>Now with respect LED light bulbs, I'm not sure about what circuitry they contain, but they do contain circuitry. If you just plugged enough LEDs in series to plug straight into AC, they'd flicker at a very noticeable 60Hz. If you put a full wave rectifier into the circuit, they'd flicker at 120Hz, which might be fast enough you wouldn't notice the flickering.
Speaking as someone who designs LED drivers for illumination, and as such, who has spent tens of hours ripping apart competitors' LED lighting systems, I'm amazed and depressed at how many off-line LED systems use only a single diode and cap as rectification. The *nice* ones use full bridges. There are good solutions: regulated rectification, current-limited LED drivers. We make them. They cost forty cents more than the full wave rectification design, and fifty cents more than the diode/cap half-wave design. Guess which ones are selling like hotcakes and which ones consumers aren't buying?
Warm LED's look quite nice. A cool white LED with a similarly-rated red LED beside it, looks even nicer.
The story about the 'scope is odd. Usually 'scope memory is *breathtakingly* expensive because it's weird very high-speed stuff, so I wouldn't expect them to send it out in base-model systems.
With that said, when I was working on HP servers, the difference between the (at the time high-end) 330MHz, 440MHz, and 500MHz servers was the firmware in a chip that produced a dithered signal from the oscillator. You could switch between them by changing a single byte in an eeprom, from the serial console, through a big series of undocumented commands.
It is widely postulated that eg Microsoft and the Scientologists have fairly large numbers of people on/., using comments and mod points to push points of view. Of course, this raises the question -- which could also be asked about Belkin et al -- whether a number of individuals from the company are doing this on their own (which is unethical but not actually the company's fault) or whether it's encouraged, or even organized, by the company.
To update your story a little: Government A says to communication companies B, C, and Q, "We want to do widespread wiretaps. We don't have a warrant." Companies B and C say "sure" and company Q says "hell no." A month later, government A hands a whole bunch of great contracts to companies B and C and cuts company Q entirely out of the deal. Guess what will happen next time company Q needs some money?
(For those of you who don't keep up with the news, 'Q' stands for 'Qwest Communications'.)
So, yeah, if you do the Right Thing you get screwed. It's a good system for encouraging evildoers.
Basically, species classifications are ambiguous and fuzzy even in higher animals, but they've served us really well as modelling tools, much like Newtonian physics, so we apply them everywhere. As long as we keep it in mind that they're not necessarily accurate, it's a fine idea. With that said, there are characteristics that are unique to some species of bacteria, and shared by all members of that species. It's not a terrible approximation. All Clostridium species are anaerobic, for instance. So if you have a huge population of bacteria, and you divvy them all up according to a whole raft of tests -- aerobic/anaerobic, gram+/gram-, pili/no pili, sporulating/nonsporulating and so forth -- at the end you have a whole bunch of groups, and within each group you find an extremely high similarity in DNA sequence, much more similar than a member from a different group. It's not a terrible idea to call that a species, even if it might not mean exactly the same thing that we mean when we apply the term to animals.
It's been a while since I've studied this, but last time I read up on it, I thought people had found a pretty strong association between prenatal measles exposure and development of Crohn's disease, and there was at least some evidence that Crohn's was a chronic focal measles infection of the intestinal system, that the immune system didn't see because it had matured after the infection was established. Although when I go do some reading, it looks like the infliximab-like stuff they've used to treat Crohn's targets tumor necrosis factor, not anything directly associated with measles. Still, I'd be interested in hearing what's the latest skinny on the subject.
One of my friends refers to that as distribution-right. He thinks it should entirely replace copyright. A content creator has distribution rights to the created material as long as the material is being distributed, and as soon as it isn't, it's public domain. That way big media could just keep flogging their wares forever, and they'd stay in limited distribution -- but still available -- forever, whereas smaller things that don't have as much public demand can be reproduced by groups like Project Gutenberg and preserved. I think it's a great idea: no more lobbying for extensions to copyright law, no more orphans. It does mess with the original idea of copyright, that anything people produced was the property of humanity as a whole and after a period of time would be available for the rest of humanity to use. I think that's a noble concept, but as a realist I don't think large corporations are going to let that happen, so as a backup plan, distribution-right seems like the best alternative.
