"having a 'bug' up y'ur ass", that might be the only way to keep the buggers'/buggerers' tools from "swapping hands" or bodies...
Yech!!! Not exactly Mr. Spock's 'subcuteanous transponder' to keep tabs on Krik, ummm, Kirk...
Now, this reminds me of racing home from Sunday mass to catch our fav shows (back round 1977 or so) by 10 AM...
Gamara, Guldar, and Ultra Man. God, I MISS Hayata/UltraMan!!!
(Between Ultraman and Guldar shows, we (my brother, sister and I) managed to get our rosary prayers down to about 4.5 minutes... in retrospect, we might as well have said the Rosary at 500 baud to God...Afterall, if God knows our thoughts, we could just emit GodBaud, as in blee-blee-bilee-baleee....(warming up the vocal box), then... bidd, bidd, and...."bahhhhhddddd". GodBaud..)
Ahoy, moyt, just don't "sqawk diddley" (a spoonerism....)
Check with the DLI, or Defense Language Institute, in Monterey.
If worse comes to worse, you can do what the IMCO (International Morse Code Operator) students did before and after my RM "A" time at NTC/SSC/NTCC (Naval Training Center/Service School Command/Naval Telecommunications Center, (I forget now) did:
-Get a tape recorder/player -Insert checked-out tape -Play, all night long in ears, "di-dah-dah, di-di-di) (or, if using tones at the proper Hz, deeu-deeu-deeu-doo-doo-doo-doo"
It was funny as hell, making my roving rounds at bldg 575 or the ones across from the old BOOST (Broadened Opportunities for Officer Selection and Training) BEQ/barracks. I don't think I woke any of them up by laughing.
So, "fahh-lalala-shah-lahh" will be meaningless in writing here, (just inserted as a filler for sound effects, not as in insinuation or disparagement of a language of which I know nothing and might be incapable of assimilating...).
Honestly, now that it's been long since March 1986, I can say I convincingly flunked IMCO pre-screening. But, I wizzed thru RM "A" school with all "A"s and was in the top 10% allowed to select our follow-on command. However, my physical aptitude got me assigned to Savin Teletype repair schools, (liquid and dry toner), as well as Teletype Repair Hi and Lo Level (Mech and Electronic) and those pieces of shit TTY machines cost me a lot of sleep after my ship lost 2 or 3 qualified TTY techs, leaving my butt awake so much I once slept thru the GQ klaxon, was ordered to lay to the Bridge and "politely" interrogated by the XO. I politely told him, "XO, I know GQ was scheduled. I just got relived, had chow (breakfast) and laid in my rack with the curtain closed, but my legs out in the aisle... Every body jumping down from their racks and checking the compartment probably didnt' rouse me and drag me.
I never thought I'd ever sleep thru a GQ klaxon, but I sure heard "RM2 Syes, LAY TO THE BRIDGE!"
But, try some tapes for the foreign languages. DLI can get you up to speed if you can get the orders cut to Monterey, California. If you're a reservist SEAL or some critical billet, it might do well to have your detailer trump up those P/S NECs (Primary/Secondary Naval Enlisted Classification codes) for you. Make sure your activity's NC/career advisor is actually working. Mine skylarked enough that instead of getting my orders to RM "A" for Dec 85 or Jan 86, I was delayed till March 86.
Yes, do be sure to mount the stones with bolts, lets they get rocked or kicked by a visitor. Should one of these stones or plates go through the bottom of the railing, somebody below might "get stoned" or "be stoned", neither of which will be a fun stoning.
I'd imagine tho, that if too many tennants wanted personally-owned rooftopy antennae, there could be an issue with holes drilled, and neighbors bumping into poles, dishes, and more.
There is the issue of "rain fade", but is there one for "bird-turd-fade"? Has anyone seen farms of dishes festooned by birds? At some point birds' turds will paint or cake the dish. Is that a problem?
(Hopefully, your buildings are sufficiently tall, and the roof access restricted, such that people don't regard the dishes as pelled gun practice plates...) David Syes
Now, we taxpayers can fund huge prismatic or other types of lenses for defense.
See, the Navy now can "project" it's carriers off shore. Combined with the high-altitude blimp/dirigibles/airship whatever you want to call it, or with submarines floating nitrogen-floated balloons or Tomahawk-like predator surveillance craft, the SHAPE of a carrier (less the wake, well, DARPA might figure out how to "fake wake", like "fake shake").
Or, just use the reactors to power a fake CVGB so only the CVN need go out. Then, when hit, they can fake watertight integrity!
"WE have projected our ships and our flag! We are VICTORIOUS!"
Now, imagine when people decide to project their personal lives upon the public once the projection quality is plasma-level, even in outside light. Even if Rated-G, the governments of various levels will try to regulate that a person projecting images--still or motion-- is a de facto theatre.
All such persons must pay to play, or cough up mobile theater administration fees, not only to the county and the city, but to the movie industry as well.
Probably someone will decide that this is not a to-be-sold product, but a used-under-licensing-and-under-royalties.
How to manage it? WiFi or other types of receivers will listen for the encoded beacon/transponder signal each of these new devices could be fitted with. If anyone transmits in locales where the receivers are set up, then those counties and cities will ask you for your theatre permit...
For this to be used in medicine... Post Operative Recovery wards could use this to project cheery environs for the recovering patients.
Police or security forces could use this technology to deceive and disarm (or, maybe incite) deranged persons so as to minimize gunfire, violence, or the like.
The security industry could play loops of residents in a home to make it look lived-in while the organics are out on vacation.
Maybe they can be used to even project a false car-pooler, or simulate two or more people on lovers' lane (tho you'd need to simulate the shocks being compressed and releaseed, I suppose...)
