First, these are Volt-Amps, not necessarily Watts. National Grid is going to charge you for Watts. The "Watts=VoltsxAmps" formula only works for 100% resistive loads or DC. On AC, you have to adjust for reactive power.
Second, what is going into your power converter that you are using to run your Canadian appliances in the UK? In other words, how much have you increased the insanity?
On a side note, don't you just love those British 3-prong plugs? Just be careful not to step on one in the middle of the night barefoot!:-)
Yeah was about to say your missing a 2x multiplier if your in the UK. None of the equipment complains about running on 50hz instead?
A lot of equipment is completely oblivious to this shift in frequency. Most affected are appliances with AC motors and clocks. If the first thing an appliance does is convert AC to DC (as with almost all electronic appliances) then no difference will be noticed. If there is a transformer before the first rectifier, then there may be a slight loss of power.
In our area, there is a twice-daily traffic jam that has been understood for years, but fixing the road to take away the problem would be ungodly expensive.
There is, actually, nothing technically wrong with the road. The road in question is I-87 (the Northway), and the pinch point is where it crosses the Mohawk river. The Twin Bridges have a slightly narrower shoulder than the highway leading up to them in either direction, but the shoulder, on both sides of each bridge, is still every bit as wide as any of the three lanes going in either direction.
Compounding the problem is that the bridges are (hope this is the right term) truss bridges. There are two convex bowed beams that go over each side of each bridge, and a construct of triangular trusses between them. These are the reason why a change would be ungodly expensive, because you would have to rebuild the bridges.
Anyway, people come to the bridges and slow down because they perceive that the road has gotten narrower, while failing to perceive that this fact is irrelevant. This slowing down leads to the accordion effect that was described in TFA, where successive cars have to apply more and more braking in order not to hit the car in front of them. By the time you are a mile north of the bridge in the mornings (south in evenings), traffic is basically stopped.
The construct that causes all of this trouble can be seen here (along with some Google wierdness in the construction of the image).
Maybe "finding useful information on Google" should be part of the test for his PC Tech?
Could be.
Probably I would have worked harder if I didn't already know the answer. However, the poster to whom I was responding had put up link to a search query that would not find these results, and indicated that he had too many assumptions and didn't understand the question.
Amending your suggestion, maybe "understanding the question" should also be part of the test.
I work in IT (What? A Slashdotter working in IT? Outrageous!) and I am constantly astonished at the number of assumptions that are made with respect to the way things work. Quite frequently, I find I have to peel back layer after layer of stuff to get an idea across, because everyone wants to believe that (a) things are more complex and intelligent than they are and (b) they were put together right in the first place.
Google turned up nothing in the first ten entries of the query you proposed.
You see, the problem is that you assume too much. You assume that you operate a Model T the same way as you operate a modern car, i.e. three pedals = clutch, brake, accelerator. Not so with a Model T.
The three pedals on a model T are: Low gear, reverse, brake. The accelerator is on the steering column. Google didn't tell me that; my grandfather did.
Step on the low gear pedal, then release the hand brake to start moving. When you wind it out in low gear, reduce the throttle and release the low gear pedal to shift up.
Halfway between low and high gear is neutral. Hold the pedal halfway down and step on the reverse pedal to back up.
Stepping on the brake pedal or engaging the hand brake will take it out of gear at the same time.
Google couldn't tell me that, but my grandfather could.
They stopped making em out of copper before the 50's (I forget exactly when its finals week XD)
I'll give you some slack for finals week, but you are off by three decades. Pennies were made of 95% copper until the mid 80's. Dimes, quarters, half-dollars and full-sized full dollars (i.e. not sacagawea-sized) were made of silver until 1963.
(Yes, I am a coin collector)
they make them out of an electroplated nickel alloy now..
Zinc, actually, not nickel.
Dare i say it shouldn't just be oil we should be concerned about running out?
