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I Need A Microcontroller With WIFI 802.11b/g Capabilities is there any with price within or less than 20$ ? if not is there any IC's that has serial connection and WIFI so i can interface the serial to microcontroller and use the WIFI to send information to a PC for example without bein
Interested in island ownership, or starting a resort, but not interested in going it along? If so you may be interested in a joint venture opportunity in Tonga.
Nukanama is an incredible 22 acre island located in the Ha’apai Group of Islands, in the Kingdom of Tonga. The current owner is seeking a Joint Venture partner to develop a resort, or an investor to build & run their own resort. The owner is also selling 8 x ¼ beachfront lots with an initial quick-sale price of only $150,000 USD. Once the first 4 lots are sold or a JV partner is found the lot prices will rise.
According to the listing this is the most accessible island with beach front land for sale in the South Pacific. Guest fly into the international airport in Tongatapu, then catch a 30 minute flight to Ha’apai Airport, a 10 minute drive to the northern end of Foa island, where a 5 min speed boat ride will get you across to Nukunamo Island.
To learn more about this island and interesting ownership opportunities visit Private Islands Online.
if the luxmeter give unit in lux, so how to change that unit to W/m2 at 254 nm
Would like know the difference between electric spark and arc.
The stomach of our Mother earth feels good about it? Symptoms developing?
At this very moment the LHC is busy trying to set a new world record. The goal is to achieve beams circulating at 3.5 TeV, bringing collisions between protons to 3.5+3.5=7 TeV center-of-mass energy. This would be the highest particle energy ever accomplished by humans (nature somehow routinely manages to produce cosmic rays at energies 8 orders of magnitude higher!). This news is hot off the press: we had a talk today by Lyn Evans, and he gave us the latest update. He should know what’s going on, since he’s project leader of the LHC. Evans shared some entertaining anecdotes from the last few years of commissioning, including:
They use superfluid helium to cool the superconducting magnets. One of the many weird properties of this stuff is that it has zero viscosity. Which means that, if there’s any sort of hairline fracture anywhere in the 27 kilometer long tunnel, the stuff comes spewing out, and very, very bad things happen. Every component, every joint, every one of the tens of thousands of tiny connections has to be perfect. It is this sort of failure which brought the machine to its knees shortly after commissioning, over a year ago.
The magnets are kept very, very cold; the superfluid helium is at 1.9 Kelvin (-271 Celsius), or a couple of degrees above absolute zero. We’re not talking a little vial in a laboratory being kept at this temperature. We’re talking many thousands of tonnes of magnets, kept just above absolute zero (using 96 tonnes of liquid helium). As things cool down, they naturally contract. The decks on bridges do the same thing, hence those serrated grills at the ends of bridges to absorb the expansion and contraction due to weather (if you’ve ever motorcycled across a bridge, you know exactly what I’m talking about). There are equivalent serrated joints in the LHC beam pipe to ensure that it doesn’t contract and rip open upon cooling (which, needless to say, would be bad). But upon reheating a section of the LHC, it turned out some of these devices left little fibers in the beam tube. Not good. How to find them, without ripping open the entire collider (costing millions of dollars and setting the project back precious months)? They ended up blowing a ping pong ball (with electronics embedded) down the tube, and tracking where it would get stuck. A simple, elegant, cheap solution to fix a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
For a while during the construction they ended up with roughly a billion dollars worth of superconducting magnets being stored in a parking lot at CERN. For reference, this is comparable to the entire GDP of many small countries (Bhutan, Guyana, Burundi, etc.), sitting out in the rain and snow. Big science.
Hopefully sometime in the next few days they’ll be running at 3.5 TeV. Apparently it’s been slow going because the system to prevent catastrophic quenching of the magnets (which is what “broke” the machine previously) is on a hair-trigger, setting off all sorts of false alarms (and when it goes off it quenches the magnets [in a controlled manner]). You can keep track of the progress on the LHC webpage (clicking on the image of the ring gives real-time data on the temperature of the magnets). Although this would be the highest energy ever achieved, it still doesn’t significantly surpass the science reach of Fermilab’s Tevatron, since the latter has run for many years (albeit at a lower energy of 1 TeV+1TeV). Both energy and (integrated) luminosity matter in this game, and the Tevatron has gotten more than 8 inverse fb (femtobarns; one of the best units in all of science [think "there's no way to miss it, it's as big as a barn"]). The LHC is shooting for 1 inverse fb. All being well, in a few months they’ll bump the energy up to 5 Tev on 5 TeV. This should significantly open up the scientific discovery space, and could conceivably kick off the next revolution in particle physics. Exciting times!
