so if i ride over something on my bike (50psi in the tyres) I'll be exerting more pressure ?
Yep. Think about it.
If a unicycle tire is at 50 psi with 100 lbs on it then there has to be 2 square inches touching the road, assuming the tire is flexible. A rigid tire could have less area in contact, but tires are flexible.
If you still don't understand, try googling or take a look at how to weigh a car by measuring surface area here
Oh, and a 100 lb woman in stiletto heels can exert over 1000 psi if she balances on her heel. We're talking about weight per unit area. Even though it is counterintuitive, you will exert more force per unit area on your bike than a bigrig full of i-beams, assuming you have higher pressure tires.
Emergency oxygen for airplane passengers is typically generated by combustion of solid chemical mixtures based on sodium chlorate decomposition. Relatively low combustion temperatures and slow front propagation are characteristic features of these low-exothermic systems.
I'm sorry you didn't like the article. It did seem biased, but I didn't feel the bias (we're going to erode apple's market share) would understate apple's current market share.
I looked for an article that mentioned the ipod's global market share since the idea interested me. This is the first one I found, and I didn't find any others. Do you know of an article that has different numbers? The numbers seem reasonable to me, since ipod has low market penetration in China and India, which account for 1/3 of the planet's population.
There are a few downsides to taking 1000 photos. You're using up/wearing out batteries unnecessarilly. I've seen sickening piles of batteries on the ground after a photo-heavy event. The worst drawback is the countless people who don't even watch the event, they watch their camera. Taking countless photos, just like all the other photos all the other cameras are taking. I've seen people hiking around in the mountains, never looking away from their camera. People at a concert, same deal. I really don't get it, and I think it's sad.
Oh, and it detracts from the moment for everyone else. When I'm at a party I prefer to interact with other people. I don't appreciate flashes in my eyes, people ignoring me so they can take pictures of me, especially when it is nonstop. At least with film they'd run out eventually.
Besides editing, organization would have helped in this case. A group of overhead, crew, close-up, design, etc. would have made the number of images less overwhelming.
If science were based on belief, we'd still be using the Bohr model, Newtonian physics, and anyone talking about subatomic physics would be burned at the stake. Scienctists are willing to accept new ideas when new facts become available. Definitely not perfectly and instantly willing, but there are a lot of lunatics and cranks publishing.
This is the tragedy of digital imagry. When you had to burn film to take photos, and burn paper to make a print there was less temptation to serve up thousands of repetitive pictures.
Now, with cell-cameras everywhere and no cost with taking or posting an image expect things to get worse and worse.
Think how cool it'd be to go to the grocery store, pick out a movie from a million titles, and it's ready when you're done shopping. Ten bucks, you get to keep it. I'd go for that, and I'm a hardened criminal. With enough bandwidth and fast drives you could have a dvd-quality movie in 10 minutes. That's fast enough to put a kiosk in a fast food restaurant or pretty much any store.
In the lagan from Cambrian seas,
There's a dragon that's catching some z's.
Though ancalagon's gone,
Its priapulid spawn
Are still dodging extinction with ease.
(an-KAL-a-gon) A Cambrian priapulid (penis worm) found preserved in the Burgess Shale, ancalagon was apparently named after a dragon (Great Worm) in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Priapulids burrow tail-first into the sea floor with their mouth-parts exposed. A priapulid feeds by everting its gut, fastening onto soft-bodied prey, and then pulling gut and prey back down into its buried body. Lagan (sometimes spelled ligen or lagend) is a term from salvage law referring to goods that have sunk to the sea floor but are marked for recovery. Here it is metaphorically applied to fossils.
If a shop inherited a vs2003 project and wanted to make a change to it, there is no legal way to get a vs2003 compiler. You can port to 2005, but that isn't always easy. We have a VB6 application we can't touch for just this reason. VB6 won't upgrade to anything.
Some companies have a rule about using supported products only. If no more updates come out for vs2003 that'd mean such companies would be forced to port.
Developing in a specific version of a tool is an investment. Being forced (for whatever reason) to upgrade, even for free, has a cost.
