Comment on the relative popularity of open source hardware and software outside ham radio vs relative disinterest inside ham radio? Whats up with that?
This reminds me of Motorola selling off all of their real industry (e.g. creation of ON Semiconductor) and turning into nothing more than a junk mobile phone company paying manufacturers to make the junk overseas. Motorola used to be the REAL DEAL.
Interesting trivia point... F-15 is older than I am. First F-15 flight was a mere 27 years after Yeagers flight, and was also 38 years ago. So F-15's are so old, they're closer to the days of Yeagers first flight than they are to close to today. That must trip out F-15 pilots, its theoretically possible that a F-15 could have been flown by three generations of the same family... bomber and transport pilots are used to that but traditionally fighter planes don't serve for 4 decades.
"Light can travel through a silk strand as easily as it does through a fiber optic cable...... it had about four orders of magnitude more loss than the glass."
It couldn't even be self-consistent in the SUMMARY? *sigh*
OK 40 dB or so.
Check out a graph of "fiber optic cable" (as if there is only one kind LOL noobs).
The difference in dB/KM at blue light and at the IR minimum in generic common glass fiber is darn near 30 dB or so.
These are journalists, they probably don't even know the difference much less know the spectral characteristics of the spider silk. I would be kinda surprised if its got the exact same shapes in the graphs as glass fiber. Heck its only 40 dB to overcome, thats not much, there's probably some weird corner of the spectrum where silk beats glass... maybe ultra deep IR or in UV or something.
Its kinda like "the" loss in a coaxial cable... whadda talking about, LMR-1700 or RG-174?
A hilarious/. car analogy would be talking about car engine power as if all car engines are exactly the same power output.
It's around 12C in the capsule, but outside it would be -45C plus wind factor of several hundred km/h. If the heat in his helmet is really not working, I guess they probably will abort the jump?
Well, here's someone who's never lived thru a Wisconsin blizzard. When the weather's like that up here, not only do we not have heated helmets, we have fat guys strip to the waste and body paint a big "G" on their belly to get their picture on TV during football games. Of course that takes about a six pack of beer and our parachutist probably doesn't have a keg up there, or if he does its full of red bull energy drink not Miller. A better comparison would be motorcyclists and everyone up here knows at least one lunatic who goes out riding in the winter (very dangerous due to the loose gravel and road salt, not to mention ice slicks)
Aside from the obvious hair shirt trolling, you can talk to the ham radio guys who launch balloons with radio repeaters slung underneath them.
You'd superficially think the very slightly lower weight of H2 would make H2 lift more than He, but after all manner of handwaving it turns out that very cold low pressure helium displaces more air at altitude. So 100 Liters of H2 and He at STP, hauled up 100Kft, supposedly that results in a slightly higher volume of He than H2. I honestly don't care enough to research it, but urban legend or no its an entertaining story. And you're not solving it with ideal gas laws (need non-ideal gas laws/tables)
Because H2 comes from natgas and He comes from natgas the obvious next calculation is if the larger balloon outweighs (get it?) the advantage of cheaper filling.
You could probably create a whole low level undergrad or maybe AP high school science lab out of determining if the first claim is true or made up and secondly which would overall as a system be cheaper aka less damaging to the environment.
An interesting, almost too serious/. poll would be what inspired you as a/.er-type person whatever you call yourself.
For me it was hard sci fi and the feeling I could get involved in amateur science type stuff much more so than watching others perform vaguely technical stunts. Stunts are for the grade school kids who didn't care, watched a stunt on TV for 5 minutes with modest curiosity, still don't care.
Clarke and Asimov and ham radio and owning a cheap microscope and cheap telescope and a computer had a hell of a lot more to do with it than those taco bell guys who offered a free taco if their floating target was hit by pieces of the re-entering Mir space station.
On the other side I think the guy is pretty impressive to have hacked the overall corporate system to get to do something that to him is pretty cool. If he gets turned into a bug on the windshield, perhaps I could convince red bull to sponsor me doing my hobby... I'm sure no one else cares, and that wouldn't even be the point, merely that I would enjoy having someone else pay for my "hobby" probably at the cost of bolting on some corporate logo...
