Also worth noting is that if you subscribe via iTunes they include a PDF version of the actual magazine article.
Too many of you are confusing the intent of MAKE. If you are an electrical engineer, this may not be the magazine for you (try Nuts and Volts). If you only want robotics articles, go for SERVO instead. This magazine does a good job of showing you how to build a certain project without turning into a textbook. In many instances I have used MAKE to get me interested in something, and then I branch out from there. The magazine is almost cover to cover content as well, as they have very little ad space.
There is a growing market for the DIY, especially in electronics. Just look at the success of the Arduino, and Sparkfun.com.
I just took a look around the office and all I see is a bunch of fat people checking their AOL email. Your theory has failed.
I sit in a cube all day, then drive home to play hours of video games. I am 5'8" and weigh 140 lbs. I don't eat fast food, and don't buy anything in a box at the supermarket.
My theory is that fast food and cheap calories are making you all fat. Leave my video games out of this.
Microsoft can thank Bungie for a banner month (Holy Shit, Microsoft actually made a profit, for once). It won't happen again. Apparently the fact that the Wii has now sold more than the Xbox 360, even though the 360 had a 1 year head start, means nothing?
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You sir, are wrong. As of October 15, 2006, most on-highway diesel fuel sold at retail locations in the United States is ultra low sulfur diesel. In fact, ULSD isn't required in Europe until 2009. Currently they are required to sell 50 ppm diesel (and merely have ULSD available, nor required). The US went from a 500 ppm requirement to 15 ppm in 2006 (for most applications).
You simply can't compare old diesel engines to their modern counterparts. You are talking about a mechanically driven, and poorly engineered engine to the far more advanced (electronic, high pressure common rail, effecient injection, variable geometry turbocharger, cooled EGR subsystem) diesel engine of today. The argument that current clean diesels can't propel a heavier American car is complete nonsense.
Let me repeat myself, the MAIN reason that diesel engines aren't in the US is simply because they don't meet the EPA's on-highway fuel emission specs. It is that simple. You think it is coincidence that all diesel engines (aside from light duty trucks) are no longer sold in 2007 car models? The same year that the EPA requires on-highway vehicles to reduce particulate matter by 90%(.10 PM (g/hp-hr) to 1.0 PM)? I don't think so.
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The reason why car companies can't sell diesels in the US is because our emissions regulations are a lot more strict. This is why your Jeep Wrangler diesel is no longer produced. I deal mostly with industrial diesel engines, which have a seperate emissions guideline, but diesels will soon be FAR cleaner than gas. In 2011 the air coming out of a diesel engine exhaust pipe will be cleaner than the air outside. This is done with many systems (at serious cost increases to the OEM/customer). There are particulate traps, urea systems, charged air coolers, and more efficient fuel injection that help clean up the exhaust. Currently only one or two of these systems are used to meet emissions standards, but by 2011 (2008 for on-highway?) all of these systems will probably be used. Add low emissions on top of good fuel economy and bio-diesel, and "clean diesels" will be on American roads far sooner than your electric car.
-TC
"...perhaps even by the time you read this column, and if you are like me you are wondering what that 40-gig hard drive is doing inside. I'm guessing we won't know for sure until later this year, though of course I also think I know the secret answer, too."
Since when did this become a secret? Steve Jobs made it pretty obvious in his last keynote when he said that you can sync your TV shows/movies to the Apple TV (from 1 computer), and you can stream from up to 5 computers. He even went into detail about the syncing process, and how you could have it automatically store your latest 5 unwatched TV shows to your Apple TV hard drive.
What I do not enjoy, however, is his political commentary. The same can be said for Orson Scott Card. Why is it that authors, singers, actors, etc feel the need to get political?
From Wikipedia: "He attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts as an undergraduate, graduating summa cum laude in 1964. Crichton was also initiated into the honors organization Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to become the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. He graduated at Harvard Medical School, gaining an M.D. in 1969 and did post-doctoral fellowship study at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, in 1969-1970. In 1988, he was Visiting Writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
I don't think it is fair to group him with all authors, singers, and actors. He does have some fairly decent credentials.
Even if retailers are holding onto shipments until the weekend, it still proves there is plenty of hype over the Wii. Whether the hype is justified, I don't know, and I don't care. Also, if you go by the numbers, Nintendo has a first quarter profit forecast of 1.6 billion, whereas Sony (game unit devision) has a forecast predicting a loss of around 1.8 billion. Also, Sony sold 1.4 million PS2s in december. Where could all that money have gone?
"I called local Target, 50 units gone right after 8am. I lined up at Bestbuy about 20 minutes before opening, no tickets or vouchers, just a mad dash to the palette of wiis in the center of the store. After bagging one, I headed to gamestop about 30 minutes later since Bestbuy had ZERO remotes and chuks. Strangely, I could have bought a second one while I was there. I went back later for Wario Ware and of course, they were all out of hardware altogether."
They aren't talking about the Wii launch. They are talking about last Sunday shipments.
Modern wind farms use turbine blades that are significantly larger and slower than the early adopted wind farms mentioned in this article. This is the equivalent of a bird flying into a window, or a skyscraper (which result in many more deaths than turbine blades ever will).
"I have a hard and fast rule -- if I'm not actually paying you any money, I'm not providing you with sufficient information to subsequently bill me.
I absolutely will not provide CC information to use a 'free' trial..."
Then you absolutely will not be getting the free trial.
