Well, here's one theory. They left for almost two thousand years and then came back claiming the right to take it away from the then current residents because "God promised it to us".
The alien Nazi episodes would have been a lot better if they'd spent about a year exploring the concept of an alternate 1940s reality. And the P-51s were really cool ('course since my dad flew them I might be a trifle biased).
Was Tripods the Australian series where everybody had bowling ball style holes in their heads? The NC PBS chain showed just enough of it to attract my attention and then shoved it into the memory hole.
The Texas Instruments product the OP linked to is not a series pass regulator, it is a pulse width modulator, although he didn't seem to understand the proper use of it, either, as PWMs aren't designed for AC input.
Pulse width modulators have to be fed DC so the diode bridge and some of the filtering would have to come first. However, this would still result in a power supply without transformer isolation, a thoroughly dangerous situation from both a shock and fire hazard standpoint (and using the gear with this supply instead of the one supplied by the manufacturer or at least a similar replacement may lead to a denied insurance claim if you start a fire or electrocute somebody).
"I wouldn't count on the cheap electrolytic capacitors in your wall warts lasting for decades."
If it's an AC to AC wall wart, then it's probably nothing more than a step-down transformer. If it's AC to DC then they probably just added a diode or two. If you open up the piece of gear to be powered you'll probably find the filter caps (such as they are)in there (and maybe even a 7805-type regulator).
I think it's actually looking at the teeth to determine the horse's age (which, admittedly, has some bearing on the horse's health). The older the horse, the more the gums have receded, revealing more of the length of the teeth. That's why the phrase "a little long in the tooth" means old or aging. The teeth aren't really any longer than they always were, it's just that more of the length is showing.
Am I the only one who expected "Legend of the Rangers" to be about the original Rangers (started, if I recall correctly, by the first captain after he went back in time) only to discover myself watching "90210 in Space"?
But how much would Microsoft have to spend to make all of those $5 payments. Postage, office workers to examine the claims to see if they're legitimate or not, etc. Enough angry customers actually could nickle and dime MS to death even if each customer only got a penny.
Trying the links for either the story or the comment gets me a page that just says:
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Snarky little bastards, ain't they?
And no, this isn't the first time a story has been "disappeared" like a South American political protester, i.e., with little trace and even less explanation.
Yes, I know you asked for an "unattended" solution, but I'm sure that your university is already paying lots of money to run a library where people can go to check out other stuff, so make your stuff part of what people can check out at the library, provided, of course, that they can prove to the library staff that they are authorized to check out these items. Transfer a small amount of your department's budget to the library to cover their extra expense and it'll probably be by far the cheapest way to go and you get to take credit for saving them a lot of money.
The really freaky thing about that Computerworld article is that she was webmaster for the Clinton Whitehouse *and* involved in a controversy then. How did she get that job with the Democrats and then survive the Republican takeover of the executive branch? Does she have some serious dirt on both parties?
"To do the opposite and use an analogue device to store digital data makes no lgical sence."
Perhaps there are circumstances under which it makes economic sense. The first IBM PC had jacks for cassette input/output because cassette mechanisms were a lot cheaper than disk drives of any type.
Actually, using tape for digital storage was old hat even then. Somewhere around here I've got an old tube type reel to reel (complete with NSA instructions on how to destroy it if under enemy attack) that can do either analog or digital (or at least it could way back when it worked).
The crawl on the bottom of the TV screen said that Thompson apparently committed suicide*, wonder if it was due to despondency over hearing of the death of Sandra Dee**?
*(of course, with his history of drug use and playing with firearms there's every excellent chance that his death, if self-inflicted, wasn't intentional)
**(the conspiracy minded will no doubt find her death suspiciously close to the release of that new Bobby Darin bio pic)
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Well, here's one theory. They left for almost two thousand years and then came back claiming the right to take it away from the then current residents because "God promised it to us".
