I use a Velomobile to get to work and back (http://www.velomobiel.nl/). It is fast and wether proof. (and there is a lot of nasty wheter over here in the Netherlands.
Anyone got any solutions on dealing with the rain in wet weather? Fortunately, our county has some pretty sweet bike paths, so alternative transportation is at least an option.
I drive a Quest fully faired recumbent. No problems with rain or wind. Lots of luggage space and very fast (especially in a flat country like the Netherlands). Rolling hills are real fun. You can get the bike to fairly high speeds.
I'm not sure how exactly PNG works, but I assume it has some "easy" and "hard" pixels to encode. If you accepted some loss to quality, for the bonus of getting lots of extra easy pixels, could you get near-JPG performance out of it?
Well, PNG uses zlib. Simply said: it uses zip for compression. Easy for zip and thus for PNG are a lot repeating aptterns. If you convert a picture to a picture with lots of repeating paterns the subtility of colours are lost.
Jpeg assumes all pixels close to each other have about the same colour. So it has problems with sharp edges but likes subtile colour variations.
Bottom line: no, there is not a easy way to filter pictures so you get both a small PNG file and a pleasing result.
Nyh
Re:Are the real logisitics of this being considere
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Listen to the Sky
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I mean, really, what's the value of having people call in to hear wind whistling around, balloons rustling (latex/plastic rubbing together), and cellphones ringing.
Maybe you should read the article first before commenting. It is not just the wind they are interested in. They also 'listen' to radio frequencies.
From the article: Using mobile phones people will be able to listen to the actual sounds up high, the electromagnetic sounds of the sky as well as streams of "whistlers" and "spherics" (atmospheric electromagnetic phenomena that are the audible equivalent of the Northern Lights).Of course, the action of calling the cloud changes the electromagnetic environment inside and causes the balloons to vary in brightness, colour and intensity.
Why doing it the hard way? (You don't have to go 60 m up in the air to get all that.) Well, I suppose that is what Art is all about.
A mechanical watch works in every position. Gravity is of no importance. It is all about inertia, not gravity. Gravity is only of use for pendulum driven clocks. Did you see a reference to gravity in de formula?
The balance wheel is a wheel on a axis and a spring (like a spring in a clockwork) between the axis and a fixed point. The wheel rotates and the spring is wound until the wheel stops, it reverses it's rotation direction and de spring unwinds until the spring becomes 'overstretched', slowing the wheel an reversing direction again.
By the way, in the great times of moon exploration there weren't any digital watches available. They just used mechanical watches and given the tests the watches had to endure I doubt very much whether a digital watch would stand a change.
It is not very impressive. In a mechanical watch is a balance wheel and a hair spring. The wheel and spring are oscilating (that is making a mechanical watch tick). The Oscilation period is the time base for the watch. You can change the oscilation period by altering the mass of the balance wheel (adding weight makes the oscilation period longer) or changing the spring constant of the hair spring (make it less stiff or langer for a longer oscilation period).
The formula for the oscillation time is T = 2*pi*sqrt(J/k) with J = moment of inertia k = the spring constant.
It looks like the watches have added weight on de balance wheel. He did a naice job but it is not earth (or mars) shattering.
I am using athome cable: 2560/64 kbit/s = EUR 47.95 p.m.
312/64 kbit/s = EUR 29.95 p.m.
64/64 kbit/s = EUR 17.95 p.m. No data limits. Servers are not allowed (and of no use with 64 kb upload).
I am wondering. Would it be save for DVD-Jon to go to the USA? Will the RIAA respect the Norwegian verdict or will it seize the opportunity to lynch trail him the american way?
Any device trying to connect to the network will be checked to see whether it has security measures already in place.
Wich security measures?
Isn't it the problem that the traffic containing the virus might be legitimate traffic? It won't help against hole n+1 in Outlook. You get an e-mail from your friend who is also using Windows XP extra secure. You receive it, virus installs itself and starts sending copies of itself through the net. Nothing to halt is because all traffic is comming from secure machines and networks.
Only when the new virus definition is uploaded to all amchines the virus will be stopped. But a new virus needs only a few hourd to infect the whole world.
It will only stop the exploid on known security holes.
- Geared hubs are great for compacity and easy maintaining. However, their efficiency sucks. For example, a 7-speed Sachs hub can go down to 90% efficiency. That's a lot of power loss with under 100W of input power.
Yes, the Sachs 7-speed is a crying shame. But on the other side there is the king of speedhubs, the Rohloff 14-speed hub. The high efficiency of a chain and derailleur system is only for nice clean systems. An other advantage of the 14 speedhub is the continuoues up- and down gearing, no need to switch your front chain and change a lot of gears on the back just to change one gear...
