Amen. Especially on the west coast, all the craft brews are hoppy and strong as shit. Stone Brewery is one of my favorites
Stone Ruination IPA is Ben Franklin's proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Even though there's no God. Doesn't matter; we still have beer!
Actually, 480p content looks great on a HDTV set. Still comes down to the quality of the transfer though but a good anamorphic transfer can make you not want to even bother with more upgrades.
It looks great on an HDTV set iff the user configures the set to properly display the old-skool NTSC content! I'm amazed at how often people simply don't notice that the image is stretched in the horizontal. It makes heads look squished. It's readily apparent when you're in a bar and they're showing a game on the big widescreen next to smaller 4:3-format monitors.
It's really funny when they show letterboxed NTSC on the widescreen display. Whatta bunch of maroooooons...
Resistance is not necessary, the "singularity" is a fairy tale.
I think that Ray Kurzweil should go back to building keyboard synthesizers and stop yammering on about "singularities" and other such nonsense. It's embarrassing, really.
Also, is anybody reminded of those Nixon tapes where the guy laments that the "jews" at the IRS would not release his political opponents' tax returns to the President (IRS being)
As today, I would guess back then Nixon wanted the info to stop the terrorists and keep America safe...
They sure made fun songs to listen to. "White Punks on Dope", "Talk to you later" and "She's a beauty". What's not to like about a band that would go on stage in suits & ties and have a lead singer named Fee Waybill??:)
"We're white punks on dope, and our moms and dads live in Hollywood. Hang ourselves when we get enough rope!"
And don't forget the hit, "What Do You Want From Life?"
What trolls tagged this 'minorityreport'? I fail to see the relevance. In Philip K Dick's dystopian future, you'll be followed by annoying ads that target you specifically. The trigger for the ads in the future is that you'll have some kind of ID implant that gets read by the adbots. The MINI keyfobs are an external version of that...
Let's be pedantic here.
You basically get three major types of caps on motherboards, each of which have different properties:
Ceramics. Small and fast. Typically used for decoupling (small charge storage).
Also used in filtering applications...
Electrolytic: Larger and slower. They are slower because they are highly inductive. They don't like working at very high frequencies which can make them fail. I suppose you mean Aluminum Electrolytic. The failure modes are not high frequency, but mainly heat (either because of the environment or because its ESR is relatively high, which means it's self heating). They also don't like reverse biases, the results of which can be very exciting. They're not "slower" because they're "inductive," they're "slower" because their values are typically much larger than ceramic types.
Tantalum: Medium/large and fast. They are less inductive than electrolytics. They can dump current far faster than electolytic which can cause undesirable current rushes.
Tantalums are also electrolytics. The electrolyte allows for larger capacitance in a given area. You REALLY don't want them to be reverse biased, and they have a bad tendency to explode if inrush current is too high. You don't want to use a tantalum as a DC block in audio circuits.
You also forgot some other capacitor types: polystyrene, mica, etc. These guys tend to be physically larger than a ceramic for a given capacitance, but they're a lot more stable. (And more expensive.) You'll find them in filter and integrator circuits, in high-frequency stuff, anywhere where stability is required.
Why are diesel cars unavailable in the USA/Canada? Diesels in autos were banned in California (and I believe New York, as well) due to emissions problems, even though clean-burning diesel technology has existed for ages. Since California represents a huge market, and since it doesn't make much sense for the automakers to have separate models for the California market, diesel autos are relatively rare. Of course, rather than banning diesels, CA could have required the automakers to use the clean-burning technology despite the resistance. Anyways, look how long it took to Get The Lead Out of gasoline (another California initiative): the automakers and Big Oil probably didn't want to deal with TWO major California regulatory issues, so they chose the easiest (unleaded gas).
One of my compact cars is rated at 140HP. My mini van that weighs at least 1500lbs more is rated at 165HP. My van will blow that car off of the road even while pulling a 1000lb trailer. The peak HP are almost meaningless. Torque is more important for determining real world output and neither alone are as informative as looking at a dyno run sheet would be. Hell, I guess you could skip the dyno chart and include a 60ft, 1/8 mile and 1/4 time with the trap speed.
As the old saying goes, "Horsepower sells cars; torque wins races."
I don't really hate hybrids but I do get annoyed when things seem to be rigged for hybrids and against diesel when recent diesel engines are much cleaner than they used to be and on the freeway do much better than a hybrid.
Blame your favorite money-losing American car company, and its support for and from Big Oil, for the lack of diesel options in US cars.