I realize now that I'd mis-typed. My brain and fingers weren't in sync. I should have said "CPU consumption is often greater than the power drained by the HDD". I'd read that in Linux Magazine, July 2004 issue, page 36, article titled "Linux on the Laptop":
Paragraph: "Saving Power Redux: CPU Frequency Scaling
The CPU is the single most power hungry component of your laptop."
On page 37, Paragraph: "Saving More Power: Hard Disk Spin-down
After the CPU, your hard disk is your laptop's most power-hungry component. As long as it spins, it consumes power.
Linux's out-of-the-box configuration makes it nearly impossible to spin down the hard disk, as the operating system performs flushes every few minutes. So, to successfully spin down the hard disk, you'll need two different tools: a swcript to set laptop_mode in the kernel, and the hdparm utility."
Page 38: Paragraph: "Lasting a Long Time: Swap Management
The Final tip to conserve batter life is to disable your swap when running on battery power. Disabling swap causes all of your programs and data to be served out of RAM, thereby generating less hard disk traffic. Disabling swap should also allow your hard disk to go to sleep faster."
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After reading your reply to me, Wraithlyn, I figured I'd better correct myself and try to find the magazine article, something on the Net, or both. So, I also went to Google to:
http://www.google.com/search?q=lcd%20battery%20c on sumption%20laptop&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115086474
Ace's Hardware General Message Board... that the laptop will run 50% longer time on battery when the LCD is turned off. The
LCD is estimated to account for around 33% of the total power consumption.... www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115086474 - 15k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.aceshardware.com ]
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http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115086406
"Ace's Hardware General Message Board... the reported power consumption number is the full system power consumption (actually
battery power drain), including hard disk, RAM, LCD, 802.11g... www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115086406 - 15k - Cached - Similar pages "
I swapped "memory" for "CPU", probably the most common mistake. I should have known better, and had I proofread my writing before sending...
Thanks, and Regards,
David Syes
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And, if it really is true that sailors and merchants regularly disappear into the Triangle, then sending in non-crewed search and rescue craft (drones) would keep morale high in the naval or Coast Guard air and surface fleets (I don't know if the USN has the cajones to sail SSNs and SSBNs and the modified SSGNs? right thru the Triangle, tho the Scorpion was a bit off the Azores, but I cannot recall the proximity or "sphere of influence of the Triangle...).
OTOH (on the other hand), long-range OTH (Over The Horizon) targetting could be sustained in the event the AWACs/Link 11/14/etc got jammed or satellites were NMC (Non-Mission Capable) for some reason, or just increased for a cleaner theatre view.
However, carrying fuel or generators to make the fuel would compete for space aboard ship, and might even prove dangerous (after all, on my first ship, AE-32, an ammo ship, we had some knuckleheads who worked in the Bosun's Hold chipping and grinding away at the deck only to not wear their in-line air rebreather/respirators and got overwhelmed and knocked out by the non-skid/red lead/zinc chromate we used as primer over the steel deck. Proximate to that, we had another knuckelhead, a (GMGSN) Gunners Mate/E-3 who smoked around the bombs and other ordnance in the bomb holds. The Gunnery Officer found him and ordered him to extinguish that flame source and the seaman replied, "Aww, Gunny, it's OK; we do this ALL THE TIME." But, when it came time reduce the guy in rate (RIR), restrict him to the ship for 45 days and give him extra duty for 45 concurrent days, and take away from his pay $250 for 2 months ("45/45/two-fifty for two was our jargon for this), the Captain read the charges, "awarded" the punishment, and then posed to the reckless Sailor the following while lifting an 80-some pound oaken podium, foaming at his mouth, face full of contortion:
"Do you KNOW what would happen this ship were to BLOW UP??!! Our ANCHOR would be in MICHIGAN!!!!!"
We happened at the time to be making circles in the east Pacific. Our ship was named Flint, as in Flint, Michigan, as in ammo ships being named for explosive things (Haleakela, Mauna Kea, Pyro, Flint, Mount Shasta, Butte, etc..) I could only imagine that the ammo holds probably were carrying something far, far more powerful than pyrotechnic, dumb bombs, and hypergolic (missile) fuel.
"There are already solid-state portable computers with low power consumption and solid-state components at the expense of proccessing power. They are called PDAs. Ever seen a WinCE handheld? Or a psion?"
Yes, I've seen them, but don't own any, nor have I used them. However, For those of us in the mainstream who need or crave a 15" display, even dropping a PDA into a cradle and using an associated folding, pocket-sized keyboard might not do.
I guess what I am proposing is eventually likely to become a threat to the current hard disk industry. I read somewhen back that IBM's (solid state) microdrives? might be the way of the future of disks.
But, I seem never able to get my Mandrake-based laptop to EVER sync up correctly from suspend. It's either the video not being restored, the disk not waking up, or something else, even in Mdk 10. Probably it's me, esp since I am using a (Feb 2001 mfg date of) Vaio PCG-FX215, and the BIOS has maybe 50% of the features I see in current laptop BIOS's.
But, the thing about having a full-sized, energy-efficient laptop is that it could host a good number of hot-swappabel, o/s swappable medium, as well as, conceivably, accept and eject hot-swappable memory in a pinch.
With every install/reinstall/upgrade of my laptop, I never go past 65,000 colors. Partly because I can't tell the difference and I am not in graphics design/layout, and partly because I understand that driving 16 BEEL-YON colors surely will drive the video processor to chew up more power. The hotter the laptop (from video, disk, ram chips, and even the CPU heat sink (I touched mine and the aluminum sink is HOT!), along with the spinning fan (I unplugged it, but after 10 minutes plugged it back in since I cannot afford yet to destroy the CPU or the laptop...), will knock my Vaio out in about 25 minutes.
