I am unable to adequately express my dismay regarding your sheer ignorance of the situation at hand.
So, if you could just punch yourself in the face, just as hard as you can, that'd be great. Well, it wouldn't be great for *you*, but I'd feel a whole lot better knowing it had been done.
Kudos to the board of Lyons for being so interested in new technology.
A large catering company, doing its catering thing, scopes out the current state of the art and decides to give 3000 pounds - a considerable sum in the '50s - and an engineer's time to a university to complete a prototype, then goes on to spin it into a pretty successful business in it's own right.
That's a pretty big leap into the unknown for a catering business.
Mind you, once you trim out all the ads, reality TV, "OW, my balls!"-style shows and the self-serving "OMG, this is a show about celebrities!" crap, you really only have a need for 5, maybe 10 kilobits/sec on average.
A 300-pound piece of flaming satellite debris traveling at supersonic speeds is going to do more than hurt a little.
If it's something like a 300-pound crowbar, it would be wise to flee.
If it's a typical 300-pound random assortment of parts be supersonic as it re-enters the atmosphere, but by the time it gets to a few km from the surface in the much denser air it'll be very much subsonic. Still, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be hit in the back of the head by it.
Look outside your tiny world a bit and realise that a large chunk of the world has settled on GSM for their phones.
A Quad-Band GSM phone would have no trouble connecting to something like this. With regards to licenses - if you're having to install something like this because of disaster recovery, then you can pretty much assume that any administrative level of government has its hands full with other stuff.
On a related note, there's an open-source GSM stack available, with a real-world island installation that (seems to) work fine -
- Compact Discs (both audio and data) - cassettes / zip disks are dead. Took a while, but it got there. Currently being threatened by lossy codecs and USB storage.
- Digital Cameras. Can you still get Polaroid film?
Alright, I checked the cookie and all it says is "true". Which is OK.
Of course, they're still setting a couple of cookies at the moment. This cookie is just a cookie to let them know that they've let you know that sometime in the future they're going to do something about your preferences in regard to the setting (or conversely, not setting) cookies on your computer when you access their domain.
I work on a PLC system that has a single ethernet TX pair to the rest of our network. It transmits stats blindly (with the help of a static entry in its ARP table) to a PC on the outside where a small program listens and collates data. I've heard of similar things with serial, fiber and radio modems,etc.
Nice condescending reply, except for the fact that you should at least *triple* all the current draws you state for automotive starter motors.
Starter motors for 4 cylinder engines typically are about 1kW. Ones for V8s (and small diesel engines) are about 1.5-2kW. The starter motors I fit at work are 24V and 8kW, but they go on 18 litre V12 diesel engines. That gives 120, 240 and 350 amps, respectively.
And if your jumper leads are getting hot when cranking (or drawing 60A), throw away those more-plastic-than-copper ones and buy yourself a decent set. Hint: they should cost at least a hundred bucks and you won't be able to carry them out of the store in a plastic bag, as they'll tear through the bottom of them. The cheap ones are designed to merely join two batteries and share the charging current in the hope that you'll get enough juice into the flat battery for it to start the engine.
Oh, and IT miracles? Ummm. I once swapped our failing site server VM (for our minegem installation) over to one of our console PCs one night when the server decided it didn't have any network cards any more. Worked so good, we've dropped the server completely and now just have a few consoles with the VM installed as backups.
Or the time I had an array failure on our Proliant fileserver and had to crank up some netware emulation on our wheezy old linux mail server for the one (sigh) legacy dos-based netware-login PC that ran a bunch of process control gear for our lab.
Or the afternoon I spent reconfiguring a Tiny Tiger based board that I was using to interface some lab balances into a gadget that recorded the position/speed of a critical bit of sampling equipment because some idiot had dropped our ageing Compaq PenPC and killed its drive.
Actually, those last two were a giant pain the bum. I'm glad I left that place, because crap like that happened all the time.
Very hard to say that it is definitely on fire however. It's just somewhere towards the far right hand side of the "Working <-----> Halted, on fire" continuum.
This one has an "opposing piston" above each traditional piston, where the valve head should be, moving in opposition to the standard piston (to increase compression, I guess). It's absolutely a different design.
