Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the line voltage stepped down before it's rectified? (That would be the way I assume it would be done so that you can use a simple transformer rather than doing a DC-to-DC conversion.)
In that case no current would reach the rectifier since you'll have a constant steady-state flux in the transformer (DC in the primary coil), and therefore no current in the secondary coil.
Who modded this informative? 250 volts DC is not the same thing as UK line power. (250 Volts-rms @ 50Hz.) This idea is as dangerous as it is useless.
What you need is an inverter. The cheap ones that you can get anywhere would work fine for your computers, but for your furnace you'd need an inverter of the caliber used in off-grid homes. (Probably more than you want to spend.)
Makes sense. I guess I'm just not familiar with the power-to-weight ratios available in those little engines. I mean hell, they're basically the simplest Otto Cycle engines that can exist and can be had for under $100. I would never have expected that they'd work that well.
You can keep waiting. The flying toaster was killed in the great purging of 1990s computer gimmicks. It's as dead as hampsterdance, although less deserving of its fate.
Of course, it couldn't be that hard to launch a toaster with a trebuchet . . . . . .
Made the part of my brain that knows things about fluid mechanics shut down and the other part go get a drink. I'm beyond baffled as to why the thing not only flies, but apparently handles pretty well.
Yes, but machines are programmed by people. Your average hacker is lazy, impatient, tired, horny and may or may not be intoxicated. They fuck up. That's why we have bugs.
Yeah! I mean look at them: They even call their fairness regulation products things like FairPlay and Harmony. If that doesn't make them forces of good I don't know what does . . . . . .
With comercial games being ported to Linux, marginal closed-source drivers which the kernel folks are (rightly IMHO) hostile to, and a growing Linux market share they may do pretty well. If they actually pull this off I know that I'd buy it.
Y'know, I never thought about it like that, but the auto/stick analogy is perfect for Windows/Linux.
Auto/Windows: Expensive, overly-complicated, never does what you want it to, will not properly utilize available power, dies hard due to trivial failures - the choice of the masses. Stick/Linux: Cheap, simple, affords complete control, lets you take the thing to the red line, fails gracefully - the choice of people who know what the hell they're doing.
Where do other OSes fit in this analogy? BSD: a non-synchronized stick. OSX: That fake manual mode that lets you order up and downshifts on the automatic "sports cars."
No, they don't let him. I'm sure every time Shrubby makes up a word or claims that God speaks through him Dick Cheny beats him with a rolled up newspaper.
Don't think of it as a problem, think of it as an alternative to going to the gym. The spammer makes you jog a mile, but unlike the health club you get to tazer a man when you're done.
Done and done. That's going in tonight's homework.
Of course, my professors are quite used to me using absurd variable names like 'is_happy', 'mutant_goose' or 'is_a_wiccan_midget' so I doubt 'spiro_multimax_3000' will get much attention . . . . . .
Where are the antivirus companies? This shit has gotten to a bigger problem than virii ever were and behaves in much the same way. Still, your fancy $70 "internet security" package won't touch it.
Then use that to our advantage. At least here in the US fundies have an extraordinary, and indeed terrifying amount of power at the moment. Get them to believe that this is "the mark of the devil" (or whatever the shit they call it) and I guarantee it'll be dead.
I don't think you'll have a problem figuring out where it is. This thing is the size of 25 Goodyear blimps, and, even if funded by the US military a camera always needs line of sight to take your picture.
Screw that. I'm waiting for Richard Nixon's head in a jar to be given a 50-foot-tall robotic body. That would, if nothing else make politics interesting.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the line voltage stepped down before it's rectified? (That would be the way I assume it would be done so that you can use a simple transformer rather than doing a DC-to-DC conversion.)
In that case no current would reach the rectifier since you'll have a constant steady-state flux in the transformer (DC in the primary coil), and therefore no current in the secondary coil.
Um, modern inverters have real-world efficiencies of %90+. By any standard that's marvelous.
