A bug zapper is an efficient ozone factory with its high voltage, corona discharge, and ultraviolet light all bonding oxygen atoms together. Plus the byproduct of the generation process kills bugs too.
Can we patent the use of a bug zapper to produce ozone with a plurality of killing bugs in the process?
You paid your taxes too willingly. Corporations donate voluntarily to barter favors. Government likes to negotiate. Its how an organism grows most effectively.
I have noticed semiconductor devices operated at higher voltages have the ability to transmit sound. Examples would be large public address amplifiers and motor drives. I'm not sure if this was created by magnetism, but the intensity of the sound didn't seem to be relative to the current. It gave me the impression the semiconductor wafers were acting like a quartz transducer.
Then again, transistor amplifiers biased in the class AB configuration may have a quick current spike during the zero crossover point, creating such a sound. CMOS chips at 5 volts also have complimentary transistor pairs that have this voltage crossing every time the clock latches a new state. I would imagine a few million gates modulated by a software algorithm can create the current surges needed in the audio spectrum to create noise we can hear.
MS has soemthing the tobacco industries don't: Users that only know that system.
I would say operating systems AND tobacco are similar when it comes to addictions. Yesterday at the gas station, I watched a customer insist on purchasing some obscure brand of smokes. He was so picky for the right one, with the exact size, and exact type of box, that he might die if just one thing changed about the package. It may just be nicotine, the same stuff in pipe tobacco, but he had to have his brand recognition matched exactly like if it was a member of his family.
Many people buy completely into branding. Even though there might be a bulk generic product, they will think its the curse of the devil and the fall of civilization if it doesn't have brand stamping on it. Operating systems, cigarrettes, cars, motorcycles, soft drinks, you name it. Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows is just heating up and the boundries are just beginning.
Accident or not, I'm glad it happened. Search engines at that time left much to be desired. Google was simply magic. If I wanted something, it would magically appear on the first link.
Why is the/home/ filesystem not by default encrypted with the users' passwords?
This wouldn't be a bad idea if we made use of the chattr option to set the encropytion bit for files or directories. This could be set as default for the user's home directory and could be toggled off for non sensitive material.
What's wrong with assembly language and programmable logic gates these days? I'd like to keep things quick and easy on the batteries. I like higher level languages, but are minimalistic systems now taboo?
Nothing like pressing a key and waiting a second for the phone's database to be accessed while a dialing digit shows up on the screen. I'm talking about my Ericsson T28.
2 cents an hour is the common industrial rate. 8 cents an hour is the average residential rate.
Its much cheaper to give electricity in bulk to sites that use around full capacity 24 hours a day that can guarantee usages than distributed housing networks that really peak the lines in the early mornings and evenings. Early in the morning, many people use electric heat. In the evening, people get home and use air conditioning, take showers with electric heated water, and cook. Overloading the wires lowers efficiency of maximum power transfer and costs for the utility soar.
If you have a housing development that can use a constant 10MW with a power factor of.95 or better 24 hours a day, the electric company should have no problems giving these premium rates to you. The better "surplus" rates if you have a peaking generator for the times the residents of the city overload the grid.
You may have described why I have fond memories of this arcane, yet robust operating system. The command line syntax may have been puzzle, but people who I worked with were supportive and fun to be with. Digital made the highest quality equipment (uptime measured in years,) but VMS had a productive and gentle culture. The fact that my peer group had good taste in beer (and brewed their own too) also may have helped too.
VMS will never be forgotten. It may be complex kind of user friendly, but the system was a work of art. Hopefully, parts of it will find the mainstream and live forever.
Many people who are involved in sports, motorcycling, jetskiing, or whatever else involves fun with groups of people take their camcorders along to share on usenet. The newsgroups make an efficient delivery system for spreading the word how to have fun without buying into the entertainment industry cartel.
alt.binaries on usenet news may be the death of usenet in terms of bandwidth, but there is plenty of grassroots entertainment that is not the likes of warez or commercial pr0n. Its not too hard to avoid the commercial junk and find normal people like you and me, despite the spam.
Not in my experience. I have found proper charge cycles are critically important, regardless of battery type, be it nicad, NiH, Li, lead acid, etc...
At work, we have a lot of Motorola radios. We had a problem where batteries a few months old were not lasting half our 12 hour shift. I put a meter on all our chargers with a zener diode that measured the top few volts of the battery's charge. Almost overnight, our problem with batteries dying quickly disappeared. We haven't ordered new batteries since we now are watching the charge cycles.
