Since, theoretically, one animal's death could result in the perputual production of meat without pain or harm down the line, I'm still a little torn about whether or not I'd actually eat this stuff.
They could just take a tissue sample by a biopsy. Then the "donor pork chop" wouldn't actually have to die.
Freon is trademark used for a variety of nonflammable gaseous or liquid fluorinated hydrocarbons which are no longer used as motor vehicle refrigerants.
The current refrigerant, hfc134a contains no chlorine (the ozone damaging part of R12) and has an ozone depletion potential of zero.
The idea of using Peltier devices is interesting, because there'd be no mechanical parts to wear out, or refrigerants to leak out, so the system should be much more reliable, but I thought Peltiers would require a huge amount of current to do as much cooling as a car A/C system delivers.
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Because you like everyone else, buy cheap CRTs and expensive LCDs.
Not necessarily.
CRTs have several technological, environmental and other drawbacks which are inherent in CRT technology.
I went from a $1000 21" Nokia CRT to a $2600 23" widescreen Sony LCD. (Prices were a few years ago).
The CRT looked wonderful when it was brand new. The images were sharp, circles were round, squares were square, good contrast, accurate colors.
Over the last year I used it (of four), the image slowly went out of focus - sharp lines became slightly blurred, and the geometry started to drift. There is so much math being done in the analog electronics of the vertical and horizontal deflection circuits of a CRT monitor, and the voltages provided to the tube have to be kept "just right" to make a good picture that they just can't help but go out of calibration.
Incidentally, the 21" Nokia replaced a pair of 15" CRT monitors that had both gone fuzzy over three years.
I have never seen an old CRT monitor that looked as good as a brand new one, yet the picture quality of an LCD monitor stays about the same until it dies or gets thrown away. The resistors, capacitors and other parts in all of that high power analog circuitry cooking under the hot picture tube slowly drift out of calibration. Sure, there are some adjustments you can have done if you're willing to pay for it, and you can always replace failed parts, but this just doesn't happen with LCD monitors.
CRT monitors are also susceptible to interference from magnetic fields. In one location, my sheilded CRT monitor's picture wiggled violently when run at any refresh rate other than 60Hz, due to a magnetic field from electrical equipment in a neighboring alley. No such problems with LCD monitors.
Many CRT monitors are sensitive to power quality and voltage, although you see less of this these days, but in areas with brownouts or poor power quality it's a consideration.
CRT tubes are made of lead glass. They're considered undesirable waste because of the high lead content, and in many places you have to pay to get rid of them.
A CRT monitor pumping out heat also costs in terms of air conditioning. During the air conditioning season, a basic rule of thumb I was told is that for every watt of power that goes into a space another watt of air conditioning power is required to cool the space down. So the extra power consumption of a CRT over an LCD costs double in an air conditioned office.
Of the over twenty LCD panels in my office (including laptops and monitors), one has a dead pixel on it. I can live with that. The LCD panel I'm looking at right now is at least ten years old, but it's still working fine, although I expect the backlight will fail eventually. I've never seen a CRT monitor last that long without degrading in some way.
The Sahara desert in Tunisia and soundstages in the UK? I'm not sure if Tunisia is politically stable, and the UK is an expensive place to be.
btw... The underground house Luke lived in with his aunt and uncle is pretty representative of some of the dwellings in that area. I was there a few years after the first Star Wars movie was shot. People live in houses carved out of the sandstone under the desert. A family let our tour group look around their house. It didn't have the droid oil-bath though, or any of the other gadgets, just nice cool rooms out of the heat of the desert sun.
Microsoft will charge you around three times that.
No, they don't.
If you buy the retail version of Windows XP it will cost you a couple of hundred dollars, but if you want to upgrade from a previous version of Windows to Windows XP, it costs $99 (for regular consumers or business people, not students).
That's $30 less than Apple charges regular folks for an OS X upgrade, according to your post.
SP2 for XP is a free download too, so I'm not sure where you're getting your information. I don't like Microsoft any more than the next guy, but prices are pretty easy to check.
Just FYI, induction furnaces are rarely operated at frequencies as low as 60Hz, it's far too inefficient. Induction furnace frequencies are measured in kHz.
