Where are many critical electronic parts for computers, automobiles, military weapontry (sic), and other important devices for America manufactured? The simple answer is the "Peoples Republic" of China.
'scuse me, but the US military has strict rules about purchasing from US vendors who manufacture on US soil. I've seen my former employer's military customers visit not only our engineering facilities, but also our manufacturing partner.
"I bought a PowerBook about 10 months ago. I have since installed an oracle database on it (for development purposes only), along with a tons of different programs. It has performed exceptionally. I discovered the biggest flaw in the PowerBooks about 2 months ago, when I stepped on it. The screens, while very nice, will not hold 250 pounds. I cannot believe they aren't putting 250 lbs. test screens on them now-a-days."
The screens are rated for 300 lbs. Have you stepped on a scale recently?
"Had a powerbook (lombard). Lasted two years great. Then the hinges that held the screen wore out. Screen became very dim. Key broke off the keyboard (my fault). By the end it stopped reading dvds too, mechanical faliure. I built a PC a year later. Will never buy apple again. But I do have an ipod. Which broke too.. As well as the second one I got."
Do you take care of your hardware, or do you just throw it around like yesterday's laundry?
Evil Lord Xenu froze all the alien races and dumped them into volcanoes here on earth. Their souls were collected by soul vacuumes and then forced to watch movies and be brainwashed, only to then inhabit the bodies of primitive man. I think that's how it goes, I still have to pay for a few more audit councelings before my thetan levels are capable of truly grasping this profound knowledge
How about we whack you upside the head with a hockey stick? Same results, but a whole lot cheaper.;)
Original question: Does a power supply necessarily use it's rated power output all the time, or is that just the rated maximum wattage output?
Slashcrap's Response: Of course it does! That is why you must never, ever power up a PSU with nothing connected to it. If you did, that whole 1kW would have to be dissipated in the PSU leading to instant meltdown and you having to pick pieces of red hot metal out of your face.
CLEARLY you're not an EE. Your answer is simply WRONG.
A power supply sources the current required by the load. If the load requires 100 mA, a supply capable of sourcing 10 A will still source only the needed 100 mA. It's worth noting that a "power supply" doesn't "supply power," as such. Rather, it's a DC voltage supply capable of sourcing a specified amount of current to a load.
If you were trying to be sarcastic and/or facetious, you failed.
Slashcrap again: It's the same with power plants - if demand for power suddenly dropped far enough, every power plant in the country would explode with untapped potential.
Wrong again. As loads decrease, the generation stations reduce their output.
An intuitive interface, GUI or command line, is paramount to getting non-users to become users.
Actually, one would think that the availability of useful applications (that I don't have to build from source and figure out all of the dependencies!) is paramount to getting non-users to become users.
"Seperation (SIC!!!!) of Church and State" is very different from "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Ummm, not it's not, and decades of jurisprudence say so.
Saying that no one can mention religion in public schools, or forcing people to exclude Jesus, Mohammed or any other religious figure from schools is WAY outside of the original intent of the First Amendment. You know it, and so do I.
And that's not what's happening, although you'd believe otherwise if your only source of information is blowhards like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
What the courts have consistently decided is that you cannot TEACH one religion's tenets and precepts in a public school. Public schools are government entities, and as such showing a preference for one religion over others is a small step on that slippery slope towards the establishment of a state religion. Nobody is saying that you cannot teach Catholicism in a private Catholic school. Nor is anyone saying that you cannot have a social studies/humanties class in comparative religion.
Christmas pageants and the like are usually allowed because to the "defenders of Christmas'" eternal chagrin, these events are essentially secular in nature.
Me: "So, who created the Creator? Did It just spring up out of the aether?"
dan_sdot: "ID does not address that question. Any answer to that question is as good as any other as far as ID is concerned. ID only talks about a `designer', however he came about."
ID doesn't address many questions... it just gives up when the questions get difficult. "Beyond human comprehension," or some such cop-out.
Well the constitution of the United States does not mention "Seperation (SIC!!!!) of Church and State"....
There is the establishment clause that says that the government cannot endorse an official State religion, but the Church/State argument is not based on the constitution.
You are so wrong. Read the First Amendment to the Constitution. The Establishment Clause says, and I quote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
In other words, the "Church/State argument" is COMPLETELY based on the Constitution.
Where'd you go to school? Kansas?
Up until the Secular Humanist revelution, (the Enlightenment), the most used text book in the schools across the country was the Bible.
"Intellegent design states that the complexity of existence cannot be explained by simple chance, and that there must be a `prime mover' that is guiding the processes of evolution and natural selection."
So, who created the Creator? Did It just spring up out of the aether?
"Why does the metadata need to be in the file? Why can't it just be in another file/persistance mechanism with a reference in the document to the location of the metadata?"
So if you back up the file, and then restore it, you don't lose the metadata?
