Now that they have one way of determining gender, they could use that information to find out if there are other gender-specific traits.
For example, if all the ones with the excess calcium have longer teeth, then they might be able to say that female T.Rex have longer teeth.
Also, they should be able to figure out a non-invasive procedure to test the DENSITY of the bone without cutting it open. I mean, come on, isn't first year physics a requirement for all science degrees?
Okay, it's dead. We know that. So here's why it won't work:
1. They never give the coefficient of heat transfer. Without that vital bit of information, there's no reason to select it over a heatsink that you already have that's doing the job.
2. Note the lack of fans. Moving air is about 5x more efficient at transferring heat than still air. They could reduce the size of the sink just by adding some fans.
3. After calculating the size you require and doubling it, there's no point in adding more sinking. You're just wasting money and space.
4. I can't tell what metal it's made out of, but if they changed to a more efficient metal, then they'd be able to reduce the size without sacrificing ability.
You've linked to the old engine. It's bigger than the one that I'm talking about. Like I said, I'm using the cuting edge engine that you probably haven't seen yet. It's smaller and it still won't fit into someone's panties with any subtlety.
As for battery size, the units we make go out for years at a time. I'm very aware of exactly what the power requirements of a Xemics engine are. The sheet that you've pointed out is misleading. The low-power mode does not pick up GPS signals. It keeps the engine READY to accept GPS signals.
There are even lower power modes on those engines only keeps the RTC working. One board that I'm working on has a standby current of 17 uA. It can't get GPS data in that mode.
I'm not sure how you plan on getting the RS232 data without having a pic nearby. Yeah, it puts out a standard, easy-to-read signal. It doesn't just magically send that out to every computer in the area like on 24.
To have a transmitter with any accuracy, you'll want a crystal. You can make a transmitter any way you want, but if you want frequency stability over a range of temperatures, you'll want the crystal. Panties go on, panties come off. (You'll have to trust me on this one.;) ) Good crystals can be 2mm x 5mm x 5mm.
You're right, a wire thread would work great as the antenna for the transmitter. I'll have to try that and see how it works. Of course, if it gets wet and shorts the range would be greatly reduced.
Any way you build it, that engine is too big to put into panties stealthily. If there was a way to make it smaller, Xemics would do it. (And they are doing it, but it's still pretty big.)
I'm an EE. I work with GPS. Right now (well okay, during the week) I'm working with the cutting edge Xemics GPS engine. It's about 3cm x 4cm x 0.5 cm. That's the engine plus the em shield.
Now, let's add the following:
Batteries. The engine requires a steady 3.0 - 3.6 V supply capable of sustained current of 50mA. You're looking at a 1/2 AA form factor minimum.
Antenna. GPS antennas require a view of the sky. Beyond that, special antennas designed to fit against the skin are about as thick as a pencil and about 2 cm long.
CPU and circuitry to decode the GPS signal. (Polling RS232) The size is up to you. The minimum is about the size of a quarter, so I'll grant this part if they use the internal oscillator.
Let's assume the signal is to be broadcast. Then add:
Transmitter. This will probably include a crystal.
Antenna for the transmitter. If we're talking about a VHF transmitter at 150 MHz, the antenna is going to be about 24 INCHES long. (That's already 1/4 wave!)
Now fit this into panties unobstrustively.
No way. There is absolutely NO WAY a GPS tracker could be fit into a pair of panties. A jacket, maybe IF it was puffy.
Your math is correct, but it doesn't take into account the way people work. People are LAZY. The minimum length for a password is 6 characters. That means that most people are going to have 6 character passwords.
That's down to 44 x 10 ^9 combinations. A computer capable of 1 trillion combinations will figure it out in 44 milliseconds.
When you've got a brute-force computer that can guess every possible password you can type in (or will type in), there's not much point to having them, is there?
I have one password for all my low-level stuff (web logins, email, etc.) and one for my banking.
Depending on the chip and manufacturer, you can get Flash that can be written up to a million times.
What this means for you is that the manufacturers will get the cheap stuff. That means you'll get 100k writes if you're lucky, and most likely you'll get stuck with 10k.
Since that will probably take you past the 1 year warranty, the drive manufacturers will say, "Ha, ha. Thank you for your money. Please buy another drive."
Yeah, because Firefox has never had a security problem.
Have you already forgotten the "click anywhere to have arbitrary code execute" bug that only got fixed in version 1.0.4? How many people are going to patch that? Half? That's 15 million machines right now that can have an attacker run arbitrary code. (Based on about 30 million FF users.)
