Sadly the last point is untrue, the gearshift is direct, but the computer can lock you out of a stupid (120mph into neutral) manouver.
Why is this a stupid manouver? I've shifted 90mph into neutral before (Dodge Neon), coasting down hills in West (and regular) Virginia. It's not bad for the engine, and arguably better than expending gas and engine wear+tear for going down a long, straight hill.
In a Chevy Nova, I've shifted from drive to reverse at 45mph (by accident). Stopped the engine(!) but after shifting back to park, the engine started back up and ran for several more years.. and then the car was sold, so who knows what happened to it then.
At the least they should make games more readily available on DVD in the states. The only game that I've even seen DVD copies of in the store was the Myst sequal Uru
The Sims 2 is available on DVD. Little less than 3 gig, which it copies all to your hard drive.
As stated, not an EE.:) I'm a computer guy (not surprising here), so college was Computer Science. After school I wound up specializing in Information Security, mostly for large coroporate behemoths. Yes, I am Dilbert. I know layers 2-7 inside and out. But over layer 1 (physical) is a big sign that says "Here Be Scary Dragons". I keep saying someday I'll take some courses on electricity, because I love things like robots, home automation, and general physicalcomputer interfaces, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe some of the fascination I hold for those things is that they're so mysterious to me, and I'd almost hate to ruin that!
The closest to EE work I've done is sandwiching an optoisolator into a (one-way) serial line between two devices (because the computer was running off wall current, and the device off a car battery, and it *really* didn't like being directly connected). I had no idea what I was doing, but I did eventually get it to work.
I'm not saying that the proposed device wouldn't work. I'm just saying it probably isn't as efficient or scale as well as other methods.
Ah, and that's all I was saying. That's all I can say, really! Questions on efficiency, reliability, etc. - that's what we hire EEs for.:)
I did read your whole post, and actually understood this one, I think.
It has been a very interesting discussion. That's one thing I love about the Internet - it brings you into people, and more importantly, ideas, that you would normally never come across.
I tend to think of any complicated electrical voltage or current function as a signal. The mathematics are virually the same.
And perhaps that's the problem.. I'm not an EE, so I can't decide if you're making up words ala Star Trek 'particle of the week' or you're just way over my head. Think grease monkey who can fix a car vs. a mechanical engineer.
However, you mention that there is no positive or negative polarity to a coil producing current through electromagnetic induction which greatly confuses me. In my understanding, there's two types of electricity: DC and AC. If you're saying this is AC, well, slap a diode on it, and now it's DC with a + and - side. (You can use two diodes and make two DC circuits, where one is off when the other is on, but I'm trying not to complicate things)
Anyways, so now you have a DC circuit that flips on and off erraticly. Add a capacitor in there to store up the charge until it's a useful amount, then discharge the capacitor to charge your conventional battery. With several coils, they feed into their own capacitors, which then feed into another larger one, which then feed the battery.
I can't speak to the other problems (like charged particles gathering on the coils), I'm just saying that if you can get electricity out of a device, even erratic AC, you can turn it into a semi-stable DC current for charging a battery.
That would work; however, how easy would it be combining those signals together (compared with the already compicated analysis of erratic signals from any small-scale radioactive battery)?
Since we're not trying to transfer information ("signals") but rather just pump electricity out, no problem at all. Think about this: what if you had multiple radioactive sources, with one coil on each, versus one radioactive source, with 6 coils? How would you combine the electical output? Connect the positive to the positive, the negative to the negative.:) Seriously, taking erratic electrical sources, storing them in a battery, and using the battery as constant voltage is done all the time - just look at solar cell arrays. I'm not saying it's easy, but it is an already solved problem.
Btw, it's 'Uebermensch' - not Ubermensch. If you guys are giving me a hard time for misspelling 'Baroque' then have the curtesy to properly spell my language as well;-)
He originally used umlauts on the "U" instead of adding the extra "e", but Mr T. ate them
Another problem is that you lose 5/6th of the particles from the device, or more. This is because the probability of a radioactive atom emitting a particle in a specific direction is relatively uniform. However, only one face of the material is unshielded to the device. So particles most will hit the shielded face. One one face, 5/6th of the total area, will have a flux out.
