Dude, did you not see AC's faux sig? One of the most prolific trolls on slashdot. As to Bostion University, that was where Isaac Asimov did his "day job". Asimov held a PhD in biochemistry and taught and did cancer research there. Oddly few of Asimov's stories involved biology at all (Notable exceptions: Pate de Foi Gras and The Gods Themselves. There are a few others).
He did use knowlege of chemistry heavily in many of his stories. My favorite chemistry story is The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline. Thiotimoline is a substance which is water-soluable, but dissolves before it reaches the water - and Asimov goes into detail exactly how it works in the "paper" (It's really a spoof research paper rather than a story per se).
I think the reason Asimov was my favorite Sci-Fi author was the science in his science fiction. Too much science fiction is thinly disguised fantasy.
GoDaddy I can see, but Amazon? They just store data, which is likely heavily encrypted before it's ever uploaded. How can Amazon know what's on their servers that they didn't put there themselves?
I also don't understand how "the cloud" storage matters at all, and I even RTFA which wasn't much more informative than the summary. Maybe you can explain it?
I don't know where you live, but where I live all arrests are placed in the local newspaper.
And where would that be? The NYT's motto used to be (is?) "all the news that's fit to print" but I've never seen that, all I've seen is "all the news that fits, we print." Do you really believe that the NYT lists every arrest in the New York area?? Do you have any idea how many people are arrested every day even in a small city?
Yes, current and voltage both rise, the voltage to the output of the transformer (110 in the US) and the current rises to the device's current draw. Both then drop to zero, and rise again in the opposite direction in the wire to its maximum when it falls again, sixty times per second in the US.
If the bulb is pulling a full amp but is rated at 100 watts it's mislabeled. If you measure the device's current draw with an ammeter and measure the voltage with a VOM and multiply the two, you'll get exactly what the watt hour meter outside your house says when you run it for an hour.
"It's more complicated" doesn't say anything, give me a mathematical formula.
To add to what Hamsterdan said, it's distortion, or rather the way they distort (clipping distortion) when overdriven. A transistor clips into a pure square wave; up, over, down, with no corners. A tube rounds the corners making the sound completely different. What's different is the way they distort.
That's why you'll see bands (usually bar bands) with a small amplifier with a microphone in front of it. The small amp is a tube amp, and its output is then amplified (with as little distortion as possible) by a big transistor amp.
More affluent musicians just use banks of 1000 watt Marshalls, which use tubes.
(I was reading just the other day that a vacuum tube will still handle higher voltages than semiconductors. Or something like that.)
They will indeed, as well as heat and radiation. Tubes handle those well and transistors don't, but transistors are even more resistant to kinetic energy than tubes are for electricity and heat.
You never have to worry about your tube amp overheating, but transistor amps need cooling and thermostatic cutoffs. But you can physically abuse your transistor amp all you want and it won't complain.
Vacuum tubes are still used in several applications, and they didn't include mercury.
Yes, your microwave has a tube and your guitar amp may, but they still emit more mercury into the atmosphere than transistors because they take more power and much of your electricity comes from coal, which emits vast quantities of mercury.
I have incandescent bulbs that have lasted twenty years without being changed. I have had CFLs that last a month, in the same socket that the previous incandescent lasted for years.
I'm sorry for being so truthful but you're a fucking liar. I'm 61 years old and never saw a bulb in use last much longer than a year. Shelf life? Sure. Are you a politician? Or a PR guy for BP or Mobile? CFLs plural that lasted a month? I've been using them for a decade and never saw any like that.
Peddle your lies somewhere else. Oh, wait, I read on. It gets better.
When an incandescent bulb breaks, you release highly toxic nothing gas and some bits of tungsten. When a CFL breaks, you call in the hazmat team to deal with it.
I'll skip the rest of the laughable bits and ROTF over this: "The important measure is not current but wattage, since that's what is used in billing. According to this they use 1/3 to 1/5 as many watts."
Do you know where you are, dudus? Wattage is voltage times amperage and everybody here knows that. Take your troll to reddit, morons there are stupid enough to swallow your bullshit.
Former CFL proponents are already starting to admit that CFLs have problems now that LEDs are becoming more common.
The problems with CFLs are that LEDs are even better. I haven't had an incandescent in my house for a decade, but I'll be switching to LED. They're superior to CFLs like CFLs are superior to incandescents.
Apparently you aren't from Illinois (or apparently New Jersey either). Illinois' two previous Governors went to prison for bribery, one a Republican and one a Democrat.
