I had a portable phone fall into a swimming pool (chlorinated water). I removed the battery and took the phone apart, then dried it out with a hair dryer. I left the phone apart for a week for it to continue to air dry. Then I reassembled it and installed the batteries. It still didn't work. I turned it off and left it on the charger. After another week it started to work but sections of the LCD display didn't work correctly. After ANOTHER week the LCD started to come back to life. That phone is STILL working about a year later. YMMV
Maybe the FCC should raise the power limit for digital TV transmitters. By allowing the stations that have large 'fringe' areas with poor reception to run higher power some of the problem could be eliminated. The TV stations may also have to raise their towers higher or install higher gain antennas.
NASA had a similar problem when they wanted to send images from earth on one of the voyager space probes. They wanted something that would last much longer that 25 years! What they ended up with was a phonograph record! So maybe an old Tarbel cassette interface recorded onto a metal phonograph record (gold plated of course) would be the answer.
If the photo had been obtained from space then there is no case. But if a google car drove down a private street that was marked private property then they do have a good case for trespass. Normally such roads are gated though.
I never thought of the problem with the degaussing coil in the monitor. But then again, who still uses a CRT anymore? (Well I do at work since my company is too cheap to buy me a new monitor). Point is you can leave the monitor powered by the UPS if it is an LCD type.
Being in orbit around the moon is a bumpy ride. The Apollo astronauts noted that the moons gravity was not 'smooth' and the orbiting spacecraft would 'bounce' around as their orbit carried them around the moon. The moon probably doesn't have a well defined center of mass, so it's gravity field is not a smooth sphere as the earth's is.
Most DVR's already won't allow you to record certain material. I found my Toshiba DVR would NOT record movies from Showtime or HBO (using DVDR or DVDRW disks) but would record material from most other sources. It WILL record ANYTHING on to DVD-RAM disks. I'm not sure what the logic is to allow the use of DVD-RAM disks, other than these disks generally won't interchange with NON DVDR machines.
Think I'll plant some thermite bombs in my computer so if it is illegally removed from my house it will explode into flames as soon as the fools try to mess with it.
It's a bit of a myth that Florida is the sunshine state. Being next to the ocean cloud cover is never completely absent so we never get very long periods of constant sun needed for good power generation. Desert areas in the western US would do better.
Still it should be possible to build Hurricane proof solar plant structures. Mirrors that fold up and out of harms way for example.
While the sensitivity of our eyes to various colors is one factor, the other is how well we can focus different colors. Our ours have the most trouble focusing blue, and deep red. Yellow to Green focus the best. Remember the days of monochrome text computer terminals (the VT52 look-a-likes)? Most had green phosphers, some had yellow.
IIRC it was the assault gun ban that he took issue with. I'm sorry, but Clinton was in the right here. Citizens don't need the 'DOOM' equal of the 'BFG' to protect themselves. Those things are only of use to the military and SHOULD be banned from citizen hands. OTOH, the government should keep their hands off citizen rights to long guns and hand guns which ARE what most citizens own. (If you can't protect yourself with 'Dirty Harry's piece, you don't deserve to own a gun anyway!).
The problem is our brain dead leader has been in hybernation mode for too long. Hopefully things will turn around after the next election. The country needs to change colors (less 'red' more 'blue')!
Company I used to work for is STILL shipping product based on DOS 6.1x! Granted this is an embedded use of the OS in a turnkey system. I think they bought the rights to ship as many copies as they wanted. (From IBM not M$).
The kind of sodium lamps used in most streetlights are NOT monochromatic. The LOW PRESSURE sodium lamps are monochromatic, but are not used often in street lights because of that. HIGH PRESSURE sodium lamps ARE NOT monochromatic and are the type most often used. Too bad, since the LOW PRESSURE lamps deliver more light per watt (10% - 50% more depending on the wattage).
Hybrid autos get good mileage because they recycle wasted energy with regenerative brakes and such. But they directly drive the wheels with the engine which must run a varying speed.
