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This isn't a replacement for the 8-bit ATmega based Arduinos but a step up up for those looking for more processing power. The Arduino toolkit and IDE is very user friendly and but the ATmega has its limits. Very small ROM and RAM is one problem the other being low clock speeds and its 8 bit architecture. One could make a pretty powerful robotics controller or even game console out of these boards.
A port to ARM for the Arduino toolkit had been long talked about and wanted by many. There are attempts like the Maple but this is an official ARM-Arduino board with official support in the arduino toolchain.
All I know is I am glad that this has finally arrived. For a while I was using the mbed for playing with arm project stuff. A great little development board but it lacked an open and offline compiler. they also left out allot of the I/O due to the DIP nature of the board. The one thing it looks like it has over the ARM-arduino is Ethernet which the SAM3U appears to lack.
I should have pointed out the real-time nature of these protocols as well. And its a good point that security will increase response time. That is unacceptable.
But again, getting plant floor data from the control systems to reporting/database software is something that everyone wants to access from anywhere in the world. As long as internet facing computers are hooked to control/SCADA systems gathering such data for reporting means there is a bridge to the control network.
I am working on an automation system that controls three vacuum chambers. The boss wants to see pump down reports from his home in Connecticut when the shop in in Long Island, NY. Something has to bridge the gap. You cant easily get away with complete isolation.
The Stuxnet worm proved that even isolated networks are vulnerable. Besides there is tons of valuable data and metrics on those networks that needs to make its way to plant managers who may or may not be onsite. That data also makes it way into reports that show plant efficiency and keep track of problems that pop up. Its difficult to isolate that data from the rest of the world.
We need to face facts that many automation protocols are severely dated and insecure. Has anyone ever heard of Modbus? Its an industrial communications protocol that was developed by Modicon in the late 70's and is STILL used today. Its 100% insecure and can be used to write to registers and "coils" on many PLC's/PAC's. Originally it ran over rs232/422/485 networks but today it has a modern TCP version called ModbusTCP. And that has no authentication built in. As long as you can talk to that PLC you can write to any of its registers. Other protocols are also wide open such as the massively popular Profibus/ProfiNET, and etherNet/IP (IP stands for industrial protocol).
There are dozens of automation controller manufactures out there. Many using these insecure protocols with no replacements in sight. Plus add to that that many end devices that communicate with these controllers are pretty simple in design, pressure gauges, temperature sensors, valve islands motion controllers, etc. are simple in design and implementing a security layer between them is not easy. Modbus is simply a send command to read a register or coil and a simple response. The only other setup is usually setting an 8 bit device address that is accomplished via a set of rotary or dip switches.
Until someone that is big in the industry (Schneider/Modicon, Allen Bradley, Siemens or Rockwell) comes out with a secure protocol that is simple, reliable and open to anyone to implement, there wont be any change. The only security is to isolate networks and pray no one infects computers inside the control network.
Another Quarantine fan. I have fond memories of the GameTek and Imagexcel logos leading into the fiery Quarintine logo. That game is a bastard to get get running on an emulator or VM. I don't know what low level video black magic they did but I could never get the menu to render properly on anything but actual x86 hardware.
Quarantine along with Syndicate from Bullfrog are two games I have the most fond memories of.
Some doctors either don't know any better or possibly have a deal going on with the hearing aid suppliers.
As for the charger, its not a technical marvel. The European hearing aid most likely used a switching power supply that can adapt to a wide voltage swing just like my phone charger does (they are very common and can run on 100-240 volts). The American model most likely had a linear power supply with a transformer that is only designed to run on 120 volts. Linear wall wart power supplies are always one voltage, no matter who makes them.
I never knew 3D computer graphics were developed back in the 70's. Interesting video buts its lacking any technical explanation of how they did it.
What computer was this developed on? What programming languages were used? Was there a need to develop any special hardware to enable this rendering? The animation looks like its running in real time, where computers of 1972 fast enough to handle this? Or was this filmed by rendering one frame at a time and exposing a single frame of film? The computers of those days were time shared so I bet they sucked up allot of resources on the universities computer. I bet you had allot of angry students and professors waiting for the 3D jobs to finish.
