Microsoft's word processor is more than ready for prime time
Hah! Try and work on a file that has more than ten 3/4 page images, like an instruction manual.
"Hmmm, my file has grown to 25MB and now word crashes on loading it unless I turn speeel checking off. And I can't seem to cut and paste text without crashing. I'm glad this is a top-notch, prime-time word processor! I'd hate to do this in Lyx!"
It's the flatest continent Except for the Great Dividing Range along the eastern coast, which is where about 3/4 of Australia's population lives. There's plenty of hills big enough to block line of sight anywhere in Australia - and the places where there isn't any hills, well, line of sight isn't far enough to get to the next outpost.
the remote cattle stations certainly would be users that would benefit from long distance wireless internet.
Except that this is *still* not long-distance enough. 100km is the distance to an average cattle station's back gate - and at the other side of that? Another cattle station. You might as well put a microwave link in, or go satellite, or rip out every single bit of copper wire left in rural australia and go with fiber (rumoured to cost upwards of AUD30 billion).
I can't figure out why dual-layer writable DVD media have been SO slow to come about.
Dual layer (re)writeable media is a proper bitch to manufacture with (currently) a high failure rate, that's why. All the current manufacturers of DL media have struggled to get consistent batches. This is why they still cost a packet. If they can iron out the kinks and go to full mass production they'd be nearly as cheap as normal DVDs.
How about I wake you when your country's external debt hits a trillion dollars? Oh, I should have woken you in the late 90's, sorry.
If we're going to talk about numbers that mean nothing on their own, what about the current account balance? Let's see the Rank Order - Current account balance
Hmm.
USA -Last- $ -646.5 billion. Australia -Second Last- $ -38.3 billion......
Japan -First- $ 170.2 billion.
So yes, you have big economies, you get big numbers. But you can't keep this lifestyle up forever, you know. One of those tiger economies is coming up fast to bite you in the ass, and it's gonna hurt.
It's no longer feasible for a company to bother producing a 3.5" HD smaller than 40GB any more
Unless they stuff it with simms and battery-back it. And then it's very feasible to suddenly have a (say) 8GB drive with 133MB/s sustained xfer and sub-ms "seeks"
"This tradition began in 1929 with the launch of the 201. All numbers from 101 to 909 have been deposited as trademarks. Although in 1963 Porsche was forced to change the name of its new 901 coupe to 911, certain Ferraris and Bristols have been allowed to keep their Peugeot-style model numbers."
I work underground in a mine - in some places there are access drives a kilometer or so long, lit with fluorescents. A few of these here and there in the chain would be handy in the inevitable power outage.
Alright, so we have cap lamps as well, but still if I'm stuck somewhere with the power out, I'd want the gentle glow of a fluoro rather than have to use my cap lamp now, and have it possibly go out later in the Real Dark. Which is Bad, and very disconcerting when it happens.
Florescent bulbs just shatter like an ordinary piece of gas.
For all you people wondering - fluorescent tubes are filled with lower-than-atmospheric-pressure gas - about 0.3% of atmospheric.
They will pop when broken, however as they're generally a small volume (compared to eg. a TV tube) it's generally not much of a bother. Think about it - there's a gas discharge going on in the tube when it's running. Do you seriously think you can strike an arc over 3 feet long and keep it running in air? Not with the parts you've got in a fluoro light, that's for sure.
Go look it up at Wikipedia and edumacate yourself:-)
Fucking hell, who modded this drivel up? About the only passably informative thing in this post is the US power transmission losses.
Secondly, "nothing is created, nothing is lost". When you're trying to heat up a room with electricity, waste heat is a good thing. This hydrogen fire device has multiple conversion stages, all of them inefficient - in that they release waste heat. In the end, all of the energy that goes into the system is converted into heat.
What they have is a giant, ineffecient H2O splitter. The whole apparatus is not in the one place. It's likely that 90% of the heat generated is not directed where you want it, in the room. There are many good ways to direct heat into a room. This is not one of them.
Do you know about heat pumps ? Those devices are basically air conditioners acting in reverse....BLAH BLAH BLAH all the heat pump has to do is extract a little bit of energy from the outside and spit out lots of waste heat...