The obvious solution, at least to me, is to put coils on all the faces instead of just one. I think the original poster was just trying to simplify things.
As a matter of fact, I am looking for the 20" (because there are no smaller LCD monitors which do 1600x1200) to cross the CHF 1000,- limit to acquire one.
In June, these were 1400,-
Now, they reached 1100,-
Wow, Switzerland is expensive. The 2001FP mentioned below is $719.20.. or about CHF 908,- and have been about that price (on periodic sale) for at least a year.
That is almost half of the price you said and a VERY awesome monitor. I work at a healthcare facility and several of our physicians have this monitor and it is awesome. Great response time as well. Very crisp.
Let me second that. With a 25% off coupon plus pre-Christmas sale, I spent like $700 on mine a year ago, and it's the best computer purchase I've ever made. 20.1", 1600x1200, DVI, VGA, S-video, composite, and Picture-in-Picture. Oh, plus it rotates, so you can do the portrait thing - which seems cool but I never use it.
Nope, I looked outside, and The Sun(tm) is working perfectly! In fact, I used too much of The Sun(tm) over the weekend and it seems to have given me a nasty burn.
2) You think companies make money off of flouride? I think my friend that YOU have been giving the chemical companies money, albeit of the small, illegal, methlab variety. Flouride isn't patented, is cheap as hell to produce and is added in very, very, very small quantities to the water. There is fuck all money to be made in it. The money is made in perscriptrion drugs that are patented.
The argument is that companies used to have to pay to dispose of fluoride properly (pay $$$$), now they put it into the water for the govt (receive $). So what if they don't get paid a lot by the govt? A small income is better than a huge expense!
This is all well and good, everybody wins, unless you believe that fluoride is bad for you. That's where to start talking about tin foil hats if you're so inclined, but the idea that companies have a great financial incentive to flourinate the water supply is not controversial.
For more information, make sure your tin foil hat is on tight, then see here or here
how come so many services require a certificate (such as SSL with email, imap, pop, etc) rather than auto-negotiating it like SSH does?
The idea is that you can verify the certificate belongs to who it says it belongs to (like www.yourbank.com), without exchanging any other communication (such as SSH's fingerprints) - you just verify the site's signature from Verisign (or whomever). SSH relies on you confirming the fingerprint the first time you connect.
You can generate your own SSL certs if you don't care about proving them to anyone. Check out the apache docs for examples. Then, once you've accepted it the first time, you'll have no more prompts on further connects - exactly like SSH.
See, for example, http://www.apache-ssl.org/#FAQ, "Now I've got my server installed, how do I create a test certificate?"
Wal-Mart's maximum allowed length for twisted-pair cable runs is 325 feet, following the ceiling beams (i.e. no going diagonally). Some switches are close enough, some aren't. All switches are connected via fiber at 100mbit (switches will possibly be upgrade to gigabit in the future), even the switches that are in the same room.
The only reasons the binary *wouldn't* be what you were expecting is if the end user had modified the binary, or the file is corrupted. About the only reference you'll find to an end user editing hex is when cracking or otherwise modifying an executable in a way the writer did not intend. Either way, the person providing the patch should be able to run a checksum algorithm on the installed file to verify that it is pristine, then apply the patch or re-install the complete file as needed.
Unless the user has used UPX to compress their binaries, or strip to remove debugging data, both completely valid, normal, and reasonable reasons to have different binaries.
Could you give us some citations? While you're heart-wrenching stories do bring a tear to the eye, they sound -- for the most part -- like bleeding-heart bullshit, designed to make us think that our government is an evil force (rolls eyes.)
Dude, I don't think it will be automatic. Remember, circumcision has been around for thousands of years, and even this common sense health modification doesn't get done on all newborn males automatically.