I think the key thing I missed is at least some people's commutes involve cars traveling scarcely faster than a bicycle. Around here that would result in politicians being burned at the stake until the problem is rectified... local standards obviously vary tremendously. I feel sad for them that their transportation infrastructure is so woefully inadequate, I would be extremely frustrated living there, yet happy for them that they can ride a bike which makes them happy. If my commute was somehow only 15 minutes by bike, I'd ride my bike also, but locally my car is about 5 to 7 times faster than my bike, so 20 minutes by car means its simply impossible on a bike where I live.
may associate flipping with the recent bubble - it's been going on for a long time. Flippers make their money wherever prices are rising
Although they have the same name, there is little relationship between old style home remodelers and the HGTV viewer inspired flipping.
One (older) type of flipping involves actually knowing what you're doing basically being your own GC and also putting up your own financing money, the other is TV infomercial fodder like "You painted your living room beige, house value just went up $75000"
That's because nobody mentioned a bubble
Using the new definition of flipping, any flipping is a bubble activity. Using the older "real" definition OK theoretically possible.
As usual with all other topics, check out what Debian has been doing for more than a decade. Pretty much every release this century has some dedication to devs who died since the last release. Sad, but true, that anytime you get a thousand or so people together in a group, even if they're mostly young and apparently healthy, you're gonna lose one every year or so.
Maybe a really poor/. car analogy is that some cars, when you try to skid pad test them to see what kind of cornering force you can muster, will smoothly take on load and spin faster and smaller circles, but at a certain radius they just fling out of control all over the place all random like, and it turns out fluid/vapor orbiting a black hole behaves the same way, smoothing spinning in until at a certain defined radius it goes all unstable.
Could be many things... gravitational tidal stresses exceed any known material tensile strength, maybe the Unruh effect if it really exists exceeds the vaporization temperature of everything, maybe hawking radiation vaporizes any known thing... Which one wins probably depends on total mass...
A journalist filter is like an event horizon, in that information cannot escape once it enters. Which is too bad.
Sure about that 25 minute figure? I figure I'm doing well if from door to door I can shower and change clothes in 10 minutes so you're somehow claiming it takes 15 minutes in car or on bike.... That also messes up your exercise claim of 50 minutes now you're down to only 30 minutes, which really isn't much (thats about how long I go for a walk every day at lunch, admittedly not "real" exercise). For example, my flex time commute is about 20 minutes when I avoid rush hour (which I almost always do). There's no way I can maintain 75 miles per hour for about 15 minutes on level ground on my bike, so that's an easy 90 minutes or so each way on a bike at realistic long distance (for a daily bike commuter) speeds. Add some shower time and realistic break time (water breaks when its over 100, knock the ice off when its below freezing, etc) and we're up to a good 4 hours of commute per day, vs 40 minutes in my car and 3 hrs 20 mins of some mixture of relaxing exercising/.-posting whatever.
For me, the saved time would not be used in a gym.
Find a gym or whatever that you want to go to. I don't mind exercise if I like the place, the people, and the activity. Life's too short to do stuff you don't like because someone else says you should from a hair shirt perspective.
Now, the secondary market for Android and iOS apps is beginning to see the same pattern.
I'd disagree in that the housing bubble needed a FIRE economy sector based primarily on earning sales commissions and ignoring the underlying value, which this second hand app market doesn't have.
So with a house, regardless if its a good investment or not, a whole bunch of parasites adsorbed commissions each time a property changed hands: Real estate agents on each side, mortgage broker/bank, house inspector, title insurance, credit reporting agency, advertiser/PR firms, moving company if any, house stager if any, etc etc. You can end up with quite a bubble that way because everyone wants prices to go up regardless of value... no one has a responsibility or interest in holding the price to the value.
With this, you've got, what, maybe two lawyers more or less fixed hourly fee to handle the contract issues to trade iFart apps? I'm not seeing anyone with a motivation to raise prices other than the usual suspects (sellers, clueless investors, etc).
Furthermore I'm not seeing strawberry pickers buying these things on 105% margin looking for capital gains. And the app market is not "too big to fail" so the govt will bail out the big players and leave the small fish to fry.
