...a[n] 8" scope can BLIND YOU if you observe the moon without filters.
I have to tell a story on myself. I borrowed a 4" telescope from my college, and set out to look at various celestial wonders. Everything was fine until after looking at the moon (and having tried both eyes), I was blind! (Or so I thought). I stumbled into the house, but strangely, I could see. I went back outside, and I couldn't see anything. I finally figured out that the moon's image was bright enough to stimulate my cones and at the same time zap my rods. When I looked away outside, there wasn't enough light for the cones, so I saw nothing. Inside, there was enough light for the cones. I really scared the crap outta myself that time! Scenes from "A Christmas Story" of "You'll burn your eye out, kid" danced through my head.
I worked in the computer industry in those 'dark times', too. The 'networking' protocols-du-jour were UUCP, SNA, and X.25. Later came 10Base-5 Ethernet with AUI connectors, MAUs and vampire taps. Lovely! I remember using Telenet via a Telebit T1600 modem that I still have that could do (gasp!) 9600 bps!. Some fun, those days.
You didn't work for Concurrent Computer, did you? I remember the same sort of beastly power supplies - I still have a couple of them. The rumor (possibly fact) was that Concurrent (which was Perkin Elmer Data Systems) had some of the first patents on switching supplies.
Those were the days - a 32 bit Floating Point Unit made out of _discrete_ 74xx series chips, mainly 74181's. It took a full 17" x 17" board. Youch! Their flagship system, a 3280 clocked a whole 6 MIPS for a uniprocessor system. I think at one point they actually burned the whole 3280 system that used to take up at least one full 6 foot cabinet into a single FPGA. That's progress!
The ones I find sadly funny are the liquid Speedball-likeSparks and Tilt. Nice mix there - lots of alcohol (a CNS depressant) and lots of stimulants. Heads explode in 5..4..3..2..1..Boom!
Do you get the garlic taste in your mouth from the DMSO? I read about DMSO a _long_ time ago in a Reader's Digest article, I think it was. Fascinating stuff, but I wouldn't fool around with it.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I Level II (16k!). I remember the joy of hand-assembling programs and turning them into DATA statements in basic programs that where then POKEd into RAM (starting at 300, usually). You'd then cross your fingers and issue the USR command to try your luck. Odds are you forgot to CSAVE the prog, so if it hung, you'd have to type it all in again.
I liked the Z-80 better, too. I do hobby work with the Microchip PIC series these days, but I still yearn for the Z-80 days (I think I was 16 or so). Dedicated I/O instructions and bus signals, cool interrupt subsystem. Too bad they didn't have nice 68k-style symmetrical registers. There are tons of Z80++ SoC's out there - maybe one day I'll play with them.
I love cheesing off people by pronouncing it "Rye-tal-lin" (middle syllable rhymes with pal) like they did in TOS. Gotta love hearing Bones pronounce that. They used it to treat an epidemic - foreshadowing?
I remember a technology from a long time ago (just when webcams were coming out and ISDN was the shizzle) that allowed you to hold up a specially-designed advertisement in a magazine to your webcam, and it would pull out the secrets bits and send your browser to the website. No 2D barcodes, just steganographic data in the picture.
Actually it seems to be adapted to injecting poison into and eating insects, which is bewildering given its size. It could probably live well on cockroaches instead of mammalian vermin such as mice.
NB - I watched a documentary on HD Theater the other day that showed a six inch praying mantises attacking a 10 inch corn snake and doing some serious 'much-a-hole-in-your-side' damage to it before the mantis lost its grip. Also, it showed n African variety snatch up a mouse and eat it, as well as a variety that eats hummingbirds. Insect's revenge!
Are rats, mice, seagulls, Canadian Geese and pidgeons "endangered"? Cities have only helped them survive. This thing looks 'scavengy' to me - I bet it'll do fine eating sewer rats and other city gunk.