Plus the fact that humans van produce a real huge torque. The maximum torque is about 350 Nm, that's the same torque as the maximum torque of a Ferrari sports car (a pity though that the human produces this torque at 0 RPM, the car at 7000 RPM). You need a very strong shaft (and a big diameter) to transfer these kinds of torques whithout becoming spongy (the torsion of the shaft has to be small).
Would a gravity-free weapon (even with light) defy General Relativity?
Yes, but there is no need to account for gravity even in extreme situations because the light comming from the target is affected by gravity in exactly the same way as the light comming from your laser gun.
BIC cristal black. Only the plastic is not robust enough. So I manufactured a new holder on a metal lathe and use the black fillings in my own holder. I hope to make a titanium holder one day...
"Some computer crimes are more serious than others, and these new guidelines reflect that critical infrastructures need to be protected and that invasions of privacy need to be treated as seriously as invasions of our pocketbooks," said Mark Rasch
That is definetly the way to protect your important things. Not by making them more secure, but by making the punishment worse.
1 Ice floating in water displaces as much water as it mass. So when it melts the volume will not change.
2 The interesting thing is that water shrinks when you heat it from 0C to 4C so in that traject it will take up less space. Continue heating above 4C it it starts expanding again.
Warmer oceans will mean higher sea level because warmer water is less dense.
They have the DMCA to sue those who exploit it for a new source of revenue.
Yes, and the great thing is thay can claim millions on estimated loses that may have incurred hadn't they seued the person. This is a new business model, soon to be patented.
Nyh
Re:Professional racing *PREVENTS* bike-innovation!
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Well, I am using a recumbent bike on a daily basis, riding to my work. The bike, a Quest from Velomobiel.nl is a good example of (sports) innovation of a bike. It has a lot of huge advantages over a normal bike.
1 It is damn fast on the flat. I do 50 km/h (=30 mp/h) for hours. I am willing to take on anyone on a racing bike (send in Lance Amstrong) for a hours race on a circuit and I will beat him. Aerodynamics is the all important factor in biking. 2 I am good protected from rain and wind. 3 It can take a lot of luggage (complete campingear or purchases for a week.
Disatvantages
1 It is quite expensive. 2 It has a turning circle comparable to a car. 3 It is heavy. 4 It is huge for a bike.
What about mountains? I don't know, I have never raced with it in the mountains. I wont be a good clibing bike because climbing is all about the weight to power ratio. But the bike will be very fast going down. I do know of some recumbent bikers beating the hell out of racingbikers at the Classique Genevoise race in Geneva. Doing the 80 km's in 1:49:47, 10 minutes faster as the fastest racing bike.
I've been typing since I was five--I'm twenty-five now. I type at ~100WPM. Because I'm self-taught, I don't use the traditional touch-type method. When I type, my hands are at about a 45 degree angle to the keyboard; if I had a "home row", it would be something like QSDC MKLP. I hit whichever key with whichever finger is closest. My wrists stay straight and uncrimped.
Completely agree. The problem is the RS of RSI, Repetitive Strain. I tried to learn the 'official' ten finger system serveral times but quickly stoped because of sour wrists. It is too static for me.
I think the RSI problem started when the change was made from mechanical typewriters to electronic typewriters. The touch became lighter and lighter so a more static position of the wrists became possible. I think a firm touch of the keys is important. Don't move only your fingers! Let your whole arm move! If people are asking if you are trying toch punch the keyboard through the table you are doing a good job. No RSI for you! A very bad idea are the wrist pads. They encourage the static placement of the wrists.
So weight Kg, being the measurement of gravity's effect on a mass (the lump), is a measurement of earth gravity.
No, you compare to masses using a balance. You need gravity, but the mass measurement it is not dependent of the exact value of the gravitational field. All precision mass measurement work by comparing masses. Otherwise the time of day and the fase of the moon would have a to big influence.
I am just wondering who gets hurt when you miss. Most misses will end op somwhere in the universe, but in air to air combat lots of shots will end up vaporising somethig different as intended. Normal bullets fall down after some kilometers. A missle will blow up when it realises it missed target but light wil go on and on and on.
Ofcourse it will loose power by widening of the beam and diffraction at air molecules but I think it will be leath for a longer distance than anyhing else.
Slashdot Mirror
I use a Velomobile to get to work and back (http://www.velomobiel.nl/). It is fast and wether proof. (and there is a lot of nasty wheter over here in the Netherlands.
Nyh
Anyone want to commit suicide in a spectacular way? No costs involved!
Nyh
5/11 -- Rain
5/12 -- Rain
5/13 -- Thunderstorms
5/14 -- Rain
Anyone got any solutions on dealing with the rain in wet weather? Fortunately, our county has some pretty sweet bike paths, so alternative transportation is at least an option.
