Phone lines do carry enough power to fry a person, but the situation is pretty specific, you pretty much have to be taking a bath and dump the phone in before it's a problem.
Play with a T-1 having midspan repeater power and get back to us, if you live. Theres a couple feeding each SLC hut, its not hard to find them despite the popularity of HDSL "T-1" service over the past decade or so.
Those transmission level power transformers take up half a flatbed, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's going to require some very heavy equipment to install, and they may have to ship the replacement some distance. It's not like a lineman with a pickup truck is going to be able to pick one up from the local depot.
twenty five thousand pounds to a quarter million pounds. Per phase. Its extra awesome hilarious if the city grew up around the xfrmr and you have a choice of which sewer / bridge / drainage culvert to collapse by driving over it. Even funnier if you can't get a mobile crane into the lot because they built something limiting the turning radius. There's a semi-technical craft called machine rigging and I've seen those highly paid guys earn every penny.
actually places that accept bulk metal like this do not accept any wires that have been burnt off to remove the shielding. it is bad for the environment and they have to report you to the EPA or some agency like that... my memory is foggy atm....
They do not report you to the EPA. They were reported to the EPA in the past.
How do you prove the individual burned it instead of the recycler corporation? What happened is your bulk place got busted for burning plastic, and were more or less put on double secret probation not to accept any burned stuff until the local inspector thug type is replaced or whatever.
Some devs know where STABLE is located, some devs know what direction their new code is going, and a successful merge is where a dev violates the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and accomplish both at the same time.
Since the figurine does not actually endorse a product but the product as a work of art, Jobs would likely lose that case though as First Amendment rights to free expression often trump right of publicity.
The generally accepted definition is "single and original work of art". So if an artist made exactly one statue and sold it to a wax museum type of establishment, the artist would be OK. Multiple bronze castings are getting questionable. But hundreds of copies, that's well into commercial work. Note that I am not your lawyer, but I have researched this. Because of the rise of rapid prototyping and CAD/CAM/CGI, its only a matter of time before we can buy computer generated "single and original works of art" all slightly different poses etc. What if I upload my single and original work of 3-D art to an internet site where anyone whom pleases can download it and print it out? That will be a rather interesting court case and is relevant to my interests.
so I'll sum it up: If you're arguing over how to make an omelette, whether you brought the eggs from the store or got them from the cooler doesn't matter.
Yeah, as if that explanation is going to do anything but confuse him. "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" "God planted the evidence/egg in both the store and cooler to test our faith" "Ah I love the smell of progress in the morning"
Most of the water in the mix was probably lost from inner planets (boiled out of the then molten balls of rock). TFA claims that not all was lost, and the part that was not lost was enough to later form the oceans of the Earth.
Another problem is without a decent ionosphere / ozone layer / magnetosphere / WTF, hard ultraviolet dissociates H2O into H and O and the H floats away unless your planet is the size of Jupiter (yes, I'm well aware this is a simplification)
Mars could have started with as much water as earth, but with a high enough UV flux in the atmosphere, the hydrogen quickly floats away, and its all over, even if Mars is further away from the sun than the earth.
Mercury, yeah mercury is kind of toasty and small to keep water for a long time but Mars had different problems keeping its water.
Which complicates that whole 'odds of life' thing, because its not enough to have a planet in the liquid water range of orbits, nor is it enough to have plenty of H2O, but you also need a way to protect that H2O from dissociation.
Customers want to access Netflix, and (presumably) won't use an ISP that won't carry Netflix.
Two problems:
1) Comcast is a monopoly cable internet provider in its area. There is no possibility of competition so they can pretty much do what they want. They have 6.897 million reasons for the government not to regulate their monopoly.
2) Comcast probably provides movies and videos on demand for $$$. The strategy is to use their monopoly internet service to boost profits in their MOD/VOD service. Frankly, as a guy whom purchases his VOIP and his inet svc from two different companies, I'm surprised I haven't been shaken down yet.
"and it'll also keep electric cars in the bin where they should be - what we *really* need from an ecological point of view is a lithium shortage right now"
WTF? There's NO shortage of lithium whatsoever. Absolutely NONE.
