Posts by cortland
275 posts • joined Thursday 29th March 2012 10:36 GMT
Extra if
You don't WANT to watch it.
Posted in On the hunt for a new ampere
Re: The problem is how many electrons in an Ampere.
There goes the cheap multimeter.
And small; where's my crane?
Posted in On the hunt for a new ampere
Re: They need to create a framework
"Mile" is (arguably) a decimal based unit; it's 1,000 Legionary (Roman) paces, thus the Latin "miles".
Errant pedantry, up with which we need not foot.
How the sharks feed
For a candid look at how Icahn et similis work, read Dan Raviv's 2004 book "Comic Wars" over the fight to control Marvel Comics and the Spider Man(tm) trademark.
excerpt from the Library Journal editorial review:
The major story is of the battle for control waged by Ronald Perelman, who bought Marvel in the late 1980s, and Carl Icahn, who began buying Marvel bonds in an effort to take over the company. Ironically, neither Perelman nor Ichan was ever interested in comics (both bragged that they never looked at the product); rather, they were obsessed with profit and personal vendetta. A parallel story deals with Ike Perlmutter and Avi Arad, two entrepreneurs with Toy Biz who had a significant interest in Marvel, its characters, and further sustaining the enterprise over the long term. While the era and the situations differ, Comic Wars is in the vein of The White Sharks of Wall Street.
It's worth noting that Marvel had had to enter bankruptcy during this tussle; when the Bankruptcy Judge was asked to protect holders of one Marvel bond issue, his acid rejoinder on the consequences of buying bonds whose offer said they were not going to be repaid was a real classic. I'd quote it if I could find my copy of the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Wars-Marvels-Battle-Survival/dp/0785116060
Re: Finger print readers
Semicolonoscopy; right?
But...
They have Lean Six Sigma and good metrics; they HAVE To succeed.
Re: Terrorist
Here's an upvote from the US for you, then.
You don't' need the Anarchists Cookbook to scare people; a little audience fear, some imagination, and explaining what can be done with things under the kitchen sink can get you on someone's watch list, if only your (former) girlfiend's Mum.
I am a suspect character;
No one knows what I do,
No one can prove a thing,
Not even you.
Re: Values
A bright child should never be left alone for a second, then. My shop-class rockets were too small, and unflyable. It was interesting to see the melted alumin(i)um puddle up, though.
At 12 I was shooting holes in wallboard with a toroidal magnet (TV focus coil), electric train (N gauge for cognoscenti) transformer, and ball bearings. Neat! Was going to sequence more coils for velocity, but Dad and the landlord agreed I needed a less expensive recreation.
And see Wikipedia on the childhood of Bernhard Schmidt.
Re: OOPS!
Considering that a similar result may sometimes be achieved with Quinine Water merely by SHAKING it, we are all in a lot of trouble.
Gin only, please.
Beer. Call it a chaser, BATF type.
CH3CHOO!
Acid RAIN? Now we get acid CO2.
CH3CHOO!
Gesundheit.
What a useful law
What a usefullaw; now organized crime can clog up the Courts' calendars with trolling cases and delay prosecution of real crimes for YEARS.
The view from afar
But does HM Government actually believe the British Public have ANY legitimate reason for privacy? Isn't this the institution that wanted a copy of every telegram sent?
(I hear we have ways to predict what people will send, over here -- and file charges beforehand. Don't tell anyone.)
Re: As anyone who buys stuff from China knows..
You get 10,000 upvotes. Untested.
Re: Shows
Bingo!
Re: Shows
Some 20+ years ago, a firm in whose R&D department I worked entered the *really cheap* consumer electronics business. I passed one of those stores on my daily commute, so when I saw a pyramid of color televisions discounted 75%, I had to ask what was going on.
The manager pointed to the sign: AS IS. It seems the Chinese manufacturer was not testing them to see if they worked, and when the US retailer complained, told them they were cheap; throw the bad ones away and try again. It was a simpler time...
I won't mention the name of that (defunct) chain, but see below:
" ... Lay on, [_______],
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' "
Root Cause?
Perhaps we have not been educating ourselves enough to what makes technology work. There was a time when this was how young people got into what is now called "high-tech"; I am one of them, playing with electrons since 1957.
I won't call for more College degrees, though, not having gotten one myself. Education need not mean certification -- nor a Credentialed States of America, either.
Unity in situ
et cvm spirtvvs Vodka
Wow!
Re: Really?
-- I hope this program does down in flames. --
Depends on the battery, doesn't it?
And there I was working on US telco VDSL in 1997! A litte slow off the mark, no?
Re: So few comments?
Can we watch as the people in grass houses stow thrones?
Re: 15KWh?
http://inhabitat.com/flybus-new-hybrid-bus-uses-flywheel-instead-of-battery-to-store-kinetic-energy/
Hmm?
Re: I've forgotten how to do the calculations...
One expects the energy lost to exactly equal the energy from reacting carbon and hydrogen, no?
if nothing else,
Ich habe schon die Buchstabeln vergessen!
Ahem.
That's not bad idea for on-site combustors though.
The problem
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with a time machine of the sort claimed here is that it takes so much work that by the time you get the info -- you're THERE.</p>
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Tick Tock Hollyhock, etc.</p>
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Re: Iran? Arabic?? GUM Arabic?