This is the most retarded statement I have ever encountered about heat pumps. Heat pumps average 3 or 4 HUNDRED percent efficiency. There's fuck-all waste heat from the compressor heating your house. And I fail to see what the fuck this has to do with the GP's post.
Any electrical devices that doesn't move outside air around is an efficient heater. Your toaster, your computer and your electrical chainsaw are just as efficient as your room heater, when it comes to producing heat.
(cough) unless your heater is a heat pump. And the heat is produced by all those devices is a by-product of it's intended purpose. The device in question goes through a lengthy set of processes to generate heat. It's not elegant. It's not simple. And its not necessary.
Anyway, your post is a travesty of science and logic. You were inspired by a hampster and your reasoning smells of elderberries
Your post is rambling and offensive to anyone with a modicum of scientific and engineering skill.
Get quotes for your time-sync hardware, and a *formal* quote from IT. (if no formal quote is forthcoming, keep your evidence of attempting to obtain one, and do a best-guess yourself, factoring labour/bandwidth/etc).
Go up the chain to whoever manages both the IT and your division. Say "We need time sync for such-and-such. It's necessary."
Give them a breakdown of costs like so:
$x for GPS stabilised NTP appliance. $y for some bonehead in IT to open the port up.
Make sure you put the expensive one first. If it costs the IT department more to poke a hole in the firewall, well, hell, you'll get a new toy to play with. But most likely management will say (paraphrased) "WTF? Bring me the head of the IT department manager, on a silver platter."
IT departments are there to provide services for the rest of the company. That's their job. If they're not doing their job, call them on it. They're just a lead weight around the company's neck otherwise.
These devices are subject to HDCP's key revocation feature Which is why all the IC's have the tops ground off them. It probably still wouldn't stop a determined key-revoker from grinding the IC down to the circuit layer and then comparing it to every manufacturers reference HDCP IC's.
Directional antennas increase the radiated power in a certain direction. The FCC does not care about the output power of your transmitter into it's coax, it cares about the radiated power into the air - which is where antenna gain comes into play.
So when you get that 24dB parabolic antenna out, you might be going beyond the regulated power limit for that band.
than why do all modern cars disengage the A/C clutch when you go wide open throttle?
To state the bleedin' obvious: For the maximum kick-in-the-pants that everyone likes to see from their car - especially manufacturers trying to woo car reviewers. A few seconds with the compressor off while you accelerate to 60 makes no real difference.
There are also technical limits: - Assuming that the compressor is overdriven from the crankshaft pulley about 1.5 to 1 (about normal), a car with a redline of 6Krpm is going to tear up its compressor (9Krpm) quick smart. - Required drive power increases as well - a compressor using 1.5kw at idle speeds could use an extra (possibly belt-snapping) 3 or 4kW at full noise.
Fatter alternator due to the giant amount of power consumed by a 40% efficient peltier. (Move 1 unit of heat with 2.5 units of power in)
VS
A/C compressor with a COP of 3 (move 3 units of heat for 1 unit of power in)
All that energy's got to come from somewhere. A typical car A/C is around 3-4kW. Or about 2kW of power to drive an A/C compressor. So, for a peltier equivalent, that's 10kW of electrical power from the alternator, driven from the engine, for the peltier array to get the same cooling effect.
I'll stick with compressor-driven A/C for now, thanks.
I keep toying with the idea of a twin ammonia-calcium chloride adsorption A/C, driven from the excess heat in the car exhaust. Heat one salt pack, release ammonia to condense in accumulator and tx valve , which then gets drawn to the other previously-heated-and-now cooling salt pack via an evaporator. When one pack is expended, direct hot exhaust gases to heat the other pack and continue. One of these days I'll get arond to it.
You need to look at the whole picture. It's not really a case of "where the current is going" - the current flows through the entire circuit, from one side of your voltage source to the other. The important thing to remember is that the current never changes through the whole circuit. The number of electrons/second (amps) is constant through the whole circuit. Only the voltage drop matters as you traverse the circuit. The part of the circuit with the biggest voltage drop across it consumes the most amount of power.
So, you get a small voltage drop across your wires, which gets turned into a small amount of heat. You normally have a large voltage drop across your load, which gets turned into useful work.... plus a bit of heat- nothing's 100% efficient.
For example, in an electric motor, the bulk of it is converted to mechanical work... which is still measured in watts, and *that* eventually gets converted to heat (by friction somewhere). The remainder gets lost due to the resistance in the motor windings.