A pox on both their houses. My guess is that neither party wants net neutrality, which would be OK if we had some real competition in ISPs. If you think we actually have "right" and "left" here you're crazy. Today's USA is yesterday's USSR; a one party (with two factions) police state.
The only difference between the two factions is whose campaign contributions and other bribes they're taking.
I just got done metamoderating, I wish the above comment would have showed up. Offtopic? WTF, moderators? He was completely on topic. Overrated possibly but no way offtopic.
Me, OTOH, I'm offtopic. Pls mod me down (and the parent up).
I'm certainly blessed with good genes; most of my relatives in their 90s are still kicking. My mom's brother is 95 and Mom says he looks 70. My paternal grandmother lived 100 years (Grandpa died from an industrial accident) and my other grandparents were in their late '80s. Mom's 84 and goes bowling.
Beware of Poe's Law. There have been way too many anti-science trolls here lately all complaining about their tax dollars being "wasted" on some "useless" research being discussed.
If he was trying to make a pun he failed hard. "I object to my tax dollars being used to research (project name)" is a troll. A joke would have been "Poor guys, the ones digging up bones are lucky, these guys have a crap job."
Unfortunately, Americans see welfare as a lifestyle, not a tool.
You don't know much about America's "welfare" system, do you? I'm afraid you've overdosed on Limbaugh; generational welfare ended in 1996 with the Personal Work And Responsibility Act. There is no more AFDC, there is now TANF which has a two year limit and a five year lifetime limit.
The only Americans who see welfare as a lifestyle are ignorant rednecks who get their misinformation the same places you do. What you state isn't just incorrect, it's bullshit.
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Dude, did you not see AC's faux sig? One of the most prolific trolls on slashdot. As to Bostion University, that was where Isaac Asimov did his "day job". Asimov held a PhD in biochemistry and taught and did cancer research there. Oddly few of Asimov's stories involved biology at all (Notable exceptions: Pate de Foi Gras and The Gods Themselves. There are a few others).
He did use knowlege of chemistry heavily in many of his stories. My favorite chemistry story is The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline. Thiotimoline is a substance which is water-soluable, but dissolves before it reaches the water - and Asimov goes into detail exactly how it works in the "paper" (It's really a spoof research paper rather than a story per se).
I think the reason Asimov was my favorite Sci-Fi author was the science in his science fiction. Too much science fiction is thinly disguised fantasy.
GoDaddy I can see, but Amazon? They just store data, which is likely heavily encrypted before it's ever uploaded. How can Amazon know what's on their servers that they didn't put there themselves?
I also don't understand how "the cloud" storage matters at all, and I even RTFA which wasn't much more informative than the summary. Maybe you can explain it?
I don't know where you live, but where I live all arrests are placed in the local newspaper.
And where would that be? The NYT's motto used to be (is?) "all the news that's fit to print" but I've never seen that, all I've seen is "all the news that fits, we print." Do you really believe that the NYT lists every arrest in the New York area?? Do you have any idea how many people are arrested every day even in a small city?
Yes, current and voltage both rise, the voltage to the output of the transformer (110 in the US) and the current rises to the device's current draw. Both then drop to zero, and rise again in the opposite direction in the wire to its maximum when it falls again, sixty times per second in the US.
If the bulb is pulling a full amp but is rated at 100 watts it's mislabeled. If you measure the device's current draw with an ammeter and measure the voltage with a VOM and multiply the two, you'll get exactly what the watt hour meter outside your house says when you run it for an hour.
"It's more complicated" doesn't say anything, give me a mathematical formula.
He must be even older than me, the poor fucker.
To add to what Hamsterdan said, it's distortion, or rather the way they distort (clipping distortion) when overdriven. A transistor clips into a pure square wave; up, over, down, with no corners. A tube rounds the corners making the sound completely different. What's different is the way they distort.
That's why you'll see bands (usually bar bands) with a small amplifier with a microphone in front of it. The small amp is a tube amp, and its output is then amplified (with as little distortion as possible) by a big transistor amp.
More affluent musicians just use banks of 1000 watt Marshalls, which use tubes.
(I was reading just the other day that a vacuum tube will still handle higher voltages than semiconductors. Or something like that.)
They will indeed, as well as heat and radiation. Tubes handle those well and transistors don't, but transistors are even more resistant to kinetic energy than tubes are for electricity and heat.
You never have to worry about your tube amp overheating, but transistor amps need cooling and thermostatic cutoffs. But you can physically abuse your transistor amp all you want and it won't complain.
