Evolution is not a theory. Scientists aren't trying to prove that evolution happened. It is accepted to be a real fact.
The THEORIES of evolution surround what the mechanisms of evolution are, was it genetic mutations, natural disasters, etc. HOW did evolution occur, not DID it occur.
It's a stupid point to argue about. If you need a single holy creator, than you need to work him into the scheme of the big things: millions of galaxies and galaxy clusters, a potentially life rich universe, why is there life at all? Don't argue the small points like the evolving body of genetics found on Earth.
What kind of crack were the 1541 disk drive engineerings smoking? Did they even have crack back then?
The 1541 was a somewhat self-destructing device. As I recall, the designers needed a way to make sure the read/write head shuttle was properly aligned with the (freeway sized) magnetic disk tracks, so they rubbed their brain cells together and decided it was appropriate and OK to just keep seeking the head shuttle inwards until it violently slammed the read write head into whatever was blocking its way. Then it was sure to be at the end of its travel. klak-klak-klak-klak-klak-klak!
All my friends had C64's back then, and we all had one or two 1541's over time. Luckily, one of us was well versed at fixing the blasted things.
I think it was when the 1571 drive came out they stopped slamming the disk head shuttle repeatedly.
I will never forget my introduction to Infocom on my Commodore 64, what, its been 21 years!!! I played it straight until my 1541 died from exhaustion. It went tits up from Zork. I guess a grue ate the bastard.
Agreed, agreed. It's just that I dont have the Belden and Canare parts to setup RG11 for it, and besides, much of that footage is the cable running around inside the walls of my house from the structured wiring center to the wall jacks where the rcvr connects. Running Rg11 through the walls would be a royal PITA. But for the outside part of the wiring, I whole heartedly agree.
Parts would be: Belden 7731A, black Canare F connector: FP-C71A Canare Stripper: TS100E Canare Crimp Die: TCD-7CA
That would be assuming you wanted to make the best RG11 cables:)
The signal retention is impressive on that RG11. At 1.5 ghz, that 7731A loses 5.5 dB per 100 feet. Comparatively, that 1694A I mention above, which is great, great cable, loses 7.33 dB per 100 feet. That is nothing to sneeze at over several hundred feet!!
This looks like low quality or poorly made stuff. Basically, in Astronomy, you get what you pay for. Quality is going to be LOW at these prices.
$250 for a binoviewer will get you crap! The good ones are about $900 - $1500 for a Denkmeier or for a Baader Planetarium model.
Focusers for $49... to $140 for a 4" model? puh-lease! Superb Feathertouch focusers are going to run you $300 at least for a 2" model. Clement Focusers are going to be around $400. AP focusers are going to be $400 - $700.
And the biggest problem of all. 16" mirror for $900?? 18" DOB for $2200?? Go fish! Some crackpipe dreams here. Superbly figured mirrors, which focus light superbly well, in well built dob structures, are going to run you into bucks. A quality 18" dobsonian telescope like a Starmaster is going to run you $6,400 without any options, a far cry above $2200.
I'll put my refractor up against this guys mirrors any day!;)
Buy a bigger dish. Here in Alaska, 18" dishes wont even work. Minimal size is 30". Personally, we ended up with a 1.2 meter dish which is more immune to weather. (Our Dish network transponders vary from 60-80 in strength, with 125 on the spotbeam.) My friend went for the gold and bought a 2 meter dish. ChannelMaster makes all of these dishes for consumers to buy.
Also, not sure how long your cable to your dish is? Buy some Belden 1694A cable, low loss serial digital interconnect RG6, and have it terminated with Canare F connectors on both ends. Doesnt make much difference for signals under 1 ghz, but can make a huge difference for higher signals depending on your existing cabling. I've ran my Dish on 350 feet of this cable with only a few points of signal loss on the highest frequencies coming from the LNB. (Check www.bluejeancable.com for a pre-made source of these cables. Or www.haveinc.com if you want to build it all yourself.)
No... the least he could have done would have been to use some damn tie-wraps to try and organize the wires inside. All that work and you leave it a spaghetti mess???