It would have been nice if some technical details were given.
Its both the consumers and manufactures/suppliers fault. If there was no alternative source, the consumer has no choice but to buy the domestic goods. But at higher prices the volume moved is low. Then the cheap imports start to cut into the domestic sales. At first it looks like the domestic product is far superior in quality and then over time the import junk is no longer junk. Then the domestic manufactures are suddenly faced with either selling goods on a razor thin profit margin or take the "if you cant beat em join em" approach and begin to also import goods. From there its a race to the bottom. The consumer sometimes isn't even aware their goods are imported. All they know is brand X is cheaper than brand Y. And even if they are aware, the import prices are sometimes so low that people look at the goods as disposable.
If the wiz bang you bought from a domestic supplier costs $200 but will last 20 years has to compete with the $50 import wiz bang which may or may not last 5 years, what do you think the consumer is thinking when they go to make a purchase? People look at the short term and say hey I can save 150 bucks now and worry about spending 50 later if this thing breaks. So blame the consumer for wanting what every human wants to do: pay less.
Hell i am guilty of the same thing. I buy cheap hand tools because I can pay a few bucks for a tool set that may or may not be crap instead of hundreds for a top quality tool set that is geared toward professionals and expected to survive daily use and abuse. If I use them a few times a week or month they will last.
Who says you need two systems? Each system can compete with each other on a somewhat level playing field.
With photovoltaic panels you can run/charge your electric devices and run an electrolysis water splitter for hydrogen if needed. You would own this system if your primary energy need is electricity.
If you own a hydrogen vehicle then you might want a photo-hydrogen system that in turn runs a fuel cell for electrical power. Hydrogen is a pain in the ass to store, but once you bottle it, its good for as long as its in the bottle. Batteries do wear down and do not hold a charge indefinitely. But, this scenario is only practical if hydrogen fuel cells and vehicles become viable. As of now, the electric car looks a bit more promising but there is that pesky problem of recharging and mileage. Hydrogen is like gasoline, a physical fuel that can quickly be pumped into a storage tank.
Either way, both systems will certainly co-exist with each other. Hydrogen is widely used in industrial processes so this is a great alternative to steam reforming of natural gas or partial combustion of coal (both give off tons of CO2 as a byproduct).
100 watts is allot of juice. Seeing how the maximum voltage available from a PC power supply is 12 volts I think that we can safely assume that we need connectors rated for 9 amps. Given the size of the usb connector I doubt we can easily get 9 amps to flow as the pins don't have a great mechanical connection. Also to consider, the cables must have conductors of at least 18 awg for the power pair. I forsee the possibility of a pin and sleeve type connector or a new USB connector that is rated to carry the 8+ amps. I also suspect that the 100W is the maximum for all devices on the bus. I cant see having four 100W loads connected to one motherboard, the traces would have to carry over 30 amps and power regulation circuitry would be a board space hog. I can see that we might also need a dedicated molex connector for the USB power supply circuitry unless it can also draw from the 4 pin ATX 12v aux power supply. I bet we will see USB hubs that have 120V going right into them with beefy 12V power supplies to give you multiple 100W ports.
My take? FINALLY! I cant wait to toss those fucking wall warts that are needed for external hard disks. Cleaning up the cable clutter is a big plus. Plus little DIY kits like Arduino can get more juice for bigger projects like motor control. This is nothing but good.
I used Firefox 3.whatever on a pentium II 400 with 128MB of RAM. I used IceWM on top of a base install of ubuntu 9.04. It ran fine with a few windows open as it only used about 70 megs, at a standstill the machine used 26mb ram. So there was plenty for FF.
...and even now some of these kids apparently were on their way to college but they decide to just participate in this violence?
Its part of growing up in the hood. You either fit in with the wolf pack or become prey. Many of those kids do want to get the fuck out of their situation but they have choice but to live with the rest of the dreck. So when a kid trying to be good is asked by his thug friend to go out, he goes and does whatever he can to fit in. Otherwise he will be called a pussy and get his ass beaten (or even killed) on a daily basis.