That's a difficult situation to assess without seeing the actual books. What if she *was* the person who was making a mess of things: she, the accountant, was cooking the books, and claimed her boss was the one doing it when she called him in to the IRS? Consider the movie "The Shawshank Redemption". There are plenty of cases where the whistleblower is unjustly persecuted for pointing out problems, but there are also some where whistleblowing is a tactic to disguise malfeasance on the part of the whistleblower. My best friend's dad is an IRS special agent, one of the ones that gets issued government guns, and he's talked about this a little bit, enough for me to look at any story like this and say "we need more data before we can draw conclusions."
This was a number of years ago before some of the sociopolitical changes that led to TFA's situation. In my case we agreed to it beforehand. I was taking advanced organic synthesis, and what we had to do was make a new molecule, something that had never been made before (or, less attractively, had never been made by that particular route.) I chose to make explosives. My girlfriend at the time chose to make methamphetamines. The teacher talked it over with each of us and we agreed, in writing, before we started, that when we finished the school would confiscate and destroy our notebooks and reports... but they let us do it. The material we were producing was clearly dangerous, but in both cases they were novel syntheses that fulfilled the criteria for the class project. We knew that the work we were doing was going to be destroyed at the end of the term before we started. It seemed fair to me.
I'm with Flentil. Is it not bricked if I can remove all the IC's from the circuit board, order new ones, and solder them all on, and get it working again? Is it only bricked if the PCB itself has holes burnt in it? How about if I can swap out the PCB and get stuff off the discs themselves: still not bricked? If I can use an electron beam to read the domains off the platters themselves and get the information: still not bricked?
As someone else said, it's bricked when it costs more to repair than replace. *Everything* can be 'fixed' if you have enough time and money.
>The vast majority of end users don't know the difference between XP and Vista or that Vista was some kind of failure.
People here keep saying that. I have not seen a single review or mention of Vista in mainstream media that didn't include phrases like "the much-debated" or "considered a disappointment." I've read articles in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and several daily local newspapers that all included phrases like this. I've overheard two little old gray-haired ladies in a Le Peep restaurant talking about this, one saying "XP must be newer than Vista, because it's better!" My girlfriend's younger sister, who has only ever used her 8 year old Acer via modem, announced apropos of nothing that she wanted to get a new laptop while she could still get it with XP installed. As far as I can tell, from watching and listening, most people who know enough about computers to know what version their operating system is, consider Vista to be sub-optimal. Whether they're *correct* is a somewhat different question, but I think the perception that it's not a great platform is amazingly widespread.
So where *is* your journal? Since they've rebuilt/. I can't find anything anymore. The FAQ just says 'search for it' which yields a lotta nothing.
You're building your plane, doing an auto conversion engine, *and* a megasquirt DIY fuel-injection system? My hat's off to you. That's an amazing project. My boss put a megasquirt system on his Jeep and it's been fantastic once he got the wiggles worked out, but his Bearhawk homebuilt is getting a Conti until he has the airframe shaken out, and then he'll be trying some other engine choice. Doing the whole works is an *amazing* accomplishment.
seems like a rotary, or any liquid-cooled, would be a better/more natural choice for that platform, and nothing beats their specific power. You'll have a fabulous airplane. I'm desperately envious.
Oh, I am truly interested. By 'rotary' do you mean something like Tracy Cook's RX-7 conversion? Are you doing the conversion stuff yourself? (Boggle at the idea of doing that.)
Thanks very much for the reply. I've spent a lot of time looking at the Dyke, but it's its rarity that has kept me only wondering.
You have a Delta? How are its flying characteristics? I've been fascinated by them for years but haven't ever seen one or gotten to talk to someone who actually had one. If you don't mind: Did you make it? What engine? What's *your* approach speed? (I know what the specs say but there are plenty of planes that fly like crap at the stated approach/Vso speeds so everyone flies them faster.) Likewise, what's *your* range? How many people do you think it can carry comfortably?
