What are you smoking and where can I get some? 380 volts is not power, it is voltage. Also, just by increasing teh voltage without decreasing the current (as you imply) will not reduce resistive losses. If you up the voltage alone without maintaining constant power, you increase the current thereby increasing losses. AC was implemented so that an efficient and effective conversion (transformers) could be implemented. Regarding 12-48 Volt DC systems, they did propose higher DC voltages for transmission (like when they did the demo of frying the pig). 380 volts does not require significantly more insulation. Consider that regular multimeter cables can handle 500+ volts DC.
I'm not even going to talk about your stupid statement about shorting yourself to gound.
Do you really think the market would be what it is if it weren't for the fact that nintendo and sony have been around for as long as they have? If the others (all consoles prior to microsofts entry) didn't exist, neither would the console market in general, so microsoft has done nothing to the market but bring in another viable player.
As cool as that would be, the frequencies, data rates and low latencies required for a video card would cause the cable to be prohibitively expensive in order for the error/corruption rate to be comparable to a plug in card.
The dot gets bigger, but so does the arc length. A change in aiming angle of 1 degree at 50 feet is a LOT more than the change at 10 feet. With my experience, a laser with a gaussian beam does not diverge a significant amount, even at 50 feet. You could pretty much guarantee that the percentage increase in arc length is MUCH larger than beam divergence.
The software doesn't make a call to the registry or other software settings. The software makes a call to the hard coded cpuid. To get around that, need to a) hack the processor; or b) hack the software making the call.
...Except for the fact that smoking is a burden on public health care systems like in Canada. I'm all for allowing smokers to do whatever the hell they want, if they foot their own bill and don't leech public funding for health care. I see these bans as an effective way of cutting down on those that smoke as a past time (when they drink for example). Why should someone who CHOOSES to smoke leach hundreds of thousands of public dollars after they get a severe illness?
Maybe they should just "encrypt" screeners by putting them on VHS. People won't want to pirate a VHS version...well they would, but it wouldn't spread nearly as fast as DVD versions.
And how many other people call it ms-windows?
And grandpa, when are you going to tell us the story of how you had to pedal a generator bike so you could punch away at cards for an hour a day, huh? Tell us more bullshit, I meant stories!
For the bus system in Ottawa, OCTranspo has provided an application for just such a purpose. You can enter starting and ending destinations, and it tells you how to get there, including walking times and wait times. It works quite well, and isn't something I expected to get for free. It's called the Travel Planner.
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curvature of earth + high frequencies + infinite power = maximum distance dependant on the height of towers as a result of the curvature of the earth. Hence his argument is correct. You could crank it up to 1.21 GW, and still not make it very far.
I never said he had to get his box approved. I did say that if it was checked out by an electrician, it would be considered an unsafe appliance. If you make modifications to your TV or any other device, or build a device like a server rack made of wood, and it catches on fire and it can be proven, then chances are you can kiss your insurance goodbye.
Okay, I want you to do something and we'll see. Make a wooden box, toss in some circuit breakers, run 5 or 6 amps through it and invite an electrician over to approve it as a breaker box and let me know the results.
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I thought this was going to be a bunch of chinese people in a basement calculating numbers and stuff.
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Using "same number of watts" to say constant power doesn't instill confidence in anything the gp says.
What are you smoking and where can I get some? 380 volts is not power, it is voltage. Also, just by increasing teh voltage without decreasing the current (as you imply) will not reduce resistive losses. If you up the voltage alone without maintaining constant power, you increase the current thereby increasing losses. AC was implemented so that an efficient and effective conversion (transformers) could be implemented. Regarding 12-48 Volt DC systems, they did propose higher DC voltages for transmission (like when they did the demo of frying the pig). 380 volts does not require significantly more insulation. Consider that regular multimeter cables can handle 500+ volts DC. I'm not even going to talk about your stupid statement about shorting yourself to gound.
But by the very nature of the supposition that we are part of something larger, that means that the larger thing may not be bound by our own rules.
Yeah, the triangles don't track the double click, only the first click, people don't notice that :P
Do you really think the market would be what it is if it weren't for the fact that nintendo and sony have been around for as long as they have? If the others (all consoles prior to microsofts entry) didn't exist, neither would the console market in general, so microsoft has done nothing to the market but bring in another viable player.
No, Wake on Lan can bring a computer out of any state.
As cool as that would be, the frequencies, data rates and low latencies required for a video card would cause the cable to be prohibitively expensive in order for the error/corruption rate to be comparable to a plug in card.
I never said you couldn't do it, I just said your reasoning is wrong.
The dot gets bigger, but so does the arc length. A change in aiming angle of 1 degree at 50 feet is a LOT more than the change at 10 feet. With my experience, a laser with a gaussian beam does not diverge a significant amount, even at 50 feet. You could pretty much guarantee that the percentage increase in arc length is MUCH larger than beam divergence.
The software doesn't make a call to the registry or other software settings. The software makes a call to the hard coded cpuid. To get around that, need to a) hack the processor; or b) hack the software making the call.
...Except for the fact that smoking is a burden on public health care systems like in Canada. I'm all for allowing smokers to do whatever the hell they want, if they foot their own bill and don't leech public funding for health care. I see these bans as an effective way of cutting down on those that smoke as a past time (when they drink for example). Why should someone who CHOOSES to smoke leach hundreds of thousands of public dollars after they get a severe illness?
Maybe they should just "encrypt" screeners by putting them on VHS. People won't want to pirate a VHS version...well they would, but it wouldn't spread nearly as fast as DVD versions.
And how many other people call it ms-windows? And grandpa, when are you going to tell us the story of how you had to pedal a generator bike so you could punch away at cards for an hour a day, huh? Tell us more bullshit, I meant stories!
And the 14 year old speaks! Wow, I was just waiting for that. So, tell me, when was the last time you designed and built an operating system?
For the bus system in Ottawa, OCTranspo has provided an application for just such a purpose. You can enter starting and ending destinations, and it tells you how to get there, including walking times and wait times. It works quite well, and isn't something I expected to get for free. It's called the Travel Planner.
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In one word, "Yes".
You referencing Dilbert? Or did you steal it from somewhere else?
curvature of earth + high frequencies + infinite power = maximum distance dependant on the height of towers as a result of the curvature of the earth. Hence his argument is correct. You could crank it up to 1.21 GW, and still not make it very far.
Guess who just bought a new fishing rod...
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I never said he had to get his box approved. I did say that if it was checked out by an electrician, it would be considered an unsafe appliance. If you make modifications to your TV or any other device, or build a device like a server rack made of wood, and it catches on fire and it can be proven, then chances are you can kiss your insurance goodbye.
Okay, I want you to do something and we'll see. Make a wooden box, toss in some circuit breakers, run 5 or 6 amps through it and invite an electrician over to approve it as a breaker box and let me know the results.
Technically, it's against electrical code to build electronics inside a wooden box, which is what that appears to be.