This was the problem with Mac OS 9 and below... for example, if you mounted a Mac drive on your network and accessed the files from a PC, the PC ignored the resource forks.
-a
"But partly, it was simply because the war was coming early and they didn't have time to train them further. Ender and his peers were rushed through their training; there were multiple references to how kids normally didn't get to Command School until 16, etc. They made do with what they had: the younger kids (Ender especially) were less well trained, but more brilliant, than the current crop of older students."
In other words, you go to war with the kids you have, not the kids you want?
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I cast my vote for subversion. You need good source-code control for programming and hardware (FPGA, even PCBs!).
Pull!
'scuse me, but the US military has strict rules about purchasing from US vendors who manufacture on US soil. I've seen my former employer's military customers visit not only our engineering facilities, but also our manufacturing partner.
That's the truth. The whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
'cept "Wipe-Out" was the Surfaris.
Thanks for playing, though.
Even later news: The hyperdrive motivator is still damaged, and it is still impossible to go to light-speed. But it's not my fault."
I can fix it, if I work through breakfast.
My stock S2000 will still whomp them.
The terror^H^H^H^H^H^H Intelligent Designers have won.
The screens are rated for 300 lbs. Have you stepped on a scale recently?
Do you take care of your hardware, or do you just throw it around like yesterday's laundry?
If he'd stayed in Germany, he probably wouldn't have survived the Holocaust.
-a
How about we whack you upside the head with a hockey stick? Same results, but a whole lot cheaper. ;)
Oy! Such vitriol. As for "how much more obvious," well, your wit is soooooo dry that I just didn't get it. You win. Yours is the best kung fu.
Mod parent up Insightful, please.
I didn't bother to read the specs for this supply, but I assume that it'll require a dedicated 15 A mains circuit. No power strips, please!
Slashcrap's Response: Of course it does! That is why you must never, ever power up a PSU with nothing connected to it. If you did, that whole 1kW would have to be dissipated in the PSU leading to instant meltdown and you having to pick pieces of red hot metal out of your face.
CLEARLY you're not an EE. Your answer is simply WRONG.
A power supply sources the current required by the load. If the load requires 100 mA, a supply capable of sourcing 10 A will still source only the needed 100 mA. It's worth noting that a "power supply" doesn't "supply power," as such. Rather, it's a DC voltage supply capable of sourcing a specified amount of current to a load.
If you were trying to be sarcastic and/or facetious, you failed.
Slashcrap again: It's the same with power plants - if demand for power suddenly dropped far enough, every power plant in the country would explode with untapped potential.
Wrong again. As loads decrease, the generation stations reduce their output.
Actually, one would think that the availability of useful applications (that I don't have to build from source and figure out all of the dependencies!) is paramount to getting non-users to become users.
-a
Ummm, not it's not, and decades of jurisprudence say so.
Saying that no one can mention religion in public schools, or forcing people to exclude Jesus, Mohammed or any other religious figure from schools is WAY outside of the original intent of the First Amendment. You know it, and so do I.
And that's not what's happening, although you'd believe otherwise if your only source of information is blowhards like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
What the courts have consistently decided is that you cannot TEACH one religion's tenets and precepts in a public school. Public schools are government entities, and as such showing a preference for one religion over others is a small step on that slippery slope towards the establishment of a state religion. Nobody is saying that you cannot teach Catholicism in a private Catholic school. Nor is anyone saying that you cannot have a social studies/humanties class in comparative religion.
Christmas pageants and the like are usually allowed because to the "defenders of Christmas'" eternal chagrin, these events are essentially secular in nature.
dan_sdot: "ID does not address that question. Any answer to that question is as good as any other as far as ID is concerned. ID only talks about a `designer', however he came about."
ID doesn't address many questions ... it just gives up when the questions get difficult. "Beyond human comprehension," or some such cop-out.
There is the establishment clause that says that the government cannot endorse an official State religion, but the Church/State argument is not based on the constitution.
You are so wrong. Read the First Amendment to the Constitution. The Establishment Clause says, and I quote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
In other words, the "Church/State argument" is COMPLETELY based on the Constitution.
Where'd you go to school? Kansas? Up until the Secular Humanist revelution, (the Enlightenment), the most used text book in the schools across the country was the Bible.
So, who created the Creator? Did It just spring up out of the aether?
-a
And religious nutjobs like Pat Robertson and James Dobson don't think they're better than everyone else? Puh-leeze.
As Frank Zappa points out, "if we are made in G-d's image, then G-d must be dumb all over, and a little ugly on the side, as well."
-a
So if you back up the file, and then restore it, you don't lose the metadata?
This was the problem with Mac OS 9 and below ... for example, if you mounted a Mac drive on your network and accessed the files from a PC, the PC ignored the resource forks.
-a
In other words, you go to war with the kids you have, not the kids you want?
-a