My name is Anne Umbongo. I am the widow of deposed African Dictator Umbongo Umbongo. Before he lost power my husband owned application delivery meta data in the cloud, which he acquired after a Russian businessman had an unfortunate accident. He intended to display it as a trophy outside his palace in his new capital of Umbongonia which he was building in the desert with funds from the UN, EU etc.
I will sell you application delivery meta data in the cloud for a good price!
No! Solar cells are destroying the environment. The government needs to BAN them to protect us from Big Solar killing the planet for short term profit.
The data we have on the Earth presents a pretty good picture of warming, and the scientific consensus is that it's human caused. The trend in scientific consensus is also increasingly towards it being human caused.
So not only all do all true scientists agree, but the percentage of scientists agreeing is increasing every day.
Does that mean the true scientists are breeding or something? Should they all believe that overpopulation is a problem, just like global warming?
Well the GP was saying that capitalism was directly opposed to innovation. My point was that from my experience that is incorrect. The more capitalist a country the more innovative it is.
Actually I don't know why I waste my time arguing with people like you or him. I doubt either of you have any experience of 'socialism' or any understanding of its downsides.
I'm not so sure it's as simple as that. Once you take away profit, you take away people's incentive to innovate. I've lived in democratic socialist countries like Sweden, and it's amazing how slowly they change compared to more capitalist places.
China Plus : Government has enforced charge over USB for cellphones China Minus : Government has enforced the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, killing millions of its own citizens.
America Plus : No Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution. America Minus : Cellphone manufacturers insist on custom power supplies.
Mind you if American citizens chose to buy cellphones that charged over USB, manufacturers would support it.
Panasonic recommends charging at a constant current of 0.7C until 4.2V/cell is reached. Then constant voltage (CV) is to be used until current drops to 0.1C. At that time, the charging should stop. The circuit follows this recommendation exactly. However it does not turn off the charge. Testing has shown that the current drops to almost zero anyway.
The circuit simplifies this by limiting the charge voltage to 8.4v. When the battery reaches 8.4v, it will no longer draw current. The charger is also current-limited. Below about 75% charge, the limit current is reached. After about 80% charge, the current decays toward 0. At about 95% charge the current drops to only a few milliamps. In theory, the battery will never finish the charge, the closer it gets, the less current it draws. If left on the charger for 2 hours or so it will reach near 100% charge. But, 95% can be reached in less than an hour in most cases (assumes discharged to 50% or so.) Panasonic's charge curve for their 830mah batts using this method is shown below:
If you have a voltage regulated PSU with a current limit, set the voltage to the voltage the battery has when charged. He has two cells in series, so he uses 8.4V. One cell would be 4.2V, n cells would be n*4.2V. Set the current to 0.7C where C is the cell capacity in mAh.
If the cell is really discharged (i.e. less than 3.0V) you need to charge it at 0.1C until it reaches 3.0V before charging. This is not the normal case though, most LiIon batteries have a protection circuit that prevents this.
Li-ion batteries are not as durable as nickel metal hydride or nickel-cadmium designs, and can be extremely dangerous if mistreated. They may explode if overheated or if charged to an excessively high voltage. Furthermore, they may be irreversibly damaged if discharged below a certain voltage. To reduce these risks, li-ion batteries generally contain a small circuit that shuts down the battery when discharged below a certain threshold (typically 3 V) or charged above a certain limit (typically 4.2 V).
You can actually run most cell phones off 4.2V with no battery too.
Actually a configured USB 2.0 device plugged into can draw 500mA at 5V (2.5W). And a configured USB 3.0 device in superspeed mode can draw 900mA (4.5W).
Now cheap dumb (ie no microcontroller) USB gadgets have usually got away with drawing 500mA even when not configured and no doubt when USB 3.0 becomes common thet will get away with drawing 900mA. One USB 3.0 port could power a 2.5 inch hard disk which needs around 900mA to spin up, as opposed to two USB 2.0 ports. So no more Y cables.
There's a Powered USB standard, except you need to pay a license fee to implement. It comes in three incompatible variants too, 6A at 5, 12 or 24V.
This is the good thing about commercial software. The technical people can be overruled by the marketing/management people if their decisions are unpopular with a majority of users. Non commercial software doesn't have this ability.
1) The flaw in XP was that everyone run as admin. Unix's system of running as a limited user and doing a privilege escalation via sudo each time you do something that requires admin rights. 2) The flaw in Vista was UAC, where you do a privilege escalation each time you do something that requires admin rights. 3) The first Windows 7 beta had a flaw where it was possible for malware to disable UAC programatically and thus bypass it. 4) Microsoft have 'caved' and changed UAC in the Windows 7 release candidate.