<p>
One man's mead is another man's persian, er, poisson. Right?.</p>
Re: Muad'Dib has arrived!
<p>
But he has (ick) ~worms~!</p>
Re: If they had a time machine...
TOE
Towing a line gets you no pull.
Re: Faux News
Hey! MY age is 65+ and rising ( I hope) and I don't watch Fox. I threw out my television decades ago. MPAA and RIAA can, well, let that go; I buy used CD's and eschew films. Entertainment Industry? Seriously?
No joy
and empty bookshelves I must leave to my son;
What brave new world this thing
Has now begun!
Posted in The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME
Hyperion
And what of the Dynalogic Hyperion? I had one for a while, a very nice package, though of
sadly limited compatibility.
One swallow does not a banquet make.
-- Confuseus
Re: Missile fuels and testing
"Right minds" doesn't appear to apply to NK's strategy.
But suppose their goal is to throw the worlds economies into disarray and supplant Seoul amidst the confusion.
They wouldn't need to launch missiles themselves, though it might please them to; all they need do is provide missiles and warheads to more sincerely irrational (!) regimes and see the counter-blows fall attenuated and diffuse elsewhere, while they act closer to home.
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven," that sort of thing. Considering what NK has done to its own people... Hell might just fit.
Re: "...thousands of tiny antennas..."
Cellphone antennas are physically small, and though they are indeed smaller electrically than a normal antenna, a shortwave antenna built the same way might still be some eight feet on a side. I suspect Aereo has taken advantage of being quite near the transmitting antennas; at that range, with the power the stations use, it's hard NOT to pick them up.
However, they might well be an internet cable service, and may next be hearing from the FCC for not following FCC rules for those.
Re: Meanwhile
Simpson 260's. 270's if you're a big spender.
Re: What a joke
Treaties cannot be enforced in the US whose provisions violate guarantees or protections of our constitution. Even those protections are not usually invoked preemptively, as the EU's data protection scheme seems to be, but are activated by court decisions that establish precedent and allow subsequent complaints to be acted on.
IMO. But I live here!
No, it won't
My next car will be a 1998 model, replacing a '97.
So there!
Actually, this has
wider implications. See
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/07/11/the-serious-risks-from-counterfeit-electronic-parts/
Re: Protectionism or xenophobia?
Toe good!
Re: Yes, but...
was the case open or shut when it was rounded?
Re: Its clearly not from mercury.
Squamish? ( www.madcoversite.com/quiz_olympics.html )
A weighty matter
Say 93.167701863354037267080745341615 slugs, then. Or round it to 32 1/6 slugs.
Slugs being the FPS unit of mass.
Snails are slugs with a shell on. Unit of garlic, maybe.
Did you just
Drive down this street? Because we didn't get a speed reading on your car.
Let's see your license!
Cue the police jokes.
From the article. this appears (heh) practical applied with conductive paint on vehicles to renders them indetectible by speed radar and triggers for red-light cameras. Onward to Ångströms!
Mike, didn't there used to be a doughnut shop here? ...
Posted in FCC Chairman Genachowski to step down
Re: Feel Sorry For Him
Hmm. Do you think LightSquared would want him?
Alive? Or otherwise?
Posted in LOHAN slips into tight rubber outfit
Test setup
If the objective is to keep the motor warm, the thermocouple should have been somewhere inside the alumin(i)um tube, perhaps in something simulating propellant (modeling clay?) .
While they boast
Recently received (today) link
http://globalsecurity.tradepub.com/free/w_ri89/prgm.cgi
excerpt from page:
"In this overview document, find out about the security features BlackBerry 10 can deliver for all the devices in your enterprise, whether they're running on an iOS, Android™ or BlackBerry® platform. "
Re: Well that might work.
Naw, old fashioned is an old lady pointing her finger and screeching
"That's 'im, officer! I see'd 'im!"
How many biddy's might be usefully (and comfortably far away from the public's eardrums) employed perusing TV screens?
Technology update: Make them Shanghai call-centre workers, why not? It's only security.
Now Worf can complain
-- "Consumers who encounter a problem with an online purchase will be able to submit a complaint online through the ODR platform, **in the language of their choice**," the Commission said... --
-- Emphasis (ahem!) added.
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh’a’
http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/klingon.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/11/1052591677008.html
Re: Not much new
It's got people spitting infinitives already.
So where is
John Peter Zenger when you need him?
Nowhere; he's been dead over 245 years -- but if there's anything left of him, it's laughing bitterly..
See you now:
" You are Englishmen, mind your privilege, give not away your right"
-- William Penn, at his trial in1670
http://www.constitution.org/trials/penn/penn-mead.htm
The way out is... used CD's from second-hand stores
RIAA does not like me
I buy my music on CD
I buy them used and next to free
RIAA does NOT like me
My dialup line is far too slow
To download music don't 'you know?
My radio is on the air
For online music I don't care.
And in my player, decades old
I've folk songs, klezmer, Russians bold....
With obscure labels yet untold
My carousel is quite enrolled.
RIAA does not like me
I buy my music on CD
I buy them used and next to free
RIAA does NOT like me.
RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUm tim tum!
RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUm tim tum!
RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUm tim tum!
And now my little rhyme is done
Copyright (heh): ME
