Does EVERY electronic device accidentally left somewhere necessitate the bomb squad being called out?...
C'mon...let's step back and accept some risks in our lives.
Scientists can now produce singing, fearless , cancer resistant, super strong , plague-infected, mice with human brain cells from artificical sperm. On top of that these mice are now happy?!
Said mice were last over heard singing Monty Python's,"Always look on the bright side of life."
... such buyers have pulled the seller's contact information and proceeded to stalk them, traveling several states in order to be threatening. If seller's were to lose their ability to even leave a negative about such people once they'd made the initial payment, eBay would lost most of its major sellers who, let's not forget, actually pay eBay's bills.
I wonder if such buyers really care very much about their feedback...
In other words: only giving feedback after buyers do doesn't really hurt the malevolent buyers (who gives a f*ck after you got away with your scam), doesn't make the buyer's bad feedback go away AND scares away the honest buyers who ultimately pay eBay's bills
This is a terrible idea - there are many cases where _after_ the buyer has paid they cause trouble. For example, on one of my auctions I clearly stated that if you paid by cheque I wouldn't dispatch the goods until _after_ the cheque had cleared.
1) the parent only talked about transactions paid by paypal
2) once the buyer has paid, he has done his part of the deal and should get feedback BASED ON THIS. Your feedback should not reflect the feedback he gave. If you don't agree with his feedback, comment on it.
3) while your point may be valid in some cases, the buyer's side is worse imho: when I have done everything I should, why don't I get good feedback? In case sellers ship before payment they would get feedback first too. Now they get the money first, I think it is only fair they give feedback first also.
If you are going to use Linux, or FreeBSD, be ready to use a command line. Some people can get by without it because they don't do much, or have incredible luck and every upgrade works perfectly and nothing ever breaks,...
Maybe it is aimed at people that indeed don't do much or, more accurately, don't use many different tools. Lots of people only use their mailer, text processing and browser.
...but frankly, the population that is served by hiding the command line is miniscule compared to those of us who appreciate - and in fact use Linux or a BSD *because* of that command line.
Why do you think so? Maybe this population is small among current linux users. However, by definition those already have another distro of choice.
While I like to be in control and even don't always appreciate automatic dependency handling (don't want to start a war here, but I run slackware), I can imagine that MANY users are frightened by text passing by their screen (rapidly).
While I liked the sound of the negotiations of our 19k2 modem ten years ago (number of tries etc.), my sister hated it and never wanted to be confronted with those 'eery sounds'.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
This is quite possible, since the magnetic field is not conservative (=the energy energy is only determined by the position). Example of a conservative field: gravitation, because if a mass goes up and down a hill it has a net energy gain of zero.
Not so for movement in a magnetic field. You can compare this to a whirlpool: if you drop something in it will spin round and round faster and faster, so clearly its energy is not detemined by the position alone.n In fact this is more or less how electromotors/dynamos work (or could work).
"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy,"
This, however is bollocks: classical mechanics and electromagnetism form a pretty closed system. I'm not saying the conservation of energy principle cannot ever be broken (though this would be surprising) but in any way it can never be broken withing the classical system, i.e. using only mechanics and electromagnetism.
You know what really disturbs me? The number of people I've met who actually believe that idiotic myth. We really live in a pathetic state of education when this type of nonsense is accepted without question.
No-one says it is accepted without question. I heard of it playing trivial pursuit and always wondered how anyone knew. Could be true, could also be not true but ain't it worth to toss it up here?
Is is sad to see that this insightful post is even considered troll by some.
Indeed there is a difference between theft and infringement. But you don't need to be brainwashed to understand that this difference is of no real importance in case you are depriving someone of income by 'taking' their product. As it is, some products (e.g. a chair) are material whereas others (e.g. music) are content-related. A CD store is not selling plastic/alu discs, they are selling content and the plastic is only a bearer.
Would you feel embarrassed to go to your favourite artist (assuming she/he is with a major label) and tell you copied their latest CD? If so, you know something is not ok, regardless of the difference between infringement and theft.
I challenge this notion. Conductor size is not related to whether the power is AC or DC or what frequency of AC it might be; it is related to current.
Not really correct: as the frequency increases, the current tends to flow in the outer regions ('skin') of the conductors, known as the skin effect. Because the core of the conductor is not used, the effective area is reduced and therefore the resistance increased. For this reason hollow or flat conductors are used for high frequency applications.
The problem is not only the high voltage but specificzally the "DC-ness", so the parent was right. The difference between AC and DC is that in AC the voltage and thus (resistive) current goes to zero every now and then (50/60Hz) and a DC current doesn't. When you switch off the current it is possible that an arc forms between the switch contacts, in other words, current keeps flowing through the air. This arc will remain as long as the current is not cut externally. For AC this means that it will immediately disappear as soon as the voltage goes through zero. In DC systems it can remain forever, hence the danger.
This thing either has a supply of _all_ possible smells (unlikely) or tries to synthesize something 'similar'. Is this really interesting for perfume stores, where the $$$ are exactly in the subtle details. IMHO this is comparable to letting a prospective Ferrari buyer do a test drive in a Skoda.