...it is under threat from deforestation, hunting and introduced species.
They have no clue how many of these things there are, (other than there is more than one but fewer than enough to pave the whole island), but if course they're automatically "endangered" or "under threat" or whatever.
After all, human fat is a fairly dense hydrocarbon.
I got the creeps when I ran across the section of the CRC regarding the composition of various fats. One was labeled 'Depot Fat', and gave the fractions of its various constituents. Depot Fat is people!!! Ewwww!
Being what could be generously called 'Portly', I've always wondered how long I'd burn if you stuck a wick in my tummy and lit it.
Put your hard drive in a sock, and toss it in the dryer with a matching sock. You have a 50% chance of it disappearing into an alternate universe, never to be seen again.
I once had a Home Depot employee call that saw a "Sway-zull" instead of saws-all. Of course my wife and I call it that now in honor of her (the HD employee's) curious pronunciation.
Don't forget the 'tax advantage' from being a drug dealer, and also the lack of retirement/health care. Those decisions must play a part in deciding on your future career.
There, you made me sound like a guidance counselor!
DC Seems to travel ok from Oregon to LA. It's also more efficient than AC to _transfer_, but the cost of rectification from AC to DC and inversion from DC back to AC can offset those savings for a 'short' transmission line (for sufficiently small values of 'short'). If you plan on using the same DC distribution voltage as the customer use voltage, then DC would win, hands-down. It is very easy to change AC voltages (the higher the voltage, the less the Joule heating losses for the same power transferred), so that's why AC is so popular. The distribution lines near my house are at 19,900VAC. My service is (of course) split phase 220VAC.
From the wikipedia article:
When electrical energy is required to be transmitted over very long distances, it is more economical to transmit using direct current instead of alternating current. For a long transmission line, the lower losses and reduced construction cost of a DC line can offset the additional cost of converter stations at each end.
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I have to tell a story on myself. I borrowed a 4" telescope from my college, and set out to look at various celestial wonders. Everything was fine until after looking at the moon (and having tried both eyes), I was blind! (Or so I thought). I stumbled into the house, but strangely, I could see. I went back outside, and I couldn't see anything. I finally figured out that the moon's image was bright enough to stimulate my cones and at the same time zap my rods. When I looked away outside, there wasn't enough light for the cones, so I saw nothing. Inside, there was enough light for the cones. I really scared the crap outta myself that time! Scenes from "A Christmas Story" of "You'll burn your eye out, kid" danced through my head.
I worked in the computer industry in those 'dark times', too. The 'networking' protocols-du-jour were UUCP, SNA, and X.25. Later came 10Base-5 Ethernet with AUI connectors, MAUs and vampire taps. Lovely! I remember using Telenet via a Telebit T1600 modem that I still have that could do (gasp!) 9600 bps!. Some fun, those days.
You didn't work for Concurrent Computer, did you? I remember the same sort of beastly power supplies - I still have a couple of them. The rumor (possibly fact) was that Concurrent (which was Perkin Elmer Data Systems) had some of the first patents on switching supplies.
Those were the days - a 32 bit Floating Point Unit made out of _discrete_ 74xx series chips, mainly 74181's. It took a full 17" x 17" board. Youch! Their flagship system, a 3280 clocked a whole 6 MIPS for a uniprocessor system. I think at one point they actually burned the whole 3280 system that used to take up at least one full 6 foot cabinet into a single FPGA. That's progress!
The ones I find sadly funny are the liquid Speedball-like Sparks and Tilt. Nice mix there - lots of alcohol (a CNS depressant) and lots of stimulants. Heads explode in 5..4..3..2..1..Boom!
Do you get the garlic taste in your mouth from the DMSO? I read about DMSO a _long_ time ago in a Reader's Digest article, I think it was. Fascinating stuff, but I wouldn't fool around with it.
Restrictions on the installation of DirectTV and other satellite dishes are explicitly preempted by FCC regulation in the US.
