Hopefully solid-state cartridges of goodness, like they ought to.
-Jesse
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I don't see how that tech is any better than solid-state? There are solid state memories out there that have comparable physical and data sizes to that tech. They are also marketing their stuff as being secure from piracy; but their reasons are totally laughable: Their main idea is that pirates wouldn't have access to their holographic media-writing methods. Anybody who was going to pirate info from them would just copy it onto a hard disk, or other non-difficult-to-write media. That's like saying DVDs were pirate-proof before DVD-writers were available... It's just retarded to think that way. More power to them if they get the big bucks hocking their shoddy wares onto big corporations.
I've always dreamt of something like that. A network setup by common geeks, of wireless and fiber-through-backyards. I wonder if there are enough geeks in the US to run fiber coast-to-coast via people's houses and yards.
If you use Eagle, and use the auto-router for the traces, it is configured by default to attempt to do that for you. In the auto-router config, there is a drop-down that has the options "/ - \ | *" (there may be more, I forget) that give the preferred orientation of the traces. Usually the top board is - and the bottom board is |, hopefully resulting in nice 90 degree crossing lines.
That's pretty funny. A friend of mine from highschool was named Karl and really liked the number "1000101", which is only 1 digit different than that one you just spouted (look it up).
logging into the IRC channels of botnets, and trying to introduce myself, and asking "a/s/l" and getting all huffy that nobody's answering. Or talking like a robot.
I wonder if using one of these cables decreases the maximum length of the entire run possible... like, shortens the spec a bit. Or if they have a maximum number of possible "flat" cables you can use per run to keep it within spec.
The twistedness actually is there to cancel out crosstalk. There isn't really any shielding for RF (either receiving or sending). The twistedness attempts to create pairs of wires that always appear to be 90 degrees in reference to the other wire. Any PCB designer knows that to get the least interference from lines, you try to cross them at 90 degrees, so they only "overlap" at a very small point. Parallel lines act like capacitors to eachother, and that's why we get crosstalk.
It doesn't read well when I read it. I get confused about if they mean that the company is mistruted, or is simply unfamiliar, and unknown (and thus not trusted, but not necessarily mistrusted).
That happens to me a lot when I tell people I don't like animals. They assume I dislike animals, and then I have to explain myself.
The Hubble could be replaced by newer technology, and they need to spend the money elsewhere (like on keeping Voyager et al data processing active).
I think it's hilarious to see the same people here congratulating the politician, and then getting mad at NASA not having the money to keep Voyager data processing going (instead, they spend it on stuff like repairing, or even worse, rescuing the Hubble).
The chute _was_ necessary to land properly, the info on the Scaled Composites site specifically mentions that. The plane had such a good glide-to-drop-ratio (I forget the actual term for that) that it made it extremely difficult to land. You couldn't get the plane to drop fast enough to land in any sort of reasonable runway, it would just skim over the ground.
I also think you missed my sarcasm. Why would you carry around a photograph in a sack? I wouldn't have specifically mentioned the sack if I were being serious man, c'mon. It's teh funnay.
There exist some forms of wireless power already, basically in two categories; port-a-power (batteries, capacitors, etc), and transmittable power (microwave/RF, magnetic inductance, lasers).
You can transmit power a short way without wires using magnetic inductance, like in some electric toothbrush rechargers (you just set them in the cradle and they charge), but you need to be very close to the originating magnetic field. You can also use radio frequency to transmit some power, which is how some RFID tags work (they get the energy they need to respond from the original received signal). The problem with most "beamable" power is it's directional, and if you aim somewhere wrong, all hell breaks loose on whatever the transmitter is now pointing at.
Other than that, I don't think there are many other options.
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Hopefully solid-state cartridges of goodness, like they ought to.
-Jesse
I don't see how that tech is any better than solid-state? There are solid state memories out there that have comparable physical and data sizes to that tech. They are also marketing their stuff as being secure from piracy; but their reasons are totally laughable: Their main idea is that pirates wouldn't have access to their holographic media-writing methods. Anybody who was going to pirate info from them would just copy it onto a hard disk, or other non-difficult-to-write media. That's like saying DVDs were pirate-proof before DVD-writers were available... It's just retarded to think that way. More power to them if they get the big bucks hocking their shoddy wares onto big corporations.
-Jesse
BCD for decimal 12 is 0001 0010, yes.
