You may wonder how, exactly, lugging all this expensive gear helps anyone get a useful workout.
You'll understand when you see a geek rocket past you, sweating and puffing and running at a tremendous rate of speed, with several muggers in hot pursuit.
A cheaper motivational method: tape a hundred-dollar-bill to your back and jog through the bad part of town! The locals will swear they're in Pamplona.
I knew this was going to start soon. Both Sony and Microsoft own the rights to a good number of games. When they've lowered the price so much that it hurts, they'll just include games...hey, it's no extra cost right? Just the cost of another pressed CD?
It would be interesting to see what the internal financial impact analysis of including games is, compared to public statements of loss due to piracy.
This might be bad news for the Xbox modders out there. If Microsoft takes the cue and no longer lowers the price, but instead includes more games, then they will increase the perceived value of their system while not making it any more attractive to people who want to take advantage of their loss leader.
Well, there's bit of a problem with that calculation, the problem being that it's totally wrong.
70 amp hours a kilogram is at 3.5 volts. The battery pack in my laptop puts out about 14 volts. So to get the same voltage, you'll have to quarter the amp hours. So...17.5 amp hours per kilogram at 14 volts. At.4 kilograms, the capacity is now 7,000maH. That's pretty nice, assuming that maximum is actually possible, but it's not even twice the power density. Not anywhere close to the sevenfold power density you were hoping for.
Again, the storage ability is not incredibly amazing, the unique feature is the quick-charging and discharging. We'll still have to look to fuel cells in order to get our laptop battery lives up over a few hours.
It may not have been your immediate supervisor's decision at all. It would most likely have been handed down from above, at the request of upper management and the bean counters. Your supervisor might sympathize and give you an even better reference than you might have gotten otherwise.
Lashing out and sabotaging your replacement will only make your supervisor's and coworker's jobs more difficult, while not getting the point up to anyone that matters. You would be shooting yourself in the foot. Either quit immediately or swallow your pride. Don't rub something in the face of the people who were closest to you, as they probably had nothing to do with the situation.
Hmmm..."Upper Management and the Bean Counters" sounds like a good name for a band....
You think the law sharks couldn't find a way to make that come back around to bite you?
Otherwise, the company and your supervisor still has a decent say in whether you ever get hired elsewhere. If you're in a pretty high-profile market, people will probably check up on your references. If they get a really bad one from your employer, they have lots of other applicants to choose from, rather than bother checking up with you and trying to figure out who's exaggerating.
Actually, being able to drain batteries very quickly is an advantage. Nickel-cadmium batteries are popular in R/C applications because of this. With a lower internal resistance, these batteries will be able to provide a massive jolt of power.
OK...this is something that bothers me. Exactly how many of you so-called fans of Farscape actually supported it? How many of you bought the DVDs, instead of watching pirated versions on CD?
I know that *I* never saw anyone who had the actual DVD set. You can't pirate the series and then throw a fit when it's cancelled.
It's a more or less obvious solution for anyone who knows some rudimentary thermodynamics. And basically, all they HAVE there in most places, excluding edible things, are (a) sticks, (b) pots, (c) cloth, and (d) dirt. Evaporative cooling is nothing new at all. In fact, modern refrigeration is pretty much based on the same principle, with the refinements of coolant choices and closed-loop operation. The only major advancement in refrigeration recently has been the Peltier junction.
However, it would be interesting to find out if this guy indeed knew any thermodynamics at all. If he came up with this arrangement by investigating why wet skin feels cold, then I think he deserves recognition for some research and development. Certainly, being able to demonstrate this method and spread it to needy areas is an accomplishment in itself.
Ok, so YOU'RE the one who blows by at 85 on the highway, takes off-ramps on two wheels, tailgates me, nearly takes off my front end running a stale yellow-then-red light, and nearly runs me over when I'm walking?
Semi-anonymity is still available for those who want to use dynamic DNS services.
I wonder if ICANN cares about this at all, or if their problem is with false WHOIS information, rather than people avoiding having any WHOIS information whatsoever.
Oooo...Mario Tennis for GC. Though actually, what will the GC version add that the N64 version doesn't have? As a later release for N64, it's pretty much perfection...back in college in 2002, someone's N64 was always on downstairs hooked up to the bigscreen, running Mario Tennis. A GameCube sat there unused for the most part except for the occasional Smash Bros.