You seem to be forgetting how quickly the strength of a magnetic field falls off as you move away from the source, and the fact that the human body has several systems in place to regulate its internal temperature. That such a miniscule internal heating effect produced by a weak 50Hz or 60Hz magnetic field could cause birth defects or cancer does not seem plausible.
If high body temperature led to cancer or birth defects, wouldn't we see higher incidences of both in the hotter parts of the world, and lower in the cooler parts. There seems to be no conclusive evidence for this.
But, just to be safe, maybe we'd better keep our tinfoil hats on tight.
I lived in Utah for ten years and was surprised, at first, to find that many people there actually believed that.
Do you mean the part about bodily fluids?
I suppose that a man with a few too many wives might run short on a certain bodily fluid, so Utah would be one of the few places that might believe that.
I used to work in a small museum. There were two floors, and the stairs were to the right of the entrance. There were two simple signs with just the word "STAIRS" and an arrow pointing to the stairs placed in very obvious positions (you had to walk around the signs to get to the front desk or to enter the museum).
Invariably, people would ask "how do you get to the second floor", or "where are the stairs".
Some of these people had read the sign and either failed to comprehend it, or just didn't believe the word "STAIRS" or the arrow.
Cars have lots of extra metal to save passengers when that happens, and that metal is heavy. It's less heavy in a cleverly-designed Japanese car with crumple zones, as opposed to an American-built behemoth that depends on sheer mass to solve the problem, but it adds to the weight of every production car.
Should read:
Cars have lots of extra metal to save passengers when that happens, and that metal is heavy. It's less heavy in a cleverly-designed Japanese car of 2004 with crumple zones, as opposed to an American-built behemoth of 1958 that depends on sheer mass to solve the problem, but it adds to the weight of every production car.
What are you smoking? Cite an example of a mass produced car sold in the US market in the last 20 years that doesn't have crumple zones. You can't, because there aren't any, American-made or otherwise.
American cars, like Japanese or European cars, are designed and crash tested inside things called "computers" before the hard tooling or even the first prototype is ever built. Vehicle designers design not only the thickness of the materials, but also the shape, to control crash performance.
There are no vehicles produced today for the North American market that rely on mass alone for crash performance. Those three ton SUVs and pickup trucks are built with crumple zones in the body and in the frame, and even class 8 trucks (them big things with 18 wheels) are designed for occupant protection during an accident (although there isn't much you can do with 80,000lbs of mass behind the cab).
You work for an incandescent light bulb company, don't you?
Several manufacturers are now making high power factor compact fluorescents (power factor >0.9).
I agree that LED lighting may not be terribly efficient and there will have to be some clever work with diffusing the light but its saving grace is that the lamps will last a very long time and the lamp packages can be made very flat which will allow some interesting design changes in products which use lights (like motor vehicles for example). Applications like street lighting and traffic signals and other public space lighting are probably ideal for LED retrofit; even if the lamps cost a lot more the savings in not having to replace them anywhere near as often will pay off quickly.
The problem of getting the illumination pattern even will be solved quickly. Take apart an LCD monitor. Who would believe that that thin cold cathode lamp could illuminate an entire screen so easily? Someone will solve the problem even if you can't see how.
My grandmother worked at a commercial laundry. She lost a finger in one of the wringers there. They were very powerful, and if there hadn't been someone else there to stop the machine she'd probably have lost an arm instead of just a finger.
I think most places use centrifugal and tumble dryers now.
Insightful? This is an overgeneralization and sexism. Sweet hell, what are you mods on?
Maybe today's moderators are commercial property managers. I used to be (18000 sq. ft building, 35-40 people), and I can tell you it's true. Some women just can't get enough of turning the thermostat up or down. Not all women do this, but if someone was touching the thermostat, 95 times out of 100 it was one of the women.
Heaven help anyone who has a thermostat and a woman going through menopause in their office. We had a lady who would adjust the thermostat four or five times a day.
Lockboxes on all five thermostats throughout the building solved that problem, although she still tried to stick a letter opener in through the slots in the lock box. (Strangely, there were six HVAC zones, but we could only find five of the thermostats. We think one of them was buried inside a wall during a remodel.)
