One problem is that corn sugar is a synonym for dextrose, which is used as an adjunct in brewing. I don't think fructose is as fermentable, which would result in a very different product.
Not bad, but pair with somebody. Test each others code, balance off the bugs, and pay for the difference in beers, or some other appropriate currency. Just gloating might do.
I think the Smithsonian has one on display also. What I found interesting at the NSA museum was that they had a prewar commercial model that was marketed in England. It had fewer rotors than the later military versions.
Most of the stuff in the museum when I was there was WW2 era, notably excepting part of an old Cray computer. I don't think there is much danger of any of it being reclassified.
I thought that for a long while also, but they have made the tests stronger than they used to be. When I took the novice, nearly 50 years ago, I was a kid in junior high. I took the technician as well as a lark and passed it. I choked down the 13 wpm for general, and breezed through the written again. It turned me off on cw for many years. After I got over punishment licensing I read the license manual and passed the advanced to kill time while accompanying my wife to a convention. A bit over a year ago I decided to do amateur extra just for the fun of it. I actually had to study a bit, and I am now a retired EE.
CW is obsolete. Like sailing, or celestial navigation, it can be fun, but it should no longer be a litmus test for a true radio geek.
There is a subtle difference between caller ID and ANI. ANI is used by the telco billing system and cannot be spoofed because it identifies the access line. CID can sometimes be spoofed by inserting bad data on a PRI line. Some telcos, however, check it.
I don't think it is a "fact" that he did it to get revenge on his ex-wife. He claims some concern about the welfare of her and their child. If, as he says, he passed something on to the police, such concern might not have been ungrounded. I suspect it is a hard call for a father with suspicions and access to such information to refrain from sinning.
I ran into something similar with them a bit over a decade ago. I wanted to change long distance carriers, and they had changed their policy to my great disadvantage. I pointed out to the phone rep that they were in breach of contract. It was fixed in ten minutes, with the former nominal fee waived. It might work.
A Coulomb is an ampere-second. Granted, the leading edge of a strike is microsecond, and I think there is flow both ways, but a lightning strike at least appears to persist for some time, and can do a lot of work. Maybe my intuition is misleading me, but do you have a reference?
A lot of people made contributions around that time. As a then undergraduate flunky in a physics lab, I remember playing with an early network that linked the Illiac II with a bunch of other computers. Since we weren't supposed to be playing with it, all we could do was come up with the login prompts, but several Midwestern universities were linked already. ARPANET sputtered to life in 1969, too soon for the touted theoretical contributions to be seminal. I don't doubt Davies did important work, but the article is over hyped.
If the software costs tens of thousands of dollars anyone doing due diligence is going to look for reviews of earlier versions if the version number is greater than 1.0. When they find out there aren't any earlier versions, what are they going to think?
I live in Wilmington, NC and receive all the stations with an indoor antenna, a two bay bow tie with reflector. It is an old model once carried by Radio Shack. I think Channel Master still makes them. Likely a lot of the problem is that two of the stations moved from VHF to UHF, and I haven't found a decent indoor UHF antenna for sale in town.
Three of the stations are transmitting from a tall tower at Winnabow, NC, about 15 miles from downtown Wilmington. The ABC affiliate is on top at about 2000ft. I don't know where the NBC and Fox antennas are, but those stations are running fairly low power last I knew. The CBS affiliate, which converted from a LP license, is somewhat farther away, at Riegelwood, NC, but it is watchable, although not quite as strong. The PBS station is still transmitting both analog and digital; analog from Winnabow, and digital from Delco, NC. They appear to have the strongest digital signal here, even from somewhat farther away. They also transmit four streams during the day and three during prime time when the HD stream is operating.
One problem I did note, and could never solve, is that an Element 19in receiver cannot decode the audio from the ABC station. After a lot of flailing around and calls to the station, the importer and the FCC, I finally gave up and traded the set for a different brand. This seems to be a problem with all instances of that model, but not to larger screened models by the same manufacturer.
That might work with a slight modification of the/. system. If there were a hierarchy of reviewers, such as reputable journeymen could mod up or down from a default one; maybe assistant professors to a two; associates to a three; the graybeards to a four; reserving the final mod to the review committee. If each level meta-mods the level below, and can opt to meta-mod any lower level and look at any level they please, this could work rather quickly. Maybe if someone consistently gets their upgrades upgraded, they could be promoted a level. It would be an interesting experiment.
Why does the government allow companies to make unsubstantiated claims with only a disclaimer in fine print flashed at the end of the ad? They let snake oil hucksters bellow that their miracle cure is "clinically proven" in commercials that mimic those of legitimate drugs, with only a flashed disclaimer that is extremely hard to read.
