Nothing against Red Dwarf (wish the NC PBS chain was still carrying it) but what I'm thinking of is a story I read some 40 or so years ago, although a post farther down the page has me thinking that it might have been Heinlein instead of Asimov or Clarke.
Actually Veronica Mars ain't all that bad, so I guess it'll be the next UPN series to bite the dust. It's kind of funny to hear Enterprise's viewership referred to as only 2.5 million when UPN's average is only 2.7 million.
"The TOS ship was just a bunch of boxy chairs and some LED's..."
LEDs? More likely incandescent bulbs behind diffusers. LEDs were expensive, low power, and available in any color you wanted as long as it was red back then.
"Consider a coke logo that can be seen across states."
The first thing I thought of upon seeing "First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads" was a short story by by either Asimov or Clarke about an astronaut bribed to to do something that created a permanent discoloration on the surface of the moon that was an ad for either Coke or Pepsi. In the story they were only identified as the drink in the wasp-waisted bottle and its main competitor.
In what part of the country are you? (I could use an O-scope)
Do some searching on eBay to get an idea of the value of the various items you have. Are there any TV repair shops in your area? See if they have any interest in any of what you have. A community college nearby with an electronics repair curriculum? See if they can use any of the stuff and if you can get a tax write-off for a donation. Look for online companies that sell old schematics and service manuals. See if they want to buy any documentation you have (apart from owner's manuals for the test equipment which should stay with the equipment).
Your definition of reactance is correct, capacitive reactance decreases with frequency and inductive reactance increases with frequency. Any conductor has some capacitance and some inductance. It also has some non-frequency dependent resistance. The combination of the net reactance (the bigger minus the smaller) is combined to the resistance (at right angles, the hypotenuse is the answer) to determine the impedence at a particular frequency. If you change the frequency you have to do the math all over again.
Stupid means lacking in intelligence. Dumb does not mean lacking in intelligence, it means mute, i.e., incapable of speech. Not knowing this is not an indication of a lack of intelligence but of ignorance.
Were you cutting metal(what kind results in black dust?) or plastic (in which case wouldn't a hotknife --x-acto blade in a soldering iron-- have worked better?)?
"...what would be the best way to dispose of such a massive volume of popcorn?..."
"...small single-story building..." implies house implies yard implies lawn. Compost whatever the birds don't eat and use it for topdressing.
Of course if it rains heavily right after the building is popcorn entombed it will probably be necessary to move to a motel and contact the EPA Superfund people.
I agree that option 2 isn't a dealbreaker. In most cases I'd want to download an episode I'd missed (or one that the local UPN affiliate screwed up with audio and/or video dropouts/freezes, etc.)
"I wonder how the audience in Vietnam would feel if they see William Shatner being dubbed to speak Vietnamese?"
Does the Vietnamese language even have a direct equivalent for
"Denny Crane"
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An excellent idea, the more you mass produce them, the cheaper each one is to make. And while they're at it, make all the hardware open source as well and extremely hackable and upgradeable. Let it spawn a huge aftermarket add-on industry, as the original IBM PC did.
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Did your friend get a call from the Bureau of the Census or from someone claiming to be with the Bureau of the Census?
Nothing against Red Dwarf (wish the NC PBS chain was still carrying it) but what I'm thinking of is a story I read some 40 or so years ago, although a post farther down the page has me thinking that it might have been Heinlein instead of Asimov or Clarke.
Actually Veronica Mars ain't all that bad, so I guess it'll be the next UPN series to bite the dust. It's kind of funny to hear Enterprise's viewership referred to as only 2.5 million when UPN's average is only 2.7 million.
LEDs? More likely incandescent bulbs behind diffusers. LEDs were expensive, low power, and available in any color you wanted as long as it was red back then.
It couldn't succeed from Earth, it had to go to outer space.
The first thing I thought of upon seeing "First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads" was a short story by by either Asimov or Clarke about an astronaut bribed to to do something that created a permanent discoloration on the surface of the moon that was an ad for either Coke or Pepsi. In the story they were only identified as the drink in the wasp-waisted bottle and its main competitor.
But that other meaning only arose as the result of the stereotyping of the deaf and/or mute as stupid.
Do some searching on eBay to get an idea of the value of the various items you have. Are there any TV repair shops in your area? See if they have any interest in any of what you have. A community college nearby with an electronics repair curriculum? See if they can use any of the stuff and if you can get a tax write-off for a donation. Look for online companies that sell old schematics and service manuals. See if they want to buy any documentation you have (apart from owner's manuals for the test equipment which should stay with the equipment).
Your definition of reactance is correct, capacitive reactance decreases with frequency and inductive reactance increases with frequency. Any conductor has some capacitance and some inductance. It also has some non-frequency dependent resistance. The combination of the net reactance (the bigger minus the smaller) is combined to the resistance (at right angles, the hypotenuse is the answer) to determine the impedence at a particular frequency. If you change the frequency you have to do the math all over again.
Are you talking about the sound of recorded music or the sound from television shows? 'Cause the sound on TV shows these days is horrible.
Assuming, of course, you were fortunate enough to get a BX board without capacitor disease.
Then why are you posting to an article
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If your vocal cords were suddenly paralyzed, would that reduce your intelligence? Would you feel insulted if everyone assumed that it had?
Stupid means lacking in intelligence. Dumb does not mean lacking in intelligence, it means mute, i.e., incapable of speech. Not knowing this is not an indication of a lack of intelligence but of ignorance.
How would those of us with the other half do?
Were you cutting metal(what kind results in black dust?) or plastic (in which case wouldn't a hotknife --x-acto blade in a soldering iron-- have worked better?)?
That does meet the 8 character requirement but not the alphanumeric one so you should change it to p455w0rd to be totally secure.
"...small single-story building..." implies house implies yard implies lawn. Compost whatever the birds don't eat and use it for topdressing.
Of course if it rains heavily right after the building is popcorn entombed it will probably be necessary to move to a motel and contact the EPA Superfund people.
I agree that option 2 isn't a dealbreaker. In most cases I'd want to download an episode I'd missed (or one that the local UPN affiliate screwed up with audio and/or video dropouts/freezes, etc.)
Especially the one where she's standing on deck the first night out in that filmy white somewhat backlit dress. Hubba hubba.
If you want immature, frivolous, vulgar comments, you should have clicked on one of the serious important stories.
It'll never work, ask any magazine or newspaper publisher.
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Does the Vietnamese language even have a direct equivalent for
?An excellent idea, the more you mass produce them, the cheaper each one is to make. And while they're at it, make all the hardware open source as well and extremely hackable and upgradeable. Let it spawn a huge aftermarket add-on industry, as the original IBM PC did.
Funny, I was sure it was greedy, cynical outsiders trying to exploit them and steal their land and resources.