You can mine it indefinitely from seawater for about $70 per kg. Ecological footprint of lithium mining is also trivial - it's mined from salt planes which are not known for their rich ecology.
Great job ruining it for all of us. How do you expect we'll keep control using guilt, if you keep posting facts like that? I guess we'll have to go back to control by fear again.
As I did the math once on a 12 volt transformer. a 1000 watt 12 volt transformer only draws 100 watts at 120 volts( a little more due to inefficiencies actually) However you can light one room with a single 100 watt lightbulb , or you can light several at 12 volts. It isn't done often as it isn't convenient and introduces more points of failure.
I think you are confusing amps with watts, and don't know what I2R losses are w/ regards to 12 volt distribution.
I'm also mystified about the 12KW xfrmr quote from the summary. Rather than powering a neighborhood, thats only about 50 amps of 220 service so I should easily be able to blow it out with just my clothes dryer and central air, yet myself and all my neighbors run those all summer long.
Sampling rate is the critical metric for software defined radio. No audible difference between 44 KHz and 192 KHz sampling for human ears, but being able to tune 4 times as much bandwidth is a pretty big deal for SDR. And you need two cards for SDR assuming you want to both transmit and receive.
About 7 years ago I remember getting an on-board NVIDIA chipset that had hardware decoding of mp3 files. The CPU utilization of the system without the hardware decoding the CPU jumped to about 45% continuous while playing back the mp3 file. On the rig with the NVIDIA chipset with hardware decoding the CPU utilization was nearly imperceptible. It became to expensive for NVIDIA to offer those for long so they replaced them with generic sound chipsets.
I had a 486/66 DX that took darn near 100% CPU to play back. I distinctly remember Debian had a "special" compile of the mp3 decoder that was optimized for the 486DX or whatever you had at the time. I'm guessing 50% utilization would be a good achievement for a P75. P75 in late 2003? P75 was released in '94 so I'm guessing you are somewhat off in your recollection?
I have considerable experience building "media centers" and mythtv boxes.
The 4th common problem I've found is hissy. Low signal to noise ratio by virtue of high white (pink?) noise level.
The 5th common problem I've found is weak outputs. I have a 1st gen mac mini as sort of a MP3 jukebox and it just barely outputs line level on a good day. It's probably running a bit low to my occasional annoyance. So just run everything at a lower level, resulting in problem #4 rearing its ugly head again hisssssssssssss.
The 6th common problem I've found is way funky drivers with creeping featureitis: weird pre-distortion to "expand the stereo experience", equalization that doesn't work as well as a real eq although it clips pretty well, strange attempts at internal DSP to simulate echos. Just turn my bytes into AC voltage and leave it alone, please!
The 7th common problem, admittedly not too often a problem, is ground loops. Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Gimme a transformer isolated input any day. Not so bad with optical digital inputs of course.
You could put it in the bank and never touch the principle. Even at 3% you're talking $120,000 a year. It's way more than I make.. and I live pretty comfortably.
I'd like to know the catch of a bank that pays 3% above inflation. I'd like to find a bank that even pays as much as inflation. But what the heck do I know I just own GLD, SLV, and PRPFX for the last couple years.
Inputs : Agribusiness works on diesel, damaged pipelines, etc. No fuel / seed / fertilizer / bug spray adds up to big problems.
Scale : One tipped over combine harvester is no big deal for the village's single tow truck and the villages single mechanic, and the regional tractor distributor probably has "a" spare part in stock. And his neighbor is probably friendly and OK. On the other hand, when ALL the harvesters / tractors in one area tip over or are crushed by collapsed barns etc, then we all have a big problem.
Time : Agriculture is pretty time sensitive, you can't just decide to plant or harvest next month on a whim. General mayhem could very severely impact crop yields simply by giving the survivors something more urgent to do at just the wrong time. Many crops only survive by irrigation, which is great if you have either electricity or diesel, not so great if the supply chain is interrupted for a couple days.
Output : No star trek transporters. Need working railroads, which means working phone lines and working electrical grid and no trees across the (twisted?) rails. Or you can do the diesel truck thing, which also requires truck driver infrastructure like staffed and full gas stations. The river will continue to work, assuming you can reach it.
