The web is made of trillions of dead links right now. As it is I have to change some bookmarks because the authors have changed their websites and don't allow linking to certain sections. Whole websites go offline. Domain names expire. forums change. Even if it is nothing more than on a new server, Data is constantly moving on the internet.
If you expect all information to stay exactly where it was 5 years ago then you have misunderstood the web.
Mod me down if you wish, but if you can't tell the difference then you will never know the difference.
if you have a spare grand check out the irex illiad. take Sony's ebook, or kindle add in wi-fi, touch screen and linux. You can request from the developer a method to unlock the system so you can install applications on it. People have already setup a simple web browser, and mp3 player.
both of those kill the battery life while you use them, but you can also turn them off. If the damn thing didn't cost a small fortune then I would have gotten one.
usually finding lamps is the hard part. A lot of new lighting requires a transformer to run at 12v. To test those lights I just hook them up to a car battery. Landscape lighting, led lighting, 12 volt track and recess. Low voltage lighting is possible to do today. it's pricey but not much worse than compact fluorescents. Though coming down the pipes are modified fiber optics for area lighting. Light up an entire room with a handful of led's.
My Motorola L2 would dial the first person in my address book under the same situation. Since then I have reordered the main menu list to put games first. Most automatic calling has been stopped. Now the big problem isn't the menu but the voice dial button which is easier to press.
I sneezed once and it called my father. I was laughing so hard I forgot to cancel the call until he picked up which resulted only in more laughter.
I am wondering about that as well. on the ipod touch i tested at bestbuy I was able to easily spell slashdot.org into safari on the first try. The auto correct spelling was very easy to learn.
I wonder if they are dealing with the iPhone knockoffs that are running windows mobile?
Man of 5k years ago built the pyramids. I don't think you will find a great change of intelligence since then. man of Today is better educated and learns more, but he is still just a man. Now Man of 15k years ago that would be interesting. At the point we started coming together to form villages/tribes man hasn't changed all that much.
diesel-Electric subs noisy? what are you smoking? and do you share it with US submariner's.
The Standard Diesel-electric is quieter than Nuclear Subs. Do you know why? because Electric motors are very quiet. While both types of subs use electric drive motors the nuclear reactors also turn steam turbines which make noise all the time. While quieter than a diesel engine by several orders of magnitude it is louder than a pure electric motor running on batteries.
Nuclear Power has several other advantages, including no need for consumable fuel, or exhausting harmful gases. A nuclear sub can also stay down on the bottom for the entire duration of it's mission, while diesel subs have to come up high enough to run the diesel motors to recharge the battery packs.
What's really funny is that the people who made iTunes popular aren't going to buy these video's as they may or may not work on their machines and won't use IE as they are smart enough to stay away from malware.
1)They are noisy. Don't underestimate this. 2) under massive use and infrequent repair conditions like the average person treats their car the helicopters would have a high failure rate. Look at Afganastan and Iraq. Choppers go down almost monthly. a large enough percentage of those are just mechanical failures. Even if it is only 5% 5% percent in civilian fleet is thousands and thousands.
What we should have more of though are helicopter taxi's. especially for the short commuter routes in between cities. regions where filling a 20 person plane isn't always possible yet the 3-4 hundred mile drive can be done in an two hours by helicopter, saving the person from 4-5 hours of driving. This also has to be priced accordingly. It can't be much more than $100 person or driving becomes cheaper.
Not sure about planes but in certain remote regions of Canada you are required to carry a firearm for self defense againist bears. It makes sense if your flying over those regions you would need the gun.
So it' like a girl who wants to have pornographic pictures taken of her for money, yet is all pissed off when her father buys that very magazine two months later. My opinion. You want privacy, You want Only certain people to know certain things. you don't publish them on a website, you don't run around a bar with whomever doing stupid things.
In general the information on FAcebook/myspace/ etc is ultimately harmless, As those people will tell their co-workers eaactly what thy did anyways
I actually did all the math for this as a proof for myself to show that a 12volt dc lighting system at 1000watts used the same power as a 100watt 120volt light bulb but light an area 10 times the size.
what you seem to be forgetting what a watt is Volts*Amps = Watts
if you change the voltage you change the amperage available. while the total system wattage stays the same. It isn't 100% perfect but extremely viable.
You seem to be forgetting that the ultracaps will be outputting at 5volts for a computer. a voltage regulator will keep it that way. At 5 volts the capacitor we shall say has 60 amps of available power. Enough to run a laptop. 5 * 60 = 300 watts. To recharge said capacitor you will need 300 watts of power, but the power grid outputs at 120 volts. 300/120 is 2.5 amps. while such a setup isn't going to be 100% percent efficient it is effective. Your seem to be getting stuck at converting the voltage down to 5 volts before it gets to the capacitor. While it is true for batteries it isn't true for Capacitors.