I have used MCE2005, and MythTV, and I got sick of both of them. There were too many problems with DRM with MCE and it wasn't as customizable as I wanted. I still wanted to use my computer to play games, and switching between dual booted OS's got annoying. I finally went with www.xlobby.com. It is a free, completely customizable HTPC fontend. It supports programs like SageTV, zoomplayer, ffdshow, winamp, etc (the most popular HTPC programs). It has built in control via xremote and your pocket pc or tablet. Its easy to install and customize. I would highly recommend this program.
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Also worth noting is that if you subscribe via iTunes they include a PDF version of the actual magazine article. Too many of you are confusing the intent of MAKE. If you are an electrical engineer, this may not be the magazine for you (try Nuts and Volts). If you only want robotics articles, go for SERVO instead. This magazine does a good job of showing you how to build a certain project without turning into a textbook. In many instances I have used MAKE to get me interested in something, and then I branch out from there. The magazine is almost cover to cover content as well, as they have very little ad space. There is a growing market for the DIY, especially in electronics. Just look at the success of the Arduino, and Sparkfun.com.
not a single one of them even considered the possibility of streams getting crossed...for shame!
No mention of Earth getting bulldozed to make room for an inter-galactic highway, either.
I just took a look around the office and all I see is a bunch of fat people checking their AOL email. Your theory has failed. I sit in a cube all day, then drive home to play hours of video games. I am 5'8" and weigh 140 lbs. I don't eat fast food, and don't buy anything in a box at the supermarket. My theory is that fast food and cheap calories are making you all fat. Leave my video games out of this.
Microsoft can thank Bungie for a banner month (Holy Shit, Microsoft actually made a profit, for once). It won't happen again. Apparently the fact that the Wii has now sold more than the Xbox 360, even though the 360 had a 1 year head start, means nothing?
You sir, are wrong. As of October 15, 2006, most on-highway diesel fuel sold at retail locations in the United States is ultra low sulfur diesel. In fact, ULSD isn't required in Europe until 2009. Currently they are required to sell 50 ppm diesel (and merely have ULSD available, nor required). The US went from a 500 ppm requirement to 15 ppm in 2006 (for most applications). You simply can't compare old diesel engines to their modern counterparts. You are talking about a mechanically driven, and poorly engineered engine to the far more advanced (electronic, high pressure common rail, effecient injection, variable geometry turbocharger, cooled EGR subsystem) diesel engine of today. The argument that current clean diesels can't propel a heavier American car is complete nonsense. Let me repeat myself, the MAIN reason that diesel engines aren't in the US is simply because they don't meet the EPA's on-highway fuel emission specs. It is that simple. You think it is coincidence that all diesel engines (aside from light duty trucks) are no longer sold in 2007 car models? The same year that the EPA requires on-highway vehicles to reduce particulate matter by 90%(.10 PM (g/hp-hr) to 1.0 PM)? I don't think so.
The reason why car companies can't sell diesels in the US is because our emissions regulations are a lot more strict. This is why your Jeep Wrangler diesel is no longer produced. I deal mostly with industrial diesel engines, which have a seperate emissions guideline, but diesels will soon be FAR cleaner than gas. In 2011 the air coming out of a diesel engine exhaust pipe will be cleaner than the air outside. This is done with many systems (at serious cost increases to the OEM/customer). There are particulate traps, urea systems, charged air coolers, and more efficient fuel injection that help clean up the exhaust. Currently only one or two of these systems are used to meet emissions standards, but by 2011 (2008 for on-highway?) all of these systems will probably be used. Add low emissions on top of good fuel economy and bio-diesel, and "clean diesels" will be on American roads far sooner than your electric car. -TC
Since when did this become a secret? Steve Jobs made it pretty obvious in his last keynote when he said that you can sync your TV shows/movies to the Apple TV (from 1 computer), and you can stream from up to 5 computers. He even went into detail about the syncing process, and how you could have it automatically store your latest 5 unwatched TV shows to your Apple TV hard drive.
And it was even longer if your kids got sick and died of dysentery.
From Wikipedia: "He attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts as an undergraduate, graduating summa cum laude in 1964. Crichton was also initiated into the honors organization Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to become the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. He graduated at Harvard Medical School, gaining an M.D. in 1969 and did post-doctoral fellowship study at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, in 1969-1970. In 1988, he was Visiting Writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
I don't think it is fair to group him with all authors, singers, and actors. He does have some fairly decent credentials.
Even if retailers are holding onto shipments until the weekend, it still proves there is plenty of hype over the Wii. Whether the hype is justified, I don't know, and I don't care. Also, if you go by the numbers, Nintendo has a first quarter profit forecast of 1.6 billion, whereas Sony (game unit devision) has a forecast predicting a loss of around 1.8 billion. Also, Sony sold 1.4 million PS2s in december. Where could all that money have gone?
From Wired Blog: Game Life:
They aren't talking about the Wii launch. They are talking about last Sunday shipments.
Take a shot every time the word nano makes it into a Slashdot article.
Modern wind farms use turbine blades that are significantly larger and slower than the early adopted wind farms mentioned in this article. This is the equivalent of a bird flying into a window, or a skyscraper (which result in many more deaths than turbine blades ever will).
I don't know exactly how email is lost, but the friendly IT guys over at Earthlink might be able to help you out.
Then you absolutely will not be getting the free trial.
I have used MCE2005, and MythTV, and I got sick of both of them. There were too many problems with DRM with MCE and it wasn't as customizable as I wanted. I still wanted to use my computer to play games, and switching between dual booted OS's got annoying. I finally went with www.xlobby.com. It is a free, completely customizable HTPC fontend. It supports programs like SageTV, zoomplayer, ffdshow, winamp, etc (the most popular HTPC programs). It has built in control via xremote and your pocket pc or tablet. Its easy to install and customize. I would highly recommend this program.