I checked out the Advanced circuits site in the link. Their free cad tool has a rather poor library, there doesn't seem to be ANY micro controllers in their library and their own line library can't seem to find common parts either. (Try searching for 2n2222 or 2n3904 and comes up empty!) Even Eagle's free cad tool has a bigger library and lot's of user contributed parts. Only problem with Eagle is that few houses use their file format, though there are ways to make Gerbers from them.
If the company wants to prevent second sales of used games they should lock the save feature to the console that the game is first installed on. I'm sure most current game consoles have a serial number that the software can access. This would allow the first purchaser to 'replay' the game as many times as he/she liked, but a second sale owner would be locked out. Ya, even that idea sucks, but it sucks less than not being able to start from zero say 6 months after you first completed the game and mostly forgot the experience.
My Comcast HD cable box pull so much power shut down that I can't leave it in my equipment cabinet with the doors open or it will over heat. The temperature in the cabinet with the doors shut and the cable box off rises to over 100 F. I can't unplug the box when not in use because it will 'forget' my settings and it takes hours for it to scan the network before it is usable again. BIg POS, thank's Motorola!
I'm surprised that no one wearing a tin foil hat has yet called the Amtrak crash in Nevada a terrorist plot. Why hasn't the TSA investigated the truck driver that crashed his rig into a train? This is the sort of thing that the terrorists will probably do next.
Walk into any Costco and you will find a few "laptops" for under $400. These in my mind are either netbooks, or something between a netbook and a cheap notebook. They haven't been killed off, they evolved.
I wonder if Tezuka ever saw the film "the Tunnel". Could have given him the idea for "Marine Express" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_Super_Train:_Marine_Express
Well it seems that the Roadster was not priced high enough to be in the black. Tesla's decision to discontinue it may be a bit rash, they should shelve it until they have a car in production that DOES earn them a profit, the model S could be that car. Just as Chrysler was selling a few crazy V12 powered motercycles (I'm sure they did NOT lose money on them as long as nuts like Leno would buy them at any price), Tesla could then offer the Roadster at it's REAL cost to the deep heeled crowd that doesn't look at price tags. The roadster has done it's job, it has made a name for Tesla. Now they need to get a more down to earth electric out there. The model S still is in the high end "beamer" class so it won't be the average man's car. But maybe there will be a follow up to the model S that will be in the volt/prius/leaf class.
Youtube videos also work this way. The video comes in faster than it is displayed and is buffered into a temp file (and there are ways to find and save this temp file as long as the browser isn't closed or the URL is changed).
That's great! You made a lot of friends, lined up good networking avenues, and probably had a good time doing it. The best revenge is pick their pockets legally!
If Apple puts a Mac Mini inside the TV set so that third parties can add apps (or use open source software, or bootcamp to dual boot with Linux/windows to run ANY PC application to surf the web for content). Actually just add a TV tuner to large screen iMac and you have a TV.
That's the Diamond district where there are lots of sweat shops. My father worked for several large jewelry firms as a diamond setter. The back rooms where the artisans worked wasn't air conditioned during the summer and the large windows were left open (they were the awning type that opened with small slats so you couldn't really jump or fall out of an open window). Many of the work benches were right up against the window, and I could believe that some small stuff would fall to the street now and then. A lot of the gold that got 'lost' was the bits between castings that get cut off. Jewelry is cast using the lost wax technique. Molds are made from latex rubber carrying the impression of the original artwork. Wax is injected into these molds to make wax castings. Next these castings are attached to wax rods which are attached to a base. These rods will form the channels into which molten gold is poured. The wax assembly is lowered into a cylinder and plaster is then poured into the cylinder and allowed to harden. The wax is then melted out which also cures the plaster removing all moisture. This forms a plaster mold into which molten gold is poured. The rods connecting the castings are waste gold which is recycled, but bits of it sometimes get lost (and this adds up). Even the gold filings that are removed from the castings to mount diamonds and other stones is saved to be recycled. Still a far amount probably got blow out the open windows and fell to the street. Small diamonds are hard to mount. The artisan has to drill holes to sit the stone into and raise prongs over the stone with a small chisel. If he slips he can chip the stone or it might go flying away. (small diamonds of fractional carrots are not super expensive, but a piece can have many of them so it adds up).
The Decathlon isn't exactly a well RF shielded aircraft. The skin is mostly dope covered fabric, and the wings internal structure is wood. The airframe is made of welded metal tubing which along with the aluminum cowl over the engine comprises just about ALL of the metal in the aircraft. I'm not sure to what the antennas are grounded to, probably just enough aluminum sheet under the fabric to make them work. I used to own a share in a Citabria flying club, really miss flying that airplane.