Well, not exactly a misplaced point, but we can recycle metals, hence the very problem the article was about. We can't recycle oil once it's been burnt.
ATSC requires less energy to transmit than DVB-T, due to the use of 8VSB modulation rather than OFDM; hence it is cheaper to use. If the USA were as densely packed as most of Europe, then DVB-T would probably be a slam dunk, but we have vast rural areas, and idiotically-built suburbs, and the TV signal needs to reach its audience at a cost that the broadcasters can sustain.
Actually the Susan B and Sacagawea dollar coins are the same size, weight, and have the same electrical characteristics.
This is correct. They differ in colour and texture, though, which means that they differ for identification-by-human purposes. The Sacagawea was actually very clever in this regard, because it solved the problem Susan B's had of being too similar in appearance to a quarter.
Wait for it to power on?? Why would you turn it off? I don't turn off any of my computers around the house.....
You could also set a timer in the BIOS (if your BIOS supports it) to automagically power up the computer some time around fifteen minutes before you typically start watching TV.
Dish network used to offer a deal (maybe still do, but I haven't seen any ads for it lately) called HD in a box. For one price, they would send you a TV, an HD receiver, everything to connect them together and to your dish, and send a contractor out to install it for you. There were a couple of options (do you want the PVR or not, and do you want plasma or DLP), but that was a simple matter of choosing one from column A and one from column B.
The only downside is that I don't believe they conneced up an OTA antenna for you, so if you subscribed to local channels via Dish, you still get them in SD only. I think there was also some sort of contract you had to sign for one or two years.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but here's an even better idea: Once you find what you like, buy two (if it is within your means) and donate one to the library.
Step outside. Go to your an IRL book store (I don't care what chain, or any chain, suits your fancy) and browse. Most book stores will let you sit and read for a little bit. When you find what you like, buy it.
The texting champion was beat on late-night television by a ham radio operator using Morse code. I know Morse code, and can key it a hell of a lot faster than punching out T9 on a keypad, especially if I'm using IAMBIC paddles (a 2-key arrangement). Give me a cell phone with IAMBIC paddles, and I'll text circles around you.
I have taken a course like the one you have described. It was a 400-level at SUNY Albany, called Software Engineering.
The course was taught by an adjunct professor, whose day job was the CEO of a small (i.e. 7-people) local software house.
As a class, we decided upon what we were going to build. We were then divided into three "companies" that were to compete with each other to produce a finished product. We were to use RCS (this was 15 years ago), and write the app in C, to run on a UNIX platform. Some supporting BASH scripting was permitted.
The project we built was a calendar/schedule app, and the one our team built was called HERMAN. Alas, we came in second, but it was good enough for me to pass the course with a B. (grades were mostly based on the project, but there were tests as well that caused a shift in individual scores)
In recognition that the course was very difficult, the professor created a scoring system of 160 possible points, with 120 or greater mapping to an A.
Anyone remember Tian An Men Square? I very distinctly remember the words of the Prime Minister's translator: "Not one people died on Tian An Men Square." That mistranslation is a direct quote. That quote led to the moment of my understanding just how fucked the Chinese people are.
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Two comments:
First, these are Volt-Amps, not necessarily Watts. National Grid is going to charge you for Watts. The "Watts=VoltsxAmps" formula only works for 100% resistive loads or DC. On AC, you have to adjust for reactive power.
Second, what is going into your power converter that you are using to run your Canadian appliances in the UK? In other words, how much have you increased the insanity?
On a side note, don't you just love those British 3-prong plugs? Just be careful not to step on one in the middle of the night barefoot! :-)
Yeah was about to say your missing a 2x multiplier if your in the UK. None of the equipment complains about running on 50hz instead?
A lot of equipment is completely oblivious to this shift in frequency. Most affected are appliances with AC motors and clocks. If the first thing an appliance does is convert AC to DC (as with almost all electronic appliances) then no difference will be noticed. If there is a transformer before the first rectifier, then there may be a slight loss of power.
