after half the charge is gone out of a capacitor, you're only going to have half the voltage. So what are we going to do about powering a dc device that needs constant input voltage? Go dc to ac to dc to get constant voltage, very wasteful of energy do to conversion inefficiencies. Put a voltage regulator on it and lose trememdous amounts of energy to heat (and also have the device shut off as the input voltage falls too close to the desired output)? any practical substitution of capacitor for battery is going to have this problem of being extremely wasteful, never mind the much lower energy density.
if one tries to make a large batch, it just pops as small bits dry off and that throws the wet (and stabler) stuff everywhere for further small poppings. So a large brick can't really be fashioned, and it thus has no practical value as a commercial or military explosive.
The more effective explosives release their energy quickly, so detonation velocity is the usual measure of strength of explosive (for example, gasoline gives more energy than TNT, but its detonation velocity is quite small). Couldn't find an authoritative source for det vel of touch powder (and its real formula is even more complicated than NI3)
Bahaha! you turn a common mid-20th century chemistry lesson into an urban legend. You're one quarter right, the crystals were nitrogen iodide, aka "touch powder". They aren't really an explosive, they do become unstable and go POP when touched or sometimes spontaneously! No one has ever killed themselves making a batch of "touch powder".
My employer sells the RedHat and SuSE too (sure, with media and support) That is a market for free software. then there's hardware and services and software on top of that.
we'll be able to itemize every cell phone user in our household, right? and each seperate phone line? And for the 8 month contract I did where i rented a house I had phone service at two locations?
not marketable? funny, I make my living setting up Redhat and SuSE Linux clusters and Unix(tm)-Linux migrations for a VAR. Some run open source software, some proprietary. But there is a HUGE market for Linux and hardware designed to run it. Most of my clients are county, city, and state governments in the midwest.
Why would open source leaders support a proprietary platform? This issue isn't NIH, it's that they want freedom. And they're winning, Sun is in trouble if you haven't noticed, open source is growing.
Free Software doesn't need Sun, but Sun uses and distributes Free software. Sun should work with RMS, his type of software is * gaining * market share. If Sun doesn't shape up real soon they will soon become go out of business, leaving proprietary java in a mess, and another popular de-facto java won't have to "catch up" to sun's.
was that in a hot climate?, in Michigan water vapor was visible most the time, and made huge clouds into the sky in the spring/fall/winter. Of course, that was 500 feet from my desk window, not 10 miles.
let me modify what another replier said, and you'll get better. Use a nutrient-rich hand lotion when you wank off . This "growing area of scar tissue" will then heal.
and my kodak digital camera once in a while (like every three months) gets "stuck" where I have to pop the batteries out and back in again. I should really look the thing over for a hidden reset button.
23 in the 34 years since first one in 1972, currently 0.67 per year. There are other factors in the the earth's rotation that make skipping or even a negative one necessary sometimes
leap seconds are added to the "civil" day to solve that problem roughly every year at present. And there's more than one type of "day", there's mean solar day, which in 1820a.d. was 86,400 atomic seconds, and now is about 2 milliseconds longer.
if that driver is running your only disk drive or only drive array, do you really care when it crashes whether it was running in userspace or kernelspace
no, only about 10% of what Bush has done has kept us from further attack, and the other 90% is about turning the U.S. into a police state. And the bungled war on Iraq was a huge side-track to continued efforts to exterminate those who attacked us, we have woefully few of our armed forces pursuing the masterminds of the 9/11 attack. Bush caling the Iraq war part of the "war on terror" either means he's a liar and/or a complete shit head.
8-way Itanium2 might have had some oomph over a year ago, but the delays in any new chips (and the coming dual core will run at slow speed) mean its competitors are now way out ahead. Just like SGI's MIPS machines, those Itanic of yours will be on eBay real cheap real soon
No, they WERE a good company, but couldn't adapt, commodity hardware making their graphics processors look weak, and the HUGE mistake of basing their supercomputers on the tanking Itanic, for which the delays for their dual-core (and at greatly reduced GHz which doesn't compete) have all but killed the thing
oh, let's talk about closed source companies who also don't fix bigs because it's not what's hot for the market. I'd say the problem was even worse in that realm
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after half the charge is gone out of a capacitor, you're only going to have half the voltage. So what are we going to do about powering a dc device that needs constant input voltage? Go dc to ac to dc to get constant voltage, very wasteful of energy do to conversion inefficiencies. Put a voltage regulator on it and lose trememdous amounts of energy to heat (and also have the device shut off as the input voltage falls too close to the desired output)? any practical substitution of capacitor for battery is going to have this problem of being extremely wasteful, never mind the much lower energy density.
