Nope. The regulator gives you more air the deeper you go because you need the pressure to displace the weight of the water squeezing your lungs. Your body does not take advantage of the extra oxygen to any significant degree. Or at least that is what my diving instructor said.
You DO get additional dissolved gasses in your bloodstream. The additional nitrogen can bubble up in your blood like soda fizz if you ascend too quickly. That is bad.
Your heart rate and breathing increase underwater, but that may be due to increased exertion, nervousness or just the sheer joy of it.
Any diving instructors please feel free to correct or refine this.
Make me a sail out of this material and I will cruise when it is windy, sunny or both. Just throw some kevlar into the substrate. Or use carbon fibers instead of aluminum for the interconnect.
My point is that CDs sound like crap, therefore a lossy derivation of a CD simply cannot sound better.
If you have ever listened to a quality LP on audiophile gear you would appreciate the difference.
I am eagerly awaiting a super audio CD that I can bring home. I want to give it a run on my REAL system.
(btw, if I replied twice to your post it is because my rirst reply disappeared "We can't find a comment with that ID (5257800) in this discussion (53086). If you got here through a link generated by this site, please report this as a bug. If you got here thanks to a silly user's comment or journal entry or something, or from an external site, this link is just invalid -- sorry.")
The PC speaker driver used pulse-width modulation to simulate audio waveforms. That is why it sounded so crunchy. It also CRUSHED your system while it was playing a sound because (I think) it was toggling an interrupt for each pulse. Did you notice how everything else stopped during playback?
Somebody rolled the driver out to about 10 Win NT 4 boxen at my old office as an "upgrade". When we upgraded to Win 2000, the driver remained in place, and still worked. Gack.
Now for the rant.
Nothing exposes how poor MP3 (or even CDs) sound like owning a real quality pair of speakers connected to a clean amp. I have a Nakamichi AV-10 driving B&W DM-603 speakers. I connect the Nakamichi to the digital output of my Turtle Beach Montego soundcard, and it works well enough. Unfortunately, the fidelity of the system makes MP3 files almost unbearable for serious listening.
So do yourselves a favor. If you listen to MP3, buy crappy PC speakers and let your imagination fill in the gaps.
Do you think that 7 people inventing a new and expensive way to die is more important than the rampant death and disease we blithely ignore all over the world? Or worse, inflict on each other?
The best thing we can do is get people communiating any way we can. If we can open the lines of communication we can save more lives in one minute than we lost in the history of space travel.
Unlike electronically regulated multi-cell lithium battery packs, AAA NiMH rechargables are dirt cheap. I have seen them for $3.99 a pair.
Do, however see if the Clie has a battery setting for rechargables. My palm allows me to set the battery type as rechargable so I get more runtime and correct battery status.
If you actually managed to fully drain a lithium battery, you would run the risk of polarity reversal. That is BAD! Part of the reason lithium battery packs have a microchip is to shut them off before they fully discharge. The chip also regulates the charge cycle so they don't grenade from overcharging.
NiCD batteries develop a charge memory and must be conditioned. NiMH batteries do to but to a much lesser extent. Lead acid batteries are the exact opposite, keep 'em charged up at all times.
"Since Monday, we've also received a number of reports of some very curious IP traffic. If you're in a position to do so, can you please check your logs, so we can piece together the rest of this mystery?"
There is so much garbage in the logs nowadays that it is very difficult to pull out something significant. Of course, this is all according to plan.
OK, the Apple website seems un-slashdottable. I just played the trailer at high resolution with no delay at all.
So, how much mega-bitty-thingies do they have anyhow?
In high school, I was often asked to visit the lower school to do science demonstrations.
The all-time favorite was the Van DeGraff generator. There is something about your hair standing straight out that always amuses the kids. I also lit fluorescent tubes in my hand.
I got the best results by making them stand on a milk crate to keep them from discharging through the floor. Before they got down, I had them "slap me five" so they didn't feel the spark discharge.
You can use the demonstration as a lead-in for static attraction and repulsion and a whole raft of other topics depending on the age group.
Just make sure you get a -small- one. The one I used was 18 inches tall and came from Edmund Scientific.
By the way, if you haven't been to the Boston Museum of Science, then you haven't seen the worlds largest Van DeGraff generator. Quite a show!
Seems to me that with all those cars underground we should be monitoring the quality of the air coming OUT of the tunnel, rather than that going in. On bad air quality days we could shut off the ventilators and give us pedestrians a break.
Any of you project programmers want to put in THAT easter egg?
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. The regulator gives you more air the deeper you go because you need the pressure to displace the weight of the water squeezing your lungs. Your body does not take advantage of the extra oxygen to any significant degree. Or at least that is what my diving instructor said.
You DO get additional dissolved gasses in your bloodstream. The additional nitrogen can bubble up in your blood like soda fizz if you ascend too quickly. That is bad.
Your heart rate and breathing increase underwater, but that may be due to increased exertion, nervousness or just the sheer joy of it.
Any diving instructors please feel free to correct or refine this.
-j
In Soviet Russia Ethernet runs over SCSI.
