But, there's something else even more important that being what type of job you have. For a typical slashdotter, the most important thing is finding a job where Internet Access isn't monitored or restricted.
The other thing is, the only one truly looking after you is yourself. With that said, I've basically advanced my career/skills through my spare time on the job. Find a job with plenty of spare time and be sure to take advantage of it. I had a three month non-busy spell a few years ago and studied my ass off in Java, got certified, within one year, was making $25k more and still making it.
Govt. is under too much political scrutiny. Some locals find out we're paying public employees to browse the net, and it gets shut down for the workers. Shit man, browsing the Internet on the job should be a civil right!
Some of my friends in govt. actually have to walk to a different floor of the building to send an email to the outside world. I aint kidding, this is a fairly high up job.
Local munie? Well that's another one. I would never, never work for a local municipality. This is the absolute bottom of the food chain. I know this is an ugly steatement, but I've never seen a fatter bunch of duffers than when visiting my local county office to pay some tax, or fill out a form or whatnot. Not even the DMV is as bad.
Teaching? All the teachers I have adult converations with seem to have no sense of what the real world is all about. Part of them regresses back into childhood (or to whomever they teach their subjects to).
Private Sector is fractic by nature. It'll keep you from becoming obsolete. You may switch jobs, but you'll be a smarter/stronger/richer person of you can roll with punches.
One problem, I download straight to my shared directory. I guess I'd have to stop this. I may initiate a job of downloading serveral files from slow servers, and not check them for a day or two in which time, any bad files could be propagated.
Right at the speed of sound, all the loud sound waves your craft is generating are building up around you. You are chasing your own waves, and have actually caught up to them. Well, so, we go through the speed of sound and suddenly your sound waves can't keep up with you. Yes aerodynamics changes then, but it's still there.
Right at the speed of sound, you get something like an additive standing wave. You're in your own sonic boom.
This is very interesting, but don't get too excited. This was basically a firework, and it is a loooong way from here to a flyable payload-carrying plane.
My sentiments exactly. And how far past Mach 1 must it go before it can actually work? Does it have to go all the way to Mach 7 first?
It's not how fast, but how did they fly that fast.
The Scramjet theory has to have occurred. Which is basically an engine with no moving parts. The intake air has to hit the fuel so fast, and at such high density that some sort of "Critical Mass" combustion takes place that produces more thrust that drag of the air molecules hitting the craft at about 10kph.
When you're on a shoe-string budget, it's hard to figure out if that really happened. It'll take a much more expensive project to figure this out for sure, hence, NASA's much more expensive project.
Don't you realize that courting is all about brain-washing, er uh, educatiing your soon to be mate? I'm proud to report I easily turned my girlfriend into a Right-wing Capitalist conservative before I even thought of marrying her. We're now happily married with 3 kids for 6 years.
This really isn't flamebait.
I went and bought her a Saphire ring for $169, and that's it. In addition I bought her a beautiful $900 Raymond Weil watch, and a $200 framed print that to this day hangs in our dining room.
We got wedding bands, but I lost mine within 6 months and she lost hers in 2 years. I've been going ringless for all these years, even at a 100k+ salary.
Once you get the little kids running around, your wife will realize there are so many more important things to spend money on, perhaps, private schools, country club memberships, automobiles. We really never even talk about the subject of rings.
This has arguably happened but you get into the debate of which is better, CISC or RISC because the graphics processors are typically RISC / ARM THUMB, which is Advanced Risc, and also Super-Scaler in that all the registers are completely general purpose. The THUMB thing is a way of cramming a binary excutable in less than 32 bits on a 32 bit architecture. Why use up all that wasted space? So, multiple instructions per Word of program memmory was reality.
Not to mention Harvard achitecture vs. Von Neuman.
I worked for a company that built specially designed handheld Pen-based PC's and the last prototype we developed ran totally off a display card. It had an ARM chip that kicked ass and increased battery life immensely.
Why are you using a MAX231. Doesn't that require charge pumps (Capacitors). Live a little and spend the extra $2 on a MAX233 that doesn't require the pumps. Space is a valuable commodity here.
Save some money by doing it scrapping the more expensive ATMega163 (though a great choice over the newbie PIC processors and Basic Stamps).
If you go with the AT90S-8515 you still get plenty of I/O, PWM, Serial I/O, though you'll have to hand code some A-D conversion. Maybe that's why you're going with the 163?
