*Most* of the USB RS-232 adapters (GUC232, etc.) have buggy drivers. They work for incidental stuff, but they die hard (and take down, say, Windows XP) if you push them.
First, these are Volt-Amps, not necessarily Watts. National Grid is going to charge you for Watts. The "Watts=VoltsxAmps" formula only works for 100% resistive loads or DC. On AC, you have to adjust for reactive power.
With the (notable) exception of the washing machine, those appliances should be using very little reactive power. They're converting AC to DC straightaway, which will give you a nearly unity power factor. Assuming that the washing machine is lagging the current by 30 deg or so (SWAG), you're talking about 87% or so of its measured Volt-Amps being "real."
The computer's switching power supply may inject a few odd harmonics, but I doubt they're very large.
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That's right, son. Folks who blow up random civilians in a hopeless, nihilistic attempt to destroy their nation don't get a free pass just 'cause their victims are Jews.
Or perhaps you'd like to name one or two Palestinian suicide bombings that you approve of?
You're not necessarily intolerant, just ill-informed. Jews were killed during some of the crusades, but without church sanction. Most of the atrocities of that time, in fact, were the consequence of Europe being run by a bunch of more-or-less brutal warlords; the RCC, if anything, was a moderating influence that helped preserve literacy and civilization through the worst of the middle ages. (Whether it should have also sponsored a war to recapture Byzantium is debatable.)
Islam nowadays doesn't have a central authority like Rome--and, when it did, the caliphs weren't such lovely people--but it's fair to say that a lot its authorities do not agree with the crazies out there. As far as poverty and ignorance go, the Islamic Mediterranean was in many ways pretty advanced in both commerce and scholarship. But, yeah, they still oppressed women (more so than the average Christian community to the north).
Violence and poverty and death are human problems, not religious problems. Compare Actual Islam and Actual Christianity to, oh, say, Actual Communism and then tell me that belief in God is what makes us Bad.
Yes, federal spending is up under GWB. Way up--partly due to miscellaneous wars and partly due to big expansion in social security.
Federal tax revenues are also up, despite decreases in the income tax rates. Whether our joyous economic growth is due to tax cuts is a matter of much debate, probably not best done by us geekers.
Education spending is rarely a target of budget cuts, for obvious reasons--nobody wants to be held responsible on cable TV for Harming the Children. School funding is up signicantly under Dubya, although some states are now complaining about the apparently __massive__ cost of giving every student at least one test per year.
NASA is not in line for the big axe--if anything, it tends to be a fairly popular programme with the 'publicans. The pressure on them now is mostly to retask towards (gasp) human space exploration; the budget is semi-adequate, but they're doing too much Other Stuff with it right now. (Earth Science? Climatolography? We were promised flying cars!!)
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Destroying people's homes and sources of food and water *is* tantamount to mass murder...just the slow way. It's not like they can just drive to Canada.
Besides, what gives us any right to destroy innocent people's property?
All the characters in this novel are either good or bad. This is quite a bad draw back as it reinforces the kids belief that everything in this world is black or white. Also that a bad person is bad person till the end.
Not so. There are a LOT of "mixed" characters. Boromir. Denethor. Saruman. The guy who Sam sees get shot in TTT. Etc.
However, the character development in LOTR isn't as exhaustive as it could be...more "show" than "tell." For me, that's good; I'd rather form my own conclusions than have Terry Brooks drag me through the guy's head for 300 pages.:-)
Somewhere inside the television, after all the digital's said and done, there is a connection to the CRT. Or LCD. Or whatever. It's 3 pins. Or 9. Or whatever.
Grab your soldering iron and wire cutters. Slap in some glue logic and a semi-fast microcontroller. Or, even better, your Linux box. Three modes: pass-through, record, play.
About the simplest embedded system you might hope to design, oos?
Of course, this only works for COPYING (the touted reason for the encryption), not for pay-per-view and the other various methods of controlling what gets to your box.
Not to be a MA nut or anything, but some training actually would have been helpful here. Things like:
- not being so bothered by verbal aggressive
- stopping any physical aggression cold...if the guy messing with the backpack lays off when you lock up his arm, that's great; otherwise, he can lie on the floor safely:D
Not that it's Sean's fault as far as we know. But prevention is the best medicine.
Neural nets are simply a way of creating adaptive digital logic. If you build a 3-layer network, you can train it to implement any boolean function (with however many inputs you have).