The Power companies use that very method for delivering power to your house. 1,000 volt transmission lines go to transformers which drop it down to 240/120 volts for your house and in the process gets 10 times the amperage. Meaning that 1000 volt line only needs to carry 100 amps to give 1000 amps to a half a dozen houses.
As for me, I deal with capacitors and transformers daily. It's part of my job.
It's been something I have dreamed of. the OS stores itself on a compact flash card, leaving the Hard drive for applications and data only. In fact updating said card should be a royal pain by default as the OS should load it only read only.
advantages you get are speed in loading, and increased security. software hacking it becomes difficult as a reboot would wipe the memory.
OS X, linux, and other *nixes can do this today with little to no modification.
yes and no. modern batteries for laptops are ~55 watt hours. but they at run at ~5 volts roughly 11 amps for an hour if memory serves. but at 120volts that drops down to 0.5 amps. that's a 60 watt light bulb at 130 volts
my math is off as I am not bothering to look up the exact calculations but it's close. It's why transmission lines run at 1000 volts, or 15 thousand volts. they don't need to carry the amperage.
>>I think what they're trying to say is that 300,000 years is a little long to actually attribute the mass extinction to the meteor. If it were the direct cause, the extinctions would have occured in a much more narrow time frame.
I would Love to know the margin of error radioactive carbon dating has at a 65 million year old site, where other radioactive elements were deposited.
Sirus had to buy XM because two companies in the sat. radio business was one too many. there just aren't enough people willing to pay for radio.
Subscriptions in many cases aren't valuable to the end user, as you take music with you, yet video's aren't very useful while driving down the road.
You subscribe to a newspaper as it changes every day. You subscribe to TV as you have to sit down and watch it. How many people sit down and just listen to music?
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damn no mods points So I reply with this
30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go
The web is made of trillions of dead links right now. As it is I have to change some bookmarks because the authors have changed their websites and don't allow linking to certain sections. Whole websites go offline. Domain names expire. forums change. Even if it is nothing more than on a new server, Data is constantly moving on the internet.
If you expect all information to stay exactly where it was 5 years ago then you have misunderstood the web.
Mod me down if you wish, but if you can't tell the difference then you will never know the difference.
if you have a spare grand check out the irex illiad. take Sony's ebook, or kindle add in wi-fi, touch screen and linux. You can request from the developer a method to unlock the system so you can install applications on it. People have already setup a simple web browser, and mp3 player.
both of those kill the battery life while you use them, but you can also turn them off. If the damn thing didn't cost a small fortune then I would have gotten one.
Go right ahead and get some.
usually finding lamps is the hard part. A lot of new lighting requires a transformer to run at 12v. To test those lights I just hook them up to a car battery. Landscape lighting, led lighting, 12 volt track and recess. Low voltage lighting is possible to do today. it's pricey but not much worse than compact fluorescents. Though coming down the pipes are modified fiber optics for area lighting. Light up an entire room with a handful of led's.
um the fact that we use AC for long distances means that it is in fact better to convert locally to DC, and transmit AC.
About the only time it isn't is in totally self contained systems such as ships, cars, and planes.
read the first comment under his. he is a subscriber and sees the articles 20 minutes before cheap bums like you and me.
My Motorola L2 would dial the first person in my address book under the same situation. Since then I have reordered the main menu list to put games first. Most automatic calling has been stopped. Now the big problem isn't the menu but the voice dial button which is easier to press.
I sneezed once and it called my father. I was laughing so hard I forgot to cancel the call until he picked up which resulted only in more laughter.
I am wondering about that as well. on the ipod touch i tested at bestbuy I was able to easily spell slashdot.org into safari on the first try. The auto correct spelling was very easy to learn.
I wonder if they are dealing with the iPhone knockoffs that are running windows mobile?
Man of 5k years ago built the pyramids. I don't think you will find a great change of intelligence since then. man of Today is better educated and learns more, but he is still just a man. Now Man of 15k years ago that would be interesting. At the point we started coming together to form villages/tribes man hasn't changed all that much.
New York is. they are trying to force an upgrade from our reliable but old voting machines to dieblood winblows machines.
New york is taking their sweet time trying to do it right, unlike California which has had several machines with all sorts of screwy updates in them.
diesel-Electric subs noisy? what are you smoking? and do you share it with US submariner's.
The Standard Diesel-electric is quieter than Nuclear Subs. Do you know why? because Electric motors are very quiet. While both types of subs use electric drive motors the nuclear reactors also turn steam turbines which make noise all the time. While quieter than a diesel engine by several orders of magnitude it is louder than a pure electric motor running on batteries.
Nuclear Power has several other advantages, including no need for consumable fuel, or exhausting harmful gases. A nuclear sub can also stay down on the bottom for the entire duration of it's mission, while diesel subs have to come up high enough to run the diesel motors to recharge the battery packs.
