Alligator clips and crocodile clips are similar but not identical.
On one the upper and lower jaws are the same width and the teeth meet, on the other the lower jaw is wider and the top jaw nests inside it.
Speaking of gators and crocs, the knit shirts commonly known as "alligator shirts" are actually crocodile shirts as the LaCoste brand is named after French tennis player Rene LeCoste whose nickname was "The Crocodile".
I'm assuming that Tandy's is britspeak for "Radio Shack".
"Well, plenum-rated Cat5e cable costs about three times what non-plenum rated cable costs, so instead of running plenum-rated cable in the false ceiling (technically a plenum), they ran the hideous metal cable raceways under a relatively nice false ceiling, so they could snake non-plenum cable in them."
I'm too lazy to try to figure out under which pile of stuff my NEC book is buried, but it seems that the area inside the metal raceways (i.e., the area where the wires would be run) should qualify as not actually in the "technically a plenum" area above the suspended ceiling. Once the fire gets hot enough breech the metal and let out any smoke the wires' insulation is giving off, that smoke isn't going to be the main part of the problem.
After all, the area under the suspended ceiling (i.e., the part of the room where the people are) is also an air handling area in the "people might wind up breathing it" sense, so if the raceways are allowed there...
"If my isp tried to throttle some of the websites I wanted to visit..."
It isn't your ISP that's doing it. Let's say you want to load Google. Your ISP has to go through Yet Another Company to connect to them. As long as YAC is only in the business of providing the "tube between your ISP and Google, no problem, all packets are equal.
But what if YAC is also in the content business? Then connecting to their search engine happens right away, but unless Google pays them extra, your connnection to Google slows to a crawl.
Or what if YAC also offers a "telephone over the internet" service. Your friends who have it say it works great. Your "Internet Phone" service, a little independent start-up, however, always seems to have problems. Maybe it's because they aren't paying anything extra to YAC, and YAC identifies which packets are theirs and delays them or manages to misplace a few.
If YAC has a monopoly or near monopoly on that "tube" between your ISP and the sites to which you want to connect and want you to connect to their sites instead, or if they're also in a business which offers one or more of the internet-based services you want to use, all of a sudden some packets are more equal than others.
As I understand it, people with myopia (near-sighted, short-sighted, etc.) need more light than those with "normal" vision or with presbyopia (far-sighted).
It's certainly true in my case. I have to quit mowing the lawn earlier in the afternoon/evening than do others because I cannot see what I'm doing or where I have or haven't already mowed.
Note that I'm not suggesting...that Word is used to typeset (although occasionally I've heard of that as well)...
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Using Word for typesetting?
Now there's an idea on a par with trying to shave with a chainsaw. Theoretically possible, but extremely taxing on the nerves and likely to have very ugly and unpleasant results.
"Assuming you use the eraser properly (which involves putting it close to the tape, turning it on, and then moving the tape far away from the coil while it's energized, before turning it off),..."
If you place the media in close proximity to the eraser and then turn on the eraser you risk recording a "blip" onto the media that can't be totally erased.
First you turn on the eraser/de-gausser with the media at least a few feet away, then bring it and the media as close together as possible in one smooth, but not overly-hurried motion, scrub well, then separate them slowly and smoothly at least several feet before removing power to the eraser. Anytime the eraser is powered, it and the media should be in motion relative to each other. You can do this by moving the eraser or the media or both, depending on the circumstances (for example, leave a desktop eraser on the table and move the media towards and away from it, but with a handheld eraser you can hold it in one hand and the media in the other and move both arms)
Basically what you're doing is recording a 60 Hz signal onto the media, not linearly, as a tape head would, but everywhere at once, so you're driving the magnetic domains all the way to one polarity and then to the other, but with a constant change in the amplitude of the instantaneous amplitude, leaving a semi- or psuedo-random magnetic pattern on the media.
After (DC) generators were phased out in favor of (silicon rectified AC) alternators, electromechanical (i.e., relay-based) voltage regulators were still in use with them for several years before being replaced by solid state devices, so it's possible to have an alternator system where the most sophisticated electronics involved are just solid-state diodes.
As for your statement in a reply to a reply to the post to which this one also replies,...
..."I don't really need the alternator unless I plan on having the headlights on for any length of time."...
...even the old mechanically switched ignition systems will run down your battery after a while unless your generator or alternator is recharging it during engine operation. The electricity has to come from somewhere.
Shorting out one 1500 amp busbar should produce enough magnetic eddy currents to warp the metal panelboard sufficiently to cause the other two to short.
According to http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq60-15.htm Ford was already out of the University of Michigan and Yale law school and practicing law in Grand Rapids when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, and saw action in the Pacific on board the light aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in 1943 and 1944.
If you have a link for a source that disagrees I'd be interested to see what they have to say.
Are you sure that you haven't confused him with some other, slightly younger politician?
