Years ago, at BayCon we dissolved caffeine into 96% ethyl alcohol and called it Real Man's Drink.
Entertaining to watch people who got really hammered on the stuff (which only took a few shots!) - but they were wide awake to enjoy the suffering for their excess.
I have a ratty old leather wallet that I bought at the leather market in Guadalajara a few years back.
The thing I like about it, is it has a divider in the currency area, so I keep my dollars on one side, and pesos on the other.
Other than that I carry
ATM card for US bank
ATM card for Mexican bank
PayPal debit card
Sam's Club
Frequent-user card for domestic wire-transfer service (used to pay my employees)
handful of biz cards, mostly kept because I scrawl numbers of unrelated persons on the backs of them
stored value card for public telephones
laminated reduction the inside front page of my passport (for those few times when I need to prove who I am)
Recently, I came across Spaceballs on TV here, with subtitles, and the subtitling sometimes takes liberty with the script - for example to translate idiomatically.
When it came to the scene where they went to get the video of the movie to see what happened later, the subtitles diverged FAR from the original dialog in a much funnier way.
Instead of "home video" the source of the film was....
Pirates.
Pirates?
Yes, Pirates. Piracy has become so rampant, that you can now get a copy of the movie before it is even finished!
Which is especially funny here, because often you can get pirated VCDs or VHS copies of movies before they're even released locally. The quality is horrendous, and the subtitling is
WRTN LK PPL TALK IN CHAT ROOMS
.
Just for a price-check: A VHS copy of a film is about a dollar eighty, and a VCD is two dollars fifty. DVDs are sometimes burned, and they sell for four or five bucks. Bit-copies of commercial DVDs sell for as much as ten bucks.
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For all the good a few millicuries of Ni63 or tirtium would do, Mr. Terrorist would be better off buying bricks and throwing them at his target.
There is a thread on this very topic over on alt.folklore.computers right now, and the concensus is: While the 7094 CPU is emulated, there is a lot of IO that is required for CTSS to run that is not ready for prime time - some of which is probably pretty easy to knock out, but some of which (the channel controller) is Big Black Voodoo, in terms of asynchronous operation with the main CPU.
Wow... I suddenly feel sixteen again, sitting and hacking and giggling quietly to HHGG on the radio. Even though the technology has changed in just about every way -- the feelings were identical.
The mechanism used to gloss over the absence of Peter Jones was a bit disappointing at the beginning, but after a few minutes I was thinking more about the dialog than the speaker.
The line Google is not better than us, we're both world class reminds me so much of Doctor Nick's "As Good As Doctor Hibbert" yellow page ad in the Simpsons.
That one is easy to fix. Management only needs to make sure that there are no ex-disgruntled employees...
Here at Xyzzycorp, we never have to give out references for former employees, because 100% of our departed associates coincidentally fall into cranberry crushers.
Po = +30 dBm
path loss over 64km at 915 MHz: -130
Pr = -100 dBm... let's see... at 9600 bps it requires -103 so that gives you 3 dB of fade margin even with isotropic radiators.
Put a +6dBi yagi (I think that is the maximum allowed on ISM under Part 47 anyway) at each end and you've got 15dB of fade margin, which should give you a couple of orders of magnitude of BER performance (the datasheet was notably lacking a BER / EbNo chart ).
I think you were trying to make a joke (although I'm not sure exactly what.. that so few slashdot readers know what a credit card is, but do know what formfactor PCMCIA is?)
I think the reason they avoid using that acronym is to avoid confusing their potential customers -- saying something is PCMCIA-sized might lead people to leap to the assumption that it has meets PCMCIA interface specifications.
If you could live with a shared media with a peak throughput of 115 kbits, sure.
I do not want to rain on anyones parade, but ISM band FHSS FSK modems are kinda cool-for-1997...
That being said, if maxstream had a reasonable price for onesey twoseys, (Their web site has a promotion for what appears to be this series at USD 90 for qty ten) there could be some cool hack value for moderately low speed stuff in portable projects.
Well, a quick off-the-cuff idea is thus: Expand SPF or its moral equivalent to offer a web-of-trust style interface. That is: Each piece of email comes with a pointer that says, in effect, This piece of email is from mydomain.com... people who think that mydomain.com is cool are yourisp.com otherisp.com white-hat-geeks.net
So, I suppose what I'm proposing is a distributed whitelist.
The Benevelent Software Source is pleased to report that in the last quarter, the seventh three-year-plan for software patches has been overfulfilled by 98%
Good points, thanks for mostly agreeing with my gut:)
Although I disagree that it would have to necessarily add to unsprung weight -- think Jaguar inboard disc brakes... now replace "brakes" with high efficiency PM pancake motors. Use last few decades improvements in materials science to solve problem of broken half-axles.
Of course that leaves unanswered the question, Well, now where do we put the brakes?
