I have a coaxial switch around here somewhere. It only has two inputs, but there are, or at least were, some with 4 or more. Electronic ones aren't so cheap, but would be a nice solution.
If you have an attic, I would suggest hanging several directional homemade Hoverman antennae in the attic, each pointed towards a station you want. Materials for the antenna—wood, coathangers, screws, wire, possibly ratwire or something for a reflector, and a balun, should cost you maybe $5 each (I had all the junk to make several without spending a dime). You might need to buy some coax. These things are much, much better than the indoor antenna junk being peddled in stores for $30, $50, even more. I implanted one in the wall behind the TV just for backup in case the IPTV setup goes down. The angle just happens to work for the two closest channels.
That sounds as if all your pieces of meat are equivalent. That only happens when you eat McRibs, something that I've heard Ohioans do. McD's sells some of those around the Carolinas, too—to visiting Ohioans. Sorry, I just had to rib you a bit.
I agree about the meat getting cold, but if you wish to eat the best bites first and possibly leave the rest, there's some logic to not nibbling the steak from one edge but cutting large pieces away first. What's more, around here we can't afford a separate knife for every diner, so you have to cut everything you'll need and then pass the knife along.
I don't kow about "American Style," but switching utensils between hands can be practical when you've been seated too close to neighbors consisting of a righty on the left and a southpaw on the right. Switching hands is certainly not as unmannerly as elbow interference with someone in the next chair. Besides, I've not yet seen a Texan use a fork.
Mostly, though I see the need, the idea of helping MITers learn to wear suits to work rubs me the wrong way. Instead, they should be exploring innovative ways to get rid of suits permanently.
Thanks, I'd forgotten that objects at L2 don't stay there forever. Which is good, if you don't want rocks eventually hitting your telescopes. Others misunderstood the point of saving it—not to reuse it (except possibly the mirror(s) ), but to reuse the materials in it, as expensive as it is to put mass into orbit. We've got to look forward more than a few dozen years. I also took exception to the notion that L2 isn't much good for anything in the future besides JWST.
By the same logic, instruments we send to L4 or L5 are probably going to be there forever, not having the means to break free of the wells. But wells are probably highly populated with junk trapped over the last couple of billion years. So that might or might not be good for an L5 space colony.
I suspect that since it needs to be colder than what it's looking at, it needs to be below the temperature of interplanetary space, which I think is a few degrees K ("in the shade"). Liquid He dilution refrigeration (if Herschel uses that) can attain temperatures "in the milliKelvins", so that we can observe far IR emissions from dust in a distant nebula.
I understand if it can produce good science in a new orbit, but if it's being moved primarily to avoid cluttering up L2, I think that might be a mistake. Presumably it isn't moving very fast relative to L2, so another craft in L2 orbit should be able to capture it fairly easily. Sooner or later we'll have some kind of station at L2, and Herschel's parts will likely be useful somehow. Will it have sufficient power and good thrusters in 30 years if it's mothballed in place now? Why not wait and move it later if it's determined to be in the way?
So did a ricin pellet firing umbrella—only something the Penguin would use. But the Brits designed it, the Russians built it, and the Bulgarians used it
We're in a rut. Managers think whatever pops up is so important that people need to switch tasks immediately. This is easier if people are co-located. The other part of the rut is meetings. 90% of them are pure wastes. Efficiency would leap if we worked apart and were left alone to complete a task or two without being interrupted. That said, I work better away from home. But a quiet space near home, a satellite office shared with others working for other employers, would be ideal. Jobs was wrong. People need to cross-germinate ideas, but then need solitude to develop their own. Apple made it big by focusing on products and the marketplace instead of cost-cutting and M&A. It had nothing to do with making everyone stay at the central office. If Yahoo's new chief succeeds, it will be because of focus, not forcing everyone to be in the central office all the time.
I see a detractor has noted that "local" honey sellers could dilute the honey with choney. Absolutely, and I have no doubt that some have. So not only buy local, but establish a relationship with the local beekeeper.
Also, modifying our immune sytems to reduce allergic reactions is not an all-or-nothing prospect. Consuming some pollen may help desensitize ourselves somewhat, which is better than nothing.