From the wikipedia page about the CMB: Two of the greatest successes of the big bang theory are its prediction of its almost perfect black body spectrum and its detailed prediction of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
When basically the whole observable universe matches your theory, it's generally considered pretty strong evidence that you're going in the right direction.
you CAN contest it paying $100, then if the judge says it was wrongly issued you're only out $100.
Fuck you, buddy. If it's a wrongly issued ticket, I expect to pay exactly $0. Maybe an apology and a suitable remuneration for my time and effort contesting said ticket would be nice as well.
Back in Realityland, a bond system might work. Pay $100 and get it back if you win.
......dispute involving or affecting Carrier's service, mechanical difficulties, Air Traffic Control, the inability to obtain fuel.....or any fact not reasonably foreseen, anticipated or predicted by Carrier.
Seeing as they have put all these fine examples into their contract, one could argue that they have been forseen them as possible. If they've forseen them, then they're not really Force Majeure and measures should be in place to mitigate their effects. Like, for example, booking flights on other airlines, or organising accommodation for people.... which strangely, seems to be what they used to do.
Where someone tries to explain the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and specific absorption rate
Fire a gun at a tree. What happens to the tree? Your bullet chips a little bit off. If you just do it once, well, the tree can deal with it. Do it quickly enough and you'll start to leave bullets wedged in the tree and the tree will wind up all knotted and twisted in that area. Get out the machine gun and you'll cut the tree in half and kill the tree. This is similar to your body and ionising radiation.
Now replace the gun with a tennis racquet and lay your best serve on that tree. What happens to the tree? Nothing. Get your best auto-ball-server-machine and pummel that tree for a week. It might end up a little bruised, but if you stop, it'll be as good as new in a week and that's about it. This is similar to your body and non-ionising radiation.
So if the videos seem inscrutable, try reading the instructions. I make no claim to the engine or game being the greatest ever, but I hope the contest will be fun and get people possibly involved with creative commons licensed art, or free software, or lisp game dev
Oh, don't mind us, we just love to shit all over someone's hard work, you know? Call it a hobby, if you will. Never mind the fact that 90% of us here couldn't construct a game to save our miserable lives, let alone make one you can remix.
I'm curious why the potato chip company would want to search for asteroids though.
A mass extinction event would seriously jeopardise their potato chip business. It's Business 101 people - always attempt to identify and classify any risks to your business. Jeez.
I have a hard time seeing what it would have to do with the FCC.
You basically have a software programmable 2-watt transmitter that can easily stomp over lots of spectrum if some clown mucks about with its code. This is also the reason there is a semi-retarded "AT" interface to the phone on most devices doing the call placement etc. The code that actually connects to towers, does the signaling etc is well programmed, fairly well tested by the FCC for compliance and then locked up out of harms way with a simple API.
This gives you a robust phone that plays nicely with others instead of (god forbid) a Windows Mobile device having to manipulate the air interface directly.
Whatever smacks facebook down, it will be like killing napster. 10 more p2p clients sprung up then, some of them still in wide use.
The problem with 10 social networking sites is that all your friends are then spread across them and it's a giant pain in the ass to keep track of all of your friends.
So it comes down to inconvenience, and users - not wanting inconvenience - will slowly gravitate together on one site. Thus there can be only one or two giant "Social Networking" sites - and that's the bit that people don't like, it has that faint 1984-esque all-knowing taint to it.
Heck, what happens when you are stuck in snow all the while, the spinning of wheels eating away at your juice? Scary, isn't it?
Not really. Spinning of wheels implies low friction and seeing as you're not actually moving anywhere (dammit), power used to spin those wheels is actually pretty minimal compared to normal driving.
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Too many digits. Australian numbers are ten digits long.
adding the leading zero that gets dropped when you dial international numbers gives 11 digits.
And of course the fact that "Austria" and "Australia" are usually right next to each other in your average "choose your country" drop-down box.
I am unable to adequately express my dismay regarding your sheer ignorance of the situation at hand.
So, if you could just punch yourself in the face, just as hard as you can, that'd be great. Well, it wouldn't be great for *you*, but I'd feel a whole lot better knowing it had been done.
Thanks.