Sure it increases your fitness levels, but with all the smog and pollution I very much doubt that cycling or jogging to work is actually healthier for you.
Deaths per mile traveled are spectacularly higher, and the bicycle always "loses" in an accident, even vs pedestrians, something to do with height of head above ground and road rash. People are notoriously bad at estimating risk, so that's no surprise that something supposedly health is actually unhealthy.
You're "about" four times safer driving on road than biking. I realize its not politically correct but roads are for cars and motorcycles, not for bicycles. Use the correct tool for the job. Or at least buy sufficient life insurance for spouse and kids if you insist on biking.
You'll hear a lot of imaginary tradeoffs where you can either drive, or bike commute, therefore either no exercise or exercise. However, bike commuting is so incredibly slow, that if I biked I'd never have time to exercise other than bike riding... a "eh" cardio and a good leg workout, but the rest of me would suffer. I find it interesting that the vast majority of serious athletes commute by car, which pretty much says it all.
P.S.: Was there ever a time when people rode the bike to everywhere, like Marty McFly? Or are those just TV stories?
Donno Marty McFly.. "yes" in the USA vaguely from 1895 to 1905. Even as a 5 digit/. UID that is somewhat before my time. You can easily play definition games to get a "no" answer.
The only way this might work (financially, at least)
Demo mode? Get the publishers to foot all the cost and players get to try the new WWII FPS sequel number 25235 for only two minutes at a time without having to install or download anything except the service client?
Then again, since sequel number 25235 is all about selling the sizzle not the steak, the publishers might not like that very much if they're trying to ship an absolute dog and don't want anyone to hear about it for the first week or so.
I'm trying to think of a game that requires high quality graphics but that doesn't need a low input delay.
Those virtual woman pr0n "games". If you're only going to last 2 minutes then a few ms of latency here or there are not a big deal. Pr0n supposedly defines all new/growing technologies anyway. The real ones are always saying slow down, so as long as the virtual ones keep latency below the 30 minutes or so that real ones demand, it'll be OK. Relatively short gameplay helps with bandwidth caps too.
Any games that would work on a remote server could be easily run on even a very low power client computer.
Yeah well now you add even more constraints. Its not a game, but I'd think some sorta "mythtv" virtual remote DVR would pretty much fit your definition.
Being apocryphal this might only apply to 8031's made in 1983 but in general, I'd still say incandescent or LED, nothing else will do.
Which is why electronic developers would want CFLs, so they can test in the same sort of noisy environment the customers are bound to have . ..
Sometimes yes, sometimes not. Most benchtop screwing around is obviously done with all the shield cans open, the case open, etc etc.
I can always inject extra noise. For fun I used to "test" for EMI/EMC very roughly by waving my 5 watt ham radio HT over a ckt on my table. Its really hard to remove noise, but easy to add.
Not to mention fairness. If Vegas and Phoenix actually need a quota, Chicago's going to get one anyway just to make it fair. Probably federally enforced.
Amusingly my "water" bill is broken down into water and sewage costs and sewage costs about 2x as much per gallon as water.. I think we'll see a sewage quote before we see a water quota.
We will not allow corporations to openly be criminal enterprises. The rule of law persists
Yeah thats fine in Europe, but in America it isn't so, and coincidentally most of the complainers he's complaining about are in the USA.
So whats your solution when govt/corps have merged, there are no laws for the rich, laws are meant to be purchased, the govt does not represent the people, etc?
Why? Much electronics work is done the computer, from circuit design, PCB design and microcontroller emulation
My ipad spends a lot of its battery life displaying electronic device PDF data sheets. Pin 11, wtf does it do? A GVA-83+, assuming I put this together right, SHOULD have how much gain at 3.5 GHz?
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Comment on the relative popularity of open source hardware and software outside ham radio vs relative disinterest inside ham radio? Whats up with that?
Comment on the modern animation industry? You worked at Pixar for quite awhile.
Comments on Debian since you were the DPL? Biggest surprise? Retrospective comments on the 2004 era GRs?