Finally, smuggled/artificial honey mixers could theoretically produce whatever flavor they want, but in practice they're unlikely to produce the flavors you might find harvested locally. Around here, sourwood honey is highly prized, but I suspect much of what's marketed as such comes from bees located a looong way from sourwood. Sellers can ask more for honey labelled as sourwood, so it becomes a counterfeiting target. Choose something not so trendy, so it's not such a target for fakers.
Story as told to friends later: "I was zooming along and got caught—police started chasing me. So I called for help and said the car started speeding when I tried to stop. They decided to give me an escort instead of arresting me. But then I ran out of fuel, so I steered it off into the ditch to make it look like I was out of control. I disappeared before they finished examing the car for defects. Hahahahaha!"
Well, for old school strictly time wasting, I always enjoyed Pipe Dreams. For really really old school (MSDOS), there was Sopwith2. Somebody somewhere created PC-RR, where you laid tracks, saved the layout, and then ran your 5 "trains" on them. Most people I knew found PC-RR to be completely boring, but a few found it had some kind of appeal, and you wouldn't want to play it nonstop for an hour. But as far as learning something useful? I think not. Lots of adults enjoy stuff like Roller Coaster Tycoon and RR Tycoon. You can design a park, then just let it run and check on your profits, etc., maybe add a new coaster, during breaks.
Way back in '89 I ordered a car with only the options I wanted, and of course when it came in two months later, they hard-ball pitched an extended warranty. When the guy said "But if your digital dashboard fails, it'll cost you $1,300 !" it was nice to be able to respond "Yes, I specifically avoided that option". Aside from the dirty look he got for talking about the failures I was going to get with a new vehicle.
Manual everything... or better, manual-override everything. ABS, traction control, stability control, all those are helpful and increase safety. However, there should always be an easy-to-find defeat switch for each of them so when I want the car sliding sideways there's no interference. Cars with 7 speed manuals would be best for the masses because the constant shifting would make it difficult to hold the newspaper in place on the steering wheel.
And no, for me, a shiftable automatic does not equate to a manual-override transmission. It will still decide whether to do what you told it to or not.
Paradigms change, and quicker than you think. Stuff you'll learn in a solid CS program will still apply when the web is quite different from today. One thing in particular you'll likely gain is the capability to build systems that scale up well. Companies are used to throwing hardware at slow systems, so they might not notice that your projects don't require additional hardware, but you can always remind them;)
The Chinese government has reckoned that if they act like they're spending a lot of time, effort, and money on this thing, we'll spend a bit on it, distracting us from other things. Maybe they're really not spending any time, effort, or money on anything besides a smokescreen.
Whether it works or does not doesn't change what our life sciences focus for space needs to be—living with a constant >1g or more of "gravity". NASA spends a lot analyzing the effects of living with low "gravity", but space travel like that was done in the 60s and might be feasible for a trip to Mars, but that's about it. Blasting off and then coasting is a terrible way to travel. Some day, somehow, we're likely to figure out how to provide large amounts of thrust constantly for long periods of time. Accelerating at 1g to a halfway point and then decelerating at 1g suits our bodies, but accelerating at higher rates makes the trip a lot quicker. So... can people adapt to 1.5g or 2g or more over time? Someone must be studying this with mice in a centrifuge... Climbing stairs might be more tiring, but falling down could be a lot more hazardous than at 1g.
Yes, they do some things pretty well, and it has become a competitive market, meaning low prices. Potential drawbacks: fairly narrow view angle, no panning, bulky. Wifi can probably be added easily by sticking an Eye-Fi in the SD slot, but I don't know what kind of range those have. Limited internal battery capacity remedied by adding external power. Can be configured to save single or multiple snapshots or record video at intervals or on motion detected.
Once George Carlin commented that to him, "bipartisan" meant "larger than usual deception". A keyword for me is "broad" just before "patent". I have trouble thinking of any invention worthy of that since, say, the transistor.
I guess we have low standards, then. My radio is switched by a wall module controlled by an X10 clock. And yes, I realize that anyone could plug an X10 transmitter into my outdoor socket and wake me up with the radio anytime they wanted or flash the lights.
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I have a coaxial switch around here somewhere. It only has two inputs, but there are, or at least were, some with 4 or more. Electronic ones aren't so cheap, but would be a nice solution.
They won't be marketed as "Used" but as "Pre-Owned".
Obviously such a scheme would involve trading through Apple's sites, where Apple gets a cut of the sale.
