Accually DC is better than AC for long distance power transmissions. Corenia (sp) discharge is a problem at high voltage, eventially you cannot pump any more voltage into a wire. However, the maximum voltage reached counts, and AC varies the voltage, and is only carring the maximun for a moment, while DC can carry the maximun voltage forever.
AC also has phase problems if you create a loop. Not a problem on a small scale, but that a generator in NY and a generator in CA cannot be connected with AC because there is no way to synchronize the peaks everywhere on the wire.
I've just given a small overview. If you want to understand this, a good education followed by a job in power transmission is the way to go.
Get out of the 1970s! The large majority of the cars built since the late 1980s will got 250k miles without problems if you give them a little maintince.
Of course most people confuse an laternator going (every 115k miles in my expirence), and similear minor thigns, with the whole car getting ready to die.
I have not done a full comparition. However just a quick overview will reveal that all legal systems in the world have problems. In the US anyone can sue for anything, and the little guy has a chance of winning. In other countries you need [to meet some requirements] before you can sue, which means there are less frivilous lawsuits. However there are also some cases in thos countries where a non-frivious lawsuit that would win in the US cannot meet the requirements and make it to court.
Does one outweight the other? I'm not sure. I know the US system fairly well, so I'm not willing to change to something else unless until it proves to solve their problems. I'd rather patch the current system than replace it. Those who live in other countires tend to feel they same about their system.
Can we come up with a perfect justice system? I don't think so.
Doesn't matter. someone can sue anyone over anything. there are two difficulties though. First you have to win, and second you have to collect.
"In my opinion" will give you an easy win in court.
As for the second, even if you do lose in court (which can happen, even in stupid cases like this), very few peple
have enough money to pay the fine. Essentially you leave the court room, walk into the next office and file bankruptcy, which will go through since you have no chance of paying the fine. (I'm not sure what the details are, but if nothing else since they will be taking all the money you earn over living expenses if you don't, a part time job is a good way to assure that you don't every pay anything. And courts cannot easially touch your house or retirement acount.
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There are some freeBSD packages at freebsd.kde.org, but they are not yet right. There is at least one known problem. They will be re-generating the packages soon, but they would like experts (those who can work around the current known problems) to find any other problems that need to be fixed before a general release is done.
A general release will probably be on freebsd.kde.org long before anyplace else. I'd expect ports to be updated in a couple days though, so cvsup once in a while.
I suppose that advertisers would find it interesting that I'm a female born in 1901. I wonder what city I gave them? probably new york.
On hind site though, I wish I had given them my cell phone number. $500 for every incident of unsolicited calls would be really nice to get, considering todays ecconomy.
the majority of guns I know of are designed for hunting. I have a gun made in 1905. There is a big difference between that and a similear gun I have made in 2000. While both can be used for killing people, a.22 is a poor choice for that, with a less than perfect shot (which always requires luck) neither gun will kill someone fast enough that they cannot use their dieing breath to kill you in return.
I know the military buys a lot of gun, and puts a lot of money into gun devolpment. However hunters do the same. Target shooters do the same.
They normally shred stuff before taking it to a fire.
When you burn one sheet of paper, the fire doesn't get hot enough to destroy anything. The paper gets fragile, but if you are careful you can remove the blackened paper from the fire and read it! (I'm not good enough to remove the paper, but I have read text on papers after it was burned.
Shreding not only solves the problem of someone stealing the paper on the way to the fire, but shreded paper burns better than normal.
These tatics are urban legend. They don't work well.
With a good lawyer, such protection is better than nothing, but not much. You have to pay a lawyer, and then you are taking your chance in court. At best you have even odds of proving that you invented something. At worst you pay all the lawyers, and a pentialty for a frivious law suit.
If you want real protection, get a patent, or publish your work everywhere when you do it. In the former case the law is on your side, in the later you can supenia half the world as witness that your invention was known at the time of the patent (but not nessicarly that you are the inventor, people tend to forget that)
Not really, in space there is a pretty good vacuum, so no wind resistance to worry about. Throw a baseball out the window of the shuttle (exercise for the reader to figgure out HOW to open a shuttle window), and you can expect it will remain in orbit for a few days before something affects it enough that you can't guess based on initial parameters where it will be.
Yeah, right. Ecconomy booming. Maybe in comparition to what it could be, but you didn't attempt make that point. (and I'm not sure I'd belive it.
I know many laid off tech workers. Not.com either, some have been in comptuers longer than I've been born. No jobs out there. Every company I know of is in the mode of "We are not hiring, we are trying to keep the people we do have."
