I was under the impression that SCUBA tanks routinely use those sort of pressures. Hobbyist units are around 200Bar and professional gear goes much higher (300+).
I dont think the resin would be all that protective. It was pitch - a long chained hydrocarbon that would burn like buggery once it was hot enough to vaporise.
Does it matter? The garlic is still providing defence in one way or another.
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I just bought an Sipura SPA-3000. When the internet is down or power goes out, it falls back to regular PSTN (which I have to maintain to get my ADSL anyway).
I guess it's a bit different if you're on cable or something though.
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Great idea really. The only issue is password policies that require upper/lower case, special characters and regular changes.
You could do it to a reasonable extent mechanically.
Imagine a sheet of small funnel shaped mirrors. From one side, light gets focussed down to a small point at which it passes through the material. From the other side there is only a small cross section for light to escape so statistically *most* of the photons will just continue to bounce around.
A bit like conical trap used on most animals and insects.
Actually, automotive engines dont burn all of their fuel, however it is far from the 35% this guy claims. If i had to guess it would be in the range of 90% or better.
The reason for catalytic converters is to burn the small amount of remaining hydrocarons and thus avoid the associated polutants.
More likey you could achieve the same benefits as this device by using the traditional and cheap water injection method. For many years this has been proven to improve efficiency by utilising some of the waste heat to vaporise small amounts of water, thus increasing the amount of working gas/pressure in the cylinder.
It also has the side effect of lower combustion temperatures (less nitrogen pollutants) and lower exhaust temperature (cooler exhaust pipe, less heat loss).
Sounds remarkably similar to this guy's claims doesnt it?
Whist the BIG flash may be more expensive, it will put downward pressure on the smaller flash sizes thus reducing prices.
All computer technology has a pricing sweat spot just a few revisions back from the bleeding egde. As big, expensive stuff comes out, that sweet spot moves forward.
Australia has pretty strict laws around "unfair dismissal", making it tough for employers to sack someone for just being bad at their job, unsociable, personality clash etc.
Chances are there was other motives, and this was just a good formal excuse.
Im suprised too. Really, there hasnt been many (or any) truly malicious viruses in the last 10 years in relation to destroying data. It would have been pretty easy for Melissa to wipe out 30% of the worlds hard drives.
Penalising patents doesnt stop people getting paid. You dont need to patent an application to gain protection - it would be inherantly covered by copywrite. You can *even* still sell it - open source doesnt prevent that.
Software patents are stupid because they prevent people from learning from other code and improving. As an example, imagine if pop-up dialogs, drop down menus or windowing systems were patented.
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Maybe as it rushes inwards, the increasing compression causes a burst of fusion. The extra energy causes the material's bounce to overcome gravity and spread out.
Alcohol is *very* natural. Pretty much any fruit outside will have wild yeasts on it's skin. In the right condictions the yeast will consume the sugar and produce alcohol.
The funny thing is that given the opportunity, many animals have been known to go on drunken fruit binges.
There's no point just having voltage - You need current to flow.
High frequency AC can utilise all sort of parasitic effects to create an effective path - very small inductances and capacitance (like skin, shoes etc) can be utilised.
The glass plasma balls at the toy shop use high frequency to this effect. It wouldnt work with DC.
The people in Western Australia (specifically Perth) get the best internet connections - the 12Mbit the previous poster referred to. Eastern states cities like Sydney or Melbourne are generally stuck with a max of 1.5Mbit.
The issue is more to do with the ISP's available and the monopilostic practices of telstra than any technological reason.
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I think "canon" is just a common term - it could well be a rail gun.
I was under the impression that SCUBA tanks routinely use those sort of pressures. Hobbyist units are around 200Bar and professional gear goes much higher (300+).
Exactly - because you cant actually buy the SMAPvertised good without legitimate details, so that makes the offending companies easy to find.
I really dont know why lawmakers haven't targeted this area.
I dont think the resin would be all that protective. It was pitch - a long chained hydrocarbon that would burn like buggery once it was hot enough to vaporise.