Back in the 40s or 50s, some mathmatician guy (not J'VonN', although he was somewhat involved?) proved that NNs/digital logic is isomorphic to some sort of logical calculus stuff. (Sorry for the lack of details.) People got excited because, philosophically, they thought that Formal Logic = Thought. Nowadays, most of us would be kinda skeptical of that assumption.
Also, keep in mind that our control systems aren't just neurons (of which there are a buncha kinds)...there's also the endocrine system and all.
Then there's the concept of the soul...I'd sure like to be non-deterministic, wouldn't you?;-)
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*Most* of the USB RS-232 adapters (GUC232, etc.) have buggy drivers. They work for incidental stuff, but they die hard (and take down, say, Windows XP) if you push them.
SeaLevel's stuff seems pretty good, by the way.
First, these are Volt-Amps, not necessarily Watts. National Grid is going to charge you for Watts. The "Watts=VoltsxAmps" formula only works for 100% resistive loads or DC. On AC, you have to adjust for reactive power.
With the (notable) exception of the washing machine, those appliances should be using very little reactive power. They're converting AC to DC straightaway, which will give you a nearly unity power factor. Assuming that the washing machine is lagging the current by 30 deg or so (SWAG), you're talking about 87% or so of its measured Volt-Amps being "real."
The computer's switching power supply may inject a few odd harmonics, but I doubt they're very large.
That's right, son. Folks who blow up random civilians in a hopeless, nihilistic attempt to destroy their nation don't get a free pass just 'cause their victims are Jews.
Or perhaps you'd like to name one or two Palestinian suicide bombings that you approve of?
You're not necessarily intolerant, just ill-informed. Jews were killed during some of the crusades, but without church sanction. Most of the atrocities of that time, in fact, were the consequence of Europe being run by a bunch of more-or-less brutal warlords; the RCC, if anything, was a moderating influence that helped preserve literacy and civilization through the worst of the middle ages. (Whether it should have also sponsored a war to recapture Byzantium is debatable.)
Islam nowadays doesn't have a central authority like Rome--and, when it did, the caliphs weren't such lovely people--but it's fair to say that a lot its authorities do not agree with the crazies out there. As far as poverty and ignorance go, the Islamic Mediterranean was in many ways pretty advanced in both commerce and scholarship. But, yeah, they still oppressed women (more so than the average Christian community to the north).
Violence and poverty and death are human problems, not religious problems. Compare Actual Islam and Actual Christianity to, oh, say, Actual Communism and then tell me that belief in God is what makes us Bad.
Destroying people's homes and sources of food and water *is* tantamount to mass murder...just the slow way. It's not like they can just drive to Canada.
Besides, what gives us any right to destroy innocent people's property?
All the characters in this novel are either good or bad. This is quite a bad draw back as it reinforces the kids belief that everything in this world is black or white. Also that a bad person is bad person till the end.
:-)
Not so. There are a LOT of "mixed" characters. Boromir. Denethor. Saruman. The guy who Sam sees get shot in TTT. Etc.
However, the character development in LOTR isn't as exhaustive as it could be...more "show" than "tell." For me, that's good; I'd rather form my own conclusions than have Terry Brooks drag me through the guy's head for 300 pages.
Grab your soldering iron and wire cutters. Slap in some glue logic and a semi-fast microcontroller. Or, even better, your Linux box. Three modes: pass-through, record, play.
About the simplest embedded system you might hope to design, oos?
Of course, this only works for COPYING (the touted reason for the encryption), not for pay-per-view and the other various methods of controlling what gets to your box.
- not being so bothered by verbal aggressive :D
- stopping any physical aggression cold...if the guy messing with the backpack lays off when you lock up his arm, that's great; otherwise, he can lie on the floor safely
Not that it's Sean's fault as far as we know. But prevention is the best medicine.
My $0.02.
Neural nets are simply a way of creating adaptive digital logic. If you build a 3-layer network, you can train it to implement any boolean function (with however many inputs you have).
Back in the 40s or 50s, some mathmatician guy (not J'VonN', although he was somewhat involved?) proved that NNs/digital logic is isomorphic to some sort of logical calculus stuff. (Sorry for the lack of details.) People got excited because, philosophically, they thought that Formal Logic = Thought. Nowadays, most of us would be kinda skeptical of that assumption.
Also, keep in mind that our control systems aren't just neurons (of which there are a buncha kinds)...there's also the endocrine system and all.
Then there's the concept of the soul...I'd sure like to be non-deterministic, wouldn't you? ;-)