Backscatter X-ray imaging is a newer technique that lets you use a very low X-ray intensity, but it can only image close to the surface of an object.
Right, which is probably why we don't see backscatter X-ray in the dental xray business. Superficially backscatter sounds like an awesome way to find little cavities and make perfect 3-D maps of damaged/misaligned teeth, but inserting a xray spewing phallic symbol into peoples mouths is probably not going to fly at most dental practices.
I don't know if it would hit quite the population that the San Andreas could but you're talking about a potential large area without utilities, increased lawlessness and a logistical nightmare for support/rescue.
Don't forget this large area feeds an even larger area. Earthquake hits in December, probably best case scenario. Earthquake hits in April, no planting, sourcing food next winter will be rough but we have time to make plants and import. Earthquake hits in, say, August, big trouble in just a couple months.
how much would it cost to simply put well trained police on the planes? a couple of people, trained in hand to hand combat, and good with knives and stuff.
Well trained police are actually pretty rare. My cop friends tell me they are pretty much a narrow bell curve. Not many ninjas, but not many hopeless goofballs.
Cops and military police (MPs) fly for free or on a space-A basis?
Lets go back to metal detectors to get the obvious and maybe walk bomb sniffing dogs through often enough to deter would-be "terrorists".
Be a lot cheaper and more effective to set up a national policy of "active duty military personnel and law enforcement officers with govt issued and verified travel papers fly for free, if they carry a govt issued and verified weapon" (probably not heavy caliber for airframe safety, perhaps just tear gas grenades). You could even B.S. it all up with the "reward our heros whom risk their lives daily keeping us free (or whatever we are, anyway)" B.S.
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Accused of rape in a friendly foreign country, more likely.
"enabling the attackers to access restricted project material."
So? I though it was all about free & open source. Therefore, what restricted material?
Personal contact info for copyright assignees beyond the legally required minimum?
Private GPG keys?
Just making some good guesses.
Phone lines do carry enough power to fry a person, but the situation is pretty specific, you pretty much have to be taking a bath and dump the phone in before it's a problem.
Play with a T-1 having midspan repeater power and get back to us, if you live. Theres a couple feeding each SLC hut, its not hard to find them despite the popularity of HDSL "T-1" service over the past decade or so.
Those transmission level power transformers take up half a flatbed, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's going to require some very heavy equipment to install, and they may have to ship the replacement some distance. It's not like a lineman with a pickup truck is going to be able to pick one up from the local depot.
twenty five thousand pounds to a quarter million pounds. Per phase. Its extra awesome hilarious if the city grew up around the xfrmr and you have a choice of which sewer / bridge / drainage culvert to collapse by driving over it. Even funnier if you can't get a mobile crane into the lot because they built something limiting the turning radius. There's a semi-technical craft called machine rigging and I've seen those highly paid guys earn every penny.
actually places that accept bulk metal like this do not accept any wires that have been burnt off to remove the shielding. it is bad for the environment and they have to report you to the EPA or some agency like that... my memory is foggy atm....
They do not report you to the EPA. They were reported to the EPA in the past.
How do you prove the individual burned it instead of the recycler corporation? What happened is your bulk place got busted for burning plastic, and were more or less put on double secret probation not to accept any burned stuff until the local inspector thug type is replaced or whatever.
Some devs know where STABLE is located, some devs know what direction their new code is going, and a successful merge is where a dev violates the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and accomplish both at the same time.
Since the figurine does not actually endorse a product but the product as a work of art, Jobs would likely lose that case though as First Amendment rights to free expression often trump right of publicity.
The generally accepted definition is "single and original work of art". So if an artist made exactly one statue and sold it to a wax museum type of establishment, the artist would be OK. Multiple bronze castings are getting questionable. But hundreds of copies, that's well into commercial work. Note that I am not your lawyer, but I have researched this. Because of the rise of rapid prototyping and CAD/CAM/CGI, its only a matter of time before we can buy computer generated "single and original works of art" all slightly different poses etc. What if I upload my single and original work of 3-D art to an internet site where anyone whom pleases can download it and print it out? That will be a rather interesting court case and is relevant to my interests.
so I'll sum it up: If you're arguing over how to make an omelette, whether you brought the eggs from the store or got them from the cooler doesn't matter.