Benchilada eats silkworm pupae live on video, So You Don't Have To. (not mentioned in the video is the fact that his friend, helping him, started throwing up convulsively soon after they finished filming the episode.)
I agree. *Generally* speaking, sexual hrrassment in the united states is only prosecutable if there's a hiring/firing relationship between the harasser and the harassee, or if the harassee can show repeated harassment (whatever the harassee defines as 'harassment') after contact with HR. So, if you're told that it's unwanted attention, and you stop at that time, there shouldn't be criminal charges. Note the "shouldn't".
It *was* a question. It's just that the answer wasn't in what Leon said, but in how he acted (to wit: shooting Holden, although presumably that's not what Holden had intended.) The point of the "blush response, capillary dilation" voi-comp test was to distinguish between learned and programmed responses, and the point of the whole movie is that it's likely there aren't any: some of the replicants, including Rachel and presumably Deckard, were as human as any other human.
The summary doesn't make this clear, but having read the article in the newspaper, I'd clarify: what they're saying is that the HR people use this test to try to get a certain group of people, and the people who are taking the test *cheat* and pass the test, meaning HR is getting an entirely different group of people than they think they are -- a group much more likely to be problems. Your experience illustrates this well. A *good* test checks for cheats, by asking trick questions that show when people are trying to game the test. The SAT works this way.
I had a similar experience years ago: I was working through a temp agency trying to get an engineering job and somehow they got my file shuffled into an entry-level assembly job interview, so they had me do a bunch of hand-eye coordination tests and then gave me a personality test like this. I answered honestly, including questions like "have you ever taken anything belonging to your workplace?" (Yes: my antistatic wrist strap, which I took home every day, as per instructions.) There were several questions like this, and by this time I'd realized they were confused but was having fun so just stayed with it. They got the computerized personality analysis back and the woman looked at it and said she didn't think I was a good fit for the job, or for any jobs they'd be likely to find for me, because of my personality type. I mentioned that I was looking at the engineering position, not assembly, and her face cleared up, she wadded up the paper, threw it away, and said "oh, well, you'll do great!" and I started my new job two weeks later.
As an aside, the sad thing about these jobs is that, as you say, if you *know* someone inside, or you're an exceptionally intelligent/capable person, they'll hire you despite the personality test. This is really only another tool to weed out people who are marginalized, and justify their marginalization.
It's an unfortunate truth that sexual harassment is *unwanted* attention.
The handsome jock walks into the situation with far more behavioral leeway than the geeky guy. Exactly the same thing happens with the cute, buxom young woman, compared to the middle-aged, dowdy mother of three. Sexual discrimination is very much a two-way street.
Go read the Robert Heinlein short story "All You Zombies" some time. (Generally I think Heinlein was a twit, but he wrote a few *excellent* stories, and most of them ended up in the compilation "The Unpleasant Profession Of Johnathan Hoag And Other Stories" -- although the title story isn't one of those good stories.)
It's also possible that the insurance industry has realized that many young people make a decision about whether to get insurance or not based on their health -- people who think they're likely to have health problems are VASTLY more likely to find a way to get health insurance. I was a bike racer throughout my 20's and early 30's, in great health, and never had health insurance because I knew I was in good shape. (In the US, you're covered while you're racing, so that wasn't an issue.) I had many, many friends doing the same thing: they were fit and healthy and didn't have health insurance. My friend with diabetes? had health insurance. So did my friend with endometriosis. So it's possible the rates for young people are high because primarily a select, high-pay-out population gets insurance.
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>Now with respect LED light bulbs, I'm not sure about what circuitry they contain, but they do contain circuitry. If you just plugged enough LEDs in series to plug straight into AC, they'd flicker at a very noticeable 60Hz. If you put a full wave rectifier into the circuit, they'd flicker at 120Hz, which might be fast enough you wouldn't notice the flickering.
Speaking as someone who designs LED drivers for illumination, and as such, who has spent tens of hours ripping apart competitors' LED lighting systems, I'm amazed and depressed at how many off-line LED systems use only a single diode and cap as rectification. The *nice* ones use full bridges.
There are good solutions: regulated rectification, current-limited LED drivers. We make them. They cost forty cents more than the full wave rectification design, and fifty cents more than the diode/cap half-wave design.
Guess which ones are selling like hotcakes and which ones consumers aren't buying?
Warm LED's look quite nice. A cool white LED with a similarly-rated red LED beside it, looks even nicer.
The story about the 'scope is odd. Usually 'scope memory is *breathtakingly* expensive because it's weird very high-speed stuff, so I wouldn't expect them to send it out in base-model systems.
With that said, when I was working on HP servers, the difference between the (at the time high-end) 330MHz, 440MHz, and 500MHz servers was the firmware in a chip that produced a dithered signal from the oscillator. You could switch between them by changing a single byte in an eeprom, from the serial console, through a big series of undocumented commands.
It is widely postulated that eg Microsoft and the Scientologists have fairly large numbers of people on /., using comments and mod points to push points of view.
Of course, this raises the question -- which could also be asked about Belkin et al -- whether a number of individuals from the company are doing this on their own (which is unethical but not actually the company's fault) or whether it's encouraged, or even organized, by the company.
To update your story a little:
Government A says to communication companies B, C, and Q, "We want to do widespread wiretaps. We don't have a warrant." Companies B and C say "sure" and company Q says "hell no."
A month later, government A hands a whole bunch of great contracts to companies B and C and cuts company Q entirely out of the deal.
Guess what will happen next time company Q needs some money?
(For those of you who don't keep up with the news, 'Q' stands for 'Qwest Communications'.)
So, yeah, if you do the Right Thing you get screwed. It's a good system for encouraging evildoers.
Basically, species classifications are ambiguous and fuzzy even in higher animals, but they've served us really well as modelling tools, much like Newtonian physics, so we apply them everywhere. As long as we keep it in mind that they're not necessarily accurate, it's a fine idea.
With that said, there are characteristics that are unique to some species of bacteria, and shared by all members of that species. It's not a terrible approximation. All Clostridium species are anaerobic, for instance. So if you have a huge population of bacteria, and you divvy them all up according to a whole raft of tests -- aerobic/anaerobic, gram+/gram-, pili/no pili, sporulating/nonsporulating and so forth -- at the end you have a whole bunch of groups, and within each group you find an extremely high similarity in DNA sequence, much more similar than a member from a different group. It's not a terrible idea to call that a species, even if it might not mean exactly the same thing that we mean when we apply the term to animals.
It's been a while since I've studied this, but last time I read up on it, I thought people had found a pretty strong association between prenatal measles exposure and development of Crohn's disease, and there was at least some evidence that Crohn's was a chronic focal measles infection of the intestinal system, that the immune system didn't see because it had matured after the infection was established.
Although when I go do some reading, it looks like the infliximab-like stuff they've used to treat Crohn's targets tumor necrosis factor, not anything directly associated with measles. Still, I'd be interested in hearing what's the latest skinny on the subject.
One of my friends refers to that as distribution-right. He thinks it should entirely replace copyright. A content creator has distribution rights to the created material as long as the material is being distributed, and as soon as it isn't, it's public domain. That way big media could just keep flogging their wares forever, and they'd stay in limited distribution -- but still available -- forever, whereas smaller things that don't have as much public demand can be reproduced by groups like Project Gutenberg and preserved.
I think it's a great idea: no more lobbying for extensions to copyright law, no more orphans. It does mess with the original idea of copyright, that anything people produced was the property of humanity as a whole and after a period of time would be available for the rest of humanity to use. I think that's a noble concept, but as a realist I don't think large corporations are going to let that happen, so as a backup plan, distribution-right seems like the best alternative.
>So even though it's ALWAYS WORKED BEFORE it would be INSANE TO THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN?
Ah, the philosophy of the Russian Roulette enthusiast. The greatest Russian Roulette player of them all had an amazing record: 134:1.