We only have one woman in the office now since we relocated and downsized (six employees total), and she still gets up and looks at the thermostat but she's considerate enough to not change the setting. None of the men have ever touched the thermostat except for me, and I only make seasonal adjustments to it.
I'm trying to type that indignant sound Grandpa Simpson makes, but it's just not coming through as text.
I guess I'm stuck in a backwater of the distant past, in which I recall fondly that Baud referred to the number of times per second that the state of the signal changed (low to high, high to low transitions), and those few folks that had heard of it knew that Internet was a proper noun with a capital "I".
I think he's talking about those old-fashioned black vinyl CDs with the little hole in the middle
CD stands for "Compact Disc", the old vinyl ones were just "Discs", so they were known as "Ds", not "CDs". You could also overclock your Ds from 33 all the way up to 78!
I thought everbody knew that.
One down side was that the D-R drives made a lot of vinyl shavings though.
Although, I guess it's not too surprising. In the USA at least, most cement mixer trucks and fire trucks are automatic, whereas large class 8 trucks (semi trucks or 18 wheelers as they're known here) have a manual transmission with another range box behind it. The ones I've seen have a direct shift lever going into the transmission and a compressed air shifter for the range box.
By the way, The big monster snow plow trucks the County sold off at the auction two years ago here were automatics, with a Cat 3208 diesel V8 engine. I mention them because the brakes were more than capable of stopping the truck even with the accelerater floored. It was interesting watching people who'd never driven a large truck before trying to get their purchases out of the county fairgrounds.
For those that don't know, Orkut is an invitation-only cyber-clique.
Perhaps the answer is as simple as nobody knows any North Koreans, so they don't get invited to join.
Of course, once they join anything as secretive and subversive as Orkut (even Kim Jong-Il can't get an invite!) they'd probably be subject to torture and execution in North Korea, so they might not stay around for long.
This thing is not intended to be bought and used as a GPS/PDA by consumers when they go wandering all over the place and getting lost.
It's intended to be used as an interactive tour guide at historical sites, outdoor museums and the like - popping up information about what happened 200 years ago where you're standing now and that sort of thing.
It's clearly designed to be bought by institutions.
A prosecutor would have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Diebold intended to have the backdoor available for the purpose of election fraud.
It would probably be easy for Diebold's attorneys to show that Diebold's intent in making the backdoor was for maintenance of the system or for diagnostic purposes, or was just the result of a screw up.
I think it would be difficult to prove such a conspiracy unless there is a lot more evidence out there to support the other parts of a conspiracy.
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They could just take a tissue sample by a biopsy. Then the "donor pork chop" wouldn't actually have to die.
Or would that still be too much harm?
The current refrigerant, hfc134a contains no chlorine (the ozone damaging part of R12) and has an ozone depletion potential of zero.
The idea of using Peltier devices is interesting, because there'd be no mechanical parts to wear out, or refrigerants to leak out, so the system should be much more reliable, but I thought Peltiers would require a huge amount of current to do as much cooling as a car A/C system delivers.
Chrysler Crossfire / Mercedes SLK So maybe that scenario isn't so far-fetched.
Not necessarily.
CRTs have several technological, environmental and other drawbacks which are inherent in CRT technology.
I went from a $1000 21" Nokia CRT to a $2600 23" widescreen Sony LCD. (Prices were a few years ago).
The CRT looked wonderful when it was brand new. The images were sharp, circles were round, squares were square, good contrast, accurate colors.
Over the last year I used it (of four), the image slowly went out of focus - sharp lines became slightly blurred, and the geometry started to drift. There is so much math being done in the analog electronics of the vertical and horizontal deflection circuits of a CRT monitor, and the voltages provided to the tube have to be kept "just right" to make a good picture that they just can't help but go out of calibration.
Incidentally, the 21" Nokia replaced a pair of 15" CRT monitors that had both gone fuzzy over three years.
I have never seen an old CRT monitor that looked as good as a brand new one, yet the picture quality of an LCD monitor stays about the same until it dies or gets thrown away. The resistors, capacitors and other parts in all of that high power analog circuitry cooking under the hot picture tube slowly drift out of calibration. Sure, there are some adjustments you can have done if you're willing to pay for it, and you can always replace failed parts, but this just doesn't happen with LCD monitors.
