seems to say "Halteose fur AS/12/44". Any ideas what that means?
Also, the associated article states that the bomb appears to be a hybrid fission/fusion device, which was far more advanced than the two fission-only devices used on Japan.
Gates is widely thought to have Asperger's...
I don't know about you, but I find AssBurgers taste like crap.