Byte still owes me for a half year subscription, from when they finally bailed. I never got notice of anything they were offering to replace it with.
You didn't miss much. I had just resubscribed (a 3 year sub iirc) because I liked their cross-platform focus. So what did they send as a fullfillment? A Windows magazine! What the hell, at least I use windows at work... A while later this one folded also and I ended up getting a video game magazine. I am not a gamer, so I ended up passing these on to a cow-orker who had a teenage son.
I do agree that that Byte in its last years was a mere shadow of its heyday (Circuit Cellar era).
They're probably figuring it on a volumetric basis. Liquid hydrogen is not very dense (71 g/l). I would imagine this solution would be greater than water (1000 g/l). In a mobile application the volume of the fuel would be very important, and storing LH2 is non-trivial due to the temperatures and pressures involved.
This longhand method is what I had to learn in the '60s (pre-calculator dark age...) IIRC this was in the 5th or 6th grade, and forgotten before high school. As the linked article points out, the iterative method (Babylonion/Newton) is a much more efficient manual method. IMO this would have been better to teach kids even back then as it would provide a taste of numerical analysis and not some mindless rote mechanical method of arriving at an answer.
The cables themselves act as an antenna and will pick up the EMP from a nearby lightning strike. Years ago I worked as an alarm technician, and faced this sort of problem regularly.
in the last couple of decades traditionally poor people have been moving up through economic levels thanks to anti-discriminatory laws, expanding economies, urban renewal, social programs, etc.
Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks (search), and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.
Of course, if you think that that website® is too liberal you could just google it.
Now that the parents of the culprit should have to suffer, is a different matter. They might be entirely innocent and really have no connection to the money.
They seem to be innocent of raising an honest child.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'..."
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"
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The official website may be down may be down, but the rockbox mailing list is also archived at gmane.org. Although there are earlier wishlist type posts about voice menus, the main development appears to have started in May, 2003.
To use your highway analogy correctly, tiered internet would be analagous to giving cars priority access to highways, and forcing other cars to move to the right when a car with priority approaches in the rear view mirror.
This seems a lot like the so-called "Lexus Lanes" which seem to be popping up all over the country.
This is becoming a problem in the Philippines. According to an NPR report from last year:
The Philippines exports 15,000 nurses a year, and it's estimated that 1 in 10 Filipinos now works abroad. The nursing drain could have a crippling effect on the Philippines healthcare system.
it doesn't PRODUCE any ionizing radiation, aside from gamma stuff that's shielded anyway!
Although the fusion process itself may not make any alpha or beta radiation the high energy neutron flux will make the metal reactor parts radioactive.
How about a 'smart' third rail. You'd design it so that the exposed parts would only be live when there is a train is over it. Use some sort of magnetic or RF proximity switch.
This way, any person/animal unfortunate enough to touch a live third rail would be squashed long before electrocution.
The savings on overhead structure might even be enough to cover the higher cost (due to complexity) of the smart rail. Throw in the aesthetic gain and this idea has some potential.
Mead Killion (founder of Etymotic Research) gave a talk in Boston recently, and he announced a product similar to what you are proposing, and it should go to market soon. Basically, it's a box that goes between the audio player and the headphones, it measures the voltage of the headphone output, and determines safe and unsafe levels. Rather than measuring SPL levels from the headphones directly, the unit will be factory programed with the output levels from various DAP/headphone combinations (determined using lab measurements) so it can map the voltage to the appropriate level.
Seems to me that you could build this functionality into the DAP. It would already know its own parameters and could measure its own output voltage, so it would only nead the database of headphone parameters.
[Dr. Killion also gave everyone at the talk a free pair of ER-6's, but that was just icing on the cake:) ]
It would be nice (and probably profitable) if somebody came out with an inexpensive SPL meter which could be used to test individual earphones in order to determine a safe maximum setting. Something simple with red, yellow and green LEDs for instance.
Hell, Apple stores could have a proper SPL meter which customers could use to setup their ipods.
it's simple to spoof an email, I can send mail as jonathan@pcphi...com any time I want to. I can also alter mailbox information, mess about with mail headers, make it say anything I want it to.
This is also known as perjury, when presented as evidence in court. Oops, your civil case just became a criminal one...
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Heh, that article has a photo with the best caption ever: "Yesterday's hero. The old phallus whose time is nearly over
Click to enlarge".
If only it was that easy!
You didn't miss much. I had just resubscribed (a 3 year sub iirc) because I liked their cross-platform focus. So what did they send as a fullfillment? A Windows magazine! What the hell, at least I use windows at work... A while later this one folded also and I ended up getting a video game magazine. I am not a gamer, so I ended up passing these on to a cow-orker who had a teenage son.
I do agree that that Byte in its last years was a mere shadow of its heyday (Circuit Cellar era).
They're probably figuring it on a volumetric basis. Liquid hydrogen is not very dense (71 g/l). I would imagine this solution would be greater than water (1000 g/l). In a mobile application the volume of the fuel would be very important, and storing LH2 is non-trivial due to the temperatures and pressures involved.
This longhand method is what I had to learn in the '60s (pre-calculator dark age...) IIRC this was in the 5th or 6th grade, and forgotten before high school. As the linked article points out, the iterative method (Babylonion/Newton) is a much more efficient manual method. IMO this would have been better to teach kids even back then as it would provide a taste of numerical analysis and not some mindless rote mechanical method of arriving at an answer.
The cables themselves act as an antenna and will pick up the EMP from a nearby lightning strike. Years ago I worked as an alarm technician, and faced this sort of problem regularly.
Funny, according to this article:
Of course, if you think that that website® is too liberal you could just google it.
They seem to be innocent of raising an honest child.
Considering that the TurboMan ad campaign was back in 1988, I would say this is an attempt to appeal to people now in their 30s minimum.
Hey, don't be the guy who comes in and Rex everything!
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..."
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"
The official website may be down may be down, but the rockbox mailing list is also archived at gmane.org. Although there are earlier wishlist type posts about voice menus, the main development appears to have started in May, 2003.
This seems a lot like the so-called "Lexus Lanes" which seem to be popping up all over the country.
Although the fusion process itself may not make any alpha or beta radiation the high energy neutron flux will make the metal reactor parts radioactive.
Better watch out, those Galactic Energy Clusters are loaded with saturated fat!
How about a 'smart' third rail. You'd design it so that the exposed parts would only be live when there is a train is over it. Use some sort of magnetic or RF proximity switch.
This way, any person/animal unfortunate enough to touch a live third rail would be squashed long before electrocution.
The savings on overhead structure might even be enough to cover the higher cost (due to complexity) of the smart rail. Throw in the aesthetic gain and this idea has some potential.
Nope, 'taint.
Aha! Now the rubber band's on the other claw!
Wouldn't you also need a keyboard which beeps with every keystroke and a monitor which projects shapes onto your face as you work?
Seems to me that you could build this functionality into the DAP. It would already know its own parameters and could measure its own output voltage, so it would only nead the database of headphone parameters.
Best. Swag. Ever.
It would be nice (and probably profitable) if somebody came out with an inexpensive SPL meter which could be used to test individual earphones in order to determine a safe maximum setting. Something simple with red, yellow and green LEDs for instance.
Hell, Apple stores could have a proper SPL meter which customers could use to setup their ipods.
This is also known as perjury, when presented as evidence in court. Oops, your civil case just became a criminal one...
A profit making venture, presumably:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=stu
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=slm
Jeez, not only do you have bad driving habits, you do it DUI. MADD would like to have a word with you!
I once saw a doucmentary about a woman named Sarah Connor...