A guy brings up a relevant point on the fact that the science has an effect on our society, and then is torn to pieces by the carbon haters and the carbon lovers without ever hinting at which side of the argument he sits on.
Me personally, I dislike that I have been saddled by another tax in an already grim economic time. If it wasn't so hit and miss with basic survival right now, I might see it a bit differently. That being said, if we could have emotionless and politic free discussions on the whole issue, we'd all be better off. I'd like to know what the truth is, but just like the guy standing on my doorstep with his own translation of the bible, I want to know what your agenda is before I want to hear how I should change my life. Also, when your man at the top is profiting from me making another financial sacrifice, I better at least be able to see some open scientific discussion.
A buddy of mine had to sit at the bottom of a muddy hole in the middle of a sunday night splicing fiber once. Somebody used a truck to yank a length out of the ground thinking it was copper they could recycle.
Ha ha ha... that reminds me of this time... oh... 10 years ago. There was this guy at work that had just bought a 2kg block of cheese from Costco, and the power went out. He was so worried about his cheese spoiling that he sat down and ate the whole block of cheese. Couple hours later, the power came back on.
We did have an extended power outage due to a forest fire once where people were evacuated for 2 weeks. When they returned, they were told to move their fridges/freezers to the end of their driveways without opening them due to health concerns. Friends that were affected lost a lot of garden produce. The appliances were replaced by insurance/government assistance. Having an electric car tied to your home would have helped because I doubt it would have had the range to evacuate from the fire. As it was some of the towns along the evacuation route had to pack in generators to power the fuel pumps to pump fuel for people to evacuate.
I'm fortunate enough to live in a province with a government run power monopoly who's mandate is to provide stable power instead of cheap power. We rarely have power outages and pay $0.667/kWh to $0.962/kWh for power (depending on consumption) that's almost entirely generated by hydro. I guess hydro-electric dams must be able to quickly scale for demand because we do not have day/night rates.
Any suggestions for circuit design companies? low cost, one off devices primarily for development / prototyping? (nothing complex; primarily sensing circuits be it pH, ion selective probes, etc)
Not specifically looking for something to be made right now, but in the future it is a possibility.
Bring the design to my house with a case of beer and a stack of pizza!!!
I use Eagle Cad (Horrible to learn, yet powerful), print onto glossy magazine paper, iron onto Cu clad (I have a stack of 3"x4"), etch with Ferric Chloride, drill with my dremel, then solder.
We should have your prototype ready before we run out of beer and pizza.
It will be interesting to see how this is to use on a desktop computer with a proper mouse. I object to being told that desktop computers are going out of style, and I personally despise majour interface changes (Office ribbon, I'm looking at you!)
Will the "store" be locked in place like it is on my vendor locked cell phone? Kuz that'd be sweet.
One place I worked at my wife would send me a bag of cookies every day in my lunch. She'd put the cookies on the icepack in my cooler, and they would be cold and nasty by the time coffee break came around. Then I figured out that the heat from the laptop exhaust made a nice cookie warmer. First thing I'd do every morning is prop the bag open so the warm air blows in. By the time coffee break rolled around, the shop would smell like freshly baked cookies.
There's a store in my neck of the woods, Princess Auto. They ask my phone number every purchase. I used to politely decline (and they'd always politely accept) until I was with a neighbour who returned something without a receipt. They asked his phone number, and promptly exchanged the item. With a store that touts "No sale is final until you are happy", I love giving them my number as they store a transaction a lot longer then I hang onto a receipt. I have abused and returned all sorts of tools without a receipt since then.
But no RS232 port... That makes me sad. I love RS232.
We were short one RS232 patch cable once while setting up a field demo for a customer. All us tech's had a tense moment when we realized we had used the same cable for testing each component as we loaded it into the crate. Fortunately we had some spare PC power chords (3 conductors is 3 conductors right?) and one of the guys had some spare DB9's in his tool kit. Some fancy solder work and we had a patch cable before the management types knew we screwed up. Kept that 14awg com cable around for quite some time after that.
When all else fails, swap pins 2 and 3.
And don't try to tell me to use a USB adapter kuz it's never the same!
I think the problem is the wording in the article.
I pee'd a bit when I read the title... oh... I did again when I read it for the second time... look, there I go again!
I thought maybe, just maybe Sony and Nikon have developed some amazing new technology that they kept secret up until now and are blowing the doors off the solid state storage market.
But no... bit of a let down... they're just writing a spec, not developing an actual card... booooo
A buddy had a UPS with the beeper that you couldn't shut off. We found a wood screw and jammed it in the speaker hole. As he turned in the screw it got quieter and quieter until it finally quit. If you back the screw out, it will beep again.
There's no way that 350 hp, 4000 lb hunk of rolling wind resistance is going to hit 150 mph.
It's a Chevy Small Block 350 V8 with a TH-350. Same motor-transmission that is in my '77 Chevy truck.
If I ever get my motor re-assembled, I am hoping to have more then 350 HP but it's the torque I am after. There's no way my truck would hit 240kmh, but if I balanced everything, used a forged aluminum crank, blah blah blah I'd expect to be able to rev to 7000RPM and with the right gearing 240kmh shouldn't be a problem.
But I'm building mine for the bush and hope for a minimum top speed of 100kmh.
I bet if they did more research they'd find that they are also selling less then 1 over priced HDMI cable per TV sold, as well as less then 1 USB cable per printer sold. Cables and glasses are easy to order from overseas when you unpack your new toy and find they didn't include a key component.
Meh. The next door neighbours are an Apple household. The neighbour lady was showing my wife her Ipod Touch and how it lets her organize stuff on the fly, so my wife has been bugging me to get her one. Problem is, I'm not ready to let go of my "Apple hating" just yet, and I have no intentions of installing Itunes on any of my systems. I like the organization of my media server just the way it is, thanks.
I love Apple innovation, but hate their walled gardens. I'm thinking of buying the wife a Galaxy Tab for her birthday next spring.
My project is a '77 Chevy truck. I love working on that compared to any of the newer stuff. I'm pretty sure my stock AM radio could survive an EM blast, and if not, I can fix it with said hammer and screwdriver... and maybe a few twist ties.
After years of driving a 1990 Nissan Pathfinder powered by a 3.0L V6 outputting around 140HP we upgraded to a 2005 Nissan Xterra with a 4.0L V6 that has around 270 HP and consumes less fuel. What changed? Variable Valve Timing. The engine now has the ability to change the CAM on the fly. When I want power I get power. If I'm cruising on the highway and want efficiency I get efficiency. Sure it's immensely more complex then my '77 Chevy truck with the most high tech component being the AM radio, but my truck gets similar power to the Xterra with over twice the fuel consumption. When I assembled my engine I chose which CAM I wanted. I love that the Xterra can swap that up as necessary.
What I don't understand is how the car manufacturer could let entertainment options potentially take down the entire system. Sure it's great that my vehicle has all these fantastic features, but how about we isolate them from the critical functions? What would happen if I was driving my Xterra in the winter time and the software failed while I was going around a corner in the snow at the precise moment that the TCS system applied the brakes to one of my wheels to control a small amount of slip? My reckless driving aside, a system that is able to apply the brakes on my vehicle should not be so unstable as to kill me just because a third party application locked up.
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Those rare circumstances when you need something from the start menu, it's not going to be fun trying to find it.
I feel the same way about livingroom furniture. I don't care how it is, just don't move ANYTHING!
This is EXACTLY the problem with climate science.
A guy brings up a relevant point on the fact that the science has an effect on our society, and then is torn to pieces by the carbon haters and the carbon lovers without ever hinting at which side of the argument he sits on.
