He is not scared of the President himself (this is Chuck Norris we are talking about here), but rather the fact that he cannot exert his awesome ass kicking power in Iraq anymore.
No point. LED's can be driven off AC directly, you just need a proper ballast resistor in series with the LED. In fact you can drive many LED's in series as well using strait AC. A single rectifying diode and a capacitor could also be used to smooth the clipped waveform.
The only reason there should be a fan on your bulb is if you have high output LED's that require active cooling. Otherwise inverters, PWM drivers and charge pumping is unnecessary.
Funny you say that. That happened to me the other day while driving a loaded van. The kid was around the same age, maybe as young as 13 and just blindly rode his bike across the road. I had the light and he did not. Although I probably had more time to stop then you. I leaned on the horn and the stupid kid just looks up and then back to his phone blissfully pedaling away.
I can easily see how all this electronic noise can be a danger. When I first bought my new multimedia phone (before smart phones) I tried walking to work with headphones on. After the first trip, I just couldn't do it again. I felt so cut off and not being able to hear my surroundings actually scared me. Save the headphones for the bus, train or killing time.
You know sitting hear reading this makes me feel that this generation could see some radical space stuff like our parents did in the 60's and 70's. Maybe its a bit premature but hopefully in the next 20 years we will get to see some real space exploration happen. Imagine bearing witness to the construction of a Moon base or manned Mars trip.
Growing up with shuttle launches gets a bit old, although the space station is pretty damn awesome.
I want to know how they expect this to help in any way, shape or form. The idea behind road-side bombs (IED's) is to remain as stealth as possible and then detonate as the vehicle or convoy is passing. I have two friends who served in Iraq: one who lucky survived an IED blast with only cuts and partial hearing loss (the gunner died from shrapnel and the passenger had severe injuries) and the other had the Humvee in front of his hit but thankfully no deaths. One even told me a story that they walked over an IED after they went to investigate suspicious movement in a building and it detonated but it was a 155mm shell buried upside down so the blast dissipated into the ground. They were lucky.
Most of the IED's are disguised as broken down cars, carts or buried in the road itself. Some are poorly disguised, an example was one of my friends was in a convoy that stopped when a very out of place pile of rocks was spotted up the road. That IED was detonated by M2 machine gun fire. So some can be avoided but others are almost impossible to spot. Detonation was an area of interest and Army EOD (explosive ordinance division) was called in to disarm and study the methods of detonation used. Some were set off by a guy hiding near by with a wired detonator (my friend always said he pictured Wile E. Coyote hiding behind a rock with a plunger type detonator.) Others are set off using cell phones and in one case, timed by a washing machine timer (that one failed to detonate).
So I really want to know if this is a ridiculous idea someone came up with or some form of pay out as a favor. It makes absolutely no sense. Besides this is the same military that sent Humvee with no doors or armor. Their only defense was to cover the floor with sand bags and pray they didn't take fire through the doors.
I spend more time maintaining my windows gaming rig then all my OSX machines put together, which when I only have a few hours for gaming per week can really add up.
I am not trying to be an asshole but what maintenance are you talking about? It sounds like you are talking about a high performance sports car rather than a computer. Other than applying a few windows patches here and there I honestly just turn my system on and off. And yes I play games, allot too.
How about canned air rigged to a tube slipped over the moth piece. Every time it beeps just press the trigger on the canned air. Or do these things somehow know the difference between compressed air, canned air (fluorocarbons) and human breath?
That is pretty much the realm of QNX, a real-time embedded mission critical operating system. I once met a guy who wrote software for QNX used on communications satellites. So yea its pretty damn reliable. They used to offer a free desktop OS (Neutrino RTOS) around the same time Be Inc released BeOS R5 PE. I still have a download kicking around too. Before that (1999 ish) they offered a single floppy image that booted your PC and even provided a few small and simple demo programs and even a game. Its amazing feature was a web browser and Ethernet card drivers. Pretty amazing stuff for its time.
I was going to read the article, until I reached this line: "Our first instinct was that we'd exhausted the car's battery by watching too much Eminem on its integrated DVD player"
Then I figured out their problem. The car simply could not take take it anymore and once it realized they were going to load an 8 mile DVD, committed suicide.
