My cat is nearing on 17 and has spent most of her life going out one door and asking to come in the other. Sometimes she'll go out for a few days at a time though it's getting rarer. She seems to do rather well wandering through the woods on her own or sleeping on the sidewalk depending on her mood or whatever it is that makes cats want to do what they do.
Likewise my grandmother's cat was a fullgrown stray when it showed up in her yard. I don't know any of his history prior to that but I do know that he lived outside under a bush for two years before he consented to come in the house. I've been dozens of farms and ranches and *every* one had barn cats. I suppose you could call them semi-domesticated. That is, they lived in the barn and generally survived on mice and other little critters but wouldn't run away from people and were generally friendly.
I'll grant you that if you live in a city you probably shouldn't be letting your cats (or your children) roam around outside. However, don't go spouting crap like "cats lack the ability to live safely in the outdoors." That's the most rediculous thing I've heard all day.
When the Bourne Convention decided on vi as the de facto editor, represenitives of many countries walked away from the negotiation tables and international relations took a huge step backwards. This is seen by many historians as the underlying cause of WWI. Of course, Austria, Germany, RMS and the other supporters of Emacs lost and vi was ahead for a time. There were attempts after the war to unite the world under the banner of peace and vi with the League of vi Using Nations, but the US backed out and the League soon collapsed.
Some years later the banner of Emacs supremacy was raised again in the midst of a worldwide depression blamed by many on vi users. Again, after many years of bloody warfare the supporters of Emacs were defeated. In the aftermath of this second world war, the United Nations of vi was created.
Welcome to a brave new world where the gimp is called "physically challenged", the blind "visually deficient", the dumb "mentally differently abled" and where any joke who may offend anybody about anything is forbidden by the political thought police.
Have you ever noticed that it's never a bunch of blind guys or a bunch of parapalegics that make up these silly little labels like physically challenged? Instead it's a bunch of people who are offended that the people these labels are for aren't offended. What I think is that these people who make up these things were socially inept growing up and so afraid of what others thought of them that they spent all of their time thinking about what to say to other people so that they would be accepted that they never bothered to pull their heads out of their asses and look around and listen to what other people said. Whew! Too much of a sentence.
Formula 1 racing is a team sport, and is probably the most technical in the world.
I'd like to challenge that and say that it most certainly comes in behind around the globe sailing competitions. Probably not far behind though. From single hand races like Vendee Globe to team races such as the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbred Race) there isn't more engineering, planning, design and testing taking place in any team sport.
The amount of skill required to eke that last tenth of a knot out of a sailboat is rarely seen in any other sport. Add to that the complex computer systems onboard the boats that calculate best routes based on current, wind, weather, wave height, boat speed, and tack all in real time you have a very complicated machine with crewed by very talented people backed with lots and lots of money and a huge supporting engineering and logistics staff. And that's when everything goes smoothly. When those sailors really shine is when a sail tears rounding a mark or a rudder breaks 1,000 miles from shore or any number of other nasty things happen. Of course that's what makes it the most fun you can have on water.
Other people have posted about the inefficiency of DC power distribution and the like, so I won't bother. However, what you might look into is one of these: Pedal Power. This particular model outputs 9VDC and is designed of course for guitar pedals. It has some undesirable effects for the application at hand though (power computer related gadgets) such as power fade and line noise specifcally engineered in for effect. There's no reason something like this couldn't be built and sold for computer use.
You could give it a serial port or USB connection and monitor, change power outputs. Give it a half dozen or so outputs that can be electronically switched between 14, 12, 9 and 5 volts and can have the polarity switched. Then each one would have a 2 character LED display that would read out the power and polarity.
I suppose he must have had a lot of people in his phone book, but still that's a lot of messages to recieve. I have roughly 100 #'s in my phone book and a lot of those aren't cell numbers. In fact probably less than half are. Even if he had 100 cell #'s, you're still looking to get 25-26 messages a day from him. I'd have found some way to block his messages after about the 3rd message. Besides that, it costs me money to recieve text messages. A lot less than to send them, but it still costs. I wouldn't want to be footing the bill for his protest.
