Thursday, March 31, 2005
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
UFCU: What Type of Engine?
UFCU: What Type of Engine?:
- Evinrude Outboards
- Honda Marine
- Johnson Outboards
- Mercury Marine
- Nissan Marine Outboards
- Suzuki Marine
- Yamaha Outboards
Boating magazines
Many boating magazines provide useful comparisons of various outboard and inboard engines as well as general boat reviews.
- Boating - Boat reviews; few engine reviews online.
- Boating Life - Includes engine reviews.
- Boating World Online
- Go Boating Magazine - For owners of boats 15' to 26'. Includes a section on engine reviews.
- Motor Boating Magazine - Boat reviews.
- Sport Boat Magazine - Check out their marine engine review index.
- Trailer Boat Magazine - Check out an article on J.D. Power's review of outboard engines
Sunday, March 20, 2005
New Product - "WoodRat - Makes All Sorts of Joints" ??????????????????????????? Page 1
New Product - "WoodRat - Makes All Sorts of Joints"
This is a very detailed review.
The WoodRat that I have just installed is really a very serious machine. From the manufacturer's viewpoint, it is "the Essential Woodworker's Machine."
Years ago (over 10), when I first saw this machine advertised, I sent for their video and was quite intrigued at how it did dovetails. But the product "sort of disappeared"...or at least in my limited view.
This is a very detailed review.
BBC NEWS | Health | Chewing gum can 'enhance breasts'
BBC NEWS | Health | Chewing gum can 'enhance breasts': "A chewing gum which the makers say can help enhance the size, shape and tone of the breasts has proved to be a big hit in Japan."
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
A Compact, FREE Word Processor and WordPad Replacement
A Compact, FREE Word Processor and WordPad Replacement
Does Your Word Processor Handle Like an Ocean Liner?
When word processors replaced typewriters they helped free the creative expressions innate in all of us. But somewhere along the way word processors evolved into enormous machines designed primarily to serve the needs of the corporate world. Office word processors have become huge, cumbersome vessels of software that remind us of ocean liners. The seeming goal of both is to become as large as possible by including every imaginable feature, whether anyone actually needs all those features or not. That's fine for an ocean liner since you are there to relax and marvel at its grandness. However, it is not so fine when the size and complexity of your word processor makes it as cumbersome to operate as an ocean liner in a yacht race.
Does Your Word Processor Handle Like an Ocean Liner?
When word processors replaced typewriters they helped free the creative expressions innate in all of us. But somewhere along the way word processors evolved into enormous machines designed primarily to serve the needs of the corporate world. Office word processors have become huge, cumbersome vessels of software that remind us of ocean liners. The seeming goal of both is to become as large as possible by including every imaginable feature, whether anyone actually needs all those features or not. That's fine for an ocean liner since you are there to relax and marvel at its grandness. However, it is not so fine when the size and complexity of your word processor makes it as cumbersome to operate as an ocean liner in a yacht race.
ScriptMaker
ScriptMaker is a tool for script-writers and directors. It allows you to develop your script as well as format it properly, by integrating the process of story development with script writing. Story-planning is done using "virtual index-cards." ScriptMaker knows which parts of your script are linked with which index-cards, so if you alter the order of the cards the corresponding parts of the script get swapped around too. The descriptive version of the script is kept automatically up-to-date in step with the shooting script, because of the way ScriptMaker stores "2 scripts in 1."
ScriptMaker is a tool for script-writers and directors. It allows you to develop your script as well as format it properly, by integrating the process of story development with script writing. Story-planning is done using "virtual index-cards." ScriptMaker knows which parts of your script are linked with which index-cards, so if you alter the order of the cards the corresponding parts of the script get swapped around too. The descriptive version of the script is kept automatically up-to-date in step with the shooting script, because of the way ScriptMaker stores "2 scripts in 1."
Monday, March 14, 2005
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Monday, March 07, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Newfound Star Smaller than Some Planets
Newfound Star Smaller than Some Planets: "Astronomers have found the tiniest full-fledged star known, an object just 16 percent bigger than Jupiter. It is smaller than some known planets that orbit other stars."
The Lucene search engine: Powerful, flexible, and free
The Lucene search engine: Powerful, flexible, and free: "Summary
Lucene is a Java-based open source toolkit for text indexing and searching. It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful -- a model of good object-oriented software architecture. Powerful abstractions and useful concrete implementations make Lucene very flexible, and allow new users to get up and running quickly and painlessly. In this article, we explore what Lucene does, how it works, and what software engineers can learn from its design. (3,400 words)"
Lucene is a Java-based open source toolkit for text indexing and searching. It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful -- a model of good object-oriented software architecture. Powerful abstractions and useful concrete implementations make Lucene very flexible, and allow new users to get up and running quickly and painlessly. In this article, we explore what Lucene does, how it works, and what software engineers can learn from its design. (3,400 words)"
Apache Lucene - Overview - Apache Lucene
Apache Lucene - Overview - Apache Lucene: "pache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. Please use the links on the left to access Lucene."
Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. Please use the links on the left to access Lucene."