Bah -- braking is for wusses. I'm in a hurry!
Well, they could easily be integrated with the traction motors - not that I'm suggesting braking by wire. I am sufficiently skeptical of all technology that I would like to see regular hydraulic brakes for the time being. (Yes, I know -- some very smart and adequately paranoid guys over at Saab disagree with me. I'll just crawl back into my grumbly cave with my Underwood #5 and continue writing my manifestos by candlelight! )
On the other hand, don't railroads use series hybrids because the size
and cost of a transmission that could start a stationary freight train
was infeasible?
Ahhh, I had not considered that. You must be right.
What confused me about their website was that they kept talking about
regenerative braking but didn't describe any interface to the car's
brakes (and if they did it would make me nervous).
I figured that was what the MAP sensor was for... during periods of
low MAP (High vacuum) you must want to decellerate, so go ahead and
kick up the charge current.
At only 48 volts that's something to worry about. There's a reason the
Prius uses a nominal 288 volt drive system.
Agreed - - a much higher system voltage would seem better to me.
So at 2.09 a gallon (locally here in WA), and a guesstimate of 25 miles per gallon you will have made your money back in under 45k miles.
I don't follow your math.
For that to work out, you'd have to go from 25 mpg "before" to 98 mpg after to have a payback in 45000 miles (pretty unlikely!), or go from 14 mpg "before" to 25 mpg for the same effect ( a change in s.f.c of about 40% which would still be pretty amazing )
I read through their site, and while I am vaguely skeptical of things
like the lifespan of the Super Capacitor Battery Pack and I2R
losses system wide the basic theory is sound.
It seems like the product right now is targetted at people who want an
extra 35 b.h.p. "off the line". And if you do a lot of stop-and-go
driving, that could help a lot.
In my gut, I think a fully electrical transmission would provide
better systemic efficiency, but that would be nowhere near a bolt-on
system. (I base that on: the specific consumption of any I.C. engine
is lowest when it is near it's peak output. Any system that is
predicated on running the engine at variable speed (i.e. using a
traditional mechanical transmission) is going to, by necessity, run
the engine most of the time away from it's peak efficiency.
I would be willing to hear the argument that the gain of running the
engine at peak efficiency would be offset by the losses in the
motor-generator pair. (If so, why has it been the standard technology
in railway traction for over fifty years?)
Since not all jobs can be efficiently outsourced, a company that raises their productivity by outsourcing the jobs that can be will have more resources to devote to those that can't be
Scene - a high school girl complaining to her guidance counselor...
Student: I was online last night, and somebody said I was fat.
Counselor:I see.
Student:And they wanted to know why I wear the same pair of jeans eve
ry day.
Counselor:How cruel.
Student:And how I have Wal-Mart clothes.
Counselor:Well, in that case, I reccomend you study
computers. That way when you graduate, you can go online, and it won't
matter if you're fat and wear the same Wal-Mart jeans every day for a
year, you will still be the hottest chick that any of the other geeks
in your university can get, and they will lavish you with attention.
And, in a fitting turnaround, THEY will do YOUR homework.
First of all, developing countries need free software. Until they can use software to develop infrastructure and businesses, they can't afford to pay for software.
I think something that most slashdotters fail to fully comprehend is: In most of the developing world, all software is (nearly) free-as-in-beer, because piracy is so rampant, and there is little interest at the government level to do anything about it.
If you want a copy of Windows 2K with a nice photocopy of the activation key, head down to the street market in any city outside the US and plop down the local equivalent of five to ten dollars.
Free-as-in-beer has always been the leading foot of FOSS in the "developed world", where enforcement and canalized ethics make proprietary systems costly. Free-as-in-speech is the slow sell that organizations only understand after adopting a system (if ever).
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Years ago, at BayCon we dissolved caffeine into 96% ethyl alcohol and called it Real Man's Drink.
Entertaining to watch people who got really hammered on the stuff (which only took a few shots!) - but they were wide awake to enjoy the suffering for their excess.
Recently, I came across Spaceballs on TV here, with subtitles, and the subtitling sometimes takes liberty with the script - for example to translate idiomatically.
When it came to the scene where they went to get the video of the movie to see what happened later, the subtitles diverged FAR from the original dialog in a much funnier way. Instead of "home video" the source of the film was....
Pirates.
Pirates?
Yes, Pirates. Piracy has become so rampant, that you can now get a copy of the movie before it is even finished!
Which is especially funny here, because often you can get pirated VCDs or VHS copies of movies before they're even released locally. The quality is horrendous, and the subtitling is
.Just for a price-check: A VHS copy of a film is about a dollar eighty, and a VCD is two dollars fifty. DVDs are sometimes burned, and they sell for four or five bucks. Bit-copies of commercial DVDs sell for as much as ten bucks.
