The also leak way too much Nickel (from when they are coated in crome, which is in fact nickel. Umm, NO. Chrome plating is Chromium, an elemental metal (Cr).
Not only is there resistance in wire, there is capacitance and resistance. All these are factors in how power is delivered to the speakers and unwanted reflected power is returned back to the amplifier.
I think you meant:
Not only is there resistance in a wire, there is capacitance and inductance.
Firstly, a traditional rocket would work in an atmosphere. I doubt these work in an atmosphere, in fact I'm guessing that being in a vacuum is pretty much a prerequesite for their operation (a bit like the inside of your CRT tv set). But lets humour ourselves and assume they'd operate in an atmosphere and you're standing behind one.
The pressure of these ion engines is so small that I suspect the air between you and it would probably nullify, or at least very much disperse the charged particles shooting out the back.
If we humoured ourselves a little more in the other direction, and assumed that you were behind this engine in the vacuum of space (maybe you are Zentradi or something), then we can assume the ion stream hits your skin directly, and you are alive to feel the sensation.
Then I guess you've got a bunch of charged particles shooting at you very quickly onto a very small area of your skin. Besides almost certainly giving you cancer, you'd probably wind up with a bit of minor tissue damage as the particles slowly drilled into your skin.
I suspect that would pretty much be it. You'd feel a tingle and/or stinging sensation, you might get an "injury" a bit like an insect sting and eventually the cancer might kill you.
But I wouldn't worry about it too much:)
The article (as much as it confuses "Gb" with "GB") doesn't mention if it's actual computer gigabits ie. 16 x 2^30 or if it's the gigabits the marketing people like to use ie. 16 x 10^9. Marketing people like the later because it makes things sound bigger than they actually are. I stand by my theory that all marketroids harbour great feelings of inadequacy (probably for good reason, ie a small hard disk..).
If you get RSI (or similar) in your dominant hand, then learn to use the mouse with your "weak" hand. Seriously. Think about it - you use your dominant hand for most things, and then when you're in front of a PC you go and use the same hand for something with the same small repetetive movements, while your other hand (which hardly gets any use anyway) sits idle.
I used to get all sorts of tendon pains through the top of my hand, especially when mouse clicking. Forcing myself to use the mouse in my left hand (I'm right handed) took a couple of weeks to get used to, but all my problems went away after a month or so of "going south" and have never returned.
Plus, when you sit down at someone's computer who's left handed (or right handed if you're a lefty), you can use their mouse without moving the thing over the other side of the keyboard (which would normally both slow you down and piss them off).
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but _all_ drugs have side effects.
Also anti-anxiety medication is easy to become psychologically addicted to. Anything that takes the pain away is something people can often be reluctant to stop using.
One thing I can't really get my head around about western culture is that the worst curse/insult is the C-word. So the worst thing you can ever say is basically 'vagina'.
Why is it that such a wonderful part of a woman (that us blokes spend so much time tring to get at) is the worst possible insult?
Why is calling someone an arsehole or a cockhead not nearly as bad as calling them a c*&t???
Plus SCART, and then there's odd ones like component video with separate vertical/horizontal sync, VGA using 5 BNC connectors and don't forget the old CGA 9 pin D-sub connector with digital RGBI!:)
(or if you're like me and you're right handed but you use a mouse with the left hand to avoid RSI).
Logitech do NOT make any left handed mice (look in their FAQ). And none of the ambi-dextrous models are that special (no 2 axis scroll wheel for example).
It wasn't just buyers that were being adversely affected by the GST.
Sellers who advertised a GST-inclusive price were worse off than those (unfairly) advertising the same product without the GST included in the advertised price (this would affect mainly BuyItNow items).
Now all sellers are on an even playing field and can compete on the real price of the item.
Frankly, this change by eBay is just common sense and benefits everyone, I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Programs like GQview (unix/linux) offer functions to search for similar images, mainly used to find duplicates.
It's not quite "put in an image and find me all the similar ones" but the underlying technology is the same, usually creating some kind of "signature" of each image and then comparing the signatures to find others visually similar.
Great for de-duplicating your por^M^M^MPhoto Collection.
> This is clever, but I don't think that winmodems existed in the early days of IRC. I don't think that many early IRC users even ran Windows (what was it, 3.1?).