Or in the words of a certain stock I own, "past returns may not be indicative of future results."
That's a difficult situation to assess without seeing the actual books. What if she *was* the person who was making a mess of things: she, the accountant, was cooking the books, and claimed her boss was the one doing it when she called him in to the IRS? Consider the movie "The Shawshank Redemption".
There are plenty of cases where the whistleblower is unjustly persecuted for pointing out problems, but there are also some where whistleblowing is a tactic to disguise malfeasance on the part of the whistleblower.
My best friend's dad is an IRS special agent, one of the ones that gets issued government guns, and he's talked about this a little bit, enough for me to look at any story like this and say "we need more data before we can draw conclusions."
This was a number of years ago before some of the sociopolitical changes that led to TFA's situation.
In my case we agreed to it beforehand.
I was taking advanced organic synthesis, and what we had to do was make a new molecule, something that had never been made before (or, less attractively, had never been made by that particular route.)
I chose to make explosives. My girlfriend at the time chose to make methamphetamines. The teacher talked it over with each of us and we agreed, in writing, before we started, that when we finished the school would confiscate and destroy our notebooks and reports... but they let us do it.
The material we were producing was clearly dangerous, but in both cases they were novel syntheses that fulfilled the criteria for the class project. We knew that the work we were doing was going to be destroyed at the end of the term before we started. It seemed fair to me.
(as it so happens, I found that a couple days ago and figured it had to be you.)
Of course I wish there were more pictures... but hey, it sounds like you're kind of busy. However, it gives me plenty to look at, motivationally.
Thanks for your time in replying to my questions, and I'll be watching that page.
I'm with Flentil. Is it not bricked if I can remove all the IC's from the circuit board, order new ones, and solder them all on, and get it working again? Is it only bricked if the PCB itself has holes burnt in it? How about if I can swap out the PCB and get stuff off the discs themselves: still not bricked? If I can use an electron beam to read the domains off the platters themselves and get the information: still not bricked?
As someone else said, it's bricked when it costs more to repair than replace. *Everything* can be 'fixed' if you have enough time and money.
>The vast majority of end users don't know the difference between XP and Vista or that Vista was some kind of failure.
People here keep saying that.
I have not seen a single review or mention of Vista in mainstream media that didn't include phrases like "the much-debated" or "considered a disappointment." I've read articles in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and several daily local newspapers that all included phrases like this. I've overheard two little old gray-haired ladies in a Le Peep restaurant talking about this, one saying "XP must be newer than Vista, because it's better!" My girlfriend's younger sister, who has only ever used her 8 year old Acer via modem, announced apropos of nothing that she wanted to get a new laptop while she could still get it with XP installed.
As far as I can tell, from watching and listening, most people who know enough about computers to know what version their operating system is, consider Vista to be sub-optimal.
Whether they're *correct* is a somewhat different question, but I think the perception that it's not a great platform is amazingly widespread.
Hence your aluminum tanks. Good plan.
So where *is* your journal? Since they've rebuilt /. I can't find anything anymore. The FAQ just says 'search for it' which yields a lotta nothing.
You're building your plane, doing an auto conversion engine, *and* a megasquirt DIY fuel-injection system? My hat's off to you. That's an amazing project. My boss put a megasquirt system on his Jeep and it's been fantastic once he got the wiggles worked out, but his Bearhawk homebuilt is getting a Conti until he has the airframe shaken out, and then he'll be trying some other engine choice. Doing the whole works is an *amazing* accomplishment.
seems like a rotary, or any liquid-cooled, would be a better/more natural choice for that platform, and nothing beats their specific power. You'll have a fabulous airplane. I'm desperately envious.
Oh, I am truly interested.
By 'rotary' do you mean something like Tracy Cook's RX-7 conversion? Are you doing the conversion stuff yourself? (Boggle at the idea of doing that.)
Thanks very much for the reply. I've spent a lot of time looking at the Dyke, but it's its rarity that has kept me only wondering.
You have a Delta?
How are its flying characteristics?