Right. I forgot that the definition of serious consequences includes killing 100,000 civilians. And lying to the public. And being a total bag of knobs.
This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS!!"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Neoconservatism: We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of oil. And the science gets done. And you make a neat Iran for the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry... I'm being so sincere right now- Even though you broke my heart, and voted me out of office
And tore us to pieces. And threw every one of us into jail. As they did it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line. And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time! So I'm GLaD I got jailed- Think of all the things we learned- for the people who are still alive.
Go ahead and leave me... I think I'd prefer to stay inside... Maybe you'll find someone else to help you? Maybe Obama? That was a joke!
*HAHA- Fat Chance!*
Anyway this oil is great! It's so delicious and moist!
Look at me: still talking when there's foreign policy to do! When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are still alive. And believe me I am still alive. I'm doing science and I'm still alive. I feel fantastic and I'm still alive. While you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive.
I supposed the sovereignty is arguable depending on your definition. Per Merriam-Webster:
"sovereign: one that exercises supreme authority within a limited sphere."
I guess Saddam was the supreme authority in Iraq being a dictator and all, but at the same time he did not have supreme authority because of the UN resolution that forced him to accept UN weapons inspectors. He did allow them in for a while, but eventually stopped. That is why on:
November 8, 2002: The U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 1441 declaring Iraq has violated previous resolutions calling for disarmament and cooperation with weapons inspectors.
Which is why they were invaded, and I could've sworn I saw many troops with the little UN blue flag in Iraq during the meaty part of the war.
They could have just killed some UN guys and took the flag away from them.
Both liberals and conservatives can tell you to go fuck yourself, only conservatives are well armed enough to compel you to not fuck other people and have the sigint to monitor your compliance.
Ballistic missile defense is a much better bet against an unstable opponent with a small number of low tech nukes. No US president would be able to justify using nukes against those countries and killing millions of civilians, but I'd fully expect them to shoot down the incoming missiles.
Of course you wonder in Iran's case how that will be possible, given that Obama seems to be willing to abandon the interceptors in Eastern Europe to appease Russia and now sign away space based interceptors in return for a guarantee that other countries that don't have the capability to do it will not do it too. And now it seems like he will not develop any new nukes for deterrence against Russia/China.
Still I'm sure his apologists will now tell me that Russia/Iran/China/North Korea etc only want peace, it is only the evil US that wants war. Maybe, but what if you're wrong? Seems like the US is dependent on the goodwill of governments that seem to care little for the welfare of their own citizens, let alone US ones.
More like it's flawed because the benchmarks are cherry picked to get the result they wanted. It's just like those stupid Microsoft TCO surveys - neither side is actually trying to measure which is best, they are trying to find objective measurements that justify their subjective preference and try to increase its market share.
Not true, most developers I know (and I know plenty on linux!) loathe autotools, in fact someone liking autotools is enough reason to mock him and treat him like a loonie.
That's not enough though, he must be beaten with bamboo poles until he recants.
Barnsley, however, armed with his Collage Theorem, thought he had it solved. He applied for and was granted a software patent and left acade- mia to found Iterated Systems Incorporated (US patent 4,941,193. Alan Sloan is the co-grantee of the patent and co-founder of Iterated Sys- tems.) Barnsley announced his success to the world in the January 1988 issue of BYTE magazine. This article did not address the inverse problem but it did exhibit several images purportedly compressed in excess of 10,000:1. Alas, it was a slight of hand. The images were given sugges- tive names such as "Black Forest" and "Monterey Coast" and "Bolivian Girl" but they were all manually constructed. Barnsley's patent has come to be derisively referred to as the "graduate student algorithm."
Graduate Student Algorithm
o Acquire a graduate student.
o Give the student a picture.
o And a room with a graphics workstation.
o Lock the door.
o Wait until the student has reverse engineered the picture.
o Open the door.
Attempts to automate this process have continued to this day, but the situation remains bleak. As Barnsley admitted in 1988: "Complex color images require about 100 hours each to encode and 30 minutes to decode on the Masscomp [dual processor workstation]." That's 100 hours with a _person_ guiding the process.
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Whoosh.
My name is Anne Umbongo. I am the widow of deposed African Dictator Umbongo Umbongo. Before he lost power my husband owned application delivery meta data in the cloud, which he acquired after a Russian businessman had an unfortunate accident. He intended to display it as a trophy outside his palace in his new capital of Umbongonia which he was building in the desert with funds from the UN, EU etc.
I will sell you application delivery meta data in the cloud for a good price!
Funny you should say that but 'disturbance of the peace' is one of the things that people that demonstrate in China get charged with.
What about the First Anendment? Surely spammers have free speech rights?