You're right, I'm getting my timing wrong (it was 10 years ago or so after all), the memory fade with age:)
I should have just said "mostly cheap crappy modems" (which would imply all win-modems anyway:-)
And yes, as others have said, the +++ATH0 is sent to the victims modem by the reply ping (I thought that was obvious, but I guess not everyone on Slashdot is a nerd;-)
Back in the early days of IRC when everybody used dial up (and most people thought a firewall was something your car had), a lot of people had really crappy modems with badly written firmware (usually winmodems).
Anyway, when someone started acting like that idiot in the story on IRC, daring people to hack their machine or whatever, I'd say "OK" and send them a ping with the payload:
+++ATH0^M
And half the time, they'd suddenly leave the channel and come back a few minutes later complaining about their ISP or their phone line or something.
And I'd just be quietly giggling to myself.
It was really fun because the arrogance/stupidity of these kinds of kiddies on IRC was directly proportional to the likelyhood of them having a crap modem that would fall for that...
Because when you buy from Amazon in Australia, you get charged shipping fees from North America, yet most of the time the book will actually come from their Hong Kong distribution centre (geographically around the corner compared to the US, plus cheaper labour to boot).
Just be happy that you can buy itunes music legit down under now, even if it's more expensive than as if you got it from the US.. (US$0.99 AU$1.80 by about AU$0.50).
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> So I have to stop every 2 hours for 5 minutes of charging? That's going to be a fun cross-country drive.
If you don't stop every 2 hours for a break when you're driving, you're a moron.
Studies show gunshots and batons cause acute pain.
Also, apparently handcuffs can be quite uncomfortable and inconvenient, so we should ban those too.
Excellent link.
It always amazes me how people are so scared of being hungry, like it's a death sentence or something. What they are really saying is:
I'd rather be fat all the time than hungry some of the time.
Sigh.
When's the lawsuit for that? At least LCD's are (mostly) accurate in their size ratings.
The more of this stuff the better. IT is even worse than the car in industry in exaggerating its products performance.
Plus I've seen "128MB" flash drives that were 128,000,000 bytes..
A lot of stuff that is not really relevant to a PAL or SECAM world. I am personally not too worried about 3:2 inverse telecine for example.
Then again it would be nice if 24fps film wasn't just sped up for us in the PAL universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_plating
Maybe you are confusing nickel plating (potentially carcinogenic) with chrome plating (harmless)?
I think you meant:
Not only is there resistance in a wire, there is capacitance and inductance.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25891 8
The background loading thing that Opera also does is of course new.
IANARS, (... Rocket Scientist)
:)
Firstly, a traditional rocket would work in an atmosphere. I doubt these work in an atmosphere, in fact I'm guessing that being in a vacuum is pretty much a prerequesite for their operation (a bit like the inside of your CRT tv set). But lets humour ourselves and assume they'd operate in an atmosphere and you're standing behind one.
The pressure of these ion engines is so small that I suspect the air between you and it would probably nullify, or at least very much disperse the charged particles shooting out the back.
If we humoured ourselves a little more in the other direction, and assumed that you were behind this engine in the vacuum of space (maybe you are Zentradi or something), then we can assume the ion stream hits your skin directly, and you are alive to feel the sensation.
Then I guess you've got a bunch of charged particles shooting at you very quickly onto a very small area of your skin. Besides almost certainly giving you cancer, you'd probably wind up with a bit of minor tissue damage as the particles slowly drilled into your skin.
I suspect that would pretty much be it. You'd feel a tingle and/or stinging sensation, you might get an "injury" a bit like an insect sting and eventually the cancer might kill you.
But I wouldn't worry about it too much
The article (as much as it confuses "Gb" with "GB") doesn't mention if it's actual computer gigabits ie. 16 x 2^30 or if it's the gigabits the marketing people like to use ie. 16 x 10^9.
Marketing people like the later because it makes things sound bigger than they actually are.
I stand by my theory that all marketroids harbour great feelings of inadequacy (probably for good reason, ie a small hard disk..).
> the majority of the corporate market has always been following the 95/98/XP upgrade pattern rather than NT4/2000/XP.
I think you meant "..majority of the _home_ market.."
I agree, I doubt there are many mums & dads running NT or 2000. They'll go straight from 95/98/ME to XP.
Don't forget ME as well (which managed to successfuly combine all the disadvantages of 98 with all the disadvantages of 2000).