So my idea to build a high mileage car would be to start with a fully electric drive system. Place one electric motor at each wheel. This will give you a four wheel drive system with electric differential. Directly couple an alternator to the output of the engine. The alternator will drive the electrical system, recharging the batteries. The engine only runs when required, to charge the batteries and to supply excess power when required. The engine runs at a constant speed (but not at a constant throttle setting, the throttle varies to keep the engine / alternator running at a constant speed under varying loads). This drive system is the same as on all current diesel locomotives. The engine would be a multi-fuel design. Perhaps with two sets of cylinders, one for otto cycle combustion (gas, ethenol, etc) and another set for diesel (diesel fuel, jet-A, used McDonolds fry oil).
All exposed surfaces of the car are covered with solar panels. When the car is parked there are internal panels that can be placed behind the windows with velcro to keep the sun out of the car, and these are also solar panels. So the batteries are passively re-charged when the car is parked (in the sun).
I also have an Oppo DVD player, and I really like it. It's the best DVD player out there for the money. I will wait to buy a BD machine until Oppo makes one. I think they will probably produce a 'universal' BD player that will also play all CD, and DVD formats as well.
The Biscane aquifer in South Fl. is fed mostly by rain water, NOT from recycled waste discharge. Most of the waste water in SF is ocean dumped. So most private wells, and those run by cities here are probably less contaminated that the water sources in the northern states.
I might be willing to pay a bit more than $200 for a good BD machine, but not much more. My Oppo Digital upscaling DVD player cost me $230 and was well worth it (it also plays CD's, MP3, OGG, Divx (avi), SACD, DVD-Audio, R,RW +RW, -RW, +RDL, -RDL etc disks too). Give me a BD machine that does all that too and I'll go up to $300 for it.
but rather space is reacting with the materials the space suits are made of. Perhaps the effects of unfiltered solar radiation, cosmic rays, etc cause the suit materials to outgas some odor due to a change in the materials they are made of.
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I had a portable phone fall into a swimming pool (chlorinated water). I removed the battery and took the phone apart, then dried it out with a hair dryer. I left the phone apart for a week for it to continue to air dry. Then I reassembled it and installed the batteries. It still didn't work. I turned it off and left it on the charger. After another week it started to work but sections of the LCD display didn't work correctly. After ANOTHER week the LCD started to come back to life. That phone is STILL working about a year later. YMMV
Maybe the FCC should raise the power limit for digital TV transmitters. By allowing the stations that have large 'fringe' areas with poor reception to run higher power some of the problem could be eliminated. The TV stations may also have to raise their towers higher or install higher gain antennas.
Maybe this will show up in the next James Bond movie?
NASA had a similar problem when they wanted to send images from earth on one of the voyager space probes. They wanted something that would last much longer that 25 years! What they ended up with was a phonograph record! So maybe an old Tarbel cassette interface recorded onto a metal phonograph record
(gold plated of course) would be the answer.
If the photo had been obtained from space then there is no case. But if a google car drove down a private street that was marked private property then they do have a good case for trespass. Normally such roads are gated though.
I never thought of the problem with the degaussing coil in the monitor. But then again, who still uses a CRT anymore? (Well I do at work since my company is too cheap to buy me a new monitor). Point is you can leave the monitor powered by the UPS if it is an LCD type.
Being in orbit around the moon is a bumpy ride. The Apollo astronauts noted that the moons gravity was not 'smooth' and the orbiting spacecraft would 'bounce' around as their orbit carried them around the moon. The moon probably doesn't have a well defined center of mass, so it's gravity field is not a smooth sphere as the earth's is.
4: put it on the moon, where it will generate 'magnetic radiation' and blow the moon out of earth's orbit.
Most DVR's already won't allow you to record certain material. I found my Toshiba DVR would NOT record movies from Showtime or HBO (using DVDR or DVDRW disks) but would record material from most other sources. It WILL record ANYTHING on to DVD-RAM disks. I'm not sure what the logic is to allow the use of DVD-RAM disks, other than these disks generally won't interchange with NON DVDR machines.
Think I'll plant some thermite bombs in my computer so if it is illegally removed from my house it will explode into flames as soon as the fools try to mess with it.
Could be Gates, Alan, or maybe Woz?