Common sense isn't. Circumcision is not only unecessary, but risky and detrimental to one's health.
The only reason to circumcise is religous - there is no medical reason, and there are good medical reasons not to.
There is no extra care required to be uncircumcised - basically, leave it alone, wash the outside (as you would circumcised).
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Listen to old time radio shows (OTR). They offer drama and excitement, and you don't have to take your eyes off the screen. You can download MP3 of shows from many places.
Accelerator for narrowband connections. Predict which pages the user is more likely to visit next, and start loading them as the user still reads the previous page.
This is the only suggestion so far that really seems worth making the browser larger (and hence, slower).
Does this mean if I lived out in the 'country', and my neighbours had nodes, or a corporate sponsership program was setup, internet would be readily available?
Check out http://www.locustworld.com/ for information about mesh networks.. essentially you hop along your neighbors until you get to a neighbor that has internet, thereby giving everyone internet.
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What particle goes faster than light?
Wouldn't an automobile be a rocket under that definition? A train? Anything that burns fuel to move, really?
Why is this a stupid manouver? I've shifted 90mph into neutral before (Dodge Neon), coasting down hills in West (and regular) Virginia. It's not bad for the engine, and arguably better than expending gas and engine wear+tear for going down a long, straight hill.
In a Chevy Nova, I've shifted from drive to reverse at 45mph (by accident). Stopped the engine(!) but after shifting back to park, the engine started back up and ran for several more years.. and then the car was sold, so who knows what happened to it then.
The Sims 2 is available on DVD. Little less than 3 gig, which it copies all to your hard drive.
As stated, not an EE. :) I'm a computer guy (not surprising here), so college was Computer Science. After school I wound up specializing in Information Security, mostly for large coroporate behemoths. Yes, I am Dilbert. I know layers 2-7 inside and out. But over layer 1 (physical) is a big sign that says "Here Be Scary Dragons". I keep saying someday I'll take some courses on electricity, because I love things like robots, home automation, and general physicalcomputer interfaces, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe some of the fascination I hold for those things is that they're so mysterious to me, and I'd almost hate to ruin that!
The closest to EE work I've done is sandwiching an optoisolator into a (one-way) serial line between two devices (because the computer was running off wall current, and the device off a car battery, and it *really* didn't like being directly connected). I had no idea what I was doing, but I did eventually get it to work.
I'm not saying that the proposed device wouldn't work. I'm just saying it probably isn't as efficient or scale as well as other methods.
Ah, and that's all I was saying. That's all I can say, really! Questions on efficiency, reliability, etc. - that's what we hire EEs for. :)
I did read your whole post, and actually understood this one, I think.
It has been a very interesting discussion. That's one thing I love about the Internet - it brings you into people, and more importantly, ideas, that you would normally never come across.
And perhaps that's the problem.. I'm not an EE, so I can't decide if you're making up words ala Star Trek 'particle of the week' or you're just way over my head. Think grease monkey who can fix a car vs. a mechanical engineer.
However, you mention that there is no positive or negative polarity to a coil producing current through electromagnetic induction which greatly confuses me. In my understanding, there's two types of electricity: DC and AC. If you're saying this is AC, well, slap a diode on it, and now it's DC with a + and - side. (You can use two diodes and make two DC circuits, where one is off when the other is on, but I'm trying not to complicate things)
Anyways, so now you have a DC circuit that flips on and off erraticly. Add a capacitor in there to store up the charge until it's a useful amount, then discharge the capacitor to charge your conventional battery. With several coils, they feed into their own capacitors, which then feed into another larger one, which then feed the battery.
I can't speak to the other problems (like charged particles gathering on the coils), I'm just saying that if you can get electricity out of a device, even erratic AC, you can turn it into a semi-stable DC current for charging a battery.