What's really funny is that the people who made iTunes popular aren't going to buy these video's as they may or may not work on their machines and won't use IE as they are smart enough to stay away from malware.
helicopters have two main problems.
1)They are noisy. Don't underestimate this.
2) under massive use and infrequent repair conditions like the average person treats their car the helicopters would have a high failure rate. Look at Afganastan and Iraq. Choppers go down almost monthly. a large enough percentage of those are just mechanical failures. Even if it is only 5% 5% percent in civilian fleet is thousands and thousands.
What we should have more of though are helicopter taxi's. especially for the short commuter routes in between cities. regions where filling a 20 person plane isn't always possible yet the 3-4 hundred mile drive can be done in an two hours by helicopter, saving the person from 4-5 hours of driving. This also has to be priced accordingly. It can't be much more than $100 person or driving becomes cheaper.
Diebold ATM' though have had a few nasty virus outbreaks running through them. It''s what you get when you run windows instead of a single purpose OS.
Not sure about planes but in certain remote regions of Canada you are required to carry a firearm for self defense againist bears. It makes sense if your flying over those regions you would need the gun.
because when the borg attack I shall use lawyers as my shield.
Let the borg assimilate that.
So it' like a girl who wants to have pornographic pictures taken of her for money, yet is all pissed off when her father buys that very magazine two months later.
My opinion. You want privacy, You want Only certain people to know certain things. you don't publish them on a website, you don't run around a bar with whomever doing stupid things.
In general the information on FAcebook/myspace/ etc is ultimately harmless, As those people will tell their co-workers eaactly what thy did anyways
I actually did all the math for this as a proof for myself to show that a 12volt dc lighting system at 1000watts used the same power as a 100watt 120volt light bulb but light an area 10 times the size.
what you seem to be forgetting what a watt is Volts*Amps = Watts
if you change the voltage you change the amperage available. while the total system wattage stays the same. It isn't 100% perfect but extremely viable.
You seem to be forgetting that the ultracaps will be outputting at 5volts for a computer. a voltage regulator will keep it that way. At 5 volts the capacitor we shall say has 60 amps of available power. Enough to run a laptop. 5 * 60 = 300 watts. To recharge said capacitor you will need 300 watts of power, but the power grid outputs at 120 volts. 300/120 is 2.5 amps. while such a setup isn't going to be 100% percent efficient it is effective. Your seem to be getting stuck at converting the voltage down to 5 volts before it gets to the capacitor. While it is true for batteries it isn't true for Capacitors.
The Power companies use that very method for delivering power to your house. 1,000 volt transmission lines go to transformers which drop it down to 240/120 volts for your house and in the process gets 10 times the amperage. Meaning that 1000 volt line only needs to carry 100 amps to give 1000 amps to a half a dozen houses.
As for me, I deal with capacitors and transformers daily. It's part of my job.
It's been something I have dreamed of. the OS stores itself on a compact flash card, leaving the Hard drive for applications and data only. In fact updating said card should be a royal pain by default as the OS should load it only read only.
advantages you get are speed in loading, and increased security. software hacking it becomes difficult as a reboot would wipe the memory.
OS X, linux, and other *nixes can do this today with little to no modification.
>>You've proven you can charge a laptop battery in an hour. Now multiple 0.5 amps by 60 to see that it'll take a 30 amp outlet for 1-minute charging.
It doesn't work that way. your talking about continuous draw. After an hour it might all add up to 30 amps but at any one given point it's 0.5 amps.
given relative inefficiencies the ultracaps could be charged with 2 amps(less power than a toaster) in a couple of minutes.
yes and no. modern batteries for laptops are ~55 watt hours. but they at run at ~5 volts roughly 11 amps for an hour if memory serves. but at 120volts that drops down to 0.5 amps. that's a 60 watt light bulb at 130 volts
my math is off as I am not bothering to look up the exact calculations but it's close. It's why transmission lines run at 1000 volts, or 15 thousand volts. they don't need to carry the amperage.
I have already read both of those. Oddly enough eveyrthing that can reach back to 65.5 million years ago has an error rate of ~200,00 years or so.
Whether or not they factored this in is something the article doesn't address.
>>I think what they're trying to say is that 300,000 years is a little long to actually attribute the mass extinction to the meteor. If it were the direct cause, the extinctions would have occured in a much more narrow time frame.
I would Love to know the margin of error radioactive carbon dating has at a 65 million year old site, where other radioactive elements were deposited.
Sirus had to buy XM because two companies in the sat. radio business was one too many. there just aren't enough people willing to pay for radio.
Subscriptions in many cases aren't valuable to the end user, as you take music with you, yet video's aren't very useful while driving down the road.
You subscribe to a newspaper as it changes every day. You subscribe to TV as you have to sit down and watch it. How many people sit down and just listen to music?
no but subdermal gps receivers would be possible. Include a small tranmitter, and you can literally get tracked by eating something.