You have been completely taken in by Slashdot's April Fool's prank 2004. Remember last time how the actual prank was not the article itself, but the fact that it was reposted over and over? Well, the prank this time is lots of really lame April Fool's articles. Everyone who gets mad and yells about how "it's not funny" is merely too stupid to get the joke.
HAHA! Congratulations for falling totally into this April Fool's prank.
See, the whole prank is a flood of retarded April Fool's submissions. That's the whole point. And it's working like crazy, judging by all the whiny comments about how "it's not funny!"
I bet someone could start a business based on this. Data courier jets...doesn't have to be an airliner, but you could install racks of hard disks in a business jet and link everything with GigE. The entire jet would basically be a giant RAID. Then you have data courier trucks at different locations with a similar hard disk loadout that would roll out on the pad, along with the fuel truck, and transfer everything with a bunch of paralleled GigE links. You could transfer entire multi-terabyte databases across the country in several hours. I wonder if there would be enough of a market for a business like this.
That's a really tough way to learn "Never ask before installing software you need." If you hadn't said anything, and had never specified how you fixed the data, they probably would never have cared. They probably didn't even know the difference between Perl and WordPerfect.
Though of course, it may have also taught you "Never take the short way when on an hourly assignment." Unless it wasn't hourly....
I once built a flute for an electronic music class. It was a length of PVC pipe with buttons mounted in it, and an electret microphone where the mouthpiece would be. Instead of resonating a tunable cavity with your breath, you would blow into the microphone. A small circuit rectified and amplified the noise, then fed it into an A/D input on a PIC, which would play a note based on the noise level and the buttons being pressed. Due to how I had the microphone positioned, it was very similar to a real flute...hard to play. You had to blow across the microphone a certain way in order to get a continuous noise level and a steady note, and that way was nearly identical to how you have to blow into a flute mouthpiece.
My next step was going to be giving it a MIDI output, but I abandonded the whole project a long time ago....
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You may wonder how, exactly, lugging all this expensive gear helps anyone get a useful workout.
You'll understand when you see a geek rocket past you, sweating and puffing and running at a tremendous rate of speed, with several muggers in hot pursuit.
A cheaper motivational method: tape a hundred-dollar-bill to your back and jog through the bad part of town! The locals will swear they're in Pamplona.
I knew this was going to start soon. Both Sony and Microsoft own the rights to a good number of games. When they've lowered the price so much that it hurts, they'll just include games...hey, it's no extra cost right? Just the cost of another pressed CD?
It would be interesting to see what the internal financial impact analysis of including games is, compared to public statements of loss due to piracy.
This might be bad news for the Xbox modders out there. If Microsoft takes the cue and no longer lowers the price, but instead includes more games, then they will increase the perceived value of their system while not making it any more attractive to people who want to take advantage of their loss leader.
You have a Macintosh. Get Virtual PC, foo'. That's all there is to it. It works.
Somehow I see the dolphin experiment going horribly wrong after about three minutes.
How is that not exactly what I just said? And I've never seen someone claim that they were trolling rather than admit they were wrong.
Well, there's bit of a problem with that calculation, the problem being that it's totally wrong.
.4 kilograms, the capacity is now 7,000maH. That's pretty nice, assuming that maximum is actually possible, but it's not even twice the power density. Not anywhere close to the sevenfold power density you were hoping for.
70 amp hours a kilogram is at 3.5 volts. The battery pack in my laptop puts out about 14 volts. So to get the same voltage, you'll have to quarter the amp hours. So...17.5 amp hours per kilogram at 14 volts. At
Again, the storage ability is not incredibly amazing, the unique feature is the quick-charging and discharging. We'll still have to look to fuel cells in order to get our laptop battery lives up over a few hours.
I can't answer the thing about the mixed-drink umbrella, but I bet McGyver could....
It may not have been your immediate supervisor's decision at all. It would most likely have been handed down from above, at the request of upper management and the bean counters. Your supervisor might sympathize and give you an even better reference than you might have gotten otherwise.
Lashing out and sabotaging your replacement will only make your supervisor's and coworker's jobs more difficult, while not getting the point up to anyone that matters. You would be shooting yourself in the foot. Either quit immediately or swallow your pride. Don't rub something in the face of the people who were closest to you, as they probably had nothing to do with the situation.
Hmmm..."Upper Management and the Bean Counters" sounds like a good name for a band....
You think the law sharks couldn't find a way to make that come back around to bite you?
