I remember a couple of dorms back in College that had "super smooth" elevators installed. These things were so slow that even if you didn't stop at any intervening floors, a person taking the stairs would almost always beat the elevator, even up to the fifth floor. There were two elevators in the building, but at least one of them was always broken. Because they were installed in the freshmen party dorms, there was always someone who threw up in them the night before too. Needless to say, the few times I visited that dorm I used the stairs. Even when moving a friends stuff out at the end of the semester we hauled his heavy computer table down the stairs because the elevator lobby was _packed_ on each floor with people moving stuff out.
IIRC, your lazy sims would only take at most 2 flights of stairs, or 3 escalators when moving between floors. There were express elevators in the game that only stopped at every 15th floor, but even the regular elevators could be programmed to only stop at certain floors when going certain directions at certain times. Playing with the elevator settings made a huge difference in the traffic flow in the game, especially since you were limited to only 15 or so elevators in your building and a regular elevator only covered ~10 stores IIRC. If you left them in their default configuration, you'd get bad bottlenecks (unhappy sims) in the elevator lobbies at 9 and 5 each day. The stairs and escalators (20 max IIRC, and they only go up or down one floor) were so limited as to be nearly worthless.
It's part of the normal replacement process (GPS satellites, and in fact all satellites, need to be replaced every 20 years or so), so it has only a marginal cost over the regular replacement satellites.
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I can see this being something of a safety feature too, if you have the "greasy food" item in your pan, it won't let the temperature exceed the flashpoint of the oil you're using (minus some for contaimination) and you'll never have an oil fire again.
I have to admit though, this seems like gadetry overkill for even me, and I'm a hardcore geek.
Where are you buying these solor panels that last 80 years and work well in upstate New York where they'll be covered in snow for months out of the year?
You have a laptop that draws 480 watts? Are your legs charred black or has it melted to the table yet?
The big difference with laptop power supplies is that they only have to supply 10-60 watts (depending on the laptop in question) and can get by with just passive cooling (although some laptops heat their bricks up a lot). There are also super-quiet power supplies for desktops, but none of them can supply 480 watts. At current efficencies that is just too much power for a reasonably sized passive device to dissipate.
High efficency DC->DC converters aren't THAT hard to find, but they tend to be really expensive. I was working on a project a couple of years ago that used one and the converter was a good 60% of the parts cost. For someone building what is supposed to be a low cost device, it was a real stumbling block.
At $200 these guys aren't particularly cheap either, although they are rated for a higher load than most of the converters I was looking at.
You know, giving a young person a Stout is a pretty sure way of turning them off of beer forever. I've never met anyone who liked a Stout who wasn't already a beer drinker. Neophytes just can't appreciate the subtle tastes of dark beers. If you give them one all they will taste is the bitter and will be turned into White Wine, or worse Zima, drinkers.
It varies from drive to drive, but it's usually on the top.
The only problem is that the pressure of the oil will be more than normal atmospheric pressure, so it may still compress the drive a bit. Also, there is a possiblity of oil wicking into the drive through the holes in the case where the read head data pins go through or the motor housing. I bet it would work though. If only we could get the power supply under there too...
Nope, there's an air hole on every HDD. Just look at it, it's right there.
Of course on the inside of the case behind that hole there is a filter that keeps the particulate matter out of the drive (although some drives use very bad filters). You have to do this or you can end up with the drive warping as the outside pressure flucuates (like say, when you're shipping it to someone who's house is at a different altitude and temperature than your factory).
The original Hummer is a real beast though. It's all 1960s parts in there and lots of modern safety features like crumple zones and whatnot are not in there. I don't think they even have anti-lock breaks. They also get horrendous gas milage. I'm not sure you'd be much safer in one of those than in an H2, especially in a side impact collision where you often only have the thin factory doors protecting you. Half of the time the guys take those doors off too.
Sometimes I wonder if the execs didn't realize what was happening.
"Sir! Futurama last week got a 0 share!"
"Nobody watched it? Get that crap off of the air!"
(meekly) "But sir, it was pre-empted by Football again"
"I don't care. If nobody is watching it I'm not going to pay for it. Get a King of the Hill rerun in there or something, I don't care"
My wife hated the show until she actually watched some of the re-runs with me. It helps that not all of the jokes in the show are juvinile. A lot of people turned it off the instant Bender literally shit a brick and never watched it again and missed episodes like Jurassic Bark.
She still hates Family Guy and Robot Chicken though.
That's 60 minutes. If a game runs long NBC just moves the rest of the schedule back. My wife watches Cold Case too and she's just told the Tivo to record the next show too because games always run long.
Why did they watercool the 360 itself and not the power brick? Everything I've read suggests that the power brick is the most likely component to overheat on the 360, if anything they should create a custom cooling solution for it, especially for people who live in hot environments.
What kind of ancient routers are you using that force you to specify the IP address of everything? I havn't run into an embedded device for years now that didn't support DNS. Even the cheezy Linksys router my ISP gave me has built-in DNS resolving (it needs to know it for DHCP anyway), but I can give it a hostname for the NTP server and it resolves so I know it has built-in DNS support.
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I remember a couple of dorms back in College that had "super smooth" elevators installed. These things were so slow that even if you didn't stop at any intervening floors, a person taking the stairs would almost always beat the elevator, even up to the fifth floor. There were two elevators in the building, but at least one of them was always broken. Because they were installed in the freshmen party dorms, there was always someone who threw up in them the night before too. Needless to say, the few times I visited that dorm I used the stairs. Even when moving a friends stuff out at the end of the semester we hauled his heavy computer table down the stairs because the elevator lobby was _packed_ on each floor with people moving stuff out.