I remember a mini spurt of wilding one day after school while walking to the bus station. I was walking down when one kid comes running across the street with a big chunk of concrete. I thought I was a goner but it turns out he hurled it through the back window of a parked mini van right in front of me. The group of youths he was with proceeded to cheer and smash a few other car windows on the block. Then they all took off running. This was in broad daylight in front of dozens of other school kids.
I always find that the first whites to call someone a racist are (as you said) far removed from inner city life. They never went to a high school (that was in a bad neighborhood) where they were the only white person in class. They never walked through a bad neighborhood to a friends house and get mugged at gun point by four black youths. They never witnessed a gang of eight youths beating one helpless kid to the point that he had to go to the hospital. Fuck those people.
I am white and I went through this kind of crap. I was mugged a few times on my way to school during my freshman year (all of the muggers were black teens). After that year, the muggings stopped only because I think the police presence was jacked up in that area. I reported every incident to the school, they work with the police on the report.
Growing up with no money and considered a boat anchor sized nuisance by your own parents (usually a single mother with 3+ kids) who turns you loose to get their fuck/crack/drink/whatever on does not produce well behaved members of society. They are literally wild animals. Never loved or taught right from wrong and never learned about consequences. They fear nothing. Some make it through that mess but they are few and far between.
If you want an idea of how bad it gets for poor minority youths, watch the TV show called "The First 48" (Its on A&E). Its a reality cop show based on a few homicide units in various cities. Most of the cases involve black youths and adults senselessly murdering one another over NOTHING. You see the shit conditions they live in and how their parents or lack thereof shaped their short and hellish lives. Its terrible.
The is similar to power plants using waste heat in the form of steam exiting the turbine(s) to heat local negiborhoods. It makes sense to recycle the heat but in the summer your back to trying to get rid of it.
I think its possible that the cooling water from such a system would be hot enough to operate a turbo expander type power generation system. You could attempt to turn some of the waste heat back into electricity. That would be useful year round and in hotter climates where heating is unnecessary.
Eh its already known that things like expensive toilet seats, step ladders, hammers and other run of the mill items are mostly a myth. Certain items like the step ladder turned out to be custom built ladders for the F-14 fighter jet and not something you buy at home depot to paint your ceiling. Other explanations are the adding of overhead costs to line items in the financial breakdown of the finished piece of military hardware.
Military hardware is mostly low production and highly custom. Computer monitors on battle ships might cost upward of $100,000 but they may have only made 10 of them at a time and specked to resist EMP (from a nuke) constant rocking and other severe environmental operating conditions.
There are even military specs for chip (IC) packaging. So the circuit boards inside some of the military hardware might be completely different from consumer electronics even though they may perform the same or similar function.
As soon as I read that this stuff could be used to feed the starving I thought: Great. Another way to further de-humanize the starving poor of the world.
I can imagine someone saying something along the lines: "These people eat out shit for gods sake"
Or it just means that the pump nozzle will have to plug into the fill port creating a liquid tight seal. There would also be a better over flow sensor to shut off the pump when the tank is full.
Though, that means there will have to be a standardized fill port plug and it would have to accommodate both cars and heavy trucks.
What bothers me about this study is if the child is becoming less empathetic/moral because of playing video games, what would be the outcome if they were not playing? If the parents lack of (or poor) parenting is allowing the child to spend more time playing video games, then without video games there would still be little/no guidance and something would fill that vacuum. That void is easily filled and kids would easily fall into whatever trouble awaits them in the real world.
I am tired of these flawed and inconclusive studies that get press yet they are not proven as fact. There were plenty of apathetic, amoral children before video games. And I bet those children have the same lack of parenting the children in the video game study have.
And what counts as a violent video game? Certainly modern realistic first person shooters count but what about old video games that had the player "kill" enemy's? Mario went around indiscriminately stomping on turtles and other characters, is that violence? Hell even the Zombies getting "killed" in Plants Vs Zombies can be called violent.
No, socket AMx is a pin grid array. BUT, AMD has moved to a land grid array socket for their Opteron CPU's. Those sockets are Socket F, G34 and C32. Its possible that in the future, AMD will move their desktop processors to an LGA socket. Especially if they crank the frequency of their Hypertransport links or newer and faster memory.