Looks like it's time to write a greasmonkey dupe detector.
How about if, in any article, there are more than 3 posts with the word "dupe" in them, mark it as "DUPE" in big red font at the top? It won't save the people that first get there, but it would sure help me (of the last-post)
If you have an external card (or antenna), a simple coke-can-type metal cylindrical shield around it will pretty much make it recieve from one direction only.
(Ok, two directions, but one direction contains your laptop, so it should be discernable in the signal strength when you move around)
Dare I say consulting an expert on the judicious use of tinfoil might be appropriate? Call the tinfoil hat brigade! Actually, no need to call, they'll reply below soon enough.
Should this guy have a right to erase his past creations?
Not any more. Semantics aside, it was publicly broadcast at the time. The world doesn't work like Outlook and its "Recall Message" feature, as much as you would appear to wish it did. People create history as they go through life.... or would you prefer some 1984-esque alternative?
Perhaps he should have lived by the old axiom of "Never say something that you wouldn't want repeated in court."
[...I]t uses the HDCP chips ususally built into high definition displays, so that HDCP "protected" signal sources uncomplainingly deliver their signal to the boxes. They then convert them to RGBHV or unprotected DVI signals.
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Microsoft's word processor is more than ready for prime time
Hah! Try and work on a file that has more than ten 3/4 page images, like an instruction manual.
"Hmmm, my file has grown to 25MB and now word crashes on loading it unless I turn speeel checking off. And I can't seem to cut and paste text without crashing. I'm glad this is a top-notch, prime-time word processor! I'd hate to do this in Lyx!"
Why does a Hydrogen Bomb produce far more energy in the fusion phase than is put in during the fission phase?
Simple answer - hydrogen fused to helium has a "little bit left over" - this is the energy released.
It's the flatest continent
Except for the Great Dividing Range along the eastern coast, which is where about 3/4 of Australia's population lives. There's plenty of hills big enough to block line of sight anywhere in Australia - and the places where there isn't any hills, well, line of sight isn't far enough to get to the next outpost.
the remote cattle stations certainly would be users that would benefit from long distance wireless internet.
Except that this is *still* not long-distance enough. 100km is the distance to an average cattle station's back gate - and at the other side of that? Another cattle station. You might as well put a microwave link in, or go satellite, or rip out every single bit of copper wire left in rural australia and go with fiber (rumoured to cost upwards of AUD30 billion).
I can't figure out why dual-layer writable DVD media have been SO slow to come about.
Dual layer (re)writeable media is a proper bitch to manufacture with (currently) a high failure rate, that's why. All the current manufacturers of DL media have struggled to get consistent batches.
This is why they still cost a packet. If they can iron out the kinks and go to full mass production they'd be nearly as cheap as normal DVDs.
Wake me up when our GDP goes below 10 trillion.
.....
How about I wake you when your country's external debt hits a trillion dollars? Oh, I should have woken you in the late 90's, sorry.
If we're going to talk about numbers that mean nothing on their own, what about the current account balance?
Let's see the Rank Order - Current account balance
Hmm.
USA -Last- $ -646.5 billion.
Australia -Second Last- $ -38.3 billion.
Japan -First- $ 170.2 billion.
So yes, you have big economies, you get big numbers. But you can't keep this lifestyle up forever, you know. One of those tiger economies is coming up fast to bite you in the ass, and it's gonna hurt.
It's no longer feasible for a company to bother producing a 3.5" HD smaller than 40GB any more
Unless they stuff it with simms and battery-back it.
And then it's very feasible to suddenly have a (say) 8GB drive with 133MB/s sustained xfer and sub-ms "seeks"
Wow, I didn't know you could copyright, trademark, or otherwise reserve numbers!
Yes, you can and have been able to for some time.
from Encyclopedia: Peugeot :
"This tradition began in 1929 with the launch of the 201. All numbers from 101 to 909 have been deposited as trademarks. Although in 1963 Porsche was forced to change the name of its new 901 coupe to 911, certain Ferraris and Bristols have been allowed to keep their Peugeot-style model numbers."
I work underground in a mine - in some places there are access drives a kilometer or so long, lit with fluorescents. A few of these here and there in the chain would be handy in the inevitable power outage.
