Do you mean "cords", as in insulated wires? Are you talking about reducing the number of conductors needed in a cable assembly?
If so, you should be saying "fewer", as they are discrete, countable units. A fraction of a cord would be, usability-wise, the equivalent of no cord, or, if not perceived to actually be less than an entire, functional cord, could have a negative utility factor (thanks, 4th Doctor), i.e., be worse than useless.
If you have 4 cups, each filled with water, in front of you, and someone takes one of the cups away (including its contents), you now have fewer cups and less water in front of you.
So just say "fewer" every time, unless it sounds stupid (fewer water), and then use "less" instead.
... or whenever it was that the leftwing nutjobs at the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back (and ruin it).
You might see what my childhood was like - an all white country, where London wasn't a third world city, and we can't have that, can we.
White people have the right to have their own countries.
And if they'd stayed there and not colonized/oppressed/exploited the lands of the darker/more colorful/less pale peoples, those peoples wouldn't have wound up following them home, and they'd still have the whole place to themselves.
Although there tends to be a Dr. Who bias whereby whichever Doctor you see first is your favorite Doctor (similar to one's first James Bond), my personal favorites are Tom Baker (#4) and David Tennant (#10).
So Baker is your favorite Doctor Who and Tennant is, at some point in the future where you've apparently already been, going to be your favorite James Bond as soon as they get rid of that Daniel Craig guy and the next three actors after him? : - )
If you hook up AC sources in parallel, which is what a grid does, then a frequency difference would have the two fighting each other part of the time.
Superimpose a graph of a 50 Hz sine wave and a graph of a 60 Hz sine wave. Take note of where one is going down while the other is going up. That's not good when you're trying to re-enforce one power source with another, and who knows what kind of sum or difference frequency (heterodyning) currents will wind up causing who knows what kind of problems.
Transformers are designed for particular frequencies, and aren't very happy or efficient with anything outside of spec.
The higher the frequency the less metal you have to use in them by the way. Aircraft have been set up to use 400Hz AC for years, to enable lighter transformers. Switch-mode power supplies in computers and now in home entertainment equipment are smaller than the old "big heavy transformer feeding a rectifier assembly followed by big capacitors and maybe a big choke coil as well" type. The switch mode supplies rectify the incoming AC first, then chop the resulting high voltage DC at a much higher frequency so as to be able to use a much smaller transformer.
That was back when Time was much more intellectually honest about that process and standard.
Osama bin Laden was not Man of the Year for 2001 because they didn't have the courage to go through the firestorm of having to explain every 0.00005 seconds that it's recognition of impact, for good or ill, not necessarily an honor or endorsement.
And then there was the scene in "Diamonds Are Forever" where the wrong audio cassette (which had been temporarily parked in Jill St.John's bikini bottom, no complaints about that scene) gets put into the villain's mainframe.
I know early "home" computers used cassettes, but this was big blinkenlites thing that should have had those vacuum chamber reel to reel tape drives.
Yeah, but once they got David McCallum on board it started getting good (no more accurate, but, as drama, better), so of course that was when Fox started dicking around with the scheduling and killed it off. That may have been the beginning of the Friday night graveyard.
I'm not going to read it, but would like a spoiler.
Han shoots first, Lando betrays them to the Empire, the wierd little creature on the swamp planet is actually a Jedi Master, Luke and Leia are brother and sister, and Darth Vader is their father.
And people who read a Harry Harrison story are glad they didn't choose not to.
I thought of that title, but it turns out that it isn't the title of the story of which I was thinking, I think.
In the one of which I'm thinking every kid has a teddy bear type toy, with an A I built in that's programmed to program the child as it grows up so that he or she grows up all well-adjusted psychologically. All of them (the children) are programmed not to be able to kill, except for one child, whose "toy" has had it's programming slightly altered for a purpose I won't reveal here as I've already probably spoiled the story for anyone who hasn't already read it, but I'm hoping someone who has can remind me of the story's title.
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On the bright side, it's happening to Time Warner.
Couldn't happen to a nicer cable company.
Of course if you're one of their victims, I mean, customers who wants to watch a show on a little-bitty screen, then it's also happening to you.
That wasn't a television company exec who said that, it was someone from Time-Warner Cable, and it wasn't a he.
Do you mean "cords", as in insulated wires? Are you talking about reducing the number of conductors needed in a cable assembly?
If so, you should be saying "fewer", as they are discrete, countable units. A fraction of a cord would be, usability-wise, the equivalent of no cord, or, if not perceived to actually be less than an entire, functional cord, could have a negative utility factor (thanks, 4th Doctor), i.e., be worse than useless.
If you have 4 cups, each filled with water, in front of you, and someone takes one of the cups away (including its contents), you now have fewer cups and less water in front of you.
So just say "fewer" every time, unless it sounds stupid (fewer water), and then use "less" instead.