I drive a Quest fully faired recumbent. No problems with rain or wind. Lots of luggage space and very fast (especially in a flat country like the Netherlands). Rolling hills are real fun. You can get the bike to fairly high speeds.
Nyh
I'm not sure how exactly PNG works, but I assume it has some "easy" and "hard" pixels to encode. If you accepted some loss to quality, for the bonus of getting lots of extra easy pixels, could you get near-JPG performance out of it?
Well, PNG uses zlib. Simply said: it uses zip for compression. Easy for zip and thus for PNG are a lot repeating aptterns. If you convert a picture to a picture with lots of repeating paterns the subtility of colours are lost.
Jpeg assumes all pixels close to each other have about the same colour. So it has problems with sharp edges but likes subtile colour variations.
Bottom line: no, there is not a easy way to filter pictures so you get both a small PNG file and a pleasing result.
Nyh
I mean, really, what's the value of having people call in to hear wind whistling around, balloons rustling (latex/plastic rubbing together), and cellphones ringing.
Maybe you should read the article first before commenting. It is not just the wind they are interested in. They also 'listen' to radio frequencies.
From the article: Using mobile phones people will be able to listen to the actual sounds up high, the electromagnetic sounds of the sky as well as streams of "whistlers" and "spherics" (atmospheric electromagnetic phenomena that are the audible equivalent of the Northern Lights).Of course, the action of calling the cloud changes the electromagnetic environment inside and causes the balloons to vary in brightness, colour and intensity.
Why doing it the hard way? (You don't have to go 60 m up in the air to get all that.) Well, I suppose that is what Art is all about.
Nyh
And they don't understand the consequences...
In the right border you will find at
"RELATED INTERNET LINKS"
a link to SCO: www.sco.com
Well done BBC!
Nyh
A mechanical watch works in every position. Gravity is of no importance. It is all about inertia, not gravity. Gravity is only of use for pendulum driven clocks. Did you see a reference to gravity in de formula?
The balance wheel is a wheel on a axis and a spring (like a spring in a clockwork) between the axis and a fixed point. The wheel rotates and the spring is wound until the wheel stops, it reverses it's rotation direction and de spring unwinds until the spring becomes 'overstretched', slowing the wheel an reversing direction again.
By the way, in the great times of moon exploration there weren't any digital watches available. They just used mechanical watches and given the tests the watches had to endure I doubt very much whether a digital watch would stand a change.
Nyh
It is not very impressive. In a mechanical watch is a balance wheel and a hair spring. The wheel and spring are oscilating (that is making a mechanical watch tick). The Oscilation period is the time base for the watch. You can change the oscilation period by altering the mass of the balance wheel (adding weight makes the oscilation period longer) or changing the spring constant of the hair spring (make it less stiff or langer for a longer oscilation period).
The formula for the oscillation time is
T = 2*pi*sqrt(J/k)
with
J = moment of inertia
k = the spring constant.
It looks like the watches have added weight on de balance wheel. He did a naice job but it is not earth (or mars) shattering.
Nyh
I am using athome cable:
2560/64 kbit/s = EUR 47.95 p.m.
312/64 kbit/s = EUR 29.95 p.m.
64/64 kbit/s = EUR 17.95 p.m.
No data limits. Servers are not allowed (and of no use with 64 kb upload).
Nyh
I am wondering. Would it be save for DVD-Jon to go to the USA? Will the RIAA respect the Norwegian verdict or will it seize the opportunity to lynch trail him the american way?
Nyh
Any device trying to connect to the network will be checked to see whether it has security measures already in place.
Wich security measures?
Isn't it the problem that the traffic containing the virus might be legitimate traffic? It won't help against hole n+1 in Outlook. You get an e-mail from your friend who is also using Windows XP extra secure. You receive it, virus installs itself and starts sending copies of itself through the net. Nothing to halt is because all traffic is comming from secure machines and networks.
Only when the new virus definition is uploaded to all amchines the virus will be stopped. But a new virus needs only a few hourd to infect the whole world.
It will only stop the exploid on known security holes.
Nyh
- Geared hubs are great for compacity and easy maintaining. However, their efficiency sucks. For example, a 7-speed Sachs hub can go down to 90% efficiency. That's a lot of power loss with under 100W of input power.
Yes, the Sachs 7-speed is a crying shame. But on the other side there is the king of speedhubs, the Rohloff 14-speed hub. The high efficiency of a chain and derailleur system is only for nice clean systems. An other advantage of the 14 speedhub is the continuoues up- and down gearing, no need to switch your front chain and change a lot of gears on the back just to change one gear...