Saturday, March 05, 2005
MSNBC - Cell phone voicemail easily hacked
MSNBC - Cell phone voicemail easily hacked: "But Eagan discovered that services use caller ID to authenticate the cell phone, and months ago, hackers learned how to spoof, or 'trick' the caller ID system. Using such a service, a hacker can dial the mobile account holder's telephone system and immediately access their voice mail and other services.
Essentially, knowing someone's cell phone number is enough to gain access to their voice mail and all their administrative tools."
Essentially, knowing someone's cell phone number is enough to gain access to their voice mail and all their administrative tools."
ias-people
ias-people: "Minimalism
Taking an engineering bias, two significant constraints when using many agents are primarily those of the cost of manufacturing a significant number of robots and secondly reducing the power requirement.Firstly, although it is true that unit cost falls with number of manufactured units it is, of course, still true that the mass produced unit cost of a simple device will still be cheaper than that of a more complex device.It is thus worth exploring what can be achieved with simple devices. Itis also worth pointing out that the more simple a device is then the less there is to go wrong. Thus simple devices can confer robustness. Secondly,as a general rule a less sophisticated device will require less power than a more complex alternative"
Taking an engineering bias, two significant constraints when using many agents are primarily those of the cost of manufacturing a significant number of robots and secondly reducing the power requirement.Firstly, although it is true that unit cost falls with number of manufactured units it is, of course, still true that the mass produced unit cost of a simple device will still be cheaper than that of a more complex device.It is thus worth exploring what can be achieved with simple devices. Itis also worth pointing out that the more simple a device is then the less there is to go wrong. Thus simple devices can confer robustness. Secondly,as a general rule a less sophisticated device will require less power than a more complex alternative"
MIT's Superarchive
MIT's Superarchive: "DSpace grew out of the mutual need of MIT's libraries and researchers to preserve digital work, says Ann Wolpert, director of libraries for the Institute. A few years before the project began, she says, 'faculty started coming to the library and saying, I have this stuff on my Web site. I want it to be more secure than it is on my computer. Will you figure out how to take my digitally formatted materials?'' Although the libraries have massive print archives dedicated to preserving a wide range of materials, they had no system for digital preservation. So Wolpert talked with the libraries' faculty advisory committee and visited departments across campus to determine what was needed."
Carly's Way
Carly's Way:
"An electronic engineer who worked as a Research Scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Laboratory starting in 1975 until he resigned in 2003, G.S. thought HP represented the very best of American character -- 'a spirit of adventure and a belief in unlimited possibilities
He charges, though, that starting in 2000 the can-do attitude was killed by management choices intended to placate nervous investors and board members rather than benefit the company and its workers over the long-term. He warns that sustained cut-backs to R&D budgets over the past half-decade may have irreversibly damaged H-P and the entire U.S. technology industry."
Haast's Eagle
Haast's Eagle: "A giant eagle; this bird of prey lived during the Pleistocene in South Island, the Southern part of New Zealand. With a weight of 20 kilos and a wingspan of 2.6 meters (8 or 9 feet) it is the largest eagle ever."
The Strategy of Technology - Chapter 7 - Notes
The Strategy of Technology - Chapter 7 - Notes
The Strategy of Technology
by Stefan T. Possony, Ph.D.;
Jerry E. Pournelle, Ph.D. and
Col. Francis X. Kane, Ph.D. (USAF Ret.)
© 1997 Jerry E. Pournelle
The Strategy of Technology
by Stefan T. Possony, Ph.D.;
Jerry E. Pournelle, Ph.D. and
Col. Francis X. Kane, Ph.D. (USAF Ret.)
© 1997 Jerry E. Pournelle
Thursday, March 03, 2005
EverLED
EverLED
The EverLED™ is the world’s first universal LED flashlight bulb, designed to turn virtually any flashlight into an energy efficient, durable, and long lasting solid state light source. The EverLED™ uses the latest advances in LED and PowerSqueeze™ technologies to produce the most powerful beam of LED light available while providing up to 5 times the battery life of traditional incandescent or LED flashlights. The EverLED™ will work with any flashlight that uses a standard flange flashlight bulb, regardless of the type of batteries the flashlight requires, from 1–6 cells.
The EverLED™ is the world’s first universal LED flashlight bulb, designed to turn virtually any flashlight into an energy efficient, durable, and long lasting solid state light source. The EverLED™ uses the latest advances in LED and PowerSqueeze™ technologies to produce the most powerful beam of LED light available while providing up to 5 times the battery life of traditional incandescent or LED flashlights. The EverLED™ will work with any flashlight that uses a standard flange flashlight bulb, regardless of the type of batteries the flashlight requires, from 1–6 cells.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
LEDs - Gallium Indium Nitride UV, violet, purple, blue, aqua, turquoise, green, white. Also Gallium Arsenide and others. New LED MUSEUM! GaN, InGaN, S
LEDs - .The TM-116x flashlight comes in an almost-all-aluminum body, and features a 5 watt Luxeon Star LED in its business-end to produce its light, and has two CR123A cells in the barrel to ppower that LED. The beam width is adjustable by turning the bezel (head) clockwise or counterclockwise.