Actually I think they were partially right: internet will not completely kill radio amateurism but has dealt it a serious blow, together with cell phones.
There was a time when radio amateurs had the privilege of communicating with each other anywhere they wanted. Now everyone can.
There also was a time when packet node BBS were an interesting way to disseminate information. The internet is now a much larger and (in general) faster source. AFAIK here in Europe packet is dead, or as good as.
Amateurs are people both interested in communication and technology. The internet offers both. Some hard core DX'ers will go on, as will some hard core home brewers. But the 'casual' amateur is indeed killed by the 'net, imho.
I agree with the general idea of the grandparent post. IMHO it's more important for humankind as a whole to advance and survive as far as possible, than for every single person to life a healthy, safe and boring middle-class life.
A wild guess: you are healthy and non of your children have died of starvation?
I'm sickened by the amount of people on here saying "... but why? Why?? WHY?? Because he's a GEEK, Dammit!".
Not agreed. I don't know why so many replies have been modded toll. 'Why' is a completely justified question because the hack is trivial (you only have to know the pinout of the processor), not particularly elegant and doesn't serve an obvious goal. It is an insult to real hacks, be them in software (e.g. trying to run Linux on everything) or hardware (e.g. making a super high-res camera of a flatbed scanner) that anything anyone does is automatically wonderful.
*wanders off mumbling about these younguns..*
Can't believe an old-schooler would be impressed with this.
Ps: don't want to bash this mod, but take it for what it is, a simple mod.
Nice to see anyone is busy with hardware for a change but what have we come to if this hack is frontpage news on/.??? The guy just changed the clock to whatever random one he had lying around. I derive this from two facts:
- apparently the system does not run very stable
- he is rather desperate to get an oscillator in between 35 and 25 MHz. You can just _buy_ these things in most electronics part shops and I can think of at least four people including myself who have a high chance of having one in their garbage collection.
On top of this it would surprise me if he was a very experienced electronics hacker as those would never punt ground high and power low in circuit (of course I don't know him).
Kudos to the guy, but get real people: he changed an oscillator. That's it.
Well it's not so much that gifted kids need a teacher to tell them how to program. They need a teacher to encourage them, and that is what's missing.
Also 'back in the days', computers were cool but couldn't do anything so to say. You had to develop software you wanted yourself. What you did with computers was program them (and play a few games). Nowadays an abundance of cool applications is already available in many flavours. Why program?
Maybe you are right, I have done some homebrew projects too with 8 bit controllers (though this is probably not comparable to the things you have been doing 'in the days'). Anyway, in hindsight my remark was -though not wrong imho- a bit more offensive than needed.
I was depressed by how many of the people in the article listed an IBM PC as their first computer.
I would be depressed too. It means you're old and they are young. Computers are not something you can have an opinion about: you pick what is on the market at the time you buy them.
It's very easy for a discussion like this to get into a pissing war
... which is a good reason not to mention any background at at all (in fact I am also working towards a phd, still need to write the book, though:-). Having been in the academic world and obviously knowing many phds, people that quit theirs and others that got it 'for free', I am not easily impressed by titles (no offense), especially because it is difficult to judge the merits of a system in another country.
But what does irritate me are people using arrogant discussion techniques, talking crap and making fun of somebody who knows his stuff (even if a phd;-).
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Does EVERY electronic device accidentally left somewhere necessitate the bomb squad being called out?... C'mon...let's step back and accept some risks in our lives.
Hindsight 10/10.
Said mice were last over heard singing Monty Python's,"Always look on the bright side of life."
And "Every artificial sperm in sacred".
I wonder if such buyers really care very much about their feedback...
In other words: only giving feedback after buyers do doesn't really hurt the malevolent buyers (who gives a f*ck after you got away with your scam), doesn't make the buyer's bad feedback go away AND scares away the honest buyers who ultimately pay eBay's bills
1) the parent only talked about transactions paid by paypal
2) once the buyer has paid, he has done his part of the deal and should get feedback BASED ON THIS. Your feedback should not reflect the feedback he gave. If you don't agree with his feedback, comment on it.
3) while your point may be valid in some cases, the buyer's side is worse imho: when I have done everything I should, why don't I get good feedback? In case sellers ship before payment they would get feedback first too. Now they get the money first, I think it is only fair they give feedback first also.
Maybe it is aimed at people that indeed don't do much or, more accurately, don't use many different tools. Lots of people only use their mailer, text processing and browser.
Why do you think so? Maybe this population is small among current linux users. However, by definition those already have another distro of choice. While I like to be in control and even don't always appreciate automatic dependency handling (don't want to start a war here, but I run slackware), I can imagine that MANY users are frightened by text passing by their screen (rapidly).
While I liked the sound of the negotiations of our 19k2 modem ten years ago (number of tries etc.), my sister hated it and never wanted to be confronted with those 'eery sounds'.
