Switching power supplies *do* have transformers. They are necessary as isolation devices. The difference is that instead of a large transformer that steps down the 120 Volt 60 Hz AC to a lower voltage 60 Hz AC and then feeds it to some diodes to change it to DC, switching power supplies feed the incoming 120 Volt 60 Hz AC directly to the diodes to change it to DC which is then converted into a direct current that varies in voltage (sort of an alternating current that doesn't "alternate", that is, that never crosses the zero line into the opposite polarity), but those variations are at a much, much higher frequency than 60 Hz, which means they can be imposed on the primary winding of a much smaller, lighter weight transformer (this is why aircraft alternators produce 400 Hz current for rectifying into DC, to save space and weight). This is where the isolation from the wall socket is performed.
What I don't want is to hear any more commercials with the words dot com in them ever again. Come to think of it I'd rather never hear the phrase ever again under any circumstances.
Here's the way the above post would have looked if the letters in the tags had been capitalized
We are an active participant in many of the standards bodies and have been leading the charge in promoting the use of XML, SOAP and other standards for our.NET initiative.
Well, a cursory glance at Dave Winer's Scripting News might suggest otherwise. One of the leading exponents of SOAP, and of cross-platform interoperablity, talking fairly frankly about how he's had his fingers burned by "embrace, extend, exclude".
"...power companies fall down and bleed about how much money they're losing, while their parent companies score record profits."
A month or two ago Molly Ivans had a column about all this that told how the California utilities sold off all their generating facilities under this alleged de-regulation plan, so that now Pacific Gas & Electric --that is the company that actually sells the electricity to the consumer -- is paying out the wazoo for electricity that it buys wholesale and sells retail and crying to everybody that will listen about how it's suffering and loosing money, hoping for the state to bail them out, but meanwhile PG&E's parent company, which owns generating facilities, is raking it in hand over fist, charging their own subsidiary whatever they can get away with.
I haven't seen any mention of this aspect of California's de-regulation problem mentioned or published anywhere else.
Apparently the plan is to move all of the actual assets out of the publicly visible part of the company and get the taxpayers to bail it out while the PG&E stockholders watch their investment shrivel up to a worthless husk as the parent company uses those assets to keep on making money.
She closed the column with a quote from someone whose name escapes me at the moment, but the essence of his remarks was that they were finding a way to socialize losses and privatize profits.
Too bad Molly was out sick with breast cancer during George W.'s campaign. Having covered Texas politics for years, including his term as governor, she could have turned out some great columns about him last year that might even have made a difference in the outcome.
"...what difference does it make if they put an advertisement on the screen? "
The difference is that the show that you're watching doesn't have a commercial in the middle of whatever scene you paused it in the middle of. In effect, they are lying to you. Not to mention putting something on your television screen without your permission that you didn't ask for.
"...the users, who must of necessity tie to the TV logs to use the device..."
We need some sort of universal television listings data base protocol usable by any brand of "hard drive as VCR"-type device that contains the television listings and only the television listings. Any machine that has to be hooked up to a phone line and allowed to make any calls that it wants to and hold any kind of "conversation" that it wants to without you having any say in the matter or else it doesn't work, well you don't really own that machine, you've just licensed its "boat anchor" functionality. I just hope that automobiles don't turn into "transportation subscription delivery devices".
Unfortunately the phrase "Microsoft Quality Hardware" sounds too much like a marketing slogan and would likely be misinterpreted by the average person to mean hardware manufactured by Microsoft to the same high standards as so many have been fooled into thinking that Microsoft has achieved in their software (in what can only be a triumph of advertising over user experience), especially since for the most part hardware that Microsoft has put its name on seems to be of the quality that many of us really wish that their software would have achieved as long as circumstances conspire to make its use unavoidable.
I knew what BUFF meant (Haven't been to Goldsboro for some time but I've read a couple of Dale Brown books), I just don't understand why people find them so unattractive, I think they look pretty good (for a bomber*), or at least they did "back in the day"
*Of course fighters like the P-51 my dad flew can't help but outshine bombers in the looks department.
Well, somebody moderated the post that suggested pouring oil into troubled waters as "insightful", so apparently there's a least one person out there who needs to have the flaws in that plan pointed out to them.
Recognizing that someone else didn't get a joke is not the same as not getting it yourself.
As far as social situations are concerned I'm sure I handle them as least as well as someone so easily provoked as you seem to be to an entirely disproportionate amount of anger over trivial matters .
Just wanted to applaud the subtlety of your wit, anticipating that not only would Slashdot make the mistake of saying "different than" instead of "different from", but that they would also make the mistake of using "then" rather than "than".
Apparently whatever code hands out moderator privileges has a branch for April 1st that invokes the "clueless moderator database".