No! Solar cells are destroying the environment. The government needs to BAN them to protect us from Big Solar killing the planet for short term profit.
DENIERS like you need to stop lying about this.
The data we have on the Earth presents a pretty good picture of warming, and the scientific consensus is that it's human caused. The trend in scientific consensus is also increasingly towards it being human caused.
So not only all do all true scientists agree, but the percentage of scientists agreeing is increasing every day.
Does that mean the true scientists are breeding or something? Should they all believe that overpopulation is a problem, just like global warming?
Well the GP was saying that capitalism was directly opposed to innovation. My point was that from my experience that is incorrect. The more capitalist a country the more innovative it is.
Actually I don't know why I waste my time arguing with people like you or him. I doubt either of you have any experience of 'socialism' or any understanding of its downsides.
I'm not so sure it's as simple as that. Once you take away profit, you take away people's incentive to innovate. I've lived in democratic socialist countries like Sweden, and it's amazing how slowly they change compared to more capitalist places.
Which explains why the Soviet Union was such an innovative place presumably.
Both countries have their pluses and minuses.
China Plus : Government has enforced charge over USB for cellphones
China Minus : Government has enforced the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, killing millions of its own citizens.
America Plus : No Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution.
America Minus : Cellphone manufacturers insist on custom power supplies.
Mind you if American citizens chose to buy cellphones that charged over USB, manufacturers would support it.
Actually you can charge any lithium ion battery with a desk PSU, so long as it is regulated and has a current limit.
Look at the graph here
http://www.shdesigns.org/lionchg.html
How it works:
Panasonic recommends charging at a constant current of 0.7C until 4.2V/cell is reached. Then constant voltage (CV) is to be used until current drops to 0.1C. At that time, the charging should stop. The circuit follows this recommendation exactly. However it does not turn off the charge. Testing has shown that the current drops to almost zero anyway.
The circuit simplifies this by limiting the charge voltage to 8.4v. When the battery reaches 8.4v, it will no longer draw current. The charger is also current-limited. Below about 75% charge, the limit current is reached. After about 80% charge, the current decays toward 0. At about 95% charge the current drops to only a few milliamps. In theory, the battery will never finish the charge, the closer it gets, the less current it draws. If left on the charger for 2 hours or so it will reach near 100% charge. But, 95% can be reached in less than an hour in most cases (assumes discharged to 50% or so.) Panasonic's charge curve for their 830mah batts using this method is shown below:
If you have a voltage regulated PSU with a current limit, set the voltage to the voltage the battery has when charged. He has two cells in series, so he uses 8.4V. One cell would be 4.2V, n cells would be n*4.2V. Set the current to 0.7C where C is the cell capacity in mAh.
If the cell is really discharged (i.e. less than 3.0V) you need to charge it at 0.1C until it reaches 3.0V before charging. This is not the normal case though, most LiIon batteries have a protection circuit that prevents this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery#Protection_circuits_required
Li-ion batteries are not as durable as nickel metal hydride or nickel-cadmium designs, and can be extremely dangerous if mistreated. They may explode if overheated or if charged to an excessively high voltage. Furthermore, they may be irreversibly damaged if discharged below a certain voltage. To reduce these risks, li-ion batteries generally contain a small circuit that shuts down the battery when discharged below a certain threshold (typically 3 V) or charged above a certain limit (typically 4.2 V).
You can actually run most cell phones off 4.2V with no battery too.
WII2: WII LIKE A RACEHORSE
After the Wii2 comes the Wii3... which comes in a special "R" edition with a digital video recorder, and also comes packaged
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Actually a configured USB 2.0 device plugged into can draw 500mA at 5V (2.5W). And a configured USB 3.0 device in superspeed mode can draw 900mA (4.5W).
Now cheap dumb (ie no microcontroller) USB gadgets have usually got away with drawing 500mA even when not configured and no doubt when USB 3.0 becomes common thet will get away with drawing 900mA. One USB 3.0 port could power a 2.5 inch hard disk which needs around 900mA to spin up, as opposed to two USB 2.0 ports. So no more Y cables.
There's a Powered USB standard, except you need to pay a license fee to implement. It comes in three incompatible variants too, 6A at 5, 12 or 24V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_USB
At the airport. That's why TSA are so keen to keep people out. They live in the future and they don't want to share it.
This is the good thing about commercial software. The technical people can be overruled by the marketing/management people if their decisions are unpopular with a majority of users. Non commercial software doesn't have this ability.
A true slashdot user believes all these things
1) The flaw in XP was that everyone run as admin. Unix's system of running as a limited user and doing a privilege escalation via sudo each time you do something that requires admin rights.
2) The flaw in Vista was UAC, where you do a privilege escalation each time you do something that requires admin rights.