Otherwise, the company and your supervisor still has a decent say in whether you ever get hired elsewhere. If you're in a pretty high-profile market, people will probably check up on your references. If they get a really bad one from your employer, they have lots of other applicants to choose from, rather than bother checking up with you and trying to figure out who's exaggerating.
Actually, being able to drain batteries very quickly is an advantage. Nickel-cadmium batteries are popular in R/C applications because of this. With a lower internal resistance, these batteries will be able to provide a massive jolt of power.
OK...this is something that bothers me. Exactly how many of you so-called fans of Farscape actually supported it? How many of you bought the DVDs, instead of watching pirated versions on CD?
I know that *I* never saw anyone who had the actual DVD set. You can't pirate the series and then throw a fit when it's cancelled.
It's a more or less obvious solution for anyone who knows some rudimentary thermodynamics. And basically, all they HAVE there in most places, excluding edible things, are (a) sticks, (b) pots, (c) cloth, and (d) dirt. Evaporative cooling is nothing new at all. In fact, modern refrigeration is pretty much based on the same principle, with the refinements of coolant choices and closed-loop operation. The only major advancement in refrigeration recently has been the Peltier junction.
However, it would be interesting to find out if this guy indeed knew any thermodynamics at all. If he came up with this arrangement by investigating why wet skin feels cold, then I think he deserves recognition for some research and development. Certainly, being able to demonstrate this method and spread it to needy areas is an accomplishment in itself.
"I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albequerque!"
Ok, so YOU'RE the one who blows by at 85 on the highway, takes off-ramps on two wheels, tailgates me, nearly takes off my front end running a stale yellow-then-red light, and nearly runs me over when I'm walking?
Semi-anonymity is still available for those who want to use dynamic DNS services.
I wonder if ICANN cares about this at all, or if their problem is with false WHOIS information, rather than people avoiding having any WHOIS information whatsoever.
If the ISS crew goes out to take a look and finds a burning paper bag on the welcome mat, they better not stomp on it to put out the fire!
If you like it so much, then steal one for yourself like I did!
"Ah, Chew...."
Bless you!
Oooo...Mario Tennis for GC. Though actually, what will the GC version add that the N64 version doesn't have? As a later release for N64, it's pretty much perfection...back in college in 2002, someone's N64 was always on downstairs hooked up to the bigscreen, running Mario Tennis. A GameCube sat there unused for the most part except for the occasional Smash Bros.
You have been completely taken in by Slashdot's April Fool's prank 2004. Remember last time how the actual prank was not the article itself, but the fact that it was reposted over and over? Well, the prank this time is lots of really lame April Fool's articles. Everyone who gets mad and yells about how "it's not funny" is merely too stupid to get the joke.
HAHA! Congratulations for falling totally into this April Fool's prank.
See, the whole prank is a flood of retarded April Fool's submissions. That's the whole point. And it's working like crazy, judging by all the whiny comments about how "it's not funny!"
Oh, but that's just coincedence. I assure you they are still valid Apple II disk images.
I bet someone could start a business based on this. Data courier jets...doesn't have to be an airliner, but you could install racks of hard disks in a business jet and link everything with GigE. The entire jet would basically be a giant RAID. Then you have data courier trucks at different locations with a similar hard disk loadout that would roll out on the pad, along with the fuel truck, and transfer everything with a bunch of paralleled GigE links. You could transfer entire multi-terabyte databases across the country in several hours. I wonder if there would be enough of a market for a business like this.
That's a really tough way to learn "Never ask before installing software you need." If you hadn't said anything, and had never specified how you fixed the data, they probably would never have cared. They probably didn't even know the difference between Perl and WordPerfect.
Though of course, it may have also taught you "Never take the short way when on an hourly assignment." Unless it wasn't hourly....
I once built a flute for an electronic music class. It was a length of PVC pipe with buttons mounted in it, and an electret microphone where the mouthpiece would be. Instead of resonating a tunable cavity with your breath, you would blow into the microphone. A small circuit rectified and amplified the noise, then fed it into an A/D input on a PIC, which would play a note based on the noise level and the buttons being pressed. Due to how I had the microphone positioned, it was very similar to a real flute...hard to play. You had to blow across the microphone a certain way in order to get a continuous noise level and a steady note, and that way was nearly identical to how you have to blow into a flute mouthpiece.
My next step was going to be giving it a MIDI output, but I abandonded the whole project a long time ago....