This is quite possible, since the magnetic field is not conservative (=the energy energy is only determined by the position). Example of a conservative field: gravitation, because if a mass goes up and down a hill it has a net energy gain of zero.
Not so for movement in a magnetic field. You can compare this to a whirlpool: if you drop something in it will spin round and round faster and faster, so clearly its energy is not detemined by the position alone.n In fact this is more or less how electromotors/dynamos work (or could work).
"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy,"
This, however is bollocks: classical mechanics and electromagnetism form a pretty closed system. I'm not saying the conservation of energy principle cannot ever be broken (though this would be surprising) but in any way it can never be broken withing the classical system, i.e. using only mechanics and electromagnetism.
No-one says it is accepted without question. I heard of it playing trivial pursuit and always wondered how anyone knew. Could be true, could also be not true but ain't it worth to toss it up here?
BTW how are you so sure it is _not_ true?
What would being with a major label have to do with it?
That was only included to avoid answers like "my favourite artist spreads his music through free (as in beer) mp3's on the internet".
Indeed there is a difference between theft and infringement. But you don't need to be brainwashed to understand that this difference is of no real importance in case you are depriving someone of income by 'taking' their product. As it is, some products (e.g. a chair) are material whereas others (e.g. music) are content-related. A CD store is not selling plastic/alu discs, they are selling content and the plastic is only a bearer.
Would you feel embarrassed to go to your favourite artist (assuming she/he is with a major label) and tell you copied their latest CD? If so, you know something is not ok, regardless of the difference between infringement and theft.
My guess is that it won't go much beyond 168 hours a week...
Not really correct: as the frequency increases, the current tends to flow in the outer regions ('skin') of the conductors, known as the skin effect. Because the core of the conductor is not used, the effective area is reduced and therefore the resistance increased. For this reason hollow or flat conductors are used for high frequency applications.
The problem is not only the high voltage but specificzally the "DC-ness", so the parent was right. The difference between AC and DC is that in AC the voltage and thus (resistive) current goes to zero every now and then (50/60Hz) and a DC current doesn't. When you switch off the current it is possible that an arc forms between the switch contacts, in other words, current keeps flowing through the air. This arc will remain as long as the current is not cut externally. For AC this means that it will immediately disappear as soon as the voltage goes through zero. In DC systems it can remain forever, hence the danger.
This thing either has a supply of _all_ possible smells (unlikely) or tries to synthesize something 'similar'. Is this really interesting for perfume stores, where the $$$ are exactly in the subtle details. IMHO this is comparable to letting a prospective Ferrari buyer do a test drive in a Skoda.
There was a time when radio amateurs had the privilege of communicating with each other anywhere they wanted. Now everyone can.
There also was a time when packet node BBS were an interesting way to disseminate information. The internet is now a much larger and (in general) faster source. AFAIK here in Europe packet is dead, or as good as.
Amateurs are people both interested in communication and technology. The internet offers both. Some hard core DX'ers will go on, as will some hard core home brewers. But the 'casual' amateur is indeed killed by the 'net, imho.
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A wild guess: you are healthy and non of your children have died of starvation?
Can't they build a fence or something?
Not agreed. I don't know why so many replies have been modded toll. 'Why' is a completely justified question because the hack is trivial (you only have to know the pinout of the processor), not particularly elegant and doesn't serve an obvious goal. It is an insult to real hacks, be them in software (e.g. trying to run Linux on everything) or hardware (e.g. making a super high-res camera of a flatbed scanner) that anything anyone does is automatically wonderful.
*wanders off mumbling about these younguns..*
Can't believe an old-schooler would be impressed with this.
Ps: don't want to bash this mod, but take it for what it is, a simple mod.
- apparently the system does not run very stable
- he is rather desperate to get an oscillator in between 35 and 25 MHz. You can just _buy_ these things in most electronics part shops and I can think of at least four people including myself who have a high chance of having one in their garbage collection.
On top of this it would surprise me if he was a very experienced electronics hacker as those would never punt ground high and power low in circuit (of course I don't know him).
Kudos to the guy, but get real people: he changed an oscillator. That's it.
Though many people don't think too much of Paris Hilton, I think referring to her as 'it' is a bit exaggerated...
Also 'back in the days', computers were cool but couldn't do anything so to say. You had to develop software you wanted yourself. What you did with computers was program them (and play a few games). Nowadays an abundance of cool applications is already available in many flavours. Why program?
Maybe you are right, I have done some homebrew projects too with 8 bit controllers (though this is probably not comparable to the things you have been doing 'in the days'). Anyway, in hindsight my remark was -though not wrong imho- a bit more offensive than needed.
I would be depressed too. It means you're old and they are young. Computers are not something you can have an opinion about: you pick what is on the market at the time you buy them.
"l'enfer c'est les autres"or "hell is the others" (Sartre)
For you maybe. Others may think: the more features you don't need, the more waste of money.
But what does irritate me are people using arrogant discussion techniques, talking crap and making fun of somebody who knows his stuff (even if a phd ;-).