It's called lose not loose LOSE LOSE LOSE GODDAMNIT PLEASE... mod parent up! We must do all we can to stop the douchebag losers who insist on spelling lose as "loose."
going postal when the impolite person sitting next to me yaks and yaks for 5 hours straight
Your only defense will be noise-cancelling earphones. It's not clear whether society has figured out all the rules of propriety when using a cell phone.
Noise-canceling headphones only work with steady-state noise, such as the low drone of the aircraft as it flies. It can't do squat about someone's voice.
You can't injure someone in normal health with a taser.
And if this kid had a heart condition--something that's not at all obvious to the naked eye--he'd probably be dead now. So you advocate the death penalty for people who can't find their government-issued ID? Fascist.
How about we tase YOU three or four times and see how you feel about it?
f my kid came home crying that she'd been tasered by police, and I saw a video like this of the incident, I'd say, "Well, kiddo, you definitely got what you deserved, I'm just glad you didn't get shot or beaten, and instead have only the memories of some temporary, non-scarring electric shock induced pain."
How about we tase YOU three or four times. Then tell us how you feel about it.
I just saw the video. That kid was being a total ass. You couldn't count the number of times security was telling him to get up. He didn't, not becuase he couldn't. He just did not because that was his choice. You could even hear other students in the background yelling at him to "just get up!"
How about I tase YOU three times and see how fast you get up.
You could tell he was throwing the dramatics out in full force. It was enough yelling and screaming on his part to get students to whip out their video phones, at least.
How about I tase YOU three times and see how you act.
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Stone Ruination IPA is Ben Franklin's proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Even though there's no God. Doesn't matter; we still have beer!
It looks great on an HDTV set iff the user configures the set to properly display the old-skool NTSC content! I'm amazed at how often people simply don't notice that the image is stretched in the horizontal. It makes heads look squished. It's readily apparent when you're in a bar and they're showing a game on the big widescreen next to smaller 4:3-format monitors.
It's really funny when they show letterboxed NTSC on the widescreen display. Whatta bunch of maroooooons ...
I think that Ray Kurzweil should go back to building keyboard synthesizers and stop yammering on about "singularities" and other such nonsense. It's embarrassing, really.
As today, I would guess back then Nixon wanted the info to stop the terrorists and keep America safe...
Compared to Bush, Nixon was a flaming liberal ...
"We're white punks on dope, and our moms and dads live in Hollywood. Hang ourselves when we get enough rope!"
And don't forget the hit, "What Do You Want From Life?"Ceramics. Small and fast. Typically used for decoupling (small charge storage).
Also used in filtering applicationsTantalums are also electrolytics. The electrolyte allows for larger capacitance in a given area. You REALLY don't want them to be reverse biased, and they have a bad tendency to explode if inrush current is too high. You don't want to use a tantalum as a DC block in audio circuits.
You also forgot some other capacitor types: polystyrene, mica, etc. These guys tend to be physically larger than a ceramic for a given capacitance, but they're a lot more stable. (And more expensive.) You'll find them in filter and integrator circuits, in high-frequency stuff, anywhere where stability is required.
Put your GSM phone under a CRT monitor and watch what happens ...
Your only defense will be noise-cancelling earphones. It's not clear whether society has figured out all the rules of propriety when using a cell phone.
Noise-canceling headphones only work with steady-state noise, such as the low drone of the aircraft as it flies. It can't do squat about someone's voice.
Which has nothing to do with the comment you're replying to since it's just a cable with a built-in host controller.
Not true; those laplink-style USB cables have a chip that bridges two devices. There's no host controller.
that doesn't make any sense ...
I drive a convertible (it's something you can do year-round here in the desert).
Anyone who tailgates me gets a booger flicked on his windshield!
Nor did he compose Symphony #9, "From The New World."
WebTV wasn't developed by Microsoft - they bought WebTV in an attempt to get into the living rooms of computerphobes.
This purchase showed that Microsoft was capable of buying crappy ideas, in addition to developing them in-house.
How is this off-topic? while I agree with his article, his (potential) biases should be noted.
And if this kid had a heart condition--something that's not at all obvious to the naked eye--he'd probably be dead now. So you advocate the death penalty for people who can't find their government-issued ID? Fascist.
How about we tase YOU three or four times and see how you feel about it?
How about we tase YOU three or four times. Then tell us how you feel about it.
How about I tase YOU three times and see how fast you get up.
How about I tase YOU three times and see how you act.
That's completely false. Stop repeating Rush Limbaugh's lies.
That episode was their worst in quite a long time.