Compatability with standard U.S. cooking equipment requires measurments to be in English units. Our measuring devices are all marked in gallons, quarts, pints, cups, ounces, tablespoons, teaspoons and such, and our stoves and ovens in degrees Fahrenheit. Competent engineers outside of the U.S. should have little trouble converting to metric units.
The reactor at Chernobyl was a design that bordered on insane. It had a positive void coefficient, meaning that if coolant was lost, the reaction in the core would run away, and had no containment structure. All reactors in the US and Europe are designed with a negative void coefficient, meaning that if coolant is lost, the reaction shuts down, and they all have containment structures. Even with this dangerous design, it took quite a bit of intervention from the people running the thing to cause the accident. A similar accident in a US power plant would have been completely contained. Chernobyl was not just the worst nuclear accident that has occurred up until now, it is just about the worst possible accident that could occur, and the casualties were fairly low. Aging hydroelectric dams pose a threat to more people in the US than nuclear power plants. The pebble bed reactors the article is talking about are far safer than the already very safe designs used in the US and western Europe today.
i would think that it would be true for any language that uses an alphabet, like russian, hebrew, arabic and hindi, and different for languages like japanese and chinese that use ideograms. learning the russian or greek alphabet takes about an hour if you know how to read the latin alphabet, and it seems rather a lot like reading the latin alphabet after you do. learning to remember just a few kanji takes quite an effort and seems like a totally different exercise.
Right. In my experience there is going to be a language barrier between a guy in Alabama and anywhere else on the planet. I hope I'm not offending any Alabamians, so in the unlikey circumstance that you live in Alabama, your town has electricity, and you can read, I apologize in advance for any offense I may have caused.
He ran for parliament as a liberal in 1906 at the age of 32 to for god's sake. Before that he was a member of the conservative party. Exactly backwards from that little misattributed maxim. He remained a member of the liberals into his 50s.
Those guys had a link on their website where you could adjust their thermostat and turn their lights on and off in real time via the web way back in the year 2000.
because annoying behaviors can be even more annoying when they are coming from a creepy guy who lives in his mom's basement, doesn't wash as often or as thoroughly as he should, seems to think that wookies actually exist, and sincerely believes that these are the traits that make him superior to everyone around him.
I think that is a misprint, current displays have a lifespan of ~10,000, and that is currently limited by the blue LEDs, the red and green last ~20,000 hours, so after 10,000 the color balance starts to degrade pretty rapidly.
BTW Seiko Epson recently unveiled a 40 inch OLED display. So this is definitely something that is feaseable now.
HA! I've worked for the company that handles Dell's tech support in the states (actually, it's the same company that runs the call center Dell was using in India.) Don't get your hopes up. Just like in the article call time is the most important thing. Things like politeness, product knowledge, and customer satisfaction are way down the list on the call monitoring scoresheets, if they are there at all.
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There was something like this in Scientific American a while ago, only it used an instrumentation amplifier instead of an op-amp, which would reduce common mode interference and give you a cleaner signal. Analog Devices makes a cheap one, AD620 which sells for around $5 and wouldn't raise the cost of the project too much. They also make an expensive one, AD624AD, around $20 with better gain and better common mode rejection, still not outrageously expensive. some diodes to give some protection against getting electrocuted by a power surge might be a good idea too, for those girly men who can't handle their electricity. you can buy real ekg electrodes cheap too. Of course, you'll blow your entire budget hiring a cardiologist to interpret the results.
Celluloid film has a much higher resolution than digital video. Films are usually mastered at 2048p to digital video tape to capture most of the detail, but the resolution is still higher than this. A 35mm print has about 9600 lines of resolution, and while this is not exactly the same as tv lines or pixels, it's higher than any digital format in use.
it's $5 more than the regular service. it does work, sort of. it's basically a proxy that compresses images and text before they are sent to your computer. it speeds up web page loading, but nothing else. and if you choose a high enough compression level to make a real difference, all the images look like crap. i don't really think it's worth it, it won't speed up your pr0n and mp3 transfers at all, and face it, you wouldn't be using the internet if you weren't a pervert and a music pirate, now would you?
looks like i'm going to have to upgrade my Netflix subscription.
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your pr0n-fu is obviously better than mine.