We had a machine that would lockup on snack-ejection once in a while, and we rocked it. Sometimes to no avail. The same vending machine company ran some pop machines right next to it. One day we bought an orange soda, put our 75 cents in, and low and behold it gave us 65 cents in change! Well, we proceeded to load up a cardboard box with 10 cent orange sodas. Then they came back, probably excited about the flood of orange soda sales, and reloaded the machine. And we did it again. And again. And again. And eventually we had a hellacious pile of orange soda under our desk at work, literally, many cases. And the bastards changed the price! I guess after a few hundred soda and the change pile not adding up, they broke out the calculator.
This camera undoubtably has a set of filters on it which permit it to image in a variety of wavelengths. Color images will come, they will take individual red, green, blue exposures and combine them. They can probably image all the way from near ultraviolet to low infrared.
They are all working fine for a year so far. Under extreme kid conditions, and extreme hot conditions in my A/V cabinets. They play everything... DVD-R, SVCD on CDR... etc. They are great and I easily recommend them.
I didn't know poor Chinese kids made them but I've got to say Kudos, good job!
FYI, 10 arcminutes is about 1/3 the diameter of the Moon or Sun. So this camera could take 9 trillion pixel mosaics of the Moon. (Though they'd probably be damn scared to point that much aperture at a full moon...)
10 arcminutes is about 1/12th the diameter of the long dimension of the Andromeda galaxy as seen from here. This telescope could make 36 trillion pixel mosaics of Andromeda. That would look nice blown up to Times Square size.
In order to resolve small items at a distance, you need to focus light from large apertures. The larger the aperture, the smaller the item which can be resolved. To resolve Kennedy from 40 light years out, your going to need a damn big telescope. One of those "600X MAGNIFICATION" units from Wal-Mart is not going to cut it.
Just imagine the angular resolution you are desiring. Imagine an acute triangle, 1 foot on the small side (to see Kennedys head), and 1.24153916 x 10^18 feet on each of the long sides (== 40 light years). I'd calculate the angle subtended, but anything I own will show ZERO degrees. Lets say it's sufficiently close to zero that your going to need an infinitely large telescope to see it.
>.. am deeply disappointed by the lack of dog puns.. 'Beagle 2 fails to bark'... > 'Down, Rover'.. 'Beagle 2 Space Probe has Ruff Landing'.. so much potential unfulfilled
Hmmm... yes.... maybe this explains why they use 138,000 volt and up distribution systems instead of 120 volts! But, the transformer could run into some money, and Home Depot might be loathe to give a full refund those 159 one-thousand foot spools of 4/0 SE-R...
Lets see, you should ideally keep your voltage drop under 5%, and this 250 Watt computer will draw about 2 amps of current.
120V * 95% = 114V, so we need to keep it above 114V, therefore we cant drop more than 6 volts total on the extension cords themselves (or 3 volts per wire, since the current is bidirectional.)
Thats 3V drop per wire at 2 Amps, so resistance of each 79,200 feet of wire should be lower than: 3V / 2A = 1.5 ohms
OK then.. we need three wires, each 79,200 feet and with less than 1.5 ohms per wire. That's 18.9 milliohms per thousand feet. Well, they do make wire that big, but you cant buy it at any Home Depot. So, we'll make the extension cords from the biggest wire you can get at Home Depot. Aluminum 4/0 wire, typically used for 200 amp service entrance condutors.
Unfortunately, using a single cable of 4/0 would drop almost 9 volts in each direction across this long a run at 2 amperes, so we're going to have to use ALL the conductors in an entire four conductor 4/0 cables for EACH conductor of your power cord to get the resistance low enough for your application. That will get us right at the maximum 6 volt drop at 79,200 feet out.
So, we need two 79,200 foot long 4/0 Aluminum SE-R cables, one cable for hot and one for neutral and we'll assume you'll drive a ground bar yourself since you're 15 miles from the 120V receptacle.
I think that cable is about $2.90 a foot last time I looked, so we need $459,360 worth of cabling. Probably best to buy in 1000 foot spools, but then you'll need hundreds of split bolt connectors and miles of electrical tape. (The good kind, not the cheapo electrical tape.)