Does it matter? The garlic is still providing defence in one way or another.
I just bought an Sipura SPA-3000. When the internet is down or power goes out, it falls back to regular PSTN (which I have to maintain to get my ADSL anyway).
I guess it's a bit different if you're on cable or something though.
Great idea really. The only issue is password policies that require upper/lower case, special characters and regular changes.
You could do it to a reasonable extent mechanically.
Imagine a sheet of small funnel shaped mirrors. From one side, light gets focussed down to a small point at which it passes through the material. From the other side there is only a small cross section for light to escape so statistically *most* of the photons will just continue to bounce around.
A bit like conical trap used on most animals and insects.
Actually, automotive engines dont burn all of their fuel, however it is far from the 35% this guy claims. If i had to guess it would be in the range of 90% or better.
The reason for catalytic converters is to burn the small amount of remaining hydrocarons and thus avoid the associated polutants.
I agree.
More likey you could achieve the same benefits as this device by using the traditional and cheap water injection method. For many years this has been proven to improve efficiency by utilising some of the waste heat to vaporise small amounts of water, thus increasing the amount of working gas/pressure in the cylinder.
It also has the side effect of lower combustion temperatures (less nitrogen pollutants) and lower exhaust temperature (cooler exhaust pipe, less heat loss).
Sounds remarkably similar to this guy's claims doesnt it?
Whist the BIG flash may be more expensive, it will put downward pressure on the smaller flash sizes thus reducing prices.
All computer technology has a pricing sweat spot just a few revisions back from the bleeding egde. As big, expensive stuff comes out, that sweet spot moves forward.
I think there's more to this than you realise.
Australia has pretty strict laws around "unfair dismissal", making it tough for employers to sack someone for just being bad at their job, unsociable, personality clash etc.
Chances are there was other motives, and this was just a good formal excuse.
Im suprised too. Really, there hasnt been many (or any) truly malicious viruses in the last 10 years in relation to destroying data. It would have been pretty easy for Melissa to wipe out 30% of the worlds hard drives.
It safer to say that you "subscribe to the Hacker ethos". Calling yourself a Hacker will be misunderstood by the general public forever.
Free as in Free Speech, not free as in free beer.
Penalising patents doesnt stop people getting paid. You dont need to patent an application to gain protection - it would be inherantly covered by copywrite. You can *even* still sell it - open source doesnt prevent that.
Software patents are stupid because they prevent people from learning from other code and improving. As an example, imagine if pop-up dialogs, drop down menus or windowing systems were patented.
Maybe as it rushes inwards, the increasing compression causes a burst of fusion. The extra energy causes the material's bounce to overcome gravity and spread out.
Just a guess.
Or for high power, a coil (superconducting of course) is probably more cost effective. Capacitors tend to get very large.
A well trained drver using threshold braking (braking just up the point of locking up) will beat ABS (locking up momentatily and then releasing).
The point it that most drivers arent well trained and in an emergerncy dont carry put threshold braking very well. ABS wins here.
Alcohol is *very* natural. Pretty much any fruit outside will have wild yeasts on it's skin. In the right condictions the yeast will consume the sugar and produce alcohol.
The funny thing is that given the opportunity, many animals have been known to go on drunken fruit binges.
There's no point just having voltage - You need current to flow.
High frequency AC can utilise all sort of parasitic effects to create an effective path - very small inductances and capacitance (like skin, shoes etc) can be utilised.
The glass plasma balls at the toy shop use high frequency to this effect. It wouldnt work with DC.
Great post, I wish I had mod points for you.
Or for that matter, seethreepeeoh.
Dude, it's spelt R2.
Yeah, and Sony dont try and make (gouge) money out of their format patents.
cough ***minidisk*** cough.
The people in Western Australia (specifically Perth) get the best internet connections - the 12Mbit the previous poster referred to. Eastern states cities like Sydney or Melbourne are generally stuck with a max of 1.5Mbit.
The issue is more to do with the ISP's available and the monopilostic practices of telstra than any technological reason.