I prefer lunch working it's way through me, personally.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I Level II (16k!). I remember the joy of hand-assembling programs and turning them into DATA statements in basic programs that where then POKEd into RAM (starting at 300, usually). You'd then cross your fingers and issue the USR command to try your luck. Odds are you forgot to CSAVE the prog, so if it hung, you'd have to type it all in again.
Those were the days!
I think the converter I got has a v-chip in it.
I liked the Z-80 better, too. I do hobby work with the Microchip PIC series these days, but I still yearn for the Z-80 days (I think I was 16 or so). Dedicated I/O instructions and bus signals, cool interrupt subsystem. Too bad they didn't have nice 68k-style symmetrical registers. There are tons of Z80++ SoC's out there - maybe one day I'll play with them.
I love cheesing off people by pronouncing it "Rye-tal-lin" (middle syllable rhymes with pal) like they did in TOS. Gotta love hearing Bones pronounce that. They used it to treat an epidemic - foreshadowing?
I remember a technology from a long time ago (just when webcams were coming out and ISDN was the shizzle) that allowed you to hold up a specially-designed advertisement in a magazine to your webcam, and it would pull out the secrets bits and send your browser to the website. No 2D barcodes, just steganographic data in the picture.
Any one else remember this?
What
What is
What is with
What is with the
What is with the infinite
What is with the infinite refresh?
???
I don't know about you, but my eyes can't repel comet power of _that_ magnitude!
Yeah, I mentioned that oversight in another post. I suggested cockroaches would probably do nicely for it. Any maybe those nasty camelback crickets.
NB - I watched a documentary on HD Theater the other day that showed a six inch praying mantises attacking a 10 inch corn snake and doing some serious 'much-a-hole-in-your-side' damage to it before the mantis lost its grip. Also, it showed n African variety snatch up a mouse and eat it, as well as a variety that eats hummingbirds. Insect's revenge!
Are rats, mice, seagulls, Canadian Geese and pidgeons "endangered"? Cities have only helped them survive. This thing looks 'scavengy' to me - I bet it'll do fine eating sewer rats and other city gunk.
Looks like a possum...probably tastes like one, too.
They have no clue how many of these things there are, (other than there is more than one but fewer than enough to pave the whole island), but if course they're automatically "endangered" or "under threat" or whatever.
After all, human fat is a fairly dense hydrocarbon.
I got the creeps when I ran across the section of the CRC regarding the composition of various fats. One was labeled 'Depot Fat', and gave the fractions of its various constituents. Depot Fat is people!!! Ewwww!
Being what could be generously called 'Portly', I've always wondered how long I'd burn if you stuck a wick in my tummy and lit it.
Put your hard drive in a sock, and toss it in the dryer with a matching sock. You have a 50% chance of it disappearing into an alternate universe, never to be seen again.
I once had a Home Depot employee call that saw a "Sway-zull" instead of saws-all. Of course my wife and I call it that now in honor of her (the HD employee's) curious pronunciation.
Don't forget the 'tax advantage' from being a drug dealer, and also the lack of retirement/health care. Those decisions must play a part in deciding on your future career.
There, you made me sound like a guidance counselor!
I have that listed as a programming language on my resume, no kidding. That and 'Chocolate' listed as one of my hobbies/interests.
DC just doesn't travel well.
DC Seems to travel ok from Oregon to LA. It's also more efficient than AC to _transfer_, but the cost of rectification from AC to DC and inversion from DC back to AC can offset those savings for a 'short' transmission line (for sufficiently small values of 'short'). If you plan on using the same DC distribution voltage as the customer use voltage, then DC would win, hands-down. It is very easy to change AC voltages (the higher the voltage, the less the Joule heating losses for the same power transferred), so that's why AC is so popular. The distribution lines near my house are at 19,900VAC. My service is (of course) split phase 220VAC.
From the wikipedia article: