I happen to know how AMD chips respond to overheat. You see, when I was in posession of a tower computer, I used the cheapest components I could when it came to things like fans.
So every now and then the CPU fan would crap. This was only and AMD K6-2 500Mhz chip but when that baby got hot, Windows 2K would BSOD like crazy. That was my cue to go out and buy another fan for $5.00. Hey, they lasted a year or so each so no big deal.
So that's how AMD chips respond to overheat, at least in my experience.
Are you certain about that? I think there's one more attachment that needs to be placed on the robot. Of course optimally the roboot should be about what, 2.5 to 3 feet high if you get my drift. And it should have a flat surface on top for a place to set your beer down at the critical moment.
Why can't it drive itself? Allstate shows an interesting commercial where they say the only element of chance left in a car is the driver. So eliminate that last element damn it.
GPS is pretty accurate now that the military has stopped degrading signals, and collision avoidance systems use computer-vision, radar, sonar, etc. Then consider that the space shuttle uses five antiquated computers to orient itself in three dimensional space at a speed of over 17,000MPH you see that the system should be mature by now. So there really isn't any reason for us not to be able to get in a car, input our destination and sit back and relax until we get there.
Just try it on public transit first. You could eliminate one of the larger expenses that way. No driver required. But we're all deathly afraid of giving up control.
You bring up some excellent and feasible solutions to the problem. But our leaders aren't interested in scientifically proven solutions. They're busier classifying those who see global warming as a real threat as junk scientists.
Everything is about corporate interests. All the things you propose would directly impact corporate America and they won't stand for it. That's why we don't see those relatively simple policy changes being made.
Maybe it would be interesting if a state, instead of seceding were to simply withdraw support of the federal government and re-direct the tax revenue inwards.
I would dearly love to see the northeast split off. There are actually people that would like to unite Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I'm not so sure that would work but it'd bring us that much close to becoming an independent nation.
As to the honoring of contracts, that's called the Uniform Commercial Code. And we in Rhode Island have both the State Police and the Rhode Island Army National Guard. But try telling the guardsmen shipped to Iraq that they're only for duties in the state.
Indeed he does have cojones. There was a good special on Living on Earth about cold fusion. Turns out, the experiments have in fact been replicated but it's difficult to do so. Seems that Pons and Fleischmann jumped the gun with their discovery. Instead of publishing it and subjecting it to peer review, they put it to the media first.
That was their first mistake because in the process, critical details about the procedure for producing cold fusion were left out.
Umm - to this day MS operatings systems have a command prompt. Granted, it's now emulated instead of an actual part of the OS. But load QuickBasic in a command prompt and then watch your XP box crawl.
Yes, early versions of Windows were DOS based. And DOS and CP/M pretty much evolved from Unix system III or so. It's also painfully obvious that Gates ripped off BASIC and DOS. Interesting that some of the most successful started as criminal empires, no matter how small.
For instance - I'm sure those who've heard of Conversent know about it's sordid beginnings. It started with a stole MicroVax II - run as Intelecom Data Systems. Years later it sold out to form Conversent but the base of the company is still a criminal act. Charming.
The Shaw's in my neck of the woods has one of these beasts hanging near the deli section. But there aren't self scanners in the store. What the hell.
Its easy for me to ignore since I usually shop with headphones plugged into my ears. Makes for a less stressful experience.
But I can imagine that just like Muzak, this will get on your nerves if you see it more than once a day. Sort of like those little interesting billboards they put in some laundromats. They only start to suck when the same one has been up for months on end.
While I didn't do a law degree, I did an I.S. degree where using a laptop or lab computer was encouraged.
That being said, in my time I've run across horses asses where you either couldn't use a computer, or were actually forbidden to take notes during lecture.
One of the cases was a high school English class. I'll never forget Brother Stephen in his gown, jumping up on top of a kids desk when the kid took a pen out and started drumming on the desk. Seems Brother Stephen was a little tightly wound. Granted, this wasn't about computers but about another method of recording notes.
The second was my first iteration of English Lit in college. The professor was a piece of work - the requirements were ridiculous, and you couldn't use a computer in the class. Needless to say I promptly dropped the class and waited until someone more reasonable was teaching it.
But those are the only two examples I can think of. Otherwise technology wormed its way in everywhere.