This reminds me of Motorola selling off all of their real industry (e.g. creation of ON Semiconductor) and turning into nothing more than a junk mobile phone company paying manufacturers to make the junk overseas. Motorola used to be the REAL DEAL.
In other words, copy HPs business model.
Interesting trivia point... F-15 is older than I am. First F-15 flight was a mere 27 years after Yeagers flight, and was also 38 years ago. So F-15's are so old, they're closer to the days of Yeagers first flight than they are to close to today. That must trip out F-15 pilots, its theoretically possible that a F-15 could have been flown by three generations of the same family... bomber and transport pilots are used to that but traditionally fighter planes don't serve for 4 decades.
"Light can travel through a silk strand as easily as it does through a fiber optic cable. ..... it had about four orders of magnitude more loss than the glass."
It couldn't even be self-consistent in the SUMMARY? *sigh*
OK 40 dB or so.
Check out a graph of "fiber optic cable" (as if there is only one kind LOL noobs).
The difference in dB/KM at blue light and at the IR minimum in generic common glass fiber is darn near 30 dB or so.
These are journalists, they probably don't even know the difference much less know the spectral characteristics of the spider silk. I would be kinda surprised if its got the exact same shapes in the graphs as glass fiber. Heck its only 40 dB to overcome, thats not much, there's probably some weird corner of the spectrum where silk beats glass... maybe ultra deep IR or in UV or something.
Its kinda like "the" loss in a coaxial cable... whadda talking about, LMR-1700 or RG-174?
A hilarious /. car analogy would be talking about car engine power as if all car engines are exactly the same power output.
It's around 12C in the capsule, but outside it would be -45C plus wind factor of several hundred km/h. If the heat in his helmet is really not working, I guess they probably will abort the jump?
Well, here's someone who's never lived thru a Wisconsin blizzard. When the weather's like that up here, not only do we not have heated helmets, we have fat guys strip to the waste and body paint a big "G" on their belly to get their picture on TV during football games. Of course that takes about a six pack of beer and our parachutist probably doesn't have a keg up there, or if he does its full of red bull energy drink not Miller. A better comparison would be motorcyclists and everyone up here knows at least one lunatic who goes out riding in the winter (very dangerous due to the loose gravel and road salt, not to mention ice slicks)
Why don't they use Hydrogen for things like this
Aside from the obvious hair shirt trolling, you can talk to the ham radio guys who launch balloons with radio repeaters slung underneath them.
You'd superficially think the very slightly lower weight of H2 would make H2 lift more than He, but after all manner of handwaving it turns out that very cold low pressure helium displaces more air at altitude. So 100 Liters of H2 and He at STP, hauled up 100Kft, supposedly that results in a slightly higher volume of He than H2. I honestly don't care enough to research it, but urban legend or no its an entertaining story. And you're not solving it with ideal gas laws (need non-ideal gas laws/tables)
Because H2 comes from natgas and He comes from natgas the obvious next calculation is if the larger balloon outweighs (get it?) the advantage of cheaper filling.
You could probably create a whole low level undergrad or maybe AP high school science lab out of determining if the first claim is true or made up and secondly which would overall as a system be cheaper aka less damaging to the environment.
if it helps people become more interested
An interesting, almost too serious /. poll would be what inspired you as a /.er-type person whatever you call yourself.
For me it was hard sci fi and the feeling I could get involved in amateur science type stuff much more so than watching others perform vaguely technical stunts. Stunts are for the grade school kids who didn't care, watched a stunt on TV for 5 minutes with modest curiosity, still don't care.
Clarke and Asimov and ham radio and owning a cheap microscope and cheap telescope and a computer had a hell of a lot more to do with it than those taco bell guys who offered a free taco if their floating target was hit by pieces of the re-entering Mir space station.
On the other side I think the guy is pretty impressive to have hacked the overall corporate system to get to do something that to him is pretty cool. If he gets turned into a bug on the windshield, perhaps I could convince red bull to sponsor me doing my hobby... I'm sure no one else cares, and that wouldn't even be the point, merely that I would enjoy having someone else pay for my "hobby" probably at the cost of bolting on some corporate logo...
