Well, remember the old IT support saying, " There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"
I have to use Windows for a couple specialized programs needed to to interface with these automation devices, but I think in general the follow statement is true:
The 2 main reasons to use Windows are:
1: You are to cheap to buy a MAC
or
2: You are to stupid to use Linux
There are of course many other reasons, but I think BAY FAR , the statements above are true.
I have a Nokia 770, and I love it. Yes, wiFi drops out, but I have installed ssh, telnet, gaim, gnumeric, joe, and a whole bunch of other things. It will axtually work as a remote X terminal, (gnome proggies, not kde ( it crashes)).
Despite the shortcommings, it is a great way to ssh into my server(s) and fix things.
The browser also works with my online banking, which is rare in portable devices.
It may not be the best consumer device, but if you know what you are doing, then it has a lot more usefullness than many, if not all of the other micro-portables.
I have always thought that Microsoft products achived their pinacle with DOS 6.22 and have been on a slow but steady downhill slide ever since. It isnt that OO.org is getting better and better , things like Abiword are to.
What will anyone get from upgrading from Office 97, to anythig new get? DRM , some new incompatible format?
Some here would dismiss this, but you are correct. The Saturn V was, and still is the ultimate in heavy lift. Obviously the one they have left couldnt be used, but I think it would be easy to copy it.
Problem solved, ditch the shuttle.
The only rocket to ever exceed the Saturn V's capacity was the Russian N1. Only problem with the N1 is they all blew up on the launching pad.
Time to also ditch LOX - Liquid Hydrogen, and go back to LOX Kerosene
Im sorry , but just because the Smithsonian was PAID to never reveal that the Write Brothers were not the first to fly in a powered plane, it simply is NOT TRUE:
See the following link: http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.htm l
All this engineering and these cars seem to all be using obsolete DC motors and drives.
The Toyota Prius uses an AC motor, AC drive with the DC battery powering the DC bus of the drive.
The sensorles torque vector control of new AC drives and standard AC motors is far and away more precice that any DC drive system or motor.
Just hook the solar cells up in series to get 335 volts, hook it to the DC bus of an off the shelf sensorless torque vector AC drive to an off the shelf AC motor.
The accelerator pedal would be a rheostat to a torque reference input on the drive.
From what I have read, not one of the cars entered uses this, and it is far far more effecient than any DC drive could ever be even in a theoreticaly.
These engineering schools should know this. Unless they are just years behind, aka old text books.
It is possibe some one is using this, but I did not see it.
The whole drive system would be under $5000.00 including the PLC control.
Let's see, Bush's poll numbers are in the dirt, he has to go on TV tonight and spew more of the same , we need to keep going in Iraq forever to support Halliburton.
What if the powers that be though that catching Bin Laden today before he goes on TV would be great, and if so we need to cut off Pakistan to control the news.
At the rick of destroying my server, I have a post about using a little embedded linux box and a verizon aircard as a router for industrial automation equipment.
Link to post on my company web page
This is an Aircard 555 using the 1xRTT 115K baud down and ( I hate Verizon ) 14.4 K up.
I have a feeling that the newer high speed aircards need to be in a windows box, as I have yet to find anyone who has one working with linux.
I would be almost certain that the up speed is also pathetic.
This does work well for what we use it for, and I just got back from my cabin in Michigan where we used it along with an Airport Express to serve up WiFi to the kids with laptops. (not that they would notice the beautiful outdoors.
Cheers
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Novel: But we had a deal .......
Microsoft: I am altering the deal, pray that I do not alter it any further.
Cheers
LINUX !!!
Look, Banth tracks on the far right!!!!
Until they mutate, that is.
Did'nt Vlad the Impailer use the same tatic?
Once again, more proof that (other than specialized applications, and games) the two main reasons to use a Windows environment are:
1: You are to cheap to buy a MAC
or
2: You are to stupid to use Linux
One has to wonder why management does not get this yet.
Why is everyone so upset, after all, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
John has a long moustache. The chair is against the wall
Cheers
Looking at the specs, I see 6 to 12 hours battery life in that portable.
Wow, look how far we have come from there.
What about fair use?
Is this new filtering software going to protect file sharing legally allowed under the fair use doctrine?
How far will these greedy bastards go, what is the extent of thier selfishness and dishonesty?
This is sad
Grow Up?
......... it makes me mad.
Are you kidding?
The shuttle is the main reason that we do not have a base on the moon, or are on our way to Mars.
It was simply an underhanded militarazation of space, and a huge waste of money.
We can't even build Saturn V's any more.
I say junk the thing, and then with a few hundred million more dollars, we might be where we were in 1969.
Oh, and whiule we are at it, trash the Hydrogen / LOX engines and go back to the more powerfull, safer Kero/LOX ones.