IIRC, your lazy sims would only take at most 2 flights of stairs, or 3 escalators when moving between floors. There were express elevators in the game that only stopped at every 15th floor, but even the regular elevators could be programmed to only stop at certain floors when going certain directions at certain times. Playing with the elevator settings made a huge difference in the traffic flow in the game, especially since you were limited to only 15 or so elevators in your building and a regular elevator only covered ~10 stores IIRC. If you left them in their default configuration, you'd get bad bottlenecks (unhappy sims) in the elevator lobbies at 9 and 5 each day. The stairs and escalators (20 max IIRC, and they only go up or down one floor) were so limited as to be nearly worthless.
The manga extends well past the end of the series and gets heavily involved with Nazis. Everyone's favorite Catholic shows up several more times too.
It's part of the normal replacement process (GPS satellites, and in fact all satellites, need to be replaced every 20 years or so), so it has only a marginal cost over the regular replacement satellites.
I can see this being something of a safety feature too, if you have the "greasy food" item in your pan, it won't let the temperature exceed the flashpoint of the oil you're using (minus some for contaimination) and you'll never have an oil fire again.
I have to admit though, this seems like gadetry overkill for even me, and I'm a hardcore geek.
Where are you buying these solor panels that last 80 years and work well in upstate New York where they'll be covered in snow for months out of the year?
Oh, then that is a marked advantage over the DC->DC converters I was working with.
You have a laptop that draws 480 watts? Are your legs charred black or has it melted to the table yet?
The big difference with laptop power supplies is that they only have to supply 10-60 watts (depending on the laptop in question) and can get by with just passive cooling (although some laptops heat their bricks up a lot). There are also super-quiet power supplies for desktops, but none of them can supply 480 watts. At current efficencies that is just too much power for a reasonably sized passive device to dissipate.
High efficency DC->DC converters aren't THAT hard to find, but they tend to be really expensive. I was working on a project a couple of years ago that used one and the converter was a good 60% of the parts cost. For someone building what is supposed to be a low cost device, it was a real stumbling block.
At $200 these guys aren't particularly cheap either, although they are rated for a higher load than most of the converters I was looking at.
You know, giving a young person a Stout is a pretty sure way of turning them off of beer forever. I've never met anyone who liked a Stout who wasn't already a beer drinker. Neophytes just can't appreciate the subtle tastes of dark beers. If you give them one all they will taste is the bitter and will be turned into White Wine, or worse Zima, drinkers.
It varies from drive to drive, but it's usually on the top.
The only problem is that the pressure of the oil will be more than normal atmospheric pressure, so it may still compress the drive a bit. Also, there is a possiblity of oil wicking into the drive through the holes in the case where the read head data pins go through or the motor housing. I bet it would work though. If only we could get the power supply under there too...
Aren't frisbees airfoils? What's so hard about that? All the ones I've seen have had a curve to the top that make them airfoil shaped.
Nope, there's an air hole on every HDD. Just look at it, it's right there.
Of course on the inside of the case behind that hole there is a filter that keeps the particulate matter out of the drive (although some drives use very bad filters). You have to do this or you can end up with the drive warping as the outside pressure flucuates (like say, when you're shipping it to someone who's house is at a different altitude and temperature than your factory).
Slashdot is in a heap of trouble.
The original Hummer is a real beast though. It's all 1960s parts in there and lots of modern safety features like crumple zones and whatnot are not in there. I don't think they even have anti-lock breaks. They also get horrendous gas milage. I'm not sure you'd be much safer in one of those than in an H2, especially in a side impact collision where you often only have the thin factory doors protecting you. Half of the time the guys take those doors off too.
Sometimes I wonder if the execs didn't realize what was happening.
"Sir! Futurama last week got a 0 share!"
"Nobody watched it? Get that crap off of the air!"
(meekly) "But sir, it was pre-empted by Football again"
"I don't care. If nobody is watching it I'm not going to pay for it. Get a King of the Hill rerun in there or something, I don't care"
My wife hated the show until she actually watched some of the re-runs with me. It helps that not all of the jokes in the show are juvinile. A lot of people turned it off the instant Bender literally shit a brick and never watched it again and missed episodes like Jurassic Bark.
She still hates Family Guy and Robot Chicken though.
That's 60 minutes. If a game runs long NBC just moves the rest of the schedule back. My wife watches Cold Case too and she's just told the Tivo to record the next show too because games always run long.
It's not like Cisco boxes don't do all of that too. Every Cisco box I've ever used will do NFS lookups for the TFTP transfers at the very least.
Why did they watercool the 360 itself and not the power brick? Everything I've read suggests that the power brick is the most likely component to overheat on the 360, if anything they should create a custom cooling solution for it, especially for people who live in hot environments.
Too bad no amount of watercooling is going to make a DVD drive any quieter.
What kind of ancient routers are you using that force you to specify the IP address of everything? I havn't run into an embedded device for years now that didn't support DNS. Even the cheezy Linksys router my ISP gave me has built-in DNS resolving (it needs to know it for DHCP anyway), but I can give it a hostname for the NTP server and it resolves so I know it has built-in DNS support.
Narrow gauge track with low loading limits is heavy rail? What do you call Freight Trains and Amtrak?
If the DC Metro isn't light rail than WTF is it?
Interesting tidbit: it's the second largest metro system in the US. Only NY beats it.
Your bus stops running at 4 in the afternoon? I think it's time to fire your public transportation committee.