If you have an attic, I would suggest hanging several directional homemade Hoverman antennae in the attic, each pointed towards a station you want. Materials for the antenna—wood, coathangers, screws, wire, possibly ratwire or something for a reflector, and a balun, should cost you maybe $5 each (I had all the junk to make several without spending a dime). You might need to buy some coax. These things are much, much better than the indoor antenna junk being peddled in stores for $30, $50, even more. I implanted one in the wall behind the TV just for backup in case the IPTV setup goes down. The angle just happens to work for the two closest channels.
That sounds as if all your pieces of meat are equivalent. That only happens when you eat McRibs, something that I've heard Ohioans do. McD's sells some of those around the Carolinas, too—to visiting Ohioans. Sorry, I just had to rib you a bit.
I agree about the meat getting cold, but if you wish to eat the best bites first and possibly leave the rest, there's some logic to not nibbling the steak from one edge but cutting large pieces away first. What's more, around here we can't afford a separate knife for every diner, so you have to cut everything you'll need and then pass the knife along.
I don't kow about "American Style," but switching utensils between hands can be practical when you've been seated too close to neighbors consisting of a righty on the left and a southpaw on the right. Switching hands is certainly not as unmannerly as elbow interference with someone in the next chair. Besides, I've not yet seen a Texan use a fork.
Mostly, though I see the need, the idea of helping MITers learn to wear suits to work rubs me the wrong way. Instead, they should be exploring innovative ways to get rid of suits permanently.
Thanks, I'd forgotten that objects at L2 don't stay there forever. Which is good, if you don't want rocks eventually hitting your telescopes. Others misunderstood the point of saving it—not to reuse it (except possibly the mirror(s) ), but to reuse the materials in it, as expensive as it is to put mass into orbit. We've got to look forward more than a few dozen years. I also took exception to the notion that L2 isn't much good for anything in the future besides JWST.
By the same logic, instruments we send to L4 or L5 are probably going to be there forever, not having the means to break free of the wells. But wells are probably highly populated with junk trapped over the last couple of billion years. So that might or might not be good for an L5 space colony.
I suspect that since it needs to be colder than what it's looking at, it needs to be below the temperature of interplanetary space, which I think is a few degrees K ("in the shade"). Liquid He dilution refrigeration (if Herschel uses that) can attain temperatures "in the milliKelvins", so that we can observe far IR emissions from dust in a distant nebula.
I understand if it can produce good science in a new orbit, but if it's being moved primarily to avoid cluttering up L2, I think that might be a mistake. Presumably it isn't moving very fast relative to L2, so another craft in L2 orbit should be able to capture it fairly easily. Sooner or later we'll have some kind of station at L2, and Herschel's parts will likely be useful somehow. Will it have sufficient power and good thrusters in 30 years if it's mothballed in place now? Why not wait and move it later if it's determined to be in the way?
"Might seem a bit far fetched"
So did a ricin pellet firing umbrella—only something the Penguin would use. But the Brits designed it, the Russians built it, and the Bulgarians used it
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Step 2: heaping substantial public ridicule upon "conspiracy theorists."
Yep. As usual, management fails to address the problems and makes everyone pay a penalty instead.
We're in a rut. Managers think whatever pops up is so important that people need to switch tasks immediately. This is easier if people are co-located. The other part of the rut is meetings. 90% of them are pure wastes. Efficiency would leap if we worked apart and were left alone to complete a task or two without being interrupted. That said, I work better away from home. But a quiet space near home, a satellite office shared with others working for other employers, would be ideal. Jobs was wrong. People need to cross-germinate ideas, but then need solitude to develop their own. Apple made it big by focusing on products and the marketplace instead of cost-cutting and M&A. It had nothing to do with making everyone stay at the central office. If Yahoo's new chief succeeds, it will be because of focus, not forcing everyone to be in the central office all the time.
I see a detractor has noted that "local" honey sellers could dilute the honey with choney. Absolutely, and I have no doubt that some have. So not only buy local, but establish a relationship with the local beekeeper.
Also, modifying our immune sytems to reduce allergic reactions is not an all-or-nothing prospect. Consuming some pollen may help desensitize ourselves somewhat, which is better than nothing.