Anyway, it is doable. Pulling the cable could be a real bitch. And keep in mind you're not allowed to suspend cables from trees anymore according to 2002 NEC. But then, you cant really use SE-R cable as outdoor extension cords, I'm just trying to keep this affordable for you.
I get like that also. To the point I have problems giving the password to the trusted, like my wife or boss, over the phone, in cases where I just have to. I cant remember the passwords well without a keyboard in front of me.
The danger for me seems to be a sudden disconnect with the passwords that doesnt happen with absolute memorization of the passwords characters. The passwords I know by "finger/muscle memory" seem susceptible to blanking out of my head if I dont use them for a while, where the memorized passwords are pretty engrained. Your mileage may vary...
Absolutely. And there are basketball players closer to baskets now as a result.
THEY DO GROW BONES... check this out !
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I attended over 25 operations where Doctors did help people grow. Their OWN bones, by over 1 inch per month. Yes, you can be one inch taller per month if you so desire.
It's called the Ilizarov Technique. It was discovered by a Russian doctor and named for him. The basic principle is this: (1) break someones leg, (2) hold it together just like a cast does , (3) tug on it by one millimeter per day, (4) the body fills in the gap with new bone.
Not only that, but the body grows muscle, nerves, blood vessels as required to accomodate the new limb length.
Not only can you make limbs longer, you can twist them back to normal directions, weed out angles left by accidents, etc. I saw an Atlanta Falcons player get his leg lengthened and rotated back into normal position.
Why take bone grafts or coral or cadaver implants ?? Have your body grow its own bone.
Not only that !!! When you take dwarves, and you lengthen their two humorous and their two femurs, it dumps so much growth hormones into the body that the torso, face, etc. grow to more normal proportions.
All in all an incredible technique that is underrated.
Why do I know this? I wrote the original embedded (8051) C software in a robotic distractor which allowed doctors to control this procedure precisely. A doctor could say "I want this limb to grow 1440 times per day, by 1/1440th per millimeter."... or "I want this limb to grow 360 times per day, by 1/360th of a millimeter."
Most fascinating.. the Russians and typical American use is to increase the length of the limb by 1/4 mm four times per day. The device we made allowed much finer control... up to 1/1440th mm 1440 times per day. X-rays showed that the finer, closer to continuous growth "tugging" produced the most normal looking nerve and blood vessels.
I saw this one guy who blew out 8" of his tibia with a shotgun, but the muscle and nerves stayed. Instead of amputating, they brought this guys foot WAY up, so he had this huge ball of muscle on the back of a tiny stump. Then they started growing !!! 200 days later this guy had his entire leg back.
I saw this type stuff again and again while I was helping doctors install the robotic device on patients. Doctors cut a small opening, take chisels to the patients bone, break it, put the frame on, and start the machine tugging the limb apart slowly. It is pure magic.
Must be those big glitzy desktops? We build two flavors of Mandrake 9.1 boxes where I work --
Flavor #1 (monitoring station) has 8 monitors running IceWM, all 8 monitors peppered with X apps.
Flavor #2 (server) are rack mounted and only accessed via VNC servers. These boxes are LAMP setups and run Perl apps continuously.
Our uptimes reach 100 days easily, and then we have to reboot for power cord moves, rack changes, stupid stuff like that. We've never had to reboot a Mandrake 9.1 box in either of these configurations due to something wigging out.
One of our corporate lawyers, who have won many cases against the dark forces in our companies industry (telecommunications), once read a cease and desist letter that a local bank had their lawyers send me. The bank wanted to seize a domain name I owned, which they said was confusing with their business name.
His response, and obviously the proper form for lawyers, judges and juries, was "I would tell them FUCK YOU VERY MUCH".
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IMHO you are deluded.
Evolution is not a theory. Scientists aren't trying to prove that evolution happened. It is accepted to be a real fact.
The THEORIES of evolution surround what the mechanisms of evolution are, was it genetic mutations, natural disasters, etc. HOW did evolution occur, not DID it occur.