CRT monitors are also susceptible to interference from magnetic fields. In one location, my sheilded CRT monitor's picture wiggled violently when run at any refresh rate other than 60Hz, due to a magnetic field from electrical equipment in a neighboring alley. No such problems with LCD monitors.
Many CRT monitors are sensitive to power quality and voltage, although you see less of this these days, but in areas with brownouts or poor power quality it's a consideration.
CRT tubes are made of lead glass. They're considered undesirable waste because of the high lead content, and in many places you have to pay to get rid of them.
A CRT monitor pumping out heat also costs in terms of air conditioning. During the air conditioning season, a basic rule of thumb I was told is that for every watt of power that goes into a space another watt of air conditioning power is required to cool the space down. So the extra power consumption of a CRT over an LCD costs double in an air conditioned office.
Of the over twenty LCD panels in my office (including laptops and monitors), one has a dead pixel on it. I can live with that. The LCD panel I'm looking at right now is at least ten years old, but it's still working fine, although I expect the backlight will fail eventually. I've never seen a CRT monitor last that long without degrading in some way.
The Sahara desert in Tunisia and soundstages in the UK? I'm not sure if Tunisia is politically stable, and the UK is an expensive place to be. btw... The underground house Luke lived in with his aunt and uncle is pretty representative of some of the dwellings in that area. I was there a few years after the first Star Wars movie was shot. People live in houses carved out of the sandstone under the desert. A family let our tour group look around their house. It didn't have the droid oil-bath though, or any of the other gadgets, just nice cool rooms out of the heat of the desert sun.
Wouldn't you rather have one mounted on your head?
How about $79 for XP, ($99 before rebate)?
We're talking about upgrades here, not the version of XP you would buy to install on a freshly built PC.
SP2 was and still is a free download for users of XP. SP2 is comparable to one of these .1 version upgrades for OS X.
No, they don't.
If you buy the retail version of Windows XP it will cost you a couple of hundred dollars, but if you want to upgrade from a previous version of Windows to Windows XP, it costs $99 (for regular consumers or business people, not students).
That's $30 less than Apple charges regular folks for an OS X upgrade, according to your post.
SP2 for XP is a free download too, so I'm not sure where you're getting your information. I don't like Microsoft any more than the next guy, but prices are pretty easy to check.
Windows XP Upgrade $99
Just FYI, induction furnaces are rarely operated at frequencies as low as 60Hz, it's far too inefficient. Induction furnace frequencies are measured in kHz.
You seem to be forgetting how quickly the strength of a magnetic field falls off as you move away from the source, and the fact that the human body has several systems in place to regulate its internal temperature. That such a miniscule internal heating effect produced by a weak 50Hz or 60Hz magnetic field could cause birth defects or cancer does not seem plausible.
If high body temperature led to cancer or birth defects, wouldn't we see higher incidences of both in the hotter parts of the world, and lower in the cooler parts. There seems to be no conclusive evidence for this.
But, just to be safe, maybe we'd better keep our tinfoil hats on tight.
Works great in Windows Media Player. I guess that's what you get for trying to save $99.
Do you mean the part about bodily fluids?
I suppose that a man with a few too many wives might run short on a certain bodily fluid, so Utah would be one of the few places that might believe that.
Invariably, people would ask "how do you get to the second floor", or "where are the stairs".
Some of these people had read the sign and either failed to comprehend it, or just didn't believe the word "STAIRS" or the arrow.
You weren't very specific as to the type of animal, just one for each human.
Should read:
Cars have lots of extra metal to save passengers when that happens, and that metal is heavy. It's less heavy in a cleverly-designed Japanese car of 2004 with crumple zones, as opposed to an American-built behemoth of 1958 that depends on sheer mass to solve the problem, but it adds to the weight of every production car.
What are you smoking? Cite an example of a mass produced car sold in the US market in the last 20 years that doesn't have crumple zones. You can't, because there aren't any, American-made or otherwise.
American cars, like Japanese or European cars, are designed and crash tested inside things called "computers" before the hard tooling or even the first prototype is ever built. Vehicle designers design not only the thickness of the materials, but also the shape, to control crash performance.