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No, really! Farralon made a scsi based ethernet adapter for the powerbook.
http://www.macworld.com/1994/11/secrets/989.htm
Make me a sail out of this material and I will cruise when it is windy, sunny or both. Just throw some kevlar into the substrate. Or use carbon fibers instead of aluminum for the interconnect.
My point is that CDs sound like crap, therefore a lossy derivation of a CD simply cannot sound better.
If you have ever listened to a quality LP on audiophile gear you would appreciate the difference.
I am eagerly awaiting a super audio CD that I can bring home. I want to give it a run on my REAL system.
(btw, if I replied twice to your post it is because my rirst reply disappeared "We can't find a comment with that ID (5257800) in this discussion (53086). If you got here through a link generated by this site, please report this as a bug. If you got here thanks to a silly user's comment or journal entry or something, or from an external site, this link is just invalid -- sorry.")
The fact is (to all of you who replied) CDs sound like crap, and any lossy derivation of a CD simply cannot sound better.
How many of you have listened to an LP on audiophile equipment? The difference is simply stunning.
So don't tell me how awesome MP3s or OGGs or WMAs or whatever are. The source is flawed if it is ripped from a CD.
The PC speaker driver used pulse-width modulation to simulate audio waveforms. That is why it sounded so crunchy. It also CRUSHED your system while it was playing a sound because (I think) it was toggling an interrupt for each pulse. Did you notice how everything else stopped during playback?
Somebody rolled the driver out to about 10 Win NT 4 boxen at my old office as an "upgrade". When we upgraded to Win 2000, the driver remained in place, and still worked. Gack.
Now for the rant.
Nothing exposes how poor MP3 (or even CDs) sound like owning a real quality pair of speakers connected to a clean amp. I have a Nakamichi AV-10 driving B&W DM-603 speakers. I connect the Nakamichi to the digital output of my Turtle Beach Montego soundcard, and it works well enough. Unfortunately, the fidelity of the system makes MP3 files almost unbearable for serious listening.
So do yourselves a favor. If you listen to MP3, buy crappy PC speakers and let your imagination fill in the gaps.
You twit!
Do you think that 7 people inventing a new and expensive way to die is more important than the rampant death and disease we blithely ignore all over the world? Or worse, inflict on each other?
The best thing we can do is get people communiating any way we can. If we can open the lines of communication we can save more lives in one minute than we lost in the history of space travel.
The world moves on.
Do whatever the heck you want.
Unlike electronically regulated multi-cell lithium battery packs, AAA NiMH rechargables are dirt cheap. I have seen them for $3.99 a pair.
Do, however see if the Clie has a battery setting for rechargables. My palm allows me to set the battery type as rechargable so I get more runtime and correct battery status.
Ack! NO!!!! Not for lithium cells!
If you actually managed to fully drain a lithium battery, you would run the risk of polarity reversal. That is BAD! Part of the reason lithium battery packs have a microchip is to shut them off before they fully discharge. The chip also regulates the charge cycle so they don't grenade from overcharging.
NiCD batteries develop a charge memory and must be conditioned. NiMH batteries do to but to a much lesser extent. Lead acid batteries are the exact opposite, keep 'em charged up at all times.
Just remember, who's lap it's on top of.
Run RG6-QS coaxial cable between your base station and the pc card. The cable is a little stiff, but you get awesome reception.
What sort of things are we talking about?
"Since Monday, we've also received a number of reports of some very curious IP traffic. If you're in a position to do so, can you please check your logs, so we can piece together the rest of this mystery?"
There is so much garbage in the logs nowadays that it is very difficult to pull out something significant. Of course, this is all according to plan.
OK, the Apple website seems un-slashdottable. I just played the trailer at high resolution with no delay at all. So, how much mega-bitty-thingies do they have anyhow?
VAT (Value Added Tax)
They have that covered too, at least if you are a molecular biologist. http://www.sciam.com/careers/
1. I have plenty of time to play with it.
2. I don't have to worry about someone doing it to me.
Is anyone working on SNORT signatures for this stuff?
In high school, I was often asked to visit the lower school to do science demonstrations.
The all-time favorite was the Van DeGraff generator. There is something about your hair standing straight out that always amuses the kids. I also lit fluorescent tubes in my hand.
I got the best results by making them stand on a milk crate to keep them from discharging through the floor. Before they got down, I had them "slap me five" so they didn't feel the spark discharge.
You can use the demonstration as a lead-in for static attraction and repulsion and a whole raft of other topics depending on the age group.
Just make sure you get a -small- one. The one I used was 18 inches tall and came from Edmund Scientific.
By the way, if you haven't been to the Boston Museum of Science, then you haven't seen the worlds largest Van DeGraff generator. Quite a show!
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/
-jake
Seems to me that with all those cars underground we should be monitoring the quality of the air coming OUT of the tunnel, rather than that going in. On bad air quality days we could shut off the ventilators and give us pedestrians a break. Any of you project programmers want to put in THAT easter egg?
Perhaps we could put a wrapper around the embedded certificate in the Banias processor? Call it project Cybil. 21 personalities in one box.