(The Newhart ending wasn't plagarism, it was satire, some of the best satire ever)
Windows users by and large are unaware that there are any other PC operating systems.
The alien Nazi episodes would have been a lot better if they'd spent about a year exploring the concept of an alternate 1940s reality. And the P-51s were really cool ('course since my dad flew them I might be a trifle biased).
Was Tripods the Australian series where everybody had bowling ball style holes in their heads? The NC PBS chain showed just enough of it to attract my attention and then shoved it into the memory hole.
As I point out elsewhere the TI device the OP linked to is a pulse width modulator, not a linear, i.e., series pass, regulator.
The Texas Instruments product the OP linked to is not a series pass regulator, it is a pulse width modulator, although he didn't seem to understand the proper use of it, either, as PWMs aren't designed for AC input.
Pulse width modulators have to be fed DC so the diode bridge and some of the filtering would have to come first. However, this would still result in a power supply without transformer isolation, a thoroughly dangerous situation from both a shock and fire hazard standpoint (and using the gear with this supply instead of the one supplied by the manufacturer or at least a similar replacement may lead to a denied insurance claim if you start a fire or electrocute somebody).
If it's an AC to AC wall wart, then it's probably nothing more than a step-down transformer. If it's AC to DC then they probably just added a diode or two. If you open up the piece of gear to be powered you'll probably find the filter caps (such as they are)in there (and maybe even a 7805-type regulator).
I think it's actually looking at the teeth to determine the horse's age (which, admittedly, has some bearing on the horse's health). The older the horse, the more the gums have receded, revealing more of the length of the teeth. That's why the phrase "a little long in the tooth" means old or aging. The teeth aren't really any longer than they always were, it's just that more of the length is showing.
Are you sure it's the Patriot Act and not the somewhat older "Know Your Customer Act"?
Can you provide any references to proof of that?
Sounds a little like the "suicide" of Florida DOT investigator Ray C. Lemme. Would you happen to recall the name of that Oklahoma City officer?
Am I the only one who expected "Legend of the Rangers" to be about the original Rangers (started, if I recall correctly, by the first captain after he went back in time) only to discover myself watching "90210 in Space"?
Hey, if it works for cell phones...)
But how much would Microsoft have to spend to make all of those $5 payments. Postage, office workers to examine the claims to see if they're legitimate or not, etc. Enough angry customers actually could nickle and dime MS to death even if each customer only got a penny.
You don't, but Bill does.
Snarky little bastards, ain't they?
And no, this isn't the first time a story has been "disappeared" like a South American political protester, i.e., with little trace and even less explanation.
So buy two of the 200s instead of one 400?
Yes, I know you asked for an "unattended" solution, but I'm sure that your university is already paying lots of money to run a library where people can go to check out other stuff, so make your stuff part of what people can check out at the library, provided, of course, that they can prove to the library staff that they are authorized to check out these items. Transfer a small amount of your department's budget to the library to cover their extra expense and it'll probably be by far the cheapest way to go and you get to take credit for saving them a lot of money.
Or enough of the wrong ones, either. :-)
Anyone's in particular?
The really freaky thing about that Computerworld article is that she was webmaster for the Clinton Whitehouse *and* involved in a controversy then. How did she get that job with the Democrats and then survive the Republican takeover of the executive branch? Does she have some serious dirt on both parties?
Perhaps there are circumstances under which it makes economic sense. The first IBM PC had jacks for cassette input/output because cassette mechanisms were a lot cheaper than disk drives of any type.
Actually, using tape for digital storage was old hat even then. Somewhere around here I've got an old tube type reel to reel (complete with NSA instructions on how to destroy it if under enemy attack) that can do either analog or digital (or at least it could way back when it worked).
*(of course, with his history of drug use and playing with firearms there's every excellent chance that his death, if self-inflicted, wasn't intentional)
**(the conspiracy minded will no doubt find her death suspiciously close to the release of that new Bobby Darin bio pic)