What an idea! I've seen this on stereo receivers from the 70's and 80's (maybe still...don't know). The big power transistors are set into heat sinks located on the left and right OUT-sides of the case. The heat sink could be designed to provide physical protection for the CPU.
I know the scientists and many engineers at NASA use metric all the time, and that's what we learned in college, too (except thermodynamics). I think the big contractors (Lockheed, Boeing) still use imperial, and manned spaceflight uses imperial due to cultural inertia. It was actually Lockheed's non-conversion of NASA's metric values that led to the loss of that Mars probe.
Stanley Tools sells more than a dozen tapes with dual markings (usually in & cm). I bought the 26ft/8m (nominal) more than ten years ago! I needed the inches for light carpentry work, and the cm for model-building.
I have one three-way table lamp, but I use a standard CF bulb in it. As I recall, there's an extra ring-contact in the base of the bulb. Google turned up a student science experiment[PDF] that's instructive (no pictures, though).
With a standard bulb, the rotary power switch has four clicks: off, off, on, on. I think with a three-way bulb that would give: off, low, med, high. I'd guess that a three-way in a standard base would just give you the middle output.
Maybe there's still time to ask Santa for that three-way CF for Christmas!
You can still get three-way bulbs for lamps. I've never seen a wall switch wired for three-way lighting, though. I see you can even get a 3-way CF bulb. (Costs as much as three regular CF bulbs!)
Wow! That's a pretty cool system, and I haven't seen it before. It looks pretty pricey compared to my gas cooktop, but I'll try to remember this for "next time".
I'm not sure about 4x5, but a chain drugstore may be able to help you out. My parents took hundreds of 35mm slides to their local Walgreens, which sent them to Dallas for processing. Customer Service called them up to discuss the order and was very helpful. They got back the slides, plus a DVD containing all the scanned images and a video slideshow (ordered as submitted) that would play on a stand-alone DVD player. My parents even made titles by writing directly on unimportant slides inserted into the series.
Same experience here. At that price ($179), we just bought my father-in-law a 27" SD digital CRT TV. We'll wait for full switch-over to replace our old family TV.
Santa already has a deal in the works with the Norwegians. By 2040 he'll be able to launch enough reindeer to keep up with increased demands from US marketing firms.
That argument only works for government projects. A private construction project isn't likely to pay the extra out of a sense of philanthropy. No, they'll need rebates and tax incentives to justify the increased cost.
In my workplace, the replacement is a 20-40 minute Flash-based multimedia (yay!) presentation, requiring a mouse-click after every 40-sec. "page", and ending in a silly test. That's a lot of non-automatic clicking. The dozen test questions, while mostly common sense, show that the testee has at least clicked through many pages of company policy.
Oh, and it's required annually. Now queue up for your annual ethics training (cog version).
I wasn't a central player in the two major upgrades, but I helped out when they needed an extra set of hands or eyes. (The project is small, relying on off-site programmers/consultants.) Was it their choice of hardware? When Oracle stopped supporting IRIX 5.3, the upgrade to IRIX 6.2 (including new hardware and Oracle version) caused all sorts of headaches (mostly changes to libraries and paths). When Oracle stopped supporting IRIX, management decided to go with HP-UX on Itanium2. Uh-oh. The scientist wanted to know if they could install Oracle on his linux workstation, but for Red Hat it's only supported on the "Server" versions, not the "Workstation" versions.
Mostly they're realizing that Oracle is overkill (both in function and in cost) for their small project.
I'd say Oracle already does something similar, by exercising a stringent set of hardware and software requirements. One of our groups here has been locked into Oracle for the last dozen years. Each major revision of Oracle came with new requirements of "Oracle only supports X hardware running the Y operating system". There are several options for X and Y, but it obsoleted our systems EVERY TIME. The whole monstrous process was driven by the need to have Oracle support. Now that group is reevaluating its needs, and starting to build a demo system using Linux and MySQL. If it takes off, Oracle will be out the door.
Some people have thin skin.;) I think some people like to label a bad 2nd degree burn as a 3rd degree burn. The usualdefinition [PDF, p.72] of 3rd degree includes charring of the skin. I see that people also use "degrees" above 3rd for "3rd degree burns that go way deep".
The lifespan, and quality of life, of the gas releaser may indeed be increased, when compared to gas non-releasers. I believe Dave Barry is an expert in this field of research. His theory is that women tend to be more uptight than men because they tend to "bottle up" their emissions for later release, rather than allowing them to escape in a natural, relaxing manner.