Alright, so we have cap lamps as well, but still if I'm stuck somewhere with the power out, I'd want the gentle glow of a fluoro rather than have to use my cap lamp now, and have it possibly go out later in the Real Dark. Which is Bad, and very disconcerting when it happens.
Florescent bulbs just shatter like an ordinary piece of gas.
:-)
For all you people wondering - fluorescent tubes are filled with lower-than-atmospheric-pressure gas - about 0.3% of atmospheric.
They will pop when broken, however as they're generally a small volume (compared to eg. a TV tube) it's generally not much of a bother. Think about it - there's a gas discharge going on in the tube when it's running. Do you seriously think you can strike an arc over 3 feet long and keep it running in air? Not with the parts you've got in a fluoro light, that's for sure.
Go look it up at Wikipedia and edumacate yourself
When you burn wood, you burn the fossil fuel of the future.
Remeber, when you burn wood the terrorists have won.
Fucking hell, who modded this drivel up?
About the only passably informative thing in this post is the US power transmission losses.
Secondly, "nothing is created, nothing is lost". When you're trying to heat up a room with electricity, waste heat is a good thing. This hydrogen fire device has multiple conversion stages, all of them inefficient - in that they release waste heat. In the end, all of the energy that goes into the system is converted into heat.
What they have is a giant, ineffecient H2O splitter. The whole apparatus is not in the one place. It's likely that 90% of the heat generated is not directed where you want it, in the room. There are many good ways to direct heat into a room. This is not one of them.
Do you know about heat pumps ? Those devices are basically air conditioners acting in reverse....BLAH BLAH BLAH
all the heat pump has to do is extract a little bit of energy from the outside and spit out lots of waste heat...
This is the most retarded statement I have ever encountered about heat pumps. Heat pumps average 3 or 4 HUNDRED percent efficiency. There's fuck-all waste heat from the compressor heating your house.
And I fail to see what the fuck this has to do with the GP's post.
Any electrical devices that doesn't move outside air around is an efficient heater. Your toaster, your computer and your electrical chainsaw are just as efficient as your room heater, when it comes to producing heat.
(cough) unless your heater is a heat pump.
And the heat is produced by all those devices is a by-product of it's intended purpose. The device in question goes through a lengthy set of processes to generate heat. It's not elegant. It's not simple. And its not necessary.
Anyway, your post is a travesty of science and logic. You were inspired by a hampster and your reasoning smells of elderberries
Your post is rambling and offensive to anyone with a modicum of scientific and engineering skill.
Get quotes for your time-sync hardware, and a *formal* quote from IT. (if no formal quote is forthcoming, keep your evidence of attempting to obtain one, and do a best-guess yourself, factoring labour/bandwidth/etc).
Go up the chain to whoever manages both the IT and your division. Say "We need time sync for such-and-such. It's necessary."
Give them a breakdown of costs like so:
$x for GPS stabilised NTP appliance.
$y for some bonehead in IT to open the port up.
Make sure you put the expensive one first. If it costs the IT department more to poke a hole in the firewall, well, hell, you'll get a new toy to play with. But most likely management will say (paraphrased) "WTF? Bring me the head of the IT department manager, on a silver platter."
IT departments are there to provide services for the rest of the company. That's their job. If they're not doing their job, call them on it. They're just a lead weight around the company's neck otherwise.
but have they gotten in the backdoor?
:-)
That's the difference
These devices are subject to HDCP's key revocation feature
Which is why all the IC's have the tops ground off them. It probably still wouldn't stop a determined key-revoker from grinding the IC down to the circuit layer and then comparing it to every manufacturers reference HDCP IC's.
Directional antennas increase the radiated power in a certain direction. The FCC does not care about the output power of your transmitter into it's coax, it cares about the radiated power into the air - which is where antenna gain comes into play.
So when you get that 24dB parabolic antenna out, you might be going beyond the regulated power limit for that band.
Why leave Netscape Navigator 3 Gold when it works just fine?
Exactly! Slashdot renders perfectly with it - why change now?
than why do all modern cars disengage the A/C clutch when you go wide open throttle?
To state the bleedin' obvious:
For the maximum kick-in-the-pants that everyone likes to see from their car - especially manufacturers trying to woo car reviewers. A few seconds with the compressor off while you accelerate to 60 makes no real difference.