As for LBJ, there's a story about him as a young congresscritter riding on a military plane somewhere in the Pacific during WWII and winding up with a medal that probably was only awarded because of his political status rather than anything he actually did when the plane had whatever problem it did (it's been a while since I heard about this and I don't remember the details). This wouldn't particularly surprise me.
Far be it from me to say anything nice about a Republican, but I'd take Ford (or LBJ for that matter) over the current deciderator in chief in a quinstant. Come to think of it, I'd sooner roll the dice on some stranger off the street instead of King George the 43rd.
"Bear in mind that the term 'bug' refers to cockroaches living in mechanical computers, causing computational errors."
According to the late Admiral Grace Hopper the term came from a moth which got caught between the contacts of an electromechanical relay, preventing current flow when the contacts were supposed to be closed.
At this point Peter Gutmann seems to be the most read of the Vista bloggers but something tells me the only laptop he's likely to get from Microsoft is exploding battery kind.:-)
I don't know if Oreos are made according to the same formula where you are as they are here in the U.S. and I don't know if they've changed it here since I was a child in the '50s and a teen in the '60s.
I do know that I don't care for them all that much anymore (they were never my favorite, to be fair, but they used to be okay), but that may just be due to my rapidly approaching geezerhood.
Here in the U.S. one of the reasons corn is used as a sweetener is because sugar is so expensive. Sugar is expensive because U.S. sugar producers bought enough congresscritters to protect them from imported sugar. I think the chance to hurt Cuba's economy was also part of the equation.
The substitution of corn for "real sugar" is also why Mountain Dew no longer tastes like Mountain Dew and a lot of candy isn't as good as it used to be, either. It's also a little scary how many other food products have had corn shoehorned into them.
"...since vehicle fuels are taxed at a higher rate than foodstuffs..."
Those taxes are supposedly to cover the costs of building and maintaining the roads those vehicles travel over and wear out. Here in the states gasoline for agricultural machinery is often available without that tax added since the machines burn it working in the fields and don't have a direct impact on the roads.
It seems to me that it would make more sense to put the tax not on the fuel used by motor vehicles but on the tires for them which wear out and have to be replaced in fairly direct proportion to road use.
Deep fat fryer oil being so expensive it often doesn't get changed as often as it should. Now that it has some "trade-in value" it can be changed more often, or, if the price of new goes up, changed at least as often, and the old stuff doesn't just get dumped into a landfill. This could be a good thing.
"A word to the wise, if building a new house, having all the telephone/data/television wiring pulled back in a "home run" to a patch panel and have the various service provider demarc boxes installed next to that patch panel. This should be *inside* the house, so that the bored teenager down the street can't easily mess with your wiring."
'fraid not. For new construction all demarcation boxes (the phone company sometimes calls it the "subscriber network interface" - SNI) should be located near the electric meter so that they can be grounded (via short runs of wire) to the main building grounding electrode, to which the electrical service entrance is also supposed to be grounded.
Those boxes are where the wire owned by the phone and cable companies stop and the wires owned by you start and the cable and phone companies need to be able to get to them occasionally whether you're home or not. If you're worried about vandalism you can protect the wires entering and leaving those boxes with PVC conduit.
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On one the upper and lower jaws are the same width and the teeth meet, on the other the lower jaw is wider and the top jaw nests inside it.
Speaking of gators and crocs, the knit shirts commonly known as "alligator shirts" are actually crocodile shirts as the LaCoste brand is named after French tennis player Rene LeCoste whose nickname was "The Crocodile".
I'm assuming that Tandy's is britspeak for "Radio Shack".
I'm too lazy to try to figure out under which pile of stuff my NEC book is buried, but it seems that the area inside the metal raceways (i.e., the area where the wires would be run) should qualify as not actually in the "technically a plenum" area above the suspended ceiling. Once the fire gets hot enough breech the metal and let out any smoke the wires' insulation is giving off, that smoke isn't going to be the main part of the problem.
After all, the area under the suspended ceiling (i.e., the part of the room where the people are) is also an air handling area in the "people might wind up breathing it" sense, so if the raceways are allowed there...
It isn't your ISP that's doing it. Let's say you want to load Google. Your ISP has to go through Yet Another Company to connect to them. As long as YAC is only in the business of providing the "tube between your ISP and Google, no problem, all packets are equal.
But what if YAC is also in the content business? Then connecting to their search engine happens right away, but unless Google pays them extra, your connnection to Google slows to a crawl.
Or what if YAC also offers a "telephone over the internet" service. Your friends who have it say it works great. Your "Internet Phone" service, a little independent start-up, however, always seems to have problems. Maybe it's because they aren't paying anything extra to YAC, and YAC identifies which packets are theirs and delays them or manages to misplace a few.
If YAC has a monopoly or near monopoly on that "tube" between your ISP and the sites to which you want to connect and want you to connect to their sites instead, or if they're also in a business which offers one or more of the internet-based services you want to use, all of a sudden some packets are more equal than others.
