Orkut always confused me as to why it was affiliated with Google. It's such a shoddy web application. Google is so awesome, and Orkut is mediocre at best. They should just drop it.
Aah, that's incorrect in some ways:
Modern EFI vehicles have some sort of a mass airflow sensor, to sense exactly the number of molecules of air coming into the engine. Cold air will be more dense yes, but the car realizes this, and provides more fuel to end up stoichiometric every time.
Cold air intakes provide more dense air which raise your maximum power possible. If the throttle is wide open, would you rather the car be ingesting a lot of dense, cold air (and thusly more fuel), or a bit of hot air (and less fuel). There are other factors in play too. On my car anyway, when the air is above a certain temperature, it will actually pull timing, to prevent knocking and predetonation.
My reply was also thusly metaphorical / philosophical (honestly). I was just posing a counter-argument. I see what you mean about time-infringement though, I didn't take that into account. I thought you were just discussing the legality of it all.
A good friend of mine (who may read this) got a call from a marketer that went something like this:
TM: Hello, I'm from $phonecompany, and I'm calling to see if you want to switch your service
FR: I don't have a phone here.
TM: Oh, I'm sorry *hangs up*
You both stress and dread telemarketer calls? Wow... that's messed up. I usually enjoy talking with random people for 2-3 seconds, or if they are being annoying to play my own games with them, as written about above.
I had a window company that kept calling me, and wanting to make an appointment to inspect my windows. I repeatedly asked them to remove me from their list, to no avail. So, I scheduled an appointment the next day at noon, when I wasn't home. So they sent out a truck. I got a call the next evening saying that they had showed up and I wasn't there. I apologized very humbly, and said I would be there tomorrow at noon, which I wasn't. They called back again, and I again apologized, and said for them to come back the next day at noon. That evening was the last I'd ever heard from them, when I asked if they wanted to try again tomorrow at noon, hehe.
By not using currents or voltages that could cause a noticeable shock...
It's not a difficult concept, the human body is just a mildly poor conductor. It'd be like getting a patent for sending data across a big, meaty resistor.
I remember seeing something on the Discovery Channel a couple years back about bullets that can go around things. The bodies of the bullets can flex slightly and provide some sideways movement.
In something moving as fast as a railgun projectile, you wouldn't need much deformation to put yourself a couple hundred meters to any side.
-Jesse
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This isn't redundant retarded moderators, read the timestamps.
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We have an opportunity to add another to the list right now (sorta, this is supposed to be 'the peace') that we can't miss!
As far as I know, Gasoline ignites in a wide range of air/fuel mixtures, just not in liquid form. The problem with this is: Gasoline evaporates like the dickens, and there's never not any vapor hanging around the liquid.
Anybody else have that experience? My highschool was well-funded, reasonably well administered, and had an excellent network setup. We had network drops in every room, two switch racks, a nice fileserver with space for every student to store their stuff on, backed up every night, two large MAC computer labs, one PC lab (the CAD lab). Our network was set up by a contractor for a reasonable amount of money, and we ended up with free fiber-optic between the two switch racks (they were on either end of the building, the contract called for 100 mbit minimum, and the two switches were just beyond spec distance for regular cat-5). Our internet connection was modest, but donated free from the local ISP in town. Our IT guy was an extremely intelligent guy, and had a small group of the "nerd herd" students as assistants.
When a wall-wart, or most any power supply is plugged into the wall, the first thing the power connects is a transformer, and then goes directly to the wall. It is 100% all the time connected to this transformer, and conducting current through it, even though the device on the other side of the transformer isn't picking up any juice. A transformer is just two coils spun together around a common axis. Both coils have inductance and resistance, and the "main" one is always powered as long as the device is plugged in.
Now, switching supplies are a different story. They use a transistor (to simplify) in line with the main coil to "chop" the AC voltage up into an even quicker AC. Higher frequency voltage transmits much more efficiently through a transformer, so you can have a much smaller/cooler transformer for the same power output level. They also have the added benefit of being able to completely shut off the main coil when the secondary doesn't need any (with some supporting circuitry which always has a very small power draw, but it's much better than the always-on draw of a big coil).
Their transmissions take enough abuse as it is, dealing with the thousand-some-odd horsepower they generate pushing into stiff axles and giant wheels...
Many of my favorite games are "2D", and don't need all of the fancy-schmancy graphics to get an audience. The blurb talks like 2D graphics are the bane of "modern" gaming.
Personally, I really love how there's a "retro" crowd emerging, focusing on good gameplay, controls, story, and/or plot rather than 3D stuff.
I think that we should essentially use the current system the way it is. Hardware Businesses have dedicated programmers that churn out drivers (though the way it is now, they're for Windows only, and proprietary, though I'm not sure why), but they could release the source code to their drivers, and for Linux also now that there's a good size and growing customer base. They don't lose any cash by releasing the code, because you still have to buy the hardware.
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Orkut always confused me as to why it was affiliated with Google. It's such a shoddy web application. Google is so awesome, and Orkut is mediocre at best. They should just drop it.
-Jesse
I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to parent, hence the indentation thing...
-Jesse
Aaaaand, I'm a retard... No more posting before caffeine.
-Jesse
It's still working fine for me, premature doom-predicting incorrect asshat.
