for soldiers one would expect long endurance would be a plus. Ultrarunning is something where men and women appear to compete on a somewhat even footing.
Women are nearly competitive with men at long-distance running only because of their lower weight. Once they are outfitted with 100lbs of gear (which firefighters and soldiers are), they suddenly and dramatically lose their parity with men.
Assuming that our DC sources of electricity are already somewhat efficient, why don't we just have other things that use that current be DC as well?
It's not AC vs DC. Somewhere along the way, your input voltage won't match your output voltage, and conversion is needed. That voltage conversion is where the expensive equipment and losses come in. Adding a DC to AC step in there, adds very nominal losses to above voltage conversion step.
Since the world standardized on AC power over a century ago, it's as good of an output option as any other.
resistance loss is a serious issue even for the short runs within a building - so you may still see 110V at the socket, even if it's supposed to be 120V.
Not true. You're vastly more likely to see 130V at a socket, than ever seeing one at or below 110V. That's the actual voltage delivered near the electrical box, dropping down to 125V or so, after it has been run across a building. Rough-service bulbs in the US are designed and rated for 130V instead of 120V for just this reason... A 120V incandescent light very near an electric box can have a rather short life-span.
Your link says a 3 inch knife is legal (which is pretty common) which is plenty big enough for self defense.
if it is impractical to deploy a new codec in the field alongside the existing codecs, a first mover will win. This is why U.S. OTA digital television is stuck on DVD/SVCD era codecs, but some countries whose digital transition happened later use H.264.
It's not true that H.264 is significantly better than MPEG-2 video, when used at high bit rates as in HDTV. Every video codec developed since MPEG-2, and every audio codec developed since MPEG-1 Layer II, has been focused on low-bit rate video that needs to look good, but doesn't need to actually be identical to the original.
This is because the first-generation audio and video codecs already got quite close to the theoretical limits of perceptual entropy, so there is NO room to double the efficiency while still making it indistinguishable from the uncompressed original. There's still tons of headroom, however, to make something low bit rate that just looks "good" and comprehensible without obvious distracting artifacts.
The article mentions Youtube, without giving any specifics. Seems they're shipping the plugin greyed out, disabled etc. and then WebRTC stuff will work (does anyone have either used that?) and then maybe you'll be able to use html5 video in some future version, maybe.
You don't need H.264 for Youtube. You can watch everything there, and at several other sites using the "Video WithOut Flash" plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
It works pretty damn well.
The geek sees everything in terms of the "open" web.
But there is more to digital video than video distribution through the web.
The "distribution" is orthogonal to the codec being used. Most of the things that make a good "digital video" codec for the "web", also make it exceptionally good for physical media, dedicated hardware, etc., etc.
Which is why the mainstream commercial codecs dominate here.
No, MPEG codecs dominate, because they had NO open competitors, until *just now*.
VP3 was okay at the time, but it wasn't support by anything, Theora went nowhere for a DECADE and was awful compared to contemporary codecs, by the time they finalized their not-quite-VP3 format, and started pushing for adoption.
VP8 was a good codec, but it didn't get open sourced until LONG after H.264 had an overwhelmingly dominant installed base. The MPEG-LA also did their dammedest to threaten to sue anyone who used it, but now such challenges have been conclusively settled in court.
It's only just now, this year, that VP9 is being released for unencumbered use right about the same time as HEVC/H.265 came out. So it's only now that we'll see if the market is ready, willing, and able to adopt open formats.
So you have some perverse idea of what feminism is meant to be [...] (b) is your own invention in the first place.
Bullshit. I pulled the assertion straight from TFA. You can't blame me for it. Did YOU bother to read TFA?
From TFA:
"people think men and women receive the same harassment online. They do not."
"The Myth: Everyone in the games industry experiences harassment. Women are just too sensitive about it."
"If you are a woman in the industry with a critical opinion, you will get a disproportional amount of criticism, hostility, and scrutiny compared to men."
"male privilege makes them feel free to lash out."
You're insane.
I'm merely stating the logical conclusion of GP's self-justifications. What part of my statement is inaccurate? Of course demonizing anyone who disagrees with you is so much easier than honestly addressing the issues they bring up.
pick one that doesn't also apply virtually equally to women.
Women are seriously beaten and murdered at FAR LOWER rates than men. You seem to have a real problem with FACTS.
I'm supposed to walk around armed at all times (illegal here),
There's no territory in the world where it's illegal to carry a modest-size knife.
and if I don't, then it's my fault and its not really rape?
I never said anything of the sort. I simply said that you have options, and being deathly afraid of everyone is not necessary, nor is being physically small an excuse to get the world to cater to you.
The goal is clearly to produce usable power, not to need more filtering.
You don't need to do more filtering. Most devices will run BETTER on square wave output than on sine wave output.
We all know prison rapes don't count. After all, only evil people are in prison to begin with.
It's an urban legend. Studies find that prison rape is actually rare:
The number is utterly bogus:
http://aspiringeconomist.com/i...
And a woman's actual lifetime chance of being raped, is more like 8%:
That sounds reasonable only if you have a very small group of users, and loads of time to deal with it.
Everybody runs a fork bomb once in their life. A computer lab should be a safe place to make mistakes, not somewhere that any mistakes will make you a pariah. If you do take that unreasonable attitude, the "presidential pardons" will be coming down on a regular basis, just signed-off as a routine duty without the slightest thought, every time a department head requests it.
Must be able to handle loads with power factors from 0.7â"1, leading and lagging in an islanded mode
Must be in a rectangular metal enclosure of no more than 40 in3
Will be taking in 450 V DC power in series with a 10 resistor
Must output 240 V, 60 Hz AC single phase power
Must have a total harmonic distortion + noise on both voltage and current of 5%
It seems contradictory that they're worried about power factor, and also want to force contestants to output nice clean sine waves. Best way to get a PF of 1.0 with cheap switching power supplies, is to send them a square wave... Sucks for induction motors, but works for most everything else, including motors with brushes.
And with a simple 450VDC input you could split it over multiple circuits in series, through requiring some legwork to boost it to the exact voltage, and even it out across circuits with different load-levels, but far less than running it all through a transformer.
Such a device could be extremely efficient. I wonder what their needs are, that such a device isn't sufficient.
There's a bit of a difference in that one in every four women actually will be raped in their life, and a sizeable percent of those getting those threats already have been.
Not "raped" but "sexually assaulted". Rape laws have gone awry to the point that damn near everything is just classified as a "sex crime" now, so even a technical issue like statutory rape comes with the same stigma as being a major pedophile, and you really can't even get real statistics on the actual numbers of violent rapes.
But don't take my word for it... The same study that claims 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted, claims 1 in 7 MEN have been sexually assaulted, too.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