Back in the day RS had some awesome stuff like the 100 in 1 and 200 in 1 electronics kits. They provided all sorts of experiments that could be built upon. I had em' all.
Probably why I was able to easily diagnose and repair problems on my TRS-80 Model 1 with EI and disk system. So I'm happy to see them succesfully branch out into robotics. I know they've made some half hearted attempts, like that robotic arm they had on the shelves a number of years ago.
But I lament the fact that RS stores have slid from being geek paradise in some form, to a consumer electronics orgy. Thankfully there are plenty of online sources for parts these days but there was something about being bored on a Saturday afternoon and going to RS and getting the parts to build some gadget or another.
The Bush Administration is blindly or willfully ignorant of the fact. So what if we lose New Orleans, so long as Crawford, TX and Camp David aren't hit it ain't no big thing.
Right now I'm starting to read "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney. Yep, just pull info out of your ass and propagate it as sound policy. That's the M.O. of this administration.
Then it's entirely plausible that life on Earth came from places other than earth.
Of course this plays right into the hands of the fundamentalists. In their view we were put here by their God. But I'm not one of His people - I'm one of the others mentioned in the good book. But I'm talking extraterrestrial here, not metaphysical.
I agree completely. Socialism has been equated with Communism in the Unite States, same as liberal has been equated with Communist.
For example, I'd love to start my own consulting company, hire on people with skill sets that I don't have, and generally offer I.T. services to the public. But I'm reluctant to do so because first, in my state we have an onerous business tax structure, and additionally we healthcare is a necessity but I don't want to winnow business profits on healthcare. At least not under the system we have now.
Maybe someday that'll change. But it doesn't look like its going to happen in the near future. Too many hands in the pie. Billing and Insurance companies have too strong a lobby.
That wouldn't help me. I need one that constantly scans to see what my smallest cat has in her mouth. She's been known to rip the little suckers open and then stuff them under the couch cushions.
She's a very sweet cat otherwise and she does keep the rodent problem in check to some degree so I've decided to keep her. After all, it's been 13 years.
The biggest non-compliant body with open record laws is our legislature. In reality they are compliant but they don't use technology to do so. While they do publish House and Senate journals - you can't keyword search them.
But there are ways around that. The applications guy in my office has figured out how to scrape the journals and relate relevant bill info. Too cool.
Seriously. I used to be whiz with QuickBASIC - compiled some very useful stuff using it.
Then I got exposed to VB via VBA, more specifically Access, Outlook, Excel and Word. Never did understand VBA for PowerPoint. Kind like tits on a bull if you ask me.
Now I'm completely spoiled by VBA. So much so that when I had to craft a quick and dirty rename/move script in QuickBASIC it took me some time to remember the Line Input command. I'd been so used to using GET, etc. Then it struck me, I never had to really do file input/output in all the VBA I'd developed. It was mostly ODBC stuff. As time went on I found I despised Access queries and reports and so did them in VBA. More mind rot.
Then I came upon ActionScript. Oh joy. But now I hate Flash animations, so much that I installed FlashBlock on my browser.
I've bumped around with C and C++ over the years too. I find those much more simplistic but powerful. And I won't metion that antiquate business language I learned long ago. Actually I shouldn't say that, knowing COBOL has led me to opportunities I wouldn't have gotten normally.
Put it this way. We got to test in some major storms, both rain and snow. One critical thing is to properly attach guy-lines to the tower and then pound huge stakes into the ground to receive the lines.
That got us through sustained winds up near the 40MPH zone. It's all about wind load and this thing was engineered to take it. Granted, the largest wind load area was a the top of the tower.
Marvelous piece of engineering and for the price it was ideal.
The drool factor was excellent - up until this point the local amateur radio club had been using extension ladders as portable towers. When they saw the tower it was like our god, the god fo RF geeks, had actually stepped down to meet us.
A few years back a friend scored a nice military crank up tower on ebay. When fully cranked out it was 50 feet high.
It was a two man carry unit. Once you got it on site you unpacked 8 or so tubes from the carrier, stood the carrier upright, inserted tube 1, cranked it up, locked it, tube 2, etc.
Fit nicely in his Explorer. I'd kill for a tower like that today.
That's because all the gadgets we have fall under Part 15 rules.