I remember it being proven that even a single pass of running your drive over with 0's using dd is enough. There is even a prize for anyone who successfully figures out how to recover a zeroed out disk. Was on./ not too long ago.
You forgot to mention that they carry a wide variety of micro brew beer on tap. They have over 20 taps and even a cask tap that is hand pumped. On certain Thursdays they feature beers from a specific micro brewery to promote that breweries beer. So if your a beer lover (or snob) and love true classic arcades, then its worth paying a visit.
The NYCGI holds their monthly drink nights there every second Thursday of each month.
Yea the damn hipsters are annoying as hell but ignoring them is easy once you get lost in the beer menu.
I listen to WQXR, a classic station native to New York City. Its my portal to classical music and they feature a great variety. Their website has a live stream.
Close. The Fischer-Tropsch process uses hydrogen and carbon monoxide (CO) and the catalyst used in reactors can be from cobalt, iron, ruthenium and nickel. Synthesis gas or water gas is another source of H2 and CO. It is derived by passing steam over a bed of red hot hydrocarbon fuel such as coke. The result is a CO and hydrogen mix. Biomass can also be used to produce CO as well (and possibly syn-gas.) So in theory we can produce carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels from biomass and hydrogen from water. Plus you can control the reaction to vary the hydrocarbon chain length. You can produce hydrocarbons from methane to diesel and heavier oils as well.
The Germans used the process in WW2 to fuel their war machine as CO can readily be made from the partial combustion of coal. And Germany has lots and lots of coal.
IMHO: Electric is the way to go for many applications but you cant beat the ease of portability and weight to power ratio of hydrocarbon fuels. I cant yet imagine an effective battery operated chain saw (not those puny ones that choke on 60mm+ branches) or a battery powered rail locomotive.
Are you 100% positive about that? Maybe that is true for non-it staff but what about IT? As another poster mentioned above, a few IT guys could have a box or even a virtual machine buried somewhere for torrents or other stuff.
Years ago at college I worked in the tech building IT department. They watched the computer labs like a hawk. But they were pretty lax about who worked in the office. I setup a computer in a back room and hooked it to the network and ran a Half-life death match server on it. They had no idea it was there as it was in a room full of old computers and other electronic junk. I had that server running for about two semesters before it died. I also downloaded quite a few songs via Napster and burned them to CD to take home (CD burners were a luxury then).
Just because an IT department is strict does not mean the IT guys themselves are. Many feel they are above the law.
There is a big difference between video and pictures. I had a few friends who served in Iraq. They would show me pictures of burnt bodies, scattered remains, heads blown to bits by M2 machine fire etc. It pretty fucked up stuff but I could easily stomach it. Why? because they were already dead, you don't see the actual violent act that leads to the corpse in the picture. So even though the image is morbid, its not violent.
I too watched one of those beheading videos. I am sorry I even watched it, something I never want to see ever again. I saw a few of the faces of death videos as a teen and thought that was bad enough. But seeing and actual act of violent torture and murder is a whole different ball game.
On a separate yet somewhat related note: One thing that repulsed me was the string of shitty torture porn movies that were released in theaters (Saw series, Hostel, etc.). I bet if you showed the audiences a real beheading video instead of Saw, they would have a much different reaction than they would watching simulated torture and murder. Heck play the video before Saw starts and I am sure half or more of the patrons would leave.
If a company looses $20,000 a minute for downtime, is it in the IT staffs best interest to bring the assembly line down for patching? Management would most likely flip shit if the assembly line had to be shut down for routine maintenance. Hell I did a bit of contracted IT work for a company that were reluctant to patch their windows servers out of fear they would not come back up or a patch would cause their applications to break/crash.
Let these people go. Start the engine of human evolution again. I for one will not miss Pauly Shore.
Okay, now you have my attention. Now we need to get Pauly Shore into a Toyota with a shower installed in the drivers seat and a hair dryer casually lying on the passenger seat.
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He is not scared of the President himself (this is Chuck Norris we are talking about here), but rather the fact that he cannot exert his awesome ass kicking power in Iraq anymore.
No point. LED's can be driven off AC directly, you just need a proper ballast resistor in series with the LED. In fact you can drive many LED's in series as well using strait AC. A single rectifying diode and a capacitor could also be used to smooth the clipped waveform.