If that's how Mozilla makes code, we're fucked. It's not secure. It's obscure. Security by obscurity is no security at all.
The problem is that people will want backwards compatiblilty or the ease of use that the simple method uses. When's the last time I used telnet? Today. SSH? Last year sometime. It's not extinct by any stretch of the imagination.
The bottom line is this:
Spammers keep spamming because they make money doing it.
Zombie boxes are just a means to an end. If we figured out how to solve that problem, they'd come up with something even more insightful. The folks who run spam rings and zombie nets are intelligent and resourceful people. Yes, they're all fucking assholes, but they're good at being fucking assholes.
If we want legislators to start dealing with spam seriously, we should disable all filters worldwide and show everyone just how much spam is out there. If nobody anywhere gets their email for a week, something will likely get done.
Apparently he talked like that because he was trying to remember his lines. He wasn't trying to be dramatic, and the budget for the show was so low that they couldn't redo the bad takes.
Are you folks so insulated from reality that you found even one of these ads amusing? A guy screaming, a girl eating a phone, and a guy's head popping off. These are amusing concepts? This is what you call mirth? Do I have to be high to get it?
The adverts are horrible. They don't convey a thing about firefox, and fail at keeping someone interested. I actually got sleepy watching the ads.
It's like a dot com era ad. They don't tell you what they're doing, or why you should do it, and the ads don't make sense. GET FIREFOX - because this ad tells you to. Never mind what firefox is. The end screen could have said: "Get Firefox, the faster, smaller, free web browser."
In theory, it would work for all (most?) electronics. The trick is to get a non-conductive medium with a greater heat transfer coefficient than air. If it doesn't conduct it doesn't short anything. If it dissipates heat faster than air, then it works better.
The actual thermodynamics involved are a little trickier than that, since the motion of the fluid changes the transfer characteristics. Moving air can be 5 or more times more efficient at moving heat than non-moving air.
You could use distilled water and it might work, but the water would have to be very pure and your balls would have to be very brassy.
This actually makes perfect sense to me. One of the specializations I took at school was electronic devices, which details the flow of electrons in semiconductors. I'll try to explain it. It's a tough job without pictures.
Indium Phosphide and Indium Gallium Arsenide are the materials used to construct the device. Generic transistors use Silicon, and you've no doubt heard of Gallium Arsenide. These are just made from a different material.
The collector, base, and emitter are the three parts of a bipolar junction transistor. Colloquially, that's a "transistor". If you're talking about a MOSFET, you'd say "MOSFET". I'm not sure if you'd capitalize it when speaking.;) By compositionally graded, they mean that the junctions between the n and p regions have a specific type of gradation. In other words, they aren't uniform. I can't explain this without pictures.
Transit time is how long it takes for one electron to take the trip across the transistor. Current density is current over area. It is defined in many way, but it all stems from the true form of Ohm's law. (Not the V=IR that everyone is familiar with, but J = oE )
The pseudomorphic heterojunction BJT is just a specific description of the junction type. Like the other junction, there's now way I can describe this to you without a picture.
If you know what this guy is talking about, he is making perfect sense. Look up some books online and get ready to brush up your multivariate calculus.
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Prisons.
Years ago, my dad had an alarm system. Every time he called the company, it was a woman's voice. One day he asked, "Are you in a women's prison?"
The answer was, "We're not allowed to answer that, sir."
The moral is that using US labour doesn't mean you're not using cheap labour.
Right, but here's the other thing:
Now that they have one way of determining gender, they could use that information to find out if there are other gender-specific traits.
For example, if all the ones with the excess calcium have longer teeth, then they might be able to say that female T.Rex have longer teeth.
Also, they should be able to figure out a non-invasive procedure to test the DENSITY of the bone without cutting it open. I mean, come on, isn't first year physics a requirement for all science degrees?
I don't spellcheck or preview after 10pm.
Electrochem makes the following:
CSC93D: 15Ah, 2A continuous current.
BCX85D: 15Ah, 1A continuous current.
Both are 3.6V cells.
I didn't miss the fan. When I posted, the site was down and there weren't any mirrors up yet.
All I had to go with was a blank page and the twenty or so posts that said, "ITS NTO N0 TH3I1R SERVRE! M I SO FNUUY!"
If I'd known about the 1400W requirement I'd point out that it generates five times more heat that the rest of your computer.