Vacuum tubes are still used in several applications, and they didn't include mercury.
Yes, your microwave has a tube and your guitar amp may, but they still emit more mercury into the atmosphere than transistors because they take more power and much of your electricity comes from coal, which emits vast quantities of mercury.
I have incandescent bulbs that have lasted twenty years without being changed. I have had CFLs that last a month, in the same socket that the previous incandescent lasted for years.
I'm sorry for being so truthful but you're a fucking liar. I'm 61 years old and never saw a bulb in use last much longer than a year. Shelf life? Sure. Are you a politician? Or a PR guy for BP or Mobile? CFLs plural that lasted a month? I've been using them for a decade and never saw any like that.
Peddle your lies somewhere else. Oh, wait, I read on. It gets better.
When an incandescent bulb breaks, you release highly toxic nothing gas and some bits of tungsten. When a CFL breaks, you call in the hazmat team to deal with it.
LOL. Incandescents have no toxic gasses, and Bullshit on your hazmat, too. Who's paying you to lie like that?
I'll skip the rest of the laughable bits and ROTF over this: "The important measure is not current but wattage, since that's what is used in billing. According to this they use 1/3 to 1/5 as many watts."
Do you know where you are, dudus? Wattage is voltage times amperage and everybody here knows that. Take your troll to reddit, morons there are stupid enough to swallow your bullshit.
Have a nice day, shill.
LOL.
Former CFL proponents are already starting to admit that CFLs have problems now that LEDs are becoming more common.
The problems with CFLs are that LEDs are even better. I haven't had an incandescent in my house for a decade, but I'll be switching to LED. They're superior to CFLs like CFLs are superior to incandescents.
Apparently you aren't from Illinois (or apparently New Jersey either). Illinois' two previous Governors went to prison for bribery, one a Republican and one a Democrat.
A pox on both their houses. My guess is that neither party wants net neutrality, which would be OK if we had some real competition in ISPs. If you think we actually have "right" and "left" here you're crazy. Today's USA is yesterday's USSR; a one party (with two factions) police state.
The only difference between the two factions is whose campaign contributions and other bribes they're taking.
So it's OK to shoot someone for being rude?? Dude, see a shrink, you're out of your tiny little mind.
I just got done metamoderating, I wish the above comment would have showed up. Offtopic? WTF, moderators? He was completely on topic. Overrated possibly but no way offtopic.
Me, OTOH, I'm offtopic. Pls mod me down (and the parent up).
I've disassembled laptops, and some would be easy to pull the drive but laptops are too much work any more (I'm getting old).
Thank you for that, I hadn't heard of it. I wish wikipedia had schematics and better info, but I'm less ignorant than five minutes ago.
I'm reminded of someone's sig, something like "If I'm modded troll it's because a fanboi has mod points."
That old saying is backwards, probably invented by a fraudster. In actuality, you pay for what you get whether or not you get what you pay for.
I don't need a lot of horsepower, I use it mostly for writing.
Well, of course that's the real reason but they're not going to admit it.
It's a photo from a late '40s newspaper in a story about a flying saucer crashing at Area 51, reversed and the sky blackened.
You know what they say about books and covers.
I'm certainly blessed with good genes; most of my relatives in their 90s are still kicking. My mom's brother is 95 and Mom says he looks 70. My paternal grandmother lived 100 years (Grandpa died from an industrial accident) and my other grandparents were in their late '80s. Mom's 84 and goes bowling.
I got lucky in the gene lottery.
Beware of Poe's Law. There have been way too many anti-science trolls here lately all complaining about their tax dollars being "wasted" on some "useless" research being discussed.
If he was trying to make a pun he failed hard. "I object to my tax dollars being used to research (project name)" is a troll. A joke would have been "Poor guys, the ones digging up bones are lucky, these guys have a crap job."
You're right, I forgot about those.
Yes, I am looking for small. Some of the new laptops are just HUGE. The whole point of a notebook is easy portability.
Apple's still too expensive, though. I can probably get another year out of this one.
Unfortunately, Americans see welfare as a lifestyle, not a tool.
You don't know much about America's "welfare" system, do you? I'm afraid you've overdosed on Limbaugh; generational welfare ended in 1996 with the Personal Work And Responsibility Act. There is no more AFDC, there is now TANF which has a two year limit and a five year lifetime limit.
The only Americans who see welfare as a lifestyle are ignorant rednecks who get their misinformation the same places you do. What you state isn't just incorrect, it's bullshit.