-Jesse
BCD is not weak, and is definitely binary.
-Jesse
You're tleet?
-Jesse
I've always dreamt of something like that. A network setup by common geeks, of wireless and fiber-through-backyards. I wonder if there are enough geeks in the US to run fiber coast-to-coast via people's houses and yards.
-Jesse
You must not be in "the scene". The proper term is "The Day Star".
-Jesse
Information wants to be free unless you're somebody we don't like.
Or unless you're somebody who takes code and doesn't follow the rules that the code was released under, or at least give credit where credit is due.
-Jesse
If you use Eagle, and use the auto-router for the traces, it is configured by default to attempt to do that for you. In the auto-router config, there is a drop-down that has the options "/ - \ | *" (there may be more, I forget) that give the preferred orientation of the traces. Usually the top board is - and the bottom board is |, hopefully resulting in nice 90 degree crossing lines.
-Jesse
That's pretty funny. A friend of mine from highschool was named Karl and really liked the number "1000101", which is only 1 digit different than that one you just spouted (look it up).
-Jesse
logging into the IRC channels of botnets, and trying to introduce myself, and asking "a/s/l" and getting all huffy that nobody's answering. Or talking like a robot.
-Jesse
I wonder if using one of these cables decreases the maximum length of the entire run possible... like, shortens the spec a bit. Or if they have a maximum number of possible "flat" cables you can use per run to keep it within spec.
-Jesse
The twistedness actually is there to cancel out crosstalk. There isn't really any shielding for RF (either receiving or sending). The twistedness attempts to create pairs of wires that always appear to be 90 degrees in reference to the other wire. Any PCB designer knows that to get the least interference from lines, you try to cross them at 90 degrees, so they only "overlap" at a very small point. Parallel lines act like capacitors to eachother, and that's why we get crosstalk.
-Jesse
It doesn't read well when I read it. I get confused about if they mean that the company is mistruted, or is simply unfamiliar, and unknown (and thus not trusted, but not necessarily mistrusted).
That happens to me a lot when I tell people I don't like animals. They assume I dislike animals, and then I have to explain myself.
-Jesse
It's not. VWs haven't been air-cooled since the 80s (unless you buy a Bug from Mexico, where they are still made new today).
-Jesse
The Hubble could be replaced by newer technology, and they need to spend the money elsewhere (like on keeping Voyager et al data processing active).
I think it's hilarious to see the same people here congratulating the politician, and then getting mad at NASA not having the money to keep Voyager data processing going (instead, they spend it on stuff like repairing, or even worse, rescuing the Hubble).
-Jesse
That webpage is terrible. You can select every answer to every question.
-Jesse
He has no thumbs (really, lost them ice-fishing to an auger)(you insensitive clod).
-Jesse
what do you mean "port"? This is hardware...not software.
You "port" linux onto the PPU... Linux = software.
-Jesse
The chute _was_ necessary to land properly, the info on the Scaled Composites site specifically mentions that. The plane had such a good glide-to-drop-ratio (I forget the actual term for that) that it made it extremely difficult to land. You couldn't get the plane to drop fast enough to land in any sort of reasonable runway, it would just skim over the ground.
-Jesse
I also think you missed my sarcasm. Why would you carry around a photograph in a sack? I wouldn't have specifically mentioned the sack if I were being serious man, c'mon. It's teh funnay.
-Jesse
I think you mean "lop", not "lob". You could also just take a picture of their face, and carry it around in a sack. It'd be much lighter.
-Jesse
There exist some forms of wireless power already, basically in two categories; port-a-power (batteries, capacitors, etc), and transmittable power (microwave/RF, magnetic inductance, lasers).
You can transmit power a short way without wires using magnetic inductance, like in some electric toothbrush rechargers (you just set them in the cradle and they charge), but you need to be very close to the originating magnetic field. You can also use radio frequency to transmit some power, which is how some RFID tags work (they get the energy they need to respond from the original received signal). The problem with most "beamable" power is it's directional, and if you aim somewhere wrong, all hell breaks loose on whatever the transmitter is now pointing at.
Other than that, I don't think there are many other options.
-Jesse
Next, we won't be able to swear on the internet... How can someone think that they're right when they're saying something like that, ho-ly-crap.
-Jesse
I had the same complaint. Silly slashdot titles.
-Jesse