Finally, smuggled/artificial honey mixers could theoretically produce whatever flavor they want, but in practice they're unlikely to produce the flavors you might find harvested locally. Around here, sourwood honey is highly prized, but I suspect much of what's marketed as such comes from bees located a looong way from sourwood. Sellers can ask more for honey labelled as sourwood, so it becomes a counterfeiting target. Choose something not so trendy, so it's not such a target for fakers.
Story as told to friends later: "I was zooming along and got caught—police started chasing me. So I called for help and said the car started speeding when I tried to stop. They decided to give me an escort instead of arresting me. But then I ran out of fuel, so I steered it off into the ditch to make it look like I was out of control. I disappeared before they finished examing the car for defects. Hahahahaha!"
Well, for old school strictly time wasting, I always enjoyed Pipe Dreams. For really really old school (MSDOS), there was Sopwith2. Somebody somewhere created PC-RR, where you laid tracks, saved the layout, and then ran your 5 "trains" on them. Most people I knew found PC-RR to be completely boring, but a few found it had some kind of appeal, and you wouldn't want to play it nonstop for an hour. But as far as learning something useful? I think not. Lots of adults enjoy stuff like Roller Coaster Tycoon and RR Tycoon. You can design a park, then just let it run and check on your profits, etc., maybe add a new coaster, during breaks.
Way back in '89 I ordered a car with only the options I wanted, and of course when it came in two months later, they hard-ball pitched an extended warranty. When the guy said "But if your digital dashboard fails, it'll cost you $1,300 !" it was nice to be able to respond "Yes, I specifically avoided that option". Aside from the dirty look he got for talking about the failures I was going to get with a new vehicle.
Manual everything... or better, manual-override everything. ABS, traction control, stability control, all those are helpful and increase safety. However, there should always be an easy-to-find defeat switch for each of them so when I want the car sliding sideways there's no interference. Cars with 7 speed manuals would be best for the masses because the constant shifting would make it difficult to hold the newspaper in place on the steering wheel.
And no, for me, a shiftable automatic does not equate to a manual-override transmission. It will still decide whether to do what you told it to or not.
Yep.
Paradigms change, and quicker than you think. Stuff you'll learn in a solid CS program will still apply when the web is quite different from today. One thing in particular you'll likely gain is the capability to build systems that scale up well. Companies are used to throwing hardware at slow systems, so they might not notice that your projects don't require additional hardware, but you can always remind them ;)
"...governance less fruitful?" I would need an example of "fruitful" in order to make a comparison.
The Chinese government has reckoned that if they act like they're spending a lot of time, effort, and money on this thing, we'll spend a bit on it, distracting us from other things. Maybe they're really not spending any time, effort, or money on anything besides a smokescreen.
Whether it works or does not doesn't change what our life sciences focus for space needs to be—living with a constant >1g or more of "gravity". NASA spends a lot analyzing the effects of living with low "gravity", but space travel like that was done in the 60s and might be feasible for a trip to Mars, but that's about it. Blasting off and then coasting is a terrible way to travel. Some day, somehow, we're likely to figure out how to provide large amounts of thrust constantly for long periods of time. Accelerating at 1g to a halfway point and then decelerating at 1g suits our bodies, but accelerating at higher rates makes the trip a lot quicker. So... can people adapt to 1.5g or 2g or more over time? Someone must be studying this with mice in a centrifuge... Climbing stairs might be more tiring, but falling down could be a lot more hazardous than at 1g.
Yes, they do some things pretty well, and it has become a competitive market, meaning low prices. Potential drawbacks: fairly narrow view angle, no panning, bulky. Wifi can probably be added easily by sticking an Eye-Fi in the SD slot, but I don't know what kind of range those have. Limited internal battery capacity remedied by adding external power. Can be configured to save single or multiple snapshots or record video at intervals or on motion detected.
Some people are just jealous because they don't have ghosts and UFOs.
Once George Carlin commented that to him, "bipartisan" meant "larger than usual deception". A keyword for me is "broad" just before "patent". I have trouble thinking of any invention worthy of that since, say, the transistor.
Ah... using the flashing LEDs to give instructions to Asimo to execute.
I guess we have low standards, then. My radio is switched by a wall module controlled by an X10 clock. And yes, I realize that anyone could plug an X10 transmitter into my outdoor socket and wake me up with the radio anytime they wanted or flash the lights.