Yes I can prove they are prime. Well, I can prove they are Newton primes anyway. Meaning if I say it is prime, I'm right most of the time. When I wrong, it won't affect the quality of my encryption (that we know of, though someone that is newton prime, but not prime is belived the reduce security, nobody has proved that to my knowledge)
Once I turned 21 I realized that 13 was the perfect age. Old enough to ride my boke to the beach alone, young enough that all the teen aflections don't affect me yet. (girls wouldn't become desirable for a short while yet, and that throws out a lot of hastle)
Sigh, back then I though being 16 and able to drive was great. Now I hate driving. Worse yet, jounior high was right around the corner, and that by far was the worst years of my life.
I guess I could look ahead to retirement, but the way my body is going down hill (and I'm doing better than many my age) I don't know if I can look forward to it.
thats not what is important. What is important is if you will ever be in a position to vote for/against them. Senitors are up for re-election every 6 years, so somewhere between 1 and 5 years from now your senitor is up for re-election and odds are if you can understand what this issue means you will be old enough to vote then. If not you will be by the next time. However only if you accually vote! People who care enough to call on an issue normally care enough to vote. Of course all this only applies to americans. (or future americans)
Most importantly, when you are old enough to vote, VOTE! And don't blindly follow the "My dad/mentor/preacher/boss/co-worker is a democrat/republican so I am too". The democrats/republicans are often crypts vs blood fueds, with little substance. vote for the right canidate. don't overlook third parties. If that fails write yourself in. (better yet, get some signatures and get on the ballot, it is easy. Once you are old enough of course, which will be a few more years after you can vote, but you can still make a difference by voting)
I was happpy paying $50/month, until I realised I never use my voice line phone (I have a cell phone), so I tried to cancle that. Now I realize I'm paying $80/month ($50 for broadband, and $30 for the minimum metered voice line servce that I don't use). Now I'm mad, mad enough to write the public utilities commission, and if I don't hear back from them soon I'm gonna have to find where they meet.
True, but it might be cheaper for Boeing to get it rescued. Assuming Nasa is already sending up a shuttle (which they do from time to time), that will come back with an empty payload bay (which happens often). Then the extra cost to retrieve a satalite is essentially nil above the costs nasa already has to spend. So Nasa could contract out retrivial of this satalite for some amount of dollars, which is mostly profit.
Obvously, sending up a shuttle to only get the satalite is not worth the cost. however that is not the case.
So the real question is: Can Boeing make a new satalite for less than what nasa wants charge to retrive it. When calculating this out, don't forget any possibal engineering value in studing the retrived statlite to see why it failed. (and thus do a redesign so the next one won't fail that way)
When are the rest of you going to realise that metric is just anouther arbitary measurement system. the only advantage of metric is it is used by most of the world (which is a LARGE advantage, don't get me wrong).
Metric is not perfect. 1/3rd for instance doesn't work out easially in metric. Nor does 1/4th. In some areas both are commonly needed.
In the end though all the really matters is that whatever arbitary measurements you use, everyone ends up with something that fits.
Most amercians can work with metric. I do it when I need to, but quite honestly I see no reason to switch. I'm comfortable working in both systems. Even if we did switch overnight, I have a lot of old equipment that I like to keep running (old iron is a hobby, of mine), so I will still be using the old system, and I would hope others do.
Thus, I would argue that americans have an advantage because we are used to more systems, and can use whichever one is best.
Note however that if this does pass I will buy a new computer before it goes into effect. I've been using my current computer for nearly 4 years now, and it still works fine. I've considered upgrading, but there is no compeling need to do so. However if this goes into effect I won't be able to upgrade afterwords, so I will upgrade to the best computer I can buy now, and live with that for as long as possibal.
I've been reporting all spam recived for a couple months now, with appearently no let up. still it makes me feel good that i'm doing something. I intend to subscribe, even if they don't seem to help much. If nothing else maybe I can solve the problem...
I'll agree with 1 and 3. Not 2 though. I want some people I don't know to email me.
Here is an example: Say I post to sci.engr.heat-vent-ac a question about basement heating. (I am in fact thinking of this subject, though i've not posted anything). I want some experts to reply directly if they don't want to post publicly. I've given permission for a salemen selling heating products to send me an email "Hey, we make some products that are of interest to you, be sure to check out our website at...". The latter isn't spam, it is useful, and I don't want to miss any supplier. However a reply 6 months from now is out of date.
