Frankly, in my experience, I've been able to generate in excess of 300 horsepower using Jolt Cola and beans. Experiments were halted when I blew out the wall of the lab. I did attempt to write a simulation using Visual Basic, however.
Not that I'm paranoid or nuthin, but if some large company wanted to absolutely emphasize the need to run Palladium, what better way than to create a public uproar with a worm or two. Who better to create such things than the originator of the operating system being attacked... "See! We have to lock down ALL PCs."
Steam tunnels are underground tunnels that carry steam pipes, in steam-heated campuses, and usually some telco wiring, and other things. At my old school in Pasadena, our student house would have an annual party to which you could only gain access to the house from below, through the tunnels. Hello, fellow Scurves...
The tunnels were also useful in bad weather, so that instead of walking 1/3 mile through pouring rain, you could show up dry, as most campus buildings had basement doors to the tunnels. Rampant administrative paranoia has now reduced this application of weapons of mass lock overriding.
Yup, I did read it, but one of my unvoiced concerns is that a 1 Tesla field is only the final steady state value. When you pulse current into an inductor or turn off current, in any real-world system it is not a pure inductance, and often ringing occurs. When that happens, the instantaneous values of the (presumably damped though ringing) current could hit higher peaks. I don't know what pulse levels may occur, what EMI induced effects may occur, etc. The external docking electromagnets could induce currents in the hull that couple inward.
Modern chemistry sets are crap; they have been gutted because of fear of lawsuits. So the materials and the experiments are bland and useless unless you're 8 years old.
As a longtime TOSSER, I hereby nominate you, AC, for Theta Omicron membership. However, we require brothers to have long greasy hair, heavy glasses, poor oral hygiene, and appalling body odor. Nothing else meets our standards of excellence.
There's some evidence that the brain tags some data with emotion tags, that is, in effect, some pieces of stored knowledge in effect have an attached flag related to the strength of an emotion that occurred at the time the knowledge was stored. So events with a high emotional level/importance are specially marked; possibly a survival mechanism related to learning what's dangerous and what isn't.
Looks to me like most of the complaints here about Burning Man are by lumpen hypocrites who haven't troubled to actually attend BM. Maybe we need book or film reviews by people who never read the book or saw the film? And the complaints about bad art are by tight-assed kids and codgers who only feel safe within the box. Progress never comes from the complacent, and art requires a little unbending, you know? So what if some percentage of the art is flaky, when you open the doors for exploration you take the good with the poor. And anyone who says all art must be permanent or it's useless is just terribly shallow. Seems to me the posters are divided into two categories, the rigid-minded, and the flexible. I know which set contributes more to society.
I read a bunch of Cooke's reviews. She has nothing bad to say, nothing critical, and all her reviews read like an ad. Yeah, I'd say something's wrong here.
Hodges sounds like a character out of one of the Lemony Snicket novels. And if you haven't read any of those, you're missing something nasty and good. Actually, I wonder if 'Ernest Glitch' IS the same guy who writes the Snicket books. The styles are similar.
Architects use 3D CAD programs to design houses, but these tools are basically merely drafting tools and a lot of time consuming work has to be done to translate the design into blueprints and materials lists. Besides which, the CAD tools don't understand esthetic relationships. I've always wondered why no one has yet developed a 'house compiler', which would make it a lot easier to design homes. Just as silicon compilers allow someone to specify a chip design, and then the compiler does the hard low-level detail work, or code compilers take HLL code and create the low-level instructions, a house compiler would take 3D design ideas and physical specs and output a complete, checked, blueprint. An object-oriented house compiler could take prebuilt objects and put them together to form a house, checking for correctness of module interfaces (i.e., this pipe goes through a wall, must reroute it, etc.). Anyone at MIT want to get me a grant to do this?
The article says 1300 items, and the weight is about 12 to 15 kilograms. So, on average, each of his items weighs roughly 10 grams. That is pretty lightweight. For example, a nickel weighs about 5 grams. So each of his objects is roughly equivalent to two metal nickels. That is really not much substance. And for every heavy object like a PDA, there would have to be undersized objects to balance. I smell a fish. Or a rat. Or possibly a lot of tools made out of paper or wire.
On the other hand, Harpo Marx carried complete dinner settings for 500...
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Frankly, in my experience, I've been able to generate in excess of 300 horsepower using Jolt Cola and beans. Experiments were halted when I blew out the wall of the lab. I did attempt to write a simulation using Visual Basic, however.
This puts a whole new meaning on "Do you want fries with that?" Launch and cook at the same time.
I tried getting up but my buttocks exploded. I'll accept the risk of thrombosis.
Not that I'm paranoid or nuthin, but if some large company wanted to absolutely emphasize the need to run Palladium, what better way than to create a public uproar with a worm or two. Who better to create such things than the originator of the operating system being attacked... "See! We have to lock down ALL PCs."