After buying a new house we started getting snail mail addressed to the former owners. Most of it was junk which just get put in the recycle bin. Some were bills which we marked as 'return to sender' and handed back to the post deliver person. Eventually, a collection agent rang our bell to serve a legal notice, we told them to take a hike as the person they were looking for is now in parts unknown. That stopped the bills from coming.
Not the gesture itself, but the computer reacting toward it maybe. And I agree, the "up yours" gesture, maybe used as a reaction toward getting a blue screen of death and having to reboot?
Flywheel backup power isn't a new idea, but this is taking it to the next level. I worked for a company that had a flywheel backup power generator. It was basically a several horse power motor connected to a generator with a big flywheel weight in the middle going along for the ride. In the event of a SHORT brownout from the local power company it kept the lab computers up for the 30 seconds or so that a typical brownout would last. In the event that a longer power failure happened, a diesel backup generator could come on line in under 30 seconds.
It should require MORE than a court order. It should require a conviction in the traffic of copyrighted material in violation of the copyright act before a site can be black listed. Being accused of such should NOT be enough.
I rather liked the old system of dual trees. The unstable branch gave the developers a place to alpha test their work before merging it back in to the stable tree. The only problem was that the new tree was merged in all at once rather than piecemeal. The stable bits should be merged in as they mature. A three tier system, sorta like Debian (Sid (aka unstable), testing, and stable) makes sense, and here the the unstable branch would be the 'ODD' tree such as 2.9.x, the testing tree would be the even branch to three or four digits (say an ODD number of digits) and the stable tree would be to an even number of digits. So 2.9.x.x unstable, 3.x.x testing, and 3.x stable. For "oops" fixes to stable and a letter such as 3.xA.
There are some Linux apps that are used by Windows people who don't want to pay for the 'real thing' or pirate them. IE: Open Office instead of MS Office. (probably doesn't NEED GTK anyway) the GIMP instead of Photo Shop (this would be a problem....)
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I checked out the Advanced circuits site in the link. Their free cad tool has a rather poor library, there doesn't seem to be ANY micro controllers in their library and their own line library can't seem to find common parts either. (Try searching for 2n2222 or 2n3904 and comes up empty!) Even Eagle's free cad tool has a bigger library and lot's of user contributed parts. Only problem with Eagle is that few houses use their file format, though there are ways to make Gerbers from them.
If the company wants to prevent second sales of used games they should lock the save feature to the console that the game is first installed on. I'm sure most current game consoles have a serial number that the software can access. This would allow the first purchaser to 'replay' the game as many times as he/she liked, but a second sale owner would be locked out. Ya, even that idea sucks, but it sucks less than not being able to start from zero say 6 months after you first completed the game and mostly forgot the experience.
My Comcast HD cable box pull so much power shut down that I can't leave it in my equipment cabinet with the doors open or it will over heat. The temperature in the cabinet with the doors shut and the cable box off rises to over 100 F. I can't unplug the box when not in use because it will 'forget' my settings and it takes hours for it to scan the network before it is usable again. BIg POS, thank's Motorola!
I'm surprised that no one wearing a tin foil hat has yet called the Amtrak crash in Nevada a terrorist plot. Why hasn't the TSA investigated the truck driver that crashed his rig into a train? This is the sort of thing that the terrorists will probably do next.
Walk into any Costco and you will find a few "laptops" for under $400. These in my mind are either netbooks, or something between a netbook and a cheap notebook. They haven't been killed off, they evolved.
I wonder if Tezuka ever saw the film "the Tunnel". Could have given him the idea for "Marine Express"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_Super_Train:_Marine_Express
Well it seems that the Roadster was not priced high enough to be in the black. Tesla's decision to discontinue it may be a bit rash, they should shelve it until they have a car in production that DOES earn them a profit, the model S could be that car. Just as Chrysler was selling a few crazy V12 powered motercycles (I'm sure they did NOT lose money on them as long as nuts like Leno would buy them at any price), Tesla could then offer the Roadster at it's REAL cost to the deep heeled crowd that doesn't look at price tags. The roadster has done it's job, it has made a name for Tesla. Now they need to get a more down to earth electric out there. The model S still is in the high end "beamer" class so it won't be the average man's car. But maybe there will be a follow up to the model S that will be in the volt/prius/leaf class.
Youtube videos also work this way. The video comes in faster than it is displayed and is buffered into a temp file (and there are ways to find and save this temp file as long as the browser isn't closed or the URL is changed).