Not posting my email address publicly is WRONG. I should not get spam just because my address is public. I want people I don't know who have similear interests as me to communicate with me. I should not have to wade though 10 messages a day for things I'm not interested in (porn, loans, stock scams...)!
Well he is a lawyer, and they are known for high fees.
though I know of very few professionals who do not have a minimum charge. If I call a plumber I have to pay him $80/hour, with a half hour minimum. It doesn't pay for a professional to bill for any less than that, and they have to make money.
Why not? I run netBSD on a 20 mhz machine from time to time. (a sun3/60). My only linux machine is a 386-25, but the monitor failed years ago so now it sits on a shelf and handles my mail. Works just fine.
Now I admit those machines are a bit slow, but they work, and they are more than 10 times faster than the atari I started out with (1.6 mhz, and 8 bits).
My main machine runs at 200 mhz, but it has two processors. I see no reason to replace it, it is afterall rock solid, and I don't like 3-d graphical games. I don't need more power, I need the power I have used wisely.
You need to start documenting today. when you make a change, document the area you change, how it works, why it works that way, gotchas that you had to watch out for...
I started doing that 3 years ago for code that I maintain, and I'm getting close to done. Often I go back to something I documented before and update it with knowledge I discovered latter that makes things clearer. I also discovered I maintain one module that is as close to perfect code as I've ever seen. I know that because I have not done any documentation on it which means nobody has found a bug, or a situation it doesn't handle already.
Unfortunatly I've also discovered some things that I don't know how to document in a way that others will know what to do when it happens again. In my case hardware designed a new board that required different registers. We had to compile some things differently for that board, and to make our makefiles do that is really easy once you understand how they are generated, but difficult if you do it the obvious way. A simple change once I found it, but I don't know how to tell others so they will figgure out where to make the change.
In any case, once you get some documentation it can be orginized. Thats not something I do well. I don't write documentation well either, but at least I write it, and that has helped.
Everyone says they can cut the budget 5%, but when it comes down to it, there are always enough people who want any particular (wasteful) program that no politition is willing to cut it. And when you cut that 5% you will suddenly become unpopular with those who benifit from that program. And just because it cost 5% doesn't mean that 5% of the people are affected.
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Accually DC is better than AC for long distance power transmissions. Corenia (sp) discharge is a problem at high voltage, eventially you cannot pump any more voltage into a wire. However, the maximum voltage reached counts, and AC varies the voltage, and is only carring the maximun for a moment, while DC can carry the maximun voltage forever.
AC also has phase problems if you create a loop. Not a problem on a small scale, but that a generator in NY and a generator in CA cannot be connected with AC because there is no way to synchronize the peaks everywhere on the wire.
I've just given a small overview. If you want to understand this, a good education followed by a job in power transmission is the way to go.
Get out of the 1970s! The large majority of the cars built since the late 1980s will got 250k miles without problems if you give them a little maintince.
Of course most people confuse an laternator going (every 115k miles in my expirence), and similear minor thigns, with the whole car getting ready to die.
I have not done a full comparition. However just a quick overview will reveal that all legal systems in the world have problems. In the US anyone can sue for anything, and the little guy has a chance of winning. In other countries you need [to meet some requirements] before you can sue, which means there are less frivilous lawsuits. However there are also some cases in thos countries where a non-frivious lawsuit that would win in the US cannot meet the requirements and make it to court.
Does one outweight the other? I'm not sure. I know the US system fairly well, so I'm not willing to change to something else unless until it proves to solve their problems. I'd rather patch the current system than replace it. Those who live in other countires tend to feel they same about their system.
Can we come up with a perfect justice system? I don't think so.
Doesn't matter. someone can sue anyone over anything. there are two difficulties though. First you have to win, and second you have to collect.
"In my opinion" will give you an easy win in court.
As for the second, even if you do lose in court (which can happen, even in stupid cases like this), very few peple have enough money to pay the fine. Essentially you leave the court room, walk into the next office and file bankruptcy, which will go through since you have no chance of paying the fine. (I'm not sure what the details are, but if nothing else since they will be taking all the money you earn over living expenses if you don't, a part time job is a good way to assure that you don't every pay anything. And courts cannot easially touch your house or retirement acount.
There are some freeBSD packages at freebsd.kde.org, but they are not yet right. There is at least one known problem. They will be re-generating the packages soon, but they would like experts (those who can work around the current known problems) to find any other problems that need to be fixed before a general release is done.
