the pump-powered espresso machine is the best way to brew coffee ever(However, it's expensive.).
Expensive? After breaking the old filter-machine, I bought a A$70,* Sunbeam pump & boiler machine, and it tastes like real espresso to me. Its the beans that matter! (and a decent burr grinder, if grinding your own) . What am I missing?
* about 40 euros, or in the US, 99c+taxes,fees and tips, after rebate.
He was fed up with mowing the grass, so he actually paved and painted the yard.
Around here, that's commonly known as an "Italian Lawn", from its popularity with post-war southern-italian migrants. They are often guarded by concrete lions, on brick and wrought-iron walls. This would all be far less offensive than gratuitous blinking LEDs, were it not for the hideous blue roof tiles.
Assuming its the same density as Earth, cube root of 5 is 1.7, so 1.7x the radius.
Gravity is mass/r^2, 5/1.7^2 x earth, so 1.7 or 70% more.
ie surface gravity only goes up with the cube root of mass, for a constant density,
so 5x isn't as bad as it sounds.
But if it has more rock, and less iron core, the surface might me much nicer.
I totally disagree. Amazon just did what the law allows them to do.
No, not the law. They did what the legal system allowed them to do. They law says you cannot patent the obvious, or prior art, but the system allowed it.
So if you are going to accept that, you'd have to allow murder of their opponents, just so long as they hide the body well and don't get caught. After all, they owe it to the shareholders
To stabilise with 3 cables, you just need constant lift. As TFA said, you can send power back up if the wind stops, and use generators as motors. I'm not sure thats needed in the jetstream though.
but, unlike power cables and guy wires for antennas, it would also be hard to chart, since I imagine that the generator will move around quite a bit as the jetstream fluctuates.
Why not just copy the antennas, and use three guy wires? Stability, and safety.
Does the HP warranty explicitly state that installing Linux (or any other operating system) voids the warranty? If it does, then it is unfortunate, but there is not much that she can do.
Are there no consumer protection laws in your country? No matter what the written warranty says, there should still be a minimum statutory (ie by law) warranty. And a small claims (lawyer-free) court to enforce it affordably.
This of course assumes the drive uses some sort of PKI, it may be symmetric only, in which case you'd have to add something to generate the symmetric keys from a PKI infrastructure. That's doing it the hard way. There is a much simpler low-tech solution, the one-time pad. Fill the drive with random bit, and keep a copy at home. Then when recording the video, just XOR with the existing bits. 100% secure, and
no fancy crypto-chip needed. Easy write-only disk, until you get home. KISS.
Let's see if I can do some basic math today... And of course 1 candela = 1 lumens.
Sorry, today was not a good day for maths for you. Candela and lumens are not the same.
20mA!? Real high-power LEDs quote actual lumens, not useless candela. As of 2006, they are more efficient than CFLs. e.g. the Cree XR-E claims 80 lumens/W at 350mA (and much more in the latest prototypes). About 4 times the efficiency of a halogen. But that is with just over 1W per LED, which works out to a prohibitive amount of money for room lighting.
You can drive at LED at up to 5W, but efficiency drops. LEDs are best for torches (aka flashlights), bicycle lighting etc, but not yet for general room lighting.
OTOH, for coloured lights, LEDs are clear winners.
Also in the 90's - did you know that they SPED UP the shows so that a 44minute show ran for 43minutes? Yeap - another minute of ads there.
There is a good reason for that, and they still do it. Most movies and many TV shows are shot on film at 24fps, but TV here, like most of the world, is 25fps. The simplest fix is to speed it slightly. If you tried to duplicate one frame every second, it would look jerky.
This does shift the pitch slightly, but most people don't notice. However, it can be corrected and sometimes is for musicals.
OK, so its not about the lights.
And they have every right to stop you, but...
He gave me the runaround for 15 minutes before... an inconvenient 30-45 minute delay.
OK then - thats inexcusable! I was thinking one minute. No wonder you are angry.
I do get the impression that police in the US are very different to those in other developed countries. Why?
Did you get beaten up by a gang of headlights as a kid? Whats the problem? It seems like a reasonable requirement to me, to have lights on a bike at night. Reflectors are no use to pedestrians or other idiot cyclists who have no lights. You are giving cyclists a bad name. Anyway, why were you riding on the sidewalk? I'm surprised it was legal.
Speaking of Apple products, have you ever wondered why iTunes can't rip DVDs just like it does with CDs? It's due to a thing called the DMCA, which makes it illegal...
It is illegal to rip commercial CDs in Australia, due to copyright law, but iTunes does it anyway. If Apple really cared about the law (rather than just about being sued or charged), they could easily disable CD ripping in countries where it was not legal.
The US population is roughly 300MM. 18% of this is 54 million people.
Mods - please!? How does this guy get +5 insightful when he clearly hasn't bothed to read the summary, let alone the article. No - he hasn't even read the fscking HEADLINE! It says 25m, not 54. 18% of the online population. Yeah, if I'm surprised I must be new here.
The kinetic energy of the recoil will be precisely equal to the kinetic energy of the projectile.
Just being pedantic, but that's not quite right.
You are hardly pedantic. The grandparent was completely wrong - and off by many orders of magnitude in practice. Firing a handgun would be very dangerous if you got the same energy as the target!
How is that any worse than charging for incoming calls? (as i believe is standard in N America) Most of the world is caller-pays, which seems to work well.
Yet we are told that 100% of humans eventually die from something. If the risk of every cause of death (which by definition must include alcohol related ones) is reduced by 18%, that difference must go somewhere.
The risk per unit time (e.g. year) is lowered 18%. The lifetime risk of death may still be 100% (neglecting the odd statistically insignificant divinity), but you live longer. That cancer or heart disease will need more rolls of the dice to get you.
