>>However, there's an increasing number of >>appliances in a modern household that would be >>much better served by a 12V DC supply.
While it would seem to be a good idea for the power companies to hook up a 12v dc circut to your home, you must remember why the power companies use such high voltages to begin with. It has to do with the resistance of the wires.
The best way to transmit 100,000 watts of electricity is at 100,000v AC at 1 ampre versus 1v AC at 100,000 ampres. The more ampres you cram into a wire, regardless of the voltage, the higher the temperature of the wire (to those people who may get angry at the way I phrased this, you try and explain it a bit better).
DC cannot be transformed the way AC can. DC voltage is changed by adding a load to the current (i.e. a resistor). While this will work with AC as well, generally, induction is used instead.
If anybody thinks I am incorrect, please correct me here.
Why not create a device that plugs into the standard 110v ac incandescant outlet (the standar screw type). The device would have the transformer in it. The bottom half would have some other fixture type (circular 12v dc car outlet). Each led bulb would fit into the secondar fixture. This way if the leds fail (never seen it happen), you don't have to replace a perfectly good transformer.
I would rather wire a 12v dc circut with special fixtures instead of putting a device in each fixture as transformers are incredibly inefficient.
To determine which car slows and which has priority, we can use credits.
Basically, the driver has the ability to hit a switch that says "I'm in a hurry."
Every time someone gives up priority to his car, he looses a credit, and the person who slowed gains a credit.
If both cars have the "I'm in a hurry" flag set, then it is based on the car with the most credits (as he has likely given priority more often than taking it)
Emergency vehicles would have a switch that says "Get the hell outta my way." When this switch is on, other vehicles will open the shoulder (or another lane if needed) and otherwise drive normally. The vehicle might also have the ability to shut down a selected area for the unfortunate drunken pedestrian who wandered into the land of pain.
Busses (and for us lucky? folk who have to deal with them, street cars) would always take priority and would not affect the priority credits of other vehicles.
Credits are the property of the local DMV and are associated with the registrant of the car, not the car itself. Buy a new car? Your credits are attached when you register it. Credits can not be transferred, bought, sold, or inherited. New registrants will be issued new credits.
If MS tries to patent HTTP, I'll personally design and patent the CLTTP (cross-linked text transport protocol) based on a theory of mine.
It would be very easily implimented into Apache as well as other current HTTP servers. As I will currently own the patent to it, I will have a say in who does an does not develop using it.
I plan to allow all corporations, public entities, private entities, non-profit entities, and CoyboyNeal full use of the protocol for free, except Microsoft will be prohibited from developing server software or client software citing the security of their previous applications. (Besides, they currently own the patent to a perfectly good protocol, why would they need mine?) They would not, however be prohibited from developing server or client packages that require a third-party plugin to use CLTTP.
After ten years, I would release the patent to the public domain.
--- The above is moot. I believe that there is enough 'prior art' of the HTTP protocol to prevent MS from trying to patent it. I even have a copy of the HTTP/1.1 rfc on my desktop.
A scheme I've been thinking of detects the debugger and simply sets a flag. Later on, (at a random time), the flag is checked. If flag == True, then one of about 200 different errors conditions is created (i.e. a tempfile is allocated, written to, deleted, and then an access is attempted. The error causes program exit).
It may take several days, maybe weeks, for a programmer to determine that the errors are not real. Maybe even longer to figure out the they are all related to a flag that was set at program start up.
If the program watches the system clock, it's easy to tell that it was paused, and can then set the flag.
BTW, though I may sound like I know what I'm talking about here, I can assure you that I've never tried this sort of protection before, it's just a theory.
I imagine that the magnets might be too powerfull and either upon bringing one of the magnets close the the glass, it pulls the other through the glass, breaking it and your fingers... or that the "pressure" created on the glass by the magnets pulling towards each other might crush the glass.
Camcording a movie ALWAYS leeds to a bad copy. Eventually, it makes it's way to the internet, where I download it and find a bad copy. I then delete it and start looking for one that's not camcorded. With all the screener tapes floating around, I don't think it would be that hard for somebody to upload one of them.
Barring that, I'll rent the DVD, rip it and upload it myself.
Isn't there a registry hack for turning off autorun? Then somebody (me?) could write a simple program in vb or something that polls the cdrom drive every n seconds. If one is found, it ASKS YOU if you want to run the autorun.
I hate playing DVDs on my computer because they always want to install their own player program, wheras ATI's DVD player works fine for me.