In our area, there is a twice-daily traffic jam that has been understood for years, but fixing the road to take away the problem would be ungodly expensive.
There is, actually, nothing technically wrong with the road. The road in question is I-87 (the Northway), and the pinch point is where it crosses the Mohawk river. The Twin Bridges have a slightly narrower shoulder than the highway leading up to them in either direction, but the shoulder, on both sides of each bridge, is still every bit as wide as any of the three lanes going in either direction.
Compounding the problem is that the bridges are (hope this is the right term) truss bridges. There are two convex bowed beams that go over each side of each bridge, and a construct of triangular trusses between them. These are the reason why a change would be ungodly expensive, because you would have to rebuild the bridges.
Anyway, people come to the bridges and slow down because they perceive that the road has gotten narrower, while failing to perceive that this fact is irrelevant. This slowing down leads to the accordion effect that was described in TFA, where successive cars have to apply more and more braking in order not to hit the car in front of them. By the time you are a mile north of the bridge in the mornings (south in evenings), traffic is basically stopped.
The construct that causes all of this trouble can be seen here (along with some Google wierdness in the construction of the image).
Maybe "finding useful information on Google" should be part of the test for his PC Tech?
Could be.
Probably I would have worked harder if I didn't already know the answer. However, the poster to whom I was responding had put up link to a search query that would not find these results, and indicated that he had too many assumptions and didn't understand the question.
Amending your suggestion, maybe "understanding the question" should also be part of the test.
I work in IT (What? A Slashdotter working in IT? Outrageous!) and I am constantly astonished at the number of assumptions that are made with respect to the way things work. Quite frequently, I find I have to peel back layer after layer of stuff to get an idea across, because everyone wants to believe that (a) things are more complex and intelligent than they are and (b) they were put together right in the first place.
Google knows all.
Google turned up nothing in the first ten entries of the query you proposed.
You see, the problem is that you assume too much. You assume that you operate a Model T the same way as you operate a modern car, i.e. three pedals = clutch, brake, accelerator. Not so with a Model T.
The three pedals on a model T are: Low gear, reverse, brake. The accelerator is on the steering column. Google didn't tell me that; my grandfather did.
Step on the low gear pedal, then release the hand brake to start moving. When you wind it out in low gear, reduce the throttle and release the low gear pedal to shift up.
Halfway between low and high gear is neutral. Hold the pedal halfway down and step on the reverse pedal to back up.
Stepping on the brake pedal or engaging the hand brake will take it out of gear at the same time.
Google couldn't tell me that, but my grandfather could.
manah manah!
Doo Dooooooo Di doo doo.
Maybe they were made in 1963(I am not sure) but the ones marked 1964 were still silver.(On this I AM sure)
Confirmed. My bad.
Since they only penalty is a fine,
Sorry, that's wrong. It's a fine and/or 5 years.
Seriously though, I wonder what they will use for the new coins....
Some countries plug their smaller-value coins to reduce the amount of metal in their construction.
As much as I can understand why they do not want people melting down these coins, how much is the metal really worth in it's "raw" form unrefined?
About 1.7 cents for a current penny, about 2.3cents for a pre-1986 penny, about 7.5 cents for a nickel.
They stopped making em out of copper before the 50's (I forget exactly when its finals week XD)
I'll give you some slack for finals week, but you are off by three decades. Pennies were made of 95% copper until the mid 80's. Dimes, quarters, half-dollars and full-sized full dollars (i.e. not sacagawea-sized) were made of silver until 1963.
(Yes, I am a coin collector)
they make them out of an electroplated nickel alloy now..
Zinc, actually, not nickel.
Dare i say it shouldn't just be oil we should be concerned about running out?
Well, not exactly a misplaced point, but we can recycle metals, hence the very problem the article was about. We can't recycle oil once it's been burnt.
With DVB you can create a Single Frequency Network.