if one tries to make a large batch, it just pops as small bits dry off and that throws the wet (and stabler) stuff everywhere for further small poppings. So a large brick can't really be fashioned, and it thus has no practical value as a commercial or military explosive. The more effective explosives release their energy quickly, so detonation velocity is the usual measure of strength of explosive (for example, gasoline gives more energy than TNT, but its detonation velocity is quite small). Couldn't find an authoritative source for det vel of touch powder (and its real formula is even more complicated than NI3)
you know what they say, the skinny ones spit but the big fat ones swallow
Bahaha! you turn a common mid-20th century chemistry lesson into an urban legend. You're one quarter right, the crystals were nitrogen iodide, aka "touch powder". They aren't really an explosive, they do become unstable and go POP when touched or sometimes spontaneously! No one has ever killed themselves making a batch of "touch powder".
ah, just like the cooling fan exhaust port of any laptop with "Intel Inside"
My employer sells the RedHat and SuSE too (sure, with media and support) That is a market for free software. then there's hardware and services and software on top of that.
we'll be able to itemize every cell phone user in our household, right? and each seperate phone line? And for the 8 month contract I did where i rented a house I had phone service at two locations?
not marketable? funny, I make my living setting up Redhat and SuSE Linux clusters and Unix(tm)-Linux migrations for a VAR. Some run open source software, some proprietary. But there is a HUGE market for Linux and hardware designed to run it. Most of my clients are county, city, and state governments in the midwest.
Why would open source leaders support a proprietary platform? This issue isn't NIH, it's that they want freedom. And they're winning, Sun is in trouble if you haven't noticed, open source is growing.
Free Software doesn't need Sun, but Sun uses and distributes Free software. Sun should work with RMS, his type of software is * gaining * market share. If Sun doesn't shape up real soon they will soon become go out of business, leaving proprietary java in a mess, and another popular de-facto java won't have to "catch up" to sun's.
was that in a hot climate?, in Michigan water vapor was visible most the time, and made huge clouds into the sky in the spring/fall/winter. Of course, that was 500 feet from my desk window, not 10 miles.
let me modify what another replier said, and you'll get better. Use a nutrient-rich hand lotion when you wank off . This "growing area of scar tissue" will then heal.
but you CAN leave the KGB or NSA or mafia, they all have early retirement programs
and my kodak digital camera once in a while (like every three months) gets "stuck" where I have to pop the batteries out and back in again. I should really look the thing over for a hidden reset button.
a godsend to have a buggy failing driver continue to risk and/or corrupt my data? no thanks.
23 in the 34 years since first one in 1972, currently 0.67 per year. There are other factors in the the earth's rotation that make skipping or even a negative one necessary sometimes
let's go back to Decimal Time , aka French Revolutionary Time.
leap seconds are added to the "civil" day to solve that problem roughly every year at present. And there's more than one type of "day", there's mean solar day, which in 1820a.d. was 86,400 atomic seconds, and now is about 2 milliseconds longer.
if that driver is running your only disk drive or only drive array, do you really care when it crashes whether it was running in userspace or kernelspace
no, only about 10% of what Bush has done has kept us from further attack, and the other 90% is about turning the U.S. into a police state. And the bungled war on Iraq was a huge side-track to continued efforts to exterminate those who attacked us, we have woefully few of our armed forces pursuing the masterminds of the 9/11 attack. Bush caling the Iraq war part of the "war on terror" either means he's a liar and/or a complete shit head.
doh! and I been calling it SUCKLE
8-way Itanium2 might have had some oomph over a year ago, but the delays in any new chips (and the coming dual core will run at slow speed) mean its competitors are now way out ahead. Just like SGI's MIPS machines, those Itanic of yours will be on eBay real cheap real soon
No, they WERE a good company, but couldn't adapt, commodity hardware making their graphics processors look weak, and the HUGE mistake of basing their supercomputers on the tanking Itanic, for which the delays for their dual-core (and at greatly reduced GHz which doesn't compete) have all but killed the thing
oh no, India had its problems WAY before British imperialism, people were treated even WORSE before then.
In real world implementations, there's layers out the wazoo, my employer thanks you for the hardware sales.
oh, let's talk about closed source companies who also don't fix bigs because it's not what's hot for the market. I'd say the problem was even worse in that realm