Perhaps the 60 Hz power could be imported as is and sent to circuits which would be specifically allocated to the task. Then people could use these circuits to power devices that just don't care (heat, light, computers, anything with a wallwart) and take an equivalent load off the 50 Hz side. The nice part is that this system could just STAY IN PLACE more or less indefinitely. While it would be impractical to do this with homes, many commercial buildings are wired with multiple circuits.
If guys in speedos would bring the next Alan Turing to science where it wouldn't have otherwise, it's a worthwhile price to pay -- so long as it doesn't drive off an equivalent number of other people (which it shouldn't). If it scares away the intolerant and homophobic, that might even be a side benefit. Also, it's not possible to blackmail someone for being gay (and make them into a security risk) if they know that NOBODY GIVES A SHIT.
No worries, in the cable map of Japan there are all manner of redundant paths out of the country.
Really, compared to the misery of hundreds of thousands in the NE, the IT situation is of no import.
Even if the drop in data transmission was due ENTIRELY to damage to the cables (which it almost certainly isn't), I'd have to say that being operational at 85-90% of former levels is pretty damn good given the situation. I'd dare say there is a VERY long list of things that needs to be fixed more than those cables.
This is not to say that data flow is not important -- for one thing, it keeps people who have nowhere to go from getting cabin fever -- but when your house is on fire, you don't worry about the fact that the paint is peeling.
I was actually surprised and impressed that in those early hours after the earthquake, the communications infrastructure of Japan (at least central Japan) seemed to be largely functional. When the phones stopped working it was because everyone wanted to use the system at the same time. This is understandable, but not something for which capacity was provisioned. If only data connections could deliver food!
It's time for Congress to telecommute, and LIVE in the regions they represent. Then they would actually stand a chance of knowing the will of the constituency, assuming they care.
This applies to the equivalent state-level legislatures as well -- mostly. It's probably not necessary in every state, but the greater the commute saved, the more it makes sense.
Live with us, be part of us, be seen by us. THEN go be our representative rather than some lofty "I live in Washington and you don't" Representative.
As a side benefit, this also makes lobbying representatives from more than one area a more labor-intensive affair.
That'll work great, till they break the door down to get to you -- or at least to your transmitter, if in a separate location. They're stepping on all sorts of international treaties here, what makes you think being licensed would mean a damn thing to them?
What you have revealed to them was where your comfort zone was. I would bet dollars to donuts your son has at least a minimal porn collection stashed away -- I know I did at that age, even if the majority of it was on paper (computer porn sucked in 1987). Now he knows what he can share with you and what he can't -- not necessarily a bad thing, but this is a somewhat convoluted way to go about it.
The only way porn is a problem for kids is when they're too young to understand what's going on -- and grasp that it's as fake as professional wrestling. If they encounter something distasteful, they may run away screaming, investigate further, or find out they LIKE IT, and there's not a whole lot you can do about any of these three cases.
Incidentally, what stops him from setting the DNS servers on his connection to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2? Are you blocking the port, or did you choose to let the workaround be that trivial?
What stops them from just jumping onto a sympathetic neighbor's wifi connection instead, bypassing your proxy entirely? If someone had tried this on me, the first thing they would notice is that the intercepted connection would go completely silent after obtaining tools to go through another route entirely.
What did the human race do before there was baby food (and what does most of the world STILL do)? They nursed the children! Interplanetary wet nurse sounds like a sucky job (heh) but it certainly has historical precedent. Once the kids are weaned, they shouldn't need dedicated "child food" either -- just normal food in small bites and possibly softened or otherwise processed.
The zero-G sex thing has mostly been solved, and it turned out not to be a huge engineering problem (as in, no new technology is required): the 2suit will both conceal the couple's mutual entertainment, and keep them from spinning off in different directions. I'd imagine they could still find themselves bouncing around the cabin like a pinball, but that just means they need a padded room.
You may say it devalues the game, but not if you use it in specific ways. For example, I use INVedit in my roller coaster world because the roller coasters and other amusements are the point -- not mining. I don't use it in my actual survival worlds, except when the game glitches and decides I have died when I start the game (in which case I use it to restore the lost inventory only).
If you mean SMP, there's always the/give command. Without it, we wouldn't be playing SPLEEF! Both netherrack and foliage are appropriate building materials for a spleef field in a Beta game.
BitCoins accumulate a LOT faster if you use the GPU rather than the CPU. However, your point about them breaking even with the electricity is accurate enough, as this was the intent. For those who leave the machine on all the time anyhow, it's a way to offset the cost of power.
Drill sergeants and special forces training seem to do a pretty good job.
But they are also allowed to fail those who deserve it. Not everyone is expected to pass, it's designed to be an ordeal not everyone is up to -- just like being shot at.
With a desktop application stored on the local network, you would first have to know something of interest EXISTS before you could go on a fishing expedition. If it's over a web app, mere traffic analysis may be sufficient to reveal something of interest.
Video games are a waste of time as far as NewsCorp is concerned. Every minute you spend actively engaged in a game is a minute you DON'T spend watching their (paid-for) movies, or (ad-filled) television prgrams, or (propaganda AND ad-filled) "news". If it's not good for Rupert Murdoch's bottom line, expect him to whip up FUD against it wherever possible!
Actually I am lucky enough to have a pair of Tannoy SRM12Bs as my primary speakers. The 8" Sonys have been relegated to surround speakers, and the 6 1/2" Sonys are currently serving as speaker stands for the Tannoys.
I did recently buy a pair of 6x9 three-way Sony car speakers, though I haven't had the chance to install them yet. They were only marginally more expensive than names I didn't recognize, and I figured I was less likely to get absolute crap. On the down side, they're really flashy, which may make them a theft target even though I only paid $60 for the pair.
The only Sony-branded products I would buy are those that are inherently "dumb", like speakers (because they do make pretty good ones). I definitely avoid even relatively simple products like their car stereos, because they often reject CD-Rs. (Not always, which makes me think it's not designed in, but they sure as hell aren't going out of their way to make it work either.) Ironically, ten years ago I bought an HP CD burner because it was supposed to be one of the best affordable ones out there -- and it turned out to be a rebadged Sony, but it worked beautifully up until the SCSI card driving it gave up the ghost. By that time, faster IDE burners were cheaper than a replacement SCSI card, so I retired a perfectly good 4x burner for lack of an interface.
No, the discs it burned STILL would not play in a Sony car stereo.
Assuming humans were to make contact with intelligent multicellular organisms whose DNA was arsenic-based and not phosphorous-based, would human food be poisonous to them? Would their food be poisonous to us?
No, but Spock would have a beard and Taco Bell would be GOOD for them.
Right now they're using a system where the two words in the name always start with the same letter -- Feisty Fawn, Jumping Jackalope, etc. Once they run out of letters to use in this manner, they only have to use mismatched names. For example, the first version after Zaphod's Zipper could be April Bees. In this manner they should have enough letters to last several lifetimes at the least, even if they skip over combinations that don't produce anything you'd want to slap on a product.
I got a visit from them at a similar time (~9 am on a Saturday) but it was a family of four -- father in the lead, wife, son, and daughter standing behind. I answered the door and he asked if they could come in and speak to me. I said "No... but the girl can stay." That got rid of them pretty quickly.
I downsampled a face to 50x50 grayscale to see if it would still be recognizable. If you add in natural eye twitch and its ability to increase effective resolution, I'd say the answer is probably yes -- someone could learn to tell faces apart with this device. Would it be good enough for reading a sign? Probably not. But something as simple as being able to tell the difference between a stopped car and a moving one is a game-changer.
The problem with boxer engines isn't so much in mounting them, it's in MAINTAINING them without removing them from the vehicle. At least that's what my long-time mechanic always dreaded -- any problem that requires access to (and removal of parts from) the top end of a normal engine is simply not workable with a Subaru H-6 in-frame, aside from the fuel delivery. I loved the car (when it worked well, not so much in its current state) but the owner of the garage would run and hide (half-jokingly) when he would see me pulling up. After he did the engine swap he said "come and get your car, I'm sick of looking at the damn thing."
From what he described when I did pick up the car, his own oversights led to him placing and removing the replacement engine three times because he couldn't get to some critical spot with it in the car. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if said replacement engine had come complete, but he had to take many of the parts off the blown engine and they didn't always want to match perfectly (the perils of bolting 1989 parts onto a 1991 engine).
Odd. I sat in those chairs for about 17 years myself, and nearly all of it in a part of the country where a humid day might reach 50% relative humidity and the average day is less than 30% -- and I never once got shocked by the chair. I'm not doubting you, just wondering what the difference is.
No idea what the difference might be, but I remember getting shocked by the plastic school chairs on a regular basis as well. I was in the habit of grabbing the metal frame of the chair before I sat down. At least that way the shock would be through the fingertips where it doesn't hurt much.
It's not just a price point. Due to the fact that a room may be used with classes of various sizes, the chairs (and to a lesser extent, tables and desks) must be able to fold or stack so they can be moved out of the way without having to call in movers each time. Aero chairs are nice (except when you need to fart, in which case it's nicer to have the generic $50 chair) but they DON'T STACK.
Have you been to a casino? They don't put out great chairs either (though they're better than school chairs), except for the dealers. Why? Because they need to be able to move them between tables or on/off the floor entirely, and to do this it helps a great deal if they can stack them.
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Speaking of which, I gotta go. Lunchtime.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.
Perhaps the 60 Hz power could be imported as is and sent to circuits which would be specifically allocated to the task. Then people could use these circuits to power devices that just don't care (heat, light, computers, anything with a wallwart) and take an equivalent load off the 50 Hz side. The nice part is that this system could just STAY IN PLACE more or less indefinitely. While it would be impractical to do this with homes, many commercial buildings are wired with multiple circuits.
If guys in speedos would bring the next Alan Turing to science where it wouldn't have otherwise, it's a worthwhile price to pay -- so long as it doesn't drive off an equivalent number of other people (which it shouldn't). If it scares away the intolerant and homophobic, that might even be a side benefit. Also, it's not possible to blackmail someone for being gay (and make them into a security risk) if they know that NOBODY GIVES A SHIT.
No worries, in the cable map of Japan there are all manner of redundant paths out of the country.
Really, compared to the misery of hundreds of thousands in the NE, the IT situation is of no import.
Even if the drop in data transmission was due ENTIRELY to damage to the cables (which it almost certainly isn't), I'd have to say that being operational at 85-90% of former levels is pretty damn good given the situation. I'd dare say there is a VERY long list of things that needs to be fixed more than those cables.
This is not to say that data flow is not important -- for one thing, it keeps people who have nowhere to go from getting cabin fever -- but when your house is on fire, you don't worry about the fact that the paint is peeling.
I was actually surprised and impressed that in those early hours after the earthquake, the communications infrastructure of Japan (at least central Japan) seemed to be largely functional. When the phones stopped working it was because everyone wanted to use the system at the same time. This is understandable, but not something for which capacity was provisioned. If only data connections could deliver food!
It's time for Congress to telecommute, and LIVE in the regions they represent. Then they would actually stand a chance of knowing the will of the constituency, assuming they care.
This applies to the equivalent state-level legislatures as well -- mostly. It's probably not necessary in every state, but the greater the commute saved, the more it makes sense.
Live with us, be part of us, be seen by us. THEN go be our representative rather than some lofty "I live in Washington and you don't" Representative.
As a side benefit, this also makes lobbying representatives from more than one area a more labor-intensive affair.
No, but I've had sex with plenty of them. Does that count?
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That'll work great, till they break the door down to get to you -- or at least to your transmitter, if in a separate location. They're stepping on all sorts of international treaties here, what makes you think being licensed would mean a damn thing to them?
What you have revealed to them was where your comfort zone was. I would bet dollars to donuts your son has at least a minimal porn collection stashed away -- I know I did at that age, even if the majority of it was on paper (computer porn sucked in 1987). Now he knows what he can share with you and what he can't -- not necessarily a bad thing, but this is a somewhat convoluted way to go about it.
The only way porn is a problem for kids is when they're too young to understand what's going on -- and grasp that it's as fake as professional wrestling. If they encounter something distasteful, they may run away screaming, investigate further, or find out they LIKE IT, and there's not a whole lot you can do about any of these three cases.
Incidentally, what stops him from setting the DNS servers on his connection to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2? Are you blocking the port, or did you choose to let the workaround be that trivial?
What stops them from just jumping onto a sympathetic neighbor's wifi connection instead, bypassing your proxy entirely? If someone had tried this on me, the first thing they would notice is that the intercepted connection would go completely silent after obtaining tools to go through another route entirely.
What did the human race do before there was baby food (and what does most of the world STILL do)? They nursed the children! Interplanetary wet nurse sounds like a sucky job (heh) but it certainly has historical precedent. Once the kids are weaned, they shouldn't need dedicated "child food" either -- just normal food in small bites and possibly softened or otherwise processed.
The zero-G sex thing has mostly been solved, and it turned out not to be a huge engineering problem (as in, no new technology is required): the 2suit will both conceal the couple's mutual entertainment, and keep them from spinning off in different directions. I'd imagine they could still find themselves bouncing around the cabin like a pinball, but that just means they need a padded room.
INVedit your way to riches!
You may say it devalues the game, but not if you use it in specific ways. For example, I use INVedit in my roller coaster world because the roller coasters and other amusements are the point -- not mining. I don't use it in my actual survival worlds, except when the game glitches and decides I have died when I start the game (in which case I use it to restore the lost inventory only).
If you mean SMP, there's always the /give command. Without it, we wouldn't be playing SPLEEF! Both netherrack and foliage are appropriate building materials for a spleef field in a Beta game.