Kudos to the board of Lyons for being so interested in new technology.
A large catering company, doing its catering thing, scopes out the current state of the art and decides to give 3000 pounds - a considerable sum in the '50s - and an engineer's time to a university to complete a prototype, then goes on to spin it into a pretty successful business in it's own right.
That's a pretty big leap into the unknown for a catering business.
Or watch one and record the other 49.
Mind you, once you trim out all the ads, reality TV, "OW, my balls!"-style shows and the self-serving "OMG, this is a show about celebrities!" crap, you really only have a need for 5, maybe 10 kilobits/sec on average.
A 300-pound piece of flaming satellite debris traveling at supersonic speeds is going to do more than hurt a little.
If it's something like a 300-pound crowbar, it would be wise to flee.
If it's a typical 300-pound random assortment of parts be supersonic as it re-enters the atmosphere, but by the time it gets to a few km from the surface in the much denser air it'll be very much subsonic. Still, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be hit in the back of the head by it.
Look outside your tiny world a bit and realise that a large chunk of the world has settled on GSM for their phones.
A Quad-Band GSM phone would have no trouble connecting to something like this. With regards to licenses - if you're having to install something like this because of disaster recovery, then you can pretty much assume that any administrative level of government has its hands full with other stuff.
On a related note, there's an open-source GSM stack available, with a real-world island installation that (seems to) work fine -
http://openbts.sourceforge.net/
The USB spec limits negotiated current to a max of 500mA (I think).
Any sort of active device will have some sort of hub inline and it should simply shut that port off if it goes into overcurrent.
A couple of recent ones:
- Compact Discs (both audio and data) - cassettes / zip disks are dead. Took a while, but it got there. Currently being threatened by lossy codecs and USB storage.
- Digital Cameras. Can you still get Polaroid film?
Alright, I checked the cookie and all it says is "true". Which is OK.
Of course, they're still setting a couple of cookies at the moment. This cookie is just a cookie to let them know that they've let you know that sometime in the future they're going to do something about your preferences in regard to the setting (or conversely, not setting) cookies on your computer when you access their domain.
Onwards!
Er, I don't want to be Captain Obvious here, but doesn't the cookie *track* who has seen or not seen the message about the cookies?
I work on a PLC system that has a single ethernet TX pair to the rest of our network. It transmits stats blindly (with the help of a static entry in its ARP table) to a PC on the outside where a small program listens and collates data. I've heard of similar things with serial, fiber and radio modems,etc.
No, it's Malcom.
His friends jsut call him Mal, though.
Nice condescending reply, except for the fact that you should at least *triple* all the current draws you state for automotive starter motors.
Starter motors for 4 cylinder engines typically are about 1kW. Ones for V8s (and small diesel engines) are about 1.5-2kW. The starter motors I fit at work are 24V and 8kW, but they go on 18 litre V12 diesel engines. That gives 120, 240 and 350 amps, respectively.
And if your jumper leads are getting hot when cranking (or drawing 60A), throw away those more-plastic-than-copper ones and buy yourself a decent set. Hint: they should cost at least a hundred bucks and you won't be able to carry them out of the store in a plastic bag, as they'll tear through the bottom of them. The cheap ones are designed to merely join two batteries and share the charging current in the hope that you'll get enough juice into the flat battery for it to start the engine.
Oh, and IT miracles? Ummm. I once swapped our failing site server VM (for our minegem installation) over to one of our console PCs one night when the server decided it didn't have any network cards any more. Worked so good, we've dropped the server completely and now just have a few consoles with the VM installed as backups.
Or the time I had an array failure on our Proliant fileserver and had to crank up some netware emulation on our wheezy old linux mail server for the one (sigh) legacy dos-based netware-login PC that ran a bunch of process control gear for our lab.
Or the afternoon I spent reconfiguring a Tiny Tiger based board that I was using to interface some lab balances into a gadget that recorded the position/speed of a critical bit of sampling equipment because some idiot had dropped our ageing Compaq PenPC and killed its drive.
Actually, those last two were a giant pain the bum. I'm glad I left that place, because crap like that happened all the time.
Very hard to say that it is definitely on fire however. It's just somewhere towards the far right hand side of the "Working <-----> Halted, on fire" continuum.