-Jesse
Aah, that's incorrect in some ways:
Modern EFI vehicles have some sort of a mass airflow sensor, to sense exactly the number of molecules of air coming into the engine. Cold air will be more dense yes, but the car realizes this, and provides more fuel to end up stoichiometric every time.
Cold air intakes provide more dense air which raise your maximum power possible. If the throttle is wide open, would you rather the car be ingesting a lot of dense, cold air (and thusly more fuel), or a bit of hot air (and less fuel). There are other factors in play too. On my car anyway, when the air is above a certain temperature, it will actually pull timing, to prevent knocking and predetonation.
-Jesse
I use a telnet session and my fingers on a Sidekick, so HA! :D
-Jesse
GRAMMAR :D
-Jesse
My reply was also thusly metaphorical / philosophical (honestly). I was just posing a counter-argument. I see what you mean about time-infringement though, I didn't take that into account. I thought you were just discussing the legality of it all.
-Jesse
A good friend of mine (who may read this) got a call from a marketer that went something like this:
TM: Hello, I'm from $phonecompany, and I'm calling to see if you want to switch your service FR: I don't have a phone here. TM: Oh, I'm sorry *hangs up*
I still laugh very hard about that one.
-Jesse
I suppose calls of that volume would indeed cause stress-and-dread (shock-and-awe?) :D
-Jesse
You both stress and dread telemarketer calls? Wow... that's messed up. I usually enjoy talking with random people for 2-3 seconds, or if they are being annoying to play my own games with them, as written about above.
-Jesse
Are you content with people going just a few miles an hour over the speed limit?
-Jesse
I had a window company that kept calling me, and wanting to make an appointment to inspect my windows. I repeatedly asked them to remove me from their list, to no avail. So, I scheduled an appointment the next day at noon, when I wasn't home. So they sent out a truck. I got a call the next evening saying that they had showed up and I wasn't there. I apologized very humbly, and said I would be there tomorrow at noon, which I wasn't. They called back again, and I again apologized, and said for them to come back the next day at noon. That evening was the last I'd ever heard from them, when I asked if they wanted to try again tomorrow at noon, hehe.
-Jesse
It's Jesse, by the way.
-Jesse
By not using currents or voltages that could cause a noticeable shock...
It's not a difficult concept, the human body is just a mildly poor conductor. It'd be like getting a patent for sending data across a big, meaty resistor.
-Jesse
I remember seeing something on the Discovery Channel a couple years back about bullets that can go around things. The bodies of the bullets can flex slightly and provide some sideways movement.
In something moving as fast as a railgun projectile, you wouldn't need much deformation to put yourself a couple hundred meters to any side.
-Jesse
This isn't redundant retarded moderators, read the timestamps.
-Jesse
We have an opportunity to add another to the list right now (sorta, this is supposed to be 'the peace') that we can't miss!
-Jesse
As far as I know, Gasoline ignites in a wide range of air/fuel mixtures, just not in liquid form. The problem with this is: Gasoline evaporates like the dickens, and there's never not any vapor hanging around the liquid.
-Jesse
Anybody else have that experience? My highschool was well-funded, reasonably well administered, and had an excellent network setup. We had network drops in every room, two switch racks, a nice fileserver with space for every student to store their stuff on, backed up every night, two large MAC computer labs, one PC lab (the CAD lab). Our network was set up by a contractor for a reasonable amount of money, and we ended up with free fiber-optic between the two switch racks (they were on either end of the building, the contract called for 100 mbit minimum, and the two switches were just beyond spec distance for regular cat-5). Our internet connection was modest, but donated free from the local ISP in town. Our IT guy was an extremely intelligent guy, and had a small group of the "nerd herd" students as assistants.
-Jesse
You'd think so but:
When a wall-wart, or most any power supply is plugged into the wall, the first thing the power connects is a transformer, and then goes directly to the wall. It is 100% all the time connected to this transformer, and conducting current through it, even though the device on the other side of the transformer isn't picking up any juice. A transformer is just two coils spun together around a common axis. Both coils have inductance and resistance, and the "main" one is always powered as long as the device is plugged in.
Now, switching supplies are a different story. They use a transistor (to simplify) in line with the main coil to "chop" the AC voltage up into an even quicker AC. Higher frequency voltage transmits much more efficiently through a transformer, so you can have a much smaller/cooler transformer for the same power output level. They also have the added benefit of being able to completely shut off the main coil when the secondary doesn't need any (with some supporting circuitry which always has a very small power draw, but it's much better than the always-on draw of a big coil).
-Jesse
The Watty?
-Jesse
Their transmissions take enough abuse as it is, dealing with the thousand-some-odd horsepower they generate pushing into stiff axles and giant wheels...
Oh... you meant...
-Jesse
Many of my favorite games are "2D", and don't need all of the fancy-schmancy graphics to get an audience. The blurb talks like 2D graphics are the bane of "modern" gaming.
Personally, I really love how there's a "retro" crowd emerging, focusing on good gameplay, controls, story, and/or plot rather than 3D stuff.
-Jesse
I think that we should essentially use the current system the way it is. Hardware Businesses have dedicated programmers that churn out drivers (though the way it is now, they're for Windows only, and proprietary, though I'm not sure why), but they could release the source code to their drivers, and for Linux also now that there's a good size and growing customer base. They don't lose any cash by releasing the code, because you still have to buy the hardware.
Is that model flawed at all?
-Jesse