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i never even filled my 20gb drive. and i had 3 operating systems and an impressive collection of pr0n and mp3s on it. unless you do digital video editing, you probably won't ever need anything larger than 40gb. at least until the next version of windows and office comes out.
this could be cool, it would allow uncompressed 1080p video and uncompressed sound too. hopefully there will be players and TV sets capable of taking advantage of this by that time.
no, the patch turns off the macrovison feature of the dvd player so you can plug the composite video into your vcr and use the rf out on the vcr to connect to a tv that only has an rf input and not composite video inputs. that way you don't need to buy an extra rf converter.
i think they've withdrawn this particular model but the firmware runs on a ton of other players, and the support for an extra ide device is built into the firmware. it runs on the ubiquitous apex ad-660, which can be had for under $100. just make sure you get one with a flash rom that's flashable with a cdr.
on some sets, the picture looks better using the rf inputs than the composite or s-video inputs. a lot of sets are too sharp and unless they have a control to soften the picture, using the rf input can soften it enough to reduce the annoying effects of edge enhancement and compression artifacts. the picture on my tv definitely looks better if i use the rf input. if you have a top of the line digital monitor, that's different, but with most tvs rf input is at least adequate.
Didn't anyone see the part that said that the ice had Iberian isotopes in it? everyone knows that isotopes are part of nucular bombs. it's obvious that this stuff is coming from iberian terrorists and that they already have the ability to make atomic weapons of mass destruction, because there wouldn't be isotopes in their rain if they didn't. this must be some kind of small test of a deadly terrorist ice weapon. i'm no geology expert, so i don't know exactly where iberia is, but it must be in the middle east near indonesia, because they are terrorists. we shouldn't be worried about iraq when we don't have any evidence of there nucular weapons when we already know the iberians have isotopes. we should invade them right now and kill them all unless they accept jesus christ as their lord and savior, or else someone is going to get killed by the dirty ice chunks they are dropping everywhere. we can worry about saddam later, if we find out he has isotopes too.
One other point, if this system uses COIL (chemical oxygen-iodine laser), the laser beam is produced by chemical exitation, not electrical like in a HeNe laser. So the megawatt of energy comes from the laser medium itself, and not any external source of electricity.
1 Megawatt is a less impressive amount of power than it sounds. It's only about 1340 horsepower. The engines of the F-22 can generate about 30 MW of power standing still, and much more than that at supersonic speeds.
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The spike is at 16:10 UTC which would be 2:10 AM in Korea. The article says the explosion happened at 11:00 AM.
Compatability with standard U.S. cooking equipment requires measurments to be in English units. Our measuring devices are all marked in gallons, quarts, pints, cups, ounces, tablespoons, teaspoons and such, and our stoves and ovens in degrees Fahrenheit. Competent engineers outside of the U.S. should have little trouble converting to metric units.
The reactor at Chernobyl was a design that bordered on insane. It had a positive void coefficient, meaning that if coolant was lost, the reaction in the core would run away, and had no containment structure. All reactors in the US and Europe are designed with a negative void coefficient, meaning that if coolant is lost, the reaction shuts down, and they all have containment structures. Even with this dangerous design, it took quite a bit of intervention from the people running the thing to cause the accident. A similar accident in a US power plant would have been completely contained. Chernobyl was not just the worst nuclear accident that has occurred up until now, it is just about the worst possible accident that could occur, and the casualties were fairly low. Aging hydroelectric dams pose a threat to more people in the US than nuclear power plants. The pebble bed reactors the article is talking about are far safer than the already very safe designs used in the US and western Europe today.
i would think that it would be true for any language that uses an alphabet, like russian, hebrew, arabic and hindi, and different for languages like japanese and chinese that use ideograms. learning the russian or greek alphabet takes about an hour if you know how to read the latin alphabet, and it seems rather a lot like reading the latin alphabet after you do. learning to remember just a few kanji takes quite an effort and seems like a totally different exercise.
Right. In my experience there is going to be a language barrier between a guy in Alabama and anywhere else on the planet. I hope I'm not offending any Alabamians, so in the unlikey circumstance that you live in Alabama, your town has electricity, and you can read, I apologize in advance for any offense I may have caused.
He ran for parliament as a liberal in 1906 at the age of 32 to for god's sake. Before that he was a member of the conservative party. Exactly backwards from that little misattributed maxim. He remained a member of the liberals into his 50s.
Those guys had a link on their website where you could adjust their thermostat and turn their lights on and off in real time via the web way back in the year 2000.
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because annoying behaviors can be even more annoying when they are coming from a creepy guy who lives in his mom's basement, doesn't wash as often or as thoroughly as he should, seems to think that wookies actually exist, and sincerely believes that these are the traits that make him superior to everyone around him.
