And of course, just how effective are those state highway patrol officers? They certainly are effective revenue producers, but speeding is still endemic. In fact, if they managed to stop it, what would the state do without the revenue?
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You "wished"? I founded the local chapter in 1974. We built tissue paper hotair balloons (notice the login) and many other projects. Eventually, we even got the adults to pitch in. There were some problems because certain projects didn't scale well when the adults tried to do it "bigger and better" with no research effort. Ah well, the kids didn't get into trouble that time.
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Dead on. My kids have more un-common sense than most of the neighbors because they see me do things that work out when I'm careful and see me hopping around on one foot, yelling "Yipes, Youch!, Eiieee!", when I'm not. Recently my 4 year old son decided to try a new climbing stunt on a jungle gym. He recognized that he had exceeded the height he had exerience with. Did that stop him? No! He said, "Daddy, I need a safety team!" Recognizing the relationship between prior experience, challenges and managing the risks of new experience is a major part of effective intelligence. I try never to stop my children, but always to get them to observe, estimate, plan and reflect on how close their estimates were to what happened when they tried.
Are you being deliberately obtuse or do you really not get the conventional useage being presented here?
It is not at all unusual to use a markup language (e.g. dialect of XML) to describe many different things. In many cases, these things may be actions to be taken. Yes, it is true that some interpreter on the back end will take the actions.
With HTML, the interpreter is your browser; it takes actions to display formatted text and graphics.
With VoiceXML, the interpreter makes selections and follows decision paths based on the receieve mark up.
I have a home built embedded system that takes a home built XML dialect renders the dialect into the state of appliances in my home e.g. turns them on or off.
It follows that RTML can be a dialect that describes actions to be "rendered" by a telescope or its associated machinery. It might say - point this way -, or - film from this time to that time -, or - track this path -.
Many companies even let markup text drive human actions. Ever buy something on line to see it delivered by an express carrier the next day?
Yes. It's almost self-enforcing. Anyone to whom I distribute my genetic code by an act of reproduction(as in my children), should have an inalienable right to attempt to modify and reproduce it to their hearts content. Anyone with whom they consent to engage in the act of reproducing it gains a right to participate in modifying and reproducing it. This right propagets to their progeny.
We might have to think about how to restrict folks who obtain someone's genetic code without permission or under a special non-reproductive license. This would include any medical or legal sample taken for any purpose that doesn't explicitly include consent for reproduction. Or any reproductive act lacking the quality of mutual consent.
Help me to understand. If you publish something, doesn't that put it in the public domain? If it's in the public domain, how can it then be patented?
Confused by everyone thinking that a patent can ever truly be defensive.
I wish I had some moderator points to give you. Ignoring the sarcasm, anatomical references, etc., your suggestion looks more powerful than any I've seen to date.
It seems to me that there are two sides to this:
IT Admins have a lot to lose here and should speak up. They are informed, at risk and may be able to get corp. backing.
If the govt ignores the "legitimate" uses that this law technically outlaws, there should be a pretty meaningful "selective prosecution" issue.
So if the law passes how do we get the prosecutors to go after some corp. with deep pockets before they eat up all of us little guys?;-)
For storing sufficient fuel to power the vehicle, those are the storage methods. I assume they are painful. However, I looked into this a while back.
The advocates of this idea are claiming that small amounts of hydrogen can have a large impact because somehow the hydrogen interacts with the partially spent hydrocarbons that are re-cycled out of the PVC valve. During this interaction, they claim that the pollutants are reformed into natural gas and then burned.
Since they are not using the hydrogen as a primary fuel, but as a way of reforming partially spent fuels, the volume they claim to require in small enough that they are generating it via electrolysis from a jar in the engine compartment.
This leads to some questions: How much water vapor is getting into the system? Is that the real cause of any efficiencies that they are seeing? What is the true composition of the gases coming from the PVC before and after mixing with hydrogen?
I almost decided to try it out on an old Pinto or something. The main defect of any of this works seems to be that they aren't at all rigorous in their measurements or experiments. The efficiencies they claim are dramatic, but the measurements are anecdotal at best.
Sure, a latch makes sense. With a line driver and a latch, it should be pretty straight forward to send a stream of bytes to the parallel port to achieve various combinations of glowing LED's. I'm curious. Would you roll your own driver as the Stiquito folks do, or just pretend the glow ball was a line printer? I'd like to think it would be easy to make the line driver circuit emulate a tty printer. Then you could simply write a program that wrote characters to the printer port/device?
The Stiquito book and this site offer plans for converting a parallel port output to useful digital signals for driving actuators including relays and muscle wire. Or you can just find some similar plans using a ULN2803 chip (including how to use it to switch LED's) online(PDF)
I like your idea. If I get time, I may build one and mail you the plans.
On old TV's it's usually the flywire transformer. Often, you can "whack" it and break the resonance for a short period. As high frequency electricity travels through it, it "whines". Electricity has lots of properties that can move objects. (Electric motors are an obvious example, speakers and piezo devices are others.) Electricity is pretty good for making sound. High voltage electricity is better. Computer displays and TV's tend to have both. Electstatic speaker project
I think your TV scans at 15khz and uses big magnets and electric fields. Your old fashioned monitor does the same, but probably at various rates depending on the resolution you've selected.
I often hear the hum of the dispaly on my old Palm III when I turn on the backlight.