Yeah, as if that explanation is going to do anything but confuse him.
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"God planted the evidence/egg in both the store and cooler to test our faith"
"Ah I love the smell of progress in the morning"
Most of the water in the mix was probably lost from inner planets (boiled out of the then molten balls of rock). TFA claims that not all was lost, and the part that was not lost was enough to later form the oceans of the Earth.
Another problem is without a decent ionosphere / ozone layer / magnetosphere / WTF, hard ultraviolet dissociates H2O into H and O and the H floats away unless your planet is the size of Jupiter (yes, I'm well aware this is a simplification)
Mars could have started with as much water as earth, but with a high enough UV flux in the atmosphere, the hydrogen quickly floats away, and its all over, even if Mars is further away from the sun than the earth.
Mercury, yeah mercury is kind of toasty and small to keep water for a long time but Mars had different problems keeping its water.
Which complicates that whole 'odds of life' thing, because its not enough to have a planet in the liquid water range of orbits, nor is it enough to have plenty of H2O, but you also need a way to protect that H2O from dissociation.
The glasses, the black turtle neck, the salt and pepper beard, the blue jeans and the new balance sneakers
It also talks to you, although the speech cuts off if you hold it wrong.
Customers want to access Netflix, and (presumably) won't use an ISP that won't carry Netflix.
Two problems:
1) Comcast is a monopoly cable internet provider in its area. There is no possibility of competition so they can pretty much do what they want. They have 6.897 million reasons for the government not to regulate their monopoly.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000461
2) Comcast probably provides movies and videos on demand for $$$. The strategy is to use their monopoly internet service to boost profits in their MOD/VOD service. Frankly, as a guy whom purchases his VOIP and his inet svc from two different companies, I'm surprised I haven't been shaken down yet.
"and it'll also keep electric cars in the bin where they should be - what we *really* need from an ecological point of view is a lithium shortage right now"
WTF? There's NO shortage of lithium whatsoever. Absolutely NONE.
You can mine it indefinitely from seawater for about $70 per kg. Ecological footprint of lithium mining is also trivial - it's mined from salt planes which are not known for their rich ecology.
Great job ruining it for all of us. How do you expect we'll keep control using guilt, if you keep posting facts like that? I guess we'll have to go back to control by fear again.
As I did the math once on a 12 volt transformer. a 1000 watt 12 volt transformer only draws 100 watts at 120 volts( a little more due to inefficiencies actually) However you can light one room with a single 100 watt lightbulb , or you can light several at 12 volts. It isn't done often as it isn't convenient and introduces more points of failure.
I think you are confusing amps with watts, and don't know what I2R losses are w/ regards to 12 volt distribution.
I'm also mystified about the 12KW xfrmr quote from the summary. Rather than powering a neighborhood, thats only about 50 amps of 220 service so I should easily be able to blow it out with just my clothes dryer and central air, yet myself and all my neighbors run those all summer long.
Sampling rate is the critical metric for software defined radio. No audible difference between 44 KHz and 192 KHz sampling for human ears, but being able to tune 4 times as much bandwidth is a pretty big deal for SDR. And you need two cards for SDR assuming you want to both transmit and receive.
About 7 years ago I remember getting an on-board NVIDIA chipset that had hardware decoding of mp3 files. The CPU utilization of the system without the hardware decoding the CPU jumped to about 45% continuous while playing back the mp3 file. On the rig with the NVIDIA chipset with hardware decoding the CPU utilization was nearly imperceptible. It became to expensive for NVIDIA to offer those for long so they replaced them with generic sound chipsets.
I had a 486/66 DX that took darn near 100% CPU to play back. I distinctly remember Debian had a "special" compile of the mp3 decoder that was optimized for the 486DX or whatever you had at the time. I'm guessing 50% utilization would be a good achievement for a P75. P75 in late 2003? P75 was released in '94 so I'm guessing you are somewhat off in your recollection?
I have considerable experience building "media centers" and mythtv boxes.
The 4th common problem I've found is hissy. Low signal to noise ratio by virtue of high white (pink?) noise level.
