i seem to remember that electrolytics have EXTREMELY wide tollerance bands anyway (think sometimes as much as 50%). They aren't really of any use for anything precision anyway.
for any non-trivial power dissipation a heatsink with a fan is a far better bet on all of those criteria than a passive heatsink
while some heat leaves a heatsink by radiation a lot goes by conduction into the surrounding air. Whilst that air will move away by convection to some extent this isn't exactly a fast process especially in confined spaces like a computer case.
fans make the airflow both significantly faster and more predicatable.
the only real problem with fan cooling in such applications is noise.
we buy our movies on dvds which have the movie manufactured into them and are not rewritable...
if you are going to shell out the price of prerecorded media you are unlikely to want to record over it thus destroying most of your outlay (blank media is comparatively cheap in most cases by comparision)
i dunno how things are in the us but i belive over here in the uk owning multiple cars pushes up your insurance costs significantly (one way round this might be to have an old banger as one of your vehircles and make use of the fact that the fully comprehensive cover on your main car is likely to include third party cover to drive other cars).
also unless you are either single or very disciplined multiple cars are likely to mean more total mileage
it also means you can't nip somewhere on your way home from work or whereever and pick up something big if you didn't think to take the big vheircle from the start.
it depends on exactly what they mean by measuring carbon
if they mean measuing ELEMENTAL carbon then sure its going to be a bad measurement
if they mean measuring TOTAL carbon whatever compounds it happens to be in then you have the simple principle that what goes in must come out and it should be pretty easy to measure the carbon in a gallon of fuel.
i seem to remember that US farming methods are very energy intensive offsetting the gain somewhat (possiblly even eliminating is altogether depending on who you ask)
aren't deisel and gasolene made from different parts of the oil anyway?
i'm sure you can adjust the mix to some extent by methods like cracking and reforming but you don't get X gallons of oil making Y gallons of petrol or Z gallons of deisel and nothing else.
but it takes you less TIME to get to your desired top speed
in a perfectly efficiant system reaching a fixed speed in a fixed mass of car would take a fixed amount of energy
ofc the real world is not perfectly efficiant but reaching your desired speed as efficiantly as possible does not mean accelerating as slowly as possible and it almost certainly doesn't mean flooring it either the ideal is going to be somewhere in between and its finding that in between spot that matters
^ is kinda a dirty hack notation where you can't superscript
my guess is that someone copypasted it and in doing so lost the superscript (it should be noted that slashdot don't allow superscripting at least in comments)
well a dialtone is just a f*cking tone so that shouldn't be a problem.
what you will need however is a pair of relays. The coil of one relay is used to deliver DC to the line (a relay coil makes a handy inductor;)) and to sense when the phone is off the hook. The other relay
you may have to seperately power the modem side (with dc blocking capacitors) to stop the modem keeping the sense relay on
then you would need a second relay to put ring voltage into the phone.
the hardware wouldn't be too difficult to make but getting the software right could be tricky
unsafe because thier might be bugs in the code interpreting them (pretty much any format that doesn't map more or less directly to text or display data)
and unsafe by design for example running native code under a users permissions (yes its techincally possible to sandbox native code but its extremely rare and requires good knowlage of exactly how the kernel will behave) or designing an app like dashboard that can be trivially taken over and rendered unusable (as demonstrated by the site)
usb-serial/paralell apaptors do indeed exist never tried them myself so i can't comment on how well they work
theres quite a bit of kit (especially homebrew or speicalist kit) out there that uses the paralell port as general perpose io (you have 12 digital output pins and 5 digital input pins which you can use for pretty much whatever you want) i doubt this would get on very well with a usb-paralell adaptor
on the mouse issue i seem to remember reading that ps/2 mice have a higher scan rate than the usb version though i'm not absoloutely sure
also i've heared of chicken and egg type situation with usb input devices (ie it won't pick up the new device until you log in but you can't login without the keyboard or mouse)
finally if your keyboards really last that little time then you are buying shitty keyboards. a good cherry keyboard will last a very very long time.
the idea of amr was it would allow the modem logic to be on the motherboard but the final line interface to be on a riser (the final line interface has to be approved for the coutnries it will be sold in and this can be expensive)
but pci modems have become so cheap and work in all systems (economy of scale again) that its just not worth it to use the riser system
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i seem to remember that electrolytics have EXTREMELY wide tollerance bands anyway (think sometimes as much as 50%). They aren't really of any use for anything precision anyway.
size weight and cost
for any non-trivial power dissipation a heatsink with a fan is a far better bet on all of those criteria than a passive heatsink
while some heat leaves a heatsink by radiation a lot goes by conduction into the surrounding air. Whilst that air will move away by convection to some extent this isn't exactly a fast process especially in confined spaces like a computer case.
fans make the airflow both significantly faster and more predicatable.
the only real problem with fan cooling in such applications is noise.
we buy our movies on dvds which have the movie manufactured into them and are not rewritable...
if you are going to shell out the price of prerecorded media you are unlikely to want to record over it thus destroying most of your outlay (blank media is comparatively cheap in most cases by comparision)
i dunno how things are in the us but i belive over here in the uk owning multiple cars pushes up your insurance costs significantly (one way round this might be to have an old banger as one of your vehircles and make use of the fact that the fully comprehensive cover on your main car is likely to include third party cover to drive other cars).