About the easiest way to deal with this is to just translate "clinically proven" to "snake oil".
In 1968 lots of liberals and academics refused to support Hubert Humphrey. That elected Nixon and led to all the evil he committed. In 2000 a lot of environmentalists supported Nader over Gore and gave us Shrub. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Obama you might as well double down and vote for McCain. It is going to be one of them or the other.
What they are doing by enacting this amnesty is denying the victims of the illegal wiretapping any recourse. Essentially anyone who used international circuits to transmit confidential or proprietary information had that information compromised and therefore devalued. I seem to recall back in the 70s the Soviets used much less detailed information on telecommunications related to commodity trading to buy an enormous amount of US wheat at an extremely low price.
If you are outgoing, technical sales might be a good fit. The received view among engineers at least used to be that the very top of the class ended up becoming professors, making very little. The next cut design engineers, doing OK, but nothing spectacular. Below them were the manufacturing engineers, making about the same. The C students, however, ended up in sales and made the most of any of them.
It depends on how much boost you are getting from the wind vs your engine driven speed. They at least used to route aircraft using pressure pattern flying to hop a tail wind. North Atlantic routes are still varied based on prevailing conditions at altitude. I would guess transcontinental routes are adjusted as well to hop the jet stream eastbound and avoid it the other way. With something as slow as a sailboat, the Gulf Stream can at times double or zero your course made good.
Finding the shortest path between two places in terms of time is an old and interesting problem. For dropping down and moving sideways, it is the brachistochrone. Playing with winds and currents it gets woollier. Finding a course that minimizes cost is a related, but somewhat different problem.
Unless things have changed since I was a grad student, scientific papers are circulated as preprints to others active on the subject matter. I have read that lately preprints are often hosted on PCs in the authors' lab. While this is often cited as being unfair to less well known researchers, one of my advisers pointed out that he sent out significantly more preprints than the number of people actually likely to be able to build on his work. Still, it does seem if the government is paying for the research, it should be publicly available without charge. For that matter, it should probably be unpatentable also.
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One problem is that corn sugar is a synonym for dextrose, which is used as an adjunct in brewing. I don't think fructose is as fermentable, which would result in a very different product.
Wooden nickels, of course.
Not bad, but pair with somebody. Test each others code, balance off the bugs, and pay for the difference in beers, or some other appropriate currency. Just gloating might do.
I think the Smithsonian has one on display also. What I found interesting at the NSA museum was that they had a prewar commercial model that was marketed in England. It had fewer rotors than the later military versions.
Most of the stuff in the museum when I was there was WW2 era, notably excepting part of an old Cray computer. I don't think there is much danger of any of it being reclassified.
I thought that for a long while also, but they have made the tests stronger than they used to be. When I took the novice, nearly 50 years ago, I was a kid in junior high. I took the technician as well as a lark and passed it. I choked down the 13 wpm for general, and breezed through the written again. It turned me off on cw for many years. After I got over punishment licensing I read the license manual and passed the advanced to kill time while accompanying my wife to a convention. A bit over a year ago I decided to do amateur extra just for the fun of it. I actually had to study a bit, and I am now a retired EE.
CW is obsolete. Like sailing, or celestial navigation, it can be fun, but it should no longer be a litmus test for a true radio geek.
There is a subtle difference between caller ID and ANI. ANI is used by the telco billing system and cannot be spoofed because it identifies the access line. CID can sometimes be spoofed by inserting bad data on a PRI line. Some telcos, however, check it.
I don't think it is a "fact" that he did it to get revenge on his ex-wife. He claims some concern about the welfare of her and their child. If, as he says, he passed something on to the police, such concern might not have been ungrounded. I suspect it is a hard call for a father with suspicions and access to such information to refrain from sinning.
I ran into something similar with them a bit over a decade ago. I wanted to change long distance carriers, and they had changed their policy to my great disadvantage. I pointed out to the phone rep that they were in breach of contract. It was fixed in ten minutes, with the former nominal fee waived. It might work.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/algae-energy-orgy
My experience with a Broadcom BCM4311 chipset card is that it won't do more than about 1Mb anyhow.
A Coulomb is an ampere-second. Granted, the leading edge of a strike is microsecond, and I think there is flow both ways, but a lightning strike at least appears to persist for some time, and can do a lot of work. Maybe my intuition is misleading me, but do you have a reference?
There must be a mistake in the article. The amount of charge isn't very big. Maybe they meant kilo Couldombs?
Maybe the solution to this is absolute liability for anyone who keeps personal information on anyone else.