Let's see, that's enough to power 1.8099 DeLorian time machines!
No they are not!
http://www.pchdtv.com/
(if you run Linux!)
It's a bit of a myth that Florida is the sunshine state. Being next to the ocean cloud cover is never completely absent so we never get very long periods of constant sun needed for good power generation. Desert areas in the western US would do better.
Still it should be possible to build Hurricane proof solar plant structures. Mirrors that fold up and out of harms way for example.
While the sensitivity of our eyes to various colors is one factor, the other is how well we can focus different colors. Our ours have the most trouble focusing blue, and deep red. Yellow to Green focus the best. Remember the days of monochrome text computer terminals (the VT52 look-a-likes)? Most had green phosphers, some had yellow.
IIRC it was the assault gun ban that he took issue with. I'm sorry, but Clinton was in the right here. Citizens don't need the 'DOOM' equal of the 'BFG' to protect themselves. Those things are only of use to the military and SHOULD be banned from citizen hands.
OTOH, the government should keep their hands off citizen rights to long guns and hand guns which ARE what most citizens own. (If you can't protect yourself with 'Dirty Harry's piece, you don't deserve to own a gun anyway!).
Simply put, if you steal someone's life, you should loose your own.
The problem is our brain dead leader has been in hybernation mode for too long.
Hopefully things will turn around after the next election. The country needs to
change colors (less 'red' more 'blue')!
Company I used to work for is STILL shipping product based on DOS 6.1x! Granted this is an embedded use of the OS in a turnkey system. I think they bought the rights to ship as many copies as they wanted. (From IBM not M$).
The kind of sodium lamps used in most streetlights are NOT monochromatic.
The LOW PRESSURE sodium lamps are monochromatic, but are not used often in street lights because of that. HIGH PRESSURE sodium lamps ARE NOT monochromatic and are the type most often used. Too bad, since the LOW PRESSURE lamps deliver more light per watt (10% - 50% more depending on the wattage).
Hybrid autos get good mileage because they recycle wasted energy with regenerative brakes and such.
But they directly drive the wheels with the engine which must run a varying speed.
So my idea to build a high mileage car would be to start with a fully electric drive system. Place
one electric motor at each wheel. This will give you a four wheel drive system with electric
differential. Directly couple an alternator to the output of the engine. The alternator will drive
the electrical system, recharging the batteries. The engine only runs when required, to charge the
batteries and to supply excess power when required. The engine runs at a constant speed (but not at
a constant throttle setting, the throttle varies to keep the engine / alternator running at a constant
speed under varying loads). This drive system is the same as on all current diesel locomotives.
The engine would be a multi-fuel design. Perhaps with two sets of cylinders, one for otto cycle combustion
(gas, ethenol, etc) and another set for diesel (diesel fuel, jet-A, used McDonolds fry oil).
All exposed surfaces of the car are covered with solar panels. When the
car is parked there are internal panels that can be placed behind the windows with velcro to keep the
sun out of the car, and these are also solar panels. So the batteries are passively re-charged when
the car is parked (in the sun).
I also have an Oppo DVD player, and I really like it. It's the best DVD player out there for the money. I will wait to buy a BD machine until Oppo makes one. I think they will probably produce a 'universal' BD player that will also play all CD, and DVD formats as well.
The Biscane aquifer in South Fl. is fed mostly by rain water, NOT from recycled waste discharge.
Most of the waste water in SF is ocean dumped. So most private wells, and those run by cities here are probably less contaminated that the water sources in the northern states.
Frightening though!
I might be willing to pay a bit more than $200 for a good BD machine, but not much more. My Oppo Digital upscaling DVD player cost me $230 and was well worth it (it also plays CD's, MP3, OGG, Divx (avi), SACD, DVD-Audio, R,RW +RW, -RW, +RDL, -RDL etc disks too).
Give me a BD machine that does all that too and I'll go up to $300 for it.
but rather space is reacting with the materials the space suits are made of.
Perhaps the effects of unfiltered solar radiation, cosmic rays, etc cause
the suit materials to outgas some odor due to a change in the materials they are
made of.