It's a stupid point to argue about. If you need a single holy creator, than you need to work him into the scheme of the big things: millions of galaxies and galaxy clusters, a potentially life rich universe, why is there life at all? Don't argue the small points like the evolving body of genetics found on Earth.
What kind of crack were the 1541 disk drive engineerings smoking? Did they even have crack back then?
The 1541 was a somewhat self-destructing device. As I recall, the designers needed a way to make sure the read/write head shuttle was properly aligned with the (freeway sized) magnetic disk tracks, so they rubbed their brain cells together and decided it was appropriate and OK to just keep seeking the head shuttle inwards until it violently slammed the read write head into whatever was blocking its way. Then it was sure to be at the end of its travel. klak-klak-klak-klak-klak-klak!
All my friends had C64's back then, and we all had one or two 1541's over time. Luckily, one of us was well versed at fixing the blasted things.
I think it was when the 1571 drive came out they stopped slamming the disk head shuttle repeatedly.
I will never forget my introduction to Infocom on my Commodore 64, what, its been 21 years!!! I played it straight until my 1541 died from exhaustion. It went tits up from Zork. I guess a grue ate the bastard.
Agreed, agreed. It's just that I dont have the Belden and Canare parts to setup RG11 for it, and besides, much of that footage is the cable running around inside the walls of my house from the structured wiring center to the wall jacks where the rcvr connects. Running Rg11 through the walls would be a royal PITA. But for the outside part of the wiring, I whole heartedly agree.
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Parts would be:
Belden 7731A, black
Canare F connector: FP-C71A
Canare Stripper: TS100E
Canare Crimp Die: TCD-7CA
That would be assuming you wanted to make the best RG11 cables
The signal retention is impressive on that RG11. At 1.5 ghz, that 7731A loses 5.5 dB per 100 feet. Comparatively, that 1694A I mention above, which is great, great cable, loses 7.33 dB per 100 feet. That is nothing to sneeze at over several hundred feet!!
This looks like low quality or poorly made stuff. Basically, in Astronomy, you get what you pay for. Quality is going to be LOW at these prices.
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$250 for a binoviewer will get you crap! The good ones are about $900 - $1500 for a Denkmeier or for a Baader Planetarium model.
Focusers for $49... to $140 for a 4" model? puh-lease! Superb Feathertouch focusers are going to run you $300 at least for a 2" model. Clement Focusers are going to be around $400. AP focusers are going to be $400 - $700.
And the biggest problem of all. 16" mirror for $900?? 18" DOB for $2200?? Go fish! Some crackpipe dreams here. Superbly figured mirrors, which focus light superbly well, in well built dob structures, are going to run you into bucks. A quality 18" dobsonian telescope like a Starmaster is going to run you $6,400 without any options, a far cry above $2200.
I'll put my refractor up against this guys mirrors any day!
Buy a bigger dish. Here in Alaska, 18" dishes wont even work. Minimal size is 30". Personally, we ended up with a 1.2 meter dish which is more immune to weather. (Our Dish network transponders vary from 60-80 in strength, with 125 on the spotbeam.) My friend went for the gold and bought a 2 meter dish. ChannelMaster makes all of these dishes for consumers to buy.
Also, not sure how long your cable to your dish is? Buy some Belden 1694A cable, low loss serial digital interconnect RG6, and have it terminated with Canare F connectors on both ends. Doesnt make much difference for signals under 1 ghz, but can make a huge difference for higher signals depending on your existing cabling. I've ran my Dish on 350 feet of this cable with only a few points of signal loss on the highest frequencies coming from the LNB. (Check www.bluejeancable.com for a pre-made source of these cables. Or www.haveinc.com if you want to build it all yourself.)
Dude, I told you, it wasn't Mars rats, it was the gang trouble, see.
No... the least he could have done would have been to use some damn tie-wraps to try and organize the wires inside. All that work and you leave it a spaghetti mess???