A general release will probably be on freebsd.kde.org long before anyplace else. I'd expect ports to be updated in a couple days though, so cvsup once in a while.
I suppose that advertisers would find it interesting that I'm a female born in 1901. I wonder what city I gave them? probably new york.
On hind site though, I wish I had given them my cell phone number. $500 for every incident of unsolicited calls would be really nice to get, considering todays ecconomy.
Site a source for that please.
the majority of guns I know of are designed for hunting. I have a gun made in 1905. There is a big difference between that and a similear gun I have made in 2000. While both can be used for killing people, a .22 is a poor choice for that, with a less than perfect shot (which always requires luck) neither gun will kill someone fast enough that they cannot use their dieing breath to kill you in return.
I know the military buys a lot of gun, and puts a lot of money into gun devolpment. However hunters do the same. Target shooters do the same.
They normally shred stuff before taking it to a fire.
When you burn one sheet of paper, the fire doesn't get hot enough to destroy anything. The paper gets fragile, but if you are careful you can remove the blackened paper from the fire and read it! (I'm not good enough to remove the paper, but I have read text on papers after it was burned.
Shreding not only solves the problem of someone stealing the paper on the way to the fire, but shreded paper burns better than normal.
These tatics are urban legend. They don't work well.
With a good lawyer, such protection is better than nothing, but not much. You have to pay a lawyer, and then you are taking your chance in court. At best you have even odds of proving that you invented something. At worst you pay all the lawyers, and a pentialty for a frivious law suit.
If you want real protection, get a patent, or publish your work everywhere when you do it. In the former case the law is on your side, in the later you can supenia half the world as witness that your invention was known at the time of the patent (but not nessicarly that you are the inventor, people tend to forget that)
Not really, in space there is a pretty good vacuum, so no wind resistance to worry about. Throw a baseball out the window of the shuttle (exercise for the reader to figgure out HOW to open a shuttle window), and you can expect it will remain in orbit for a few days before something affects it enough that you can't guess based on initial parameters where it will be.
Yeah, right. Ecconomy booming. Maybe in comparition to what it could be, but you didn't attempt make that point. (and I'm not sure I'd belive it.
I know many laid off tech workers. Not .com either, some have been in comptuers longer than I've been born. No jobs out there. Every company I know of is in the mode of "We are not hiring, we are trying to keep the people we do have."
Yes I can prove they are prime. Well, I can prove they are Newton primes anyway. Meaning if I say it is prime, I'm right most of the time. When I wrong, it won't affect the quality of my encryption (that we know of, though someone that is newton prime, but not prime is belived the reduce security, nobody has proved that to my knowledge)
Once I turned 21 I realized that 13 was the perfect age. Old enough to ride my boke to the beach alone, young enough that all the teen aflections don't affect me yet. (girls wouldn't become desirable for a short while yet, and that throws out a lot of hastle)
Sigh, back then I though being 16 and able to drive was great. Now I hate driving. Worse yet, jounior high was right around the corner, and that by far was the worst years of my life.
I guess I could look ahead to retirement, but the way my body is going down hill (and I'm doing better than many my age) I don't know if I can look forward to it.
thats not what is important. What is important is if you will ever be in a position to vote for/against them. Senitors are up for re-election every 6 years, so somewhere between 1 and 5 years from now your senitor is up for re-election and odds are if you can understand what this issue means you will be old enough to vote then. If not you will be by the next time. However only if you accually vote! People who care enough to call on an issue normally care enough to vote. Of course all this only applies to americans. (or future americans)
Most importantly, when you are old enough to vote, VOTE! And don't blindly follow the "My dad/mentor/preacher/boss/co-worker is a democrat/republican so I am too". The democrats/republicans are often crypts vs blood fueds, with little substance. vote for the right canidate. don't overlook third parties. If that fails write yourself in. (better yet, get some signatures and get on the ballot, it is easy. Once you are old enough of course, which will be a few more years after you can vote, but you can still make a difference by voting)
I was happpy paying $50/month, until I realised I never use my voice line phone (I have a cell phone), so I tried to cancle that. Now I realize I'm paying $80/month ($50 for broadband, and $30 for the minimum metered voice line servce that I don't use). Now I'm mad, mad enough to write the public utilities commission, and if I don't hear back from them soon I'm gonna have to find where they meet.
True, but it might be cheaper for Boeing to get it rescued. Assuming Nasa is already sending up a shuttle (which they do from time to time), that will come back with an empty payload bay (which happens often). Then the extra cost to retrieve a satalite is essentially nil above the costs nasa already has to spend. So Nasa could contract out retrivial of this satalite for some amount of dollars, which is mostly profit.