This can either be used to span great distances, or to fill in blackspots in cities. Can't do that with ATSC....
Absolutely true.
I'm not defending ATSC, but the question was asked, so I answered it.
ATSC requires less energy to transmit than DVB-T, due to the use of 8VSB modulation rather than OFDM; hence it is cheaper to use. If the USA were as densely packed as most of Europe, then DVB-T would probably be a slam dunk, but we have vast rural areas, and idiotically-built suburbs, and the TV signal needs to reach its audience at a cost that the broadcasters can sustain.
Actually the Susan B and Sacagawea dollar coins are the same size, weight, and have the same electrical characteristics.
This is correct. They differ in colour and texture, though, which means that they differ for identification-by-human purposes. The Sacagawea was actually very clever in this regard, because it solved the problem Susan B's had of being too similar in appearance to a quarter.
We make coins different shapes, sizes and textures, why not bills.
Yes, we do! We even make threedifferentdollar coins, each with a different size, colour or texture than the other two.
...and they're about to introduce a fourth!
Wait for it to power on?? Why would you turn it off? I don't turn off any of my computers around the house.....
You could also set a timer in the BIOS (if your BIOS supports it) to automagically power up the computer some time around fifteen minutes before you typically start watching TV.
Dish network used to offer a deal (maybe still do, but I haven't seen any ads for it lately) called HD in a box. For one price, they would send you a TV, an HD receiver, everything to connect them together and to your dish, and send a contractor out to install it for you. There were a couple of options (do you want the PVR or not, and do you want plasma or DLP), but that was a simple matter of choosing one from column A and one from column B.
The only downside is that I don't believe they conneced up an OTA antenna for you, so if you subscribed to local channels via Dish, you still get them in SD only. I think there was also some sort of contract you had to sign for one or two years.
Not to mention, we haven't seen Web 2.0 SP1, Web 2.1b0, etc. How can we be up to 3.0 already?!?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but here's an even better idea: Once you find what you like, buy two (if it is within your means) and donate one to the library.
Step outside. Go to your an IRL book store (I don't care what chain, or any chain, suits your fancy) and browse. Most book stores will let you sit and read for a little bit. When you find what you like, buy it.
That solves the sampling problem.
The texting champion was beat on late-night television by a ham radio operator using Morse code. I know Morse code, and can key it a hell of a lot faster than punching out T9 on a keypad, especially if I'm using IAMBIC paddles (a 2-key arrangement). Give me a cell phone with IAMBIC paddles, and I'll text circles around you.
Until then, voice will do just fine.
I have taken a course like the one you have described. It was a 400-level at SUNY Albany, called Software Engineering.
The course was taught by an adjunct professor, whose day job was the CEO of a small (i.e. 7-people) local software house.
As a class, we decided upon what we were going to build. We were then divided into three "companies" that were to compete with each other to produce a finished product. We were to use RCS (this was 15 years ago), and write the app in C, to run on a UNIX platform. Some supporting BASH scripting was permitted.
The project we built was a calendar/schedule app, and the one our team built was called HERMAN. Alas, we came in second, but it was good enough for me to pass the course with a B. (grades were mostly based on the project, but there were tests as well that caused a shift in individual scores)
In recognition that the course was very difficult, the professor created a scoring system of 160 possible points, with 120 or greater mapping to an A.
Hey, how about this. Here where I live I will call tomatoes oranges and you call them apples where you live.
Kind of makes me think of "chips" (as in potato)...
Anyone remember Tian An Men Square? I very distinctly remember the words of the Prime Minister's translator: "Not one people died on Tian An Men Square." That mistranslation is a direct quote. That quote led to the moment of my understanding just how fucked the Chinese people are.
Only if they continue to fly to the US.
Yep. It seems like a lot of the Y?? airports could see an uptick in traffic.
(For those who don't get the pattern, all Canadian airports have codes that begin with Y, e.g. Toronto Pearson is YYZ).