Since we're not trying to transfer information ("signals") but rather just pump electricity out, no problem at all. Think about this: what if you had multiple radioactive sources, with one coil on each, versus one radioactive source, with 6 coils? How would you combine the electical output? Connect the positive to the positive, the negative to the negative. :) Seriously, taking erratic electrical sources, storing them in a battery, and using the battery as constant voltage is done all the time - just look at solar cell arrays. I'm not saying it's easy, but it is an already solved problem.
He originally used umlauts on the "U" instead of adding the extra "e", but Mr T. ate them
The obvious solution, at least to me, is to put coils on all the faces instead of just one. I think the original poster was just trying to simplify things.
No. I looked for a long time. I originally thought that it might give feedback through the USB connector, but that really is just a hub, nothing more.
On the bright side, Nvidia and ATI both have quick-profile modes, so it should only be two clicks (or a hotkey) away.
In June, these were 1400,-
Now, they reached 1100,-
Wow, Switzerland is expensive. The 2001FP mentioned below is $719.20.. or about CHF 908,- and have been about that price (on periodic sale) for at least a year.
That is almost half of the price you said and a VERY awesome monitor. I work at a healthcare facility and several of our physicians have this monitor and it is awesome. Great response time as well. Very crisp.
Let me second that. With a 25% off coupon plus pre-Christmas sale, I spent like $700 on mine a year ago, and it's the best computer purchase I've ever made. 20.1", 1600x1200, DVI, VGA, S-video, composite, and Picture-in-Picture. Oh, plus it rotates, so you can do the portrait thing - which seems cool but I never use it.
Man, I should get a commission on these things. :)
Uh.... didn't Sun fail last decade??
Nope, I looked outside, and The Sun(tm) is working perfectly! In fact, I used too much of The Sun(tm) over the weekend and it seems to have given me a nasty burn.
I hate The Sun(tm) now.
The argument is that companies used to have to pay to dispose of fluoride properly (pay $$$$), now they put it into the water for the govt (receive $). So what if they don't get paid a lot by the govt? A small income is better than a huge expense!
This is all well and good, everybody wins, unless you believe that fluoride is bad for you. That's where to start talking about tin foil hats if you're so inclined, but the idea that companies have a great financial incentive to flourinate the water supply is not controversial.
For more information, make sure your tin foil hat is on tight, then see here or here
The idea is that you can verify the certificate belongs to who it says it belongs to (like www.yourbank.com), without exchanging any other communication (such as SSH's fingerprints) - you just verify the site's signature from Verisign (or whomever). SSH relies on you confirming the fingerprint the first time you connect.
You can generate your own SSL certs if you don't care about proving them to anyone. Check out the apache docs for examples. Then, once you've accepted it the first time, you'll have no more prompts on further connects - exactly like SSH.
See, for example, http://www.apache-ssl.org/#FAQ, "Now I've got my server installed, how do I create a test certificate?"
Any particular reason?
It's not Wal-Mart's maximum.. it's copper ethernet's maximum. http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/cablng.htm
Unless the user has used UPX to compress their binaries, or strip to remove debugging data, both completely valid, normal, and reasonable reasons to have different binaries.
Sure, just check out:
http://www.fear.org/
especially:
http://www.fear.org/victim.html
Common sense isn't. Circumcision is not only unecessary, but risky and detrimental to one's health.
The only reason to circumcise is religous - there is no medical reason, and there are good medical reasons not to.
There is no extra care required to be uncircumcised - basically, leave it alone, wash the outside (as you would circumcised).
http://www.cirp.org/
http://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/
karma-whoring for the lazy:
This is the only suggestion so far that really seems worth making the browser larger (and hence, slower).
Link Prefetching is already in Mozilla/Firefox.
Most places have exceptions for navigation equipment. If they strip out the TV-stuff, you're all set.
See http://engineer.ea.ucla.edu/releases/blimp.htm - hydrogen did NOT cause the Hindenburg to burn, it was the fact that it was painted with rocket fuel, basically.
Check out http://www.locustworld.com/ for information about mesh networks.. essentially you hop along your neighbors until you get to a neighbor that has internet, thereby giving everyone internet.