Echoing that, why not just get/make a nice piece of furniture (table/stand for a lamp or your Enterprise model)? Add a fan, power strip, and plugboard from Radio Shack, and toss your cheap metal-boxed computer in there.
Agreed. It's important to note that, while the US has such systems and tests them, it always tests them on US satellites. Testing against other nations' satellites is off-limits, since they're likely to return the favor.
Ugh. One time my bank's ATM gave me an extra $20. I dutifully stepped into the lobby and told the receptionist. She said another company services the ATM's, so I should fill out this little three-line ATM discrepancy form to let that other company know. She said they'd audit the machine at the end of the week and sort out any issues. Next week, they credited my account $20. wotta system....
Big changes always happen after a big storm. The FEMA and insurance groups study the wreckage and come up with new recommendations, which the various governments (fed, state, local) may enact through building codes. The FEMA keeps case studies, for other people to copy and learn. Hurricane-prone states have programs specifically to address construction in the hurricane zones.
Living in a "Windstorm II" area, our bigggest concern is wind-blown debris smashing a window, which lets the wind blow inside, which can then rip the roof off from the inside. That's why hurricane shutters are a big deal. (We're still saving up to buy nice shutters for our house.) Our stick-built house, with brick "veneer", is built to withstand winds gusting to 110 MPH. Note that the above Louisiana success story added $12K to the cost of the house, and would probably violate most planned-subdivision regulations.
That said, a friend from Puerto Rico was shocked when she first moved up here. She nearly put her hammer through the wall trying to hang a picture. "What! The walls aren't made of cement blocks?!"
Considering the number of mailings a person receives from lawyers after getting a traffic ticket, or being in some sort of public accident, I wouldn't be surprised if the prankees already have a class-action suit brewing.
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What an idea! I've seen this on stereo receivers from the 70's and 80's (maybe still...don't know). The big power transistors are set into heat sinks located on the left and right OUT-sides of the case. The heat sink could be designed to provide physical protection for the CPU.
Here are some links I collected after a previous /. mention of these turbines:
Windside Products
TMA Global Wind Energy Systems
PicoTurbine (for fun)
I agree, just because KVM means "keyboard, video, mouse" to me. As with many initializations, I see there are several possible meanings.
I know the scientists and many engineers at NASA use metric all the time, and that's what we learned in college, too (except thermodynamics). I think the big contractors (Lockheed, Boeing) still use imperial, and manned spaceflight uses imperial due to cultural inertia. It was actually Lockheed's non-conversion of NASA's metric values that led to the loss of that Mars probe.
Stanley Tools sells more than a dozen tapes with dual markings (usually in & cm). I bought the 26ft/8m (nominal) more than ten years ago! I needed the inches for light carpentry work, and the cm for model-building.
More importantly, does it reduce one's chances of being offed by a chainsaw-wielding maniac? Hollywood says otherwise.
I have one three-way table lamp, but I use a standard CF bulb in it. As I recall, there's an extra ring-contact in the base of the bulb. Google turned up a student science experiment[PDF] that's instructive (no pictures, though).
With a standard bulb, the rotary power switch has four clicks: off, off, on, on. I think with a three-way bulb that would give: off, low, med, high. I'd guess that a three-way in a standard base would just give you the middle output.
Maybe there's still time to ask Santa for that three-way CF for Christmas!
You can still get three-way bulbs for lamps. I've never seen a wall switch wired for three-way lighting, though. I see you can even get a 3-way CF bulb. (Costs as much as three regular CF bulbs!)
Wow! That's a pretty cool system, and I haven't seen it before. It looks pretty pricey compared to my gas cooktop, but I'll try to remember this for "next time".
I'm not sure about 4x5, but a chain drugstore may be able to help you out. My parents took hundreds of 35mm slides to their local Walgreens, which sent them to Dallas for processing. Customer Service called them up to discuss the order and was very helpful. They got back the slides, plus a DVD containing all the scanned images and a video slideshow (ordered as submitted) that would play on a stand-alone DVD player. My parents even made titles by writing directly on unimportant slides inserted into the series.
Same experience here. At that price ($179), we just bought my father-in-law a 27" SD digital CRT TV. We'll wait for full switch-over to replace our old family TV.