A lot of people made contributions around that time. As a then undergraduate flunky in a physics lab, I remember playing with an early network that linked the Illiac II with a bunch of other computers. Since we weren't supposed to be playing with it, all we could do was come up with the login prompts, but several Midwestern universities were linked already. ARPANET sputtered to life in 1969, too soon for the touted theoretical contributions to be seminal. I don't doubt Davies did important work, but the article is over hyped.
If the software costs tens of thousands of dollars anyone doing due diligence is going to look for reviews of earlier versions if the version number is greater than 1.0. When they find out there aren't any earlier versions, what are they going to think?
I live in Wilmington, NC and receive all the stations with an indoor antenna, a two bay bow tie with reflector. It is an old model once carried by Radio Shack. I think Channel Master still makes them. Likely a lot of the problem is that two of the stations moved from VHF to UHF, and I haven't found a decent indoor UHF antenna for sale in town.
Three of the stations are transmitting from a tall tower at Winnabow, NC, about 15 miles from downtown Wilmington. The ABC affiliate is on top at about 2000ft. I don't know where the NBC and Fox antennas are, but those stations are running fairly low power last I knew. The CBS affiliate, which converted from a LP license, is somewhat farther away, at Riegelwood, NC, but it is watchable, although not quite as strong. The PBS station is still transmitting both analog and digital; analog from Winnabow, and digital from Delco, NC. They appear to have the strongest digital signal here, even from somewhat farther away. They also transmit four streams during the day and three during prime time when the HD stream is operating.
One problem I did note, and could never solve, is that an Element 19in receiver cannot decode the audio from the ABC station. After a lot of flailing around and calls to the station, the importer and the FCC, I finally gave up and traded the set for a different brand. This seems to be a problem with all instances of that model, but not to larger screened models by the same manufacturer.
That might work with a slight modification of the /. system. If there were a hierarchy of reviewers, such as reputable journeymen could mod up or down from a default one; maybe assistant professors to a two; associates to a three; the graybeards to a four; reserving the final mod to the review committee. If each level meta-mods the level below, and can opt to meta-mod any lower level and look at any level they please, this could work rather quickly. Maybe if someone consistently gets their upgrades upgraded, they could be promoted a level. It would be an interesting experiment.
Why does the government allow companies to make unsubstantiated claims with only a disclaimer in fine print flashed at the end of the ad? They let snake oil hucksters bellow that their miracle cure is "clinically proven" in commercials that mimic those of legitimate drugs, with only a flashed disclaimer that is extremely hard to read.
About the easiest way to deal with this is to just translate "clinically proven" to "snake oil".
In 1968 lots of liberals and academics refused to support Hubert Humphrey. That elected Nixon and led to all the evil he committed. In 2000 a lot of environmentalists supported Nader over Gore and gave us Shrub. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Obama you might as well double down and vote for McCain. It is going to be one of them or the other.
What they are doing by enacting this amnesty is denying the victims of the illegal wiretapping any recourse. Essentially anyone who used international circuits to transmit confidential or proprietary information had that information compromised and therefore devalued. I seem to recall back in the 70s the Soviets used much less detailed information on telecommunications related to commodity trading to buy an enormous amount of US wheat at an extremely low price.
If you are outgoing, technical sales might be a good fit. The received view among engineers at least used to be that the very top of the class ended up becoming professors, making very little. The next cut design engineers, doing OK, but nothing spectacular. Below them were the manufacturing engineers, making about the same. The C students, however, ended up in sales and made the most of any of them.
Doesn't this put the US Olympic Committee in violation of the ADA?
It depends on how much boost you are getting from the wind vs your engine driven speed. They at least used to route aircraft using pressure pattern flying to hop a tail wind. North Atlantic routes are still varied based on prevailing conditions at altitude. I would guess transcontinental routes are adjusted as well to hop the jet stream eastbound and avoid it the other way. With something as slow as a sailboat, the Gulf Stream can at times double or zero your course made good.
Finding the shortest path between two places in terms of time is an old and interesting problem. For dropping down and moving sideways, it is the brachistochrone. Playing with winds and currents it gets woollier. Finding a course that minimizes cost is a related, but somewhat different problem.
Unless things have changed since I was a grad student, scientific papers are circulated as preprints to others active on the subject matter. I have read that lately preprints are often hosted on PCs in the authors' lab. While this is often cited as being unfair to less well known researchers, one of my advisers pointed out that he sent out significantly more preprints than the number of people actually likely to be able to build on his work. Still, it does seem if the government is paying for the research, it should be publicly available without charge. For that matter, it should probably be unpatentable also.
Haven't they always? Other than the rocket fodder, supplied largely by the military, most of the heavy lifting has been done by contractors.