Nyh
Plus the fact that humans van produce a real huge torque. The maximum torque is about 350 Nm, that's the same torque as the maximum torque of a Ferrari sports car (a pity though that the human produces this torque at 0 RPM, the car at 7000 RPM). You need a very strong shaft (and a big diameter) to transfer these kinds of torques whithout becoming spongy (the torsion of the shaft has to be small).
Nyh
Would a gravity-free weapon (even with light) defy General Relativity?
Yes, but there is no need to account for gravity even in extreme situations because the light comming from the target is affected by gravity in exactly the same way as the light comming from your laser gun.
Not Bic Blue!
BIC cristal black. Only the plastic is not robust enough. So I manufactured a new holder on a metal lathe and use the black fillings in my own holder. I hope to make a titanium holder one day...
Nyh
"Some computer crimes are more serious than others, and these new guidelines reflect that critical infrastructures need to be protected and that invasions of privacy need to be treated as seriously as invasions of our pocketbooks," said Mark Rasch
That is definetly the way to protect your important things. Not by making them more secure, but by making the punishment worse.
Nyh
Two things:
1 Ice floating in water displaces as much water as it mass. So when it melts the volume will not change.
2 The interesting thing is that water shrinks when you heat it from 0C to 4C so in that traject it will take up less space. Continue heating above 4C it it starts expanding again.
Warmer oceans will mean higher sea level because warmer water is less dense.
Nyh
They have the DMCA to sue those who exploit it for a new source of revenue.
Yes, and the great thing is thay can claim millions on estimated loses that may have incurred hadn't they seued the person. This is a new business model, soon to be patented.
Nyh
Well, I am using a recumbent bike on a daily basis, riding to my work. The bike, a Quest from Velomobiel.nl is a good example of (sports) innovation of a bike. It has a lot of huge advantages over a normal bike.
1 It is damn fast on the flat. I do 50 km/h (=30 mp/h) for hours. I am willing to take on anyone on a racing bike (send in Lance Amstrong) for a hours race on a circuit and I will beat him. Aerodynamics is the all important factor in biking.
2 I am good protected from rain and wind.
3 It can take a lot of luggage (complete campingear or purchases for a week.
Disatvantages
1 It is quite expensive.
2 It has a turning circle comparable to a car.
3 It is heavy.
4 It is huge for a bike.
What about mountains? I don't know, I have never raced with it in the mountains. I wont be a good clibing bike because climbing is all about the weight to power ratio. But the bike will be very fast going down. I do know of some recumbent bikers beating the hell out of racingbikers at the Classique Genevoise race in Geneva. Doing the 80 km's in 1:49:47, 10 minutes faster as the fastest racing bike.
Nyh
I've been typing since I was five--I'm twenty-five now. I type at ~100WPM. Because I'm self-taught, I don't use the traditional touch-type method. When I type, my hands are at about a 45 degree angle to the keyboard; if I had a "home row", it would be something like QSDC MKLP. I hit whichever key with whichever finger is closest. My wrists stay straight and uncrimped.
Completely agree. The problem is the RS of RSI, Repetitive Strain. I tried to learn the 'official' ten finger system serveral times but quickly stoped because of sour wrists. It is too static for me.
I think the RSI problem started when the change was made from mechanical typewriters to electronic typewriters. The touch became lighter and lighter so a more static position of the wrists became possible. I think a firm touch of the keys is important. Don't move only your fingers! Let your whole arm move! If people are asking if you are trying toch punch the keyboard through the table you are doing a good job. No RSI for you! A very bad idea are the wrist pads. They encourage the static placement of the wrists.
Just my 2 (EURO) cents
Nyh
No, you compare to masses using a balance. You need gravity, but the mass measurement it is not dependent of the exact value of the gravitational field. All precision mass measurement work by comparing masses. Otherwise the time of day and the fase of the moon would have a to big influence.
Nyh
Did you understand why he has choosen them?
Tina turner: for overcomming humiliation
James Taylor: for getting rid of drugs
Nyh!
Because pi is there. And they still have found only the tiniest fraction of the total of decimals of pi...
Nyh!
I was wondering how permanent this tatoo would be. After a careful study of the picture he is IMHO using a BIC pen to do the tatoo.
Ech Nyh!
I am just wondering who gets hurt when you miss. Most misses will end op somwhere in the universe, but in air to air combat lots of shots will end up vaporising somethig different as intended. Normal bullets fall down after some kilometers. A missle will blow up when it realises it missed target but light wil go on and on and on.
Ofcourse it will loose power by widening of the beam and diffraction at air molecules but I think it will be leath for a longer distance than anyhing else.
Hans Wessels