Obvously, sending up a shuttle to only get the satalite is not worth the cost. however that is not the case.
So the real question is: Can Boeing make a new satalite for less than what nasa wants charge to retrive it. When calculating this out, don't forget any possibal engineering value in studing the retrived statlite to see why it failed. (and thus do a redesign so the next one won't fail that way)
When are the rest of you going to realise that metric is just anouther arbitary measurement system. the only advantage of metric is it is used by most of the world (which is a LARGE advantage, don't get me wrong).
Metric is not perfect. 1/3rd for instance doesn't work out easially in metric. Nor does 1/4th. In some areas both are commonly needed.
In the end though all the really matters is that whatever arbitary measurements you use, everyone ends up with something that fits.
Most amercians can work with metric. I do it when I need to, but quite honestly I see no reason to switch. I'm comfortable working in both systems. Even if we did switch overnight, I have a lot of old equipment that I like to keep running (old iron is a hobby, of mine), so I will still be using the old system, and I would hope others do.
Thus, I would argue that americans have an advantage because we are used to more systems, and can use whichever one is best.
Note however that if this does pass I will buy a new computer before it goes into effect. I've been using my current computer for nearly 4 years now, and it still works fine. I've considered upgrading, but there is no compeling need to do so. However if this goes into effect I won't be able to upgrade afterwords, so I will upgrade to the best computer I can buy now, and live with that for as long as possibal.
I've been reporting all spam recived for a couple months now, with appearently no let up. still it makes me feel good that i'm doing something. I intend to subscribe, even if they don't seem to help much. If nothing else maybe I can solve the problem...
I'll agree with 1 and 3. Not 2 though. I want some people I don't know to email me.
Here is an example: Say I post to sci.engr.heat-vent-ac a question about basement heating. (I am in fact thinking of this subject, though i've not posted anything). I want some experts to reply directly if they don't want to post publicly. I've given permission for a salemen selling heating products to send me an email "Hey, we make some products that are of interest to you, be sure to check out our website at...". The latter isn't spam, it is useful, and I don't want to miss any supplier. However a reply 6 months from now is out of date.
Not posting my email address publicly is WRONG. I should not get spam just because my address is public. I want people I don't know who have similear interests as me to communicate with me. I should not have to wade though 10 messages a day for things I'm not interested in (porn, loans, stock scams...)!
If they copy a image from your homepage, then they are in violation of your copyright on that image, and you can sue them for far more than that.
Well he is a lawyer, and they are known for high fees.
though I know of very few professionals who do not have a minimum charge. If I call a plumber I have to pay him $80/hour, with a half hour minimum. It doesn't pay for a professional to bill for any less than that, and they have to make money.
Why not? I run netBSD on a 20 mhz machine from time to time. (a sun3/60). My only linux machine is a 386-25, but the monitor failed years ago so now it sits on a shelf and handles my mail. Works just fine.
Now I admit those machines are a bit slow, but they work, and they are more than 10 times faster than the atari I started out with (1.6 mhz, and 8 bits).
My main machine runs at 200 mhz, but it has two processors. I see no reason to replace it, it is afterall rock solid, and I don't like 3-d graphical games. I don't need more power, I need the power I have used wisely.
You need to start documenting today. when you make a change, document the area you change, how it works, why it works that way, gotchas that you had to watch out for...
I started doing that 3 years ago for code that I maintain, and I'm getting close to done. Often I go back to something I documented before and update it with knowledge I discovered latter that makes things clearer. I also discovered I maintain one module that is as close to perfect code as I've ever seen. I know that because I have not done any documentation on it which means nobody has found a bug, or a situation it doesn't handle already.
Unfortunatly I've also discovered some things that I don't know how to document in a way that others will know what to do when it happens again. In my case hardware designed a new board that required different registers. We had to compile some things differently for that board, and to make our makefiles do that is really easy once you understand how they are generated, but difficult if you do it the obvious way. A simple change once I found it, but I don't know how to tell others so they will figgure out where to make the change.
In any case, once you get some documentation it can be orginized. Thats not something I do well. I don't write documentation well either, but at least I write it, and that has helped.
Everyone says they can cut the budget 5%, but when it comes down to it, there are always enough people who want any particular (wasteful) program that no politition is willing to cut it. And when you cut that 5% you will suddenly become unpopular with those who benifit from that program. And just because it cost 5% doesn't mean that 5% of the people are affected.