I've been fascinated by them for years but haven't ever seen one or gotten to talk to someone who actually had one.
If you don't mind:
Did you make it?
What engine?
What's *your* approach speed? (I know what the specs say but there are plenty of planes that fly like crap at the stated approach/Vso speeds so everyone flies them faster.)
Likewise, what's *your* range?
How many people do you think it can carry comfortably?
Benchilada eats silkworm pupae live on video, So You Don't Have To. (not mentioned in the video is the fact that his friend, helping him, started throwing up convulsively soon after they finished filming the episode.)
I agree.
*Generally* speaking, sexual hrrassment in the united states is only prosecutable if there's a hiring/firing relationship between the harasser and the harassee, or if the harassee can show repeated harassment (whatever the harassee defines as 'harassment') after contact with HR. So, if you're told that it's unwanted attention, and you stop at that time, there shouldn't be criminal charges.
Note the "shouldn't".
It *was* a question. It's just that the answer wasn't in what Leon said, but in how he acted (to wit: shooting Holden, although presumably that's not what Holden had intended.)
The point of the "blush response, capillary dilation" voi-comp test was to distinguish between learned and programmed responses, and the point of the whole movie is that it's likely there aren't any: some of the replicants, including Rachel and presumably Deckard, were as human as any other human.
The summary doesn't make this clear, but having read the article in the newspaper, I'd clarify: what they're saying is that the HR people use this test to try to get a certain group of people, and the people who are taking the test *cheat* and pass the test, meaning HR is getting an entirely different group of people than they think they are -- a group much more likely to be problems. Your experience illustrates this well.
A *good* test checks for cheats, by asking trick questions that show when people are trying to game the test. The SAT works this way.
I had a similar experience years ago: I was working through a temp agency trying to get an engineering job and somehow they got my file shuffled into an entry-level assembly job interview, so they had me do a bunch of hand-eye coordination tests and then gave me a personality test like this. I answered honestly, including questions like "have you ever taken anything belonging to your workplace?" (Yes: my antistatic wrist strap, which I took home every day, as per instructions.) There were several questions like this, and by this time I'd realized they were confused but was having fun so just stayed with it. They got the computerized personality analysis back and the woman looked at it and said she didn't think I was a good fit for the job, or for any jobs they'd be likely to find for me, because of my personality type. I mentioned that I was looking at the engineering position, not assembly, and her face cleared up, she wadded up the paper, threw it away, and said "oh, well, you'll do great!" and I started my new job two weeks later.
As an aside, the sad thing about these jobs is that, as you say, if you *know* someone inside, or you're an exceptionally intelligent/capable person, they'll hire you despite the personality test. This is really only another tool to weed out people who are marginalized, and justify their marginalization.
Sure, here you are.
It's an unfortunate truth that sexual harassment is *unwanted* attention.
The handsome jock walks into the situation with far more behavioral leeway than the geeky guy.
Exactly the same thing happens with the cute, buxom young woman, compared to the middle-aged, dowdy mother of three. Sexual discrimination is very much a two-way street.
Go read the Robert Heinlein short story "All You Zombies" some time.
(Generally I think Heinlein was a twit, but he wrote a few *excellent* stories, and most of them ended up in the compilation "The Unpleasant Profession Of Johnathan Hoag And Other Stories" -- although the title story isn't one of those good stories.)
>The actual Roland's account, as mentioned in the story, was "rpiquepa".
You expect /.ers to RTFA?
You must be new here.
It's also possible that the insurance industry has realized that many young people make a decision about whether to get insurance or not based on their health -- people who think they're likely to have health problems are VASTLY more likely to find a way to get health insurance. I was a bike racer throughout my 20's and early 30's, in great health, and never had health insurance because I knew I was in good shape. (In the US, you're covered while you're racing, so that wasn't an issue.) I had many, many friends doing the same thing: they were fit and healthy and didn't have health insurance. My friend with diabetes? had health insurance. So did my friend with endometriosis.
So it's possible the rates for young people are high because primarily a select, high-pay-out population gets insurance.