I envy those who have the latest IBM thinkpads. I saw one guy in Mountain View around Dec or Jan who claimed he got 4 to 5 hours running RH. But his l/t was maybe 12 inches in display, and benefitted from newer components, and maybe a slower-spinning disk. I cannot even throttle my fan, nor spin down the disk. Mdk 10 community from the May or June issue of Linux Format I bought throttled my CPU fan up and down all night. I was so used to the constant noise of the unregulated fan that I had to put my head under my pillow. Now, with the latest MDK 10, I don't get ANY throttling, regardless of what kernel I boot into.
Is anyone building one of these things as a Proof of Concept? I understand that memory uses more battery juice than the HDD itself.
I think my ideas below and my question above come from my curiosity of how long the portable/hand-held DVD players last. I also wonder how long MP3 device batteries last. Days? Aside from the LCD and CPU chewing up maybe 60% of the battery life, at LEAST the storage and boot and system file devices could be on CF/Smart Media. Maybe someone might want to take the LSB to a new level: Optimizing the installation and locating of system files based on the type of medium to which the OS and user files are being written during install. And, suspend-to-disk, ACPI, and APM problems could be made to go away to a good extent, probably because the disk spinning is eliminated. i am not sure about communicating devices (modems and NICs), tho.
Imagine this:
-- Multi-slot CF/Smart-Media bay -- O/S Memory sticks/ in each CF/SM bay -- Energy-efficient/Solar or ambient-light-powered LCD -- Ability to swap O/S on the fly -- IR or compatible/comparable input device with own power supply (like the battery-powered Logitech mice...)
Can't laptops go Solid State now? I imagine much of the laptop industry is sustained by momentum to keep cranking out mechanical disks. If an efficient CF/SM platter or storage surface can be optically read by something that is not having to spin at some 7,000 or 10,000 RPM, a lot of other savings might be made.
Also, it seems laptop boards have fewer and fewer soldered components. Further reductions should lead to greater opportunity to bring solid-state laptops to consumer hands. If the OS could be on one the disk, and be swappable, the data on another swappable, disk, then when will a light switch on to make solid-state laptops that hold VMWare or Win4Lin in a Linux environment? VMWare and NeTraverse could then reduce their costs of product just by jumping to distribution/deployment of millions vice 10s of thousands. This would probably devastate ms' foothold, especially of XUL or XML or other code and W3C standards were followed better.
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But... will it cover the Devil's Triangle/Bermuda Triangle
These things might make for good backup fleet observation posts. Since orbital devices are political (intraservice) beasts that can be commercial devices renting time to the military (and maybe vice versa), they may need prior, very prior, clearance to retask the bird.
Now, imagine for Fleet Operations, such as drug interdiction, watching the QE/QMary 2, and maybe even sensitive railroad plutonium shipments, these floating craft would save on use of pilots, the associated fatigue and risk of crashing, and could provide tracking of all sorts of other things.
Maybe Wal-Mart and others will start tracking their goods to make sure nothing is interdicted and stolen. Just put a concentrator and encryption device on the shipping container or vehicle or both, transmit the signal every 25 seconds to 1 hour or whatever is necessary based on the value or danger of the goods, and there you go.
But, I wonder: Will this work over the Bermuda Triangle/Devil's Triangle? I guess we have to find out if any bad guys or the world's navies actually steer crewed ships into those lore-laden "danger zones".
Reminds me of "The Cloud Minders" episode of STTOS (Star Trek (The Original Series)) involvng the Troglytes and their xenite/zenite gas. Imagine a network of these things set up to make a cloud city "Stratos".
Then, the rest of us "cave dwellers" could become GPS-in-the-ass-controlled subjects of sky-net-based overlords...
"They MIGHT be Giants" once was called "They COULD be Giants" by a pair on NPR somewhen back in 2003 one of whom didn't know the band's name. It was hilarious... "
Guest: "They Might Be Giants did a..." Host: "They Could be Giants?..." Guest: "They MIGHT be Giants...".......
Well,
Is there a "Safety Tap" or "Spinal Henge/Hinge" in the offing?
Now, if they ad Elvis Costello, Weird All Yankovich, Mike and the Mechanics, Peter Dolby, Nina Hagen, Rick Springfield, Blanc Mange, and a few others (Cyndi Lauper and Madonna/Esther/Etheria/Sysperia/Susperia doing duet vocals a-la Benny Hill backup-singers )...
Oh, let's not forget Mini-Me and Jaws (Richard "Jaws" Kiel), Loch Ness, Sasquatch, Witches of Salem, Furbees, Pet Rocks, Gammara/Guldar, the Daleks, and a few other, we might actually, induce the ETs to retrieve their Stones at Stonehenge in the name of protecting their Otherworldly Honor...heheh
"Our Howse, in the MIHDDUL of our HENGE, Our blouse, hides our treasure for to keep..."
Or, Sweet Polly Purebread (Oh Hwere ohh Hwere has my undergod gnone)...
Or, for the worst kind of music to try to filter out, successfully...
Christian Gangsta ARP (Calling all Gods, Galling all Cods) (For a new RFC)
Ouch, I meant, "Rap" (136)
Porn Groove (109) Booty Bass (107)
Or, for the ones I combined:
Blue Grass Ska Blue Ska (hmmm, like 24's 60-seconds pun, Blue Ska/s for Blue Sky/Skies Revival Bluegrass Revival Ska
Christian Fusion Christian Trance Christian Death Metal Christian Funk Thrash Metal Christian Terror (666) or, the undulating culmination...