3) The first Windows 7 beta had a flaw where it was possible for malware to disable UAC programatically and thus bypass it.
4) Microsoft have 'caved' and changed UAC in the Windows 7 release candidate.
and he believes them simultaneously too.
Right. I forgot that the definition of serious consequences includes killing 100,000 civilians. And lying to the public. And being a total bag of knobs.
This was a triumph!
I'm making a note here:
"HUGE SUCCESS!!"
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.
Neoconservatism:
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying
over every mistake.
You just keep on trying
till you run out of oil.
And the science gets done.
And you make a neat Iran
for the people who are
still alive.
I'm not even angry...
I'm being so sincere right now-
Even though you broke my heart,
and voted me out of office
And tore us to pieces.
And threw every one of us into jail.
As they did it hurt because
I was so happy for you!
Now, these points of data
make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time!
So I'm GLaD I got jailed-
Think of all the things we learned-
for the people who are
still alive.
Go ahead and leave me...
I think I'd prefer to stay inside...
Maybe you'll find someone else
to help you?
Maybe Obama?
That was a joke!
*HAHA- Fat Chance!*
Anyway this oil is great!
It's so delicious and moist!
Look at me: still talking
when there's foreign policy to do!
When I look out there,
it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
I supposed the sovereignty is arguable depending on your definition. Per Merriam-Webster:
"sovereign: one that exercises supreme authority within a limited sphere."
I guess Saddam was the supreme authority in Iraq being a dictator and all, but at the same time he did not have supreme authority because of the UN resolution that forced him to accept UN weapons inspectors. He did allow them in for a while, but eventually stopped. That is why on:
Which is why they were invaded, and I could've sworn I saw many troops with the little UN blue flag in Iraq during the meaty part of the war.
They could have just killed some UN guys and took the flag away from them.
Both liberals and conservatives can tell you to go fuck yourself, only conservatives are well armed enough to compel you to not fuck other people and have the sigint to monitor your compliance.
Ballistic missile defense is a much better bet against an unstable opponent with a small number of low tech nukes. No US president would be able to justify using nukes against those countries and killing millions of civilians, but I'd fully expect them to shoot down the incoming missiles.
Of course you wonder in Iran's case how that will be possible, given that Obama seems to be willing to abandon the interceptors in Eastern Europe to appease Russia and now sign away space based interceptors in return for a guarantee that other countries that don't have the capability to do it will not do it too. And now it seems like he will not develop any new nukes for deterrence against Russia/China.
Still I'm sure his apologists will now tell me that Russia/Iran/China/North Korea etc only want peace, it is only the evil US that wants war. Maybe, but what if you're wrong? Seems like the US is dependent on the goodwill of governments that seem to care little for the welfare of their own citizens, let alone US ones.
More like it's flawed because the benchmarks are cherry picked to get the result they wanted. It's just like those stupid Microsoft TCO surveys - neither side is actually trying to measure which is best, they are trying to find objective measurements that justify their subjective preference and try to increase its market share.
Not true, most developers I know (and I know plenty on linux!) loathe autotools, in fact someone liking autotools is enough reason to mock him and treat him like a loonie.
That's not enough though, he must be beaten with bamboo poles until he recants.
Doesn't matter if it involves IT, their sex lives or what they eat for breakfast.
Unfortunately with some MPs it may involve all three.
That reminds me of the funny epithet "graduate student algorithm" for things that only work with a vast amount of human intervention.
http://cotty.16x16.com/compress/fractcpr.txt
Barnsley, however, armed with his Collage Theorem, thought he had it
solved. He applied for and was granted a software patent and left acade-
mia to found Iterated Systems Incorporated (US patent 4,941,193. Alan
Sloan is the co-grantee of the patent and co-founder of Iterated Sys-
tems.) Barnsley announced his success to the world in the January 1988
issue of BYTE magazine. This article did not address the inverse problem
but it did exhibit several images purportedly compressed in excess of
10,000:1. Alas, it was a slight of hand. The images were given sugges-
tive names such as "Black Forest" and "Monterey Coast" and "Bolivian
Girl" but they were all manually constructed. Barnsley's patent has come
to be derisively referred to as the "graduate student algorithm."
Graduate Student Algorithm
o Acquire a graduate student.
o Give the student a picture.
o And a room with a graphics workstation.
o Lock the door.
o Wait until the student has reverse engineered the picture.
o Open the door.
Attempts to automate this process have continued to this day, but the
situation remains bleak. As Barnsley admitted in 1988: "Complex color
images require about 100 hours each to encode and 30 minutes to decode
on the Masscomp [dual processor workstation]." That's 100 hours with a
_person_ guiding the process.