To paraphrase, the rules say that:
a) You must not interfere with any other legally licensed service
and
b) You must accept any interference from legally licensed services.
In order to keep costs down, manufacturers don't exactly shield devices like they should. Perfect example of this is wireline telephones and televisions.
I'm a license radio amateur, as is a friend. Back a few years ago we were operating on 20m at 100W. His next door neighbor complained that it obliterated his televison and phones.
But hey, TV's and phones are Part 15 and amateur radio gear is Part 97 and licensed. Sucks to be a Part 15 person I guess.
If MS did buy up SCO licenses to prop up SCO's legal fight against other Linux vendors that should count too. That they tried to quash Linux is enough in my view. They should be broken into a million tiny little parts.
We have to remember, it took the U.S. Government almost 50 years to get the Bell System to agree to the Kingsbury Consent. And they were hit again in the 50's and the final nail hit in the 80's. By then the company was a hundred years old.
But today we live in the information age. I suspect Microsofts demise will come much more quickly than it did for the reigning giant of the 20th century.
RF is non-ionizing radiation. As such, it won't so much cause cellular mutation, but it will cook tissue.
So for those who have their cell phones glued to their ear, they might start hearing a sizzling sound and smell something akin to bacon. This is the first indication that you should hang up and continue with life.
I've heard the stories about people getting fried by RADAR if they're too close. Its even the legend of the birth of the microwave oven.
But my first experience with Mr. Robert F. Burns is when I was helping a friend tune up a vertical dipole antenna. I told him to key up at 5W and dumbass thinks I said 50W. So when I turned slightly one of the counterpoise wires caught me on the earlobe. Ouch! Cooking tissue indeed.
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Oooo big words! I've long since upgraded bitch. Bought a new machine in December of '05. So it it's only a little over four months old.
It dumps heat quite well. And I do have a job,very nice one in fact. And the ad hominem attack wasn't very nice. I'm going to have to tell your momma.
I happen to know how AMD chips respond to overheat. You see, when I was in posession of a tower computer, I used the cheapest components I could when it came to things like fans.
So every now and then the CPU fan would crap. This was only and AMD K6-2 500Mhz chip but when that baby got hot, Windows 2K would BSOD like crazy. That was my cue to go out and buy another fan for $5.00. Hey, they lasted a year or so each so no big deal.
So that's how AMD chips respond to overheat, at least in my experience.
I'm talking about blip.tv of course. Just put a video up on there today. Fast, easy, and up online immediately.
Don't get me wrong, I also have a youtube account. But blip.tv is quickly becoming my favorite.
Are you certain about that? I think there's one more attachment that needs to be placed on the robot. Of course optimally the roboot should be about what, 2.5 to 3 feet high if you get my drift. And it should have a flat surface on top for a place to set your beer down at the critical moment.
Why can't it drive itself? Allstate shows an interesting commercial where they say the only element of chance left in a car is the driver. So eliminate that last element damn it.
GPS is pretty accurate now that the military has stopped degrading signals, and collision avoidance systems use computer-vision, radar, sonar, etc. Then consider that the space shuttle uses five antiquated computers to orient itself in three dimensional space at a speed of over 17,000MPH you see that the system should be mature by now. So there really isn't any reason for us not to be able to get in a car, input our destination and sit back and relax until we get there.
Just try it on public transit first. You could eliminate one of the larger expenses that way. No driver required. But we're all deathly afraid of giving up control.
You bring up some excellent and feasible solutions to the problem. But our leaders aren't interested in scientifically proven solutions. They're busier classifying those who see global warming as a real threat as junk scientists.
Everything is about corporate interests. All the things you propose would directly impact corporate America and they won't stand for it. That's why we don't see those relatively simple policy changes being made.
Maybe it would be interesting if a state, instead of seceding were to simply withdraw support of the federal government and re-direct the tax revenue inwards.
I would dearly love to see the northeast split off. There are actually people that would like to unite Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I'm not so sure that would work but it'd bring us that much close to becoming an independent nation.
As to the honoring of contracts, that's called the Uniform Commercial Code. And we in Rhode Island have both the State Police and the Rhode Island Army National Guard. But try telling the guardsmen shipped to Iraq that they're only for duties in the state.