This one has an "opposing piston" above each traditional piston, where the valve head should be, moving in opposition to the standard piston (to increase compression, I guess). It's absolutely a different design.
But nothing new. The Commer "knocker" diesel springs to mind.
I concur, and a favorite comic springs to mind:
Science: It works, bitches
From the wikipedia page about the CMB:
Two of the greatest successes of the big bang theory are its prediction of its almost perfect black body spectrum and its detailed prediction of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
When basically the whole observable universe matches your theory, it's generally considered pretty strong evidence that you're going in the right direction.
you CAN contest it paying $100, then if the judge says it was wrongly issued you're only out $100.
Fuck you, buddy. If it's a wrongly issued ticket, I expect to pay exactly $0. Maybe an apology and a suitable remuneration for my time and effort contesting said ticket would be nice as well.
Back in Realityland, a bond system might work. Pay $100 and get it back if you win.
......dispute involving or affecting Carrier's service, mechanical difficulties, Air Traffic Control, the inability to obtain fuel.....or any fact not reasonably foreseen, anticipated or predicted by Carrier.
Seeing as they have put all these fine examples into their contract, one could argue that they have been forseen them as possible. If they've forseen them, then they're not really Force Majeure and measures should be in place to mitigate their effects. Like, for example, booking flights on other airlines, or organising accommodation for people.... which strangely, seems to be what they used to do.
I'm torn between pity and some sort of vague feeling that justice has been served upon the Belgian public.
On the one hand, nobody wants to see someone taken advantage of, and on the other, they *do* share a border with the Dutch.
Where someone tries to explain the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and specific absorption rate
Fire a gun at a tree. What happens to the tree? Your bullet chips a little bit off. If you just do it once, well, the tree can deal with it. Do it quickly enough and you'll start to leave bullets wedged in the tree and the tree will wind up all knotted and twisted in that area. Get out the machine gun and you'll cut the tree in half and kill the tree. This is similar to your body and ionising radiation.
Now replace the gun with a tennis racquet and lay your best serve on that tree. What happens to the tree? Nothing. Get your best auto-ball-server-machine and pummel that tree for a week. It might end up a little bruised, but if you stop, it'll be as good as new in a week and that's about it. This is similar to your body and non-ionising radiation.
So if the videos seem inscrutable, try reading the instructions. I make no claim to the engine or game being the greatest ever, but I hope the contest will be fun and get people possibly involved with creative commons licensed art, or free software, or lisp game dev
Oh, don't mind us, we just love to shit all over someone's hard work, you know? Call it a hobby, if you will. Never mind the fact that 90% of us here couldn't construct a game to save our miserable lives, let alone make one you can remix.
I'm curious why the potato chip company would want to search for asteroids though.
A mass extinction event would seriously jeopardise their potato chip business. It's Business 101 people - always attempt to identify and classify any risks to your business. Jeez.
I have a hard time seeing what it would have to do with the FCC.
You basically have a software programmable 2-watt transmitter that can easily stomp over lots of spectrum if some clown mucks about with its code. This is also the reason there is a semi-retarded "AT" interface to the phone on most devices doing the call placement etc. The code that actually connects to towers, does the signaling etc is well programmed, fairly well tested by the FCC for compliance and then locked up out of harms way with a simple API.
This gives you a robust phone that plays nicely with others instead of (god forbid) a Windows Mobile device having to manipulate the air interface directly.
Whatever smacks facebook down, it will be like killing napster. 10 more p2p clients sprung up then, some of them still in wide use.
The problem with 10 social networking sites is that all your friends are then spread across them and it's a giant pain in the ass to keep track of all of your friends.
So it comes down to inconvenience, and users - not wanting inconvenience - will slowly gravitate together on one site. Thus there can be only one or two giant "Social Networking" sites - and that's the bit that people don't like, it has that faint 1984-esque all-knowing taint to it.
Heck, what happens when you are stuck in snow all the while, the spinning of wheels eating away at your juice? Scary, isn't it?
Not really. Spinning of wheels implies low friction and seeing as you're not actually moving anywhere (dammit), power used to spin those wheels is actually pretty minimal compared to normal driving.