I agree that USB is perfectly good. I don't understand the motivation for wireless fixed devices, especially devices that have a base station that plugs in. I've seen a wireless mouse/kibo rig that has a base unit with 2 ps2 connectors and a power supply. So you've got more wires than before. Ugh.
As far as security, I was thinking of something like what my cordless phone uses: It authenticates automatically when you dock it, and if it gets confused (like when you replace the battery) it just resets when you dock it. Pretty idiot-proof.
My physics teacher in high school referred to sound waves propagating. Here is an example. There are 5 million google hits for "propagate sound waves" so maybe it isn't as incorrect as you think. According to Princeton, propagate (travel through the air) "sound and light propagate in this medium" is the 2nd definition.
Companies get a huge say in when patents expire. The 180 day exclusivity abuse, 30 month automatic stays, repackaging or reformulating the drug, finding another application for the drug, or testing for children/elderly/pregnant can all extend patent life. There is also the possibility of targeted legislation to extend the patent, lobbying for general changes favorable to patent holders, etc.
That's a bit excessive for a thermostat. I use the parallel port. Still, I would hesitate to build a pci board from components. So kudos to Dale, although I am suspicious of why he'd do so much work for such a simple application.
It looks like Sony might be wavering in their support of DVD protection according to this. Maybe enough people are doing this to matter.
I know they'll crunch the numbers on which movies are pirated most. I suspect the ARccOS discs will be pirated more in general, since they're pretty badly broken. If that shows up in p2p data or seized goods it's possible Sony will learn something.
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If a unicycle tire is at 50 psi with 100 lbs on it then there has to be 2 square inches touching the road, assuming the tire is flexible. A rigid tire could have less area in contact, but tires are flexible.
If you still don't understand, try googling or take a look at how to weigh a car by measuring surface area here
Oh, and a 100 lb woman in stiletto heels can exert over 1000 psi if she balances on her heel. We're talking about weight per unit area. Even though it is counterintuitive, you will exert more force per unit area on your bike than a bigrig full of i-beams, assuming you have higher pressure tires.
Surely you've seen this?
Thanks, I didn't know that. It is cool that the passenger oxygen is generated chemically.
Emergency oxygen for airplane passengers is typically generated by combustion of solid chemical mixtures based on sodium chlorate decomposition. Relatively low combustion temperatures and slow front propagation are characteristic features of these low-exothermic systems.
I'm sorry you didn't like the article. It did seem biased, but I didn't feel the bias (we're going to erode apple's market share) would understate apple's current market share.
I looked for an article that mentioned the ipod's global market share since the idea interested me. This is the first one I found, and I didn't find any others. Do you know of an article that has different numbers? The numbers seem reasonable to me, since ipod has low market penetration in China and India, which account for 1/3 of the planet's population.
Apple's worldwide market share for DAPs was 23% in 2004 and 27% in 2005 according to this
The largest growth is in flash-based players. I expect mp3-player-cellphones will soon eat at the media player market.
If you include radios, boomboxes, car stereos, etc. the iPod's market share would be well under 1%.
That's a 2 year old internet meme. Like "Hyakugojyuuichi" or "All your base."
If you missed it, take a look here since you're clearly missing out on your cultural heritage.
There are a few downsides to taking 1000 photos. You're using up/wearing out batteries unnecessarilly. I've seen sickening piles of batteries on the ground after a photo-heavy event. The worst drawback is the countless people who don't even watch the event, they watch their camera. Taking countless photos, just like all the other photos all the other cameras are taking. I've seen people hiking around in the mountains, never looking away from their camera. People at a concert, same deal. I really don't get it, and I think it's sad.
Oh, and it detracts from the moment for everyone else. When I'm at a party I prefer to interact with other people. I don't appreciate flashes in my eyes, people ignoring me so they can take pictures of me, especially when it is nonstop. At least with film they'd run out eventually.
Besides editing, organization would have helped in this case. A group of overhead, crew, close-up, design, etc. would have made the number of images less overwhelming.
