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Living Room / Re: 'Dark Knight Rises' shooting: Three heroes died in Aurora
« Last post by Renegade on July 23, 2012, 11:11 AM »--
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that now we have the Basement, and the sort of things/subjects that suit that place - about proposing another section called maybe the Attic (or Loft in American ?) where members could post threads aboutHappy
-joiwind (July 23, 2012, 07:01 AM)
That stuff is suitable for the Living Room, is it not?-app103 (July 23, 2012, 07:43 AM)
Awesome stuff-ewemoa (July 22, 2012, 10:56 PM)
(I'll be sorting through there!) A Houston area homeowner, Thelma Taormina, was forced to defend her property and her constitutional rights when a utility worker bypassed her "No Trespassing and No Smart Meters" sign, then started a scuffle to install a Smart Meter.
Congratulations, U.K., on Bradley Wiggins' winning the Tour de France 2012, and, even over the hill, Christopher Froome being number 2! Fantastic! Does Brits think the Manx is part of England? If so, they must think Mark Cavendish made the British triumph total.
However, England has only lately taken interest in bicycling-racing, so...
forgive me for thinking it, and now even saying it out loud:
I smell a doped rat - and it is speaking English!-Curt (July 22, 2012, 01:31 PM)
Thanks for finding that. My GF Alex took one look and...well...I get the feeling our AA battery budget is about to get shot to hell.Yes, thanks for that @Renegade.
-40hz (July 22, 2012, 11:05 AM)
I almost wish you hadn't shown it to us. Fascinating and interesting. Fun!
Did you notice the other interesting video links associated with that video?
This one shows what looks like a more "elegant"(?) homopolar motor with NO wiring at all - just two bits of glass as a low-friction bearing, one magnet, and lots of stationary batteries of various types arranged in a circle.
I'm not sure I fully understand the physics of it. I have not assembled one, but I assume it's not a con.-IainB (July 22, 2012, 06:12 PM)
I'd like to fiddle around with some other kinds of motors. (I'll only be able to buy some of the smaller ones though, as larger ones are only shipped by ground, and they seem to be about 2x as expensive domestically.) You had to show me that didn't you? Now I'm gonna have to build one.-40hz (July 22, 2012, 08:29 AM)
Sounds like it would be too easy to get lost in a dungeon..
remember we don't want you guys to get lost down there -- the whole point is to keep us all together as part of a shared experience.-mouser (July 21, 2012, 11:08 AM)
I'm also playing with renaming it from Soap Box, which sounds like it is practically begging people to get up on their box and scream, to the Basement, which does a bit more to convey the unusual nature of the area.-mouser (July 21, 2012, 10:31 AM)
And my mind is wandering to other areas already. LG sends all their reject to this part of the world.-Shades (July 20, 2012, 03:56 PM)
Hope the following digression will be tolerated
I have started to suspect that some companies that distribute to multiple countries have measurements per-country (may be even more specific?) of what level of quality they can deliver to which country. If you produce a lot of products and can measure such things, it seems like an obvious thing to at least consider. (I was just chatting the other day with someone who hasn't had problems with HDDs for years, but has had awful experience with optical media, whereas, the reverse situation has been true for me for approximately the last decade.)
If any one has sources of information regarding this, please share.
(FWIW, my personal experience with the LG burner I got recently has been quite good so far.)-ewemoa (July 20, 2012, 08:54 PM)
I alway worry about "single source" technology.
For backups and archives I prefer an industry standard technology - ideally an open sourced one just in case the original developer folds - or as is more common, gets bought out and is then pulled from the market.-40hz (July 20, 2012, 08:27 AM)