Meanwhile MTBE's and other petroleum crap has been leaking into the groundwater all over the USA and probably most of the world from gas stations. Never mind the multiple deaths of workers on drilling rigs and environmental disasters they have caused. (anyone here remember that recent BP oil spill in the gulf?) How many deaths have resulted from a Nuclear disaster vs the petroleum industry?
Nuclear power is something that is scary to many because of stupid incidents like Chernobyl and the nearly harmless yet overblown Three Mile Island incident. And add to that it is also used to make the most powerful and terrifying weapons known to man and you have a problem.
Just last week I was at a family friends house helping them with computer troubles. So I sat down with them for dinner and we had a nice conversation. Now I am not talking about numb skulls here but well educated people who have taught at university's. Anyways, the subject of the Fukishima plant came up as we were discussing the Japan disaster. The question I was asked is why do the Japanese have so many reactors and how many do we have. I simply answered: "they have no coal oil or gas and Nuclear produces allot of power for its footprint, emits no air pollutants and is cheaper for them to operate. We have over one hundred Nuclear power plants and various government and research reactors as well."
They were astonished, "OVER 100!" Me: "Yes and only one accident that had the potential to become a big problem but didn't (TMI)" Them: "Is it clean?" Me: "yes, very clean, in fact nothing harmful is emitted from the plant. We only have to worry about waste and that problem has been partly solved but it needs the proper funding" Them: "Why aren't we building more and cutting our need for oil?" Me: "Just look at how the media is portraying this incident. No one will want to hear the words nuclear or reactor for decades."
Not to say that Fukishima is a minor accident but its only one of now three scary Nuclear power plant disasters on the history books. And yet compare the environmental effects of the Chernobyl disaster with the potential disaster of global warming from rampant burning and mining/drilling of petroleum fuels and coal. Id rather take my chances with well thought out and built nuclear plants any day.
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They invented a bigger mosquito. Just what the world needs.
This isn't a replacement for the 8-bit ATmega based Arduinos but a step up up for those looking for more processing power. The Arduino toolkit and IDE is very user friendly and but the ATmega has its limits. Very small ROM and RAM is one problem the other being low clock speeds and its 8 bit architecture. One could make a pretty powerful robotics controller or even game console out of these boards.
A port to ARM for the Arduino toolkit had been long talked about and wanted by many. There are attempts like the Maple but this is an official ARM-Arduino board with official support in the arduino toolchain.
All I know is I am glad that this has finally arrived. For a while I was using the mbed for playing with arm project stuff. A great little development board but it lacked an open and offline compiler. they also left out allot of the I/O due to the DIP nature of the board. The one thing it looks like it has over the ARM-arduino is Ethernet which the SAM3U appears to lack.
I should have pointed out the real-time nature of these protocols as well. And its a good point that security will increase response time. That is unacceptable.
But again, getting plant floor data from the control systems to reporting/database software is something that everyone wants to access from anywhere in the world. As long as internet facing computers are hooked to control/SCADA systems gathering such data for reporting means there is a bridge to the control network.
I am working on an automation system that controls three vacuum chambers. The boss wants to see pump down reports from his home in Connecticut when the shop in in Long Island, NY. Something has to bridge the gap. You cant easily get away with complete isolation.
The Stuxnet worm proved that even isolated networks are vulnerable. Besides there is tons of valuable data and metrics on those networks that needs to make its way to plant managers who may or may not be onsite. That data also makes it way into reports that show plant efficiency and keep track of problems that pop up. Its difficult to isolate that data from the rest of the world.
We need to face facts that many automation protocols are severely dated and insecure. Has anyone ever heard of Modbus? Its an industrial communications protocol that was developed by Modicon in the late 70's and is STILL used today. Its 100% insecure and can be used to write to registers and "coils" on many PLC's/PAC's. Originally it ran over rs232/422/485 networks but today it has a modern TCP version called ModbusTCP. And that has no authentication built in. As long as you can talk to that PLC you can write to any of its registers. Other protocols are also wide open such as the massively popular Profibus/ProfiNET, and etherNet/IP (IP stands for industrial protocol).