Santa already has a deal in the works with the Norwegians. By 2040 he'll be able to launch enough reindeer to keep up with increased demands from US marketing firms.
That argument only works for government projects. A private construction project isn't likely to pay the extra out of a sense of philanthropy. No, they'll need rebates and tax incentives to justify the increased cost.
In my workplace, the replacement is a 20-40 minute Flash-based multimedia (yay!) presentation, requiring a mouse-click after every 40-sec. "page", and ending in a silly test. That's a lot of non-automatic clicking. The dozen test questions, while mostly common sense, show that the testee has at least clicked through many pages of company policy.
Oh, and it's required annually. Now queue up for your annual ethics training (cog version).
The Dr. refers to the prefix "m", which stands for "milli" (i.e. 10e-3), being different from the prefix "M", which stands for "mega" (i.e. 10e6).
Personally, I enjoy reading about millibits ("mb") of memory.
I wasn't a central player in the two major upgrades, but I helped out when they needed an extra set of hands or eyes. (The project is small, relying on off-site programmers/consultants.) Was it their choice of hardware? When Oracle stopped supporting IRIX 5.3, the upgrade to IRIX 6.2 (including new hardware and Oracle version) caused all sorts of headaches (mostly changes to libraries and paths). When Oracle stopped supporting IRIX, management decided to go with HP-UX on Itanium2. Uh-oh. The scientist wanted to know if they could install Oracle on his linux workstation, but for Red Hat it's only supported on the "Server" versions, not the "Workstation" versions.
Mostly they're realizing that Oracle is overkill (both in function and in cost) for their small project.
I'd say Oracle already does something similar, by exercising a stringent set of hardware and software requirements. One of our groups here has been locked into Oracle for the last dozen years. Each major revision of Oracle came with new requirements of "Oracle only supports X hardware running the Y operating system". There are several options for X and Y, but it obsoleted our systems EVERY TIME. The whole monstrous process was driven by the need to have Oracle support. Now that group is reevaluating its needs, and starting to build a demo system using Linux and MySQL. If it takes off, Oracle will be out the door.
There's a new word for that...
Some people have thin skin. ;) I think some people like to label a bad 2nd degree burn as a 3rd degree burn. The usual definition [PDF, p.72] of 3rd degree includes charring of the skin. I see that people also use "degrees" above 3rd for "3rd degree burns that go way deep".
The lifespan, and quality of life, of the gas releaser may indeed be increased, when compared to gas non-releasers. I believe Dave Barry is an expert in this field of research. His theory is that women tend to be more uptight than men because they tend to "bottle up" their emissions for later release, rather than allowing them to escape in a natural, relaxing manner.
Echoing that, why not just get/make a nice piece of furniture (table/stand for a lamp or your Enterprise model)? Add a fan, power strip, and plugboard from Radio Shack, and toss your cheap metal-boxed computer in there.
Agreed. It's important to note that, while the US has such systems and tests them, it always tests them on US satellites. Testing against other nations' satellites is off-limits, since they're likely to return the favor.
Ugh. One time my bank's ATM gave me an extra $20. I dutifully stepped into the lobby and told the receptionist. She said another company services the ATM's, so I should fill out this little three-line ATM discrepancy form to let that other company know. She said they'd audit the machine at the end of the week and sort out any issues. Next week, they credited my account $20. wotta system....
Big changes always happen after a big storm. The FEMA and insurance groups study the wreckage and come up with new recommendations, which the various governments (fed, state, local) may enact through building codes. The FEMA keeps case studies, for other people to copy and learn. Hurricane-prone states have programs specifically to address construction in the hurricane zones.
Living in a "Windstorm II" area, our bigggest concern is wind-blown debris smashing a window, which lets the wind blow inside, which can then rip the roof off from the inside. That's why hurricane shutters are a big deal. (We're still saving up to buy nice shutters for our house.) Our stick-built house, with brick "veneer", is built to withstand winds gusting to 110 MPH. Note that the above Louisiana success story added $12K to the cost of the house, and would probably violate most planned-subdivision regulations.
That said, a friend from Puerto Rico was shocked when she first moved up here. She nearly put her hammer through the wall trying to hang a picture. "What! The walls aren't made of cement blocks?!"
Considering the number of mailings a person receives from lawyers after getting a traffic ticket, or being in some sort of public accident, I wouldn't be surprised if the prankees already have a class-action suit brewing.