also unless you are either single or very disciplined multiple cars are likely to mean more total mileage
it also means you can't nip somewhere on your way home from work or whereever and pick up something big if you didn't think to take the big vheircle from the start.
it depends on exactly what they mean by measuring carbon
if they mean measuing ELEMENTAL carbon then sure its going to be a bad measurement
if they mean measuring TOTAL carbon whatever compounds it happens to be in then you have the simple principle that what goes in must come out and it should be pretty easy to measure the carbon in a gallon of fuel.
i seem to remember that US farming methods are very energy intensive offsetting the gain somewhat (possiblly even eliminating is altogether depending on who you ask)
things may well be different in brazil though.
aren't deisel and gasolene made from different parts of the oil anyway?
i'm sure you can adjust the mix to some extent by methods like cracking and reforming but you don't get X gallons of oil making Y gallons of petrol or Z gallons of deisel and nothing else.
should also make stations quiter (and in the case of covered stations cleaner)
large deisel locomotives aren't exaclty quiet when they are belching out black smoke trying to accellerate hard out of a station
in the us do you have any system to stop people just registering thier car in a different state if they don't like the California rules?
right so it takes more POWER
but it takes you less TIME to get to your desired top speed
in a perfectly efficiant system reaching a fixed speed in a fixed mass of car would take a fixed amount of energy
ofc the real world is not perfectly efficiant but reaching your desired speed as efficiantly as possible does not mean accelerating as slowly as possible and it almost certainly doesn't mean flooring it either the ideal is going to be somewhere in between and its finding that in between spot that matters
isn't the whole idea of utf-8 that it can be used by code that wasn't explicitly designed for unicode?
^ is kinda a dirty hack notation where you can't superscript
my guess is that someone copypasted it and in doing so lost the superscript (it should be noted that slashdot don't allow superscripting at least in comments)
iirc mmo2 demerged from bt and when they did so bt cellnet became o2
i've no idea how much of thier stock still has common owners though.
well a dialtone is just a f*cking tone so that shouldn't be a problem.
;)) and to sense when the phone is off the hook. The other relay
what you will need however is a pair of relays. The coil of one relay is used to deliver DC to the line (a relay coil makes a handy inductor
you may have to seperately power the modem side (with dc blocking capacitors) to stop the modem keeping the sense relay on
then you would need a second relay to put ring voltage into the phone.
the hardware wouldn't be too difficult to make but getting the software right could be tricky
this is offtopic sure but i don't see how its a troll
afaict
.net bytecode without even having the source.
.net can compile ordinary C/C++ code but it crashes on reading an unitialised primitive (wtf)
j++/java suitable for the old microsoft vm can afaict be turned into
not sure about C++ i know visual C++
i've heared vb was changed almost beyond recognition though.
erm X is 10 V is 5
out of interest
do you do a day job as well as hunting?
do you do bits on the side on top of hunting?
do you sell some of the meat you get from hunting?
just wondering how you pay for your internet connection etc
there are two types of unsafe
unsafe because thier might be bugs in the code interpreting them (pretty much any format that doesn't map more or less directly to text or display data)
and unsafe by design for example running native code under a users permissions (yes its techincally possible to sandbox native code but its extremely rare and requires good knowlage of exactly how the kernel will behave) or designing an app like dashboard that can be trivially taken over and rendered unusable (as demonstrated by the site)
fired from an internet cafe with a stolen credit card springs to mind.........
there is also the people eating tasty animals guy (who apparently owned the peta.org domain before it was forcibly taken from his control)
usb-serial/paralell apaptors do indeed exist never tried them myself so i can't comment on how well they work
theres quite a bit of kit (especially homebrew or speicalist kit) out there that uses the paralell port as general perpose io (you have 12 digital output pins and 5 digital input pins which you can use for pretty much whatever you want) i doubt this would get on very well with a usb-paralell adaptor
on the mouse issue i seem to remember reading that ps/2 mice have a higher scan rate than the usb version though i'm not absoloutely sure
also i've heared of chicken and egg type situation with usb input devices (ie it won't pick up the new device until you log in but you can't login without the keyboard or mouse)
finally if your keyboards really last that little time then you are buying shitty keyboards. a good cherry keyboard will last a very very long time.
the idea of amr was it would allow the modem logic to be on the motherboard but the final line interface to be on a riser (the final line interface has to be approved for the coutnries it will be sold in and this can be expensive)
but pci modems have become so cheap and work in all systems (economy of scale again) that its just not worth it to use the riser system
www.google.com/intl// gives you google in that language
;)
;)
they use xx- for the ones that don't have standard language codes
xx-hacker is l33t sp34k
xx-bork is bork bork bork (whatever thats supposed to be)
xx-elmer is elmer fudd
xx-klingon is klingon
there may be others to that i haven't spotted
right so then the REAL question is how long was the known bug restricted for an why wasn't it fixed earlier
someone really needs to write a tool to make sure that bugs get copied somewhere public before the devs get a chance to restrict them.