Me personally, I dislike that I have been saddled by another tax in an already grim economic time. If it wasn't so hit and miss with basic survival right now, I might see it a bit differently. That being said, if we could have emotionless and politic free discussions on the whole issue, we'd all be better off. I'd like to know what the truth is, but just like the guy standing on my doorstep with his own translation of the bible, I want to know what your agenda is before I want to hear how I should change my life. Also, when your man at the top is profiting from me making another financial sacrifice, I better at least be able to see some open scientific discussion.
My grad class consisted of 35 students.
A couple years later, they moved to a remote teacher system, and I hear numbers slid further still.
Google "Barriere, BC" If you need a chuckle.
A buddy of mine had to sit at the bottom of a muddy hole in the middle of a sunday night splicing fiber once. Somebody used a truck to yank a length out of the ground thinking it was copper they could recycle.
Mistake due to insufficient coffee consumption...
My rates are $0.0667/kWh to $0.0962/kWh.
Ha ha ha... that reminds me of this time... oh... 10 years ago. There was this guy at work that had just bought a 2kg block of cheese from Costco, and the power went out. He was so worried about his cheese spoiling that he sat down and ate the whole block of cheese. Couple hours later, the power came back on.
We did have an extended power outage due to a forest fire once where people were evacuated for 2 weeks. When they returned, they were told to move their fridges/freezers to the end of their driveways without opening them due to health concerns. Friends that were affected lost a lot of garden produce. The appliances were replaced by insurance/government assistance. Having an electric car tied to your home would have helped because I doubt it would have had the range to evacuate from the fire. As it was some of the towns along the evacuation route had to pack in generators to power the fuel pumps to pump fuel for people to evacuate.
I'm fortunate enough to live in a province with a government run power monopoly who's mandate is to provide stable power instead of cheap power. We rarely have power outages and pay $0.667/kWh to $0.962/kWh for power (depending on consumption) that's almost entirely generated by hydro. I guess hydro-electric dams must be able to quickly scale for demand because we do not have day/night rates.
Any suggestions for circuit design companies? low cost, one off devices primarily for development / prototyping?
(nothing complex; primarily sensing circuits be it pH, ion selective probes, etc)
Not specifically looking for something to be made right now, but in the future it is a possibility.
Bring the design to my house with a case of beer and a stack of pizza!!!
I use Eagle Cad (Horrible to learn, yet powerful), print onto glossy magazine paper, iron onto Cu clad (I have a stack of 3"x4"), etch with Ferric Chloride, drill with my dremel, then solder.
We should have your prototype ready before we run out of beer and pizza.
I lost count, are we supposed to hate this one?
It will be interesting to see how this is to use on a desktop computer with a proper mouse. I object to being told that desktop computers are going out of style, and I personally despise majour interface changes (Office ribbon, I'm looking at you!)
Will the "store" be locked in place like it is on my vendor locked cell phone? Kuz that'd be sweet.
One place I worked at my wife would send me a bag of cookies every day in my lunch. She'd put the cookies on the icepack in my cooler, and they would be cold and nasty by the time coffee break came around. Then I figured out that the heat from the laptop exhaust made a nice cookie warmer. First thing I'd do every morning is prop the bag open so the warm air blows in. By the time coffee break rolled around, the shop would smell like freshly baked cookies.
Mmmmm... me want cookies...
The cellphone did a good job of replacing the watch though.
I wanna know what it would take to build a paper airplane with autopilot.
There's a store in my neck of the woods, Princess Auto. They ask my phone number every purchase. I used to politely decline (and they'd always politely accept) until I was with a neighbour who returned something without a receipt. They asked his phone number, and promptly exchanged the item. With a store that touts "No sale is final until you are happy", I love giving them my number as they store a transaction a lot longer then I hang onto a receipt. I have abused and returned all sorts of tools without a receipt since then.
But no RS232 port... That makes me sad. I love RS232.
We were short one RS232 patch cable once while setting up a field demo for a customer. All us tech's had a tense moment when we realized we had used the same cable for testing each component as we loaded it into the crate. Fortunately we had some spare PC power chords (3 conductors is 3 conductors right?) and one of the guys had some spare DB9's in his tool kit. Some fancy solder work and we had a patch cable before the management types knew we screwed up. Kept that 14awg com cable around for quite some time after that.