Terror Polka Easy-Listenin' Christian Pr0n Easy-Listenin' Gangsta Pr0n Christian (Polka) Pr0n Groove Terror (Polka) Pr0n Groove (Polka ALways gets a bad rap, ehh?) (Hip) Christian Terror Hop (Played at I-Hop) Terror Booty Bass Booty Bass Terror
Well, I am sure (or, I hope) that someone will encode into all vehicle sound equipment the sounds or IFF signals for sirens, crosswalk coo-koos and chirps.
I erred in failing to include this train of thought which would restore privacy but not detract from safety of the drivers not wanting to hear boom-boom-boom. Same goes for my threads that mention anything similar.
If you blast the sound of sirens and people pull over, it might be that the sounding car had a red light. Maybe, maybe not. But, if a cop sees you moving while others pull over, the officer MIGHT have **probable cause** and ask to search your CD player, whether it's in the dash, under the seat or in the trunk. In CA, if you refuse a search, your vehicel CAN or MIGHT be impounded. It's legal here, as indicated on your acceptance of your driver's license. You are told before you take the test and submit your payment.
But note this:
Some decades ago (circa 1970's/early '80s) a Radioman or Crypto Tech or other type in the Navy made off with a piece of transmission equipment. It was strong enough to knock out starters or components and stall the adjacent cars. When he drove on, the police identified who was knocking out cars. When they saw the equipment, they notified the Navy, which promptly locked the guy up for making off with highly secret or sensitive equipment.
Metaphorically, that is what the CD blasting would be. However, if most states are like California, you can be cited for the following types of acts:
--using light, sound, electromagnetic, mechanical or other means to alter, confuse, disrupt, recycle, activate, deactivate, etc, timing or other traffic control devices
-----doing such things to disrupt or confuse or reroute vechicular traffic...
There was, and still may be a time yet that I will be able to use the high-beams to change the lights late at night so I don't have to stop. I used to do it in the late 80's to early 90's, but ALWAYS made sure to never do so when LE (Law Enforcement) was around. Using the headlights to change the traffic signals is verbotten. I learned it from a friend who had a relative who installed signal lights. Nowadays, most lights are computer and sensor-wire controlled, or monitored by remote cameras.
Say, how nearby are the "Kum n' Go" (some are in Colorado, and for the name alone I made sure to get some pictures of the signage) shops or the "Bulk Cigar-ettes" stores? Toy, condoms and munchies. Maybe they could rename the store to "Cnodoms Goo To" so it's less obvious, but would be bad marketing, suppose.
Would it be possible to legitimately open a boutique in Texas and display and sell RealDoll products? I wonder what legal and social impacts would result....hehee
Oh, yeh, that's it. The marital aides thing got her into hot water. It's such a pathetic law. Now, if only the current governor and mayors could be caused to have sexual dysfunctions, run out of legal outlets, then have to seek out people like that lady their current law mandates be jailed.
Mean time, guns can be sold left and right, with no apparent war of civil disturbance in sight.
However, being a Libra, I must admit some novel or great things have arisen from or been created in Tx. But, around 1999/2000 "reincarnation acceleration" of a number of inmates was in vogue. Meanwhile, many police departments couldn't get all the funding they needed, resulting in evidence being destroyed when rain leaked into evidence rooms and such.
White noise. Just crank up whoosh and swoooshes of oceans. Get 11 cars up there and have Oceans 11, hehehe. Instead of calling it "Counter-Boom-Box", call it the "WooshBox for the BOOMPOX".
Or, play back loud submachine gun fire.
Or, blast Enya, or even revival church music. Try some bluegrass (not talking about blue marijuana...,heheh), too.
Another one is the sound of landing planes. Get it REALLY REALLY loud. Maybe it'll pop the circuits in their own car, especially if you have a directional transmitter of short range and aim it at their car...(don't get caught by the FCC or homeland security on a lunch break in your lane...)
Trail smoke from your car for effect (or, steam, since it's water and MIGHT be a non-ticket display of non-air substance...)
I am sure EVERY state has a vehicle code on that subject. ANY cop who sees you approaching Moses-like, parting the traffic will have a field day with you.
It might be funny, especially if you actually can get the traffic to part or pull over for what might pass as an "undercover" vehicle when ambulances and fire trucks hardly get any respect.
Maybe you can just go by with a super-power jammer and suppress their coils or activate the annular confinement beam. Try boosting the output to your lateral sensor array, for greater effect, heheh...
I thought Tx is one of those states where it is ILLEGAL to sell or advertise/display items for use as sexual toys, even if for couple aiding.
I remember watching on TV sometime a few months ago about a woman who was (maybe not in TX) holding sexual aid parties, much like there were Tupperware parties. Her state law enforcement threw her in jail, mainly due to some hyper-old, asinine-today, conservative law still on the books.
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"having a 'bug' up y'ur ass", that might be the only way to keep the buggers'/buggerers' tools from "swapping hands" or bodies...
Yech!!! Not exactly Mr. Spock's 'subcuteanous transponder' to keep tabs on Krik, ummm, Kirk...
Now, this reminds me of racing home from Sunday mass to catch our fav shows (back round 1977 or so) by 10 AM...
Gamara, Guldar, and Ultra Man. God, I MISS Hayata/UltraMan!!!
(Between Ultraman and Guldar shows, we (my brother, sister and I) managed to get our rosary prayers down to about 4.5 minutes... in retrospect, we might as well have said the Rosary at 500 baud to God...Afterall, if God knows our thoughts, we could just emit GodBaud, as in blee-blee-bilee-baleee....(warming up the vocal box), then... bidd, bidd, and...."bahhhhhddddd". GodBaud..)