The only reason there should be a fan on your bulb is if you have high output LED's that require active cooling. Otherwise inverters, PWM drivers and charge pumping is unnecessary.
Funny you say that. That happened to me the other day while driving a loaded van. The kid was around the same age, maybe as young as 13 and just blindly rode his bike across the road. I had the light and he did not. Although I probably had more time to stop then you. I leaned on the horn and the stupid kid just looks up and then back to his phone blissfully pedaling away.
I can easily see how all this electronic noise can be a danger. When I first bought my new multimedia phone (before smart phones) I tried walking to work with headphones on. After the first trip, I just couldn't do it again. I felt so cut off and not being able to hear my surroundings actually scared me. Save the headphones for the bus, train or killing time.
You know sitting hear reading this makes me feel that this generation could see some radical space stuff like our parents did in the 60's and 70's. Maybe its a bit premature but hopefully in the next 20 years we will get to see some real space exploration happen. Imagine bearing witness to the construction of a Moon base or manned Mars trip.
Growing up with shuttle launches gets a bit old, although the space station is pretty damn awesome.
Sadly, goatse.cx is no longer with us :-(. Maybe we can all chip in to make sco.com the new goatse.
It probably runs Xbox software backups too.
I want to know how they expect this to help in any way, shape or form. The idea behind road-side bombs (IED's) is to remain as stealth as possible and then detonate as the vehicle or convoy is passing. I have two friends who served in Iraq: one who lucky survived an IED blast with only cuts and partial hearing loss (the gunner died from shrapnel and the passenger had severe injuries) and the other had the Humvee in front of his hit but thankfully no deaths. One even told me a story that they walked over an IED after they went to investigate suspicious movement in a building and it detonated but it was a 155mm shell buried upside down so the blast dissipated into the ground. They were lucky.
Most of the IED's are disguised as broken down cars, carts or buried in the road itself. Some are poorly disguised, an example was one of my friends was in a convoy that stopped when a very out of place pile of rocks was spotted up the road. That IED was detonated by M2 machine gun fire. So some can be avoided but others are almost impossible to spot. Detonation was an area of interest and Army EOD (explosive ordinance division) was called in to disarm and study the methods of detonation used. Some were set off by a guy hiding near by with a wired detonator (my friend always said he pictured Wile E. Coyote hiding behind a rock with a plunger type detonator.) Others are set off using cell phones and in one case, timed by a washing machine timer (that one failed to detonate).
So I really want to know if this is a ridiculous idea someone came up with or some form of pay out as a favor. It makes absolutely no sense. Besides this is the same military that sent Humvee with no doors or armor. Their only defense was to cover the floor with sand bags and pray they didn't take fire through the doors.
I spend more time maintaining my windows gaming rig then all my OSX machines put together, which when I only have a few hours for gaming per week can really add up.
I am not trying to be an asshole but what maintenance are you talking about? It sounds like you are talking about a high performance sports car rather than a computer. Other than applying a few windows patches here and there I honestly just turn my system on and off. And yes I play games, allot too.
Same goes for the Linux box.
From the tone of your post I can see you already have one shoved up your "plug".
How about canned air rigged to a tube slipped over the moth piece. Every time it beeps just press the trigger on the canned air. Or do these things somehow know the difference between compressed air, canned air (fluorocarbons) and human breath?
That is pretty much the realm of QNX, a real-time embedded mission critical operating system. I once met a guy who wrote software for QNX used on communications satellites. So yea its pretty damn reliable. They used to offer a free desktop OS (Neutrino RTOS) around the same time Be Inc released BeOS R5 PE. I still have a download kicking around too. Before that (1999 ish) they offered a single floppy image that booted your PC and even provided a few small and simple demo programs and even a game. Its amazing feature was a web browser and Ethernet card drivers. Pretty amazing stuff for its time.
So you support your government spying on its own citizens including yourself? Unbelievable.
I was going to read the article, until I reached this line:
"Our first instinct was that we'd exhausted the car's battery by watching too much Eminem on its integrated DVD player"
Then I figured out their problem. The car simply could not take take it anymore and once it realized they were going to load an 8 mile DVD, committed suicide.