The 5th common problem I've found is weak outputs. I have a 1st gen mac mini as sort of a MP3 jukebox and it just barely outputs line level on a good day. It's probably running a bit low to my occasional annoyance. So just run everything at a lower level, resulting in problem #4 rearing its ugly head again hisssssssssssss.
The 6th common problem I've found is way funky drivers with creeping featureitis: weird pre-distortion to "expand the stereo experience", equalization that doesn't work as well as a real eq although it clips pretty well, strange attempts at internal DSP to simulate echos. Just turn my bytes into AC voltage and leave it alone, please!
The 7th common problem, admittedly not too often a problem, is ground loops. Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Gimme a transformer isolated input any day. Not so bad with optical digital inputs of course.
You could put it in the bank and never touch the principle. Even at 3% you're talking $120,000 a year. It's way more than I make.. and I live pretty comfortably.
I'd like to know the catch of a bank that pays 3% above inflation. I'd like to find a bank that even pays as much as inflation. But what the heck do I know I just own GLD, SLV, and PRPFX for the last couple years.
4 million dollars isn't enough to be self sustaining
Who cares? Its a hundred grand a year for 40 years.
Assuming you get a real job, and merely want some extra money for beer, travel, and women, thats fifty grand per year for 80 years.
Inputs : Agribusiness works on diesel, damaged pipelines, etc. No fuel / seed / fertilizer / bug spray adds up to big problems.
Scale : One tipped over combine harvester is no big deal for the village's single tow truck and the villages single mechanic, and the regional tractor distributor probably has "a" spare part in stock. And his neighbor is probably friendly and OK. On the other hand, when ALL the harvesters / tractors in one area tip over or are crushed by collapsed barns etc, then we all have a big problem.
Time : Agriculture is pretty time sensitive, you can't just decide to plant or harvest next month on a whim. General mayhem could very severely impact crop yields simply by giving the survivors something more urgent to do at just the wrong time. Many crops only survive by irrigation, which is great if you have either electricity or diesel, not so great if the supply chain is interrupted for a couple days.
Output : No star trek transporters. Need working railroads, which means working phone lines and working electrical grid and no trees across the (twisted?) rails. Or you can do the diesel truck thing, which also requires truck driver infrastructure like staffed and full gas stations. The river will continue to work, assuming you can reach it.
Don't forget that the taxpayers will backstop all losses... Privatize all gains and socialize all losses, thats the American Way (tm)
Backscatter X-ray imaging is a newer technique that lets you use a very low X-ray intensity, but it can only image close to the surface of an object.
Right, which is probably why we don't see backscatter X-ray in the dental xray business. Superficially backscatter sounds like an awesome way to find little cavities and make perfect 3-D maps of damaged/misaligned teeth, but inserting a xray spewing phallic symbol into peoples mouths is probably not going to fly at most dental practices.
Claiming permanent vision damage also. I'm not sure how much I'd pay to avoid permanent vision problems, but probably more than $150K.
I don't know if it would hit quite the population that the San Andreas could but you're talking about a potential large area without utilities, increased lawlessness and a logistical nightmare for support/rescue.
Don't forget this large area feeds an even larger area. Earthquake hits in December, probably best case scenario. Earthquake hits in April, no planting, sourcing food next winter will be rough but we have time to make plants and import. Earthquake hits in, say, August, big trouble in just a couple months.
how much would it cost to simply put well trained police on the planes? a couple of people, trained in hand to hand combat, and good with knives and stuff.
Well trained police are actually pretty rare. My cop friends tell me they are pretty much a narrow bell curve. Not many ninjas, but not many hopeless goofballs.
Cops and military police (MPs) fly for free or on a space-A basis?
Lets go back to metal detectors to get the obvious and maybe walk bomb sniffing dogs through often enough to deter would-be "terrorists".
Be a lot cheaper and more effective to set up a national policy of "active duty military personnel and law enforcement officers with govt issued and verified travel papers fly for free, if they carry a govt issued and verified weapon" (probably not heavy caliber for airframe safety, perhaps just tear gas grenades). You could even B.S. it all up with the "reward our heros whom risk their lives daily keeping us free (or whatever we are, anyway)" B.S.