We had a machine that would lockup on snack-ejection once in a while, and we rocked it. Sometimes to no avail. The same vending machine company ran some pop machines right next to it. One day we bought an orange soda, put our 75 cents in, and low and behold it gave us 65 cents in change! Well, we proceeded to load up a cardboard box with 10 cent orange sodas. Then they came back, probably excited about the flood of orange soda sales, and reloaded the machine. And we did it again. And again. And again. And eventually we had a hellacious pile of orange soda under our desk at work, literally, many cases. And the bastards changed the price! I guess after a few hundred soda and the change pile not adding up, they broke out the calculator.
Rover-jacking
This camera undoubtably has a set of filters on it which permit it to image in a variety of wavelengths. Color images will come, they will take individual red, green, blue exposures and combine them. They can probably image all the way from near ultraviolet to low infrared.
They are all working fine for a year so far. Under extreme kid conditions, and extreme hot conditions in my A/V cabinets. They play everything... DVD-R, SVCD on CDR... etc. They are great and I easily recommend them.
I didn't know poor Chinese kids made them but I've got to say Kudos, good job!
FYI, 10 arcminutes is about 1/3 the diameter of the Moon or Sun. So this camera could take 9 trillion pixel mosaics of the Moon. (Though they'd probably be damn scared to point that much aperture at a full moon...)
10 arcminutes is about 1/12th the diameter of the long dimension of the Andromeda galaxy as seen from here. This telescope could make 36 trillion pixel mosaics of Andromeda. That would look nice blown up to Times Square size.
In order to resolve small items at a distance, you need to focus light from large apertures. The larger the aperture, the smaller the item which can be resolved. To resolve Kennedy from 40 light years out, your going to need a damn big telescope. One of those "600X MAGNIFICATION" units from Wal-Mart is not going to cut it.
Just imagine the angular resolution you are desiring. Imagine an acute triangle, 1 foot on the small side (to see Kennedys head), and 1.24153916 x 10^18 feet on each of the long sides (== 40 light years). I'd calculate the angle subtended, but anything I own will show ZERO degrees. Lets say it's sufficiently close to zero that your going to need an infinitely large telescope to see it.
Hubble is a 2.4 meter diameter, not 10... or 30.
DVD-R was one of the top terms. Not DVD+R....
> .. am deeply disappointed by the lack of dog puns.. 'Beagle 2 fails to bark'...
> 'Down, Rover'.. 'Beagle 2 Space Probe has Ruff Landing'.. so much potential unfulfilled
British scientists announce "That dog wont hunt!"
Hmmm... yes.... maybe this explains why they use 138,000 volt and up distribution systems instead of 120 volts! But, the transformer could run into some money, and Home Depot might be loathe to give a full refund those 159 one-thousand foot spools of 4/0 SE-R...
Not a bad idea!
Lets see, you should ideally keep your voltage drop under 5%, and this 250 Watt computer will draw about 2 amps of current.
120V * 95% = 114V, so we need to keep it above 114V, therefore we cant drop more than 6 volts total on the extension cords themselves (or 3 volts per wire, since the current is bidirectional.)
Thats 3V drop per wire at 2 Amps, so resistance of each 79,200 feet of wire should be lower than:
3V / 2A = 1.5 ohms
OK then.. we need three wires, each 79,200 feet and with less than 1.5 ohms per wire. That's 18.9 milliohms per thousand feet. Well, they do make wire that big, but you cant buy it at any Home Depot. So, we'll make the extension cords from the biggest wire you can get at Home Depot. Aluminum 4/0 wire, typically used for 200 amp service entrance condutors.
Unfortunately, using a single cable of 4/0 would drop almost 9 volts in each direction across this long a run at 2 amperes, so we're going to have to use ALL the conductors in an entire four conductor 4/0 cables for EACH conductor of your power cord to get the resistance low enough for your application. That will get us right at the maximum 6 volt drop at 79,200 feet out.
So, we need two 79,200 foot long 4/0 Aluminum SE-R cables, one cable for hot and one for neutral and we'll assume you'll drive a ground bar yourself since you're 15 miles from the 120V receptacle.