There are dozens of automation controller manufactures out there. Many using these insecure protocols with no replacements in sight. Plus add to that that many end devices that communicate with these controllers are pretty simple in design, pressure gauges, temperature sensors, valve islands motion controllers, etc. are simple in design and implementing a security layer between them is not easy. Modbus is simply a send command to read a register or coil and a simple response. The only other setup is usually setting an 8 bit device address that is accomplished via a set of rotary or dip switches.
Until someone that is big in the industry (Schneider/Modicon, Allen Bradley, Siemens or Rockwell) comes out with a secure protocol that is simple, reliable and open to anyone to implement, there wont be any change. The only security is to isolate networks and pray no one infects computers inside the control network.
Another Quarantine fan. I have fond memories of the GameTek and Imagexcel logos leading into the fiery Quarintine logo. That game is a bastard to get get running on an emulator or VM. I don't know what low level video black magic they did but I could never get the menu to render properly on anything but actual x86 hardware.
Quarantine along with Syndicate from Bullfrog are two games I have the most fond memories of.
Some doctors either don't know any better or possibly have a deal going on with the hearing aid suppliers.
As for the charger, its not a technical marvel. The European hearing aid most likely used a switching power supply that can adapt to a wide voltage swing just like my phone charger does (they are very common and can run on 100-240 volts). The American model most likely had a linear power supply with a transformer that is only designed to run on 120 volts. Linear wall wart power supplies are always one voltage, no matter who makes them.
I used to keep a few giggity bytes of video on my computer.
I never knew 3D computer graphics were developed back in the 70's. Interesting video buts its lacking any technical explanation of how they did it.
What computer was this developed on? What programming languages were used? Was there a need to develop any special hardware to enable this rendering? The animation looks like its running in real time, where computers of 1972 fast enough to handle this? Or was this filmed by rendering one frame at a time and exposing a single frame of film? The computers of those days were time shared so I bet they sucked up allot of resources on the universities computer. I bet you had allot of angry students and professors waiting for the 3D jobs to finish.
It would have been nice if some technical details were given.
Its both the consumers and manufactures/suppliers fault. If there was no alternative source, the consumer has no choice but to buy the domestic goods. But at higher prices the volume moved is low. Then the cheap imports start to cut into the domestic sales. At first it looks like the domestic product is far superior in quality and then over time the import junk is no longer junk. Then the domestic manufactures are suddenly faced with either selling goods on a razor thin profit margin or take the "if you cant beat em join em" approach and begin to also import goods. From there its a race to the bottom. The consumer sometimes isn't even aware their goods are imported. All they know is brand X is cheaper than brand Y. And even if they are aware, the import prices are sometimes so low that people look at the goods as disposable.
If the wiz bang you bought from a domestic supplier costs $200 but will last 20 years has to compete with the $50 import wiz bang which may or may not last 5 years, what do you think the consumer is thinking when they go to make a purchase? People look at the short term and say hey I can save 150 bucks now and worry about spending 50 later if this thing breaks. So blame the consumer for wanting what every human wants to do: pay less.
Hell i am guilty of the same thing. I buy cheap hand tools because I can pay a few bucks for a tool set that may or may not be crap instead of hundreds for a top quality tool set that is geared toward professionals and expected to survive daily use and abuse. If I use them a few times a week or month they will last.
Who says you need two systems? Each system can compete with each other on a somewhat level playing field.
With photovoltaic panels you can run/charge your electric devices and run an electrolysis water splitter for hydrogen if needed. You would own this system if your primary energy need is electricity.
If you own a hydrogen vehicle then you might want a photo-hydrogen system that in turn runs a fuel cell for electrical power. Hydrogen is a pain in the ass to store, but once you bottle it, its good for as long as its in the bottle. Batteries do wear down and do not hold a charge indefinitely. But, this scenario is only practical if hydrogen fuel cells and vehicles become viable. As of now, the electric car looks a bit more promising but there is that pesky problem of recharging and mileage. Hydrogen is like gasoline, a physical fuel that can quickly be pumped into a storage tank.
Either way, both systems will certainly co-exist with each other. Hydrogen is widely used in industrial processes so this is a great alternative to steam reforming of natural gas or partial combustion of coal (both give off tons of CO2 as a byproduct).
