It's stupid because you can buy 8 gauge cable for about 1.50$ a foot here in Montreal. What more do you need? The inductance is low, the resistance is low, and the capacitance is easily driven by any decent amp, ss or tube. What's the big deal? You barely need 4 feet for each speaker.
Most people have such terrible speakers anyways, what's the point in spending more? And terrible meaning they have the radiation pattern of a laser, no soundstage at all. Loud and lots of bass != music...
I'm sure there was a third part to the Dragonfly that could return... Hey I read that novel twenty years ago, maybe a return wasn't in the story but it was described in the appendix? Looks like I have some book spelunking to do at home.
Solved years ago by Robert Forward in The Flight of the Dragonfly, a novel with a large appendix describing an interstellar craft using a laser pumped solar sail... and it decelerates and can come back.
I agree with your idea of teaching more math to kids. Kids have brains wired to learn, it's the best time to pump mankind's accumulated knowledge into them. I know that if my parents had been more encouraging and my teachers more competent, I would have been a lot better off and I was totally ready to learn, so much so I was learning more on my own, to the detriment of high school in general.
Now at 33, I find I have 0 patience with learning, I'm too busy working and playing in my lab. I can only learn what I feel like learning, as opposed to just drinking in whatever is presented to me.
If I ever have kids, I'll show them algebra and calculus when they're 8, for sure! They'll probably need to look at it for 5 minutes, and it will stick with them for life. Just like I can remember a lot of stuff from my youth, and I can't recall anything from university last year!
I believe the Amiga was the coolest computer ever, and a really great game machine as well. Too bad the ineptness of Commodore and the greed of Gould and the other schmuck killed C=.
Looks like I'll download it at work, then! I just found out my Dad has MD (wet), and since I'm a carbon copy of him, looks like that's what's in my future. Also, I have floaters. I guess I don't have great eyes, although I haven't needed a new prescription in 20 years.
I have a strong interest in any and all eye research going on.
Uh, you're wrong. I typed my comment with a wry smile because I happen to have a SX-64 not three feet away from me. It most certainly DOES NOT run on batteries, and is portable in the sense of "chiropractor's dream".
It's more of a luggable.
You can't scale things down like this. Rules change as you get smaller. Cells, as in human cells, don't have little batteries with discrete anodes and cathodes floating around. The way cells use energy is fundamentally different from a battery.
People will have to shift their point of view away from making 'big things small', and start thinking in different ways.
It is possible to miniaturize vacuum tubes, for example, but to get really small circuits there had to be a (sigh.. marketroid speak, but it works well) paradigm shift.
I think the same thing will happen with energy storage.
"Hmmm, who the fsck would record a dvd to vhs anyways."
Well, maybe not VHS, but S-VHS with a good VCR? I do. I dare you to tell the difference, there's none. I record in 16:9 enhanced and the TV is a Wega.
ANY problems with the video are a result of the CRAPPY DVD, not the VCR.
Funny, huh? I've never seen SO MANY PROBLEMS with the video since DVDs hit the shelves. Laserdisc kicks DVD all over the place.
I'm one of the 7 people that showed up. It had been a while since I went to 'GT' (I'm old, OK?) so it was pretty interesting to see the people behind the comments.
I did get a first post in, I was 15 minutes early!
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Most people have such terrible speakers anyways, what's the point in spending more? And terrible meaning they have the radiation pattern of a laser, no soundstage at all. Loud and lots of bass != music...
I'm sure there was a third part to the Dragonfly that could return... Hey I read that novel twenty years ago, maybe a return wasn't in the story but it was described in the appendix? Looks like I have some book spelunking to do at home.
Solved years ago by Robert Forward in The Flight of the Dragonfly, a novel with a large appendix describing an interstellar craft using a laser pumped solar sail... and it decelerates and can come back.
Now at 33, I find I have 0 patience with learning, I'm too busy working and playing in my lab. I can only learn what I feel like learning, as opposed to just drinking in whatever is presented to me.
If I ever have kids, I'll show them algebra and calculus when they're 8, for sure! They'll probably need to look at it for 5 minutes, and it will stick with them for life. Just like I can remember a lot of stuff from my youth, and I can't recall anything from university last year!
It means On The Other Hand.
Master / slave just means device 0 and device 1. I don't know why they chose those words, but they mean nothing, really.
I believe the Amiga was the coolest computer ever, and a really great game machine as well. Too bad the ineptness of Commodore and the greed of Gould and the other schmuck killed C=.
I have a strong interest in any and all eye research going on.
OK, fair enough: hand in your fillings, glasses and immunizations and proper nutrients from eating a good diet.
I'd love to take a peek at your dissertation but it's weighing in at 268MB. Is this normal? Some of us cheap folk are on 1gig max download services...
Close, it was 6 pins on the chip, not 8.
Uh, you're wrong. I typed my comment with a wry smile because I happen to have a SX-64 not three feet away from me. It most certainly DOES NOT run on batteries, and is portable in the sense of "chiropractor's dream". It's more of a luggable.
Look, I appreciate your efforts, but the SX-64 is hardly a "notebook" ... More like an encyclopedia shelf. Let's get real!
You can't scale things down like this. Rules change as you get smaller. Cells, as in human cells, don't have little batteries with discrete anodes and cathodes floating around. The way cells use energy is fundamentally different from a battery. People will have to shift their point of view away from making 'big things small', and start thinking in different ways. It is possible to miniaturize vacuum tubes, for example, but to get really small circuits there had to be a (sigh.. marketroid speak, but it works well) paradigm shift. I think the same thing will happen with energy storage.
"Hmmm, who the fsck would record a dvd to vhs anyways." Well, maybe not VHS, but S-VHS with a good VCR? I do. I dare you to tell the difference, there's none. I record in 16:9 enhanced and the TV is a Wega. ANY problems with the video are a result of the CRAPPY DVD, not the VCR. Funny, huh? I've never seen SO MANY PROBLEMS with the video since DVDs hit the shelves. Laserdisc kicks DVD all over the place.
I'm one of the 7 people that showed up. It had been a while since I went to 'GT' (I'm old, OK?) so it was pretty interesting to see the people behind the comments. I did get a first post in, I was 15 minutes early!