Well, according to the manual for the router it takes 12VDC and the connector is + Tip, that is the positive wire goes to the inside part of the plug. So no special electronics, just wire from the battery to the router. The manual also says that the router draws 1.0amp, so I'd put a 1.5 - 2 amp fuse in line as well. The router probably has an internal fuse, but for an extra $0.50 why not?
-48VDC for the on-hook line. It drops to 6-9VDC when you pick up the reciever and the ring pulses are in the range of 80-100VAC. That way they can be filtered out with a couple of capacitors and talking won't make the bell ring. Of course their phones are probably digital so I don't think any of that applies.
Isn't that the point though? In the marine industry, that's all we use. Actually, it's heatshrink with heat activated adhesive inside. That makes a great seal. Probably as good as the insulation on the wire.
I'd just look at getting a better fan for the video card, if you can. For some reason (perhaps to sell more cards) the manufacturers of said video cards seem to use the cheapest fans they can find. Which means that they're generally pretty lound and have a rather low MTBF. I bought 4 Radeon 9100 PCI cards for a multi-head system in November and I'm down a head already. It may not be the fan's fault; perhaps the heatsink wasn't big enough to begin with, but the combined effects of being on 24/7 and thermal expansion caused the little fan to sieze and it didn't take too long before I started getting nifty artifacts on the screen. I can't even spin the fan by hand now. A similar thing happened with my GeForce 1 a long time ago, but that was my fault. I was cleaning it and broke a blade off... it had 8 others so I just sort of ignored it, but I guess that unbalanced-ness isn't really good for the fan and it died slowly and loudly until one day it just stopped spinning, started humming and my screen got lots of purple dots and everything had a shadow.
The best way to stop the itching from 'glass is to wash in acetone. MEK works well to, but that burns. And don't use toluene unless you enjoy being cancer man.
I worked a summer in a marina doing all kinds of nifty boat repairs. Which was basically lots of chemical burns and exposure to cancer causing chemicals. The best part was climbing masts though, except when you're standing in the bos'un's chair 60' off the deck replacing a VHF antenna and someone decides to jump from the dock to the boat. Yeah, it may only move a little bit down there, but extend that up 60' feet and suddenly you're moving though a 6' arc. grrrr....
I have a similar monitor (Hyundai 423E) from 1991. The funny part is, as I was looking for a manufacture date, I came across the power consumption -- 80W. A typical P4 uses about that much, no? I have no idea what res it does, I've only ever used it as a console.
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About 160,000 people in the United States have no use of their arms and legs, a market he believes to be worth about $2 billion.
So, $12,500 for the implant and associated software. I'm sure that doesn't include the surgery either. That's a pretty hefty fee, but perhaps if/when anyone can get it the prices will come down a bit.
And of course, as the research advances they'll be able to interact with other parts of the brain, which would mean upgrades. This just doesn't seem practical for people who don't have a physical need for it. Of course, perhaps prices will come down if lots of people sign up. I somehow doubt insurance will cover this for most people.
Doesn't mean it wouldn't be really freakin' cool though.;-)
Having seen many users (both kids and adults) get confused by the right mouse button
More than one button confuses people? What happens when they have to use the keyboard? Especially if they have to push two buttons at once? Or is it just that particular button? Perhaps they need more practice with their middle finger?
OK, let's have an example of this.
Say you need 100A @ 12V for all your stuff. This isn't an unreasonable number if you have a couple of computers, an LCD or two, a heater(?!), that's crazy, but I'll bite. To get that to run 500' (again, not an unreasonable number if it has to come from some central supply in the building), you need 1000' of wire. Remember we have to make a return trip. You want 12V to be available at full load. Which means you'll need a regulator in your room (minor detail really).
To carry 100A, engineers recommend at least #4 wire (0.232" dia.) so that it doesn't get too hot. As we will see in this example #2/0 (two-aught) (0.414" dia) or bigger is a better choice.
The resistance of #2/0 is 0.15ohms/1000ft. Our run is 1000 feet (500 each way). For that length run at 100A, the voltage drop is 15.4V, so to get 12V we need a powersupply that outputs at least 27.4V. Our efficiency here is 43.79%. That sucks!
