From the CastleCops article: "iSearch intrudes on your browsing sessions by invoking ad-related activity and reportedly blocks access to certain web sites."
The Ask Slashdotter is looking for convenience, not power efficiency.
And as to a previous poster's reference to rectifying/filtering, well, I took for granted that that was understood.
The original 7805 reference was a "jumping off place" for searching for suitable regulators. Newer versions come in a variety of packages, from tiny surface-mount to TO3 and larger packages. The big ones with a proper heatsink and mounting can dissipate a lot of heat, and the new designs are a lot more forgiving with large in/out voltage differentials. There are also adjustable output versions easily controllable with a potentiometer or switchable resistor network.
If you want to get fancy, you can go whole hog with a switching supply rather thana straight linear.
Either way, we're talking a power supply, not rocket surgery.
I don't get all the talk about multiple windings/taps for each voltage. Why not one voltage (the highest required by the system) with oodles of current behind it, then simply regulate it down for each voltage. I think I remember that EIN max for an LM7805 (TO220 package) regulator is 12 volts or more. Just mount all your regulators on a big heatsink, regulate and filter from the common rail, and you're in business.
About that same time, my engineering department had an IDBD--Inter-Department Ballistic Duck. It was one of those cheesy rubber figures (in our case, Donald Duck) with a suction cup base and a spring inside. Compress it, and it launches when the suction cup vacuum leaks off. We sent messages on bits of paper held in place with rubber bands. Worked great until we accidentally hit a senior manager making a walk-through. The engineering director forthwith confiscated the IDBD and we never saw it again.
Actually, they already have one but never use it or accept articles submitted for it. It is called "It's Funny. Laugh" Check it out on the Select Topic menu on the Submit Story page.
Not if modern platters are anything like the big 14-inch jobs we used to dissect. Made of aluminum with a metal oxide coating.
Besides, neither the platters nor the drives themselves were sealed systems, and ambient specs allowed use in fairly high humidity. Ergo, if they would rust handing in a backyard, they would rust sitting on a shelf or in a powered-down drive.
Imagine explaing that to the boss: "Well, you see, it rained yesterday so we had this head crash and....
If a popup annoys me enough, I find the advertisers website, click to their "Contact Us," and send them a scathing note about why I and my kith and kin will not buy their product or service.
I do not know if it does any good, but it makes me feel better.:-)
I missed that when reading TFA. Sill, it is highly interesting that mental/cognitive ability is self-compensating in the same way that blind people learn to perceive the world through other senses. I recall reading about recognized geniuses who could not function in "normal" society due to perceptive deficiencies. Perhaps what most deem "important" is not important at all.
The "see numbers as shapes, colours and textures" bit reminds me of something I read once in a SciFi novel about aliens who could smell colors and see odors.
When it comes to pedophiles, I wish a hell of a lot more people would "think of the children." It is way too easy to forget. I am glad someone reminds us.
" that some of the scariest 1984ish stuff would be coming out of the fricking entertainment industry fer chrissakes."
Wasn't there a movie based on that? Convicted criminals fighting for their lives and the whole thing televised? TV execs in charge of the world kind of thing?
The producers tried to follow the Star Wars "back to the future" model and couldn't pull it off. The nature of Trek has always been futuristic, and Trek fans expect it to continue along a linear, forward-moving timeline (chrono-based episode plots notwithstanding). The only was a new Trek series will succeed is to stay with the model that has always worked for it and move forward in time.
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From the CastleCops article: "iSearch intrudes on your browsing sessions by invoking ad-related activity and reportedly blocks access to certain web sites."
I wonder what websites that would be....
I thought he meant, "Shooting a gift horse in the foot."
The Ask Slashdotter is looking for convenience, not power efficiency.
And as to a previous poster's reference to rectifying/filtering, well, I took for granted that that was understood.