Who modded this informative? 250 volts DC is not the same thing as UK line power. (250 Volts-rms @ 50Hz.) This idea is as dangerous as it is useless.
What you need is an inverter. The cheap ones that you can get anywhere would work fine for your computers, but for your furnace you'd need an inverter of the caliber used in off-grid homes. (Probably more than you want to spend.)
Makes sense. I guess I'm just not familiar with the power-to-weight ratios available in those little engines. I mean hell, they're basically the simplest Otto Cycle engines that can exist and can be had for under $100. I would never have expected that they'd work that well.
You can keep waiting. The flying toaster was killed in the great purging of 1990s computer gimmicks. It's as dead as hampsterdance, although less deserving of its fate.
Of course, it couldn't be that hard to launch a toaster with a trebuchet . . . . . .
Scratch that. A toaster filled with fireworks!
Made the part of my brain that knows things about fluid mechanics shut down and the other part go get a drink. I'm beyond baffled as to why the thing not only flies, but apparently handles pretty well.
Yes, but machines are programmed by people. Your average hacker is lazy, impatient, tired, horny and may or may not be intoxicated. They fuck up. That's why we have bugs.
Marketing promises more than engineering can deliver. News at 11.
Yeah! I mean look at them: They even call their fairness regulation products things like FairPlay and Harmony. If that doesn't make them forces of good I don't know what does . . . . . .
With comercial games being ported to Linux, marginal closed-source drivers which the kernel folks are (rightly IMHO) hostile to, and a growing Linux market share they may do pretty well. If they actually pull this off I know that I'd buy it.
He doesn't do that anymore. Not since they installed that conductive tile grout and hooked it to an electric fence charger . . . . .
Y'know, I never thought about it like that, but the auto/stick analogy is perfect for Windows/Linux.
Auto/Windows: Expensive, overly-complicated, never does what you want it to, will not properly utilize available power, dies hard due to trivial failures - the choice of the masses.
Stick/Linux: Cheap, simple, affords complete control, lets you take the thing to the red line, fails gracefully - the choice of people who know what the hell they're doing.
Where do other OSes fit in this analogy? BSD: a non-synchronized stick. OSX: That fake manual mode that lets you order up and downshifts on the automatic "sports cars."
No, they don't let him. I'm sure every time Shrubby makes up a word or claims that God speaks through him Dick Cheny beats him with a rolled up newspaper.
Still, he can't change what he is . . . . . .
Mozilla/Firefox: Before I get home.
IE: Before Chiristmas.
Don't think of it as a problem, think of it as an alternative to going to the gym. The spammer makes you jog a mile, but unlike the health club you get to tazer a man when you're done.
Hey, hey. Anyone who can't understand that is_a_wiccan_midget being true means invalid input doesn't deserve to be working on my code. ;)
Also, nobody ever has to work on it but me, so as long as it works . . . . . .
Done and done. That's going in tonight's homework.
Of course, my professors are quite used to me using absurd variable names like 'is_happy', 'mutant_goose' or 'is_a_wiccan_midget' so I doubt 'spiro_multimax_3000' will get much attention . . . . . .
Where are the antivirus companies? This shit has gotten to a bigger problem than virii ever were and behaves in much the same way. Still, your fancy $70 "internet security" package won't touch it.
A live torrent of the big file in a Slashdot story? What is this? Responsible journalism? ;)
It sublimates directly at atmospheric pressure. It will form a liquid at high pressures however.
Duped with oregano one too many times have you?
Then use that to our advantage. At least here in the US fundies have an extraordinary, and indeed terrifying amount of power at the moment. Get them to believe that this is "the mark of the devil" (or whatever the shit they call it) and I guarantee it'll be dead.
I don't think you'll have a problem figuring out where it is. This thing is the size of 25 Goodyear blimps, and, even if funded by the US military a camera always needs line of sight to take your picture.
Screw that. I'm waiting for Richard Nixon's head in a jar to be given a 50-foot-tall robotic body. That would, if nothing else make politics interesting.
They probably already have it. You'll be contacted if there's anything they think you need to know.