Also, we have several hundred lead acid batteries for forklifts of 750Ah to 1000Ah. If we don't have complete charge cycles on these batteries, their performance drops to nothing until we start proper charge cycles again. These batteries are discharged to 20% every day for AT LEAST 5 years of service with a very low failure rate. Why can't laptop batteries do this?
I use gentoo. Here's my experience with playing DVD's. xine wanted to install too many useless packages and wanted to patch the kernel(!) for ir support? So I settled for mplayer, "emerge mplayer" and several minutes later I was watching my DVD from Blockbuster with the command "mplayer -dvd 1" The only problem was, it was in French. After the first half an hour of trying to grok French, I discovered the "-alang en" option so I could hear everything in English. The performance was flawless. No GUI, but I'm sure a front end will make an appearance soon.
To you, his opinions might suck. I've been using Linux exclusively for several years and I strongly agree with JWZ. I encounter the same problems he does.
He's raising awareness about usability issues that are also echoed by others I see who try to use my favorite operating system. Its my opinion that comments and critism are perhaps the most valuable reward a person can get. Feedback may be a great motivator for us to work for the best possible solutions.
I found out the RIAA is using a patented software package to create and distribute low quality original works designed to saturate the market. What you heard is true.
I made the mistake of mistyping my email address in my newsreader. The mistake was discovered looking through my massive mail.error logs and finding mountains of bogus addresses. Do I really have that many friends in China, Korea, and Latin America? Haven't fixed my email address to this day.
See, there are good reasons for misspilling words!
How do these spammers afford the bandwidth to shovel crap to everyone?
I would imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to program a cheap microcontroller to give out thousands of random numbers every second. To make it stealthy, fashion it into an item of trash, junction box, or a stick-on box onto the wall next to the coils. No battery needed, since its powered by the magnetic field!
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I had an incident where a nice solid zap of static electricity struck a stick of write only memory WOM, but its storage capacity only increased.
Here it is before slashdotting.
It will only take a month for a cablemodem connection to fill them up.
A bug zapper is an efficient ozone factory with its high voltage, corona discharge, and ultraviolet light all bonding oxygen atoms together. Plus the byproduct of the generation process kills bugs too.
Can we patent the use of a bug zapper to produce ozone with a plurality of killing bugs in the process?
And the women were fine.
You paid your taxes too willingly. Corporations donate voluntarily to barter favors. Government likes to negotiate. Its how an organism grows most effectively.
I have noticed semiconductor devices operated at higher voltages have the ability to transmit sound. Examples would be large public address amplifiers and motor drives. I'm not sure if this was created by magnetism, but the intensity of the sound didn't seem to be relative to the current. It gave me the impression the semiconductor wafers were acting like a quartz transducer.
Then again, transistor amplifiers biased in the class AB configuration may have a quick current spike during the zero crossover point, creating such a sound. CMOS chips at 5 volts also have complimentary transistor pairs that have this voltage crossing every time the clock latches a new state. I would imagine a few million gates modulated by a software algorithm can create the current surges needed in the audio spectrum to create noise we can hear.
Sound plausible?
MS has soemthing the tobacco industries don't: Users that only know that system.
I would say operating systems AND tobacco are similar when it comes to addictions. Yesterday at the gas station, I watched a customer insist on purchasing some obscure brand of smokes. He was so picky for the right one, with the exact size, and exact type of box, that he might die if just one thing changed about the package. It may just be nicotine, the same stuff in pipe tobacco, but he had to have his brand recognition matched exactly like if it was a member of his family.
Many people buy completely into branding. Even though there might be a bulk generic product, they will think its the curse of the devil and the fall of civilization if it doesn't have brand stamping on it. Operating systems, cigarrettes, cars, motorcycles, soft drinks, you name it. Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows is just heating up and the boundries are just beginning.
I'd give my 12 year old self a cd set of gentoo linux. I could get my name changed to Linus. THEN I'd become very popular!
these are not free to operate
I thought everyone paid the Microsoft Tax when they bought a computer.
Accident or not, I'm glad it happened. Search engines at that time left much to be desired. Google was simply magic. If I wanted something, it would magically appear on the first link.
Why is the /home/ filesystem not by default encrypted with the users' passwords?
This wouldn't be a bad idea if we made use of the chattr option to set the encropytion bit for files or directories. This could be set as default for the user's home directory and could be toggled off for non sensitive material.
I see a HOWTO brewing...