What, no Mary Tamm?
... or whenever it was that the leftwing nutjobs at the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back (and ruin it).
You might see what my childhood was like - an all white country, where London wasn't a third world city, and we can't have that, can we.
White people have the right to have their own countries.
And if they'd stayed there and not colonized/oppressed/exploited the lands of the darker/more colorful/less pale peoples, those peoples wouldn't have wound up following them home, and they'd still have the whole place to themselves.
Although there tends to be a Dr. Who bias whereby whichever Doctor you see first is your favorite Doctor (similar to one's first James Bond), my personal favorites are Tom Baker (#4) and David Tennant (#10).
So Baker is your favorite Doctor Who and Tennant is, at some point in the future where you've apparently already been, going to be your favorite James Bond as soon as they get rid of that Daniel Craig guy and the next three actors after him? : - )
I'm a Doctor Who fan from way back - I watched the Jon Pertwee (third doctor) episodes when they were first broadcast in the 19070s...
Boy, now that's time travel!
And Star Trek was pitched as "Wagon Train" in space.
What's your point?
Too bad there's not a +1, Groan mod.
If you hook up AC sources in parallel, which is what a grid does, then a frequency difference would have the two fighting each other part of the time.
Superimpose a graph of a 50 Hz sine wave and a graph of a 60 Hz sine wave. Take note of where one is going down while the other is going up. That's not good when you're trying to re-enforce one power source with another, and who knows what kind of sum or difference frequency (heterodyning) currents will wind up causing who knows what kind of problems.
Transformers are designed for particular frequencies, and aren't very happy or efficient with anything outside of spec.
The higher the frequency the less metal you have to use in them by the way. Aircraft have been set up to use 400Hz AC for years, to enable lighter transformers. Switch-mode power supplies in computers and now in home entertainment equipment are smaller than the old "big heavy transformer feeding a rectifier assembly followed by big capacitors and maybe a big choke coil as well" type. The switch mode supplies rectify the incoming AC first, then chop the resulting high voltage DC at a much higher frequency so as to be able to use a much smaller transformer.
"You can't deny that paying hookers also stimulates the economy..."
Amongst other things.
That was back when Time was much more intellectually honest about that process and standard.
Osama bin Laden was not Man of the Year for 2001 because they didn't have the courage to go through the firestorm of having to explain every 0.00005 seconds that it's recognition of impact, for good or ill, not necessarily an honor or endorsement.
What kind of CD player is designed to do anything with what's on the cd other than run it through the D/A converters?
Even if it's supposed to read CD-ROMs to get map/navigating info, wouldn't it treat it all as data rather than instructions?
Well, here's a possible nominee for the rest of you to savage: The original version of "The Andromeda Strain"
Are you talking about Colossus:The Forbin Project?
With the guy who was the German officer on "Rat Patrol"?
I think there was actually a sequel made, which starred pretty much nobody.
And then there was the scene in "Diamonds Are Forever" where the wrong audio cassette (which had been temporarily parked in Jill St.John's bikini bottom, no complaints about that scene) gets put into the villain's mainframe.
I know early "home" computers used cassettes, but this was big blinkenlites thing that should have had those vacuum chamber reel to reel tape drives.
Gee, thanks, I'd managed to not remember that (insert "exact opposite of most superlative superlative ever" here), but now....
Yeah, but once they got David McCallum on board it started getting good (no more accurate, but, as drama, better), so of course that was when Fox started dicking around with the scheduling and killed it off. That may have been the beginning of the Friday night graveyard.
Are you talking about that actual plastic thing with the squarish holes?
I think I've got one around here somewhere.
Get in touch. I'm at coastalnet and it's a dotseeohhemm
True. In the event of something happening that takes out both the Moon and the Earth, your data will be the least of your concerns.
Is that you speaking, Zarathustra?
I'm not going to read it, but would like a spoiler.
Han shoots first, Lando betrays them to the Empire, the wierd little creature on the swamp planet is actually a Jedi Master, Luke and Leia are brother and sister, and Darth Vader is their father.
And people who read a Harry Harrison story are glad they didn't choose not to.
I thought of that title, but it turns out that it isn't the title of the story of which I was thinking, I think.
In the one of which I'm thinking every kid has a teddy bear type toy, with an A I built in that's programmed to program the child as it grows up so that he or she grows up all well-adjusted psychologically. All of them (the children) are programmed not to be able to kill, except for one child, whose "toy" has had it's programming slightly altered for a purpose I won't reveal here as I've already probably spoiled the story for anyone who hasn't already read it, but I'm hoping someone who has can remind me of the story's title.
No, you need three foundations so you can have a trilogy.
I remember when I was too old to care for most of the music on MTV but they actually had a halfway decent sci-fi show (Dead at 21) for a little while.