The oil won't lubricate the earth-water interface because the oil will spread out on top of the water into a thin enough film that it'll float instead of sinking down to the ocean floor.
Interference between two frequncies creates a third and fourth frequency, the sum and the difference. This is what allows radio and television tuners to use a variable local oscillator to create a signal at the fixed frequency for which the intermediate frequency amplifier chain is tuned. To learn more, look up hetrodyning.
Could you explain what you mean by "uncapping" a cable "modem", and do you happen to know what frequencies, and how much bandwidth, they use? Does the cable company grab a 6 Mhz slot that they don't have a channel on and use that, or what?
Cathode Ray Tubes need a minimum of one electron gun or else you don't get a cathode ray (which is a bunch of electrons boiling off of a hot--temperature wise--cathode and racing towards the front of the picture tube--the screen--because that's where the anode--which is several thousand Volts more positively charged than the cathode--is).
Monochrome monitors and black and white televisons have only one electron gun and the phosphor at the front of the tube that gives off light when struck by those speeding electrons is all of the same type.
A color television or color monitor has three electron guns and three different phosphors are used, one for red, one for green, and one for blue.
In most CRTs the guns are arranged triangularly and the little dots of red, green, and blue phosphor are also arranged on the screen in triangles. Some CRTs stack the guns and the phosphor triads vertically.
If you were implying that the person to whom you were replying was using a monochrome monitor, then never mind, except that creating a system that uses 3 or more different colors of phosphor but only one electron gun to light them up would be hideously difficult and horribly expensive.
No matter how nice the people who work there might be, Microsoft probably won't ever touch any GPL'ed code for strictly selfish reasons, because they don't want to incur the least little bit of risk of getting into a court case where anybody outside of the company gets so much as a peek at any of their code for fear of the creation of a precedent. Once they allow any outsider to get a look at any of their code, it'll be easier and easier for other outsiders to come up with reasons that a court will go along with why they should be allowed access to that code.
Another reason is that if it would become public knowledge that they actually used the stuff they have been bad-mouthing, and that they thought it worth breaking the law to do so, it would be such a public relations nightmare that they dare not risk even the smallest chance of it happening. If you think the government's already in a good position to do to them now what they've been doing to customers for years, imagine the extra leverage to be gained if the federal courts caught them plagarizing outside code.
Never understood why they call the 52 a buff, I always thought they looked pretty cool (at least in flight).
First saw 'em in the late 50's or so when my dad took us aboard Seymour Johnson one summer when he was reserve training. I admit they're a little strange looking when parked, with the wings looking like something out of a Salvador Dali painting.
C-130's must be smaller than I thought, or carriers bigger.
Would those be churches practicing Unix to Unix protocol? Seems appropriate. The old fashioned way was over a ham radio link, but that was before spam deluged every known form of communication.
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Switching power supplies *do* have transformers. They are necessary as isolation devices. The difference is that instead of a large transformer that steps down the 120 Volt 60 Hz AC to a lower voltage 60 Hz AC and then feeds it to some diodes to change it to DC, switching power supplies feed the incoming 120 Volt 60 Hz AC directly to the diodes to change it to DC which is then converted into a direct current that varies in voltage (sort of an alternating current that doesn't "alternate", that is, that never crosses the zero line into the opposite polarity), but those variations are at a much, much higher frequency than 60 Hz, which means they can be imposed on the primary winding of a much smaller, lighter weight transformer (this is why aircraft alternators produce 400 Hz current for rectifying into DC, to save space and weight). This is where the isolation from the wall socket is performed.
What I don't want is to hear any more commercials with the words dot com in them ever again. Come to think of it I'd rather never hear the phrase ever again under any circumstances.
You mean I have to learn binary *and* hex?!?
Wasn't that a law that PG&E lobbied for? Or at least the people who wound up owning the parent company lobbied for?
We are an active participant in many of the standards bodies and have been leading the charge in promoting the use of XML, SOAP and other standards for our .NET initiative.
Well, a cursory glance at Dave Winer's Scripting News might suggest otherwise. One of the leading exponents of SOAP, and of cross-platform interoperablity, talking fairly frankly about how he's had his fingers burned by "embrace, extend, exclude".
I guess it's just a Slashdot thing.
A month or two ago Molly Ivans had a column about all this that told how the California utilities sold off all their generating facilities under this alleged de-regulation plan, so that now Pacific Gas & Electric --that is the company that actually sells the electricity to the consumer -- is paying out the wazoo for electricity that it buys wholesale and sells retail and crying to everybody that will listen about how it's suffering and loosing money, hoping for the state to bail them out, but meanwhile PG&E's parent company, which owns generating facilities, is raking it in hand over fist, charging their own subsidiary whatever they can get away with.