For all the good a few millicuries of Ni63 or tirtium would do, Mr. Terrorist would be better off buying bricks and throwing them at his target.
There is a thread on this very topic over on alt.folklore.computers right now, and the concensus is: While the 7094 CPU is emulated, there is a lot of IO that is required for CTSS to run that is not ready for prime time - some of which is probably pretty easy to knock out, but some of which (the channel controller) is Big Black Voodoo, in terms of asynchronous operation with the main CPU.
Wow ... I suddenly feel sixteen again, sitting and hacking and giggling quietly to HHGG on the radio. Even though the technology has changed in just about every way -- the feelings were identical.
The mechanism used to gloss over the absence of Peter Jones was a bit disappointing at the beginning, but after a few minutes I was thinking more about the dialog than the speaker.
The line Google is not better than us, we're both world class reminds me so much of Doctor Nick's "As Good As Doctor Hibbert" yellow page ad in the Simpsons.
Some info about Palmyra Atoll.
Do the math ...
Po = +30 dBm ... let's see ... at 9600 bps it requires -103 so that gives you 3 dB of fade margin even with isotropic radiators.
path loss over 64km at 915 MHz: -130
Pr = -100 dBm
Put a +6dBi yagi (I think that is the maximum allowed on ISM under Part 47 anyway) at each end and you've got 15dB of fade margin, which should give you a couple of orders of magnitude of BER performance (the datasheet was notably lacking a BER / EbNo chart ).
I think you were trying to make a joke (although I'm not sure exactly what .. that so few slashdot readers know what a credit card is, but do know what formfactor PCMCIA is?)
I think the reason they avoid using that acronym is to avoid confusing their potential customers -- saying something is PCMCIA-sized might lead people to leap to the assumption that it has meets PCMCIA interface specifications.
If you could live with a shared media with a peak throughput of 115 kbits, sure.
I do not want to rain on anyones parade, but ISM band FHSS FSK modems are kinda cool-for-1997 ...
That being said, if maxstream had a reasonable price for onesey twoseys, (Their web site has a promotion for what appears to be this series at USD 90 for qty ten) there could be some cool hack value for moderately low speed stuff in portable projects.
Well, a quick off-the-cuff idea is thus: Expand SPF or its moral equivalent to offer a web-of-trust style interface. That is: Each piece of email comes with a pointer that says, in effect, This piece of email is from mydomain.com ... people who think that mydomain.com is cool are yourisp.com otherisp.com white-hat-geeks.net
So, I suppose what I'm proposing is a distributed whitelist.
The Benevelent Software Source is pleased to report that in the last quarter, the seventh three-year-plan for software patches has been overfulfilled by 98%
Good points, thanks for mostly agreeing with my gut :)
Although I disagree that it would have to necessarily add to unsprung weight -- think Jaguar inboard disc brakes ... now replace "brakes" with high efficiency PM pancake motors. Use last few decades improvements in materials science to solve problem of broken half-axles.
Of course that leaves unanswered the question, Well, now where do we put the brakes? Bah -- braking is for wusses. I'm in a hurry!
Well, they could easily be integrated with the traction motors - not that I'm suggesting braking by wire. I am sufficiently skeptical of all technology that I would like to see regular hydraulic brakes for the time being. (Yes, I know -- some very smart and adequately paranoid guys over at Saab disagree with me. I'll just crawl back into my grumbly cave with my Underwood #5 and continue writing my manifestos by candlelight! )
Not bad ... in their own site they suggest MSRP should be +/- 2800.
I read through their site, and while I am vaguely skeptical of things like the lifespan of the Super Capacitor Battery Pack and I2R losses system wide the basic theory is sound.
It seems like the product right now is targetted at people who want an extra 35 b.h.p. "off the line". And if you do a lot of stop-and-go driving, that could help a lot.
In my gut, I think a fully electrical transmission would provide better systemic efficiency, but that would be nowhere near a bolt-on system. (I base that on: the specific consumption of any I.C. engine is lowest when it is near it's peak output. Any system that is predicated on running the engine at variable speed (i.e. using a traditional mechanical transmission) is going to, by necessity, run the engine most of the time away from it's peak efficiency. I would be willing to hear the argument that the gain of running the engine at peak efficiency would be offset by the losses in the motor-generator pair. (If so, why has it been the standard technology in railway traction for over fifty years?)
Since not all jobs can be efficiently outsourced, a company that raises their productivity by outsourcing the jobs that can be will have more resources to devote to those that can't be
Scene - a high school girl complaining to her guidance counselor...
If you want a copy of Windows 2K with a nice photocopy of the activation key, head down to the street market in any city outside the US and plop down the local equivalent of five to ten dollars.
Free-as-in-beer has always been the leading foot of FOSS in the "developed world", where enforcement and canalized ethics make proprietary systems costly. Free-as-in-speech is the slow sell that organizations only understand after adopting a system (if ever).