I think that is a misprint, current displays have a lifespan of ~10,000, and that is currently limited by the blue LEDs, the red and green last ~20,000 hours, so after 10,000 the color balance starts to degrade pretty rapidly. BTW Seiko Epson recently unveiled a 40 inch OLED display. So this is definitely something that is feaseable now.
HA! I've worked for the company that handles Dell's tech support in the states (actually, it's the same company that runs the call center Dell was using in India.) Don't get your hopes up. Just like in the article call time is the most important thing. Things like politeness, product knowledge, and customer satisfaction are way down the list on the call monitoring scoresheets, if they are there at all.
There was something like this in Scientific American a while ago, only it used an instrumentation amplifier instead of an op-amp, which would reduce common mode interference and give you a cleaner signal. Analog Devices makes a cheap one, AD620 which sells for around $5 and wouldn't raise the cost of the project too much. They also make an expensive one, AD624AD, around $20 with better gain and better common mode rejection, still not outrageously expensive. some diodes to give some protection against getting electrocuted by a power surge might be a good idea too, for those girly men who can't handle their electricity. you can buy real ekg electrodes cheap too. Of course, you'll blow your entire budget hiring a cardiologist to interpret the results.
Celluloid film has a much higher resolution than digital video. Films are usually mastered at 2048p to digital video tape to capture most of the detail, but the resolution is still higher than this. A 35mm print has about 9600 lines of resolution, and while this is not exactly the same as tv lines or pixels, it's higher than any digital format in use.
it's $5 more than the regular service. it does work, sort of. it's basically a proxy that compresses images and text before they are sent to your computer. it speeds up web page loading, but nothing else. and if you choose a high enough compression level to make a real difference, all the images look like crap. i don't really think it's worth it, it won't speed up your pr0n and mp3 transfers at all, and face it, you wouldn't be using the internet if you weren't a pervert and a music pirate, now would you?
looks like i'm going to have to upgrade my Netflix subscription.
your pr0n-fu is obviously better than mine.
i never even filled my 20gb drive. and i had 3 operating systems and an impressive collection of pr0n and mp3s on it. unless you do digital video editing, you probably won't ever need anything larger than 40gb. at least until the next version of windows and office comes out.
this could be cool, it would allow uncompressed 1080p video and uncompressed sound too. hopefully there will be players and TV sets capable of taking advantage of this by that time.
no, the patch turns off the macrovison feature of the dvd player so you can plug the composite video into your vcr and use the rf out on the vcr to connect to a tv that only has an rf input and not composite video inputs. that way you don't need to buy an extra rf converter.
why spend $20 on an RF-modulator when you can patch the firmware for free?
i think they've withdrawn this particular model but the firmware runs on a ton of other players, and the support for an extra ide device is built into the firmware. it runs on the ubiquitous apex ad-660, which can be had for under $100. just make sure you get one with a flash rom that's flashable with a cdr.
there is a hack for this firmware to support playing all the formats from dvd-r.
on some sets, the picture looks better using the rf inputs than the composite or s-video inputs. a lot of sets are too sharp and unless they have a control to soften the picture, using the rf input can soften it enough to reduce the annoying effects of edge enhancement and compression artifacts. the picture on my tv definitely looks better if i use the rf input. if you have a top of the line digital monitor, that's different, but with most tvs rf input is at least adequate.
Didn't anyone see the part that said that the ice had Iberian isotopes in it? everyone knows that isotopes are part of nucular bombs. it's obvious that this stuff is coming from iberian terrorists and that they already have the ability to make atomic weapons of mass destruction, because there wouldn't be isotopes in their rain if they didn't. this must be some kind of small test of a deadly terrorist ice weapon. i'm no geology expert, so i don't know exactly where iberia is, but it must be in the middle east near indonesia, because they are terrorists. we shouldn't be worried about iraq when we don't have any evidence of there nucular weapons when we already know the iberians have isotopes. we should invade them right now and kill them all unless they accept jesus christ as their lord and savior, or else someone is going to get killed by the dirty ice chunks they are dropping everywhere. we can worry about saddam later, if we find out he has isotopes too.
One other point, if this system uses COIL (chemical oxygen-iodine laser), the laser beam is produced by chemical exitation, not electrical like in a HeNe laser. So the megawatt of energy comes from the laser medium itself, and not any external source of electricity.
1 Megawatt is a less impressive amount of power than it sounds. It's only about 1340 horsepower. The engines of the F-22 can generate about 30 MW of power standing still, and much more than that at supersonic speeds.