I think that cable is about $2.90 a foot last time I looked, so we need $459,360 worth of cabling. Probably best to buy in 1000 foot spools, but then you'll need hundreds of split bolt connectors and miles of electrical tape. (The good kind, not the cheapo electrical tape.)
Anyway, it is doable. Pulling the cable could be a real bitch. And keep in mind you're not allowed to suspend cables from trees anymore according to 2002 NEC. But then, you cant really use SE-R cable as outdoor extension cords, I'm just trying to keep this affordable for you.
Regards
I get like that also. To the point I have problems giving the password to the trusted, like my wife or boss, over the phone, in cases where I just have to. I cant remember the passwords well without a keyboard in front of me.
The danger for me seems to be a sudden disconnect with the passwords that doesnt happen with absolute memorization of the passwords characters. The passwords I know by "finger/muscle memory" seem susceptible to blanking out of my head if I dont use them for a while, where the memorized passwords are pretty engrained. Your mileage may vary...
Absolutely. And there are basketball players closer to baskets now as a result.
It's called the Ilizarov Technique. It was discovered by a Russian doctor and named for him. The basic principle is this: (1) break someones leg, (2) hold it together just like a cast does , (3) tug on it by one millimeter per day, (4) the body fills in the gap with new bone.
Not only that, but the body grows muscle, nerves, blood vessels as required to accomodate the new limb length.
Not only can you make limbs longer, you can twist them back to normal directions, weed out angles left by accidents, etc. I saw an Atlanta Falcons player get his leg lengthened and rotated back into normal position.
Why take bone grafts or coral or cadaver implants ?? Have your body grow its own bone.
Not only that !!! When you take dwarves, and you lengthen their two humorous and their two femurs, it dumps so much growth hormones into the body that the torso, face, etc. grow to more normal proportions.
All in all an incredible technique that is underrated.
Why do I know this? I wrote the original embedded (8051) C software in a robotic distractor which allowed doctors to control this procedure precisely. A doctor could say "I want this limb to grow 1440 times per day, by 1/1440th per millimeter."... or "I want this limb to grow 360 times per day, by 1/360th of a millimeter."
Most fascinating.. the Russians and typical American use is to increase the length of the limb by 1/4 mm four times per day. The device we made allowed much finer control... up to 1/1440th mm 1440 times per day. X-rays showed that the finer, closer to continuous growth "tugging" produced the most normal looking nerve and blood vessels.
I saw this one guy who blew out 8" of his tibia with a shotgun, but the muscle and nerves stayed. Instead of amputating, they brought this guys foot WAY up, so he had this huge ball of muscle on the back of a tiny stump. Then they started growing !!! 200 days later this guy had his entire leg back.
I saw this type stuff again and again while I was helping doctors install the robotic device on patients. Doctors cut a small opening, take chisels to the patients bone, break it, put the frame on, and start the machine tugging the limb apart slowly. It is pure magic.
Deathcow
Because we run many programs in the foreground of X terminals and watch their performance through those X terms.
VNC makes a nice place to keep multiple X terms up with a bunch of apps running.
Must be those big glitzy desktops? We build two flavors of Mandrake 9.1 boxes where I work --
Flavor #1 (monitoring station) has 8 monitors running IceWM, all 8 monitors peppered with X apps.
Flavor #2 (server) are rack mounted and only accessed via VNC servers. These boxes are LAMP setups and run Perl apps continuously.
Our uptimes reach 100 days easily, and then we have to reboot for power cord moves, rack changes, stupid stuff like that. We've never had to reboot a Mandrake 9.1 box in either of these configurations due to something wigging out.
Sounds like its dry-rot in your glitz factor.
IANAL.. but
One of our corporate lawyers, who have won many cases against the dark forces in our companies industry (telecommunications), once read a cease and desist letter that a local bank had their lawyers send me. The bank wanted to seize a domain name I owned, which they said was confusing with their business name.
His response, and obviously the proper form for lawyers, judges and juries, was "I would tell them FUCK YOU VERY MUCH".
and i thought it was "pin headed bastards" the whole time... maybe they are interchangable?