100 watts is allot of juice. Seeing how the maximum voltage available from a PC power supply is 12 volts I think that we can safely assume that we need connectors rated for 9 amps. Given the size of the usb connector I doubt we can easily get 9 amps to flow as the pins don't have a great mechanical connection. Also to consider, the cables must have conductors of at least 18 awg for the power pair. I forsee the possibility of a pin and sleeve type connector or a new USB connector that is rated to carry the 8+ amps. I also suspect that the 100W is the maximum for all devices on the bus. I cant see having four 100W loads connected to one motherboard, the traces would have to carry over 30 amps and power regulation circuitry would be a board space hog. I can see that we might also need a dedicated molex connector for the USB power supply circuitry unless it can also draw from the 4 pin ATX 12v aux power supply. I bet we will see USB hubs that have 120V going right into them with beefy 12V power supplies to give you multiple 100W ports.
My take? FINALLY! I cant wait to toss those fucking wall warts that are needed for external hard disks. Cleaning up the cable clutter is a big plus. Plus little DIY kits like Arduino can get more juice for bigger projects like motor control. This is nothing but good.
You need to see a doctor.
I used Firefox 3.whatever on a pentium II 400 with 128MB of RAM. I used IceWM on top of a base install of ubuntu 9.04. It ran fine with a few windows open as it only used about 70 megs, at a standstill the machine used 26mb ram. So there was plenty for FF.
...and even now some of these kids apparently were on their way to college but they decide to just participate in this violence?
Its part of growing up in the hood. You either fit in with the wolf pack or become prey. Many of those kids do want to get the fuck out of their situation but they have choice but to live with the rest of the dreck. So when a kid trying to be good is asked by his thug friend to go out, he goes and does whatever he can to fit in. Otherwise he will be called a pussy and get his ass beaten (or even killed) on a daily basis.
I remember a mini spurt of wilding one day after school while walking to the bus station. I was walking down when one kid comes running across the street with a big chunk of concrete. I thought I was a goner but it turns out he hurled it through the back window of a parked mini van right in front of me. The group of youths he was with proceeded to cheer and smash a few other car windows on the block. Then they all took off running. This was in broad daylight in front of dozens of other school kids.
I always find that the first whites to call someone a racist are (as you said) far removed from inner city life. They never went to a high school (that was in a bad neighborhood) where they were the only white person in class. They never walked through a bad neighborhood to a friends house and get mugged at gun point by four black youths. They never witnessed a gang of eight youths beating one helpless kid to the point that he had to go to the hospital. Fuck those people.
I am white and I went through this kind of crap. I was mugged a few times on my way to school during my freshman year (all of the muggers were black teens). After that year, the muggings stopped only because I think the police presence was jacked up in that area. I reported every incident to the school, they work with the police on the report.
Growing up with no money and considered a boat anchor sized nuisance by your own parents (usually a single mother with 3+ kids) who turns you loose to get their fuck/crack/drink/whatever on does not produce well behaved members of society. They are literally wild animals. Never loved or taught right from wrong and never learned about consequences. They fear nothing. Some make it through that mess but they are few and far between.
If you want an idea of how bad it gets for poor minority youths, watch the TV show called "The First 48" (Its on A&E). Its a reality cop show based on a few homicide units in various cities. Most of the cases involve black youths and adults senselessly murdering one another over NOTHING. You see the shit conditions they live in and how their parents or lack thereof shaped their short and hellish lives. Its terrible.
Since we have an abundance of energy we can simply turn our air conditioners backwards and cool the earth back down.
The is similar to power plants using waste heat in the form of steam exiting the turbine(s) to heat local negiborhoods. It makes sense to recycle the heat but in the summer your back to trying to get rid of it.
I think its possible that the cooling water from such a system would be hot enough to operate a turbo expander type power generation system. You could attempt to turn some of the waste heat back into electricity. That would be useful year round and in hotter climates where heating is unnecessary.