When large areas are being redrawn, that just adds another factor that changes what is going on. It might add a beat frequency that you can hear. It might disrupt a resonance that was hiding or exposing a constant state sound.
On the other hand, while I play with high voltage regularly and sound occasionally, IANAAE (I am not an acoustics engineer.)
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And of course, just how effective are those state highway patrol officers? They certainly are effective revenue producers, but speeding is still endemic. In fact, if they managed to stop it, what would the state do without the revenue?
You "wished"? I founded the local chapter in 1974. We built tissue paper hotair balloons (notice the login) and many other projects. Eventually, we even got the adults to pitch in. There were some problems because certain projects didn't scale well when the adults tried to do it "bigger and better" with no research effort. Ah well, the kids didn't get into trouble that time.
Dead on. My kids have more un-common sense than most of the neighbors because they see me do things that work out when I'm careful and see me hopping around on one foot, yelling "Yipes, Youch!, Eiieee!", when I'm not. Recently my 4 year old son decided to try a new climbing stunt on a jungle gym. He recognized that he had exceeded the height he had exerience with. Did that stop him? No! He said, "Daddy, I need a safety team!" Recognizing the relationship between prior experience, challenges and managing the risks of new experience is a major part of effective intelligence. I try never to stop my children, but always to get them to observe, estimate, plan and reflect on how close their estimates were to what happened when they tried.
It is not at all unusual to use a markup language (e.g. dialect of XML) to describe many different things. In many cases, these things may be actions to be taken. Yes, it is true that some interpreter on the back end will take the actions.
With HTML, the interpreter is your browser; it takes actions to display formatted text and graphics.
With VoiceXML, the interpreter makes selections and follows decision paths based on the receieve mark up.
I have a home built embedded system that takes a home built XML dialect renders the dialect into the state of appliances in my home e.g. turns them on or off.
It follows that RTML can be a dialect that describes actions to be "rendered" by a telescope or its associated machinery. It might say - point this way -, or - film from this time to that time -, or - track this path -.
Many companies even let markup text drive human actions. Ever buy something on line to see it delivered by an express carrier the next day?
Yes. It's almost self-enforcing. Anyone to whom I distribute my genetic code by an act of reproduction(as in my children), should have an inalienable right to attempt to modify and reproduce it to their hearts content. Anyone with whom they consent to engage in the act of reproducing it gains a right to participate in modifying and reproducing it. This right propagets to their progeny. We might have to think about how to restrict folks who obtain someone's genetic code without permission or under a special non-reproductive license. This would include any medical or legal sample taken for any purpose that doesn't explicitly include consent for reproduction. Or any reproductive act lacking the quality of mutual consent.
Help me to understand. If you publish something, doesn't that put it in the public domain? If it's in the public domain, how can it then be patented? Confused by everyone thinking that a patent can ever truly be defensive.
I wish I had some moderator points to give you. Ignoring the sarcasm, anatomical references, etc., your suggestion looks more powerful than any I've seen to date.
It seems to me that there are two sides to this:
So if the law passes how do we get the prosecutors to go after some corp. with deep pockets before they eat up all of us little guys? ;-)
The advocates of this idea are claiming that small amounts of hydrogen can have a large impact because somehow the hydrogen interacts with the partially spent hydrocarbons that are re-cycled out of the PVC valve. During this interaction, they claim that the pollutants are reformed into natural gas and then burned.
Since they are not using the hydrogen as a primary fuel, but as a way of reforming partially spent fuels, the volume they claim to require in small enough that they are generating it via electrolysis from a jar in the engine compartment.
This leads to some questions: How much water vapor is getting into the system? Is that the real cause of any efficiencies that they are seeing? What is the true composition of the gases coming from the PVC before and after mixing with hydrogen?
I almost decided to try it out on an old Pinto or something. The main defect of any of this works seems to be that they aren't at all rigorous in their measurements or experiments. The efficiencies they claim are dramatic, but the measurements are anecdotal at best.
Sure, a latch makes sense. With a line driver and a latch, it should be pretty straight forward to send a stream of bytes to the parallel port to achieve various combinations of glowing LED's. I'm curious. Would you roll your own driver as the Stiquito folks do, or just pretend the glow ball was a line printer? I'd like to think it would be easy to make the line driver circuit emulate a tty printer. Then you could simply write a program that wrote characters to the printer port/device?
The Stiquito book and this site offer plans for converting a parallel port output to useful digital signals for driving actuators including relays and muscle wire.
Or you can just find some similar plans using a ULN2803 chip (including how to use it to switch LED's) online(PDF) I like your idea. If I get time, I may build one and mail you the plans.
On old TV's it's usually the flywire transformer. Often, you can "whack" it and break the resonance for a short period. As high frequency electricity travels through it, it "whines".
Electricity has lots of properties that can move objects. (Electric motors are an obvious example, speakers and piezo devices are others.) Electricity is pretty good for making sound. High voltage electricity is better. Computer displays and TV's tend to have both.
Electstatic speaker project
I think your TV scans at 15khz and uses big magnets and electric fields. Your old fashioned monitor does the same, but probably at various rates depending on the resolution you've selected.
I often hear the hum of the dispaly on my old Palm III when I turn on the backlight.
When large areas are being redrawn, that just adds another factor that changes what is going on. It might add a beat frequency that you can hear. It might disrupt a resonance that was hiding or exposing a constant state sound. On the other hand, while I play with high voltage regularly and sound occasionally, IANAAE (I am not an acoustics engineer.)