If science were based on belief, we'd still be using the Bohr model, Newtonian physics, and anyone talking about subatomic physics would be burned at the stake. Scienctists are willing to accept new ideas when new facts become available. Definitely not perfectly and instantly willing, but there are a lot of lunatics and cranks publishing.
This is the tragedy of digital imagry. When you had to burn film to take photos, and burn paper to make a print there was less temptation to serve up thousands of repetitive pictures.
Now, with cell-cameras everywhere and no cost with taking or posting an image expect things to get worse and worse.
There's usually a backdoor somewhere, often unprotected.
Think how cool it'd be to go to the grocery store, pick out a movie from a million titles, and it's ready when you're done shopping. Ten bucks, you get to keep it. I'd go for that, and I'm a hardened criminal. With enough bandwidth and fast drives you could have a dvd-quality movie in 10 minutes. That's fast enough to put a kiosk in a fast food restaurant or pretty much any store.
Here is a +5 troll. It's less unpossible than you think.
I've had that sig for a long time, and you're the very first to mention it. Thank you.
ancalagon by mike scholtes
In the lagan from Cambrian seas,
There's a dragon that's catching some z's.
Though ancalagon's gone,
Its priapulid spawn
Are still dodging extinction with ease.
(an-KAL-a-gon) A Cambrian priapulid (penis worm) found preserved in the Burgess Shale, ancalagon was apparently named after a dragon (Great Worm) in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Priapulids burrow tail-first into the sea floor with their mouth-parts exposed. A priapulid feeds by everting its gut, fastening onto soft-bodied prey, and then pulling gut and prey back down into its buried body. Lagan (sometimes spelled ligen or lagend) is a term from salvage law referring to goods that have sunk to the sea floor but are marked for recovery. Here it is metaphorically applied to fossils.
If a shop inherited a vs2003 project and wanted to make a change to it, there is no legal way to get a vs2003 compiler. You can port to 2005, but that isn't always easy. We have a VB6 application we can't touch for just this reason. VB6 won't upgrade to anything.
Some companies have a rule about using supported products only. If no more updates come out for vs2003 that'd mean such companies would be forced to port.
Developing in a specific version of a tool is an investment. Being forced (for whatever reason) to upgrade, even for free, has a cost.
I agree that USB is perfectly good. I don't understand the motivation for wireless fixed devices, especially devices that have a base station that plugs in. I've seen a wireless mouse/kibo rig that has a base unit with 2 ps2 connectors and a power supply. So you've got more wires than before. Ugh.
As far as security, I was thinking of something like what my cordless phone uses: It authenticates automatically when you dock it, and if it gets confused (like when you replace the battery) it just resets when you dock it. Pretty idiot-proof.
Security implications of mouse movements?!?
I'm pretty security conscious, but cannot think of any possible way anything could be learned from mouse movements.
Security might not too inconvenient. The device could authenticate key exchange w/base station and require physical interaction to re-authenticate.
My physics teacher in high school referred to sound waves propagating. Here is an example. There are 5 million google hits for "propagate sound waves" so maybe it isn't as incorrect as you think. According to Princeton, propagate (travel through the air) "sound and light propagate in this medium" is the 2nd definition.
So are you intentionally giving yourself cataracts? Or pointing out a risk?
Companies get a huge say in when patents expire. The 180 day exclusivity abuse, 30 month automatic stays, repackaging or reformulating the drug, finding another application for the drug, or testing for children/elderly/pregnant can all extend patent life. There is also the possibility of targeted legislation to extend the patent, lobbying for general changes favorable to patent holders, etc.
The GP seemed confused about patents though.
That's a bit excessive for a thermostat. I use the parallel port. Still, I would hesitate to build a pci board from components. So kudos to Dale, although I am suspicious of why he'd do so much work for such a simple application.
named Chad?
Nobody builds their own computer.
Some people assemble the pre-manufactured parts.
It looks like Sony might be wavering in their support of DVD protection according to this. Maybe enough people are doing this to matter.
I know they'll crunch the numbers on which movies are pirated most. I suspect the ARccOS discs will be pirated more in general, since they're pretty badly broken. If that shows up in p2p data or seized goods it's possible Sony will learn something.