When all else fails, swap pins 2 and 3.
And don't try to tell me to use a USB adapter kuz it's never the same!
Monster Cable Products, Inc. - Brisbane, CA
LoL, yeah, I could see how Monster Cable's business model could be threatened by free (as in bird) and open communication.
I think the problem is the wording in the article.
I pee'd a bit when I read the title... oh... I did again when I read it for the second time... look, there I go again!
I thought maybe, just maybe Sony and Nikon have developed some amazing new technology that they kept secret up until now and are blowing the doors off the solid state storage market.
But no... bit of a let down... they're just writing a spec, not developing an actual card... booooo
A buddy had a UPS with the beeper that you couldn't shut off. We found a wood screw and jammed it in the speaker hole. As he turned in the screw it got quieter and quieter until it finally quit. If you back the screw out, it will beep again.
There's no way that 350 hp, 4000 lb hunk of rolling wind resistance is going to hit 150 mph.
It's a Chevy Small Block 350 V8 with a TH-350. Same motor-transmission that is in my '77 Chevy truck.
If I ever get my motor re-assembled, I am hoping to have more then 350 HP but it's the torque I am after. There's no way my truck would hit 240kmh, but if I balanced everything, used a forged aluminum crank, blah blah blah I'd expect to be able to rev to 7000RPM and with the right gearing 240kmh shouldn't be a problem.
But I'm building mine for the bush and hope for a minimum top speed of 100kmh.
I'll take the 44" super swampers though...
Or what about the patent office themselves?
http://www.uspto.gov/
I bet if they did more research they'd find that they are also selling less then 1 over priced HDMI cable per TV sold, as well as less then 1 USB cable per printer sold. Cables and glasses are easy to order from overseas when you unpack your new toy and find they didn't include a key component.
Yup... and I will refuse to see the first part until the second part comes out and I can watch them back to back.
Meh. The next door neighbours are an Apple household. The neighbour lady was showing my wife her Ipod Touch and how it lets her organize stuff on the fly, so my wife has been bugging me to get her one. Problem is, I'm not ready to let go of my "Apple hating" just yet, and I have no intentions of installing Itunes on any of my systems. I like the organization of my media server just the way it is, thanks.
I love Apple innovation, but hate their walled gardens. I'm thinking of buying the wife a Galaxy Tab for her birthday next spring.
*High-five for heavy metal w00t!*
My project is a '77 Chevy truck. I love working on that compared to any of the newer stuff. I'm pretty sure my stock AM radio could survive an EM blast, and if not, I can fix it with said hammer and screwdriver... and maybe a few twist ties.
After years of driving a 1990 Nissan Pathfinder powered by a 3.0L V6 outputting around 140HP we upgraded to a 2005 Nissan Xterra with a 4.0L V6 that has around 270 HP and consumes less fuel. What changed? Variable Valve Timing. The engine now has the ability to change the CAM on the fly. When I want power I get power. If I'm cruising on the highway and want efficiency I get efficiency. Sure it's immensely more complex then my '77 Chevy truck with the most high tech component being the AM radio, but my truck gets similar power to the Xterra with over twice the fuel consumption. When I assembled my engine I chose which CAM I wanted. I love that the Xterra can swap that up as necessary.
What I don't understand is how the car manufacturer could let entertainment options potentially take down the entire system. Sure it's great that my vehicle has all these fantastic features, but how about we isolate them from the critical functions? What would happen if I was driving my Xterra in the winter time and the software failed while I was going around a corner in the snow at the precise moment that the TCS system applied the brakes to one of my wheels to control a small amount of slip? My reckless driving aside, a system that is able to apply the brakes on my vehicle should not be so unstable as to kill me just because a third party application locked up.
What about pictures of drivers using their cellphones to take pictures of drivers using their cellphones to get first post on Slashdot?
Since the goal is cheap, what about the Chumby One?
Oh... I live in Canada, I can't have one.
boo.