That's great! You made a lot of friends, lined up good networking avenues, and probably had a good time doing it.
The best revenge is pick their pockets legally!
If Apple puts a Mac Mini inside the TV set so that third parties can add apps (or use open source software, or bootcamp to dual boot with Linux/windows to run ANY PC application to surf the web for content). Actually just add a TV tuner to large screen iMac and you have a TV.
now my tv can fart.
That's the Diamond district where there are lots of sweat shops. My father worked for several large jewelry firms as a diamond setter. The back rooms where the artisans worked wasn't air conditioned during the summer and the large windows were left open (they were the awning type that opened with small slats so you couldn't really jump or fall out of an open window). Many of the work benches were right up against the window, and I could believe that some small stuff would fall to the street now and then. A lot of the gold that got 'lost' was the bits between castings that get cut off. Jewelry is cast using the lost wax technique. Molds are made from latex rubber carrying the impression of the original artwork. Wax is injected into these molds to make wax castings. Next these castings are attached to wax rods which are attached to a base. These rods will form the channels into which molten gold is poured. The wax assembly is lowered into a cylinder and plaster is then poured into the cylinder and allowed to harden. The wax is then melted out which also cures the plaster removing all moisture. This forms a plaster mold into which molten gold is poured. The rods connecting the castings are waste gold which is recycled, but bits of it sometimes get lost (and this adds up). Even the gold filings that are removed from the castings to mount diamonds and other stones is saved to be recycled. Still a far amount probably got blow out the open windows and fell to the street. Small diamonds are hard to mount. The artisan has to drill holes to sit the stone into and raise prongs over the stone with a small chisel. If he slips he can chip the stone or it might go flying away. (small diamonds of fractional carrots are not super expensive, but a piece can have many of them so it adds up).
The Decathlon isn't exactly a well RF shielded aircraft. The skin is mostly dope covered fabric, and the wings internal structure is wood. The airframe is made of welded metal tubing which along with the aluminum cowl over the engine comprises just about ALL of the metal in the aircraft. I'm not sure to what the antennas are grounded to, probably just enough aluminum sheet under the fabric to make them work.
I used to own a share in a Citabria flying club, really miss flying that airplane.
Actually that was what we did "Delivery Refused: no such person at this address, return to sender"
After buying a new house we started getting snail mail addressed to the former owners. Most of it was junk which just get put in the recycle bin. Some were bills which we marked as 'return to sender' and handed back to the post deliver person. Eventually, a collection agent rang our bell to serve a legal notice, we told them to take a hike as the person they were looking for is now in parts unknown. That stopped the bills from coming.
That was quick!
Not the gesture itself, but the computer reacting toward it maybe.
And I agree, the "up yours" gesture, maybe used as a reaction toward getting a blue screen of death and having to reboot?
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Does Intel have nothing not to do with this one? (double negative there).
Flywheel backup power isn't a new idea, but this is taking it to the next level.
I worked for a company that had a flywheel backup power generator. It was basically a several horse power motor connected to a generator with a big flywheel weight in the middle going along for the ride. In the event of a SHORT brownout from the local power company it kept the lab computers up for the 30 seconds or so that a typical brownout would last. In the event that a longer power failure happened, a diesel backup generator could come on line in under 30 seconds.
It should require MORE than a court order. It should require a conviction in the traffic of copyrighted material in violation of the copyright act before a site can be black listed. Being accused of such should NOT be enough.
Now THAT is a good idea. Actually does anybody beside me think that Ballmer looks like the monster from Young Frankenstein?
Actually anti-electrons (positrons) are SQUARE. As you all know, you can't fit a square peg in a round hole.
I rather liked the old system of dual trees. The unstable branch gave the developers a place to alpha test their work before merging it back in to the stable tree. The only problem was that the new tree was merged in all at once rather than piecemeal. The stable bits should be merged in as they mature. A three tier system, sorta like Debian (Sid (aka unstable), testing, and stable) makes sense, and here the the unstable branch would be the 'ODD' tree such as 2.9.x, the testing tree would be the even branch to three or four digits (say an ODD number of digits) and the stable tree would be to an even number of digits.
So 2.9.x.x unstable, 3.x.x testing, and 3.x stable. For "oops" fixes to stable and a letter such as 3.xA.
There are some Linux apps that are used by Windows people who don't want to pay for the 'real thing' or pirate them.
IE: Open Office instead of MS Office. (probably doesn't NEED GTK anyway)
the GIMP instead of Photo Shop (this would be a problem....)
Yeah right, like everything on Wikipedia is 100% accurate. NOT!