There are also technical limits:
- Assuming that the compressor is overdriven from the crankshaft pulley about 1.5 to 1 (about normal), a car with a redline of 6Krpm is going to tear up its compressor (9Krpm) quick smart.
- Required drive power increases as well - a compressor using 1.5kw at idle speeds could use an extra (possibly belt-snapping) 3 or 4kW at full noise.
But it's mainly for driveability.
Let's see here....
Fatter alternator due to the giant amount of power consumed by a 40% efficient peltier. (Move 1 unit of heat with 2.5 units of power in)
VS
A/C compressor with a COP of 3 (move 3 units of heat for 1 unit of power in)
All that energy's got to come from somewhere. A typical car A/C is around 3-4kW. Or about 2kW of power to drive an A/C compressor. So, for a peltier equivalent, that's 10kW of electrical power from the alternator, driven from the engine, for the peltier array to get the same cooling effect.
I'll stick with compressor-driven A/C for now, thanks.
I keep toying with the idea of a twin ammonia-calcium chloride adsorption A/C, driven from the excess heat in the car exhaust. Heat one salt pack, release ammonia to condense in accumulator and tx valve , which then gets drawn to the other previously-heated-and-now cooling salt pack via an evaporator. When one pack is expended, direct hot exhaust gases to heat the other pack and continue. One of these days I'll get arond to it.
You need to look at the whole picture.
It's not really a case of "where the current is going" - the current flows through the entire circuit, from one side of your voltage source to the other. The important thing to remember is that the current never changes through the whole circuit. The number of electrons/second (amps) is constant through the whole circuit. Only the voltage drop matters as you traverse the circuit. The part of the circuit with the biggest voltage drop across it consumes the most amount of power.
So, you get a small voltage drop across your wires, which gets turned into a small amount of heat. You normally have a large voltage drop across your load, which gets turned into useful work.... plus a bit of heat- nothing's 100% efficient.
For example, in an electric motor, the bulk of it is converted to mechanical work... which is still measured in watts, and *that* eventually gets converted to heat (by friction somewhere). The remainder gets lost due to the resistance in the motor windings.
It's all interrelated.
.
,Power can also be defined as :
The basic Power equation (in Watts) is Volts times Amps (V*I)
Aha! But from Ohms law, Volts is Amps times Resistance (V=I*R). And Amps is Voltage over resistance (I=V/R).
So substituting back into the original equation
P = (I*R)*I = I^2R
P = V*(V/R) = V^2R
So you can hopefully see from all that mess, any change of voltage,current,resistance will change power dissipated.
Well, I just whipped up one that looks for the number of "dupe!!" posts ... it works for this article, anyway :-)
:-)
All it does on this version is just put a big ol' red "DUPLICATE ARTICLE" just before the start of the comments... which is probably enough for me.
I've put it up here
It's a quick hack of the NO BS slashdot script which is handy in itself.
Looks like it's time to write a greasmonkey dupe detector.
How about if, in any article, there are more than 3 posts with the word "dupe" in them, mark it as "DUPE" in big red font at the top?
It won't save the people that first get there, but it would sure help me (of the last-post)
Perhaps a little massaging of the Slashdot NoBS filter would do it.
If you have an external card (or antenna), a simple coke-can-type metal cylindrical shield around it will pretty much make it recieve from one direction only.
(Ok, two directions, but one direction contains your laptop, so it should be discernable in the signal strength when you move around)
Dare I say consulting an expert on the judicious use of tinfoil might be appropriate? Call the tinfoil hat brigade! Actually, no need to call, they'll reply below soon enough.
Should this guy have a right to erase his past creations?
Not any more. Semantics aside, it was publicly broadcast at the time. The world doesn't work like Outlook and its "Recall Message" feature, as much as you would appear to wish it did. People create history as they go through life.... or would you prefer some 1984-esque alternative?
Perhaps he should have lived by the old axiom of "Never say something that you wouldn't want repeated in court."
You can get one now (from cNet, via boingboing:
DRM removal widget
[...I]t uses the HDCP chips ususally built into high definition displays, so that HDCP "protected" signal sources uncomplainingly deliver their signal to the boxes. They then convert them to RGBHV or unprotected DVI signals.
Buy a crate of them now! Ebay, here we come!