The following is a partial listing of my blackball database: ---------------------- ID: 21284739495 Name: Capitol Records Type: [Commercial Entities: Corportation] Alternative: Second-hand cd purchase. Duplicate cd purchase. Online music purchase/download. Reasons: Affiliation with RIAA. Unethical business practices. Releasing DRM protected media without notice on the packaging.
ID: 36876819294 Name: Beastie Boys Type: [Musical Entities: Band/Group/Performer/etc.] Alternatives: [Null] Reasons: Affiliation with Captiol Records. Releasing DRM protected media without notice on the packaging.
ID: 36876819295 Name: Beastie Boys: To the 5 Boroughs Type: [Musical Entities: Album/DVD/CD/Tape/Vinyl/etc.] Alternatives: [Null] Reasons: [Ref to #36876819294#>>(Reasons)] ---------------------- This database was created using a custom tool that will not be made available to the public at this time. I may release my blackball db as an mdb later on though, if any is interested.
>>Think of it like to processes running the same >>code. if they have the same inputs, they will have >>the same outputs. It doesn't mean they communicate >>or teleport.
I don't know about you, but my functions never have predictable outputs.
>>Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't >>make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. >>National tv with children watching and people feel >>the need to "push the envenlope."
I really don't think that a breast is going to kill a child, or even traumatize him that much. Just remember, in all likelyhood, he was sucking on one daily for several months before he could even talk.
>>If an entity can not create more value then it >>consumes it should die. This goes for both >>companies, ideas and people. Harsh, but that is the >>nature of the system. It is also the way of natural >>selection.
Isn't this precisely what happens when a company folds? It can't pay its bills because it can't generate any revenue.
that's why he used freecache and bittorrent. i don't think his hosting company's ISP would care too much for 10,000+ people trying to download a 135mb file all at the same time.
This brings to mind images of soldiers missing limbs, and little kids playing with firecrackers.
So little Tommy lost a couple fingers during an unfortunate accident with that M-80? Not to worry! The Nanos that he received as part of his booster supplement years ago will automatically regenerate the missing fingers in a couple weeks.
This conjures up images of fingers laying on the ground that may also be trying to rebuild the parts of the body that are missing from the fingers in much the same way that a plant can be reproduced by planting pieces of the plant (i.e. cloning)
Here's an interesting sci-fi idea for one of those "Demolition Man" style futures when sex is outlawed: reproduction via mitosis. Some nanos are injected and the person quite literally splits into two separate individuals.
Just some weird outside-the-box ideas for you to think about.
BTW, I am of the mind that there is no God and as such, I believe that cloning should be allowed and that people who clone others -- or parts thereof -- are not playing God. Cloning should be allowed, but only as long as some form of population control is also authorized.
On second thought, maybe cloning isn't such a great idea. There are too many damn people as it is. Why find new and interesting ways to create more? That and I am personally against population control.
-- In all likelihood, I am probably at least partially inebriated during this particular post.
I was listening to some standup comic a couple days ago. He was talking about how in Texas, the speed limit was 75. Unless you're in an 18-wheeler, then it's 70. Unless it's at night, then it's 65. Unless you're a car towing a big trailer, then it's 60.
And that's because having everybody drive the same speed on the same road... just doesn't really make all that much sense.
Heck, I'm surprised they even make them drive the same direction.
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In my state, California, you can't get a license if you have epilepsy or other similar seizure disorder.
I'm living in the Canoga Park "neighborhood" of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California (about 15-25 miles north west of downtown Los Angeles)
The closest major intersection to my house has a camera and even has a flash so they can see the plates at night. I see those flashes go off all the time while I wait for the bus on my way to work in the morning.
I would assume that the images could be sent via infrared to a box at the side of the road that I hooked into the telephone system.
These devices could probably communicate between each other wirelessly or via IR and determine the speed and direction of the car. That information could then be sent to the nearest "droppoint" via IR (i.e. to a box on the side of the road), sent via telephone to the nearest CHP office and relayed to the CHP officer that is exactly three blocks ahead of you...
Just my thoughts on that, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
BTW, as of this writing, I have not been able to find a mirror of the article, so I can't rtfa.
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>>However, there's an increasing number of
>>appliances in a modern household that would be
>>much better served by a 12V DC supply.
While it would seem to be a good idea for the power companies to hook up a 12v dc circut to your home, you must remember why the power companies use such high voltages to begin with. It has to do with the resistance of the wires.
The best way to transmit 100,000 watts of electricity is at 100,000v AC at 1 ampre versus 1v AC at 100,000 ampres. The more ampres you cram into a wire, regardless of the voltage, the higher the temperature of the wire (to those people who may get angry at the way I phrased this, you try and explain it a bit better).