We'll try again with a bigger wire. 4/0 (0.552" dia) this time. The resistance is 0.049ohm/1000feet. Now we only need a 21.8V power supply and our efficiency is up to 55%. This still sucks compared to AC. Now imagine wiring a whole building like this. Perhaps we need 10,000A of DC power, we'd have to give up using copper and go to something with a lower resistance (silver for example). At $5.36/oz (current market price) that's just not feasable.
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300 Below seems like a possible source. They're in Decatur, IL which is about 350 Miles from Columbus, OH. What's that? Six hours?
Likewise my grandmother's cat was a fullgrown stray when it showed up in her yard. I don't know any of his history prior to that but I do know that he lived outside under a bush for two years before he consented to come in the house. I've been dozens of farms and ranches and *every* one had barn cats. I suppose you could call them semi-domesticated. That is, they lived in the barn and generally survived on mice and other little critters but wouldn't run away from people and were generally friendly.
I'll grant you that if you live in a city you probably shouldn't be letting your cats (or your children) roam around outside. However, don't go spouting crap like "cats lack the ability to live safely in the outdoors." That's the most rediculous thing I've heard all day.
Some years later the banner of Emacs supremacy was raised again in the midst of a worldwide depression blamed by many on vi users. Again, after many years of bloody warfare the supporters of Emacs were defeated. In the aftermath of this second world war, the United Nations of vi was created.
If he hibernated for the next 33 years, he'd be just in time to cash in on the 2038 problem.
Have you ever noticed that it's never a bunch of blind guys or a bunch of parapalegics that make up these silly little labels like physically challenged? Instead it's a bunch of people who are offended that the people these labels are for aren't offended. What I think is that these people who make up these things were socially inept growing up and so afraid of what others thought of them that they spent all of their time thinking about what to say to other people so that they would be accepted that they never bothered to pull their heads out of their asses and look around and listen to what other people said. Whew! Too much of a sentence.
Shouldn't that be GWU was Unix?
I'd like to challenge that and say that it most certainly comes in behind around the globe sailing competitions. Probably not far behind though. From single hand races like Vendee Globe to team races such as the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbred Race) there isn't more engineering, planning, design and testing taking place in any team sport.
The amount of skill required to eke that last tenth of a knot out of a sailboat is rarely seen in any other sport. Add to that the complex computer systems onboard the boats that calculate best routes based on current, wind, weather, wave height, boat speed, and tack all in real time you have a very complicated machine with crewed by very talented people backed with lots and lots of money and a huge supporting engineering and logistics staff. And that's when everything goes smoothly. When those sailors really shine is when a sail tears rounding a mark or a rudder breaks 1,000 miles from shore or any number of other nasty things happen. Of course that's what makes it the most fun you can have on water.
You could give it a serial port or USB connection and monitor, change power outputs. Give it a half dozen or so outputs that can be electronically switched between 14, 12, 9 and 5 volts and can have the polarity switched. Then each one would have a 2 character LED display that would read out the power and polarity.
I suppose he must have had a lot of people in his phone book, but still that's a lot of messages to recieve. I have roughly 100 #'s in my phone book and a lot of those aren't cell numbers. In fact probably less than half are. Even if he had 100 cell #'s, you're still looking to get 25-26 messages a day from him. I'd have found some way to block his messages after about the 3rd message. Besides that, it costs me money to recieve text messages. A lot less than to send them, but it still costs. I wouldn't want to be footing the bill for his protest.
Well, according to the manual for the router it takes 12VDC and the connector is + Tip, that is the positive wire goes to the inside part of the plug. So no special electronics, just wire from the battery to the router. The manual also says that the router draws 1.0amp, so I'd put a 1.5 - 2 amp fuse in line as well. The router probably has an internal fuse, but for an extra $0.50 why not?
A cookbook of synthetic foods written on a plastic paper replacement?
-48VDC for the on-hook line. It drops to 6-9VDC when you pick up the reciever and the ring pulses are in the range of 80-100VAC. That way they can be filtered out with a couple of capacitors and talking won't make the bell ring. Of course their phones are probably digital so I don't think any of that applies.