Okay, it's dead. We know that. So here's why it won't work:
1. They never give the coefficient of heat transfer. Without that vital bit of information, there's no reason to select it over a heatsink that you already have that's doing the job.
2. Note the lack of fans. Moving air is about 5x more efficient at transferring heat than still air. They could reduce the size of the sink just by adding some fans.
3. After calculating the size you require and doubling it, there's no point in adding more sinking. You're just wasting money and space.
4. I can't tell what metal it's made out of, but if they changed to a more efficient metal, then they'd be able to reduce the size without sacrificing ability.
Responding to an AC. How low can I go?
;) ) Good crystals can be 2mm x 5mm x 5mm.
You've linked to the old engine. It's bigger than the one that I'm talking about. Like I said, I'm using the cuting edge engine that you probably haven't seen yet. It's smaller and it still won't fit into someone's panties with any subtlety.
As for battery size, the units we make go out for years at a time. I'm very aware of exactly what the power requirements of a Xemics engine are. The sheet that you've pointed out is misleading. The low-power mode does not pick up GPS signals. It keeps the engine READY to accept GPS signals.
There are even lower power modes on those engines only keeps the RTC working. One board that I'm working on has a standby current of 17 uA. It can't get GPS data in that mode.
I'm not sure how you plan on getting the RS232 data without having a pic nearby. Yeah, it puts out a standard, easy-to-read signal. It doesn't just magically send that out to every computer in the area like on 24.
To have a transmitter with any accuracy, you'll want a crystal. You can make a transmitter any way you want, but if you want frequency stability over a range of temperatures, you'll want the crystal. Panties go on, panties come off. (You'll have to trust me on this one.
You're right, a wire thread would work great as the antenna for the transmitter. I'll have to try that and see how it works. Of course, if it gets wet and shorts the range would be greatly reduced.
Any way you build it, that engine is too big to put into panties stealthily. If there was a way to make it smaller, Xemics would do it. (And they are doing it, but it's still pretty big.)
I'm an EE. I work with GPS. Right now (well okay, during the week) I'm working with the cutting edge Xemics GPS engine. It's about 3cm x 4cm x 0.5 cm. That's the engine plus the em shield.
Now, let's add the following:
Batteries. The engine requires a steady 3.0 - 3.6 V supply capable of sustained current of 50mA. You're looking at a 1/2 AA form factor minimum.
Antenna. GPS antennas require a view of the sky. Beyond that, special antennas designed to fit against the skin are about as thick as a pencil and about 2 cm long.
CPU and circuitry to decode the GPS signal. (Polling RS232) The size is up to you. The minimum is about the size of a quarter, so I'll grant this part if they use the internal oscillator.
Let's assume the signal is to be broadcast. Then add:
Transmitter. This will probably include a crystal.
Antenna for the transmitter. If we're talking about a VHF transmitter at 150 MHz, the antenna is going to be about 24 INCHES long. (That's already 1/4 wave!)
Now fit this into panties unobstrustively.
No way. There is absolutely NO WAY a GPS tracker could be fit into a pair of panties. A jacket, maybe IF it was puffy.
Your math is correct, but it doesn't take into account the way people work. People are LAZY. The minimum length for a password is 6 characters. That means that most people are going to have 6 character passwords.
That's down to 44 x 10 ^9 combinations. A computer capable of 1 trillion combinations will figure it out in 44 milliseconds.
62P10 -> 390 ks = 2 hours.
When you've got a brute-force computer that can guess every possible password you can type in (or will type in), there's not much point to having them, is there?
I have one password for all my low-level stuff (web logins, email, etc.) and one for my banking.
I have never changed them.
No, you'll start getting random failures and erratic data loss. It won't just mysteriously stop working like a platter drive.
Depending on the chip and manufacturer, you can get Flash that can be written up to a million times.
What this means for you is that the manufacturers will get the cheap stuff. That means you'll get 100k writes if you're lucky, and most likely you'll get stuck with 10k.
Since that will probably take you past the 1 year warranty, the drive manufacturers will say, "Ha, ha. Thank you for your money. Please buy another drive."
Yeah, because Firefox has never had a security problem.
Have you already forgotten the "click anywhere to have arbitrary code execute" bug that only got fixed in version 1.0.4? How many people are going to patch that? Half? That's 15 million machines right now that can have an attacker run arbitrary code. (Based on about 30 million FF users.)
If that's how Mozilla makes code, we're fucked. It's not secure. It's obscure. Security by obscurity is no security at all.