DC cannot be transformed the way AC can. DC voltage is changed by adding a load to the current (i.e. a resistor). While this will work with AC as well, generally, induction is used instead.
If anybody thinks I am incorrect, please correct me here.
Why not create a device that plugs into the standard 110v ac incandescant outlet (the standar screw type). The device would have the transformer in it. The bottom half would have some other fixture type (circular 12v dc car outlet). Each led bulb would fit into the secondar fixture. This way if the leds fail (never seen it happen), you don't have to replace a perfectly good transformer.
I would rather wire a 12v dc circut with special fixtures instead of putting a device in each fixture as transformers are incredibly inefficient.
Enter priority credits.
To determine which car slows and which has priority, we can use credits.
Basically, the driver has the ability to hit a switch that says "I'm in a hurry."
Every time someone gives up priority to his car, he looses a credit, and the person who slowed gains a credit.
If both cars have the "I'm in a hurry" flag set, then it is based on the car with the most credits (as he has likely given priority more often than taking it)
Emergency vehicles would have a switch that says "Get the hell outta my way." When this switch is on, other vehicles will open the shoulder (or another lane if needed) and otherwise drive normally. The vehicle might also have the ability to shut down a selected area for the unfortunate drunken pedestrian who wandered into the land of pain.
Busses (and for us lucky? folk who have to deal with them, street cars) would always take priority and would not affect the priority credits of other vehicles.
Credits are the property of the local DMV and are associated with the registrant of the car, not the car itself. Buy a new car? Your credits are attached when you register it. Credits can not be transferred, bought, sold, or inherited. New registrants will be issued new credits.
If MS tries to patent HTTP, I'll personally design and patent the CLTTP (cross-linked text transport protocol) based on a theory of mine.
It would be very easily implimented into Apache as well as other current HTTP servers. As I will currently own the patent to it, I will have a say in who does an does not develop using it.
I plan to allow all corporations, public entities, private entities, non-profit entities, and CoyboyNeal full use of the protocol for free, except Microsoft will be prohibited from developing server software or client software citing the security of their previous applications. (Besides, they currently own the patent to a perfectly good protocol, why would they need mine?) They would not, however be prohibited from developing server or client packages that require a third-party plugin to use CLTTP.
After ten years, I would release the patent to the public domain.
---
The above is moot. I believe that there is enough 'prior art' of the HTTP protocol to prevent MS from trying to patent it. I even have a copy of the HTTP/1.1 rfc on my desktop.
A scheme I've been thinking of detects the debugger and simply sets a flag. Later on, (at a random time), the flag is checked. If flag == True, then one of about 200 different errors conditions is created (i.e. a tempfile is allocated, written to, deleted, and then an access is attempted. The error causes program exit).
It may take several days, maybe weeks, for a programmer to determine that the errors are not real. Maybe even longer to figure out the they are all related to a flag that was set at program start up.
If the program watches the system clock, it's easy to tell that it was paused, and can then set the flag.
BTW, though I may sound like I know what I'm talking about here, I can assure you that I've never tried this sort of protection before, it's just a theory.
I imagine that the magnets might be too powerfull and either upon bringing one of the magnets close the the glass, it pulls the other through the glass, breaking it and your fingers... or that the "pressure" created on the glass by the magnets pulling towards each other might crush the glass.
What would you get with PaperDisk + MicroFische?
I seem to remember that a MicroFische cassette will hold about 10,000 (single-sidded) pages and they do have twain compatible MicroFische readers.
(For those of you who don't know, MicroFische is an analog optical system of storing dcouments. Think automated microfilm on a reel)
Camcording a movie ALWAYS leeds to a bad copy. Eventually, it makes it's way to the internet, where I download it and find a bad copy. I then delete it and start looking for one that's not camcorded. With all the screener tapes floating around, I don't think it would be that hard for somebody to upload one of them.
Barring that, I'll rent the DVD, rip it and upload it myself.
>>Except for greedy bozo's which sneak into a ;)
>>company and just fill there pockets with company
>>cash
1: Get a job
2: ???
3: Profit!!!
you used ie?!?!
Isn't there a registry hack for turning off autorun? Then somebody (me?) could write a simple program in vb or something that polls the cdrom drive every n seconds. If one is found, it ASKS YOU if you want to run the autorun.
I hate playing DVDs on my computer because they always want to install their own player program, wheras ATI's DVD player works fine for me.