There are no vehicles produced today for the North American market that rely on mass alone for crash performance. Those three ton SUVs and pickup trucks are built with crumple zones in the body and in the frame, and even class 8 trucks (them big things with 18 wheels) are designed for occupant protection during an accident (although there isn't much you can do with 80,000lbs of mass behind the cab).
That explains why Plato began his story with "A long time ago in an ocean far, far away".
Several manufacturers are now making high power factor compact fluorescents (power factor >0.9).
I agree that LED lighting may not be terribly efficient and there will have to be some clever work with diffusing the light but its saving grace is that the lamps will last a very long time and the lamp packages can be made very flat which will allow some interesting design changes in products which use lights (like motor vehicles for example). Applications like street lighting and traffic signals and other public space lighting are probably ideal for LED retrofit; even if the lamps cost a lot more the savings in not having to replace them anywhere near as often will pay off quickly.
The problem of getting the illumination pattern even will be solved quickly. Take apart an LCD monitor. Who would believe that that thin cold cathode lamp could illuminate an entire screen so easily? Someone will solve the problem even if you can't see how.
I think most places use centrifugal and tumble dryers now.
Maybe today's moderators are commercial property managers. I used to be (18000 sq. ft building, 35-40 people), and I can tell you it's true. Some women just can't get enough of turning the thermostat up or down. Not all women do this, but if someone was touching the thermostat, 95 times out of 100 it was one of the women.
Heaven help anyone who has a thermostat and a woman going through menopause in their office. We had a lady who would adjust the thermostat four or five times a day.
Lockboxes on all five thermostats throughout the building solved that problem, although she still tried to stick a letter opener in through the slots in the lock box. (Strangely, there were six HVAC zones, but we could only find five of the thermostats. We think one of them was buried inside a wall during a remodel.)
We only have one woman in the office now since we relocated and downsized (six employees total), and she still gets up and looks at the thermostat but she's considerate enough to not change the setting. None of the men have ever touched the thermostat except for me, and I only make seasonal adjustments to it.
I'm trying to type that indignant sound Grandpa Simpson makes, but it's just not coming through as text.
I guess I'm stuck in a backwater of the distant past, in which I recall fondly that Baud referred to the number of times per second that the state of the signal changed (low to high, high to low transitions), and those few folks that had heard of it knew that Internet was a proper noun with a capital "I".
"symbols per second"
Stuff and nonsense, I tell you.
What's this '14k' you speak of? In my day, we had 300bps, and we liked it! Sometimes I even used 110bps for that extra-old-timey feel!
Hell, we even called bps 'Baud', and we liked it, because we didn't know any better!
And that's the way we liked it!
CD stands for "Compact Disc", the old vinyl ones were just "Discs", so they were known as "Ds", not "CDs". You could also overclock your Ds from 33 all the way up to 78!
I thought everbody knew that.
One down side was that the D-R drives made a lot of vinyl shavings though.
Although, I guess it's not too surprising. In the USA at least, most cement mixer trucks and fire trucks are automatic, whereas large class 8 trucks (semi trucks or 18 wheelers as they're known here) have a manual transmission with another range box behind it. The ones I've seen have a direct shift lever going into the transmission and a compressed air shifter for the range box.
By the way, The big monster snow plow trucks the County sold off at the auction two years ago here were automatics, with a Cat 3208 diesel V8 engine. I mention them because the brakes were more than capable of stopping the truck even with the accelerater floored. It was interesting watching people who'd never driven a large truck before trying to get their purchases out of the county fairgrounds.
Perhaps the answer is as simple as nobody knows any North Koreans, so they don't get invited to join.
Of course, once they join anything as secretive and subversive as Orkut (even Kim Jong-Il can't get an invite!) they'd probably be subject to torture and execution in North Korea, so they might not stay around for long.
It's intended to be used as an interactive tour guide at historical sites, outdoor museums and the like - popping up information about what happened 200 years ago where you're standing now and that sort of thing.
It's clearly designed to be bought by institutions.
It would probably be easy for Diebold's attorneys to show that Diebold's intent in making the backdoor was for maintenance of the system or for diagnostic purposes, or was just the result of a screw up.
I think it would be difficult to prove such a conspiracy unless there is a lot more evidence out there to support the other parts of a conspiracy.