West Side Story meets IRC? You are now chatting in #gangfights, the topic is "Jets vs Sharks set to a wonderful musical score by Leonard Bernstein"
Isn't that the point though? In the marine industry, that's all we use. Actually, it's heatshrink with heat activated adhesive inside. That makes a great seal. Probably as good as the insulation on the wire.
Wait, 50% of Windows PCs being destroyed is a nightmare scenario? I thought that would be more a breath of fresh air?
Either way, you're not putting it in the back of your civic. :)
The nice thing is, you'd get an automatic improvement of the program on every compile!
It wouldn't compile, you can't do better than vi.
*ducks*
I'd just look at getting a better fan for the video card, if you can. For some reason (perhaps to sell more cards) the manufacturers of said video cards seem to use the cheapest fans they can find. Which means that they're generally pretty lound and have a rather low MTBF. I bought 4 Radeon 9100 PCI cards for a multi-head system in November and I'm down a head already. It may not be the fan's fault; perhaps the heatsink wasn't big enough to begin with, but the combined effects of being on 24/7 and thermal expansion caused the little fan to sieze and it didn't take too long before I started getting nifty artifacts on the screen. I can't even spin the fan by hand now. A similar thing happened with my GeForce 1 a long time ago, but that was my fault. I was cleaning it and broke a blade off ... it had 8 others so I just sort of ignored it, but I guess that unbalanced-ness isn't really good for the fan and it died slowly and loudly until one day it just stopped spinning, started humming and my screen got lots of purple dots and everything had a shadow.
The best way to stop the itching from 'glass is to wash in acetone. MEK works well to, but that burns. And don't use toluene unless you enjoy being cancer man.
I worked a summer in a marina doing all kinds of nifty boat repairs. Which was basically lots of chemical burns and exposure to cancer causing chemicals. The best part was climbing masts though, except when you're standing in the bos'un's chair 60' off the deck replacing a VHF antenna and someone decides to jump from the dock to the boat. Yeah, it may only move a little bit down there, but extend that up 60' feet and suddenly you're moving though a 6' arc. grrrr....
I have a similar monitor (Hyundai 423E) from 1991. The funny part is, as I was looking for a manufacture date, I came across the power consumption -- 80W. A typical P4 uses about that much, no? I have no idea what res it does, I've only ever used it as a console.
About 160,000 people in the United States have no use of their arms and legs, a market he believes to be worth about $2 billion.
So, $12,500 for the implant and associated software. I'm sure that doesn't include the surgery either. That's a pretty hefty fee, but perhaps if/when anyone can get it the prices will come down a bit.
And of course, as the research advances they'll be able to interact with other parts of the brain, which would mean upgrades. This just doesn't seem practical for people who don't have a physical need for it. Of course, perhaps prices will come down if lots of people sign up. I somehow doubt insurance will cover this for most people.
Doesn't mean it wouldn't be really freakin' cool though. ;-)
He also says:
Court Fool, n. the plaintiff.
More than one button confuses people? What happens when they have to use the keyboard? Especially if they have to push two buttons at once? Or is it just that particular button? Perhaps they need more practice with their middle finger?
Wow, you don't last long at a job do you? This is what, #3 for the day?
To carry 100A, engineers recommend at least #4 wire (0.232" dia.) so that it doesn't get too hot. As we will see in this example #2/0 (two-aught) (0.414" dia) or bigger is a better choice.
The resistance of #2/0 is 0.15ohms/1000ft. Our run is 1000 feet (500 each way). For that length run at 100A, the voltage drop is 15.4V, so to get 12V we need a powersupply that outputs at least 27.4V. Our efficiency here is 43.79%. That sucks!
We'll try again with a bigger wire. 4/0 (0.552" dia) this time. The resistance is 0.049ohm/1000feet. Now we only need a 21.8V power supply and our efficiency is up to 55%. This still sucks compared to AC. Now imagine wiring a whole building like this. Perhaps we need 10,000A of DC power, we'd have to give up using copper and go to something with a lower resistance (silver for example). At $5.36/oz (current market price) that's just not feasable.
Sorry you loose.