[quote]Methamphetamine is the scary, back alley, black sheep cousin of the amphetamine family; similar to how heroin (diacetylmorphine) is the scary, back alley, black sheep cousin of morphine or fentanyl[/quote]
Methamphetamine is not ONLY a "street drug". It is actually available by prescription, under the brand name Desoxyn, and used in the treatment of narcolepsy and severe ADD/ADHD.
Heroin, OTOH, is listed in DEA schedule I, and is banned from medical use in the US. It is used in other countries for the management of severe pain in terminal cancer patients.
Not only did Heathkit start out selling airplane kits, but the founder, Ed Heath, was killed when one of them crashed during a test flight in 1931.
The reincarnation as an electronics company came after WW2, when the new owner, Howard Anthony, bought up a boxcar full of military surplus radar parts, and repackaged them as kits to build your own oscilloscope.
The division of the company that once sold kits to ham operators and electronics geeks no longer exists (hasn't since the 1990s, IIRC).
The name lives on, being used by "Heathkit Educational Systems", which sells overpriced technology training equipment and materials for classroom use. With the educational market firmly in the grip of M$, the fact that this thing runs XP rather than linux should be no surprise at all.
for appliance bulbs or other "special uses". Here is the text of the article. Please point out what I missed here:
[quote] The new energy bill signed this week makes it official. When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.
Even so, light bulb manufacturers say that worries about greenhouse gases and the high cost of energy had them moving away from conventional incandescents way before Congress weighed in. For quite some time, they note, they have been trying to soften the light emitted by compact fluorescent lights, bring down the cost of light-emitting diodes -- and yes, find ways to increase the efficiency of incandescents.
Many of the products are already on the market, and more will be available before the deadline kicks in,
"Sure, you'll see more compact fluorescents five years from now, but you would have seen them without any energy bill," said the chief executive of Osram Sylvania, Charlie Jerabek.
Michael B. Petras Jr., vice president of GE Consumer and Industrial -- the unit that includes General Electric's lighting business -- broadened the thought to all forms of lighting. "You'll see different light sources for your decorative chandelier, for your recessed lighting and for your under-cabinet lights," he said. "And I can assure you that all the kinds of light sources are already getting a lot more efficient."
Including incandescents.
Congress has not specifically outlawed incandescent bulbs, only inefficient ones.
In February, G.E. said that it was developing a high-efficiency incandescent that will radiate more than twice the light of conventional incandescents. It expects to make that one commercially available by 2010, and one that is twice as efficient a few years later.
And so far, consumers have been slow to give new products a chance. Compact fluorescents, for example, are already ubiquitous in stores. Many retailers, led by Wal-Mart, have promoted the economics of the bulbs -- though compact fluorescents generally cost six times what incandescents do, they last six times as long and use far less energy.
The EnergyStar program of the Environmental Protection Agency has been pushing compact fluorescents for almost nine years.
"People realize that incandescents are an old, inefficient technology," an EnergyStar spokeswoman, Maria Vargas, said.
The promotions have had modest success. Mr. Jerabek said Sylvania's sales of compact fluorescents doubled in 2006 over 2005, and doubled again this year. But, he notes, they still account for 15 percent of bulbs in use in homes.
Sylvania recently introduced a fluorescent that Mr. Jerabek said mimicked the light of incandescents. He concedes that incandescents are about 10 percent warmer, but he insists that "the average consumer would have trouble detecting the difference."
Compact fluorescent lights have problems beyond light quality. They contain mercury, and few recycling centers will accept them. So at the end of life, they still pose an environmental hazard.
"We're working to reduce mercury, but the amount will never go to zero," Mr. Petras said.
That is why Mr. Jerabek, for one, calls compact fluorescent lights "a temporary fix."
Manufacturers are putting a lot of stock in light-emitting diodes -- or L.E.D.'s. They operate with chips made of nontoxic materials and last for about 50,000 hours, compared with 1,000 hours for an incandescent and 6,000 for a compact fluorescent. A tiny L.E.D. can shed as much light as a cumbersome bulb, which makes them easier to integrate into a home's décor. And, they are extremely energy efficient.
But today, they are too expensive to use for all lighting applications. And, while manufacturers are able to make pretty good colored L.E.D.'s -- the kind that are already available for Christmas tree lights -- they have yet to perfect a white L.E.D. that would be useful for lighting homes.
