Most homebuilt hydro power is lower volume/high speed. What would be a
good, unobtrusive way to generate electricity from a high volume/low
speed body of water?
Would a big submerged horizontal funnel act as a current
transformer? I'm picturing a slow flow into the wide end and a fast
flow out of the narrow end. If that works, you'd be in a better
position to use regular equipment.
A couple of details:
Put a deflector grille over the wide end so that it doesn't clog
so often.
Put your turbine underground so that you're piping the water
across, not up. Or, if it's nice and waterproof, attach it straight
onto the narrow end of the funnel.
The best scrolling device I've ever used was The
Knob, which was built into the keyboards of some
mouseless windowless Hewlett Packard desktop
machines I used in the 1980s.
The Knob is a wheel, about 3cm in diameter, on a
vertical axis, flush mounted on the keyboard. It
turns very smoothly, probably on ball bearings.
It controls either vertical or horizontal
scrolling, depending on whether you're holding
down the Shift key.
There are two major advantages to having a whole
side of The Knob exposed, rather than just a
quarter of the rim (as on mouse wheels).
First, you're making a smoother movement for
long distance scrolling, because you don't have
to keep moving your finger off and back onto
the device.
Second, there is an intuitive way to vary your
scrolling speed: touch The Knob near its axis to
go faster, or near its rim to go slower.
Scrolling devices don't necessarily belong on
the mouse!
Floating point numbers have problems with precision, your computer can not store 82.845 in a floating point number so the number it stores is slightly less than 82.845 which VB correctly rounds to 82.84
That was my first reaction too.
But in this case, 82.845 = 2714665/32768. The denominator's an exact power of 2, and neither it nor the numerator is overly big, so 82.845 does happen to have a precise representation in the usual 4-byte floating point encoding (IEEE F, IIRC).
[CVS logs] would be a really practical way of handling this, especially since your using CVS anyway, right?
Absolutely. That approach also fits neatly with the "contribute to some open source projects, and refer to your code in your CV, so that I can see your handiwork for myself" recruitment technique.
A disadvantage is that it takes more effort to mark (grade) the whole history of a project than the final snapshot.
We here at KarmaCo have the knowledge and experience
to create YOUR perfect Slashdot ID. Our trained Karma Consultants know how to
build Karma quickly. We post early, we can be funny, we say nice things about Linux
and Open Software, and mean things about Microsoft.
And if the inspiration runs out, KarmaCo also has enough accounts that it can do cooperative Karma farming. With an average catch of 40 randomly assigned moderator points per day, KarmaCo can guarantee its production even when there's a shortage of like-minded independent moderators.
If someone else releases a piece of software that crashes mine, who owes who a buck,
and how would an end user know the difference?
Doesn't this just encourage computer software developers to make thier software fail
as silently as possible, which software developers hate?
Presumably the payer would get the chance to
verify the claim - otherwise the payee would have
a licence to print money. But the cost of
verifying the claim, which takes time for the
payer's staff, will tend to be much more than
one dollar. When you're a prime contractor, and
have to arbitrate between two subcontractors who
are pointing the finger at each other, your cost
can easily run into the hundreds of dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
...as befits Facebook's privacy flaws.
Yep. That was what I thought of, too. That, and how it would've saved Arnold Rimmer from smudging his crib notes in Red Dwarf.
Would a big submerged horizontal funnel act as a current transformer? I'm picturing a slow flow into the wide end and a fast flow out of the narrow end. If that works, you'd be in a better position to use regular equipment.
A couple of details:
But of course fiction doesn't carry much weight as a source of prior art... even if life imitates it.
Surely if you were improvising such a bomb, you'd set the oven to run for much longer than necessary?
Examples: Most Wanted, Under Siege
The Knob is a wheel, about 3cm in diameter, on a vertical axis, flush mounted on the keyboard. It turns very smoothly, probably on ball bearings. It controls either vertical or horizontal scrolling, depending on whether you're holding down the Shift key.
There are two major advantages to having a whole side of The Knob exposed, rather than just a quarter of the rim (as on mouse wheels).
First, you're making a smoother movement for long distance scrolling, because you don't have to keep moving your finger off and back onto the device.
Second, there is an intuitive way to vary your scrolling speed: touch The Knob near its axis to go faster, or near its rim to go slower.
Scrolling devices don't necessarily belong on the mouse!
Once they stop the second to last person, surely there is no more sharing?
If a 1-year-old is weaned onto solids, does he/she cease to be a sucker?
Whoops! You're right. Mea culpa.
That was my first reaction too. But in this case, 82.845 = 2714665/32768. The denominator's an exact power of 2, and neither it nor the numerator is overly big, so 82.845 does happen to have a precise representation in the usual 4-byte floating point encoding (IEEE F, IIRC).
Absolutely. That approach also fits neatly with the "contribute to some open source projects, and refer to your code in your CV, so that I can see your handiwork for myself" recruitment technique.
A disadvantage is that it takes more effort to mark (grade) the whole history of a project than the final snapshot.
Superlatives are *the* most overrated thing.
And if the inspiration runs out, KarmaCo also has enough accounts that it can do cooperative Karma farming. With an average catch of 40 randomly assigned moderator points per day, KarmaCo can guarantee its production even when there's a shortage of like-minded independent moderators.
:-)
Flying back from Lubbock, I saw Jesus on the plane.
Or maybe it was Elvis. Y'know, they kinda look the same.
-- Don Henley, "If Dirt Were Dollars"
What a waste. When I capture a planet from the Sakkra - the purple dinosaur race in Master Of Orion 2 - I keep the population alive.
Presumably the payer would get the chance to verify the claim - otherwise the payee would have a licence to print money. But the cost of verifying the claim, which takes time for the payer's staff, will tend to be much more than one dollar. When you're a prime contractor, and have to arbitrate between two subcontractors who are pointing the finger at each other, your cost can easily run into the hundreds of dollars.
Isn't all law based on peoples' beliefs? Doesn't that problem occur for all laws, to some extent, because no belief is universal?