If you get RSI (or similar) in your dominant hand, then learn to use the mouse with your "weak" hand. Seriously. Think about it - you use your dominant hand for most things, and then when you're in front of a PC you go and use the same hand for something with the same small repetetive movements, while your other hand (which hardly gets any use anyway) sits idle.
I used to get all sorts of tendon pains through the top of my hand, especially when mouse clicking. Forcing myself to use the mouse in my left hand (I'm right handed) took a couple of weeks to get used to, but all my problems went away after a month or so of "going south" and have never returned.
Plus, when you sit down at someone's computer who's left handed (or right handed if you're a lefty), you can use their mouse without moving the thing over the other side of the keyboard (which would normally both slow you down and piss them off).
Try it. You have nothing to lose.
Vindicated!
:)
(and also educated!)
Thanks
The article falsely states:
"Records of the Lego collector's Web site, Bricklink.Com, show that Swanberg has sold nearly $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, said Dolyniuk"
Some people sell stolen goods on ebay, but ebay is not THEIR website.
Bricklink is a marketplace to buy/sell new/used lego kits, parts etc, but having an account on bricklink doesn't make it YOUR website.
Grr.
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but _all_ drugs have side effects.
Also anti-anxiety medication is easy to become psychologically addicted to. Anything that takes the pain away is something people can often be reluctant to stop using.
One thing I can't really get my head around about western culture is that the worst curse/insult is the C-word. So the worst thing you can ever say is basically 'vagina'.
Why is it that such a wonderful part of a woman (that us blokes spend so much time tring to get at) is the worst possible insult?
Why is calling someone an arsehole or a cockhead not nearly as bad as calling them a c*&t???
or you could just middle click on the tab. This works even if it's not the currently visible one.
One click, it's gone. Simple.
eludeus!
(sorry..)
Plus SCART, and then there's odd ones like component video with separate vertical/horizontal sync, VGA using 5 BNC connectors and don't forget the old CGA 9 pin D-sub connector with digital RGBI! :)
If you're left handed..
(or if you're like me and you're right handed but you use a mouse with the left hand to avoid RSI).
Logitech do NOT make any left handed mice (look in their FAQ). And none of the ambi-dextrous models are that special (no 2 axis scroll wheel for example).
It wasn't just buyers that were being adversely affected by the GST.
Sellers who advertised a GST-inclusive price were worse off than those (unfairly) advertising the same product without the GST included in the advertised price (this would affect mainly BuyItNow items).
Now all sellers are on an even playing field and can compete on the real price of the item.
Frankly, this change by eBay is just common sense and benefits everyone, I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Programs like GQview (unix/linux) offer functions to search for similar images, mainly used to find duplicates.
It's not quite "put in an image and find me all the similar ones" but the underlying technology is the same, usually creating some kind of "signature" of each image and then comparing the signatures to find others visually similar.
Great for de-duplicating your por^M^M^MPhoto Collection.
> This is clever, but I don't think that winmodems existed in the early days of IRC. I don't think that many early IRC users even ran Windows (what was it, 3.1?).
:)
:-)
;-)
You're right, I'm getting my timing wrong (it was 10 years ago or so after all), the memory fade with age
I should have just said "mostly cheap crappy modems" (which would imply all win-modems anyway
And yes, as others have said, the +++ATH0 is sent to the victims modem by the reply ping (I thought that was obvious, but I guess not everyone on Slashdot is a nerd
Back in the early days of IRC when everybody used dial up (and most people thought a firewall was something your car had), a lot of people had really crappy modems with badly written firmware (usually winmodems).
Anyway, when someone started acting like that idiot in the story on IRC, daring people to hack their machine or whatever, I'd say "OK" and send them a ping with the payload:
+++ATH0^M
And half the time, they'd suddenly leave the channel and come back a few minutes later complaining about their ISP or their phone line or something.
And I'd just be quietly giggling to myself.
It was really fun because the arrogance/stupidity of these kinds of kiddies on IRC was directly proportional to the likelyhood of them having a crap modem that would fall for that...
Because when you buy from Amazon in Australia, you get charged shipping fees from North America, yet most of the time the book will actually come from their Hong Kong distribution centre (geographically around the corner compared to the US, plus cheaper labour to boot).
Just be happy that you can buy itunes music legit down under now, even if it's more expensive than as if you got it from the US.. (US$0.99 AU$1.80 by about AU$0.50).