Including flashlight bulbs, automotive headlamp bulbs, projector bulbs, and all the hundreds of types of miniature lamps used in electrical/electronic gear over the last century? All the lamps that there are NO "energy efficient" replacements for?
Even in your own home, there are at least 2 places where CFLs aren't going to work--think of the 40W appliance bulbs inside your oven and refrigerator. CFLs don't like extremes of ambient temperature which incandescents tolerate easily. Will it be illegal to replace the bulb in your oven?
This is the kind of crap that happens when clueless lawyers start making engineering decisions...
And even if the guy knew how to pull the hard drive before dropping the box off at the shop, then the tech would have a hard time installing the required drivers and DVD authoring software onto a machine without a hard drive.
Googling the phrase "vacuum microelectronics" is quite informative. Or just look at a plasma screen TV, which is actually an array of tiny gas switching tubes. A good introduction to the field is here:
When tubes get that small, one no longer needs high voltages and heated cathodes to achieve electron emission. The electrostatic field and a tiny emitter point will work just fine. If solid state never came around, who knows what kind of tube-based electronics might have been developed.
Cars could be repaired in much the same way as medical diagnoses were made in the clinic, by "expert systems" which were designed and programmed by previous generations. The film also talked about the stock market being run the same way, completely automated by computers.
Yes, it leaves the question of how the computer systems were maintained, but most films of this nature have some inconsistencies.
The crotch injury and fart jokes served to define the state of the society at that point. They weren't really meant to be laughed at in and of themselves.
Much like Beavis and Butthead, the actual targets of the humor just laugh at the stupidity, without realizing that THEY are being made fun of...
into space, and that money is never seen again. This is nothing like those pallets of $100 bills that got shipped over to Iraq.
The money spent on space exploration pays NASA employees and contractors in congressional districts all across the USA. Employees spend their paychecks, contractors hire more workers, purchase materials/equipment, subcontract some of the work out, etc. The money goes back into the US economy.
No, the option was to abort the landing, redock with the CSM, and return to earth.
Yes, it would have sucked, but it would have been a hell of a lot better option than crashing into the moon (which might have been the outcome if the 1201 and 1202 alarms were actually serious problems).
Was wondering about that myself. They did some experiments on the shuttle a few years ago, and found that even simple tasks like soldering 2 wires together become a royal PITA in microgravity. I can imagine trying to machine a piece of metal with coolant and sharp metal chips floating all over the place...
Cocaine is used as a local anesthetic for eye and (ironically) nasal surgery.
And while marijuana is stuck in Schedule I along with heroin and LSD, the DEA has placed pure THC (the pharmaceutical equivalent of hash oil!) in Schedule III. You see, corporations cannot patent a plant(yet), but they can isolate an active ingredient and make a patentable pill out of it. And sell it for far more than an equivalent amount of pot would cost.
Not only can men GET breast cancer, but it tends to have a much higher mortality rate in males.
Because most men don't know that they could get breast cancer, it tends to not be noticed until it is in an advanced state, and has likely already spread beyond the breast tissue.
"The article notes that smoking cannabis will not deliver significant quantities of CBD."
What if you were to smoke hemp?
CBD is believed to be the compound in pot responsible for the sedative effect, as opposed to THC, which is responsible for the "mind expanding" psychedelic effects. High levels of CBD are common in strains grown for fiber or seed, which are not particularly fun to smoke. At best, you just get tired. At worst, you cough up a lung....:)
[quote]The sound becomes much more open and free flowing with a nice improvement in resolution. Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature knobs will have an even greater effect...really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear...way better sound!![/quote]
Complete and utter bullshit, of course, but great for separating gullible yuppies from their money.
I don't know anyone who claims that flashy case mods actually make the computer WORK better. That is EXACTLY what is being claimed about the snake oil speaker cables, though...
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, and only in their original European forms. Their US equivalents, 6CA7 and 6BQ5, are constructed as beam power tetrodes.
The 6L6 is also not a pentode, but the very first beam power tetrode.
The 12AX7 is a dual triode.
[quote]Methamphetamine is the scary, back alley, black sheep cousin of the amphetamine family; similar to how heroin (diacetylmorphine) is the scary, back alley, black sheep cousin of morphine or fentanyl[/quote]
Methamphetamine is not ONLY a "street drug". It is actually available by prescription, under the brand name Desoxyn, and used in the treatment of narcolepsy and severe ADD/ADHD.