BitCoins accumulate a LOT faster if you use the GPU rather than the CPU. However, your point about them breaking even with the electricity is accurate enough, as this was the intent. For those who leave the machine on all the time anyhow, it's a way to offset the cost of power.
But they are also allowed to fail those who deserve it. Not everyone is expected to pass, it's designed to be an ordeal not everyone is up to -- just like being shot at.
With a desktop application stored on the local network, you would first have to know something of interest EXISTS before you could go on a fishing expedition. If it's over a web app, mere traffic analysis may be sufficient to reveal something of interest.
Video games are a waste of time as far as NewsCorp is concerned. Every minute you spend actively engaged in a game is a minute you DON'T spend watching their (paid-for) movies, or (ad-filled) television prgrams, or (propaganda AND ad-filled) "news". If it's not good for Rupert Murdoch's bottom line, expect him to whip up FUD against it wherever possible!
Actually I am lucky enough to have a pair of Tannoy SRM12Bs as my primary speakers. The 8" Sonys have been relegated to surround speakers, and the 6 1/2" Sonys are currently serving as speaker stands for the Tannoys.
I did recently buy a pair of 6x9 three-way Sony car speakers, though I haven't had the chance to install them yet. They were only marginally more expensive than names I didn't recognize, and I figured I was less likely to get absolute crap. On the down side, they're really flashy, which may make them a theft target even though I only paid $60 for the pair.
The only Sony-branded products I would buy are those that are inherently "dumb", like speakers (because they do make pretty good ones). I definitely avoid even relatively simple products like their car stereos, because they often reject CD-Rs. (Not always, which makes me think it's not designed in, but they sure as hell aren't going out of their way to make it work either.) Ironically, ten years ago I bought an HP CD burner because it was supposed to be one of the best affordable ones out there -- and it turned out to be a rebadged Sony, but it worked beautifully up until the SCSI card driving it gave up the ghost. By that time, faster IDE burners were cheaper than a replacement SCSI card, so I retired a perfectly good 4x burner for lack of an interface.
No, the discs it burned STILL would not play in a Sony car stereo.
No, but Spock would have a beard and Taco Bell would be GOOD for them.
Right now they're using a system where the two words in the name always start with the same letter -- Feisty Fawn, Jumping Jackalope, etc. Once they run out of letters to use in this manner, they only have to use mismatched names. For example, the first version after Zaphod's Zipper could be April Bees. In this manner they should have enough letters to last several lifetimes at the least, even if they skip over combinations that don't produce anything you'd want to slap on a product.
I got a visit from them at a similar time (~9 am on a Saturday) but it was a family of four -- father in the lead, wife, son, and daughter standing behind. I answered the door and he asked if they could come in and speak to me. I said "No... but the girl can stay." That got rid of them pretty quickly.
I downsampled a face to 50x50 grayscale to see if it would still be recognizable. If you add in natural eye twitch and its ability to increase effective resolution, I'd say the answer is probably yes -- someone could learn to tell faces apart with this device. Would it be good enough for reading a sign? Probably not. But something as simple as being able to tell the difference between a stopped car and a moving one is a game-changer.
The problem with boxer engines isn't so much in mounting them, it's in MAINTAINING them without removing them from the vehicle. At least that's what my long-time mechanic always dreaded -- any problem that requires access to (and removal of parts from) the top end of a normal engine is simply not workable with a Subaru H-6 in-frame, aside from the fuel delivery. I loved the car (when it worked well, not so much in its current state) but the owner of the garage would run and hide (half-jokingly) when he would see me pulling up. After he did the engine swap he said "come and get your car, I'm sick of looking at the damn thing."
From what he described when I did pick up the car, his own oversights led to him placing and removing the replacement engine three times because he couldn't get to some critical spot with it in the car. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if said replacement engine had come complete, but he had to take many of the parts off the blown engine and they didn't always want to match perfectly (the perils of bolting 1989 parts onto a 1991 engine).
No idea what the difference might be, but I remember getting shocked by the plastic school chairs on a regular basis as well. I was in the habit of grabbing the metal frame of the chair before I sat down. At least that way the shock would be through the fingertips where it doesn't hurt much.
It's not just a price point. Due to the fact that a room may be used with classes of various sizes, the chairs (and to a lesser extent, tables and desks) must be able to fold or stack so they can be moved out of the way without having to call in movers each time. Aero chairs are nice (except when you need to fart, in which case it's nicer to have the generic $50 chair) but they DON'T STACK.
Have you been to a casino? They don't put out great chairs either (though they're better than school chairs), except for the dealers. Why? Because they need to be able to move them between tables or on/off the floor entirely, and to do this it helps a great deal if they can stack them.