Alfred? You mean BATMAN'S BUTLER invented RADAR? Well, ok. That makes sense.
Steam tunnels are underground tunnels that carry steam pipes, in steam-heated campuses, and usually some telco wiring, and other things. At my old school in Pasadena, our student house would have an annual party to which you could only gain access to the house from below, through the tunnels. Hello, fellow Scurves... The tunnels were also useful in bad weather, so that instead of walking 1/3 mile through pouring rain, you could show up dry, as most campus buildings had basement doors to the tunnels. Rampant administrative paranoia has now reduced this application of weapons of mass lock overriding.
Yup, I did read it, but one of my unvoiced concerns is that a 1 Tesla field is only the final steady state value. When you pulse current into an inductor or turn off current, in any real-world system it is not a pure inductance, and often ringing occurs. When that happens, the instantaneous values of the (presumably damped though ringing) current could hit higher peaks. I don't know what pulse levels may occur, what EMI induced effects may occur, etc. The external docking electromagnets could induce currents in the hull that couple inward.
I'd be leery of potential damage to cargo like shipments of videotapes, hard drives, and anything else sensitive to static or pulsed magnetic fields.
I have a patent on a nitrogen tri-iodide contraceptive. But my ex-girlfriend really hates me.
Modern chemistry sets are crap; they have been gutted because of fear of lawsuits. So the materials and the experiments are bland and useless unless you're 8 years old.
As a longtime TOSSER, I hereby nominate you, AC, for Theta Omicron membership. However, we require brothers to have long greasy hair, heavy glasses, poor oral hygiene, and appalling body odor. Nothing else meets our standards of excellence.
There's some evidence that the brain tags some data with emotion tags, that is, in effect, some pieces of stored knowledge in effect have an attached flag related to the strength of an emotion that occurred at the time the knowledge was stored. So events with a high emotional level/importance are specially marked; possibly a survival mechanism related to learning what's dangerous and what isn't.
Looks to me like most of the complaints here about Burning Man are by lumpen hypocrites who haven't troubled to actually attend BM. Maybe we need book or film reviews by people who never read the book or saw the film? And the complaints about bad art are by tight-assed kids and codgers who only feel safe within the box. Progress never comes from the complacent, and art requires a little unbending, you know? So what if some percentage of the art is flaky, when you open the doors for exploration you take the good with the poor. And anyone who says all art must be permanent or it's useless is just terribly shallow. Seems to me the posters are divided into two categories, the rigid-minded, and the flexible. I know which set contributes more to society.
As the site says: "The repulsive force dominates the universe, comprising 65 percent of its makeup." Yup, sounds like Microsoft.
Well, in an improbable world, the drives would show up on Ebay.
In no special order: a good Star trek movie, a believeable Star Wars sequel, and a Cowboy Neal lap dance.
I read a bunch of Cooke's reviews. She has nothing bad to say, nothing critical, and all her reviews read like an ad. Yeah, I'd say something's wrong here.
Hodges sounds like a character out of one of the Lemony Snicket novels. And if you haven't read any of those, you're missing something nasty and good. Actually, I wonder if 'Ernest Glitch' IS the same guy who writes the Snicket books. The styles are similar.
Phooey on French and Spanish. *I* speak Perl.
And I can order soup in a Perlish restaurant. Can you?
Architects use 3D CAD programs to design houses, but these tools are basically merely drafting tools and a lot of time consuming work has to be done to translate the design into blueprints and materials lists. Besides which, the CAD tools don't understand esthetic relationships. I've always wondered why no one has yet developed a 'house compiler', which would make it a lot easier to design homes. Just as silicon compilers allow someone to specify a chip design, and then the compiler does the hard low-level detail work, or code compilers take HLL code and create the low-level instructions, a house compiler would take 3D design ideas and physical specs and output a complete, checked, blueprint. An object-oriented house compiler could take prebuilt objects and put them together to form a house, checking for correctness of module interfaces (i.e., this pipe goes through a wall, must reroute it, etc.). Anyone at MIT want to get me a grant to do this?
I rather like the use of 'You gram-positive, sporulating prokaryote!" as an epithet. It has much more class than "Yer mother uses Windows!"
Exterrrrminate....exterrrminate. We will rule. We will conquer. We plan to introduce Palladium to an unsuspecting Earth.
Of course there's no picture. 'Eric' is just a pseudonym he uses when fighting crime in France.
The article says 1300 items, and the weight is about 12 to 15 kilograms. So, on average, each of his items weighs roughly 10 grams. That is pretty lightweight. For example, a nickel weighs about 5 grams. So each of his objects is roughly equivalent to two metal nickels. That is really not much substance. And for every heavy object like a PDA, there would have to be undersized objects to balance. I smell a fish. Or a rat. Or possibly a lot of tools made out of paper or wire. On the other hand, Harpo Marx carried complete dinner settings for 500...
Well, the original name was "Empire", but Darth Vader sued, so they changed it.