David Syes
"Do you have a beautiful girl/boyfriend, who is a native speaker? Use him/her a lot"
No, this means one is likely to learn the "International Language" instead of the stated language, heheh".
The tones are likely flat, the body inflictions pleasing to the touch, and guttural sounds understood, but maybe overstated...
David Syes
Is there a "huked on fonix" ware for this? Then, someone could proudly report:
"Huked on fonix wurked fore mee".
Immersion learning will be the best way. Probably DLA Monterey/Carmel has a Arab specialy team who'll make everyday a non-english day...
David Syes
Ahoy, moyt, just don't "sqawk diddley" (a spoonerism....)
Check with the DLI, or Defense Language Institute, in Monterey.
If worse comes to worse, you can do what the IMCO (International Morse Code Operator) students did before and after my RM "A" time at NTC/SSC/NTCC (Naval Training Center/Service School Command/Naval Telecommunications Center, (I forget now) did:
-Get a tape recorder/player
-Insert checked-out tape
-Play, all night long in ears, "di-dah-dah, di-di-di) (or, if using tones at the proper Hz, deeu-deeu-deeu-doo-doo-doo-doo"
It was funny as hell, making my roving rounds at bldg 575 or the ones across from the old BOOST (Broadened Opportunities for Officer Selection and Training) BEQ/barracks. I don't think I woke any of them up by laughing.
So, "fahh-lalala-shah-lahh" will be meaningless in writing here, (just inserted as a filler for sound effects, not as in insinuation or disparagement of a language of which I know nothing and might be incapable of assimilating...).
Honestly, now that it's been long since March 1986, I can say I convincingly flunked IMCO pre-screening. But, I wizzed thru RM "A" school with all "A"s and was in the top 10% allowed to select our follow-on command. However, my physical aptitude got me assigned to Savin Teletype repair schools, (liquid and dry toner), as well as Teletype Repair Hi and Lo Level (Mech and Electronic) and those pieces of shit TTY machines cost me a lot of sleep after my ship lost 2 or 3 qualified TTY techs, leaving my butt awake so much I once slept thru the GQ klaxon, was ordered to lay to the Bridge and "politely" interrogated by the XO. I politely told him, "XO, I know GQ was scheduled. I just got relived, had chow (breakfast) and laid in my rack with the curtain closed, but my legs out in the aisle... Every body jumping down from their racks and checking the compartment probably didnt' rouse me and drag me.
I never thought I'd ever sleep thru a GQ klaxon, but I sure heard "RM2 Syes, LAY TO THE BRIDGE!"
But, try some tapes for the foreign languages. DLI can get you up to speed if you can get the orders cut to Monterey, California. If you're a reservist SEAL or some critical billet, it might do well to have your detailer trump up those P/S NECs (Primary/Secondary Naval Enlisted Classification codes) for you. Make sure your activity's NC/career advisor is actually working. Mine skylarked enough that instead of getting my orders to RM "A" for Dec 85 or Jan 86, I was delayed till March 86.
Anyway, "Turn to! Commence ship's work!"
David Syes
Yes, do be sure to mount the stones with bolts, lets they get rocked or kicked by a visitor. Should one of these stones or plates go through the bottom of the railing, somebody below might "get stoned" or "be stoned", neither of which will be a fun stoning.
I'd imagine tho, that if too many tennants wanted personally-owned rooftopy antennae, there could be an issue with holes drilled, and neighbors bumping into poles, dishes, and more.
There is the issue of "rain fade", but is there one for "bird-turd-fade"? Has anyone seen farms of dishes festooned by birds? At some point birds' turds will paint or cake the dish. Is that a problem?
(Hopefully, your buildings are sufficiently tall, and the roof access restricted, such that people don't regard the dishes as pelled gun practice plates...)
David Syes
Now, we taxpayers can fund huge prismatic or other types of lenses for defense.
See, the Navy now can "project" it's carriers off shore. Combined with the high-altitude blimp/dirigibles/airship whatever you want to call it, or with submarines floating nitrogen-floated balloons or Tomahawk-like predator surveillance craft, the SHAPE of a carrier (less the wake, well, DARPA might figure out how to "fake wake", like "fake shake").
Or, just use the reactors to power a fake CVGB so only the CVN need go out. Then, when hit, they can fake watertight integrity!
"WE have projected our ships and our flag! We are VICTORIOUS!"
David Syes
Now, imagine when people decide to project their personal lives upon the public once the projection quality is plasma-level, even in outside light. Even if Rated-G, the governments of various levels will try to regulate that a person projecting images--still or motion-- is a de facto theatre.
All such persons must pay to play, or cough up mobile theater administration fees, not only to the county and the city, but to the movie industry as well.
Probably someone will decide that this is not a to-be-sold product, but a used-under-licensing-and-under-royalties.
How to manage it? WiFi or other types of receivers will listen for the encoded beacon/transponder signal each of these new devices could be fitted with. If anyone transmits in locales where the receivers are set up, then those counties and cities will ask you for your theatre permit...
At the very least,
Uggghhhh
David Syes
For this to be used in medicine... Post Operative Recovery wards could use this to project cheery environs for the recovering patients.
Police or security forces could use this technology to deceive and disarm (or, maybe incite) deranged persons so as to minimize gunfire, violence, or the like.
The security industry could play loops of residents in a home to make it look lived-in while the organics are out on vacation.
Maybe they can be used to even project a false car-pooler, or simulate two or more people on lovers' lane (tho you'd need to simulate the shocks being compressed and releaseed, I suppose...)
But, to take a pound off of laptop...
David Syes
Yep, now you can stand and DELIVER!