The following is a partial listing of my blackball database:
----------------------
ID: 21284739495
Name: Capitol Records
Type: [Commercial Entities: Corportation]
Alternative: Second-hand cd purchase. Duplicate cd purchase. Online music purchase/download.
Reasons: Affiliation with RIAA. Unethical business practices. Releasing DRM protected media without notice on the packaging.
ID: 36876819294
Name: Beastie Boys
Type: [Musical Entities: Band/Group/Performer/etc.]
Alternatives: [Null]
Reasons: Affiliation with Captiol Records. Releasing DRM protected media without notice on the packaging.
ID: 36876819295
Name: Beastie Boys: To the 5 Boroughs
Type: [Musical Entities: Album/DVD/CD/Tape/Vinyl/etc.]
Alternatives: [Null]
Reasons: [Ref to #36876819294#>>(Reasons)]
----------------------
This database was created using a custom tool that will not be made available to the public at this time. I may release my blackball db as an mdb later on though, if any is interested.
>>Think of it like to processes running the same
>>code. if they have the same inputs, they will have
>>the same outputs. It doesn't mean they communicate
>>or teleport.
I don't know about you, but my functions never have predictable outputs.
-The unemployed programmer
>>Do we really want to see Janet Jacksons breasts
>>every week?
I do, but I'd probably get tired of it after a while... besides, I haven't seen her left one yet...
>>Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't
>>make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all.
>>National tv with children watching and people feel
>>the need to "push the envenlope."
I really don't think that a breast is going to kill a child, or even traumatize him that much. Just remember, in all likelyhood, he was sucking on one daily for several months before he could even talk.
>>If an entity can not create more value then it
>>consumes it should die. This goes for both
>>companies, ideas and people. Harsh, but that is the
>>nature of the system. It is also the way of natural
>>selection.
Isn't this precisely what happens when a company folds? It can't pay its bills because it can't generate any revenue.
Maybe Californians are very susceptible to boat salesman?
Thanks for giving me a new idea for another time-lapse project...
that's why he used freecache and bittorrent. i don't think his hosting company's ISP would care too much for 10,000+ people trying to download a 135mb file all at the same time.
This brings to mind images of soldiers missing limbs, and little kids playing with firecrackers.
So little Tommy lost a couple fingers during an unfortunate accident with that M-80? Not to worry! The Nanos that he received as part of his booster supplement years ago will automatically regenerate the missing fingers in a couple weeks.
This conjures up images of fingers laying on the ground that may also be trying to rebuild the parts of the body that are missing from the fingers in much the same way that a plant can be reproduced by planting pieces of the plant (i.e. cloning)
Here's an interesting sci-fi idea for one of those "Demolition Man" style futures when sex is outlawed: reproduction via mitosis. Some nanos are injected and the person quite literally splits into two separate individuals.
Just some weird outside-the-box ideas for you to think about.
BTW, I am of the mind that there is no God and as such, I believe that cloning should be allowed and that people who clone others -- or parts thereof -- are not playing God. Cloning should be allowed, but only as long as some form of population control is also authorized.
On second thought, maybe cloning isn't such a great idea. There are too many damn people as it is. Why find new and interesting ways to create more?
That and I am personally against population control.
--
In all likelihood, I am probably at least partially inebriated during this particular post.
I was listening to some standup comic a couple days ago. He was talking about how in Texas, the speed limit was 75. Unless you're in an 18-wheeler, then it's 70. Unless it's at night, then it's 65. Unless you're a car towing a big trailer, then it's 60.
And that's because having everybody drive the same speed on the same road... just doesn't really make all that much sense.
Heck, I'm surprised they even make them drive the same direction.
In my state, California, you can't get a license if you have epilepsy or other similar seizure disorder.
I'm living in the Canoga Park "neighborhood" of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California (about 15-25 miles north west of downtown Los Angeles)
The closest major intersection to my house has a camera and even has a flash so they can see the plates at night. I see those flashes go off all the time while I wait for the bus on my way to work in the morning.
This is not in a school zone.
I would assume that the images could be sent via infrared to a box at the side of the road that I hooked into the telephone system.
These devices could probably communicate between each other wirelessly or via IR and determine the speed and direction of the car. That information could then be sent to the nearest "droppoint" via IR (i.e. to a box on the side of the road), sent via telephone to the nearest CHP office and relayed to the CHP officer that is exactly three blocks ahead of you...
Just my thoughts on that, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
BTW, as of this writing, I have not been able to find a mirror of the article, so I can't rtfa.
I won't have to worry. See, now I can use the line "Baby, I AM the cure for aids."
Yep, I bet I can get laid real easy now.