Heroin, OTOH, is listed in DEA schedule I, and is banned from medical use in the US. It is used in other countries for the management of severe pain in terminal cancer patients.
and a special modification for the NYPD, a special rack to carry the toilet plunger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima
Not only did Heathkit start out selling airplane kits, but the founder, Ed Heath, was killed when one of them crashed during a test flight in 1931.
The reincarnation as an electronics company came after WW2, when the new owner, Howard Anthony, bought up a boxcar full of military surplus radar parts, and repackaged them as kits to build your own oscilloscope.
Ramsey's BEST offerings can't hold a candle to the worst of the old Heathkit, particularly in terms of the quality of the assembly manuals.
There is one modern company that comes pretty close, but they are solely in the ham radio market, with a very small (but wonderful) product line.
http://www.elecraft.com/
http://www.heathkit.com/
The division of the company that once sold kits to ham operators and electronics geeks no longer exists (hasn't since the 1990s, IIRC).
The name lives on, being used by "Heathkit Educational Systems", which sells overpriced technology training equipment and materials for classroom use. With the educational market firmly in the grip of M$, the fact that this thing runs XP rather than linux should be no surprise at all.
for appliance bulbs or other "special uses". Here is the text of the article. Please point out what I missed here:
[quote]
The new energy bill signed this week makes it official. When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.
Even so, light bulb manufacturers say that worries about greenhouse gases and the high cost of energy had them moving away from conventional incandescents way before Congress weighed in. For quite some time, they note, they have been trying to soften the light emitted by compact fluorescent lights, bring down the cost of light-emitting diodes -- and yes, find ways to increase the efficiency of incandescents.
Many of the products are already on the market, and more will be available before the deadline kicks in,
"Sure, you'll see more compact fluorescents five years from now, but you would have seen them without any energy bill," said the chief executive of Osram Sylvania, Charlie Jerabek.
Michael B. Petras Jr., vice president of GE Consumer and Industrial -- the unit that includes General Electric's lighting business -- broadened the thought to all forms of lighting. "You'll see different light sources for your decorative chandelier, for your recessed lighting and for your under-cabinet lights," he said. "And I can assure you that all the kinds of light sources are already getting a lot more efficient."
Including incandescents.
Congress has not specifically outlawed incandescent bulbs, only inefficient ones.
In February, G.E. said that it was developing a high-efficiency incandescent that will radiate more than twice the light of conventional incandescents. It expects to make that one commercially available by 2010, and one that is twice as efficient a few years later.
And so far, consumers have been slow to give new products a chance. Compact fluorescents, for example, are already ubiquitous in stores. Many retailers, led by Wal-Mart, have promoted the economics of the bulbs -- though compact fluorescents generally cost six times what incandescents do, they last six times as long and use far less energy.
The EnergyStar program of the Environmental Protection Agency has been pushing compact fluorescents for almost nine years.
"People realize that incandescents are an old, inefficient technology," an EnergyStar spokeswoman, Maria Vargas, said.
The promotions have had modest success. Mr. Jerabek said Sylvania's sales of compact fluorescents doubled in 2006 over 2005, and doubled again this year. But, he notes, they still account for 15 percent of bulbs in use in homes.
Sylvania recently introduced a fluorescent that Mr. Jerabek said mimicked the light of incandescents. He concedes that incandescents are about 10 percent warmer, but he insists that "the average consumer would have trouble detecting the difference."
Compact fluorescent lights have problems beyond light quality. They contain mercury, and few recycling centers will accept them. So at the end of life, they still pose an environmental hazard.
"We're working to reduce mercury, but the amount will never go to zero," Mr. Petras said.
That is why Mr. Jerabek, for one, calls compact fluorescent lights "a temporary fix."
Manufacturers are putting a lot of stock in light-emitting diodes -- or L.E.D.'s. They operate with chips made of nontoxic materials and last for about 50,000 hours, compared with 1,000 hours for an incandescent and 6,000 for a compact fluorescent. A tiny L.E.D. can shed as much light as a cumbersome bulb, which makes them easier to integrate into a home's décor. And, they are extremely energy efficient.
But today, they are too expensive to use for all lighting applications. And, while manufacturers are able to make pretty good colored L.E.D.'s -- the kind that are already available for Christmas tree lights -- they have yet to perfect a white L.E.D. that would be useful for lighting homes.