I realize now that I'd mis-typed. My brain and fingers weren't in sync. I should have said "CPU consumption is often greater than the power drained by the HDD". I'd read that in Linux Magazine, July 2004 issue, page 36, article titled "Linux on the Laptop":
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Paragraph: "Saving Power Redux: CPU Frequency Scaling
The CPU is the single most power hungry component of your laptop."
On page 37, Paragraph: "Saving More Power: Hard Disk Spin-down
After the CPU, your hard disk is your laptop's most power-hungry component. As long as it spins, it consumes power.
Linux's out-of-the-box configuration makes it nearly impossible to spin down the hard disk, as the operating system performs flushes every few minutes. So, to successfully spin down the hard disk, you'll need two different tools: a swcript to set laptop_mode in the kernel, and the hdparm utility."
Page 38: Paragraph: "Lasting a Long Time: Swap Management
The Final tip to conserve batter life is to disable your swap when running on battery power. Disabling swap causes all of your programs and data to be served out of RAM, thereby generating less hard disk traffic. Disabling swap should also allow your hard disk to go to sleep faster."
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After reading your reply to me, Wraithlyn, I figured I'd better correct myself and try to find the magazine article, something on the Net, or both. So, I also went to Google to:
http://www.google.com/search?q=lcd%20battery%20
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LCD is estimated to account for around 33% of the total power consumption.
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I swapped "memory" for "CPU", probably the most common mistake. I should have known better, and had I proofread my writing before sending...
Thanks, and Regards,
David Syes
And, if it really is true that sailors and merchants regularly disappear into the Triangle, then sending in non-crewed search and rescue craft (drones) would keep morale high in the naval or Coast Guard air and surface fleets (I don't know if the USN has the cajones to sail SSNs and SSBNs and the modified SSGNs? right thru the Triangle, tho the Scorpion was a bit off the Azores, but I cannot recall the proximity or "sphere of influence of the Triangle...).
OTOH (on the other hand), long-range OTH (Over The Horizon) targetting could be sustained in the event the AWACs/Link 11/14/etc got jammed or satellites were NMC (Non-Mission Capable) for some reason, or just increased for a cleaner theatre view.
However, carrying fuel or generators to make the fuel would compete for space aboard ship, and might even prove dangerous (after all, on my first ship, AE-32, an ammo ship, we had some knuckleheads who worked in the Bosun's Hold chipping and grinding away at the deck only to not wear their in-line air rebreather/respirators and got overwhelmed and knocked out by the non-skid/red lead/zinc chromate we used as primer over the steel deck. Proximate to that, we had another knuckelhead, a (GMGSN) Gunners Mate/E-3 who smoked around the bombs and other ordnance in the bomb holds. The Gunnery Officer found him and ordered him to extinguish that flame source and the seaman replied, "Aww, Gunny, it's OK; we do this ALL THE TIME." But, when it came time reduce the guy in rate (RIR), restrict him to the ship for 45 days and give him extra duty for 45 concurrent days, and take away from his pay $250 for 2 months ("45/45/two-fifty for two was our jargon for this), the Captain read the charges, "awarded" the punishment, and then posed to the reckless Sailor the following while lifting an 80-some pound oaken podium, foaming at his mouth, face full of contortion:
"Do you KNOW what would happen this ship were to BLOW UP??!! Our ANCHOR would be in MICHIGAN!!!!!"
We happened at the time to be making circles in the east Pacific. Our ship was named Flint, as in Flint, Michigan, as in ammo ships being named for explosive things (Haleakela, Mauna Kea, Pyro, Flint, Mount Shasta, Butte, etc..) I could only imagine that the ammo holds probably were carrying something far, far more powerful than pyrotechnic, dumb bombs, and hypergolic (missile) fuel.
"Our ANCHOR would be in MICHIGAN!!!!")
David Syes
"There are already solid-state portable computers with low power consumption and solid-state components at the expense of proccessing power. They are called PDAs. Ever seen a WinCE handheld? Or a psion?"
Yes, I've seen them, but don't own any, nor have I used them. However, For those of us in the mainstream who need or crave a 15" display, even dropping a PDA into a cradle and using an associated folding, pocket-sized keyboard might not do.
I guess what I am proposing is eventually likely to become a threat to the current hard disk industry. I read somewhen back that IBM's (solid state) microdrives? might be the way of the future of disks.
But, I seem never able to get my Mandrake-based laptop to EVER sync up correctly from suspend. It's either the video not being restored, the disk not waking up, or something else, even in Mdk 10. Probably it's me, esp since I am using a (Feb 2001 mfg date of) Vaio PCG-FX215, and the BIOS has maybe 50% of the features I see in current laptop BIOS's.
But, the thing about having a full-sized, energy-efficient laptop is that it could host a good number of hot-swappabel, o/s swappable medium, as well as, conceivably, accept and eject hot-swappable memory in a pinch.
With every install/reinstall/upgrade of my laptop, I never go past 65,000 colors. Partly because I can't tell the difference and I am not in graphics design/layout, and partly because I understand that driving 16 BEEL-YON colors surely will drive the video processor to chew up more power. The hotter the laptop (from video, disk, ram chips, and even the CPU heat sink (I touched mine and the aluminum sink is HOT!), along with the spinning fan (I unplugged it, but after 10 minutes plugged it back in since I cannot afford yet to destroy the CPU or the laptop...), will knock my Vaio out in about 25 minutes.
I envy those who have the latest IBM thinkpads. I saw one guy in Mountain View around Dec or Jan who claimed he got 4 to 5 hours running RH. But his l/t was maybe 12 inches in display, and benefitted from newer components, and maybe a slower-spinning disk. I cannot even throttle my fan, nor spin down the disk. Mdk 10 community from the May or June issue of Linux Format I bought throttled my CPU fan up and down all night. I was so used to the constant noise of the unregulated fan that I had to put my head under my pillow. Now, with the latest MDK 10, I don't get ANY throttling, regardless of what kernel I boot into.