It's certainly true in my case. I have to quit mowing the lawn earlier in the afternoon/evening than do others because I cannot see what I'm doing or where I have or haven't already mowed.
Using Word for typesetting?
Now there's an idea on a par with trying to shave with a chainsaw. Theoretically possible, but extremely taxing on the nerves and likely to have very ugly and unpleasant results.
Depends on who's wiping the receptionist and with just what he/she is wiping him/her. It could be fun. :-)
If you place the media in close proximity to the eraser and then turn on the eraser you risk recording a "blip" onto the media that can't be totally erased.
First you turn on the eraser/de-gausser with the media at least a few feet away, then bring it and the media as close together as possible in one smooth, but not overly-hurried motion, scrub well, then separate them slowly and smoothly at least several feet before removing power to the eraser. Anytime the eraser is powered, it and the media should be in motion relative to each other. You can do this by moving the eraser or the media or both, depending on the circumstances (for example, leave a desktop eraser on the table and move the media towards and away from it, but with a handheld eraser you can hold it in one hand and the media in the other and move both arms)
Basically what you're doing is recording a 60 Hz signal onto the media, not linearly, as a tape head would, but everywhere at once, so you're driving the magnetic domains all the way to one polarity and then to the other, but with a constant change in the amplitude of the instantaneous amplitude, leaving a semi- or psuedo-random magnetic pattern on the media.
As for your statement in a reply to a reply to the post to which this one also replies,...
..."I don't really need the alternator unless I plan on having the headlights on for any length of time."...
...even the old mechanically switched ignition systems will run down your battery after a while unless your generator or alternator is recharging it during engine operation. The electricity has to come from somewhere.
Shorting out one 1500 amp busbar should produce enough magnetic eddy currents to warp the metal panelboard sufficiently to cause the other two to short.
If you have a link for a source that disagrees I'd be interested to see what they have to say.
Are you sure that you haven't confused him with some other, slightly younger politician?
As for LBJ, there's a story about him as a young congresscritter riding on a military plane somewhere in the Pacific during WWII and winding up with a medal that probably was only awarded because of his political status rather than anything he actually did when the plane had whatever problem it did (it's been a while since I heard about this and I don't remember the details). This wouldn't particularly surprise me.
Far be it from me to say anything nice about a Republican, but I'd take Ford (or LBJ for that matter) over the current deciderator in chief in a quinstant. Come to think of it, I'd sooner roll the dice on some stranger off the street instead of King George the 43rd.
According to the late Admiral Grace Hopper the term came from a moth which got caught between the contacts of an electromechanical relay, preventing current flow when the contacts were supposed to be closed.
So if Gerald R. Ford wasn't in the Navy during WWII, where was he?
Have you got a link or source for that Chicago incident? I'd like to find out more about it. Thanks in advance.
At this point Peter Gutmann seems to be the most read of the Vista bloggers but something tells me the only laptop he's likely to get from Microsoft is exploding battery kind. :-)
So does this mean that DARPA has officially jumped the shark?
The current administration doesn't seem to worry about whether the stuff they do is legal, why would Gates be any different?
So in the theology of The Invisible Pink Unicorn, the equivalent of Satan is an invisible Ballmer?
Sounds about right.
I do know that I don't care for them all that much anymore (they were never my favorite, to be fair, but they used to be okay), but that may just be due to my rapidly approaching geezerhood.
If you really had a new-(or recently)born, you wouldn't have time to load Slashdot, much less read and post. :-)
The substitution of corn for "real sugar" is also why Mountain Dew no longer tastes like Mountain Dew and a lot of candy isn't as good as it used to be, either. It's also a little scary how many other food products have had corn shoehorned into them.
Those taxes are supposedly to cover the costs of building and maintaining the roads those vehicles travel over and wear out. Here in the states gasoline for agricultural machinery is often available without that tax added since the machines burn it working in the fields and don't have a direct impact on the roads.
It seems to me that it would make more sense to put the tax not on the fuel used by motor vehicles but on the tires for them which wear out and have to be replaced in fairly direct proportion to road use.
Deep fat fryer oil being so expensive it often doesn't get changed as often as it should. Now that it has some "trade-in value" it can be changed more often, or, if the price of new goes up, changed at least as often, and the old stuff doesn't just get dumped into a landfill. This could be a good thing.
Don't you have a state utilities commission where you live? That's who you need to complain to 'cause they've got the clout to deal with it.
'fraid not. For new construction all demarcation boxes (the phone company sometimes calls it the "subscriber network interface" - SNI) should be located near the electric meter so that they can be grounded (via short runs of wire) to the main building grounding electrode, to which the electrical service entrance is also supposed to be grounded.
Those boxes are where the wire owned by the phone and cable companies stop and the wires owned by you start and the cable and phone companies need to be able to get to them occasionally whether you're home or not. If you're worried about vandalism you can protect the wires entering and leaving those boxes with PVC conduit.
Me too, but she doesn't have to be a Pet, she could be a Playmate instead. :-)