And some of us don't need a calculator to figure out that 2 * 2 * 2 = 2.
And any calulator that multiplies 2 by itself and then multiplies the result by 2 and comes up with 2 as the answer is certainly a calculator which I don't need (except for entertainment value in limited situations).
Yes, according to the scientist I saw on C-SPAN doing the presentation of this report. He specifically said "Linux computers", although he did not use the phrase "Beowulf cluster".
In my case, I don't have the luxury of power near my antenna...
That's what phantom power is for. (Unless your description is misleading and what you meant was that the actual amplifier is at the antenna and the unit that provides power for the amp is at the other end of your co-ax run at your computer.)
It's almost always better to amplify and then travel down a long piece of wire than the reverse.
My dad used to play bluegrass banjo. He once told me he bought a record player with a 16rpm setting so he could slow down the harder sections and really hear what notes to hit.
The nice thing about the 16 rpm speed was that it was actually exactly half of the 33 rpm speed so that it played albums exactly one octave lower so that you don't have to re-tune to learn by ear.
You may only have 2 grams of tracking force but when you factor in the extremely small area of contact between the stylus sides and the groove walls it comes out to tons per square inch, so, yeah, the entire record isn't heated up enough to melt it, but the contact area on the two sides of the groove wall are deformed by heat. Vinyl has "memory", so after a while it'll return nearly to its original shape, but if you play it again too soon you wind up deforming the deformation and you exceed the vinyl's ability to recover.
Re:Illegally? (Score:-1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 03, @06:18PM (#24459891)
A "request" by a government official with a gun is an order. As such, they do need a warrant. Of course they need a warrant to conduct a search, which is what this is. What part of the fourth amendment do you not understand?
Since I just used up my mod points on the fossil pigment story before I saw this one, I'm guerilla modding it up.
I would have donated if it was non partisan. It's pretty obvious it's partisan as the group was formed to influence Obama.
Okay,what's your strategy for success in influencing McCain and the Republicans to put the legal smackdown on the telcos? Waterboarding? 'Cause you ain't gonna be able to outbribe them.
Those two Tivo modems were probably fried by a voltage spike on the telephone line itself, which means nothing you did or could do to your house wiring would have made a difference. Tivo modems are notorious for suffering damage under those circumstances.
Your telephone line (or to be more accurate, anything you connect to your telephone line) needs protection. In addition to commercial solutions, such as surge suppressors and UPSes that have modular phone jacks in addition to the 120 Volt part, tie a knot in each telephone line near each end. It won't have much inductive reactance at audio or even DSL frequencies, but the rise-time of a lightning induced voltage spike is so short as to be the same as a very high frequency, and as frequency increaases, the reactance of any given inductance does the same.
Think of all the vacuum we could mine from space!!!
But it's almost impossible to bring it back down to Earth because vacuum is massless and therefore weightless. It's like trying to force an inflated beach ball or an inverted empty bottle down to the bottom of a swimming pool.
Well, here in the U.S. those two phone lines will most likely be supplied by the same company and buried in the same ditch from the house to the pedestal and from the pedestal to the central office or some intermediate little windowless brick building, so both lines will almost certainly fall victim to the same Backhoe Operator From Hell at the same time, although the more talented amongst them can usually manage to sever your television cable at the same time.
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Why would DC lines be better at line loss prevention than high-tension 60Hz AC lines?
Assuming the bits don't decide to align on the north-south axis!!
MOO!
Ummm... I'm sure that most of us who are 25 years old or older have pictures of themselves that are stored in bad conditions and still look decent.
Now if only we could say the same for ourselves.
And some of us don't need a calculator to figure out that 2 * 2 * 2 = 2.
And any calulator that multiplies 2 by itself and then multiplies the result by 2 and comes up with 2 as the answer is certainly a calculator which I don't need (except for entertainment value in limited situations).
Yes, But did they run linux?
Yes, according to the scientist I saw on C-SPAN doing the presentation of this report. He specifically said "Linux computers", although he did not use the phrase "Beowulf cluster".
No doubt all of the steel from the world's biggest crime scene is _easily_ available.
Of course it is. Just dial 1-800-NY-MAFIA!
Operators are standing by!