Regards,
David Syes
Is anyone building one of these things as a Proof of Concept? I understand that memory uses more battery juice than the HDD itself.
I think my ideas below and my question above come from my curiosity of how long the portable/hand-held DVD players last. I also wonder how long MP3 device batteries last. Days? Aside from the LCD and CPU chewing up maybe 60% of the battery life, at LEAST the storage and boot and system file devices could be on CF/Smart Media. Maybe someone might want to take the LSB to a new level: Optimizing the installation and locating of system files based on the type of medium to which the OS and user files are being written during install. And, suspend-to-disk, ACPI, and APM problems could be made to go away to a good extent, probably because the disk spinning is eliminated. i am not sure about communicating devices (modems and NICs), tho.
Imagine this:
-- Multi-slot CF/Smart-Media bay
-- O/S Memory sticks/ in each CF/SM bay
-- Energy-efficient/Solar or ambient-light-powered LCD
-- Ability to swap O/S on the fly
-- IR or compatible/comparable input device with own power supply (like the battery-powered Logitech mice...)
Can't laptops go Solid State now? I imagine much of the laptop industry is sustained by momentum to keep cranking out mechanical disks. If an efficient CF/SM platter or storage surface can be optically read by something that is not having to spin at some 7,000 or 10,000 RPM, a lot of other savings might be made.
Also, it seems laptop boards have fewer and fewer soldered components. Further reductions should lead to greater opportunity to bring solid-state laptops to consumer hands. If the OS could be on one the disk, and be swappable, the data on another swappable, disk, then when will a light switch on to make solid-state laptops that hold VMWare or Win4Lin in a Linux environment? VMWare and NeTraverse could then reduce their costs of product just by jumping to distribution/deployment of millions vice 10s of thousands. This would probably devastate ms' foothold, especially of XUL or XML or other code and W3C standards were followed better.
But... will it cover the Devil's Triangle/Bermuda Triangle
These things might make for good backup fleet observation posts. Since orbital devices are political (intraservice) beasts that can be commercial devices renting time to the military (and maybe vice versa), they may need prior, very prior, clearance to retask the bird.
Now, imagine for Fleet Operations, such as drug interdiction, watching the QE/QMary 2, and maybe even sensitive railroad plutonium shipments, these floating craft would save on use of pilots, the associated fatigue and risk of crashing, and could provide tracking of all sorts of other things.
Maybe Wal-Mart and others will start tracking their goods to make sure nothing is interdicted and stolen. Just put a concentrator and encryption device on the shipping container or vehicle or both, transmit the signal every 25 seconds to 1 hour or whatever is necessary based on the value or danger of the goods, and there you go.
But, I wonder: Will this work over the Bermuda Triangle/Devil's Triangle? I guess we have to find out if any bad guys or the world's navies actually steer crewed ships into those lore-laden "danger zones".
David Syes
Reminds me of "The Cloud Minders" episode of STTOS (Star Trek (The Original Series)) involvng the Troglytes and their xenite/zenite gas. Imagine a network of these things set up to make a cloud city "Stratos".
Then, the rest of us "cave dwellers" could become GPS-in-the-ass-controlled subjects of sky-net-based overlords...
David Syes
"They MIGHT be Giants" once was called "They COULD be Giants" by a pair on NPR somewhen back in 2003 one of whom didn't know the band's name. It was hilarious... "
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Guest: "They Might Be Giants did a..."
Host: "They Could be Giants?..."
Guest: "They MIGHT be Giants..."
Well,
Is there a "Safety Tap" or "Spinal Henge/Hinge" in the offing?
Now, if they ad Elvis Costello, Weird All Yankovich, Mike and the Mechanics, Peter Dolby, Nina Hagen, Rick Springfield, Blanc Mange, and a few others (Cyndi Lauper and Madonna/Esther/Etheria/Sysperia/Susperia doing duet vocals a-la Benny Hill backup-singers )...
Oh, let's not forget Mini-Me and Jaws (Richard "Jaws" Kiel), Loch Ness, Sasquatch, Witches of Salem, Furbees, Pet Rocks, Gammara/Guldar, the Daleks, and a few other, we might actually, induce the ETs to retrieve their Stones at Stonehenge in the name of protecting their Otherworldly Honor...heheh
"Our Howse, in the MIHDDUL of our HENGE, Our blouse, hides our treasure for to keep..."
This MIGHT be GiGANTIC!
David Syes
Or, Sweet Polly Purebread (Oh Hwere ohh Hwere has my undergod gnone)...
Or, for the worst kind of music to try to filter out, successfully...
Christian Gangsta ARP (Calling all Gods, Galling all Cods) (For a new RFC)
Ouch, I meant, "Rap" (136)
Porn Groove (109)
Booty Bass (107)
Or, for the ones I combined:
Blue Grass
Ska
Blue Ska (hmmm, like 24's 60-seconds pun, Blue Ska/s for Blue Sky/Skies
Revival Bluegrass
Revival Ska
Christian Fusion
Christian Trance
Christian Death Metal
Christian Funk
Thrash Metal
Christian Terror (666)
or, the undulating culmination...
Terror Polka
Easy-Listenin' Christian Pr0n
Easy-Listenin' Gangsta Pr0n
Christian (Polka) Pr0n Groove
Terror (Polka) Pr0n Groove (Polka ALways gets a bad rap, ehh?)