Indeed he does have cojones. There was a good special on Living on Earth about cold fusion. Turns out, the experiments have in fact been replicated but it's difficult to do so. Seems that Pons and Fleischmann jumped the gun with their discovery. Instead of publishing it and subjecting it to peer review, they put it to the media first.
That was their first mistake because in the process, critical details about the procedure for producing cold fusion were left out.
http://www.loe.org/series/fusion.htm where you can download mp3's of the show.
Umm - to this day MS operatings systems have a command prompt. Granted, it's now emulated instead of an actual part of the OS. But load QuickBasic in a command prompt and then watch your XP box crawl.
Yes, early versions of Windows were DOS based. And DOS and CP/M pretty much evolved from Unix system III or so. It's also painfully obvious that Gates ripped off BASIC and DOS. Interesting that some of the most successful started as criminal empires, no matter how small.
For instance - I'm sure those who've heard of Conversent know about it's sordid beginnings. It started with a stole MicroVax II - run as Intelecom Data Systems. Years later it sold out to form Conversent but the base of the company is still a criminal act. Charming.
The Shaw's in my neck of the woods has one of these beasts hanging near the deli section. But there aren't self scanners in the store. What the hell.
Its easy for me to ignore since I usually shop with headphones plugged into my ears. Makes for a less stressful experience.
But I can imagine that just like Muzak, this will get on your nerves if you see it more than once a day. Sort of like those little interesting billboards they put in some laundromats. They only start to suck when the same one has been up for months on end.
While I didn't do a law degree, I did an I.S. degree where using a laptop or lab computer was encouraged.
That being said, in my time I've run across horses asses where you either couldn't use a computer, or were actually forbidden to take notes during lecture.
One of the cases was a high school English class. I'll never forget Brother Stephen in his gown, jumping up on top of a kids desk when the kid took a pen out and started drumming on the desk. Seems Brother Stephen was a little tightly wound. Granted, this wasn't about computers but about another method of recording notes.
The second was my first iteration of English Lit in college. The professor was a piece of work - the requirements were ridiculous, and you couldn't use a computer in the class. Needless to say I promptly dropped the class and waited until someone more reasonable was teaching it.
But those are the only two examples I can think of. Otherwise technology wormed its way in everywhere.
The FBI wants there to be a minimum of $20,000 of verifiable loss before they'll even send an agent out.
I know this from having been an I.T. guy for a state prosecutors office. We had to do everything ourselves and did we ever.
Back in the day RS had some awesome stuff like the 100 in 1 and 200 in 1 electronics kits. They provided all sorts of experiments that could be built upon. I had em' all.
Probably why I was able to easily diagnose and repair problems on my TRS-80 Model 1 with EI and disk system. So I'm happy to see them succesfully branch out into robotics. I know they've made some half hearted attempts, like that robotic arm they had on the shelves a number of years ago.
But I lament the fact that RS stores have slid from being geek paradise in some form, to a consumer electronics orgy. Thankfully there are plenty of online sources for parts these days but there was something about being bored on a Saturday afternoon and going to RS and getting the parts to build some gadget or another.
The Bush Administration is blindly or willfully ignorant of the fact. So what if we lose New Orleans, so long as Crawford, TX and Camp David aren't hit it ain't no big thing.
Right now I'm starting to read "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney. Yep, just pull info out of your ass and propagate it as sound policy. That's the M.O. of this administration.
Sorry for the political rant.
Then it's entirely plausible that life on Earth came from places other than earth.
Of course this plays right into the hands of the fundamentalists. In their view we were put here by their God. But I'm not one of His people - I'm one of the others mentioned in the good book. But I'm talking extraterrestrial here, not metaphysical.
I agree completely. Socialism has been equated with Communism in the Unite States, same as liberal has been equated with Communist.
For example, I'd love to start my own consulting company, hire on people with skill sets that I don't have, and generally offer I.T. services to the public. But I'm reluctant to do so because first, in my state we have an onerous business tax structure, and additionally we healthcare is a necessity but I don't want to winnow business profits on healthcare. At least not under the system we have now.
Maybe someday that'll change. But it doesn't look like its going to happen in the near future. Too many hands in the pie. Billing and Insurance companies have too strong a lobby.
That wouldn't help me. I need one that constantly scans to see what my smallest cat has in her mouth. She's been known to rip the little suckers open and then stuff them under the couch cushions.