Leave it to nerds to be the only ones falling for the "Somebody has a crush on you gag." Yeah right, as if anybody thinks they need to secretly admire your bolonga tits, when they know all they have to do is walk up and say, "If you eat me, you can treat me to dinner."
Does it say that in the Article? I think max is 25% efficient. You have to lose 50% in transferring to the flywheel. Then lose 50% of that remaining to get back into the train.
With an AVR, you could play the music like the Gypsie Kings with one processor! I'm talking multiple 12 strings!
You wouldn't need a beuwolf cluster..
But, it would be pretty cool.
All kidding aside, I wish I had the time to do this kind of stuff. Writing Java code for "Big Business" gets very boring, though, it feeds my family.
Re:Freon was patent-free for decades
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· Score: 1
Okay, it looks like I'm right. The new refrigerent is HFC-134a. And you guessed it, it's got a rubber stamp approval from the EPA and is owned by duPont.
HFC-134a is much more expensive to produce, and arguably just as bad or worse than Freon. It turns out that Freon was already under attack by generics lately. Several small producers were making alternative cheaper versions of Freon. Now, the EPA is going after these producers (guess who's $'s are helping the EPA do this)...
So, it's not blatently cut and dry, but basically, duPont is making the new stuff, and getting the EPA to shut down competition.
Re:Freon was patent-free for decades
on
Microsoft Freon
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· Score: 1
The article has very little depth. I don't feel like doing a bunch of research on this, but I heard it from a fairly reliable source. You're onto something with duPont. Now, let's find out what the replacement for Freon is... I bet duPont, or one of its subsidiaries owns the trademark.
Re:we all know what a disaster Freon was... try ag
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Not to mention the fact that Freon is compatible with the compressors they operate in. It doesn't corrode like the others mentioned.
I heard a story on Freon in that if you check it out. The patent is expiring, or has expired. The company owning the patent (Dupont?) for fear of losing liscensing revenue has invented a new refrigerant and lobbied alongside the Greenie Weenies to outlaw Freon.
It looks as if these cars use may a Microcontroller, perhaps not, but definitely an H-Bridge. And H-Bridge is a specialized push pull amplifier that can be used as a Motor controller. You can order this as Quad 2 Channel Drivers, In a DIP Package. Gee I'd love to Hack one of these babies like this fella did.
But, it's really tough to find chips at those sizes.
On, the short battery life. I'm reminded of BEAM Devices which charge up a capacitor from a solar cell, then release the energy in a spurt, then go back to charging the capacitor. Here's a cool one
You see. There are these
ants that won't go away. They are mutants from Argentina that when brought over to America on coffe boats spread like wild fire. They are like the Borg.
I need some nano-bots to go an eat every one of them.
I'm not bitching about my salary. Just stating the fact that the economy is growing it just fine, but the govt. growth has exceeded the economy's growth.
Besides the road outside my house, the bombs landing in Tora Bora; the bumbs locked up in the prisons, the satellite weather reports I got from channel 101, the clear reception I got the other day listening to Phil Hendrie, I'd rather go it on my own. I send my kid to private school thank you, and pay for others' kids to go to public.... I live in a really old house, drive a 10 year old car, and don't complain about it. I work my ass off and sure I think I deserve more pay, but, it's what somebody else is willing to pay. The govt. had nothing to do with how much I'm being paid, and they can fire me right now if they want.
He talks about Real Wages declining. That's because the numbers he's siting are "After Tax". Basically, when I was a young one, my dad was paying about 5% in taxes. Now, I'm paying 50%!!!!! Ouch.
Also, the numbers he's siting probably don't reflect the last couple years' economy in which wages were way up.
At least he says, "It may not be so bad.."
Damn straight. Let's institute some job security in America now! Then maybe our economic numbers would compare better to Germany's.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020117/bs/germ an y_economy_1.html
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It's been a simple opinion for me.
But, there's something else even more important that being what type of job you have. For a typical slashdotter, the most important thing is finding a job where Internet Access isn't monitored or restricted.
The other thing is, the only one truly looking after you is yourself. With that said, I've basically advanced my career/skills through my spare time on the job. Find a job with plenty of spare time and be sure to take advantage of it. I had a three month non-busy spell a few years ago and studied my ass off in Java, got certified, within one year, was making $25k more and still making it.
Govt. is under too much political scrutiny. Some locals find out we're paying public employees to browse the net, and it gets shut down for the workers. Shit man, browsing the Internet on the job should be a civil right!
Some of my friends in govt. actually have to walk to a different floor of the building to send an email to the outside world. I aint kidding, this is a fairly high up job.