(FF user)
I think it's more likely that if your blog isn't along the lines of:
"Wow, I can't believe how awesome my government is. Went out and got a new Mao jacket. Cute girl gave me her number."
You get shot and you die.
Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot how kindly a nation China is.
the player's shuffle capability was notably erratic.
The shuffle was erratic?
Think about what was just said.
"When I press the 'shuffle' button, it just starts playing random songs."
The problem is that people will want backwards compatiblilty or the ease of use that the simple method uses. When's the last time I used telnet? Today. SSH? Last year sometime. It's not extinct by any stretch of the imagination.
The bottom line is this:
Spammers keep spamming because they make money doing it.
Zombie boxes are just a means to an end. If we figured out how to solve that problem, they'd come up with something even more insightful. The folks who run spam rings and zombie nets are intelligent and resourceful people. Yes, they're all fucking assholes, but they're good at being fucking assholes.
If we want legislators to start dealing with spam seriously, we should disable all filters worldwide and show everyone just how much spam is out there. If nobody anywhere gets their email for a week, something will likely get done.
Apparently he talked like that because he was trying to remember his lines. He wasn't trying to be dramatic, and the budget for the show was so low that they couldn't redo the bad takes.
These are funny?
Are you folks so insulated from reality that you found even one of these ads amusing? A guy screaming, a girl eating a phone, and a guy's head popping off. These are amusing concepts? This is what you call mirth? Do I have to be high to get it?
The adverts are horrible. They don't convey a thing about firefox, and fail at keeping someone interested. I actually got sleepy watching the ads.
It's like a dot com era ad. They don't tell you what they're doing, or why you should do it, and the ads don't make sense. GET FIREFOX - because this ad tells you to. Never mind what firefox is. The end screen could have said: "Get Firefox, the faster, smaller, free web browser."
It almost makes me want to remove firefox.
Worthless. Absolutely worthless.
I never said it was a GOOD idea. I said you COULD do it. ;)
In theory, it would work for all (most?) electronics. The trick is to get a non-conductive medium with a greater heat transfer coefficient than air. If it doesn't conduct it doesn't short anything. If it dissipates heat faster than air, then it works better.
The actual thermodynamics involved are a little trickier than that, since the motion of the fluid changes the transfer characteristics. Moving air can be 5 or more times more efficient at moving heat than non-moving air.
You could use distilled water and it might work, but the water would have to be very pure and your balls would have to be very brassy.
The phone does everything you want it to already!
A phone manipulates the magnetic fields around you. That's how it works.
If the car's in your way on the freeway, just hold the phone up to your ear, weave around in traffic, and speed up. They'll move.
If you can't reach the remote, I'm sure that there's a hack to use the phone as a remote. If there isn't one yet, there will be soon enough.
As for mutants, it's pre-emptive. For proof, I say you don't see any metal-skeletoned mutants around here, do you?
Didn't you read the book? I'm pretty sure that it's in there somewhere and referenced in thousands of online journals, sigs, blogs, etc.
Reply to you and the poster immediately above:
;) By compositionally graded, they mean that the junctions between the n and p regions have a specific type of gradation. In other words, they aren't uniform. I can't explain this without pictures.
This actually makes perfect sense to me. One of the specializations I took at school was electronic devices, which details the flow of electrons in semiconductors. I'll try to explain it. It's a tough job without pictures.
Indium Phosphide and Indium Gallium Arsenide are the materials used to construct the device. Generic transistors use Silicon, and you've no doubt heard of Gallium Arsenide. These are just made from a different material.
The collector, base, and emitter are the three parts of a bipolar junction transistor. Colloquially, that's a "transistor". If you're talking about a MOSFET, you'd say "MOSFET". I'm not sure if you'd capitalize it when speaking.
Transit time is how long it takes for one electron to take the trip across the transistor. Current density is current over area. It is defined in many way, but it all stems from the true form of Ohm's law. (Not the V=IR that everyone is familiar with, but J = oE )
The pseudomorphic heterojunction BJT is just a specific description of the junction type. Like the other junction, there's now way I can describe this to you without a picture.
If you know what this guy is talking about, he is making perfect sense. Look up some books online and get ready to brush up your multivariate calculus.
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Canada Post delivers mail to your MP for free. Send them whatever you want, whenever you want, for free. I'm not sure if that includes packages.
Since NYD and LYD do not have days of the week, my calendar would also have constant day/date correlation.