RE: Item 1: The microwave-linked minicam
The issue here was not the microwave link. The issue was the low-light-level capability of the cameras. The cops had zero idea that the media could get good pictures under these conditions and thought they could bash with impugnity.
The cameras themselves were actually very cool - image orthicon tubes with a rotating color wheel to get color images.
First of all, it's Yeast and not bacteria. (I'm a homebrewer going commercial)
Yeast will at best get a corn mash up to about 20% ABV (Alcohol by Volume) To get this any higher, you need to distill it which requires lots and lots of heat (look up the specific heat of water and remember that 80% of your mother liquor is water).
In addition to the alcohol, there are lots of other chemicals - I don't know but I would be pretty sure that some of them would need to be removed or they would corrupt the chemical reactions. I would not be surprised if this reactor didn't require a pretty pure ethanol.
Finally, given the poor efficiency of fuel-cells, you might be better off just burning the ethanol in a micro-turbine. These will run on anything and have nice numbers.
Photophores originated from colonies of phosphorent bacteria that were living in the fish. This eventually evolved into a differentiated tissue that was light-emitting.
The optical mechanism of these photophores can be quite complex too - it is expensive (metabolically) to turn the light on and off so iris-like shutters have evolved for some species...
Too expensive and hard to do.
You need ASICs, surface mount and lots of pure unobtanium.
Rackmount is a different story altogether but portable is over the top. You would be better off with a decent laptop and PCMCIA sound card.
Some of the replies are pointing to high-end (sub-micron) filter systems. This is great if you are dealing with pollen in a small room but they don't do well with the larger chunks.
I use something similar for woodworking and have little dust problem in the rest of the house. A bit noisey but you said that this was a lab so that is do-able.
He suggests that you type "request catalog name address city state zip" into Google whereupon Google will kick back some 250,000 pages with online web forms to fill out.
Google now kicks back one hit - the article itself...
You really have to strip your search down before it starts returning anything.
Bad news:
Being a corporation sets you up for a lot more paperwork and hassles
Good news:
If you have a client who thinks you screwed up or somehow cost them $$$, they can sue the corporation but they cannot touch your assets... They can take all of your business stuff but none of your personal stuff (cars, toys, house, etc... ) All it takes is one litigious a-hole to ruin your whole life.
Go with the corporation.
re MAC v/s Win for photo applications. Check out:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp? cid=7-4869-4882
Rob Galbraith runs an excellent site for digital photographers. In January 2002, he ran some real-life photo benchmarks with two high-end systems and two older systems.
In most cases the Wintel system smoked the MAC.
Excellent reading...
Start the class wearing a large band-aid on your knuckle. When it comes time for the demo, leave the room shortly ( to get the Liquid N2 ). Bend your finger and use another band-aid to tape on a small cocktail wiener at the end. Dip the end of your "finger" into the beaker of LN2 and hit it with a hammer. Especially good if bots of it spray out into the classroom...
These were originally fairly rare but are now a sideline of blue LED manufacture (high geek-quotient). Little bit softer than diamond but higher index of refraction ( more sparkle ) and much much cheaper...
points to an article regarding MS's implementation of RFC2617 for digest access authentication for web access - upshot is IIS and IE play together nice but IE and Apache / IIS and Mozilla, Opera, Navigator don't...
Although... If they have enough light in the theater for you to be able to eat your dinner, it must not be as dark as a "regular" theater so the LCD displays would not be as annoying.
YMMV
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RE: Item 1: The microwave-linked minicam The issue here was not the microwave link. The issue was the low-light-level capability of the cameras. The cops had zero idea that the media could get good pictures under these conditions and thought they could bash with impugnity. The cameras themselves were actually very cool - image orthicon tubes with a rotating color wheel to get color images.
First of all, it's Yeast and not bacteria.
(I'm a homebrewer going commercial)
Yeast will at best get a corn mash up to about 20% ABV (Alcohol by Volume) To get this any higher, you need to distill it which requires lots and lots of heat (look up the specific heat of water and remember that 80% of your mother liquor is water).
In addition to the alcohol, there are lots of other chemicals - I don't know but I would be pretty sure that some of them would need to be removed or they would corrupt the chemical reactions. I would not be surprised if this reactor didn't require a pretty pure ethanol.
Finally, given the poor efficiency of fuel-cells, you might be better off just burning the ethanol in a micro-turbine. These will run on anything and have nice numbers.
You could do something in the distribution box that causes a fire at a later date.
The insurance company will investigate and if they see unliscenced wiring, they may deny coverage.
I have them too and they are great. Whenever they do have to put you on hold, their music is awesome...
Photophores originated from colonies of phosphorent bacteria that were living in the fish. This eventually evolved into a differentiated tissue that was light-emitting.
The optical mechanism of these photophores can be quite complex too - it is expensive (metabolically) to turn the light on and off so iris-like shutters have evolved for some species...
Too expensive and hard to do.
You need ASICs, surface mount and lots of pure unobtanium.
Rackmount is a different story altogether but portable is over the top. You would be better off with a decent laptop and PCMCIA sound card.
Some of the replies are pointing to high-end (sub-micron) filter systems. This is great if you are dealing with pollen in a small room but they don't do well with the larger chunks.
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For this, how about one of these:
http://www.grizzly.com/products/item.cfm?itemnumb
I use something similar for woodworking and have little dust problem in the rest of the house. A bit noisey but you said that this was a lab so that is do-able.
DOH!
You are correct Sir
He suggests that you type "request catalog name address city state zip" into Google whereupon Google will kick back some 250,000 pages with online web forms to fill out.
Google now kicks back one hit - the article itself...
You really have to strip your search down before it starts returning anything.
Good news: If you have a client who thinks you screwed up or somehow cost them $$$, they can sue the corporation but they cannot touch your assets... They can take all of your business stuff but none of your personal stuff (cars, toys, house, etc... ) All it takes is one litigious a-hole to ruin your whole life. Go with the corporation.
re MAC v/s Win for photo applications. Check out:? cid=7-4869-4882
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp
Rob Galbraith runs an excellent site for digital photographers. In January 2002, he ran some real-life photo benchmarks with two high-end systems and two older systems. In most cases the Wintel system smoked the MAC. Excellent reading...
Common in the electronic music community - very fun stuff... Google for "circuit bending" and check out some of the sites.
Start the class wearing a large band-aid on your knuckle. When it comes time for the demo, leave the room shortly ( to get the Liquid N2 ). Bend your finger and use another band-aid to tape on a small cocktail wiener at the end. Dip the end of your "finger" into the beaker of LN2 and hit it with a hammer. Especially good if bots of it spray out into the classroom...
http://www.moissanitejewelry.com/
These were originally fairly rare but are now a sideline of blue LED manufacture (high geek-quotient). Little bit softer than diamond but higher index of refraction ( more sparkle ) and much much cheaper...
You could probably get away with it but heaven help you if you crash the tea cart into it - start with a small stress and bye bye...
points to an article regarding MS's implementation of RFC2617 for digest access authentication for web access - upshot is IIS and IE play together nice but IE and Apache / IIS and Mozilla, Opera, Navigator don't...
http://www.petemoss.com/spamflames/experiences.htm l
http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PCOM/PCG-C1VR X/
comes complete with built-in video camcorder.
Although... If they have enough light in the theater for you to be able to eat your dinner, it must not be as dark as a "regular" theater so the LCD displays would not be as annoying. YMMV