What's wrong with assembly language and programmable logic gates these days? I'd like to keep things quick and easy on the batteries. I like higher level languages, but are minimalistic systems now taboo?
Nothing like pressing a key and waiting a second for the phone's database to be accessed while a dialing digit shows up on the screen. I'm talking about my Ericsson T28.
how about a redhead for valentine's day?
I found that you can get white light from an LED by applying 20 or so volts in reverse. Lifespan can be measured in minutes or hours.
2 cents an hour is the common industrial rate.
.95 or better 24 hours a day, the electric company should have no problems giving these premium rates to you. The better "surplus" rates if you have a peaking generator for the times the residents of the city overload the grid.
8 cents an hour is the average residential rate.
Its much cheaper to give electricity in bulk to sites that use around full capacity 24 hours a day that can guarantee usages than distributed housing networks that really peak the lines in the early mornings and evenings. Early in the morning, many people use electric heat. In the evening, people get home and use air conditioning, take showers with electric heated water, and cook. Overloading the wires lowers efficiency of maximum power transfer and costs for the utility soar.
If you have a housing development that can use a constant 10MW with a power factor of
You may have described why I have fond memories of this arcane, yet robust operating system. The command line syntax may have been puzzle, but people who I worked with were supportive and fun to be with. Digital made the highest quality equipment (uptime measured in years,) but VMS had a productive and gentle culture. The fact that my peer group had good taste in beer (and brewed their own too) also may have helped too.
VMS will never be forgotten. It may be complex kind of user friendly, but the system was a work of art. Hopefully, parts of it will find the mainstream and live forever.
Many people who are involved in sports, motorcycling, jetskiing, or whatever else involves fun with groups of people take their camcorders along to share on usenet. The newsgroups make an efficient delivery system for spreading the word how to have fun without buying into the entertainment industry cartel.
alt.binaries on usenet news may be the death of usenet in terms of bandwidth, but there is plenty of grassroots entertainment that is not the likes of warez or commercial pr0n. Its not too hard to avoid the commercial junk and find normal people like you and me, despite the spam.
I put up all my pictures on the net and let google, the wayback search engines, and everyone else in the world archive it all for me.
Been a pretty good backup plan so far.
NiCad memory" is a myth.
Not in my experience. I have found proper charge cycles are critically important, regardless of battery type, be it nicad, NiH, Li, lead acid, etc...
At work, we have a lot of Motorola radios. We had a problem where batteries a few months old were not lasting half our 12 hour shift. I put a meter on all our chargers with a zener diode that measured the top few volts of the battery's charge. Almost overnight, our problem with batteries dying quickly disappeared. We haven't ordered new batteries since we now are watching the charge cycles.
Also, we have several hundred lead acid batteries for forklifts of 750Ah to 1000Ah. If we don't have complete charge cycles on these batteries, their performance drops to nothing until we start proper charge cycles again. These batteries are discharged to 20% every day for AT LEAST 5 years of service with a very low failure rate. Why can't laptop batteries do this?
I use gentoo. Here's my experience with playing DVD's. xine wanted to install too many useless packages and wanted to patch the kernel(!) for ir support? So I settled for mplayer, "emerge mplayer" and several minutes later I was watching my DVD from Blockbuster with the command "mplayer -dvd 1" The only problem was, it was in French. After the first half an hour of trying to grok French, I discovered the "-alang en" option so I could hear everything in English. The performance was flawless. No GUI, but I'm sure a front end will make an appearance soon.
To you, his opinions might suck. I've been using Linux exclusively for several years and I strongly agree with JWZ. I encounter the same problems he does.
He's raising awareness about usability issues that are also echoed by others I see who try to use my favorite operating system. Its my opinion that comments and critism are perhaps the most valuable reward a person can get. Feedback may be a great motivator for us to work for the best possible solutions.
I found out the RIAA is using a patented software package to create and distribute low quality original works designed to saturate the market. What you heard is true.
I made the mistake of mistyping my email address in my newsreader. The mistake was discovered looking through my massive mail.error logs and finding mountains of bogus addresses. Do I really have that many friends in China, Korea, and Latin America? Haven't fixed my email address to this day.
See, there are good reasons for misspilling words!
How do these spammers afford the bandwidth to shovel crap to everyone?
I would imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to program a cheap microcontroller to give out thousands of random numbers every second. To make it stealthy, fashion it into an item of trash, junction box, or a stick-on box onto the wall next to the coils. No battery needed, since its powered by the magnetic field!