Well, XIP as a TLA predates XP by a *long* time.
XIP, however, is not the same as XiP, although from across the room both probably look like XP.
"XiP" looks entirely too much like "XP". They should have gone with something like "XNP".
Maybe he are British.
Especially if you're a cunning linguist.
Right, and the solution to crime is to put the lawabiding safely away behind bars.
They do that already. It's called "gated communities".
dear god, ken blackwell and the 2004 election can make you really embarrassed to be an ohioan.
Funny how it doesn't seem to have made anyone embarrassed to be a Republican.
You appear to be using the word "trivially" in places where the word "trivial" should be used.
Other than that, pretty good post!
Make no mistake, these are complex systems with moderately complex software.
And that's before they put in all the election stealing yummyness!
(although I really think they should save those machines to be used later as evidence)
In my case, I don't have the luxury of power near my antenna...
That's what phantom power is for. (Unless your description is misleading and what you meant was that the actual amplifier is at the antenna and the unit that provides power for the amp is at the other end of your co-ax run at your computer.)
It's almost always better to amplify and then travel down a long piece of wire than the reverse.
I thought it was running the Gumbo...
Nah, any halfway decent gumbo will be too thick to run.
Although I suppose gumbo could be used in a different kind of "fiber" test. :-)
My dad used to play bluegrass banjo. He once told me he bought a record player with a 16rpm setting so he could slow down the harder sections and really hear what notes to hit.
The nice thing about the 16 rpm speed was that it was actually exactly half of the 33 rpm speed so that it played albums exactly one octave lower so that you don't have to re-tune to learn by ear.
You may only have 2 grams of tracking force but when you factor in the extremely small area of contact between the stylus sides and the groove walls it comes out to tons per square inch, so, yeah, the entire record isn't heated up enough to melt it, but the contact area on the two sides of the groove wall are deformed by heat. Vinyl has "memory", so after a while it'll return nearly to its original shape, but if you play it again too soon you wind up deforming the deformation and you exceed the vinyl's ability to recover.
Re:Illegally? (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 03, @06:18PM (#24459891)
A "request" by a government official with a gun is an order. As such, they do need a warrant. Of course they need a warrant to conduct a search, which is what this is. What part of the fourth amendment do you not understand?
Since I just used up my mod points on the fossil pigment story before I saw this one, I'm guerilla modding it up.
I would have donated if it was non partisan. It's pretty obvious it's partisan as the group was formed to influence Obama.
Okay,what's your strategy for success in influencing McCain and the Republicans to put the legal smackdown on the telcos? Waterboarding? 'Cause you ain't gonna be able to outbribe them.
Those two Tivo modems were probably fried by a voltage spike on the telephone line itself, which means nothing you did or could do to your house wiring would have made a difference. Tivo modems are notorious for suffering damage under those circumstances.
Your telephone line (or to be more accurate, anything you connect to your telephone line) needs protection. In addition to commercial solutions, such as surge suppressors and UPSes that have modular phone jacks in addition to the 120 Volt part, tie a knot in each telephone line near each end. It won't have much inductive reactance at audio or even DSL frequencies, but the rise-time of a lightning induced voltage spike is so short as to be the same as a very high frequency, and as frequency increaases, the reactance of any given inductance does the same.
Watch out for the power supply in that receiver. It (or at least much of it)is probably not transformer isolated from the wall socket.
Think of all the vacuum we could mine from space!!!
But it's almost impossible to bring it back down to Earth because vacuum is massless and therefore weightless. It's like trying to force an inflated beach ball or an inverted empty bottle down to the bottom of a swimming pool.
So with two different phone lines connected to...
Well, here in the U.S. those two phone lines will most likely be supplied by the same company and buried in the same ditch from the house to the pedestal and from the pedestal to the central office or some intermediate little windowless brick building, so both lines will almost certainly fall victim to the same Backhoe Operator From Hell at the same time, although the more talented amongst them can usually manage to sever your television cable at the same time.
Of course, I had mod points yesterday...
Ain't it amazin' how Taco & Co. always know in advance when you're gonna want 'em so that they can make sure that they've timed out by then?
As for the question of where to draw the line with embryo selection, I recommend staying within your own species. :-)