We would have rovers on Europa, and have mapped Mars by now.
The Shuttle program has sucked so much precious hard fought money from NASA science and exploration
The shuttle program needs to stop now, and we can simply pay the Russians to launch what ever we need till we get back on course.
Cheers
Well, remember the old IT support saying, " There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"
I have to use Windows for a couple specialized programs needed to to interface with these automation devices, but I think in general the follow statement is true:
The 2 main reasons to use Windows are:
1: You are to cheap to buy a MAC
or
2: You are to stupid to use Linux
There are of course many other reasons, but I think BAY FAR , the statements above are true.
Cheers
I have a Nokia 770, and I love it. Yes, wiFi drops out, but I have installed ssh, telnet, gaim, gnumeric, joe, and a whole bunch of other things. It will axtually work as a remote X terminal, (gnome proggies, not kde ( it crashes)).
Despite the shortcommings, it is a great way to ssh into my server(s) and fix things.
The browser also works with my online banking, which is rare in portable devices.
It may not be the best consumer device, but if you know what you are doing, then it has a lot more usefullness than many, if not all of the other micro-portables.
It is well worth the $359.00 it takes to buy one.
Cheers
I have always thought that Microsoft products achived their pinacle with DOS 6.22 and have been on a slow but steady downhill slide ever since. It isnt that OO.org is getting better and better , things like Abiword are to.
What will anyone get from upgrading from Office 97, to anythig new get? DRM , some new incompatible format?
What is the real dinasaur?
Some here would dismiss this, but you are correct. The Saturn V was, and still is the ultimate in heavy lift. Obviously the one they have left couldnt be used, but I think it would be easy to copy it.
Problem solved, ditch the shuttle.
The only rocket to ever exceed the Saturn V's capacity was the Russian N1. Only problem with the N1 is they all blew up on the launching pad.
Time to also ditch LOX - Liquid Hydrogen, and go back to LOX Kerosene
Cheers
Im sorry , but just because the Smithsonian was PAID to never reveal that the Write Brothers were not the first to fly in a powered plane, it simply is NOT TRUE: See the following link: http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.htm l
I wish I had mod points, this is one of the best posts I have seen about how the world is going to hell I have seen in a long time.
Good job
I believe that it was Alan Shepard that said "10,000,000 parts in this thing, and every single one of them built by the low bidder"
Cheers
That isn't Saturn, it's Altair, and those sounds were made by long dead Krell musicians
I am supprised we did not hear Robbie the Robot ask if we need something!
All this engineering and these cars seem to all be using obsolete DC motors and drives.
The Toyota Prius uses an AC motor, AC drive with the DC battery powering the DC bus of the drive.
The sensorles torque vector control of new AC drives and standard AC motors is far and away more precice that any DC drive system or motor.
Just hook the solar cells up in series to get 335 volts, hook it to the DC bus of an off the shelf sensorless torque vector AC drive to an off the shelf AC motor.
The accelerator pedal would be a rheostat to a torque reference input on the drive.
From what I have read, not one of the cars entered uses this, and it is far far more effecient than any DC drive could ever be even in a theoreticaly.
These engineering schools should know this. Unless they are just years behind, aka old text books.
It is possibe some one is using this, but I did not see it.
The whole drive system would be under $5000.00 including the PLC control.
Oh well, just a thought.
They may have been wiped out by early man, but today they would be usefull.
Can you imagine how much Neanderthal's would be worth to Wal-Mart as employees?
Let's see, Bush's poll numbers are in the dirt, he has to go on TV tonight and spew more of the same , we need to keep going in Iraq forever to support Halliburton.
What if the powers that be though that catching Bin Laden today before he goes on TV would be great, and if so we need to cut off Pakistan to control the news.
hmmmmmm
At the rick of destroying my server, I have a post about using a little embedded linux box and a verizon aircard as a router for industrial automation equipment. Link to post on my company web page This is an Aircard 555 using the 1xRTT 115K baud down and ( I hate Verizon ) 14.4 K up. I have a feeling that the newer high speed aircards need to be in a windows box, as I have yet to find anyone who has one working with linux. I would be almost certain that the up speed is also pathetic. This does work well for what we use it for, and I just got back from my cabin in Michigan where we used it along with an Airport Express to serve up WiFi to the kids with laptops. (not that they would notice the beautiful outdoors. Cheers
What happened to the Wendy's chille finger?
There may be a new market in taxidermified human (maybe chimp fingers would work ) in a key chain, just like the old rabbits foot.
Hmmmm
If China is using Red Flag Linux, and the software written is GPL, then I say so what.
We can benefit from all the GPL software written as much as the Chinese.
The only ones to complain would be those that dont want to participate in FOSS.
Cheers
Wow, all those piercings can now have little LED's or better yey LED Lasers.
Think of the body art that could be done.