I haven't seen any mention of this aspect of California's de-regulation problem mentioned or published anywhere else.
Apparently the plan is to move all of the actual assets out of the publicly visible part of the company and get the taxpayers to bail it out while the PG&E stockholders watch their investment shrivel up to a worthless husk as the parent company uses those assets to keep on making money.
She closed the column with a quote from someone whose name escapes me at the moment, but the essence of his remarks was that they were finding a way to socialize losses and privatize profits.
Too bad Molly was out sick with breast cancer during George W.'s campaign. Having covered Texas politics for years, including his term as governor, she could have turned out some great columns about him last year that might even have made a difference in the outcome.
The difference is that the show that you're watching doesn't have a commercial in the middle of whatever scene you paused it in the middle of. In effect, they are lying to you. Not to mention putting something on your television screen without your permission that you didn't ask for.
We need some sort of universal television listings data base protocol usable by any brand of "hard drive as VCR"-type device that contains the television listings and only the television listings. Any machine that has to be hooked up to a phone line and allowed to make any calls that it wants to and hold any kind of "conversation" that it wants to without you having any say in the matter or else it doesn't work, well you don't really own that machine, you've just licensed its "boat anchor" functionality. I just hope that automobiles don't turn into "transportation subscription delivery devices".
Unfortunately the phrase "Microsoft Quality Hardware" sounds too much like a marketing slogan and would likely be misinterpreted by the average person to mean hardware manufactured by Microsoft to the same high standards as so many have been fooled into thinking that Microsoft has achieved in their software (in what can only be a triumph of advertising over user experience), especially since for the most part hardware that Microsoft has put its name on seems to be of the quality that many of us really wish that their software would have achieved as long as circumstances conspire to make its use unavoidable.
*Of course fighters like the P-51 my dad flew can't help but outshine bombers in the looks department.
Recognizing that someone else didn't get a joke is not the same as not getting it yourself.
As far as social situations are concerned I'm sure I handle them as least as well as someone so easily provoked as you seem to be to an entirely disproportionate amount of anger over trivial matters .
Just wanted to applaud the subtlety of your wit, anticipating that not only would Slashdot make the mistake of saying "different than" instead of "different from", but that they would also make the mistake of using "then" rather than "than".
The oil won't lubricate the earth-water interface because the oil will spread out on top of the water into a thin enough film that it'll float instead of sinking down to the ocean floor.
You are so right about plug and pray. It's like welding the hood shut.
No doubt officials in Sacramento will be pleased to let the federal government take the fall for what California did to itself.
His alter ego, Mr Jekyl, however, is just no fun at all.
The best part is when you click on customer service and go to the NewHew SquantView Troubleshooting Guide. Especially if you're a BOFH fan.
Interference between two frequncies creates a third and fourth frequency, the sum and the difference. This is what allows radio and television tuners to use a variable local oscillator to create a signal at the fixed frequency for which the intermediate frequency amplifier chain is tuned. To learn more, look up hetrodyning.
Could you explain what you mean by "uncapping" a cable "modem", and do you happen to know what frequencies, and how much bandwidth, they use? Does the cable company grab a 6 Mhz slot that they don't have a channel on and use that, or what?
Monochrome monitors and black and white televisons have only one electron gun and the phosphor at the front of the tube that gives off light when struck by those speeding electrons is all of the same type.
A color television or color monitor has three electron guns and three different phosphors are used, one for red, one for green, and one for blue.
In most CRTs the guns are arranged triangularly and the little dots of red, green, and blue phosphor are also arranged on the screen in triangles. Some CRTs stack the guns and the phosphor triads vertically.
If you were implying that the person to whom you were replying was using a monochrome monitor, then never mind, except that creating a system that uses 3 or more different colors of phosphor but only one electron gun to light them up would be hideously difficult and horribly expensive.
Another reason is that if it would become public knowledge that they actually used the stuff they have been bad-mouthing, and that they thought it worth breaking the law to do so, it would be such a public relations nightmare that they dare not risk even the smallest chance of it happening. If you think the government's already in a good position to do to them now what they've been doing to customers for years, imagine the extra leverage to be gained if the federal courts caught them plagarizing outside code.
First saw 'em in the late 50's or so when my dad took us aboard Seymour Johnson one summer when he was reserve training. I admit they're a little strange looking when parked, with the wings looking like something out of a Salvador Dali painting.
C-130's must be smaller than I thought, or carriers bigger.
Now there's an idea. In the event of war, send Katz to report from wherever the fighting is the fiercest and the lead's a-flyin' :-)
It's supposed to be a form of punishment, remember.
Would those be churches practicing Unix to Unix protocol? Seems appropriate. The old fashioned way was over a ham radio link, but that was before spam deluged every known form of communication.