I think the key thing I missed is at least some people's commutes involve cars traveling scarcely faster than a bicycle. Around here that would result in politicians being burned at the stake until the problem is rectified... local standards obviously vary tremendously.
I feel sad for them that their transportation infrastructure is so woefully inadequate, I would be extremely frustrated living there, yet happy for them that they can ride a bike which makes them happy. If my commute was somehow only 15 minutes by bike, I'd ride my bike also, but locally my car is about 5 to 7 times faster than my bike, so 20 minutes by car means its simply impossible on a bike where I live.
may associate flipping with the recent bubble - it's been going on for a long time. Flippers make their money wherever prices are rising
Although they have the same name, there is little relationship between old style home remodelers and the HGTV viewer inspired flipping.
One (older) type of flipping involves actually knowing what you're doing basically being your own GC and also putting up your own financing money, the other is TV infomercial fodder like "You painted your living room beige, house value just went up $75000"
That's because nobody mentioned a bubble
Using the new definition of flipping, any flipping is a bubble activity. Using the older "real" definition OK theoretically possible.
As usual with all other topics, check out what Debian has been doing for more than a decade.
Pretty much every release this century has some dedication to devs who died since the last release.
Sad, but true, that anytime you get a thousand or so people together in a group, even if they're mostly young and apparently healthy, you're gonna lose one every year or so.
I researched it some more and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicyclic_frequency
seems to explain it.
Maybe a really poor /. car analogy is that some cars, when you try to skid pad test them to see what kind of cornering force you can muster, will smoothly take on load and spin faster and smaller circles, but at a certain radius they just fling out of control all over the place all random like, and it turns out fluid/vapor orbiting a black hole behaves the same way, smoothing spinning in until at a certain defined radius it goes all unstable.
What does unstable mean?
Could be many things... gravitational tidal stresses exceed any known material tensile strength, maybe the Unruh effect if it really exists exceeds the vaporization temperature of everything, maybe hawking radiation vaporizes any known thing... Which one wins probably depends on total mass...
A journalist filter is like an event horizon, in that information cannot escape once it enters. Which is too bad.
Sure about that 25 minute figure? I figure I'm doing well if from door to door I can shower and change clothes in 10 minutes so you're somehow claiming it takes 15 minutes in car or on bike.... That also messes up your exercise claim of 50 minutes now you're down to only 30 minutes, which really isn't much (thats about how long I go for a walk every day at lunch, admittedly not "real" exercise). For example, my flex time commute is about 20 minutes when I avoid rush hour (which I almost always do). There's no way I can maintain 75 miles per hour for about 15 minutes on level ground on my bike, so that's an easy 90 minutes or so each way on a bike at realistic long distance (for a daily bike commuter) speeds. Add some shower time and realistic break time (water breaks when its over 100, knock the ice off when its below freezing, etc) and we're up to a good 4 hours of commute per day, vs 40 minutes in my car and 3 hrs 20 mins of some mixture of relaxing exercising /.-posting whatever.
For me, the saved time would not be used in a gym.
Find a gym or whatever that you want to go to. I don't mind exercise if I like the place, the people, and the activity. Life's too short to do stuff you don't like because someone else says you should from a hair shirt perspective.
Now, the secondary market for Android and iOS apps is beginning to see the same pattern.
I'd disagree in that the housing bubble needed a FIRE economy sector based primarily on earning sales commissions and ignoring the underlying value, which this second hand app market doesn't have.
So with a house, regardless if its a good investment or not, a whole bunch of parasites adsorbed commissions each time a property changed hands: Real estate agents on each side, mortgage broker/bank, house inspector, title insurance, credit reporting agency, advertiser/PR firms, moving company if any, house stager if any, etc etc. You can end up with quite a bubble that way because everyone wants prices to go up regardless of value... no one has a responsibility or interest in holding the price to the value.
With this, you've got, what, maybe two lawyers more or less fixed hourly fee to handle the contract issues to trade iFart apps? I'm not seeing anyone with a motivation to raise prices other than the usual suspects (sellers, clueless investors, etc).