Manufacturers are worki
Including flashlight bulbs, automotive headlamp bulbs, projector bulbs, and all the hundreds of types of miniature lamps used in electrical/electronic gear over the last century? All the lamps that there are NO "energy efficient" replacements for?
Even in your own home, there are at least 2 places where CFLs aren't going to work--think of the 40W appliance bulbs inside your oven and refrigerator. CFLs don't like extremes of ambient temperature which incandescents tolerate easily. Will it be illegal to replace the bulb in your oven?
This is the kind of crap that happens when clueless lawyers start making engineering decisions...
And even if the guy knew how to pull the hard drive before dropping the box off at the shop, then the tech would have a hard time installing the required drivers and DVD authoring software onto a machine without a hard drive.
Googling the phrase "vacuum microelectronics" is quite informative. Or just look at a plasma screen TV, which is actually an array of tiny gas switching tubes. A good introduction to the field is here:
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/People/Grad_Students/botis/documents/papers/243_botis.pdf
When tubes get that small, one no longer needs high voltages and heated cathodes to achieve electron emission. The electrostatic field and a tiny emitter point will work just fine. If solid state never came around, who knows what kind of tube-based electronics might have been developed.
Cars could be repaired in much the same way as medical diagnoses were made in the clinic, by "expert systems" which were designed and programmed by previous generations. The film also talked about the stock market being run the same way, completely automated by computers.
Yes, it leaves the question of how the computer systems were maintained, but most films of this nature have some inconsistencies.
The crotch injury and fart jokes served to define the state of the society at that point. They weren't really meant to be laughed at in and of themselves.
Much like Beavis and Butthead, the actual targets of the humor just laugh at the stupidity, without realizing that THEY are being made fun of...
into space, and that money is never seen again. This is nothing like those pallets of $100 bills that got shipped over to Iraq.
The money spent on space exploration pays NASA employees and contractors in congressional districts all across the USA. Employees spend their paychecks, contractors hire more workers, purchase materials/equipment, subcontract some of the work out, etc. The money goes back into the US economy.
No, the option was to abort the landing, redock with the CSM, and return to earth.
Yes, it would have sucked, but it would have been a hell of a lot better option than crashing into the moon (which might have been the outcome if the 1201 and 1202 alarms were actually serious problems).
In that case, the brains and guts were needed to make the call not to abort the landing...
Was wondering about that myself. They did some experiments on the shuttle a few years ago, and found that even simple tasks like soldering 2 wires together become a royal PITA in microgravity. I can imagine trying to machine a piece of metal with coolant and sharp metal chips floating all over the place...
Although the unfiltered sunlight has probably bleached them all white by now.
How about one that actually works?
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/071124-expedition16-third-spacewalk.html
Or McMaster-Carr:
Http://www.mcmaster.com
Cocaine is used as a local anesthetic for eye and (ironically) nasal surgery.
And while marijuana is stuck in Schedule I along with heroin and LSD, the DEA has placed pure THC (the pharmaceutical equivalent of hash oil!) in Schedule III. You see, corporations cannot patent a plant(yet), but they can isolate an active ingredient and make a patentable pill out of it. And sell it for far more than an equivalent amount of pot would cost.
Not only can men GET breast cancer, but it tends to have a much higher mortality rate in males.
Because most men don't know that they could get breast cancer, it tends to not be noticed until it is in an advanced state, and has likely already spread beyond the breast tissue.
"The article notes that smoking cannabis will not deliver significant quantities of CBD."
What if you were to smoke hemp?
CBD is believed to be the compound in pot responsible for the sedative effect, as opposed to THC, which is responsible for the "mind expanding" psychedelic effects. High levels of CBD are common in strains grown for fiber or seed, which are not particularly fun to smoke. At best, you just get tired. At worst, you cough up a lung....:)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070830091736/http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NOB_C37_C
Here are some of the claims made:
[quote]The sound becomes much more open and free flowing with a nice improvement in resolution. Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature knobs will have an even greater effect...really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear...way better sound!![/quote]
Complete and utter bullshit, of course, but great for separating gullible yuppies from their money.
I don't know anyone who claims that flashy case mods actually make the computer WORK better. That is EXACTLY what is being claimed about the snake oil speaker cables, though...