Local munie? Well that's another one. I would never, never work for a local municipality. This is the absolute bottom of the food chain. I know this is an ugly steatement, but I've never seen a fatter bunch of duffers than when visiting my local county office to pay some tax, or fill out a form or whatnot. Not even the DMV is as bad.
Teaching? All the teachers I have adult converations with seem to have no sense of what the real world is all about. Part of them regresses back into childhood (or to whomever they teach their subjects to).
Private Sector is fractic by nature. It'll keep you from becoming obsolete. You may switch jobs, but you'll be a smarter/stronger/richer person of you can roll with punches.
Work Hard Play Hard
One problem, I download straight to my shared directory. I guess I'd have to stop this. I may initiate a job of downloading serveral files from slow servers, and not check them for a day or two in which time, any bad files could be propagated.
The server is King! And it's alive and well on our servers. Java server-side is strong.
Right at the speed of sound, all the loud sound waves your craft is generating are building up around you. You are chasing your own waves, and have actually caught up to them. Well, so, we go through the speed of sound and suddenly your sound waves can't keep up with you. Yes aerodynamics changes then, but it's still there.
Right at the speed of sound, you get something like an additive standing wave. You're in your own sonic boom.
This is very interesting, but don't get too excited. This was basically a firework, and it is a loooong way from here to a flyable payload-carrying plane.
My sentiments exactly. And how far past Mach 1 must it go before it can actually work? Does it have to go all the way to Mach 7 first?
It's not how fast, but how did they fly that fast.
The Scramjet theory has to have occurred. Which is basically an engine with no moving parts. The intake air has to hit the fuel so fast, and at such high density that some sort of "Critical Mass" combustion takes place that produces more thrust that drag of the air molecules hitting the craft at about 10kph.
When you're on a shoe-string budget, it's hard to figure out if that really happened. It'll take a much more expensive project to figure this out for sure, hence, NASA's much more expensive project.
Who needs this anyway, with
Sydney's Mardi-Gras going bankrupt!
Hello Frisco!
Good, now I can use my favorite versions of Volxwriter, VPCalc, and continue to run dBaseIII+ apps.
What a beautiful, simplistic world!
Don't you realize that courting is all about brain-washing, er uh, educatiing your soon to be mate? I'm proud to report I easily turned my girlfriend into a Right-wing Capitalist conservative before I even thought of marrying her. We're now happily married with 3 kids for 6 years.
This really isn't flamebait.
I went and bought her a Saphire ring for $169, and that's it. In addition I bought her a beautiful $900 Raymond Weil watch, and a $200 framed print that to this day hangs in our dining room.
We got wedding bands, but I lost mine within 6 months and she lost hers in 2 years. I've been going ringless for all these years, even at a 100k+ salary.
Once you get the little kids running around, your wife will realize there are so many more important things to spend money on, perhaps, private schools, country club memberships, automobiles. We really never even talk about the subject of rings.
This has arguably happened but you get into the debate of which is better, CISC or RISC because the graphics processors are typically RISC / ARM THUMB, which is Advanced Risc, and also Super-Scaler in that all the registers are completely general purpose. The THUMB thing is a way of cramming a binary excutable in less than 32 bits on a 32 bit architecture. Why use up all that wasted space? So, multiple instructions per Word of program memmory was reality.
Not to mention Harvard achitecture vs. Von Neuman.
I worked for a company that built specially designed handheld Pen-based PC's and the last prototype we developed ran totally off a display card. It had an ARM chip that kicked ass and increased battery life immensely.
Why are you using a MAX231. Doesn't that require charge pumps (Capacitors). Live a little and spend the extra $2 on a MAX233 that doesn't require the pumps. Space is a valuable commodity here.
Save some money by doing it scrapping the more expensive ATMega163 (though a great choice over the newbie PIC processors and Basic Stamps).
If you go with the AT90S-8515 you still get plenty of I/O, PWM, Serial I/O, though you'll have to hand code some A-D conversion. Maybe that's why you're going with the 163?
Leave it to nerds to be the only ones falling for the "Somebody has a crush on you gag." Yeah right, as if anybody thinks they need to secretly admire your bolonga tits, when they know all they have to do is walk up and say, "If you eat me, you can treat me to dinner."
Close.
Replace "mass" with I = Moment of Inertia in the above equation, and you've got it.
Moment of inertia is related to mass and the shape. So, this would depend on the construction of the thing.