She's a very sweet cat otherwise and she does keep the rodent problem in check to some degree so I've decided to keep her. After all, it's been 13 years.
The biggest non-compliant body with open record laws is our legislature. In reality they are compliant but they don't use technology to do so. While they do publish House and Senate journals - you can't keyword search them.
But there are ways around that. The applications guy in my office has figured out how to scrape the journals and relate relevant bill info. Too cool.
Seriously. I used to be whiz with QuickBASIC - compiled some very useful stuff using it.
Then I got exposed to VB via VBA, more specifically Access, Outlook, Excel and Word. Never did understand VBA for PowerPoint. Kind like tits on a bull if you ask me.
Now I'm completely spoiled by VBA. So much so that when I had to craft a quick and dirty rename/move script in QuickBASIC it took me some time to remember the Line Input command. I'd been so used to using GET, etc. Then it struck me, I never had to really do file input/output in all the VBA I'd developed. It was mostly ODBC stuff. As time went on I found I despised Access queries and reports and so did them in VBA. More mind rot.
Then I came upon ActionScript. Oh joy. But now I hate Flash animations, so much that I installed FlashBlock on my browser.
I've bumped around with C and C++ over the years too. I find those much more simplistic but powerful. And I won't metion that antiquate business language I learned long ago. Actually I shouldn't say that, knowing COBOL has led me to opportunities I wouldn't have gotten normally.
It takes approximately 666 pounds of cow dung to produce 1 gallon of gasoline.
That being said, Jaqan has 551,155 tons of dung. That works out to 1,656,321 gallons of gasoline.
But here's the question. It takes a lot of energy to extract this from the cow dung. Where will that come from? Burning some methane perhaps?
Put it this way. We got to test in some major storms, both rain and snow. One critical thing is to properly attach guy-lines to the tower and then pound huge stakes into the ground to receive the lines.
That got us through sustained winds up near the 40MPH zone. It's all about wind load and this thing was engineered to take it. Granted, the largest wind load area was a the top of the tower.
Marvelous piece of engineering and for the price it was ideal.
The drool factor was excellent - up until this point the local amateur radio club had been using extension ladders as portable towers. When they saw the tower it was like our god, the god fo RF geeks, had actually stepped down to meet us.
A few years back a friend scored a nice military crank up tower on ebay. When fully cranked out it was 50 feet high.
It was a two man carry unit. Once you got it on site you unpacked 8 or so tubes from the carrier, stood the carrier upright, inserted tube 1, cranked it up, locked it, tube 2, etc.
Fit nicely in his Explorer. I'd kill for a tower like that today.
That's because all the gadgets we have fall under Part 15 rules.
To paraphrase, the rules say that:
a) You must not interfere with any other legally licensed service
and
b) You must accept any interference from legally licensed services.
In order to keep costs down, manufacturers don't exactly shield devices like they should. Perfect example of this is wireline telephones and televisions.
I'm a license radio amateur, as is a friend. Back a few years ago we were operating on 20m at 100W. His next door neighbor complained that it obliterated his televison and phones.
But hey, TV's and phones are Part 15 and amateur radio gear is Part 97 and licensed. Sucks to be a Part 15 person I guess.
If MS did buy up SCO licenses to prop up SCO's legal fight against other Linux vendors that should count too. That they tried to quash Linux is enough in my view. They should be broken into a million tiny little parts.
We have to remember, it took the U.S. Government almost 50 years to get the Bell System to agree to the Kingsbury Consent. And they were hit again in the 50's and the final nail hit in the 80's. By then the company was a hundred years old.
But today we live in the information age. I suspect Microsofts demise will come much more quickly than it did for the reigning giant of the 20th century.
RF is non-ionizing radiation. As such, it won't so much cause cellular mutation, but it will cook tissue.
So for those who have their cell phones glued to their ear, they might start hearing a sizzling sound and smell something akin to bacon. This is the first indication that you should hang up and continue with life.
I've heard the stories about people getting fried by RADAR if they're too close. Its even the legend of the birth of the microwave oven.
But my first experience with Mr. Robert F. Burns is when I was helping a friend tune up a vertical dipole antenna. I told him to key up at 5W and dumbass thinks I said 50W. So when I turned slightly one of the counterpoise wires caught me on the earlobe. Ouch! Cooking tissue indeed.