The one that gets me is that here in the UK (and probably many other places too), you can have sex at 16, but you have to be 18 to rent a video of OTHER PEOPLE having sex.
OTHER people? I read that in the UK you cannot even video yourself at 16 without risking kiddie-porn charges.
Anyway, do any western countries actually have a minimum drinking age? As opposed to a minimum age to buy or be supplied alcohol by a non-parent/guardian.
But what happens when something better comes along? What happens when someone has a great idea, but finds out he can't legally implement it?
Yes, the problem with standards is that they stick. This is why the US got stuck with NTSC, AMPS, 110V and Imperial measurement, while the rest of the world moved on to PAL/SECAM, GSM, 220V+, and metric. Actually, the rest of the world is a bit stuck too, just with better standards. So the lesson is, don't standardise too early, especially if your country is overly resistant to change. (Are you guys still using 1c coins and paper $1?:-)
It's really bad for the North American 8VSB standard used in ATSC.
Watching TV in a moving car? Not something that would have been thought of in "the rest of the world". It must require a much more powerful signal that needed for the 1m directional rooftop antennas used here. Different transmission band even?
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Expensive? After breaking the old filter-machine, I bought a A$70,* Sunbeam pump & boiler machine, and it tastes like real espresso to me. Its the beans that matter! (and a decent burr grinder, if grinding your own) .
What am I missing?
* about 40 euros, or in the US, 99c+taxes,fees and tips, after rebate.
To implement keyboard sharing at the OS level, we could use technology from here:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pornview
All PornView opera tions may be controlled with only one hand using a mouse or the key board arrow keys.Assuming its the same density as Earth, cube root of 5 is 1.7, so 1.7x the radius. Gravity is mass/r^2, 5/1.7^2 x earth, so 1.7 or 70% more. ie surface gravity only goes up with the cube root of mass, for a constant density, so 5x isn't as bad as it sounds. But if it has more rock, and less iron core, the surface might me much nicer.
No, not the law. They did what the legal system allowed them to do. They law says you
cannot patent the obvious, or prior art, but the system allowed it.
So if you are going to accept that, you'd have to allow murder of their opponents,
just so long as they hide the body well and don't get caught. After all, they owe it to the shareholders
To stabilise with 3 cables, you just need constant lift. As TFA said, you can send power back up if the wind stops, and use generators as motors. I'm not sure thats needed in the jetstream though.
>> from Seattle (where I live) to San Francisco - the nearest big city
... "Whats Vancouver?"
> As Pretzeldent Bush would say..."You forgot Portland!"
As half of Americans would say,
Are there no consumer protection laws in your country? No matter what the written warranty says, there should still be a minimum statutory (ie by law) warranty. And a small claims (lawyer-free) court to enforce it affordably.
Sorry, today was not a good day for maths for you. Candela and lumens are not the same.
20mA!? Real high-power LEDs quote actual lumens, not useless candela. As of 2006, they are more efficient than CFLs. e.g. the Cree XR-E claims 80 lumens/W at 350mA (and much more in the latest prototypes). About 4 times the efficiency of a halogen. But that is with just over 1W per LED, which works out to a prohibitive amount of money for room lighting.
You can drive at LED at up to 5W, but efficiency drops. LEDs are best for torches (aka flashlights), bicycle lighting etc, but not yet for general room lighting.
OTOH, for coloured lights, LEDs are clear winners.
There is a good reason for that, and they still do it. Most movies and many TV shows are shot on film at 24fps, but TV here, like most of the world, is 25fps. The simplest fix is to speed it slightly. If you tried to duplicate one frame every second, it would look jerky.
This does shift the pitch slightly, but most people don't notice. However, it can be corrected and sometimes is for musicals.
Obligatory wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL_speedup
BTW, its the same on PAL DVD.
Did you get beaten up by a gang of headlights as a kid? Whats the problem?
It seems like a reasonable requirement to me, to have lights on a bike at night.
Reflectors are no use to pedestrians or other idiot cyclists who have no lights. You are giving cyclists a bad name.
Anyway, why were you riding on the sidewalk? I'm surprised it was legal.
Mods - please!?
How does this guy get +5 insightful when he clearly hasn't bothed to read the summary, let alone the article.
No - he hasn't even read the fscking HEADLINE! It says 25m, not 54. 18% of the online population.
Yeah, if I'm surprised I must be new here.
You are hardly pedantic. The grandparent was completely wrong - and off by many orders of magnitude in practice.
Firing a handgun would be very dangerous if you got the same energy as the target!
No, no and no.
But they do come in a wide choice of clours, not just beige.
> Cingular charges for incoming SMS? Wow,
How is that any worse than charging for incoming calls? (as i believe is standard in N America)
Most of the world is caller-pays, which seems to work well.
OTHER people? I read that in the UK you cannot even video yourself at 16 without risking kiddie-porn charges.
Anyway, do any western countries actually have a minimum drinking age?
As opposed to a minimum age to buy or be supplied alcohol by a non-parent/guardian.
Yes, the problem with standards is that they stick.
This is why the US got stuck with NTSC, AMPS, 110V and Imperial measurement, while the rest of the world moved on to PAL/SECAM, GSM, 220V+, and metric.
Actually, the rest of the world is a bit stuck too, just with better standards.
So the lesson is, don't standardise too early, especially if your country is overly resistant to change. (Are you guys still using 1c coins and paper $1?
Watching TV in a moving car? Not something that would have been thought of in "the rest of the world".
It must require a much more powerful signal that needed for the 1m directional rooftop antennas used here.
Different transmission band even?