Oh, man. Not only does this infographic show how modern time-delay grenades work, it actually walks you through a bit of the history of the handheld explosive. All while setting a new standard for stick figure abuse! More »
wat is power angle?.......wat can it do in our power system?....
i knw tat its silly question....im studying 2nd year 1ly.....so its smewat critical to me.....
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I'm from Chinese manufacturer of carbon steel pipes , fittings, flanges. I want to sell my products abroad, is there any kind person can tell me some ways to find my customers?
ThanKs N Best Regards,
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Now leading the privacy crusade against Google: birds! Spotted in the English beachside town of Brighton, where even the gulls are nervous about the Big G. [Google Maps] More »
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg lost his sight to a rocket-propelled grenade in 2007. Now, thanks to a fascinating technology, he can read words and make out shapes using his tongue. It's truly incredible. More »
The 23andMe Terms of Service contractually binds its users to the following clause:
The Services Content is not to be used, and is not intended to be used, by you or any other person to diagnose, cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent a disease or other impairment or condition, or to ascertain your health.
However, this contract is imposed by 23andMe to the public in bad faith because 23andMe actively promotes its users to violate this clause.
For example: the 23andMe test includes a report about the blood thinning drug Warfarin (sample report) which includes medical advice about Warfarin dosing based on test results. In this example, the Twitter user “attilacsordas” electronically messaged the company 23andMe:
@23andMe sent my Warfarin Sensitivity Report to a cardiologist to enlighten her,if most @23andMe users could do the same: a nice campaign…
and
@23andMe 1st I showed her the Warfarin page on the iPhone,she was really surprised that such service exists,then sent her the printed report
The following messages indicate a violation of 23andMe user contract: “The Services Content is not to be used, and is not intended to be used, by you or any other person to diagnose, cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent a disease or other impairment or condition, or to ascertain your health.” In this example, the user “attilacsordas” allegedly coerced a cardiologist into jointly violating the 23andMe contract when he sent the report to “enlighten her” which presumably means “to be used in warfarin dosing.” The use of a 23andMe report for Warfarin dosing by a cardiologist is a clear example of to “diagnose, cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent a disease or other impairment or condition, or to ascertain your health.”
23andMe responded to this message by endorsing and broadcasting it to its users and to the public as a “retweet” or “RT” on March 17th, 2010 as follows:
RT @attilacsordas sent my Warfarin Report to a cardiologist to enlighten her, if most @23andMe users could do the same: a nice campaign…
Thus, I allege that 23andMe actively promotes violation of Section 3 in the 23andMe Terms of Service to its contractually bound users and to the general public.
Commentary
What is the legal precedence for a contract imposed upon the public in bad faith for commercial advantages with material liability to public health in order to avoid the regulations of drugs and disease control in the United States? Internationally? Per state? Per… provence?
Maybe Dan Vorhaus could advise.
I’d also be interested to learn about the liability of the lawyers contracted with 23andMe regarding the composition and approval of this contract and related company policy.
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Consciousness lost, breathing stopped, pulse gone. Someone just slipped into cardiac arrest. In order to preserve the precious memories and thoughts at risk right now, we're gonna have to squirt some perfluorocarbon coolant up a nose and chill a brain. More »
Why do we have to grout the first tier steel column base plate before erecting the second floor or second tier
C-SPAN has opened up their archives, so that you can search and watch all 23 years of their footage. Their Booknotes crew came to a talk I gave at Stanford University Medical School about my book Soul Made Flesh. And now you can watch it here.
Introducing the Republican candidate Charles Djou, former State Representative, current Honolulu City Councilman, and US Army officer
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Some batteries benefit from being stored at freezing or near-freezing temperatures, but not all. It turns out that while chilled NiMH and Nicad batteries will last longer, there's barely any difference when it comes to their alkaline counterparts. More »
HI ALL
SIMPLE ONE FOR YOU GUYS...HOW DO I PUT 2 ALTERNATORS TOGETHER BUT MAINTAING AN OUTPUT OF 14.8 VOLTS?
ALSO DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A COMPANY WHO WILL MAKE ME AN ENGINE PULLEY BELT TO MY SPECIFICATIONS?
MANY THANKS
MIKE
It's tough being a record label or a movie studio these days. People are stealing your content, all because they want to be Jack Sparrow. No, seriously: that's actually what the industry thinks. More »