Eh its already known that things like expensive toilet seats, step ladders, hammers and other run of the mill items are mostly a myth. Certain items like the step ladder turned out to be custom built ladders for the F-14 fighter jet and not something you buy at home depot to paint your ceiling. Other explanations are the adding of overhead costs to line items in the financial breakdown of the finished piece of military hardware.
Military hardware is mostly low production and highly custom. Computer monitors on battle ships might cost upward of $100,000 but they may have only made 10 of them at a time and specked to resist EMP (from a nuke) constant rocking and other severe environmental operating conditions.
There are even military specs for chip (IC) packaging. So the circuit boards inside some of the military hardware might be completely different from consumer electronics even though they may perform the same or similar function.
As soon as I read that this stuff could be used to feed the starving I thought: Great. Another way to further de-humanize the starving poor of the world.
I can imagine someone saying something along the lines:
"These people eat out shit for gods sake"
One order shitty beef and one order shitty chicken
Or it just means that the pump nozzle will have to plug into the fill port creating a liquid tight seal. There would also be a better over flow sensor to shut off the pump when the tank is full.
Though, that means there will have to be a standardized fill port plug and it would have to accommodate both cars and heavy trucks.
It was probably inappropriately touched in a no-no place.
What bothers me about this study is if the child is becoming less empathetic/moral because of playing video games, what would be the outcome if they were not playing? If the parents lack of (or poor) parenting is allowing the child to spend more time playing video games, then without video games there would still be little/no guidance and something would fill that vacuum. That void is easily filled and kids would easily fall into whatever trouble awaits them in the real world.
I am tired of these flawed and inconclusive studies that get press yet they are not proven as fact. There were plenty of apathetic, amoral children before video games. And I bet those children have the same lack of parenting the children in the video game study have.
And what counts as a violent video game? Certainly modern realistic first person shooters count but what about old video games that had the player "kill" enemy's? Mario went around indiscriminately stomping on turtles and other characters, is that violence? Hell even the Zombies getting "killed" in Plants Vs Zombies can be called violent.
No, socket AMx is a pin grid array. BUT, AMD has moved to a land grid array socket for their Opteron CPU's. Those sockets are Socket F, G34 and C32. Its possible that in the future, AMD will move their desktop processors to an LGA socket. Especially if they crank the frequency of their Hypertransport links or newer and faster memory.
Actually Fukishima is the soon to be birthplace of Godzilla.
Meanwhile MTBE's and other petroleum crap has been leaking into the groundwater all over the USA and probably most of the world from gas stations. Never mind the multiple deaths of workers on drilling rigs and environmental disasters they have caused. (anyone here remember that recent BP oil spill in the gulf?) How many deaths have resulted from a Nuclear disaster vs the petroleum industry?
Nuclear power is something that is scary to many because of stupid incidents like Chernobyl and the nearly harmless yet overblown Three Mile Island incident. And add to that it is also used to make the most powerful and terrifying weapons known to man and you have a problem.
Just last week I was at a family friends house helping them with computer troubles. So I sat down with them for dinner and we had a nice conversation. Now I am not talking about numb skulls here but well educated people who have taught at university's. Anyways, the subject of the Fukishima plant came up as we were discussing the Japan disaster. The question I was asked is why do the Japanese have so many reactors and how many do we have. I simply answered: "they have no coal oil or gas and Nuclear produces allot of power for its footprint, emits no air pollutants and is cheaper for them to operate. We have over one hundred Nuclear power plants and various government and research reactors as well."
They were astonished, "OVER 100!"
Me: "Yes and only one accident that had the potential to become a big problem but didn't (TMI)"
Them: "Is it clean?"
Me: "yes, very clean, in fact nothing harmful is emitted from the plant. We only have to worry about waste and that problem has been partly solved but it needs the proper funding"
Them: "Why aren't we building more and cutting our need for oil?"
Me: "Just look at how the media is portraying this incident. No one will want to hear the words nuclear or reactor for decades."
Not to say that Fukishima is a minor accident but its only one of now three scary Nuclear power plant disasters on the history books. And yet compare the environmental effects of the Chernobyl disaster with the potential disaster of global warming from rampant burning and mining/drilling of petroleum fuels and coal. Id rather take my chances with well thought out and built nuclear plants any day.