I remember it being proven that even a single pass of running your drive over with 0's using dd is enough. There is even a prize for anyone who successfully figures out how to recover a zeroed out disk. Was on ./ not too long ago.
Social interaction and access to advanced lab facilities are two things you will never have access to on the internet.
You forgot to mention that they carry a wide variety of micro brew beer on tap. They have over 20 taps and even a cask tap that is hand pumped. On certain Thursdays they feature beers from a specific micro brewery to promote that breweries beer. So if your a beer lover (or snob) and love true classic arcades, then its worth paying a visit.
The NYCGI holds their monthly drink nights there every second Thursday of each month.
Yea the damn hipsters are annoying as hell but ignoring them is easy once you get lost in the beer menu.
Me too. I hear the women there have three breasts!
I listen to WQXR, a classic station native to New York City. Its my portal to classical music and they feature a great variety. Their website has a live stream.
Close. The Fischer-Tropsch process uses hydrogen and carbon monoxide (CO) and the catalyst used in reactors can be from cobalt, iron, ruthenium and nickel. Synthesis gas or water gas is another source of H2 and CO. It is derived by passing steam over a bed of red hot hydrocarbon fuel such as coke. The result is a CO and hydrogen mix. Biomass can also be used to produce CO as well (and possibly syn-gas.) So in theory we can produce carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels from biomass and hydrogen from water. Plus you can control the reaction to vary the hydrocarbon chain length. You can produce hydrocarbons from methane to diesel and heavier oils as well.
The Germans used the process in WW2 to fuel their war machine as CO can readily be made from the partial combustion of coal. And Germany has lots and lots of coal.
IMHO: Electric is the way to go for many applications but you cant beat the ease of portability and weight to power ratio of hydrocarbon fuels. I cant yet imagine an effective battery operated chain saw (not those puny ones that choke on 60mm+ branches) or a battery powered rail locomotive.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gas
Are you 100% positive about that? Maybe that is true for non-it staff but what about IT? As another poster mentioned above, a few IT guys could have a box or even a virtual machine buried somewhere for torrents or other stuff.
Years ago at college I worked in the tech building IT department. They watched the computer labs like a hawk. But they were pretty lax about who worked in the office. I setup a computer in a back room and hooked it to the network and ran a Half-life death match server on it. They had no idea it was there as it was in a room full of old computers and other electronic junk. I had that server running for about two semesters before it died. I also downloaded quite a few songs via Napster and burned them to CD to take home (CD burners were a luxury then).
Just because an IT department is strict does not mean the IT guys themselves are. Many feel they are above the law.
Because the actual GLP'd kernel code is available, just without the proprietary drivers. There is no violation because the source code is available.
You also have to consider the amount of land the coal plat sits on and the local weather patterns.
There is a big difference between video and pictures. I had a few friends who served in Iraq. They would show me pictures of burnt bodies, scattered remains, heads blown to bits by M2 machine fire etc. It pretty fucked up stuff but I could easily stomach it. Why? because they were already dead, you don't see the actual violent act that leads to the corpse in the picture. So even though the image is morbid, its not violent.
I too watched one of those beheading videos. I am sorry I even watched it, something I never want to see ever again. I saw a few of the faces of death videos as a teen and thought that was bad enough. But seeing and actual act of violent torture and murder is a whole different ball game.
On a separate yet somewhat related note: One thing that repulsed me was the string of shitty torture porn movies that were released in theaters (Saw series, Hostel, etc.). I bet if you showed the audiences a real beheading video instead of Saw, they would have a much different reaction than they would watching simulated torture and murder. Heck play the video before Saw starts and I am sure half or more of the patrons would leave.
If a company looses $20,000 a minute for downtime, is it in the IT staffs best interest to bring the assembly line down for patching? Management would most likely flip shit if the assembly line had to be shut down for routine maintenance. Hell I did a bit of contracted IT work for a company that were reluctant to patch their windows servers out of fear they would not come back up or a patch would cause their applications to break/crash.
Let these people go. Start the engine of human evolution again. I for one will not miss Pauly Shore.
Okay, now you have my attention. Now we need to get Pauly Shore into a Toyota with a shower installed in the drivers seat and a hair dryer casually lying on the passenger seat.