The original 7805 reference was a "jumping off place" for searching for suitable regulators. Newer versions come in a variety of packages, from tiny surface-mount to TO3 and larger packages. The big ones with a proper heatsink and mounting can dissipate a lot of heat, and the new designs are a lot more forgiving with large in/out voltage differentials. There are also adjustable output versions easily controllable with a potentiometer or switchable resistor network.
If you want to get fancy, you can go whole hog with a switching supply rather thana straight linear.
Either way, we're talking a power supply, not rocket surgery.
The parent is NOT offtopic.
See you in MetaModeration.
I don't get all the talk about multiple windings/taps for each voltage. Why not one voltage (the highest required by the system) with oodles of current behind it, then simply regulate it down for each voltage. I think I remember that EIN max for an LM7805 (TO220 package) regulator is 12 volts or more. Just mount all your regulators on a big heatsink, regulate and filter from the common rail, and you're in business.
About that same time, my engineering department had an IDBD--Inter-Department Ballistic Duck. It was one of those cheesy rubber figures (in our case, Donald Duck) with a suction cup base and a spring inside. Compress it, and it launches when the suction cup vacuum leaks off. We sent messages on bits of paper held in place with rubber bands. Worked great until we accidentally hit a senior manager making a walk-through. The engineering director forthwith confiscated the IDBD and we never saw it again.
Actually, they already have one but never use it or accept articles submitted for it. It is called "It's Funny. Laugh" Check it out on the Select Topic menu on the Submit Story page.
Not if modern platters are anything like the big 14-inch jobs we used to dissect. Made of aluminum with a metal oxide coating.
Besides, neither the platters nor the drives themselves were sealed systems, and ambient specs allowed use in fairly high humidity. Ergo, if they would rust handing in a backyard, they would rust sitting on a shelf or in a powered-down drive.
Imagine explaing that to the boss: "Well, you see, it rained yesterday so we had this head crash and....
How about the original Colossal Cave Adventure? http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.htm l
...can you imagine trying to register as domain name with a bureauacracy like the UN in charge?
Jeez....
If a popup annoys me enough, I find the advertisers website, click to their "Contact Us," and send them a scathing note about why I and my kith and kin will not buy their product or service.
:-)
I do not know if it does any good, but it makes me feel better.
I really do not understabd why the parent is modded "Troll." Somebody please explain.
I missed that when reading TFA. Sill, it is highly interesting that mental/cognitive ability is self-compensating in the same way that blind people learn to perceive the world through other senses. I recall reading about recognized geniuses who could not function in "normal" society due to perceptive deficiencies. Perhaps what most deem "important" is not important at all.
The "see numbers as shapes, colours and textures" bit reminds me of something I read once in a SciFi novel about aliens who could smell colors and see odors.
...if the savants' abilities are compensation for "ordinary" cognitive abilities.
"... terrorists still prefer the low-tech approach."
Made me think of War of the Worlds: the ailiens, with their invincible technology, destroyed by a common cold virus.
When it comes to pedophiles, I wish a hell of a lot more people would "think of the children." It is way too easy to forget. I am glad someone reminds us.
What hydrocephalic moron modded the Insightful parent "Troll?"
Still, MS giving something away for free...I wonder why...
" that some of the scariest 1984ish stuff would be coming out of the fricking entertainment industry fer chrissakes."
Wasn't there a movie based on that? Convicted criminals fighting for their lives and the whole thing televised? TV execs in charge of the world kind of thing?
The producers tried to follow the Star Wars "back to the future" model and couldn't pull it off. The nature of Trek has always been futuristic, and Trek fans expect it to continue along a linear, forward-moving timeline (chrono-based episode plots notwithstanding). The only was a new Trek series will succeed is to stay with the model that has always worked for it and move forward in time.
...the first baby-step of emerging silicone-based sentience?
Probably about equal to the distance between "tunnel vision" and "it's a big world out there."
But, have you ever tried to uninstall MS Messenger? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/02/windows_me ssenger_trojan_update/
Those not blessed with geekiness cannot do it, so are stuck.
And the U.S. media is responsible for reporting non-stop on the tsunami and that other thing you mentioned because...?