Does it say that in the Article? I think max is 25% efficient. You have to lose 50% in transferring to the flywheel. Then lose 50% of that remaining to get back into the train.
But Robot dancers will kick ass!
More...
Man, they can dance!
Ukelele's are such simple minded instruments (don't get me wrong, I've passed many the doobie to a nice Oo Ka ley ley song).
This is evidenced by the fact they could implement this with and RCX
For a real system, you're better writing it in on an Atmel 8 bit RISC microcontroller One friggen instruction per cycle. Not a few hundred or so.
using one of the nice embedded C Compilers
Geez does that Basic code look silly!
loop [
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 85 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 84 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 84 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 82 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 84 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 84 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 85 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 73 1 1
waituntil [switch 11] play_note 73 1 1
With an AVR, you could play the music like the Gypsie Kings with one processor! I'm talking multiple 12 strings!
You wouldn't need a beuwolf cluster..
But, it would be pretty cool.
All kidding aside, I wish I had the time to do this kind of stuff. Writing Java code for "Big Business" gets very boring, though, it feeds my family.
Okay, it looks like I'm right. The new refrigerent is HFC-134a. And you guessed it, it's got a rubber stamp approval from the EPA and is owned by duPont.
HFC-134a is much more expensive to produce, and arguably just as bad or worse than Freon. It turns out that Freon was already under attack by generics lately. Several small producers were making alternative cheaper versions of Freon. Now, the EPA is going after these producers (guess who's $'s are helping the EPA do this)...
So, it's not blatently cut and dry, but basically, duPont is making the new stuff, and getting the EPA to shut down competition.
The article has very little depth. I don't feel like doing a bunch of research on this, but I heard it from a fairly reliable source. You're onto something with duPont. Now, let's find out what the replacement for Freon is... I bet duPont, or one of its subsidiaries owns the trademark.
Not to mention the fact that Freon is compatible with the compressors they operate in. It doesn't corrode like the others mentioned.
I heard a story on Freon in that if you check it out. The patent is expiring, or has expired. The company owning the patent (Dupont?) for fear of losing liscensing revenue has invented a new refrigerant and lobbied alongside the Greenie Weenies to outlaw Freon.
Follow the $'s dummy.
has over 15million lines of code and gets you on the internet 15% faster... (Kabooom)... F'n Windows 98!
!Windoze (i.e Not Windows...)
Well... It is Friday afterall. I'll spend today polishing my
Light Saber for the battle this weekend...
Nah. When you realize that the remote controls work by modulating at 40kHz the pulsing of an Infrared Emitting Diode. The bandwidth just isn't there.
It looks as if these cars use may a
Microcontroller, perhaps not, but definitely an H-Bridge. And H-Bridge is a specialized push pull amplifier that can be used as a Motor controller. You can order this as Quad 2 Channel Drivers,
In a DIP Package.
Gee I'd love to
Hack one of these babies like
this fella
did.
But, it's really tough to find chips at those sizes.
On, the short battery life. I'm reminded of BEAM Devices which charge up a capacitor from a solar cell, then release the energy in a spurt, then go back to charging the capacitor. Here's a cool one
Not to mention....
Pest Control.... Due to globalization.
You see. There are these
ants that won't go away. They are mutants from Argentina that when brought over to America on coffe boats spread like wild fire. They are like the Borg.
I need some nano-bots to go an eat every one of them.
I'm not bitching about my salary. Just stating the fact that the economy is growing it just fine, but the govt. growth has exceeded the economy's growth.
Besides the road outside my house, the bombs landing in Tora Bora; the bumbs locked up in the prisons, the satellite weather reports I got from channel 101, the clear reception I got the other day listening to Phil Hendrie, I'd rather go it on my own. I send my kid to private school thank you, and pay for others' kids to go to public.... I live in a really old house, drive a 10 year old car, and don't complain about it. I work my ass off and sure I think I deserve more pay, but, it's what somebody else is willing to pay. The govt. had nothing to do with how much I'm being paid, and they can fire me right now if they want.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
He talks about Real Wages declining. That's because the numbers he's siting are "After Tax". Basically, when I was a young one, my dad was paying about 5% in taxes. Now, I'm paying 50%!!!!! Ouch.
m an y_economy_1.html
Also, the numbers he's siting probably don't reflect the last couple years' economy in which wages were way up.
At least he says, "It may not be so bad.."
Damn straight. Let's institute some job security in America now! Then maybe our economic numbers would compare better to Germany's.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020117/bs/ger
Lovely