Furthermore I'm not seeing strawberry pickers buying these things on 105% margin looking for capital gains. And the app market is not "too big to fail" so the govt will bail out the big players and leave the small fish to fry.
I'm just not seeing "bubble" here.
Sure it increases your fitness levels, but with all the smog and pollution I very much doubt that cycling or jogging to work is actually healthier for you.
Deaths per mile traveled are spectacularly higher, and the bicycle always "loses" in an accident, even vs pedestrians, something to do with height of head above ground and road rash. People are notoriously bad at estimating risk, so that's no surprise that something supposedly health is actually unhealthy.
You're "about" four times safer driving on road than biking. I realize its not politically correct but roads are for cars and motorcycles, not for bicycles. Use the correct tool for the job. Or at least buy sufficient life insurance for spouse and kids if you insist on biking.
You'll hear a lot of imaginary tradeoffs where you can either drive, or bike commute, therefore either no exercise or exercise. However, bike commuting is so incredibly slow, that if I biked I'd never have time to exercise other than bike riding... a "eh" cardio and a good leg workout, but the rest of me would suffer. I find it interesting that the vast majority of serious athletes commute by car, which pretty much says it all.
P.S.: Was there ever a time when people rode the bike to everywhere, like Marty McFly? Or are those just TV stories?
Donno Marty McFly.. "yes" in the USA vaguely from 1895 to 1905. Even as a 5 digit /. UID that is somewhat before my time. You can easily play definition games to get a "no" answer.
The only way this might work (financially, at least)
Demo mode? Get the publishers to foot all the cost and players get to try the new WWII FPS sequel number 25235 for only two minutes at a time without having to install or download anything except the service client?
Then again, since sequel number 25235 is all about selling the sizzle not the steak, the publishers might not like that very much if they're trying to ship an absolute dog and don't want anyone to hear about it for the first week or so.
I'm trying to think of a game that requires high quality graphics but that doesn't need a low input delay.
Those virtual woman pr0n "games". If you're only going to last 2 minutes then a few ms of latency here or there are not a big deal. Pr0n supposedly defines all new/growing technologies anyway. The real ones are always saying slow down, so as long as the virtual ones keep latency below the 30 minutes or so that real ones demand, it'll be OK. Relatively short gameplay helps with bandwidth caps too.
Any games that would work on a remote server could be easily run on even a very low power client computer.
Yeah well now you add even more constraints. Its not a game, but I'd think some sorta "mythtv" virtual remote DVR would pretty much fit your definition.
Being apocryphal this might only apply to 8031's made in 1983 but in general, I'd still say incandescent or LED, nothing else will do.
Which is why electronic developers would want CFLs, so they can test in the same sort of noisy environment the customers are bound to have . . .
Sometimes yes, sometimes not. Most benchtop screwing around is obviously done with all the shield cans open, the case open, etc etc.
I can always inject extra noise. For fun I used to "test" for EMI/EMC very roughly by waving my 5 watt ham radio HT over a ckt on my table. Its really hard to remove noise, but easy to add.
After a couple hours, the advertising campaign your team is working on is nearing completion.
Where do people watch "ads"?
Certainly no point in putting up billboards for self driving cars, the AI isn't going to care.
I already aggressively automatically filter media.
Some sort of product placement thing?
Not to mention fairness. If Vegas and Phoenix actually need a quota, Chicago's going to get one anyway just to make it fair. Probably federally enforced.
Amusingly my "water" bill is broken down into water and sewage costs and sewage costs about 2x as much per gallon as water.. I think we'll see a sewage quote before we see a water quota.
We will not allow corporations to openly be criminal enterprises. The rule of law persists
Yeah thats fine in Europe, but in America it isn't so, and coincidentally most of the complainers he's complaining about are in the USA.
So whats your solution when govt/corps have merged, there are no laws for the rich, laws are meant to be purchased, the govt does not represent the people, etc?
Why? Much electronics work is done the computer, from circuit design, PCB design and microcontroller emulation
My ipad spends a lot of its battery life displaying electronic device PDF data sheets. Pin 11, wtf does it do? A GVA-83+, assuming I put this together right, SHOULD have how much gain at 3.5 GHz?