Ahem...
Free!!!
Tech rant: This is both an "if you live in..." and "Bikes!" and "The simple solution is sometimes the best".
So here you go. Cities that have free bikes for you to get around on. Really.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Helsinki, Finland
Denver, CO, USA and Portland, OR, USA
The Country of Lithuania
And others...
Yes, they get stolen and stuff. Mixed results. A work in progress, you might say. Maybe one of you eggheads will figure out how to make it work better.;-)
Sun Myung Moon is a megalomaniac nutball.
Maybe I shouldn't point fingers, but if you
read something in The Washington Times, you should
know the "whole" story.
Here it is
" Moon's chosen tactic, which has been highly effective, is to purchase his legitimacy outright. In addition to United Press International (UPI), Moon is the owner of the Washington Times, a conservative newspaper devoted to right-wing causes. Every operating year, the Times loses tens of millions of dollars, but profitability has never been a priority. Its intended purpose was made clear when, during Watergate, the paper ran an endless stream of pro-Nixon editorials urging the American people to forgive and forget."
Now then, I have some Moonie friends, and I've had some Hare Krishna friends, and the fact is, members are usually as normal as you or me. Leaders are a different story all together. Which is to say, I have nothing against Unification Church members, or any other religion. But The Washington Times is a propaganda newspaper, nothing more.
http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cd au dio2/95x7.htm
4000 bits = 2.47mm
http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cd au dio/95x6.htm
46mm diameter start 116mm end
all geometry assumed known
Checking: if 1) initial rpm 530 @ 46 mm @ 150kB/sec then 4000bits - 2.47mm
at 46 mm diameter, circumfrence is 144.5 mm. at 530 rpm, or 8.83333 rps.
1.44 mm / r * 8.83333 r / s = 1204.167 mm / s
Note this calculation was off by about 35%. Yeccchhh. In the ballpark, though, so time for an empirical test, yeah?
---- empirical averages -----
46 mm + 116mm / 2 = 81 mm. 254 mm circ. 1/2 into cd.
if 2.47 mm = 4000 bits, then one rev is 412095.55 bits 51511 bytes. 1000 bytes is about 5mm, visible for sure. so construct 600 mb file with 1000 bytes of 00110011 x 1000 + 00000000 x 50511 and burn it.
Results: I can't see squat. Utter failure. Oh well.
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Ahem... Free!!! Tech rant: This is both an "if you live in..." and "Bikes!" and "The simple solution is sometimes the best". So here you go. Cities that have free bikes for you to get around on. Really. Copenhagen, Denmark Helsinki, Finland Denver, CO, USA and Portland, OR, USA The Country of Lithuania And others... Yes, they get stolen and stuff. Mixed results. A work in progress, you might say. Maybe one of you eggheads will figure out how to make it work better. ;-)
Sun Myung Moon is a megalomaniac nutball. Maybe I shouldn't point fingers, but if you read something in The Washington Times, you should know the "whole" story. Here it is " Moon's chosen tactic, which has been highly effective, is to purchase his legitimacy outright. In addition to United Press International (UPI), Moon is the owner of the Washington Times, a conservative newspaper devoted to right-wing causes. Every operating year, the Times loses tens of millions of dollars, but profitability has never been a priority. Its intended purpose was made clear when, during Watergate, the paper ran an endless stream of pro-Nixon editorials urging the American people to forgive and forget." Now then, I have some Moonie friends, and I've had some Hare Krishna friends, and the fact is, members are usually as normal as you or me. Leaders are a different story all together. Which is to say, I have nothing against Unification Church members, or any other religion. But The Washington Times is a propaganda newspaper, nothing more.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i214118,00.html
d au dio2/95x7.htm
d au dio/95x6.htm
150 kB/sec 200-530 rpm
start at 530 rpm assumed.
http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/c
4000 bits = 2.47mm
http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/c
46mm diameter start
116mm end
all geometry assumed known
Checking: if 1) initial rpm 530 @ 46 mm @ 150kB/sec then 4000bits - 2.47mm
at 46 mm diameter, circumfrence is 144.5 mm.
at 530 rpm, or 8.83333 rps.
1.44 mm / r * 8.83333 r / s = 1204.167 mm / s
Note this calculation was off by about 35%. Yeccchhh.
In the ballpark, though, so time for an empirical test, yeah?
---- empirical averages -----
46 mm + 116mm / 2 = 81 mm.
254 mm circ. 1/2 into cd.
if 2.47 mm = 4000 bits, then one rev is 412095.55 bits
51511 bytes.
1000 bytes is about 5mm, visible for sure.
so construct 600 mb file with 1000 bytes of 00110011 x 1000 + 00000000 x 50511
and burn it.
Results: I can't see squat. Utter failure. Oh well.