(Hip) Christian Terror Hop (Played at I-Hop)
Terror Booty Bass
Booty Bass Terror
Hardcore, Power Ballad, A Capella, Duet, Freestyle, Rhythmic Soul, Slow Jam, Porn Groove, Tango, Booty Bass, Acoustic, Sonata Chamber music (129, 117, 123, 120, 119, 118, 113, 111, 109, 107, 99, 105, 104)
Now, THOSE are some helluva Prime Numbers (less 99, 104, 120, 118, 104???)
and any other ocmbination, heheh, combination of Freedb.or encodes...
http://www.freedb.org/src/freedb-proto5-update
Well, I am sure (or, I hope) that someone will encode into all vehicle sound equipment the sounds or IFF signals for sirens, crosswalk coo-koos and chirps.
I erred in failing to include this train of thought which would restore privacy but not detract from safety of the drivers not wanting to hear boom-boom-boom. Same goes for my threads that mention anything similar.
David Syes
If you blast the sound of sirens and people pull over, it might be that the sounding car had a red light. Maybe, maybe not. But, if a cop sees you moving while others pull over, the officer MIGHT have **probable cause** and ask to search your CD player, whether it's in the dash, under the seat or in the trunk. In CA, if you refuse a search, your vehicel CAN or MIGHT be impounded. It's legal here, as indicated on your acceptance of your driver's license. You are told before you take the test and submit your payment.
But note this:
Some decades ago (circa 1970's/early '80s) a Radioman or Crypto Tech or other type in the Navy made off with a piece of transmission equipment. It was strong enough to knock out starters or components and stall the adjacent cars. When he drove on, the police identified who was knocking out cars. When they saw the equipment, they notified the Navy, which promptly locked the guy up for making off with highly secret or sensitive equipment.
Metaphorically, that is what the CD blasting would be. However, if most states are like California, you can be cited for the following types of acts:
--using light, sound, electromagnetic, mechanical or other means to alter, confuse, disrupt, recycle, activate, deactivate, etc, timing or other traffic control devices
-----doing such things to disrupt or confuse or reroute vechicular traffic...
There was, and still may be a time yet that I will be able to use the high-beams to change the lights late at night so I don't have to stop. I used to do it in the late 80's to early 90's, but ALWAYS made sure to never do so when LE (Law Enforcement) was around. Using the headlights to change the traffic signals is verbotten. I learned it from a friend who had a relative who installed signal lights. Nowadays, most lights are computer and sensor-wire controlled, or monitored by remote cameras.
David Syes
Say, how nearby are the "Kum n' Go" (some are in Colorado, and for the name alone I made sure to get some pictures of the signage) shops or the "Bulk Cigar-ettes" stores? Toy, condoms and munchies. Maybe they could rename the store to "Cnodoms Goo To" so it's less obvious, but would be bad marketing, suppose.
Would it be possible to legitimately open a boutique in Texas and display and sell RealDoll products? I wonder what legal and social impacts would result....hehee
Oh, yeh, that's it. The marital aides thing got her into hot water. It's such a pathetic law. Now, if only the current governor and mayors could be caused to have sexual dysfunctions, run out of legal outlets, then have to seek out people like that lady their current law mandates be jailed.
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Mean time, guns can be sold left and right, with no apparent war of civil disturbance in sight.
WACO- "W e A i n ' t C o m i n' O u t !!!
(I learned this one from a USPS employee...)
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And, as for Tx and some weird laws...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/12/alcatel
http://www.phpkitchen.com/article.php?story=200
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/ptech/weblog/
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However, being a Libra, I must admit some novel or great things have arisen from or been created in Tx. But, around 1999/2000 "reincarnation acceleration" of a number of inmates was in vogue. Meanwhile, many police departments couldn't get all the funding they needed, resulting in evidence being destroyed when rain leaked into evidence rooms and such.
Where is Jimmy Dean Sausage from?
David Syes
Would it be of any worth to use an undulating, persistent drone or humming tone?
Imagine the Star Trek tune where Spock and the Horta's minds are joined. Yeh, use that galactic, spiritual, Vulcan-mind-meld music...
Or, just switch to the Kirk-vs-some-foe music...
DS
Say, new product idea:
White noise. Just crank up whoosh and swoooshes of oceans. Get 11 cars up there and have Oceans 11, hehehe. Instead of calling it "Counter-Boom-Box", call it the "WooshBox for the BOOMPOX".
Or, play back loud submachine gun fire.
Or, blast Enya, or even revival church music. Try some bluegrass (not talking about blue marijuana...,heheh), too.
Another one is the sound of landing planes. Get it REALLY REALLY loud. Maybe it'll pop the circuits in their own car, especially if you have a directional transmitter of short range and aim it at their car...(don't get caught by the FCC or homeland security on a lunch break in your lane...)
Trail smoke from your car for effect (or, steam, since it's water and MIGHT be a non-ticket display of non-air substance...)
I am sure EVERY state has a vehicle code on that subject. ANY cop who sees you approaching Moses-like, parting the traffic will have a field day with you.
It might be funny, especially if you actually can get the traffic to part or pull over for what might pass as an "undercover" vehicle when ambulances and fire trucks hardly get any respect.
Maybe you can just go by with a super-power jammer and suppress their coils or activate the annular confinement beam. Try boosting the output to your lateral sensor array, for greater effect, heheh...
Say, from another Libra...
I thought Tx is one of those states where it is ILLEGAL to sell or advertise/display items for use as sexual toys, even if for couple aiding.
I remember watching on TV sometime a few months ago about a woman who was (maybe not in TX) holding sexual aid parties, much like there were Tupperware parties. Her state law enforcement threw her in jail, mainly due to some hyper-old, asinine-today, conservative law still on the books.
David Syes